Free Spaces 25 GB- Share your data or atleast store it...

Hi all,

Heres a list of sites that are offering free space to store and share data

MediaMax offers 25 GB of free space to upload and share the data.


https://www.mediamax.com/Brands/MediaMax/home/signup.aspx

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Offers 5 Gb of free sharing and uploading space. Interface is good.

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Xdrive Features

• Back up your valuable files - your music, photos and more - automatically.
• Conveniently access all your files from anywhere.
• Easily share your files with friends and family.
• Get 5GB for Free!

its an AOL Service..

Visit : www.xdrive.com
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Then there is the


Omnidrive allows 5 gb of data storage space with a good and user friendly front end.

http://www.omnidrive.com/

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Got stuff to share? Give it a home on eSnips and expect the unexpected!

Yes, the esnips interface is more for the multimedia stuff where as rest others are like a common explorer kind of interfaces making it easier for the users to share and store the data.

www.esnips.com
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Free online virus, malware, spyware scanners

Here are a few options for free online virus, spyware, malware scanners. You need not buy the system, you can use it freely. There are a few dependencies like the browser dependency, sometimes it requires a specific browser like Internet explorer or Mozilla or Safari, it depends on the developers

From the makers of the NOD antivirus

http://www.eset.com/onlinescan/

Bit Defender is one of them

http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html

Here is Trend Micro House Call

http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/

Fsecure

http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/olsbeta.shtml

Internet Operating System (OS ) now making rounds with XIOS/3 XML Based

Xcerion is the new buzz in the air. The Internet OS has arrived it seems. Though in its initial phase and its still in its development, they are claiming big things in a simple way. The OS promises to be easy and better to use than the MAC/Windows and above them it promises to be free. That means you just need a browser that will run the complete OS where you will have free wordprocessing tools, spread sheets and other such stuffs that will make you work simpler. Now when you need a browser what is the use of the OS, May be later they will have a booter that will install itself which will be configured to connect to the internet and then its all yours.

Google too is working on a similar concept. XML based OS, with AJAX and stuff like that. The names still not disclosed but they too will have something promising.

Heres a look at the Xcerion..

http://xcerion.com/index.php

Morange

Yet another tool for the mobile users, this tool is an advancement.

Many services that are new for mobile users with GPRS and WAP.

featuring

• multiple IM accounts: MSN, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, Morange Chat. allows u to exchange even pictures.
• PIM exchange
• file transfer, virtual storage space
  
• Mobile social networking like orkut and facebook
• push email supports POP emails
  
• RSS for mobiles, news and blogs
  
• Remote desktop access through mobile

It has java and symbian support. runs perfectly well in India with Vodafone and Sony Ericsson k800i

most of these services are free

Read more from them...

While alternative mobile applications connect only one or to two dots in the mobile world, such as push email or mobile instant messaging, Morange technology is to connect simply everything.

Morange empowers the user to access any information, communicate with anyone and have control on everything from mobile phone. We see the limitation in the current WAP/Browser architecture or isolated program running on each different program device. Instead, we choose to innovate based on the thin-client computing architecture as foundation. We build an open and extendable platform, elegant user interface that works across all different platforms and networks: may it be Windows Mobile, Symbian, J2ME, or Linux. Imagine that Morange is able to offer users the widest choice of applications: Professionals may require Push Mail; yet young generation may prefer instant messaging with their buddies.

www.morange.com check it urself and enjoy

Google Knol the encyclopedia . wikipedia

Google's coming up with its own version of encyclopedia, its called 'Knol', with ads and its own expertise. The concept remains the same that of Wikipedia, community supported encyclopedia. The difference could be of a better technology, better search features. But Wiki is not quiet, its also on its way to start a parallel wiki with ads, without disturbing this one.

I can't understand what difference it makes to make it an ad supporting tool that will generate some fantasctic revenues for wiki, but they must have thought it much harder than me. they are experts. Lets wait and watch the gwiki !

Microsoft Should Abandon Vista?

"An editorial written by Don Reisinger over at CNet's News.com takes Microsoft to task for the outright failure of Vista. He suggests that Vista may be the downfall of the company as, despite years in development, Vista was delivered to market too early. His suggestion? Support those who are running it, but otherwise ditch Vista and move on. 'Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release. For almost a year, people have been adopting Vista and becoming incensed by how poorly it operates. Not only does it cost too much, it requires more to run than XP, there is still poor driver support ... With Mac OS X hot on its tail, Vista is simply not capable of competing at an OS level with some of the best software around. If Microsoft continues down this path, it will be Vista that will bring the software giant to its knees--not Bill Gates' departure.'

