Personas - What's Your Style Now?

So if you are the one like me who does a lot of customization not just to Desktop but to whatever things you see, then this article is definitely not for you - LOL, But If love a lot of your customization on Firefox then this Article is exactly for you.  If you don't catch me, just go through the above words - you will be able to get through my words. 

And So, Mozilla released its' much awaited Firefox 3.6 with a Surprise Gift to us - It's none other than the release of Personas gallery, Which allows you to install skins to your Firefox Browser with Just a click of mouse.  Just Surf into www.getpersonas.com with your Firefox browser to get involved.  Be Warned!!! - This can certainly reduce your productivity

Quick Links : 

Getting Started : http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/getting_started

FAQs : http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/faq
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Compile and Run any Program online using ideone.com

Looking for a age old COBOL compiler for your new owned Windows 7 PC or Googling for running Shell Programs on Windows? If you are one of the guy, who have done all these - then feel yourself lucky coz you landed in the perfect article. ideone.com is a Web Portal that allows you to compile all sort of programs from COBOL language to Java.

In Brief [From ideone.com]

ideone.com is a... pastebin. But a pastebin like no other in the Internet. More accurate expression would be online mini IDE and debugging tool.

ideone.com is designed mostly for programmers (but, of course, common plain text can also be uploaded). You can use it to:

• share your code (that's obvious - it is a pastebin, isn't it? :)) in a neat way,
• run your code on server side in 38 programming languages (number still growing)
• and do it all with your own input data!

All pastes, if run on server (this option can be disabled for your code if you want), can be accessed through convenient hash links. Source code pages provide information about code and its execution: memory usage, execution time, language and compiler version, code itself, input uploaded by user, output generated by program and error messages from compilers and interpreters.

Links : 

ideone.com FAQs : http://ideone.com/faq

ideone.com Sample Programs : http://ideone.com/samples

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Download Google Official 'Gmail Ninja' Guide

Google had recently added a Lab feature in Top Right Corner of the gmail page as the link takes to a Page wth lot of Tips n Tricks regarding the Gmail Features'. These tips n tricks are based on different category as white belt, green belt, black belt and gmail master as per the increasing and level of tips and tricks about gmail.

 

Links : 

• http://gmail.com/tips
• http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/gmail_tips.pdf
  

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How to Earn Money from your Blog - Using Googles' Adsense

This is the first time I am talking about money in this blog.. Money.. Money.. Well, you don't get for free of course you need to work for at least 30 minutes per day, that's more than enough for an blogger, with this brief introduction can go into adsense.. Oops! I just forgot to mention the basic need for this adsense program is you need to have a Webpage or Blog any thing will do the same one.., Now let's get cracking...

Free Money Free Money...

To begin with let me ask you some question how does a newspaper like 'The Hindu' get money, well or how does a tv channel like Sun TV get money.. Just leave that how does a big giant like Yahoo! makes money, well ofcourse ads, and now you are going to get money from ads. Well now how does it work ? It just involves an application and a review procedure; Basically what you need to do is construct a good Blog or a Website, submit an application form to Google; Google reviews your application and your web presence and voila if they approve your application you are a adsense customer.

Basic Steps :

Here's the step by step guide to get your hand on dollars,

- Go to http://adsense.google.com.
- Click on Sign Up and fill in the application form.
- Conform you e-mail address.
- Wait for 1-2 days until google approves your request.
- Log in to your adsense account
- Click on 'Adsense for Content' Tab. There is also an option of "Adsense for Search" which follows the same procedure.
- Click on "Ad Colours" tab and select the layout for the ads.
- Copy paste the HTML code from the "Ad Layout Code" tab into your website's template.
- Happy Faces!!! ads on your web site!

How does Adsense Works ?

