Blogcatalog with new revamped design and theme

BlogCatalog is a specific social networking site which targets bloggers. Apart from a bloggers social networking site it is also one of the largest blog directories on the internet.

Even if you are a not a blogger and you want to search and read blogs, to get connected with bloggers, learn more about blogging, Blogcatalog could be a prime destination for you. And if you are a blogger who wish to promote blog, Blogcatalog is an ideal place to do that. Also there are lot of discussions where you can get free suggestions and reviews about your blog contents, designs and tips to improve the your traffic and earnings from the blog through AdSense and similar content advertising programs.

Blogcatalog has revamped its design and looks to give cool effects for visitors. Changing looks of websites are becoming a new trend now a days. You can see the Big G to small g favicon change in Google.

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Download new google talk labs edition with cool new features

Google has unveiled the Google Talk(GTalk) labs edition with cool new features, after a long wait. Google demands you to have Windows XP or Vista for experiencing the new Google Talk Labs Edition.

The new Google Talk Labs Edition comes with most of the features that are present in GMail Chat and Google Chat widget. You can have Group chat and express emotions with your chat buddy. Each new chat window will be added as new tab to the Google Talk main window. You can get alerts for new mail received in GMail inbox, for new scraps in Orkut, also event alerts in Google Calendar. And there is an option to disable alerts for one hour.

But there are some more features that are missing in Google Talk Labs Edition, that are available in GMail chat, like, option to be invisible in chat and a direct link to sign out of Google Talk. Now you need to Google Talk Labs Edition

Still Video Chat is a distant dream!!!!. Download Google Talk Labs Edition

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Google changed favicon Big G to small g

Look matters for all the business players and firms, Google is not an exception. You can notice that the favicon of Google and GMail services. The old big G has been changed to new small g. We all know Google is famous for its simplicity and modesty. I think the new favicon would underscore the simplicity and modesty in perfection of Google and its products. See the images of old and new favicons of Google, below.


But, I think Google team has forgot to change the favicon for Google Scholar.It has still the old favicon. See the Google Scholar home page.

Also the change in looks will attract more people, like any other business. This also could be a business trick from Google Team.

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List all your IM buddies on Firefox sidebar with Meebo addon

Meebo is a very famous Web IM which helps you to access prominent Instant Messaging services from Yahoo , Google, MSN and AIM.

Now, with the help of Firefox web browser you can have sidebar for your chat buddies of meebo. You only need to install an addon for your Firefox web browser which will help you put a sidebar for your chat buddies and will notify you upon getting new messages. Also with this sidebar you can have drag and drop of text and links to the chat box.

Get Meebo addon for Firefox. Not using Firefox?, Download Firefox Web browser.

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Turn your ideas into cash with Lulu publishing services

Lulu is serving a fantastic platform for creating variety of digital products by individuals online. There are three major products you can publish through Lulu, they are Books, Photo creations and Digital media.

The books includes Paperback books, Hardcover books, Comic books, Dissertations, Cookbooks, Product Manuals, Sales proposals. Travel Guides, Presentations, Brochures, Yearbooks, Annual Reports, Textbooks, Training manuals, Course outlines.

And under Photo Creations you can have Photo Books, Wedding Books, Calendars, Portfolios, Posters, Artwork.

In the Digital Media section consists of Images/Graphics, Music, Ringtones, Sounds/Midi Files, Movies/Videos, Fonts, CDs/DVDs, ebooks/Documents.

Once you register with Lulu ( free of cost) you will get a digital workspace for publishing all your works online. Lulu will also help you market your products online. In fact, this is a real online treasure for serious freelance publishers. Prepare to get your treasure today.

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How do I remove my facebook, orkut and myspace profiles

Social networking is one of the booming business in the internet. Social networking sites have reached the current level by exploiting the basic tendency of humans to get connected and making their presence felt among others. There are lot of successful social networking sites, which increased the number of billionaires in the world. These sites are not limited to facebook, orkut, myspace, hi5, bebo, linkedin etc.

Even though social networking upholds an easy medium to get humans across the globe connected, some people are tend to misuse this channel. Some people do illegally clone profiles and some may send lewd scraps. If you can live with these challenges, its well and good, otherwise you may prefer to delete or deactivate or cancel your profile from the particular social networking site.

