Insights: October 2008

Friday, October 31, 2008

Free Comodo Internet Security is Available

Comodo Internet Security is Free Antivirus and Firewall Software

http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_cis.html

Send SMS from Gmail

This Lab feature enables you to send sms to your friends phone.

This feature is available for US Customers now.

Tutorials in getting Rss feeds for web search

Tutorial

Ubuntu 8.10 Released

You can download or request a cd free .

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/desktopedition

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Google ID can be used as Open Id

Example site Zoho where using Gmail Id ,we can log into zoho and create documents

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Operating System made in India -- BOSS

BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) derived from Debian for enhancing the use of Free/ Open Source Software throughout India.

Currently BOSS GNU/Linux Desktop is available in almost all the Indian Languages such as Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Bodo, Urdu, Kashmiri, Maithili, Konkani, Manipuri , which will enable the mainly non-English literate users in the country to be exposed to ICT and to use the computer more effectively.

http://bosslinux.in/get-boss-cd/

How Google got its Chrome logo

Free online image editor

http://a.viary.com/home

http://pixlr.com/app/

http://sumopaint.com/

http://www.picnik.com

http://fotoflexer.com

http://pizap.com/

http://www.sizzledcore.com/2008/09/10/15-free-online-image-editors/

http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/11/10-online-photo-editors-that-you.html

Free License for BitDefender

http://www.sizzledcore.com/2008/10/29/free-bitdefender-internet-security-2009-license-key-for-4-months/

Gmail allows to add gadget to its interface

Lab that allows you to add any gadget by pasting in the URL of its XML spec file (e.g. http://www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube_videos.xml )

Check the Lab Setting in Gmail

Site to check the availability of usernames

http://www.usernamecheck.com/

Various Method of Browsing Gmail

Safe mode - http://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0

Secure mode - https://mail.google.com/

Older version - http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1

Basic mode - http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html

Mobile mode - http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=mobile or http://m.gmail.com

iPhone mode - http://mail.google.com/mail/x/gdlakb-/gp/

iGoogle gadget - http://www.google.com/ig/gmailmax

“No browser checking” mode - http://mail.google.com/mail?nocheckbrowser

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Free License for Kaspersky Anti Virus 2009 Genuine

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/10/26/free-9-months-kaspersky-anti-virus-2009-genuine-commercial-license-key-for-everyone/

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Restoring Hibernating option in windows

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/restore-hibernate-option-windows/

Software to create free Poster

Poster Forge is an easy-to-use poster generator.

Visit the site

Blogger Gadget To write from Your iGoogle

Official Blogger Site

Ubuntu Useful Tips

http://lifehacker.com/5067996/some-productive-ubuntu-kung-fu

AOL closes many services

AOL says, they’ll begin to communicate the news to consumers around the shutdown of three of those properties - AOL Pictures, BlueString and Xdrive.

For more info

Friday, October 24, 2008

Log on to multiple email account in same browser

In Chrome ,u can do so by opening the other account in incognito mode

In Firefox ,CookiePie Addon would be helpful

In Opera,there is a Gmail widget for accessing 2 email account

Creating System Point Manually in Windows

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-xp/create-a-restore-point-manually-in-xp/

Search for people in USA

This search engine is useful in finding people in USA only.

ZABASEARCH

Sending Sms free from your email

http://teck.in/send-free-sms-text-message-worldwide-from-your-email.html

Thursday, October 23, 2008

New Features added in Google Analytics

Custom reports enables customers to create customised report.

Advanced segmentation enables customers to isolate and analyze subsets of their traffic

API enables building custom visualizations or interfaces, and conducting offline analysis.

Motion Charts provide advanced but easy-to-use multi-dimensional analysis

Adsense Integration

To convert Pdf to word

This is used to convert pdf to doc .

Pdfonline is used to convert word to pdf . Also save webpages as pdf

This Mozill Addon has a lot of features ,to convert, to edit the pdf

Search Engine to search Flash Games

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Ubuntu 8.10 is coming on 30 october .

Dabbleboard - Useful for freehand drawing

Using this we can draw any freehand shape .

Also we can convert any freehand shapes into standard shape.

We can insert pictures , inside that we can modify it to our requirement.

Example pictures

Gmail Labs new Feature Canned Response

Detailed Description

The Hindu - Hitachi Scholarship For BE /BSc

In association with Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, THE HINDU invites

applications for scholarships for technical training in JAPAN. The

number of scholarships will be three. The terms and conditions are

as follows:

1. Candidates who must be Indian Citizens, should not have

completed 30 years of age on 31-03-2009 and should be in

possession of the minimum Degree of B.E., or B.Sc. (Engg.) or its

equivalent from any recognized University. Candidates who have

already had practical experience in the branches for which training

is proposed to be given, will be given preference. Candidates

with at least one year’s professional experience need apply. Those

who were interviewed in previous years for the Scholarships need

not apply again.