Google claims that Adsense can grasp the theme of your content and deliver ads according to your content. For example if you do a blog which contains articles such as related to software, then you get ads related to software.  When any reader click on the ads you get paid by google, and more and more the reader click more and more ads you get more and more money.. Funny Huh!, Seriously speaking if you click on your own ads will it count, and this is a real thing to be considered for.  Basically the answer is no.  There are tons and tons of people who are caught by law for click fraud.  Google traces such fraud parties.  Google themselves gives a disclaimer that you can't click your own ads, when you sign up for Adsense.

Also there is a bunch of activities that you can't do you cannot have ads posted on a website that has any pornographic content, you can't place google ads on any crack, warez websites.  So how much can you earn with Adsense, this fully depends on how many visitors you have for your website, the more the people more chances they might click on the ads.  And regarding payments google will pay you when you balance reaches 100 USD, they will pay to you via Check, Paypal.

Adsense for Blogger:

Here are the steps to be followed :

- Sign in to your Blogger account
- On you blog's dashboard, click on Templates.
- Choose Add a Page Element, and then select Adsense
- The rest is pretty much right there for you to see and and do..
Select the "ad format" that you prefer, that is , the ad size on your blog, and then select the colours you'd like the ads to have.
- Click on 'Save'.

So, if you are clean and of course popular, you can be assured of some extra montly pocket money. Good Luck, Friends....

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Google Launches Google Fast Flip

Google had recently launched it's Fast Flip service, which was a Labs' Product until now.  For those who are new, "Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches."

The Official Google Blog States, 

Today you may notice a change to the Google News home page: Near the bottom, we're now displaying stories from Google Fast Flip, the article-reading service we launched in September. Fast Flip is still in Google Labs, so we'll continue to experiment with the format. But so far we've found that the speed and visual nature of the service encourages readers to look at many articles and, for the ones that catch their interest, click through to the story publishers' websites.

In December we added more than 50 newspapers, magazines, web outlets news wires and TV and radio broadcasters, bringing the total number of news sources discoverable in Fast Flip to more than 90. Encouraged by the positive feedback we've received from users and partners, we decided to expose the service to more potential readers by integrating it with the U.S. English version of Google News. As always, we welcome your thoughts.

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Wine 1.1.36 Released

WINE - A Popular Windows Emulator, used in Linux Environment had released their new version of WineHQ 1.1.36.  The Community had released the Source code for the version and the binary packages are under process and should come out quickly.

 What's new in this release:
 
    * Completion of the 16-bit separation.
    * Improved Shader Model 4 support.
    * A ton of memory leak fixes.
    * Improved debugging support for MinGW.
    * A number of MSHTML fixes.
    * Various bug fixes.

Core Downloads :

Source Code : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.36.tar.bz2

Binary Packs : http://www.winehq.org/download

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Download Yahoo! Messenger 10 Final Version

Yahoo! has officially released Yahoo! Messenger 10 final version, with build version 10.0.0.1102. Yahoo! Messenger v10.0.0.1102 incorporates many bug fixes, including some bugs related to new video call feature, and improves on overall stability of the product. Yahoo! Messenger 10 also allows user to troubleshoot with detailed connection log, helpful when user cannot login to Yahoo! Messenger despite repetitive attempts.

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Translation Bots from Google for GTalk

Google had been an innovative leader not just for its' Search Engine - but for it's wide range of products such as Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, and what not's. We Indians have been a great addict of Google, if not am wrong. BTW Google Talk is not new here, and so are translation bots.

Google Talk can help you with quick translations, or even translate your chats in real-time! All you need to do is chat with one of our Translation Bots. The bots are named using two-letter language abbreviations formatted as '[from language]2[to language]@bot.talk.google.com,' and all available combinations are listed in the table below.

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Run Operating System inside a Web Browser

Have you ever seen a Operating System inside a browser? Have you ever seen a Internet Explorer inside a Firefox Browser? Maybe you have recently moved to Linux/Mac operating system from Windows but you are missing familiar interface and want to spend some time on Microsoft Windows but don’t have access to it, if this is scenario for you then here is windows4all.com. Windows4all.com is a Silverlight based online virtual operating system (sometimes called a Web OS or a Webtop or a cloud computer). It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser. Windows4all.com replicates the desktop environment of a modern operating system. It can give you a familiar work interface that looks the same whether you’re working at your home computer, or remotely from a borrowed or public computer. You can launch applications right away without installation.

