Jumat, 30 November 2007

Protect Orkut photo album against misuse

Now a days some of the people on the internet are creating duplicate profiles by misusing the photos in Orkut profile albums. In order to prevent the misuse of photos in Orkut profile albums, Orkut has recently introduced a new privacy feature for protecting albums. With the help of this feature you can control the visibility of your photo albums in your Orkut profile. It can be made visible to only to friends or every one.

Follow the steps below to protect your Orkut album.
Click the settings section on the left side to enter Orkut settings page.
Select the privacy tab to see the privacy settings
In the "allow content to be viewed by:" section, click the drop down menu corresponding to the "album" and select "friends" if you want only your friends to view your albums. You can select "everyone" if you want all the Orkut members to view your Orkut profile album.


Its always better to select "friends" for better privacy. And don't forget to Save changes.
Share this information with your friends and prevent the misuse of Orkut.

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Kamis, 29 November 2007

Download Microsoft OneNote 2007 - best note making software

When we want to capture some tips or our thoughts to our PC without much hassles, Microsoft OneNote 2007 will come to help you. OneNote 2007 is the note making software from Microsoft, which is one of the jewel in Microsoft Office Suite. Microsoft OneNote 2007 can help its users in their information gathering and management in a very professional and systematic way.


Some other key features that makes Microsoft OneNote 2007 the number one note making software are:
  • Using and managing multiple notebooks like one for personal and another one for official.
  • Sharing and accessing OneNote notebooks through the network.
  • Instant searching of notes to aid in easily tracing the notes.
  • It integrates well with internet explorer, thus html pages can be directly sent to OneNote.
  • Attach files for additional information along with notes.
  • Can create tables for putting data and has very good drawing tools.
  • Simple calculator for performing calculation without leaving OneNote.
  • Extracting text from images, this would help a lot for getting address from scanned business cards.
  • Saving the notes in different file formats, for better sharing and collaboration with not OneNote users.
  • Integrates well with other Microsoft Office tools.
  • Export and importing email and tasks from Microsoft Outlook.
  • It will work best with Tablet PCs in Lasso selection mode.
Using Microsoft OneNote 2007 for both personal and business activities will help in better information management there by improving the productivity of individual and enterprise.
Visit Microsoft OneNote 2007 Home Page | Download Microsoft OneNote 2007 Trial

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Rabu, 28 November 2007

Download iPhone skin for Winamp

You may have a lot of skins for your Winamp, the most admired mp3 playing software on windows machines. Most of the skin themes would be any of the Hollywood actress, singers, cars and some cartoon characters. Now iPhone is rocking in the mobile market. So a Winamp skin with iPhone theme will be preferred by most of the people who is a proud owner of apple iPhone and for those who are going to be future owners.


Once you install the iPhone skin for your Winamp, you will iPhone like interface for controlling your songs play. So get your iPhone skin for Winamp now itself. I already installed this skin for my Winamp, don't worry even if you feel that it makes your Winamp bit slow. Remember you are in iPhone shoes.

Download iPhone skin for your Winamp player

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Selasa, 27 November 2007

How to build an ecommerce portal with Google Checkout

In the current internet age ecommerce is the prime method of selling products worldwide in any kind of business. In order to get an edge in ecommerce business it is must to have a professional ecommerce website to accomplish selling products online. Of course, we all know that building an ecommerce site is not an easy task as for as business people are concerned. But, in order to build a ecommerce site very easily, AShop Commerce provides a shopping cart software. This ecommerce software is preferred by a lot of individuals and enterprises for their ecommerce portals.
The main reason for people to prefer AShop Commerce shopping cart software for ecommerce portals is only because of its superb features. These features not just support your business, but it will boost your business.

You will understand once you go through below features:
  • It attracts more people to your ecommerce web site, as it is optimized for all the search engines.
  • Your shopping cart can be easily integrated with Google Checkout.
  • Support of encryption for high security in transactions.
  • Very easy to build and customize ecommerce portals, without in depth knowledge.
  • Excellent technical support from AShop Commerce.
  • Very attractive and affordable pricing.
I think this is the end of your search for an ecommerce portal software. Get your shopping cart software from AShop Commerce and build your ecommerce website. Its going to boost your business.
See more details on AShop commerce shopping cart software.

Digital Photo Frame a Perfect Christmas Gift

In the olden days a Photo Frame was the most adored gift in many occasions. Now the era has changed to digital age, so the gift has to be upgraded to similar level.