I have compiled easy ways to remove your profiles from three major social networking sites, Facebook, Orkut and MySpace.

Steps to deactivate your Facebook profile
First of all login to your facebook account and click the account link on top right side. Then click the settings tab. You can find a link at bottom to deactivate your facebook profile. Click "deactivate" to remove your profile from others view.


Steps to delete your Orkut account
Login to your Orkut account and click the settings link at bottom left side and select the general tab. Then you can find a link to "delete my orkut account" to permanently remove your orkut profile from the network. And do not forget to save changes.


Steps to cancel your MySpace account
Login to your myspace account and click the Home link and in the Control Panel section on your left side click settings links. In the new page you can find a link to "Cancel Account".


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What is Ninja and How to be a Ninja

Wikipedia says; Ninja is a person specially trained in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. I have an excerpt from Wikipedia below.

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How to be a Ninja?
I got a nice video from YouTube, which can tell you how to be a Ninja. With nice fights!!!.



In fact this looks funny and entertaining, and worth watching. You can very well share this video with your friends, if you like it very much.

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Add widgets to map your favorite places on your blog

Widgets can always add beauty to your blog, if it is chosen as per the needs and relevance of your blog content. You can find a lot of common widgets like, mybloglog, blogcatalog visitors widgets, flickr, picasa photo widgets etc. in many of the blogs.

Nomao has some thing not different but familiar idea put in a much more useful way. The widget from Nomao can have maps of your favorite places (with the help of Google Maps). This would really help bloggers to share their meeting places and events with readers. In order to own this widget for your blog, you just need to register with Nomao. Its a 3 field fill-in form. Done, you can add your favorite places map and get it as a widget.

Add your favorite location's map widget to your Blog

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SmartFTP - Cool and easy to use FTP Client with Thumbnail feature

Even though are lot of softwares to share and transfer files, FTP is still remaining as one of the fastest and reliable method for transferring and sharing files. Most of the operating systems come with ftp client commands by default, but commands may not be that viable for a newbie to make ftp operations.


We can never forget the contributions of Ftp Client softwares for making our transferring tasks easy and hassle free. SmartFTP has played a major role in accomplishing and imparting simplicity in using FTP client. Now SmartFTP 3.0 has been released with bunch of new features including thumbnail view of files, support of Proxy, secured connection to SFTP servers over SSH and email notifications upon completing the file transfer.

SmartFTP is a must have software for everyone who is involved in sharing and transferring data with FTP.

Get your SmartFTP now itself.

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Google added new View menu to Google Doc Writer

Google Doc was missing the View option to see the word document as if we see in MS Word. Google doc team has supplemented this by adding a View menu and made it a much more easy to view.


The new view option is the Fixed-width page view and also you can switch to the older Normal (plain) view, if you want to have. Google doc is making its every step slowly and steadily to realize a complete online version of MS word like office experience online.

Just login to experience the new view menu at docs.google.com

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Download free easy to use accounting software from Microsoft

Microsoft is giving free accounting software for business, Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008, which integrates well with Microsoft Office products.

Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008 is not just an accounting software but it can help you make online transactions using PayPal, create eBay listing, importing the data to excel, CSV and other document formats. This also help you to create and manage invoices, track time and expenses and bank online.

The Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008 is designed for US and UK based small businesses only. And all these accounting feature bundled software is available free of cost from Microsoft.

Download Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2008

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Download Fedora Core 9 for free

The latest sibling of Fedora family of Linux, Fedora Core 9, showcases the latest in free and open source softwares.

Fedora comes with all world class softwares for Word processing, software development, multimedia, Graphics, Games, System utilities, Electronic Development tools, Scientific tools, databases, servers and cool 3D desktop. Everything is free of cost.

Its worth trying for non Linux users, or you are going to miss it. Of course its a golden feather of satisfaction and happiness for Linux users.

Download Fedora core 9 for free to experience the creativity and innovation.

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Download free McAfee VirusScan Plus Special Edition

AOL partnered with McAfee to deliver most comprehensive free set of safety tools available in the market. McAfee VirusScan Plus - Special edition from AOL is the result of this partnership.

This software provides
* Virus protection: To guard your whole PC.
* Spyware Protection: To block potentially unwanted programs.
* Firewall: To help keep hackers out.