Screen shots :

Windows4all.com is web-based and requires Silverlight 3 to operate. Application runs in Silverlight’s security sandbox. By default code is restricted from accessing your file system or doing anything that could hurt your machine. Besides desktop, taskbar, start menu and sidebar, currently it includes such applications:

• File Explorer
• Internet Explorer
• Video Player
• Rich test editor
• RSS reader
• Virtual PC
• Notepad
• Paint
• Chat
• Calculator
• Games like Chess, Solitaire, Spider etc.e

The system also supports installing program functionality. But this program should be developed in Silverlight and be available in Internet or local file system. Windows4all.com advantages:

• Convenience and freedom - A personalized desktop is available and accessible from any computer in the world.
• No more administration - No more software installation, software update, worry about anti-virus.
• Security - Less prone to typical attacks, viruses, worms, vulnerabilities, spyware and disk crashes.
• Hardware - Performance doesn't depend much on the speed of your computer.
• Entertainment - Being online, windows4all.com offers more opportunities for communicating and entertainment.
• Cost - It is free.

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Airtel launches Twitter by SMS

Twitter has tied up with India's largest mobile services provider, Bharti Airtel, to allow its subscribers to send and receive Twitter messages using SMS (short message service), The partnership means that a huge population can now send Twitter messages at standard rates and receive them for free.

In the Official Press Release from Twitter had posted,

Twitter is committed to fostering the open exchange of information because we passionately believe it can have a positive global impact. When people can exchange information freely and publicly they are able to accomplish great things. As powerful as the Internet has become for the democratization of information, its range is limited when compared to mobile texting—a format uniquely native to Twitter. There are over one billion people with internet access on the planet but there are more than four billion people with mobile phones and Twitter can work on all of them because even the simplest of these devices feature SMS.

We have seen people use Twitter to help each other during fuel shortages, track the spread of wildfires, check in during earthquakes, organize major charitable events, spread urgent news efficiently around the world, and much more. In many of these scenarios, texting has been the key. People exchanging information quickly and efficiently with the device that has become essential to everyday life, their mobile phone. In many parts of the world people do not have Internet access but they can text—and that means they can access Twitter.

As we grow, we seek to partner with organizations that share our vision for positive global impact. Our partnership with Bharti Airtel, the largest mobile operator in India, means a huge population of people can now send tweets at standard rates and receive tweets for free. Bharti Airtel is offering people in every city, every village, every remote taluk and even the smallest panchayat the opportunity to connect to Twitter and enjoy the open exchange of information with no added fees. We are proud to have Bharti Airtel as our partner. Give Twitter a try with your Airtel phone by sending START to 53000. And spread the word!

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Google admits TPB's Search omision was Mistake

Google had announced on Friday that the omission of The Pirate Bay from the Search Results was an error. Google had stated, "Google received a (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) take-down request that erroneously listed thepiratebay.org, and as a result, this URL was accidentally removed from the Google search index," Google said in a statement. "We are now correcting the removal, and you can expect to see thepiratebay.org back in Google search results this afternoon."

Google didn't provide any details about what caused the error but at this point it doesn't seem to be some kind of orchestrated effort to bring down The Pirate Bay--at least on Google's part. According to Google, it was just a goof.

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Google Announces New Translator Widget

Google is now giving webmasters the ability to prompt users for automatic translations of their pages. With the new website translator gadget, site owners can paste a short snippet of code into their websites and instantly increase their reach to up to mind blowing 51 languages.

