How to know the speed of broadband internet connection

In order to verify the bandwidth claimed by the internet service provider, as available to the internet user, we may have to find out the current usable bandwidth of our broadband internet connection.
And, here is a free broadband internet connection speed/ bandwidth testing service available online. It is none other than, speedtest.net. Through this online bandwidth test service, you can make account of current usable upload and download bandwidth of your broadband internet connection.


Also the bandwidth test report from such websites will be very much useful when you raise a complaint with the customer service of the internet provider when your internet connection slows down. The report can be used as a reference for supporting your claim. Check your internet connection bandwidth now.

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How to find out if someone is copying your website or blog - Detect Plagiarism

It is very important to detect the website or blog content copying (plagiarism), for those who are keen to protect their rights online.

There are two easy and free methods to find website or blog content copying.

Using Google Search: If you doubt that some one would copy your blog or website content then deliberately make a small unnoticeable spelling or grammatical mistake in your content. And wait for few days and search the sentence part containing the mistake in Google by enclosing the search query in double quotes. If some one copies your content as it is, then Google will also list the copied website in the search result. This will work only if Google indexes the pages that is copied from your website or blog.

Using CopyScape: CopyScape is a wonderful online service to detect Plagiarism. Just enter the url of your website or blog and hit enter, CopyScape will show you the websites which copied the contents from your website or blog. You can get free banners, showing that your site is being protected by CopyScape. There is premium service available with CopyScape, which would alert you when someone copies your website content.


Now, go ahead and start protecting your website or blog from online plagiarism.

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Two way sync for Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook calendar

Google has released a synchronizing software for Google calendar and Outlook calendar. This is in fact a great initiative from Google team to bridge the gap between two versatile calendars one at desktop and one in the no man's world (internet).


Its no big deal in achieving sync between Google and Outlook calendar with Google's synchronizing software. Obviously, the simplicity and power of Google will aid even a layman to use this sync feature. Just fill in the form pop up once you complete the GoogleCalendarSync installer. Download the GoogleCalendarSync Installer.

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Make your browser a full Screen 3D wall of photos with PicLens

Here is a nice photo viewing add on for your web browser, for those who are tired of conventional slideshows. The PicLens features a 3D photo slideshow, within your browser.

Its very simple to view the photos on a 3D wall within your browser. Just keep your mouse pointer on the image of the website which has good collection of photos and click the play icon appears over the image. You will be given a 3D view wall, that can help you browser through all the photos.


PicLens support most of the photo hosting sites like flickr, photobucket, picasa,Fotki, FotoTime, deviantART, Smugmug etc. It also support social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5, Friendster. And, of course the versatile image searches from Google, Yahoo, Live, AOL and Ask.

In fact PicLens is defining new realms in photo slideshow with its 3D full screen wall of photos. Just try to once to get addicted!!!. Get PicLens for your web browser.

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Use Google Movie Showtime search to plan weekend movies in US, UK and Indian cities

Planning for a movie in weekends is not so easy, if we does not have the correct information about showtimes in the city. Here also Google is extending its search power to help users. Google provides the up to date information about movies in most of the cities in United States, United Kingdom and India.

Its pretty simple with Google Movie Showtime search, just go to www.google.com/movies and enter your city name. Also you can sort the result by Theatre distance, Movie popularity, Movie rating , Movie title etc.


You can enter the US city zip code or city name, if you want to find out movie schedules in a particular city in US. But, for finding out the now running movie schedules in Indian cities like, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Noida, Kolkata, Trivandrum etc, you need to enter the city name as it is.

Now plan your weekend movies easily with Google Movies.

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Vista look alike Linux Distribution Vixta.Org

Cool looks of Windows Vista is one of its attractive feature. But it comes at price. Here is a Linux
distribution, which has cool look of Windows Vista and of course its free.


The Windows Vista look alike Linux operating system is Vixta.Org. This distribution has all the features required for a basic computer user.

• It has Office software, Adobe PDF reader, Skype, aMSN, Java
• Vixta.Org also supports multimedia formats like mms, mp3, avi etc
• Vixta.Org also comes with Educational Software Suites, like Gcompris, KDE EDU, Solfege and ChildPlays

Just try Vixta.Org yourself to believe. Download Vixta.Org for free.

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Inline search box in Google search results

Google ranks the websites based on the importance of the content or service provided by the site. Depending on the amount of useful information a website has, Google even provide inline search box for each item within the Google search result.


The inline search box will help the user to search within the specified website directly from the Google search result. This particular facility can be viewed as layman version of the advanced Google search queries. Most of the Google search experts are very much familiar with the site: keyword used to restrict the Google search for a specific website. Now Google packaged the same thing for common usage, depending on the importance of website content.

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Macromedia still alive through Adobe flash player

Flash has triggered the web revolution, by incorporating interactive multimedia content in the web. Macromedia ,which introduced Flash to the internet world, has been acquired by Adobe Inc before few years. And most of the superb products of Macromedia are under the umbrella of Adobe.


If you just see the about link of flash player 9, which has been released after the acquisition, just by right clicking on any of the flash content in the web, the link will take you to http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/

In fact Adobe is still retaining the domain name as it is, even though they changed the logos in the website. This shows that Macromedia brand is still alive, through the flash player.

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Transfer DVD movies through Yahoo Messenger

Even though the internet bandwidth has improved a lot in most part of the world, but mail attachments are now limited to few MBs. So its very difficult if you want transfer your DVD movie or song collection to your friend who is geographically quiet far apart. But Yahoo Messenger for Vista is work around for solving your data transferring worries.


The new Yahoo Messenger for Vista, which is under preview release, can help you transfer data up to 2 Giga Bytes to your friends. Unbelievable!!!.

There are couple of other features offered by new Yahoo messenger for Vista.

• New contact list with feature for resizing the contact icons, as in windows explorer in Windows Vista.
• Enhanced animated smiley's for expressing your emotions.
• New colors for each chat window, to easily differentiate individual windows.
• Combine/docking chat windows into tabs of a single window.
• Drag and drop contact list to the side gadget for initiating frequent and easy conversations.

Wanna try this?, of course you need to have Windows Vista. Download Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista.

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Simple and Easy way to promote Blog and Website where ever you go

Blog or website promotion is the most important part, if you are expecting good result out of them. Thus, its is the hard thing to achieve, unless you follow very systematic and proper way of promotion and advertising strategies.

Earlier, I have compiled about Successful ways of blog promotion. If you are not doing blog promotion in a proper way, sometime you may end up in some troubles or even may get depressed.


Now, I have very simple and very feasible way of promoting your blog or website without much investment. Just wear a T-shirt naming your website on front as well as back side. Just wear the T-shirt and go where ever you want to go. Any catchy captions and supporting figures will get you more attention.

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Download free games for your Apple iPhone

Games in mobile phones really help, when you want to pass time and also to refresh yourself by taking a break from all the busy schedules and jumping in to the world of games.
But, if you are an iPhone user, obviously you will also expect a lot more games for iPhone to pass time as well as to recreate yourself.


Here is a nice collection of free games for apple iPhone. Its worth trying if you have an iPhone. Get more details and download apple iPhone games from below links.

First list of downloads | Second list of downloads

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Make voices heard through Avaaz

Are you interested to be part of movements that can make new and positive changes in this world, and actions that can help struggling people around this world.

You can checkout the site: avaaz.org, which is putting their efforts to make the voices heard. Avaaz in Hindi means Voice. You can join Avaaz to be part of the voices that can bring betterment to the mankind.

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