Here comes Digital Photo Frames instead of conventional photo frames from Digital Framez, an online electronic store specialized in LCD Digital Photo Frames. The Digital Photo frame comes with a lot of features that makes it a perfect gift for any occasions.

Those unique features are:
  • The Digital Photo Frame is available in different sizes ranging from 7", 8", 9", 10", 11", 12" and 15".
  • Digital Photo Frame comes with a USB interface.
  • It has a standard card reader that supports CF/XD/MS/SD/MMC memory cards.
  • Digital Photo Frame comes with a remote control for easy access and settings.
  • This Digital Frame can play movie clips and it is compatible with JPEG, MP4, DivX, AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, WAV formats.
  • The Digital Picture Frame can play background music.
  • Digital Photo Frame has built-in speakers and support for headphone.
  • And above all, it is very easy to setup the slide-show and it works independent of a PC.
So, why to waste time by searching for a Christmas gift, just purchase a Digital Picture Frame from Digital Framez. Make your parents, friends and relatives delighted, by giving Digital Photo Frame as the Christmas gift.

Get more details on Digital Picture Frame.

Senin, 26 November 2007

Get best deals online with SaveBuckets

We have a lot of e-commerce websites and online stores available like, amazon, ebay and lulu. But its always difficult to know from which online store we will get the best deal. If we come to know that any particular store is giving much better deal or discount on a particular product, then of course we can purchase the product from that particular online store.


In order to help the customers to compare and get best deals on the internet, Save Buckets Limited has launched a price comparison website called savebuckets.co.uk. SaveBuckets take care of comparing the price of a particular product that user wanted, across all the online shops, and guide user to get the best deal online.

Key features of SaveBuckets are:
  • Best price comparison online.
  • Intelligent product search with user requirements
  • Alert mechanism on reaching user specified price on a particular product.
  • Wide range of products and service categories.
I feel SaveBuckets can help a lot of people to reduce their bills on online purchases. This will also help people to find a best Christmas gift for their friends, relatives and parents with a best deal.

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integrate and sync google calendar with thunderbird email client

Lighting a versatile calendar add-on to the Mozilla Thunderbird email email client. This lightning add-on can be used to integrate and synchronize with Google calendars.
Here is a step by step procedure to add Google calendar in lightning calendar of Thunderbird email client.


Switch to calendar workspace, by selecting the calendar icon in Thunderbird.

Add new calendar by selecting selecting from the menu: File > New > Calendar ..
Then a wizard page appears to add a new calendar.


select the "On the Network" option in the Create New Calendar wizard page.
Click Next button to get a wizard page to specify the calendar format and calendar location.


Name and color your calendar as per your wish.


Press finish to complete the calendar add.
Now you can see the new calendar in the calendar tab on the left side.


Download Thunderbird Email client | Download Lightning add-on

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Download complete audio and video codec pack

Most of the people might stuck up with the unavailability of proper codec for playing their movie or music files. Then they have to google and find out which is the proper codec to play their movie or song files and they have to update the codec periodically. These steps are big headache for a new and normal windows pc user.
In order to remove all the worries on codecs, Free-Codecs.com is distributing all the major audio and video codecs for windows pcs for free. The bundle named K-Lite Codec Pack comes with updated codecs required to play most of the multimedia files.

K-Lite Codec Pack comes in three versions like Basic, Standard and Full
  • K-Lite Codec Pack Basic contains only the most essential things. It contains everything you need to be able to play the most popular and widespread formats. It is small enough to fit on a single floppy. Also great for including on your movie CDs.
  • K-Lite Codec Pack Standard contains everything you need to play all the commonly used formats. This package should be enough for the average user.
  • K-Lite Codec Pack Full contains even more codecs. It also has encoding support for the various formats. This package is for power users and people who do their own encodings.
K-Lite Codec pack supports Windows Vista also.
Download K-Lite Codec pack for free

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Jumat, 23 November 2007

Create new profile for firefox web browser

This section will explain you how to create and manage profile in Firefox web browser.

Go to Windows Run prompt (use the search box on Vista) and type:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -ProfileManager and press enter.

If you are in Linux go to command prompt and type firefox -ProfileManager

You will be prompted with a window to manage your profile. as shown below. Here you can go for "Create Profile" section.


Once you press "Create Profile" button you will be provided with a wizard for creating a new profile.


Type the name of your new profile and press "Finish". This will create a new profile for your Firefox.