System Requirements
Windows Vista:800 MHz or higher processor,512MB RAM , 200MB hard disk space.
Windows 2000 (SP4+), XP (SP1+): 500 MHz or higher processor, 256MB RAM,200MB hard disk space.

These comprehensive set of safety tools is provided free of cost, with an aol.com email id.

Download free McAfee VirusScan software

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How to add more than 15 contacts per day in MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog is a very famous blog networking and tracking website acquired by Yahoo. MyBlogLog still imposes a limit for adding number of contacts per day for ordinary accounts. The current limit for adding contacts for ordinary users is 15 per day.

But now MyBlogLog users can overcome this per day limit for adding contacts by using a new service work around from MyBlogLog itself. The new service called, Friender (must be the fused version of Friend Finder), which is in beta can be used for this.


First of all you need to add all your other social networking site account information, like linkedin, facebook, friendster etc, to MyBlogLog. Then you can go to Friender service from MyBlogLog and search for all your friends in other network and add your friends with just one click. Try out this today itself.

Also read:How to add more than 1000 friends in Orkut

Play Cricket match online for free from Zapak

Now all the cricket fans around the world is infected with IPL (Indian Premier League) fever. Its actually bonanza for cricket players who got contracted and real miss for those who could not clearance for participating, especially English players.


Now you can play cricket games online from Zapak. Its absolutely free of cost. And you will also get a chance to win cash prizes every day for playing the cricket very well. You dont have to register, if you just want to try this game online. Of course you need to have flash player for playing this game.

Play cricket match from Zapak for free.

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Something is technically wrong - Twitter is down

When ever I login to my GMail Chat, I can find one friend always available for chat. It is none other than Twitter. But today I could not find my Twitter in my chat friends list, so thought of checking the twitter homepage to know what happened to twitter. It says like, they are working to resolve some technical issues.


Even individual twitter profiles are also not working, but help.twitter.com is up and running.
Lets hope, Twitter, the very famous micro blogging service will be back in action soon.

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Tips for signing and issuing cheques for money transactions

Even though most of the banks provide banking and fund transferring facilities through internet, cheques(or check - USA) are most preferred ways of making and assuring payments. Cheques are very important and you should be very much careful while handling and signing your cheques.


I have some safety tips to share with you for improving your cheque signing and issuing habits.

• Never ever issue a blank signed cheque: Even if you are giving to your close friends or relatives write the name of payee, date and amount before issuing the cheque.
• Record your cheque details: Always enter the cheque number, amount, date and payee in the page provided in your cheque book.
• Never ever sign your cheque leaf while it is inside cheque book: If you sign a cheque by keeping it over other cheques in the cheque book, your signature may get stamped over other cheques also. So always sign your cheques after detaching from your cheque book, and also make sure that the signature is not getting stamped over any other paper or surface while signing.
• Always keep your cheque book in safe and secure place.
• Better cross non-cash cheques before issuing.

Try using these tips and also share with your friends if it finds useful.

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Improve performance of a slow Windows PC and Laptop with Auslogics BoostSpeed 4

There are lot of manual tips to improve the performance of a slow PC and Laptop, but those ways are bit risky for a user with basic computer knowledge. A small mistake may result in system crash or unstable system.

But there are softwares to improve performance of slow PCs & Laptops. Auslogics has released a newer version of its BoostSpeed series. Its features are worth mentioning.

A features of Auslogics BoostSpeed 4 are:

• DiskDefrag to defragment your disks, which is much faster than your Windows default defragmenting tool.
• Internet optimization wizard with Firefox support
• The system scan is faster and consumes less memory.
• Intelligent Registry cleaner, supporting Symantec and Nero products
• It comes with easy to use interface, One-Button checkup and bundle of customization options.
• Supports Vista/XP/2000/2003, 32-bit and 64-bit and dual-core CPU.

Its really worth trying, you can download a 15 days trial version from here.
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Download Nokia S60 Platform SDKs for Symbion OS for Java and C++

Nokia has evolved as not just mobile handset provider, they are set to conquer the mobile software world. In order to fasten their grip in the mobile software, they are pushing lot of development kits and tools for developers for free.

S60 platform is a prominent base of most of the Nokia latest mobiles. Now Nokia is giving all registered forum nokia members S60 Software Development Kits for both Java & C++ .


