Posts tagged Tech
Google Phone Tomorrow?
May 9th
We try to leave the rumors to other people, but there is definitely something new coming from Google tomorrow.
English blog Tech.co.uk have been invited to a special event in which Google will be revealing a “product for mobiles”.
Whether this will be the launch of the long rumored Google Phone is unknown. It could just be another one of their endlessly ‘in beta’ services, but we have our fingers crossed. Whatever it turns out to be, you’ll hear about it here tomorrow.
Is Google about to unveil the Google phone? [Tech.co.uk]
New Hotmail Unveiled – Google Still Offers More Than Either Yahoo or Microsoft – Gmail Offers Free POP3 Accounts – Comparison
May 9th
(Best Syndication) Although more people use Microsoft Hotmail than Google gMail, their new Windows Live Hotmail still lacks some functionality. Many industry watchers say it is about time that Microsoft upgrad their free email service, especially with stiff competition from Google and Yahoo!.
Hotmail now offers 2 GB of storage for free, coming closer to Google’s 2.6 GB. This is a significant upgrade for Microsoft because they had been offering only 1 GB of storage. Although Yahoo limits their free service to 1 GB of disk space, they are expected to offer unlimited space this month. Their email service is free as well, but may not work perfectly with all browsers including Firefox.
The competition is fierce between the three rivals. Yahoo still charges $20 per year for POP3 service which allows users to access their email clients including Outlook and Eudora. Google offers that service for free, and Microsoft is expected to offer POP3 service later on for Outlook only.
Free POP3 Service and mail forwarding is the biggest advantage for Google, and one reason they have become so popular. With the Yahoo and Hotmail free service you have to use your browser to access your email. With Google, you can use your browser or your email client to access all of your email accounts at once, free of charge. Offering these POP3 servers is a huge expense for Google, but it is a big advantage for their users.
All three services use spam blockers and virus protection. Google gives users a total of nine months of dormancy before an account is deactivated. This means that if you don’t use your account for nine months it will be declared dormant and then finally deactivated. Yahoo and Microsoft give their users less time before their accounts are deactivated.
Google has also integrated their Google Talk and instant messaging service into gMail. Google Talk enables users to make free voice calls through the computer.
Sometimes it is better to go second, and in this, it was an advantage for Google to learn from Yahoo’s and Microsoft’s mistakes. They developed gMail with POP access and other capabilities from the ground up. Yahoo and Microsoft had to work with their older technologies to provide users with upgrades.
Google has also unveiled a new and improved iGoogle personalized home page for their users. The free iGoogle is similar to Yahoo’s personalized homepage, but with new and improved gadgets. With your new personalized homepage you can preview your email letters with one of the free gadgets. The iGoogle has various fun themes that change throughout the day depending on what time it is. There is nothing to download and it operates like any homepage, except it is customizable. No wonder Microsoft is feverishly working on upgrades to their existing services.
Multiple Home Tabs in Mozilla Firefox
Jan 24th
Anyone who’s used Internet Explorer 7 may enjoy the feature of being able to have multiple home pages open in tabs. Well, you can do this in Firefox too. Go to Tools | Options. In the Main Tab, you should see the box where you type your home page. Simply write each URL you want to open in a tab and separate each with a |
For instance, if you wanted your home tabs to be TheOneGreatX.com, Digg, and Google (very fine choices, I must say) your Home Page Box would read:
http://www.blog.neo999.com|http://www.digg.com|http://www.google.com
So there you have it, one fewer reason not to use IE7.
Protect your password in cyber cafe and on public computers
Nov 29th
Some time or the other, you must have used cyber dafe or public computers to access internet or mail.
Public computers are most prone to password hacking. Anyone can simply install a keylogger software to hack your password.
Keylogging is one of the most insidious threats to a user’s personal information. Passwords, credit card numbers etc.
It is now very easy for the keylogger to harvest passwords. Each and every keystroke (whatever you type on the keyboard) gets recorded in the keylogger software and the person installing it can easily view what you have typd in.
For example, if you go to hotmail.com and check your mails. Say your ID is sarahj7@hotmail.com and password is snoopy2. the keylogger software records your usename and password in its log file as
Microsoft Internet Explorer :
www.hotmail.comsarahj7@hotmail.comsnoopy2
Or
Firefox:
www.hotmail.comsarahj7@hotmail.comsnoopy2
Risky isnt it???!!!