2. The scholarships are tenable in Japan for principally six months

commencing about July 2009. Trainees may have general training in

one of the following product fields of Hitachi Ltd., (Hitachi) for

example (1) Information & Telecommunication Systems (2) Power

& Industrial Systems (3) Digital Media Products, being subject to

the convenience of each of Hitachi’s establishments.

3. Trainees shall be during their training, under the supervision and

direction of Hitachi, which has full discretion on scope, mode,

duration and place of establishment of their training. Training will not

be available in the R&D activities of Hitachi. They will be subject to the

rules and regulations and the discipline of the establishment to which

they are posted.

4. Selected trainees will be provided with return Economy Class air

passage. Arrangements will also be made for free Boarding and

Lodging for trainees in Japan and to defray all expenses for travelling

in Japan which may be considered necessary for their training. In

addition, each trainee will be paid a monthly fixed allowance to cover

his personal expenses.

THE HINDU - HITACHI

SCHOLARSHIPS

5. Parents or Guardians of selected candidates shall guarantee their

good conduct and shall undertake to pay for their repatriation should

their conduct be found unsatisfactory by Hitachi Ltd., or any public

authority in Japan or in case the selected candidates desire to

discontinue their studies in Japan for any reason whatsoever during

the period of their scholarship.

6. Applications should be made in duplicate in the forms available

on payment of Rs.5/- from the offices of THE HINDU given below.

Chennai : 859 & 860, Anna Salai, Chennai - 600 002, or the Branch

Offices at New Delhi : 3rd Floor, PTI Building, 4, Parliament Street,

New Delhi - 110 001. Kolkatta : LMJ Chambers, I Floor, 15C, Hemanta

Basu Sarani, Kolkata - 700 001. Mumbai : Kasturi Buildings,

Jamshedji Tata Road, Mumbai - 400 020. Coimbatore : 19 & 20,

A.T.T. Colony, L.I.C Road, Coimbatore - 641 018. Madurai : 147/2A,

Eighty Feet Road, K.K. Nagar, Madurai - 625 020. Tiruchirapalli :

Chennai Bye-Pass Road (NH 45), Senthanneerpuram, Tiruchirapalli

- 620 004. Puducherry : 135, I floor, Mission Street, Puducherry -

605 001. Hyderabad : 6-3-879, & 879B, Begumpet Public

Road, Hyderabad - 500 016. Visakhapatnam : 50-19-9, T.P.T Colony,

Seethammadhara, Visakhapatnam - 530 013. Vijayawada : 55-1-4,

100 Feet Road, Industrial Estate, Auto Nagar, Vijayawada - 520 007.

Bangalore : 19 & 21, Bhagwan Mahaveer Road, (Infantry Road), Bangalore

- 560 001. Mangalore : 23-9-655/1, Jeppu, Mangalore - 575

001. Kochi : NH Bye-Pass Road, Vytilla Junction, Kochi - 682 019.

Thiruvananthapuram : T.C. No. 36/1946(1) , Airport Road,

Vallakadavu, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 008.

7. Completed forms should reach THE HINDU, 859 & 860, Anna

Salai, Chennai - 600 002, superscribed “THE HINDU - HITACHI

TRAINING SCHEME”, before December 15 2008.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/advt/hitachi2008.pdf

Math Tips : Triangular Number

The First Number is 1

The Second Number is 3 ( 1+2 )

The Third Number is 6 ( Which is the addition of consecutive dots 1+2+3 )

Formula for finding nth triangular number is nth = n*(n+1) /2

Formula to find whether the given number is traingular number or not $n = \frac{\sqrt{8x+1}-1}{2}.$

if n is an integer ,then x is a triangular number (Also n denotes that x is nth triangular number)

if n is not an integer , then x is not a triangular number

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Chandrayaan Launched Successfully Today

The Rs 386-crore mission is also expected to carry out a detailed survey of the moon to look for precious metals and water.

The principal objective of Chandrayaan is to look for Helium 3, an isotope which is very rare on earth but is sought to power nuclear fusion and could be a valuable source of energy in the future

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Picture I came across

Check the availablity of a domain

Domainr helps you explore the entire domain name and check their availablity

Monday, October 20, 2008

Director Sridhar Passes Away

Noted director of famous movies like Kadhalikka Neramillai ,Kalyana Parisu,Nenjil Oru Aalayam

Creating an extension in Firefox

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_an_Extension

This tutorial helped me to create a sample extension displaying my name in the status bar

Install Error Console add on to see any error in your extension code

After trying out if you don't get the message in status bar

Check error console for error

If you got an error saying

Failed to overlay ....................