S60 Platform SDK allows developers to quickly and efficiently run and test applications for devices that are compatible with the S60 Platform. Using a Java/C++ language integrated development environment (IDE), development with the SDK can be carried out your PC alone. The SDK delivers all the tools required to build Java/C++ applications. The tool's package contains the S60 device emulator, Java/C++ API implementations, documentation, and sample applications. The S60 Platform device emulator allows applications to be run and tested without a device.

Download S60 Platform Java SDK | Download S60 Platform C++ SDK

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Gift cool electronic gadgets to your mom on Mother's Day

Mothers day is a very special day for honouring Mothers through out the world and to make Mothers feel special. So, whats your plan for making your mom feel special?. Of course, in this digital world, most of the people tend to choose cool electronic gadgets as Mothers Day gifts. There are some good suggestions for choosing cool gadgets for your mom from retrevo. Its worth referring.


My personal suggestion is to consider every day as Mothers day and find time in your busy daily schedules to spend with your mom. Of course other gifts would delight your mom, but your presence and unconditional love cannot be supplimented by any materialistic gifts.

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Download digital asset management software - Expression Media 2 from Microsoft

Expression Media 2 from Microsoft is claiming to be a complete digital asset management software, ranging from your favorite digital photographs through your digital video collections.


Expression Media 2 supports more than 100 media types, even raw image formats from different cameras.

Great features to experience from Microsoft Expression Media 2 are

• Creating visual catalogs for media collections
• Support for browse, search and annotation of media assets, even the originals are offline.
• Easy and intuitive interface for Organizing media assets quickly.
• Easy adding and editing of metadata about media assets
• Easy printing, converting archiving and sharing of media files.

Download Microsoft Expression Media Trial

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Hide your orkut scraps from others in the network

Orkut scrapbook has become a very easy medium of conveying messages like instant messaging services. And, more often people do write personal and confidential information in the scrapbook, without thinking that others can also read their scraps. Its always advisable to use email or instant messaging for passing secret and intimate messages, instead of using your scrapbook.

But those who are addicted to orkut can have workaround to control the visibility of their scraps to others, thanks to Orkut Team . Its is very easy to control the visibility of your scraps to other people in the Orkut network. Click the "Settings" section in your Orkut profile page, this will take you to Orkut Settings page.


In this page go to the privacy tab and scroll down to bottom. Here you can see an option for enabling, who all can view your scraps. You can set it to friends, so that only friends can view the scraps. And, of course, do not forget to click the button save changes. You can also control who can write scraps in your scrapbook.

Also read:Protect your Orkut Photo Album from misuse.

Make a press release for your blog or website

Would you like to make a press release about the important events or activities of your blog or website. Don't worry, no need to approach press clubs. There are some sites which are ready to accomplish the same through internet for you.

You can publish your import events and activities with PRWeb.com. Also this is very good way to popularize and build traffic to your blog or website. So, don't hesitate to make a press release about your new changes and implementation or any important topics. Go ahead and make a press release by just signing up in PRWeb.com

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Cut MP3 audio file online to make ringtone without registration

There are number of MP3 cutting software available, even some are available free of cost. But, with the onset of Web 2.0 the softwares are being pushed to the server side and being used as services. Then of course, we must have a service for cutting mp3 files to make ringtones for your mobile phone.

I came across a website, makeownringtone.com, which allows making your own ringtones from mp3, ogg, wma file formats. It can give ringtones in mp3, ogg, aac, mp4, mmf, mpc and qcp formats.Also there are couple of audio processing options available in advanced and expert modes. Everything is available free of cost and even without signup or registration.


In fact, this online ringtone converter service will help you to make ringtone by selecting the waveforms of your desired music or song. Once you finish selecting the range for making ringtone, just click the button "MAKE A RINGTONE" and select the option for getting the ringtone file. You can either download the ringtone to your computer or can get a WAP link so that you can directly download the ringtone in your mobile phone itself.

If you select the entire portion of the uploaded mp3, ogg or wma file and choose the output as mp3, ogg, aac, mp4, mmf, mpc or qcp format, then you can use this as a service for converting mp3 files to aac, mp4, mmf, mpc and qcp formats. Make your own Ringtone right now.

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