There’s solution to this problem and you can easily fool the hacker.
The keylogger software sees and records everything,but it doesn’t understand what it sees. I
t does not know what to do with keys that are typed anywhere other than the password or user name fields.
So,between successive keys of the password if you enter random keys, the keylogger software wont ever come to konw where you typed in what..
In the process of recording the keys, the string that the keylogger receives will contain the password, but embedded in so much random junk that discovering it is infeasible.
So…
1.Go to hotmail.com or yahoo.com or any of the site where you need to insert a password or PIN.
2.Type in your user ID.
3. Type in the first characterof the password.
4. Click on the address bar in the internet explorer or Firefox. Type in some 3/4 random charachters.
5. Again go to password field and type in the second character of the password.And probably third too.
6. Again go to the addressbar and type in a few mroe random character.
7. Back to the password field and the next characters of the password.
Keep on repeatin the process till you type in the full password in the password field.
Instead of the password
snoopy2 the keylogger now gets:
hotmail.comspqmlainsdgsosdgfsodgfdpuouuyhdg2
Here a total of 26 random characters have been inserted among the 7 characters of the actual password!!!
No doubt it takes a little bit of more time than the usual process, but you’re safe and secure that way!!!
I’d appreciate your comments/feedback!
Normaliz.dll not found error fix
Nov 8th
If you are getting " Explorer Failed to open .Normaliz.dll missing.Reinstalling the application will solve the error" message when logging on to your computer , you may have recently installed Internet explorer 7 beta / Final version and it fucked up your dlls. No problem. Fixing it is simple. Download the file below and extract normaliz.dll to windows/system32
File: normaliz.zip
DownloadLink: http://rapidshare.com/files/2470276/normaliz.zip.html
Tip : To copy this file you need to browse through the drives. But with out an explorer it may sound hard. Not at all. Just open task manager by alt+ctrl+del and open "New task" . There you will get a browse window. Just browse through it. Dont forget to change "file types " to "all " from "programs" in that window. Else you will miss non-exe files.
TVUPlayer – P2P Tv!
Oct 29th
Using a new peer to peer technology you can potentially get any channel broadcast on the internet for free. The new controversial TVUPlayer could be the TV studio ’s biggest enemy since Napster! Channels already being broadcast on the net without permission include CBS, ESPN, NBA TV, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Comedy Central, Disney and more
Download TVUPlayer >> http://dl.tvunetworks.com/TVUPlayer.zip
FireFox – 2 The official release!
Oct 29th
Enjoy a Better Web Experience
There’s a lot to do on the Web, and Firefox 2 is full of helpful features to make your time online more productive.
Improved Tabbed Browsing
We love tabs as much as you do, so Firefox 2 will open new web pages in tabs by default. Each of those tabs has its own close button, but don’t worry – if you accidentally close a tab, just go to the History menu to bring it back from the list of “Recently Closed Tabs.” You’ll never be crunched for space anymore, either. When you have too many tabs open to comfortably fit in a single window, scroll arrows will appear on either side, and a button on the right side will always show you an easy-to-read list of all your open tabs.
Spell Checking
Sometimes you’re in a rush, and can’t remember if it’s “i” before “e” or the other way around. Firefox 2 has built-in spell checking to keep you from making any mistakes in your blog posts and Web-based email, so you can worry about more important things.
Search Suggestions
Some of the search engines in Firefox 2 can read your mind, and actually suggest search terms for what you’re looking for. Just start typing into the Search bar, and a drop down list of suggestions will appear. (Works for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com.)
Session Restore
Losing your place while you’re doing things on the Web is a pain. Now, with Session Restore, if Firefox has to restart or closes when it comes back you’ll pick up exactly where you left off. The windows and tabs you were using, the text you typed into forms, and the in-progress downloads you had running will all be restored. You can even set Firefox 2 to always restore your previous session instead of loading a home page, so you’ll never lose your place again.