Remember to un-check the option "Don't ask at startup"

Now you can decide which profile to use while starting up your Firefox web browser. Usually people install all the required add-ons in one profile and another profile will be kept without installing unnecessary add-ons. It is true that installing unknown and untrusted Firefox add-ons may slow down Firefox performance.

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Thanksgiving day resolution

In the occasion of Thanksgiving day, lets take a resolution to keep our mother earth clean, green and cool.


.. for a better tomorrow.

Kamis, 22 November 2007

Green challenges ahead for iPhone

After the release of revolutionary mobile phone handset from Apple, the iPhone, the dimensions of evaluating mobile phones has been changed a lot. But apart from the features, looks and friendliness we should also give importance to the impact of the product on our environments or better to say impact on our next generations.

In order to evaluate the environment friendliness of the iPhone, GreenPeace ( an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace) has conducted some tests on the green side of iPhone. Below is an image excerpt of their report on iPhone.


You can also go through the video that depicts the tested details and its credibility.




Read the complete details of reports from GreenPeace.

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Add lightning with thunderbird for calendar

Thunderbird email client, by default does not come with an inbuilt calendar. But you can install a versatile calendar add-on of Thunderbird that can do your business. Lightning is the calendar plug-in for Thunderbird email. As the lightning comes as a plug-in to Thunderbird email client, the calendar can be tightly integrated with email activities.


And just by clicking the calendar button, your inbox will be switched to a complete calendar. Here you can add events and activities just by clicking the corresponding dates or time slot, for that you can have calendar view, hour wise, day wise, week wise or month wise.

Download and use the best calendar for the versatile email client.

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Rabu, 21 November 2007

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Write to us, if you have any queries or suggestions. Thanks to all our readers for your continuous support and visits.

About Online Inspirations

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Our team is committed to share the best and useful information through our blog posts. You can also contribute topics or articles by sending them to : skvnet.blogspot+n@gmail.com

Convert documents, images, audios and videos without installing any software

Here is a superb service available on the internet that can let you convert your documents, photos, audio and video files without even installing any converting software.

The online file conversion service is provided by Zamzar simplifies all the file conversion hassles. Just upload the file to be converted or specify the URL to be converted to required format and specify your email address and click convert button. You can go away and relax. Zamzar file converter service will notify you by email, once your file has been converted successfully.

File converting service can handle following formats:
  • Document formats: .csv, .doc, .docx, .html, .odp, .ods, .odt, .pcx, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .ps, .rtf, .txt, .wpd, .wps, .xls, .xlsx, .xml
  • Image formats: .bmp, .gif, .ico, .jpg, .pcx, .png, .tga, .tiff, .wbmp, .wmf
  • Music formats: .aac, .ac3, .flac, .m4a, .mmf, .mp3, .ogg, .ra, .ram, .wav, .wma
  • Video formats: .3gp, .avi, .flv, .gvi, .iphone, .ipod, .m4v, .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .ogg, .rm, .rmvb, .vob, .wmv
  • Compression formats: .7z, .tar.bz2, .cab, .lzh, .rar, .tar, .tar.gz, .yz1, .zip
And by specifying url for converting files can be used for downloading videos from YouTube and Google videos to computer in different formats.


The files which are converted will remain in Zamzar server only for 24 hours, you have to download those files within that time or else you will have to re-submit the same for conversion. Also there is a file upload limit of 100MB per conversion.

One important thing to note is that, you does not have to register with Zamzar to do the online file conversion and of course its absolutely a free service.

Convert file with Zamzar | Convert a file url with Zamzar

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Selasa, 20 November 2007

Get window preview with Alt-Tab switching

Microsoft gives a much useful add-on to enhance the conventional window switcher in windows xp, along with the power toys for windows xp.


This is a replacement to the Alt-Tab window switching, once the task switch has been installed, you will get the preview of the window while switching with Alt-Tab keys. This is very useful when you have lot of windows opened and to work with, so that switching between each windows will consume a lot of time. With this task switcher with preview, users can view the contents of an opened window, without completely viewing it.

Download Task Switcher with Preview Power Toy for Windows XP.

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Charge iPod without normal power supply

Here is a new way of charging your iPod even without the main power supply. This is a very special way of charging your iPod, it is using an Onion. In order to accomplish this you also require some electrolyte.

Here is a video by HouseholdHacker (a YouTube user) which depicts how to charge your iPod using electrolyte and an onion.





