Picnik is now free online photo editing service with advertisements

Picnik one of the front runners in online image editing service gone free. You can edit, convert and share photos online in your web browser with Picnik. Now Picnik team made the service free for users with the help of advertising. With this new step from Picnik team, all the users will have access to Picnik's multitudinous Effects, Frames, Touch-up Tools, Shapes and Fonts. Also there are bunch of themes for specific seasons and celebrations.


And, still there is a scope for those who want to be a privileged user. They have kept aside some extra delicious goodies for our lucky Premium users.

Flauntr is an another similar online photo editing service like Picnik.

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Google Hot search trends India helps you to tailor your online business

Google Labs search trends from India is a must refer site for those who are planning their online business in India. Search engine referral is the major source of traffic to any web page available online, and Google being the number one search engine, the search trends plays a major role in online business planning.


Google search trends, in fact, will help a lot of bloggers and webmasters who want to tailor their contents and sites as per the tastes of Indian netizens. When the 6th pay commission report submitted, it was one of the most searched topic from India. And of course Cricket will be another big pillar of interest.

Just listen to Google trends and tune your content, if you want to win Indian netizens heart.

You can see the daily Indian netizens search trends in Google from Google.co.in/Trends

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Is your Windows Vista Gadget is Safe?, Inspect your Gadget

Windows Vista comes with cool sidebar Gadgets, which offers a lot of services like, clock, stock quotes, weather info, currency converter, calendar, CPU info etc. You can have Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets built from HTML, JavaScript, and potentially ActiveX controls. As the sidebar hosts HTML based gadgets they are susceptible to Cross-site Scripting style bugs. This is a very serious concern as the script in the Sidebar is capable of running arbitrary code in the context of the locally logged-on windows user. It can steal your private data and credentials.


Prevention is better than cure, you can depend on Non-HTML Sidebar Gadgets like, those based on silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Here are some tips for developers from Microsoft, to inspect their code for security bugs.

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Extract, Record and Download MP3 from YouTube and raaga.com

Sometimes you may wish to extract the mp3 audio from a video in YouTube, Yahoo Videos, Metacafe, ifilm or some songs sharing sites like raaga.com. There are lot of ways by which we can download YouTube or any flash videos using web browser, but we may not be able to directly extract audio alone from those flash videos. Most of the audio sharing sites stream audios to play at users browser with the help of realplayer or windows media player and does not allow its users to download those songs to their computer.

Here is a work around to extract and record audio from flash videos and to download mp3 playing sites.

First of all you need to install FreeCoder Toolbar for your browser.

Then, click the settings button in the FreeCoder Toolbar and then select your preferred recording drivers and the location where recorded mp3 to be saved.


Then just goto your favorite video or mp3 playing site and press record button in the toolbar to record when the song starts playing.


Once the playing is completed press stop button on the toolbar to stop recording then you will have your recorded mp3 audio copy in the location specified in the Freecoder toolbar settings.

Go ahead and download your FreeCoder Toolbar now.

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Sync desktop browser bookmarks with mobile

Suppose you are traveling or at your friends house and you are in need of accessing or showing some of your favorite websites you bookmarked in your desktop web browser. You may have a mobile or laptop with internet connection with you, but the bookmarks are in your home/office desktop, you will not be able to access those bookmarks.


There are couple of suggestions that would help you sync your bookmarks with mobile

Using Opera Link: Opera Link makes your bookmarks available wherever you go: at work, at home, on your phone and on the road. You can synchronize your bookmarks from your Mac or PC, from Opera Mini on your mobile phone, or log on to the Web version of Opera Link. In order to use this feature you need to have an Opera account and Opera browser 9.5 beta installed on your desktop. Goto "File" menu and click "Synchronize Opera" item. Enter your opera account details. Then the browser will take care of synchronizing your bookmarks, personal toolbar and speed dial details. You can access the same details in your mobile either by installing OperaMini 4 and synchronizing it with your opera account.

Using Google Notepad: You can have the sharing of your bookmarks with your mobile using Google Notebook also. In order to do this you need to have an account in Google and just copy the stuff you want share to the notebook with Firefox extension. Then you can access these info at : http://www.google.com/notebook/m

Using Yahoo MyWeb : Similarly with Google, you can accomplish the same with your yahoo account also. Just copy or export your bookmarks to Yahoo MyWeb. You can access the same using your mobile with internet connection. Visit: myweb.yahoo.com for more details.