Web Feeds (RSS)
What do news headlines, indie rock podcasts, and pictures of kittens have in common? They’re all things that you can subscribe to with Web feeds. Firefox 2 gives you full control over Web feeds, showing you a preview and letting you choose how you want to subscribe. You can use a Firefox Live Bookmark, or a feed reader that you’ve installed on your computer, or through a Web service such as My Yahoo!, Bloglines or Google Reader.
Live Titles
Keep an eye on that auction or the status of a delivery using the new Live Titles feature in Firefox 2. Compact enough to fit as a bookmark label, Live Titles are regularly updated summaries of the most important information on a Web page. As the information on the page gets updated, so does your Live Title. Try one out in Firefox 2 by bookmarking www.woot.com.
Integrated Search
Firefox helps you find whatever it is that you’re looking for. The Search bar comes pre-loaded with search engines for Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com, and Creative Commons. Wherever you are on the Web, you can enter a search term in the Search bar and receive immediate answers from the search engine you’ve chosen. You can select a new search engine from the Search bar menu at any time, and add search engines from hundreds of your favorite Web sites.
Live Bookmarks
Firefox Live Bookmarks let you view Web feeds such as news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or menu. With one glance, quickly review the latest headlines from your favorite sites and click to go directly to the articles that interest you.
Pop-up Blocker
Firefox keeps you in control of the Web pages you’re viewing, blocking annoying pop-ups. Firefox’s pop-up blocker notifies you when pop-ups are blocked via the information bar or icon on the lower right of the screen.
Streamlined Interface
The user interface in Firefox 2 has been updated to improve usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience.
Accessibility
Firefox delivers a better browsing experience for everyone – including those who are visually impaired. Firefox includes support for DHTML accessibility. Web developers can create pages that reduce the amount of tabbing required to navigate a document to minimize keystrokes for those with mobility disabilities. Firefox also includes support for Microsoft Active Accessibility, Microsoft’s accessibility API standard for Windows. This support allows Firefox to work with screen readers such as GW Micro’s Window-Eyes and Freedom Scientific’s JAWS. Firefox 2 (Windows version) meets US federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments.
Stay Secure on the Web
The Web is a great place, but sometimes you’ll encounter bad people. Firefox keeps you safe from spyware, hackers, scammers and spammers, using the power of a vigilant and passionate community to protect you 24/7.
Phishing Protection
Phishing Protection takes Firefox’s security to a new level, helping to safeguard your financial information and protect you from identity theft. When you encounter a Web site that is a suspected forgery (known as a “phishing” site) Firefox will warn you and offer to take you to a search page so you can find the real Web site you were looking for.
Open Source, More Secure
At the heart of Firefox is an open source development process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts spread all over the world. Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure our products are more secure and updated quickly, while also enabling us to take advantage of the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster overall security.
Automated Update
Firefox’s update system always checks to see if you’re running the latest version, and notifies you when a security update is available. These security updates are small (usually 200KB – 700KB), giving you only what you need and making the security update quick to download and install. The automated update system provides updates for Firefox on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 40 different languages.
Protection from Spyware
Firefox will not allow a Web site to download, install, or run programs on your computer without your explicit agreement. Period. You will be notified whenever downloading or installing software, and Firefox will always tell you what’s happening so that you can stay in control of your computer.
Clear Private Data
Firefox offers the ability to clear all your private Web browsing data with just one click with the “Clear Private Data” tool. You can be confident that when you clear your private data in Firefox it’s gone – whether you are using your own computer or one at the library.
Personalize Your Browser
Choose from thousands of useful Add-ons that enhance Firefox. It’s easy to personalize Firefox 2 to make it your own.
An Add-on for Everyone
You can choose from over 1,000 add-ons at the Firefox Add-ons Web site. A Firefox add-on can help you comparison shop, share bookmarks with your friends, see the weather in a corner of your browser, write to your weblog, get news, listen to music – all from inside the browser you already love. You can even change the appearance of your browser – from buttons to colors and fonts – so that it matches your own personal style.
Add-ons Manager for Extensions and Themes
The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for you to customize Firefox 2. Install, uninstall, enable and disable your add-ons in a single place.
Search Engine Manager
You can now quickly add, remove and re-order your search engines in the Search bar. Firefox 2 will also detect when a Web site has a search engine that can be installed, and will install it for you with a single click in the drop-down menu.