If feel that, this way of charging iPod using electrolyte and an onion can be extended to charging mobile phones, mp3 players and of course your iPhone.
Enjoy and share this video with your friends.

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Senin, 19 November 2007

Photo batch resize and converter with web album generator

Visualizer photo resize is a very powerful and sophisticated batch image resize and converter software that is free for personal use. The photo resize software is a product from Visualizer Image Group, pioneers in imaging software solutions.


Using this photo resize software we can convert a batch of photos to a different resolution and store it in a new location. This would aid photography professionals and freelancers who need to convert a group of photos to a different size.


Apart from the photo resize option, users can also directly create a web album from resized photos. This will be very useful when we want to convert the group images and put it as a web album in the internet and share with our family and friends.


There are also some pre-defined templates for creating web album.


Along with photo resize and web album creator there is option for batch watermark creation for a group of photos. This will be very much useful, when you wish to put watermark on a group of photos which needs to be supplied to some clients for a demo. So that you can safe guard your self from cheating of your photo using clients.


Download this incredible tool for free of cost.

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Sabtu, 17 November 2007

Reliable and Secure Online Data backup solutions from Mozy

Computer data is very important irrespective of business or personal usage. There can be a number of reasons, that would cause loss or corruption of our important data.

Common causes are:
  • Hard Disk or Tape drive failures.
  • Natural causes like lightning, flood and fire.
  • Attacks from viruses and Malwares.
  • Operating System crash.
So we need to have a data backup solution that can survive all the above issues. Here comes the reliable, secure and simple online data backup solution from Mozy.

There are lot of salient features that will force us to choose Mozy:
  • Faster backup: Mozy does the data scanning once it is setup and there after it will backup only the difference between the previous version.
  • Secure backup: All the data that is being fetched for backup, is encrypted using PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) so that data cannot be interpreted by a third party.
  • Auto backup: Mozy will take care of backing up of data periodically or as per the customized schedules.
  • Easy data restoration: Mozy stores the data as versions depending on the changes made on the data. Its very easy to restore the latest version of data, with respect to the time of data corruption or loss.
  • Unlimited backup: Storage limit is an important factor when it comes to enterprise data backup, thus Mozy provides you unlimited data backup with a nominal price.
  • Reliable backup: Mozy data servers keeps replicas of your backup data, so that your backup data is always safe and available for restoration.
  • Simple interface: In spite of all these complex tasks, Mozy simplifies the process of backups with easy to use interface.
  • Intelligent Network Utilization: Even though you have to transfer a lot of data, you can configure Mozy such that it will use optimum bandwidth for data transfer.
More details on reliable and secure data backup with Mozy.

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Jumat, 16 November 2007

Download Bible for your mobile phone

We are now living in the era of mobile computing and even the GSM technology has celebrated 20th birthday. Because of the growth of advanced mobile handsets, computers and getting slowly replaced by mobile computers. Because of these rapid advancements many of the companies started porting most of the utilities and applications available for desktop computers to mobile platforms.

We will not be surprised if Bible is available on mobile phones, thanks to GMPSoft and others who put their efforts in materializing the Mobile Bible.


So, here onwards no one needs carry the big Bible, in book format, to purify yourself. Currently this mobile version supports only Palm OS and Windows Mobile platforms. Apart from this, you may be aware that, Intel has launched an Electronic version of Quran called E-Quran.

Download the Bible Bundle (NASB) for Palm and Pocket PC PDAs. This link is not working. You can visit the new site New International Version of Holy Bible, or the PDF version of Holy Bible.

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Kamis, 15 November 2007

How to add more than 1000 friends in Orkut

When I was going through some of the profiles in Orkut, I found that some of the profiles have more than 1000 friends in their friends list. But, I heard that Orkut itself has imposed a restriction that, an Orkut member can have maximum of 1000 friends in his friends list.
If that is the case, then how could some people alone can have more than 1000 friends in their friends list?.


I went through some of the profiles with more than 1000 friends in their friends list, and no one were directly related to Google. Then I googled for a solution to add more than 1000 friends in my Orkut friends list. And I found out an interesting article at OrkutPlus.BlogSpot.com which suggests some ways for adding more than 1000 friends in Orkut friends list.

You can also try the same trick to add more friends in Orkut.

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Selasa, 13 November 2007

Track your car mileage through internet

Most of the car enthusiasts are interested in knowing and thus caring more about their car.
When it comes to mileage of cars it has to be studied and analyzed based on the past records.