In the Official Blog Google had Stated as,

Today, we're happy to announce a new website translator gadget powered by Google Translate that enables you to make your site's content available in 51 languages. Now, when people visit your page, if their language (as determined by their browser settings) is different than the language of your page, they'll be prompted to automatically translate the page into their own language. If the visitor's language is the same as the language of your page, no translation banner will appear.

After clicking the Translate button, the automatic translations are shown directly on your page.

It's easy to install — all you have to do is cut and paste a short snippet into your webpage to increase the global reach of your blog or website.

Automatic translation is convenient and helps people get a quick gist of the page. However, it's not a perfect substitute for the art of professional translation. Today happens to be International Translation Day, and we'd like to take the opportunity to celebrate the contributions of translators all over the world. These translators play an essential role in enabling global communication, and with the rapid growth and ease of access to digital content, the need for them is greater than ever. We hope that professional translators, along with translation tools such as Google Translator Toolkit and this Translate gadget, will continue to help make the world's content more accessible to everyone.

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Connect to any IM Service, without any Apps

Meebo has gained popularity over the last few years because of its ability to connect to multiple accounts simultaneously. It doesn't need any kind of installation, instead it allows you to chat directly from your browser. For those of you, who are not yet familiar with the site, simply visit the site: www.meebo.com.

Firefox provides an extended support for Meebo in the form of an add-on. This makes it possible to load Meebo without typing the URL of the website in your address bar and waiting for it to load. The Meebo application will appear on the Firefox sidebar the moment you this application is installed.

• Visit the site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5700
• Click the "Add to Firefox" button.
• In the next page click "Accept and Install".
• Click "Install" in the resulting dialog box that appears.
• Once the add-on is installed you will be notified about the same with a message box. Click "Restart Firefox" to restart the application. This is necessary for changes to take effect.
• If you do not see the restart button,you can do it manually as well.
• After restarting Firefox, click "View |Sidebar | Meebo".
• Meebo will open up in your sidebar.
• Select the service that you would like to chat from.
• Enter the username and password in the respective text boxes and click "Sign On".
• This will automatically log you into the site and will display the list of contacts along the left margin of your browser window.
• Click on the name of any contact you would like to chat with. The chat window will open up in the browser, on the website.
• You can open any number of chat windows as required.

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Turbo Boost Your Internet Speed with Opera 10

Opera Turbo,is a new compression technology that solves the pain of slow connections especially in our country India. If your network speed slows to a crawl, simply enable Opera Turbo to browse the Web at broadband-like speeds. Opera Turbo will automatically detect when network speeds will enable you to benefit. Once you turn it on, Opera Turbo instantly compresses pages, so less data needs to be transferred over a limited connection. So take the Opera Turbo test drive today.

According to a White Paper
Opera Turbo will be able to compress network traffic by up to 80%. The benefits of Opera Turbo should be obvious. The service will save businesses bandwidth, speed up web surfing for clients and reduce costs thanks to the reduced bandwidth requirements. The main Achilles’ heel of Opera Turbo is the requirement to use Opera software to make use of the technique. Opera currently has a web browser market share of about 1% which means that about 99% of all Internet users will probably never be able to test Opera Turbo. Existing Opera users on the other hand might be able to benefit from Opera Turbo as Opera has the intention to utilize the technique into the Opera web browser and Opera mobile browser.

Quick Link :
Download : www.opera.com
Opera Press Release : http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/09/01/

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Hidden Smileys and Emotions in GTalk

GTalk has its own list of available smileys. Using most of them is simple since they have the same codes as their Yahoo! Messenger or Live Messenger counterparts. GTalk smileys have an added dimensions to the way they express your emotions. They are available in three different styles, Classic, Round and Square. However, the code remains the same for each type. The problem is that most of these aren't available in the popup that display the smileys.


The table below displays the list of available Smileys and Emotions with GTalk. This includes both, the hidden smileys and the one that are displayed in the pop-up.

[List of all Smileys in GTalk]

[List of all Emotions available in GTalk]

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Fake "Sex Orkut" steals passwords

Surfers are warned to stay away from websites claiming to be adult versions of Orkut where adult hookups take place.  Your Google username and password will be harvested to collect personal information.

