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]

(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.

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.

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!

 
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.

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

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/

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.

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.

So finally i collected some of the wildest Orkut hacks .. Try it on ur own risk

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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

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.

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

Change Your Display Pic to a bigger size

Changing Color of your orkut Homepage
On the main page(HOME) of orkut paste this code in the address bar

Deleting Scraps

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 )

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

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.

Negative Posting

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

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

HOW TO USE:
go to ur scrapbook and past the above script on the address bar and press enter…