Here is a website called trackyourgasmileage.com which will take care of your car's mileage history. By knowing the mileage history you can know how much is the variations in mileage of your car depending on different driving conditions. The site also has the provision for depicting the mileage over time with easy to read charts and statistics.


In order to accomplish your mileage tracking online, you have to do very few things
  • Register at TrackYourGasMileage.com
  • Fill up a tank of gas and write down the distance you drove since last time you filled.
  • Login and enter the gas receipt into the website database.
Done. This can help you track your gas mileage online. Also trackyourgasmileage.com has a quick mileage converter, this helps you quickly convert between liters per 100km and miles per gallon.

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Senin, 12 November 2007

Free desktop currency converter for windows

Desktop Currency Converter is a free and easy to use currency converting software for Windows based machines. It converts the currencies by automatically downloading the latest exchange rates on startup. Desktop Currency Converter can convert 55 world currencies and this can also be used as a desktop calculator.
This software also allows cut, copy and paste the values in the converting fields. Desktop Currency Converter impose no limits on decimal values for conversion. This will also accepts expressions and formulas for currency conversion along with adjusting of the target currency value to find out the required currency amount to be converted.

This will help a lot for people involved in currency trading and exchanging.

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Minggu, 11 November 2007

Promotion via spam may land you in jail

This is a warning for all those use spam mails for getting the user credentials and for promoting your website of blog for making money. Try to understand that once you are caught either you may be fined a huge amount or will be jailed for years. Sentencing of AOL spammers for 2 years in slammer is the latest evidence and warning for all spammers.


Be ethical and use good and convenient way of blog or website promotion for your business.

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Selasa, 06 November 2007

Download Data and Movie Recovery Software for CD DVD BD and HD-DVD

IsoBuster is a data recovery software utility to recover corrupted data from CD, DVD. This data recovery software support all the CD and DVD data formats.


Key features of IsoBuster are:
  • This software tool can recover movie and data from very old CDs and DVDs.
  • Another important capability of IsoBuster is that it can identify the extension of a file based on the content of the file, with this orphaned files can be recovered from the disk.
  • Iso Buster can also help you to recover data even from blanked or quick formatted CDs or DVDs.
IsoBuster can recover data and movie from all possible CD, DVD and Blu Ray (BD and HD-DVD) formats, the list of formats are given below.
CD-i, VCD, SVCD, SACD, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-MRW, ... DVD-ROM, DVCD, DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+MRW, DVD+R Dual Layer, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+RW Dual Layer, DVD+VR, DVD+VRW, DVD-VR, DVD-VRW, DVD-VM, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-R DL, BD-RE, BD-RE DL, BD-R SRM, BD-R RRM, BD-R SRM+POW, BD-R SRM-POW, BDAV, BDMV HD DVD-ROM, HD DVD-R, HD DVD-R DL, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RW DL, HD DVD-RAM, HD DVD-Video.


Apart from data and movie formats, ISO buster can also understand and recover CD image files like;
*.DAO (Duplicator), *.TAO (Duplicator), *.ISO (Nero, BlindRead, Creator), *.BIN (CDRWin), *.IMG (CloneCD), *.CCD (CloneCD) , *.CIF (Creator), *.FCD (Uncompressed), *.NRG (Nero), *.GCD (Prassi), *.P01 (Toast), *.C2D (WinOnCD), *.CUE (CDRWin), *.CDI (DiscJuggler), *.CD (CD-i OptImage), *.GI (Prassi PrimoDVD), *.PXI (PlexTools), *.MDS (Alcohol), *.MDF (Alcohol), *.VC4 (Virtual CD), *.000 (Virtual CD), *.B5T (BlindWrite), *.B5I (BlindWrite), *.DMG (Apple Macintosh), *.IBP (IsoBuster), *.IBQ (IsoBuster), *.NCD (NTI).

These capability makes IsoBuster makes a must have software for music, film and multimedia professionals. IsoBuster can help them a lot to recover their lost movie or data from old disks.

Download IsoBuster now itself itself. More details >>

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Successful ways of blog and website promotion

Many bloggers and webmasters has to work a lot for getting their site or blog get noticed by more number of people over internet. There are number of ways for promoting and building traffic to your website and blog. Some methods of promotion are free and some are paid.