Then in your chrome.manifest you would not have added / after the path

(Don't forget the trailing slash, "/"! Without it, the extension won't get registered.)

This is the error i got while creating my sample extension .Then rectified it

Creating a Profile in Firefox for Windows Operating System

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_a_new_Firefox_profile_on_Windows

This is very much useful when you are developing something like plugin,extensions for firefox

Lyrics Viewer For Song

LyricsPlugin - This is a plugin for Winamp and Windows Media Player

LyricsViewer - This program allows the user to view song lyrics. It also allows the user to pull up extra information about the album containing the song as well as play the song while viewing the lyrics. In order for this to work the lyrics must be embedded in the song and if not the program gives directions on how to have lyrics embedded in the song.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Extract Images from a Pdf

Some PDF Image Extract is a easily tool to extract images from pdf files. Some PDF Image Extract can easy help you to extract images in pdf files to TIFF, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA, PBM, PPM.

Easily extract images from pdf files to TIF, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA, PBM, PPM, PCX with Some PDF Image Extract!

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Create Your Own Gadget in iGoogle HomePage

Google gives this Default Gadget with your personalised settings.

Try it out

Ebook Site I came across

This Site primarily consists of ComputerSciences , ECE ,EEE books

Also Some Movie Links

http://ebooksnmovies.blogspot.com/

Chandrayaan Starts Tomorrow

The 52-hour countdown for Chandrayaan-1 -- India’s first unmanned moon mission -- will begin at Sriharikota spaceport early tomorrow for Wednesday’s historic launch.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Incubators in India Updated

Via

திருச்சிராப்பள்ளி மண்டல பொறியியல் கல்லூரி யில் இயங்கும் அறிவியல் மற்றும் தொழில்நுட்ப மையத்தின் (டிரக்-ஸ்டெப்) செயல் இயக்குநர். கடந்த 30 ஆண்டுகளுக்கும் மேலாக இந்த மையம் தொழில்முனைவோர் உருவாக்கத்தில் ஆற்றிய பணிக்காக 2016-ம் ஆண்டுக்கான தேசிய தொழில் முனைவோர் விருதை சமீபத்தில் பெற்றுள்ளது.

http://tamil.thehindu.com/business/business-supplement/உங்களிடம்-ஐடியா-இருக்கா/article9538044.ece

Cheap or Discount Sales Of Items for a Day -- Websites

Woot

Shirts At Woot

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Free Ringtone Maker For Cellphone

Cool RingTone Maker is a windows desktop application let you make your own ringtones for cellphone or cut music to pieces. Cool RingTone Maker support most popular video and audio formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, AMR, WMV, AVI, MPG, 3GP, MP4, FLAC, OGG, WMV, MOV etc, Which means you can cut ringtones not only from audio files, but also from video files.

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Online File Storage Comparison

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Friday, October 17, 2008

How Bubble Bursts !!!!!!!

Once there was a little island country. The land of this country was the tiny island itself. The total money in circulation was 2 dollars as there were only two pieces of 1 dollar coins circulating around.

1) There were 3 citizens living on this island country. A owned the land. B and C each owned 1 dollar.

2) B decided to purchase the land from A for 1 dollar. So, now A and C own 1 dollar each while B owned a piece of land that is worth 1 dollar.

* The net asset of the country now = 3 dollars.

3) Now C thought that since there is only one piece of land in the country, and land is non producible asset, its value must definitely go up. So,he borrowed 1 dollar from A, and together with his own 1 dollar, he bought
the land from B for 2 dollars.

*A has a loan to C of 1 dollar, so his net asset is 1 dollar.
* B sold his land and got 2 dollars, so his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C owned the piece of land worth 2 dollars but with his 1 dollar debt to A, his net residual asset is 1 dollar.
* Thus, the net asset of the country = 4 dollars.

4) A saw that the land he once owned has risen in value. He regretted having sold it. Luckily, he has a 1 dollar loan to C. He then borrowed 2 dollars from B and acquired the land back from C for 3 dollars. The
payment is by 2 dollars cash (which he borrowed) and cancellation of the 1 dollar loan to C. As a result, A now owned a piece of land that is worth 3 dollars. But since he owed B 2 dollars, his net asset is 1 dollar.

* B loaned 2 dollars to A. So his net asset is 2 dollars.
* C now has the 2 coins. His net asset is also 2 dollars.
* The net asset of the country = 5 dollars. A bubble is building up.

