Category: Technology

This is a kind of Yahoo secret. Open either Internet Explorer or Opera coz it wont work with Firefox. Now in the Address bar of your browser type yahoo.com so that you will be directed to Yahoo homepage.

Turn your speakers on with full volume to hear the secret. When you are in the homepage, mouseover on the ! in the “Yahoo ! ” Logo at the top left side of your homepage. i have marked in the screenshot above. Now just click on ! in the Yahoo logo, you will hear Yahoooooooooooooooooo……Sound.

Amazing isn’t It ?

Thanks PD.

Generally the usual Cable line we use now are based on analogue technology wherein a cable operator receives all the channels and connects every home via lengthy cables. Digital Satellite Television receive all the channels beamed via satellite directly at your home in digital quality picture and sound. They are different from DTH or Current Satellite. Tata and Star together has started this service in India with the help of the INSAT 4A, an Indian satellite.

In India Tata Sky a brand name of Tata has launched the First Digital Satellite Televison. All you need is a Satellite TV receiver and a DTH Set top Box.

Some Advantages of Using Tata Sky

• Digital or DVD Quality Picture and Sound
• Parental Control
• On-Demand Movies
• Search and Scan Banner
• Favourite Channels
• No Distortion or Interruption

To know more about their Services you can visit  TataSky Website or contact thier call center below:
From MTNL/BSNL lines: 1-901-425-6633
From other lines: Western India: 020 – 6600 6633
Northern India: 0172 – 6600 6633
Southern & Eastern India: 040 – 6600 6633

It was since one week that Orkut has changed its interface and i discovered a new bug. Although the interface is optimized, which covers the room space perfectly but still Orkut have some bugs in it. Over the last few days my inbox in orkut is following with messages. Generally i get more than 20 mails in orkut a day but now i was unable to delete all the messages.

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The delete selected message(s) function is not working properly, currently one has to select each mail individually and the batch process seems to have some bug and functions void, so mails are just overflowing… Even the From check box doesnt work at all. Hope Orkut will soon fix it or i have no other option but to close orkut account.

[update sep 22 ’06] Atlast Orkut updated the message box and finally i could delete all my messages in inbox…

Microsoft yesterday issued 9 critical patches for windows. These security patches are issued under the Microsoft Security Bulletin summary for August, 2006 reports Beta News. This is an Advisory update released for patching newly discovered vulnerabilites. The nine updates whose Knowledge Base number are KB921883, KB917422, KB920683, KB921398, KB920670, KB922616, KB920214, KB890830 and KB918899.
So to manually update your Windows XP System Open Internet Explorer, Go to Tools menu, Select Windows Update. You can even download the patch by searching with thier KB number which we listed for you. For other optional updates visit Microsoft TechNet. I strongly suggest you to use Automatic Updates which you can set in your computer by right-clicking the My computer icon and selecting Automatic Updates tab. Click the Automatic (recommended) radio button.

To learn more about protecting your computer and automatic updates go to Windows Update Site.You need to Validate your windows to download the patches manually.

Ok this post may seem like a little wierd because Gmail gives you more than 2Gb storage and i am giving you tips to still make it wider. Although you have much satisfied space, you cannot let your mailbox fill up with unwanted mails or junks, because the rate of your incoming mails grows larger than the increasing free space that Gmail provides. So its better to sort out this problem instead of messing up in future. i got some tips that will help you enhance and optimize your mailbox easily. First of all i use 26Mb(1%) of my 2752 Mb and i get more than 150 mails a day. At this rate, i could have filled half of my inbox but its because of some optimisation and i have used 26Mb(1%).

Ok lets come to the main part… Just keep in mind these simple ideas and steps so that you can save little more space in Gmail. Before optmizing create 5 labels in your gmail account, like sorting the blog posts in categories we must sort the mails in labels under different categories. For example create 5 labels say Friends, Family, Personal, Offical, Misc. Now the next part is labelling each and everymail you got from first. Why do you want to label each and every mail ? Thats because archiving of mails in a specfic categories will even power your search and you get narrow results. I know its harder to label each and every mail but do it as batch process and the main reason i suggest you to do so is that you will surely come across some unwanted mails which you can delete. Unwanted mails in Sent Mail, Chats,etc can be deleted to even get more space. After labelling each mails, archive it so that it stays safe and you could retrive it whenever you want. This process is like filtering the unwanted mails and archiving the important ones.

Clear the Trash and Spam box occasionally to free up more space if you are in an emergency to clean up the gmail. After sorting, your mailbox will look quite cool and smart as mine. Its kinda keeping your mails in fingertips. The Optimization of your mailbox depends on how you use the features of Gmail. Upto my knowledge i think gmail is the best Email Service provider that no other email service can offer. Hope this post might be useful.

Sometimes things gonna mess up in our computer, generally everyone backs up important files as CD / DVD or even store them in Computer, but i dont believe in this tatics. My only backup is Internet and i regurarly backup all my files in internet. You can ask me whats the benefit in doing so .. yes some of the benefits in online file storage are

• Retrive it whenever you want
• No loss or maintainence of Data
• Recover it wherever you want
• Share the data with others

The above are some of the resons why i store my data online, ok now come to the part you can ask me where you can store your data and i assure you that i will help you to allocate a maximum of 1Gb Space for storing your Valuable Data. Yeah and they are free. Some of the sites which i recommend gives you 1Gb Free Storage to save your valuable files, photos, movies, videos etc.

MOZY:

Mozy is a free remote backup utility that will automatically backsup all the files you represent and allows you to store upto 2GB of files. You need to install a tool from thier site which will occasionally backsup your computer and if your computer messes up it recovers your important files from their server.

BOX:

Box is a free online storage site by which you can access important files in any computer, share photos and big files, Sync and Backup folders. They give you 1Gb Free space to store your files.

E-snips:

E-snips also gives a storage limit of 1Gb and lets you upload and share anything you want. You can even control who shares it and how they use it.

Today when i was browsing in the Sci/Tech Category of Google news, i found a wired Title that said “Posted by David Berlind @ 5:41 am”. It was Google’s mistake that it sometimes indexes the poster name instead of the actual title. The actual news page is from ZDnet and title should be “Disappointment over virtualization techs mounts. This time, Oracle takes its shots” but instead google bot has wrongly indexed the poster name. Maybe the problem will be in the Submission page of ZDnet news or with the Google.

Lets sneakout other new problems with google news but dont forgot that Google News is not in Beta or Labs.

Google talk has an auto sorting feature of buddy list which we might have not realised or ignored. The main part of it is that google talk automatically sorts the buddy list based on the status of user and thier activity.

Whenever a buddy list is displayed in gtalk they are sorted based on thier alphabetical order as second category and status as first category. For example check the screenshot on the left.

In the screenshot the top list of buddies is naveed, since his status is available he is displayed in top and in the second list it is thakur who uses a busy status and so he is sorted next to available status. And the last status is anandh who is simple idle and so he is listed at the last of the buddy list.

We might have never noticed that google talk has this interesting feature, that automatically sorts the list. Soon more features will be discovered keep updated with my blog if you like my posts…