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Mirror's Edge in Flash 2D

Mirror's Edge is a first person action-adventure video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in November 2008. A Windows version was also released on January 16, 2009., Well now it 's time to play MIRROR'S EDGE 2D Online.

Play Now Online : http://www.mirrorsedge2d.com/

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Abbreviations used in IRC, Chatroom, Forum

Pwned by your Friend with ridiculous Internet Jargon like FTW, WTF and all . . The thing is never get depressed, now pwn them with all Jargons' here, I had included all the possible things I remember [hopefully].. In case if I had left something, just follow via Comments . .

afk - away from the keyboard
asap - as soon as possible
bbl - be back later
bbs - be back shortly
brb - be right back
bbiab - be back in a bit
bbiaf - be back in a few
bbfn - bye bye for now
btw - by the way
ctc - care to chat?
cya - see ya
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
focl - falling off chair laughing
ftw - fuck the world / for the win
fwiw - for what it's worth
fyi - for your information
gmta - Great Minds Think Alike
ic - I see
imo - in my opinion
imho - in my humble opinion
iow - in other words
irl - in real life
j/k - just kidding
ltns - long time no see
lts - laughing to self
l8r - later
lol - laughing out loud
ly - love you
mil - mother-in-law
motd - message of the day
n/p - no problem
np - no problem
oic - Oh, I see
otoh - on the other hand
ppl - people
re - RE hi or RE hello
rofl - rolling on floor laughing
roflmao - rolling on floor laughing my arse off
SAHM - stay at home mom
slm - Muslim greeting
tafn - that's all for now
ttyl - talk (type) to you later
ttys - talk (type) to you soon
wb - welcome back
wfm - works for me
wtf - what the fuck
wtg - way to go

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Isometric Pixel Art

Isometric Pixel art is a painstaking process of drawing a 3D image on a 2D screen, pixel by pixel and making sure that the scales of all the dimensions are the same. The illusion of depth is lost in this angle, where objects at any distance from the point of view appear as if they were on a plane. One of most isometric pixel art artists around is eBoy. Head over to hello.eboy.com

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Set Bing's daily image as your Wallpaper

Hate it or love it, Microsoft's Bing Search Engine is gaining market share slowly - BTW you have to admit the fact that Bing's Background images that shows new appearance daily Rocks; Then why not set them as your own desktop's wallpaper - and watch them changing their roots daily? Here's how you can do it . .

Copy n Paste the following code in notepad or any of your favorite text editor and save as 'Bing.theme'

[Theme]
DisplayName=Bing
[Slideshow]
Interval=1800000
Shuffle=1
RssFeed=http://feeds.feedburner.com/bingimages
[Control Panel\Desktop]
TileWallpaper=0
WallpaperStyle=0
Pattern=
[Control Panel\Cursors]
AppStarting=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_working.ani
Arrow=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_arrow.cur
Crosshair=
Hand=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_link.cur
Help=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_helpsel.cur
IBeam=
No=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_unavail.cur
NWPen=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_pen.cur
SizeAll=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_move.cur
SizeNESW=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_nesw.cur
SizeNS=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_ns.cur
SizeNWSE=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_nwse.cur
SizeWE=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_ew.cur
UpArrow=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_up.cur
Wait=%SystemRoot%\cursors\aero_busy.ani
DefaultValue=Windows Aero
Link=
[VisualStyles]
Path=%SystemRoot%\resources\themes\Aero\Aero.mssty les
ColorStyle=NormalColor
Size=NormalSize
ColorizationColor=0X6B74B8FC
Transparency=1
[MasterThemeSelector]
MTSM=DABJDKT

After saving the file just double click on the file file and make sure you select "download attachments" in the pop-up window. That's it, your bing theme should be good to go. To make sure the photos look their best, select the "Fit" option in the desktop background settings

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