(5) B saw that the value of land kept rising. He also wanted to own the land. So he bought the land from A for 4 dollars. The payment is by borrowing 2 dollars from C, and cancellation of his 2 dollars loan to A.

* As a result, A has got his debt cleared and he got the 2 coins. His net asset is 2 dollars.
* B owned a piece of land that is worth 4 dollars, but since he has adebt of 2 dollars with C, his net Asset is 2 dollars.
* C loaned 2 dollars to B, so his net asset is 2 dollars.

* The net asset of the country = 6 dollars; even though, the country has only one piece of land and 2 Dollars in circulation.

(6) Everybody has made money and everybody felt happy and prosperous.

(7) One day an evil wind blew, and an evil thought came to C's mind.
'Hey, what if the land price stop going up, how could B repay my loan. There is only 2 dollars in circulation, and, I think after all the land that B owns is worth at most only 1 dollar, and no more.'

(8) A also thought the same way.

(9) Nobody wanted to buy land anymore.

* So, in the end, A owns the 2 dollar coins, his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B owed C 2 dollars and the land he owned which he thought worth 4 dollars is now 1 dollar. So his net asset is only 1 dollar.
* C has a loan of 2 dollars to B. But it is a bad debt. Although his net asset is still 2 dollars, his heart is palpitating.
* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars again.

(10) So, who stole the 3 dollars from the country? Of course, before the bubble burst B thought his land was worth 4 dollars. Actually, right before the collapse, the net asset of the country was 6 dollars on paper. B's
net asset is still 2 dollars, his and heart is palpitating.

(11) B had no choice but to declare bankruptcy. C as to relinquish his 2 dollars bad debt to B, but in return he acquired the land which is worth 1 dollar now.

* A owns the 2 coins, his net asset is 2 dollars.
* B is bankrupt, his net asset is 0 dollar. ( he lost everything )
* C got no choice but end up with a land worth only 1 dollar

* The net asset of the country = 3 dollars.

End of the story; BUT .....

There is however a redistribution of wealth.
A is the winner, B is the loser, C is lucky that he is spared.

A few points worth noting -

(1) When a bubble is building up, the debt of individuals to one another in a country is also building up.
(2) This story of the island is a closed system whereby there is no other country and hence no foreign debt. The worth of the asset can only be calculated using the island's own currency. Hence, there is no net loss.
(3) An over-damped system is assumed when the bubble burst, meaning the land's value did not go down to below 1 dollar.
(4) When the bubble burst, the fellow with cash is the winner. The fellows having the land or extending loan to others are the losers. The asset could shrink or in worst case, they go bankrupt.
(5) If there is another citizen D either holding a dollar or another piece of land but refrains from taking part in the game, he will neither win nor lose. But he will see the value of his money or land go up and down like
a see saw.
(6) When the bubble was in the growing phase, everybody made money.
(7) If you are smart and know that you are living in a growing bubble, it is worthwhile to borrow money (like A ) and take part in the game. But you must know when you should change everything back to cash.
(8) As in the case of land, the above phenomenon applies to stocks as well

Hitwise Top 20 Websites

Hitwise US - Top 20 Websites - September, 2008

This list features the most popular websites based on US Internet usage for September, 2008, ranked by market share of visits across all Hitwise industries.

Rank	Website	Market Share
1.	www.google.com	6%
2.	mail.yahoo.com	4.7%
3.	www.myspace.com	4.01%
4.	www.yahoo.com	3.88%
5.	mail.live.com	2.14%
6.	www.ebay.com	1.61%
7.	search.yahoo.com	1.48%
8.	www.facebook.com	1.2%
9.	www.msn.com	1.08%
10.	www.youtube.com	0.93%
11.	www.gmail.com	0.79%
12.	www.wikipedia.org	0.53%
13.	images.google.com	0.52%
14.	mail.aol.com	0.42%
15.	search.msn.com	0.41%
16.	news.yahoo.com	0.41%
17.	my.yahoo.com	0.4%
18.	address.yahoo.com	0.4%
19.	www.pogo.com	0.37%
20.	www.craigslist.org	0.33%

Note - the Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or industry, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US Internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context.

Source - Hitwise - September, 2008 - based on market share of visits.

Canvas View in iGoogle

CheckOut the iGoogle Page

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Android Phone reviews

http://gizmodo.com/5062977/t+mobile-g1-google-android-phone-review

http://lifehacker.com/5064117/a-hands+on-first-look-at-google-android

All Mail Account in one Box

NutshellMail is an online service that helps you monitor, and organize all your email and social networking accounts through your most commonly used inbox. NutshellMail transforms your primary email account into a universal inbox so you can retrieve messages and manage all your accounts in one place.

For more info