Here are some common methods for promoting blog or website
  • Add your blog name or website with signature of mail and in visiting card
  • Update your blog name or website in social networking sites like orkut, myspace etc.
  • Add your blog name or website in GTalk and Yahoo Messenger titles.
  • Register in DMOZ directories.
  • Submit your blog name or website in search engines.
  • Register your blog name or website in blog directories.
  • Do link exchange with people with similar ranks and traffic.
  • Join discussion forums and add your blog name or website name as signature.
  • Use Twitter.com and publish your updates.
  • If your blog or website targets localized customers then put banners on back of taxi and buses. Also you can set the home page of computers internet cafes in a particular area with your website or blog (Make sure to have a good relation with Cafe owner).
There are also some tips for promotion and building traffic by Liz Strauss at successful-blog.com which will be very useful for most of the people.

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Senin, 05 November 2007

Unlimited email storage challenges OperaMail in 3MB age

After the onset of Web 2.0, web mail service has improved a lot in quality of presentation, fast response, assured delivery of mails, and very much in the mail storage size.

Now we are in a era of web mail, where;

In these competitions also, OperaMail moves with 3MB of mail box capacity and 2MB of attachments. Can you believe it?, yet its true.[checkout here]


But I was surprised to see the Alexa rank of OperaMail, its in 39k. You can see the image below to believe it or check out the traffic details of OperaMail at Alexa.com.


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Sabtu, 03 November 2007

Smorty a smart way of advertisement and getting paid for blogging

Smorty is a smart advertisement service that connects advertisers with bloggers. Smorty helps advertisers to improve their search engine rankings by involving bloggers to post article about that particular advertiser. In this way bloggers will also get paid for putting their opinion about a particular service provider on their blogs.

The way deals will happen in Smorty is very simple and transparent. Bloggers can know about the new opportunities that are currently available for them in the main control panel of Smorty. Once a blogger accepts an opportunity listed in the Smorty control panel, he/she will get 72hrs to confirm the completion link. If a blogger fails to complete within this time duration then the ownership will be given to another blogger.

Benefits for advertisers using Smorty
  • Get links from high traffic and high page rank blogs.
  • The service will get reviewed by bloggers thus get a chance to improve the service.
  • Permanent online advertisement at a lower cost.
  • Fast indexing by Search Engines
Benefits for Bloggers using Smorty
  • Get paid weekly for blogging about a particular campaign.
  • Get new topics to blog, thus improve the content and reach of your blog.
  • Know and learn about new ideas and campaigns.
  • Choice of posting ads selectively, not being forced by anyone.
Smorty has become a new source of additional income for bloggers and a stable advertisement platform for advertisers. Follow the faqs and rules below for more details.

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Add rounded edges for photos online

Picnik, the famous portal for editing photos online has added lots of features, fonts and effects. Among them some features are reserved for premium users.
Still there are lots of new features set aside for free users. Like,
  • Adding border for your photos and
  • Enabling rounded edges for photos.
  • Adding text over the photos.
  • Putting custom shapes and symbols on photos
  • Get photos from with Facebook and Webshots

More over you can also enhance your photos online with Picnik.
But, lot more features will be available for premium users at a cost of $24.95USD a year. [Visit Picnic]

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Kamis, 01 November 2007

Remote Desktop Client 2.0 for Mac from Microsoft

Microsoft has made the Beta release of the Remote Desktop Client 2.0 for Mac. With this client Mac users can operate on the Windows machines remotely with their Macintosh machines.

Users can remotely make connection to
  • Windows Vista Business
  • Windows Vista Enterprise
  • Windows Vista Ultimate
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows Server 2003
The system requirements for MacRDC 2.0 are:
  • Intel Core processor, 500 MHz or faster PowerPC G4, or PowerPC G5.
  • Apple Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later.
  • 16 MB of hard disk space. (The hard disk should be in Mac OS Extended (HFS+) format)
  • Connection to a local area network.
Pronounced features of MacRDC 2.0
  • Dynamic Screen Sizing: Resize and switch between full size and normal window size.
  • Support for Printing: Supports all printers that are conforming to Mac.
  • Multiple sessions: Use and save remote desktop connections as different sessions.
  • Auto reconnect: Reconnecting with remote machines automatically upon disconnection.
  • Support for wide screen: The display will support wide screens in Mac.
Issues still remaining in MacRDC 2.0 Beta are:
  • Only English: Support only English language;
  • Cut and Paste Between Windows and Mac: Currently only text, rtf and html files are supported.
  • No Aero Glass Support: Vista Aero Glass will not be displayed on the client.
Download MacRDS 2.0 | More details >>

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