Google Co-op
Oct 24th
Google just launched a customized search service called Google Co-op (screen shots below). Co-op allows a user to create and launch a search engine with just a few specific websites included. Searches will return results from only that website.
Users have a number of options to customize the search engine: choosing which pages they want to include in their index, how the content should be prioritized, whether others can contribute to the index, and what the search results page will look like.
This isn’t new – Rollyo, Eurekster and Yahoo already have similar products. But Google is also offering, as an option, to bundle the service with Google Adsense ads and share revenue with websites that embed the custom search engine into their site. Only Eurekster currently shares revenue with users. Yahoo’s product, which got a lot of press at launch, has barely been mentioned in the nearly three months since then.
For bloggers, using Google Co-op may be a better choice than the built in search feature. A search engine can be created that searches just a single site, and Google search is generally better than search features included with blog software, and with the addition of Adsense this will generate a separate income stream as well.
Check it here : http://google.com/coop/cse/
Orkut goes public and Lot more !
Oct 20th
Few days back Orkut started displaying Google Ads in Orkut comminities. My guess about Orkut will open to the rest of the world and will implement new features was right.
Orkut has finally implemented the much awaited improvements to Orkut.
You no longer require an invitation from an existing member to join Orkut. Orkut is finally opened to public.
You can simply create a new account from here.
Also there are many new features added to Orkut. Like Quick Reply, Delete multiple scraps. The best new feature is the facility to Add Moderators . I have been waiting for this feature from a long time. It will be easy for community owners to manage their Communities with the help of other users.
Orkut also has significantly rolled out a new feature today which allows to get friends request from people who speak just your language. No more Spanish or French SPAMS.
Orkut Script Hacks!! Enjoy !
Oct 19th
So finally i collected some of the wildest Orkut hacks .. Try it on ur own risk 
javascript:var txt=document.getElementsByTagName(‘textarea’)[0];
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/A/gi,"Å");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/B/gi,"ß");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/C/gi,"©");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/D/gi,"Ð");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/E/gi,"Ë");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/F/gi,"ƒ");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/i/gi,"î");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/s/gi,"§");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/o/gi,"ø");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/u/gi,"µ");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/r/gi,"®");
void(0);
copy this paste it in the address bar dont enter write some text and then enter the text will change and then submit
hËy nî©Ë wÅy tø w®îtË m˧g§!!
want mirror msg???
just type this "& # 8 2 3 8" message without quotes and spaces just before ur message and click go
example
& # 8 2 3 8 i love india
Invisible Scrap
just type [ i ] without space = invisible scrap..
EARTHQUAKE ON UR MACHINE
dont worry earthquake will take place for few seconds
javascript:function flood(n) {if ( self.moveBy)
{for (i = 35; i > 0; i–) {for (j = n; j > 0; j–) {self.moveBy(1,i);self.moveBy(i,0);self.moveBy(0,-i);
self.moveBy(-i,0); } } }} flood(6);
шαππα шгitε liκε thiš?
Write the message in the scrapbook message box (Dont press SUBMIT) and paste any of the following javascript in the url bar and hit enter. Now, submit the converted font.
javascript:var txt=document.getElementsByTagName(‘textarea’)[0];
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/A/gi,"Å");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/B/gi,"ß");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/C/gi,"©");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/D/gi,"Ð");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/E/gi,"Ë");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/F/gi,"ƒ");
xt.value=txt.value.replace(/i/gi,"î");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/s/gi,"§");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/o/gi,"ø");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/u/gi,"µ");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/r/gi,"®");
void(0);
coolest profile in orkut!!!
coolest profile in orkut!!!
hey guys check out the coolest profile in orkut:
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx?2uid=3849827725404266552
Its coz it has 2Uid=xxxxxxx insetad of uid=xxxxxxx.
So it’ll take you to ur own profile…
Makes your Friends Display Pic Big
javascript:
document.body.innerHTML=
document.body.innerHTML.replace(/medium/g,"medium");
void(0)
Change Your Display Pic to a bigger size
javascript:i=128;
void(setInterval("i++;document.images[2].width=i",0))
Changing Color of your orkut Homepage
On the main page(HOME) of orkut paste this code in the address bar
javascript: i=0; c=["green","blue","yellow"];
a=document.links;
setInterval(‘i++;a[i % document.links.length].style.color=
c[i %c.length]‘,10);
void(0)
Deleting Scraps
javascript:i=0;mod=10;
setInterval("i++;i=i%mod;document.forms[ i ].submit()",250);
void(0);
Invisible Name
Press
ALT +0173 [ from the side keyboard]It may not work in laptops as side keyboards are not
available there.
