Famous People: Desember 2008

Rabu, 17 Desember 2008

Convert Video formats FLV, MPG, MOV, AVI, WMV to 3GP, MP4, PSP for your Mobile

Video conversion tools and services are essential for getting your favorite movies and video clippings on to your mobile phones, portable video players and Apple iPod. Most of the video conversion software available for desktop comes at a price or with limited conversion facility. But there is free online conversion service, which would help you convert your video, audio and documents to your required formats.

The mediaconverter.org is a free online video conversion facility which would help you convert videos from YouTube, Metacafe, Veoh, Blip.tv, DailyMotion etc, also provides conversion of media files from web urls with protocols like mms, rtsp, ftp and http. Media Converter also has an option to convert videos by uploading it from your hard drive. The free service let you convert media files upto 100MB, even without registering.

This service is boon for those want to make your videos and audios compatible with that of your mobile phone and iPod. Convert your video files with mediaconverter.org . Also download the Add-on for media converter if you are using Firefox.

Selasa, 16 Desember 2008

Google implements Digg like link promotion in its Search Result

Google at last made it clear that, its not just the machines but humans need to be in place to rank the indexed pages to raise the search results to semantic realms. You would have noticed a up vote and down vote icons in the Google search result. Web surfers can use these icons to rank the links in the Google search result.

Do not panic if you could not find these icons in your search results, you need to login with your Google account to view and vote the search results.

If you are a stumbler, then you would have used these voting mechanisms using the stumbleupon integration with Google search result. The new feature in Google can also be viewed as a Digg.com like way to promote the indexed links of your web site and blog. If you can get promote votes from more users, then you are more likely to get listed in the top 10 entries of the Google search result.

Try to gather more promote votes for your web site/blog to improve your traffic from Google search.

Senin, 15 Desember 2008

Download Thunderbird 3 Beta from Mozilla Messaging

After the successful release of Firefox 3, Mozilla is putting their efforts in the evolution of its revolutionary email client, the Thunderbird. Like Firefox 3, Thunderbird 3 gives importance to performance improvements; ranging from navigation through the mails using database technology, integration with native searching, indexing, address book and fast fetching and sending of mails.

New features bundled with the Thunderbird 3 are:

Tab interface for Mail as in latest web browsers
Improvements to IMAP for faster message viewing
Improved message reader view
New Add-ons Manager
Improved Address Book interface
Improved import of mail from other Mail clients
Integration with Windows Vista search
Integration with Mac OS X Address Book

Wish to give a try? Download the Thunderbird 3 beta now. Also try some experimental add-ons for Thunderbird 3

Kamis, 11 Desember 2008

Download Calendar 2009 Templates for MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Visio

The New Year 2009 is around the corner, every one is busy with planning the activities for the coming year. What ever may be the plan or agenda, you need to have a calendar that is customized for your need and requirements. As the Microsoft Office is the most admired and widely used Office software, it will be always welcome to have calendar templates for all the MS Office products.

Microsoft and some community members have put their efforts to materialize the dream of having own customizable calendar templates for MS Office users. All the template are free to download from office.microsoft.com, but downloading few selected templates you need to undergo WGA.

You can get calendar templates for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Visio. So go ahead and get your 2009 Calendar template for your favorite MS Office software.

Rabu, 10 Desember 2008

Download Free Microsoft Press E-books on LINQ, Silverlight 2 and ASP.NET 3.5

Microsoft now offering e-books for free to Microsoft developers. Currently, Microsoft is giving away e-books on Programming Microsoft LINQ, Introducing Microsoft SilverLight 2 and Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5.

Only requirement you need satisfy, is to to have a Microsoft Live account and need to subscribe for the newsletters.

Download free Microsoft Press e-books on LINQ, Silverlight and ASP.NET

Selasa, 09 Desember 2008

GMail Tasks to improve the productivity of its user

GMail team has recently added a new add-on feature, to improve the productivity of its users. They have introduced Tasks through GMail Labs, which would let you add a new Tasks window. GMail Tasks can be used to keep track of things that need to get done. The Tasks can be directly added from a email by selecting More Actions -> Add to Tasks, after enabling the Task feature.

You can also directly add new tasks need to be done by just clicking in the new line of floating Task window. You can also add the deadline date and a note on the task. In order to use Task feature you need to go to Settings and select the Labs tab and enable Tasks. You can use the <shift> + t, key board shortcut (if you enable it already).

Jumat, 05 Desember 2008

Chance perform in New York City's Carnegie Hall through YouTube Symphony Orchestra

YouTube has started world's first collaborative online orchestra program. If you are professional or amateur with a great passion for orchestral music, its your time to perform in front of the world.

What you need to do is,

Select your instrument to access the sheet music and rehearse with the conductor
Upload your performances and submit them to join the YouTube Symphony Orchestra
Browse videos to get ideas and check out the competition

If the world choose you as the best, you will get a chance to perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall in April 2009. Get started!!!.

Kamis, 04 Desember 2008

Download All New Python 3000 final release

Python is a very easy to program scripting language. Its much simpler than Perl and is also powerful as Perl. The credibility comes from the fact that Google uses python for its help pages. Now Google App Engine supports server side scripting using Python and to make use of the compute and data store Google cloud.

The team Python has announced the final release of the revolutionary scripting language for the internet. Python 3.0 (a.k.a. "Python 3000" or "Py3k") is a latest release of the python language that is incompatible with its 2.x series of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and those deprecated features have finally been removed. See all the new features in Python.

Rabu, 03 Desember 2008

Mozilla Firefox is under Yahoo's cover

Google was the main company behind the promotion of Mozilla Firefox, till they launched the Chrome web browser. It was a symbiotic relation ship between Google and Firefox, putting Google as default search engine in Firefox in one direction and promoting Firefox, through Google AdSense and allied Google sites in other direction.

But after the release of Chrome, the web browser from Google, Google is gradually shifting their concentration away from Firefox. But, Mozilla is going to have a similar support from the other Internet Giant, its none other than Yahoo. Earlier, Yahoo had only its toolbar for Firefox, to let its users to have interactions to Yahoo services directly from the web browser. But the retreat of Google, to promote its Chrome, Yahoo has started promoting Firefox.

But we need to see how long the party will last, as Microsoft is making its move to get the bid for Yahoo. Visit the Yahoo page which promotes Firefox web browser and Download the Yahoo version of Firefox 3.

Selasa, 02 Desember 2008

Get Free Adobe FLEX Tutorials, Components and Themes

You might be aware of the Adobe Flex, which is used for the development and deployment of cross platform Adobe Flash based rich Internet applications. Adobe Flex is behind most of the well interactive rich internet applications you come across now a days. Adobe is also providing very good software kit for Flex development called Adobe Flex builder which is available for both Windows and Linux platforms.

If you are still new to Adobe Flex, then here is a nice resource center which can tell you about the basics of Adobe Flex and tutorials to get to much closer to Adobe Flex based application designs. Also you can find the free components and themes required for your rich internet application.

If you want to have a practical exposure, you can download the trial version of Adobe Flex.