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Make money from your photos through ads and trading

Photography is a passion for most of the people. Digital Photography also inspired a lot of people, as it avoids film processing for viewing and sharing photos. And, there are people owning giga bytes of photos. Its very good have photos resting in your hard disk, you can cherish your good times and once in while you may get a chance to sell your photos to any advertising agencies. But the chances of getting such sales are very less. Photographers can support yourself, if they can make use of their photos to earn some money.

Photrade is a site which came with an idea of helping photographers to earn some money from photos. It is the first photography site where you can protect, share, and make money from every single one of your photos.


There are two ways you can earn money through this site. One is allowing content ads along with your photos, so that if some one clicks on the ads beside you photo you will be given a portion of the revenue. Another way is through online photo sales or trading, as your photos are accessible over the internet it will be visible to many ads agencies and passionate people. Photrade.com will help you to sell your photos to required customers.

Thus, Photrade helps you protect and make money from your photos. Checkout Photrade.com

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Google Adsense with the power of DoubleClick

DoubleClick was one of the major competitor for Google in the online advertising. Due to the acquisition of DoubleClick, Google will become the front runner in online and digital advertising. So what would be the possible impact?. As, Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google mentioned, the merger will spawn new realm in digital and online advertising, resulting in more reach for publishers and advertisers and more revenue to both. Thus, Google will step up its business by letting its publishers and advertisers to grow.


This acquisition may also force Google's competitors to rethink or raise the bidding amounts on planned acquisitions.
Hats off to Google. I feel Google Adsense publishers and advertisers are going to benefit more, because of this acquisition.

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How to be invisible in GMail Chat

When Google introduced its chat, that didn't have the option to be invisible as in the Yahoo messenger. There were options for setting custom messages and Google predefined status messages.But these didn't satisfy the users who want absolute invisibility in Google chat while being online and who want to be very selective in chatting with friends. Even some people prefer using Yahoo chat, only because of the option to be invisible.


Now Google understood the importance of having user invisibility in GMail chat and introduced an option to be invisible. You can see the Invisible option by clicking the Set status here drop down menu.

But, if you see in GTalk independent desktop client application the invisible option is not included.

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Download all your mail attachments as single Zip file

If your friends and colleagues send you a lot of photos and documents its very difficult and tiring effort to download them one by one. We would prefer to have the attachments downloaded as a single file.


Now you can achieve this easy attachment bulk download with Yahoo Mail. You can see a "Download All" link which will let you download all your attachment files as single zip file. Then you can easily unzip to get all your individual photos or files with Winzip.

Currently GMail and HotMail does not have the option to download all the attachments as single zip file. But there is a work around to download all the attachments in GMail, HotMail or any of your favorite mail service. It is pretty simple, just forward the required mail to your yahoo mail and "Download All" as a single zip file.

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How to access restricted or expired domains web pages

Most of the netizens have the habit of keeping important and informative web page links in their bookmarks. It might happen that the domain of the link you bookmarked has been expired or restricted in the network. Then you will repent on not keeping the offline copy of the web page.

But there is work around for accessing those unavailable pages. If you remember any of the few words in the required web page it is better. Just go to Google search, and enter some words in the required web page followed by site:name_of_the_domain_being_expired_or_restricted and Hit search button.


You can find your required web page in the Google search result. Then in that particular search
result and click "Cached" link, You will get the expired page or restricted page from Google's cache. Thanks to Google cache.

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Download Free Microsoft Office Templates to improve your productivity

Microsoft office products are the prime destinations for most of the office, school and personal
word processing , data calculations, presentations and picture editing.


Now Microsoft is helping its Office products users by giving abundant collection of templates for simplifying users day to day activities.

The template categories runs into many:
Agendas, Award certificates, Brochures, Budgets, Business cards,
Calendars, Content slides, Contracts, Databases, Design slides,
Diagrams, Envelopes, Expense reports, Faxes, Flyers, Forms,
Gift certificates, Greeting cards, Inventories, Invitations,
Invoices, Labels, Letters, Lists, Memos, Minutes
Newsletters, Plans, Planners, Postcards, Presentations
Purchase orders, Receipts, Reports, Resumes and CVs
Schedules, Statements, Stationery and Time sheets.

Download your Microsoft Office templates here.

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