Scrap Flooder ( New & Working )
javascript:i=0;
sar=document.getElementsByTagName(‘TEXTAREA’).item(0).value;
document.body.innerHTML+=’<iframe name="TextFlooding"
width="680" height="430"></iframe>’;
document.forms[1].target=’TextFlooding’;
setInterval(" document.
getElementsByTagName(‘TEXTAREA’).item(0).value=sar +’ ‘+ i;a=submitForm(document.forms[1], ‘submit’, ”);
i++",2000);void(0)
wanna see the magic……..moving pics
COPY PASTE THIS IN UR ADDRESS BAR on this orkut page then press enter BUT KEEP UR SCRAPBUK OPEN AND SEE THE MAGIC
javascript:R=0;
x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6;
y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200;
DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length;
function A(){for(i=0; i<DIL; i++)
{DIS=DI[ i ].style;
DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=
Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=
Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}
setInterval(‘A()’,5); void(0)
Write In Color Wording…..
Write the message in the message box of scrapbook or community forum. DO NOT PRESS SUBMIT.
Paste the following code in the url bar of the browser.
javascript:cor=new Array(‘aqua’,'blue’,
‘fuchsia’,'gold’,'gray’,'green’,'lime’,
‘maroon’,'navy’,'olive’,'orange’,'pink’,'purple’,'red’,
‘silver’,'teal’,'violet’, ‘yellow’ );var z=0;txt=document.getElementsByTagName(‘textarea’)[0];
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/(.)/gi,"§$1");
txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\§ /gi," ");
for(y=0;y<txt.value.length;y++)
{txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\§/,’['+cor[z]+’]');
z++;
if(z==cor.length){z=0}}void(0)
Hit ENTER.
The message in the message box will be modified. Click SUBMIT
Negative Posting
javascript:sar=document.getElementsByTagName(‘input’);
document.body.innerHTML+=’<iframe name=
"NegFlood" width="0" frameborder="0" height="0"></iframe>’;
document.forms[1].target=
‘NegFlood’;
omdt_lowposts=setInterval("sar['topicId'].value=”;
sar['commId'].value=”;
sar['messageId'].value=”;
submitForm(document.forms[1],’delete’,”)", 1000);
void(0)
Create a topic and Then Paste this script on first page of the topic
past thats java script in address bar at the top n press enter but u have to creat a new topic 4 that
Testimonal Flooding
javascript:function maruti()
{document.getElementsByTagName(‘input’).item(2).click();};
void(setInterval(maruti,404));
Scrap Flooder ( New & Working )
javascript:i=0;
sar=document.getElementsByTagName(‘TEXTAREA’).item(0).value;
document.body.innerHTML+=’
<iframe name="TextFlooding" width="680" height="430"></iframe>’;document.forms[1].target=’TextFlooding’;
setInterval(" document.getElementsByTagName(‘TEXTAREA’).item(0).value=
sar +’ ‘+ i;a=submitForm(document.forms[1], ‘submit’, ”);
i++",2000);void(0)
Invisible Name
Press
ALT +0173 [ from the side keyboard]It may not work in laptops as side keyboards are not
available there.
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gr8 flooder,, different text in each scrap
javascript:var i=0;var total=15;
function bd(){i=i+1;i=i%total;
var color=new Array (‘hmmm’,'howx ya ?’,'testin’,’1′,’2′,’3′,’etc etc’,'lolXx’,'hahahaha’,'floodin in progresss’,'usin a script right now’,'hehe’,'ahan!!’,'kewl’,'oh k’,'fyne!!!’);
document.getElementsByTagName(‘TEXTAREA’).item(0).value=color[i****];
submitForm(document.getElementsByTagName(‘tr’).item(15),’submit’,”);}
void(setInterval(bd,500));
dun 4get 2 remove ***** from [i****]!!
HOW TO USE:
go to ur scrapbook and past the above script on the address bar and press enter…
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