Absolute truth !
Daily you will find people asking questions about normal features of vista. Even I got few calls from my friends owning vista machines. One of my friend called me from California. He wanted to uninstall MS Office. I was just laughing on him and was feeling pity about his new laptop. Another incident ! My friend from Symbiosis Pune visited my place last month at IITB. He wanted to access Internet. It took me more than 15-20 mins to configure the net settings for him. I don't know how many abuses bulged out from me while configuring the settings. There are plenty of more bad experiences.... very disappointing indeed !!

Building a (fast) Wikipedia offline reader

Wikipedia needs no introductions: it is one of the best - if not the best - encyclopedias, and it's freely available for everyone.

Everyone can be a relative term, however... It implies availability of an Internet connection. This is not always the case; for one, many people would love to have Wikipedia on their laptop, since this would allow them to instantly check for things they want regardless of their location (business trips, hotels, etc). Others simply don't have an Internet connection - or they don't want to dial up one every time they need to check something.

Follow this link: http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html

Google Analytics- Make profit-generating improvements to your advertising and website.

Hi all,

Google wont keep quiet and neither me...

Google has come up with yet another path breaking technology called google analytics.

Google Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance their visitor experience. Improve your website return on investment, increase conversions, and make more money on the web.

With over 80 reports, your free Google Analytics account will track visitors through your site, and will keep track of the performance of your marketing campaigns - whether they're AdWords campaigns, email campaigns, or any other advertising program. With this information, you'll know which keywords are really working, which ad text is the most effective, and where your visitors are dropping off during the conversion process. Don't be fooled by the fact that this functionality is available to you for free - Google Analytics is a full-featured, powerful analytics package.

AdWords advertisers can find all of these benefits from within their AdWords account - Google Analytics has been fully integrated with AdWords. All of your reports and settings are available from the Analytics tab.

To get started with Google Analytics, simply visit www.google.com/analytics or click the Analytics tab in your AdWords account. You'll be guided through a simple sign-up process, which will require the addition of a code snippet. Once that's done, you'll start gathering data immediately, on track for improved ROI!

Doesn't it sound interesting ???


Yes, i have started tracking ur movements :) and y wait, u too can paste a small code and get it done easily..


so enjoy the googly!

Yahoo! Photos is closing !

Heard the News?

Yahoo! Photos is closing on September 20, 2007. That's in 80 days.We're sorry. You are only allowed to move your photos to one service and Flickr is already planning your move. Flickr will send you an email when they're finished with the move.
Learn more about what this means for you and your photos. dont believe it see it urself at

http://closing.photos.yahoo.com/

Apple Safari

Apple has come up with a new browser - safari

You can download it free of cost. looks are kewl - mac style, it has been built on the open source platform. But being new, it also has problems of compatibility.

I tried opening gmail with chat and it did not support, I tried opening new yahoo mail, it did not support. May be they are in a very nascent stage of development.

Earn to Read !!!

Hi,

mGinger.com pays you to read ads on your cellphone! These ads are only about your interests.
Not only that, you get to decide when you want these ads.

Based on my calculations I can easily make enough money to free up my cell phone bill.

Check it out...
http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=145610

See how much you can make. Have fun calculating...and sign up.

You will like it...

How much money can I make?

Ads you receive per day 10

Friends you refer 10

Friends each of your friend refers 10

Monthly Rs 1,860

Follow this link and register its free...

http://www.mginger.com/index.jsp?inviteId=145610

Get 5 GB of space for free to upload all your stuff !

Hi all, the trouble is over! Now upload upto 5 GB of your personal data for free. Yes, its totally free, and you can share that data with all your friends and family.

You can upload any file type and post it in any of the folders created by you, which can be private or shared with groups or with the world.

Using eSnips is free and signing up takes a few seconds.

To join eSnips go to: http://www.esnips.com

You can upload up to 100MB at a time (ZIP/RAR files are limited to 50 MB)

Share

Your kids’ videos with family members,
Presentations with business colleagues,
Party pictures with friends,
Original music with everyone,
Web research with trip partners,
And personal files with no one…

Also share

Your thoughts
Files & documents
Pictures & photos
Video
Music & voice
Entire folders
Snippets from the web
Entire web pages
Links
And even create your own voice & video content online!

SO what are you waiting for, grab it with both the hands. Visit and start it at http://www.esnips.com

Now Earings that store data !!!

I was surprised to see this beauty where you can store data. Almost every one today is aware of the normal pen drives a.k.a usb drives but Kingmax has changed the way a usb drive looks like. When ever we see a USB port, its sheilded with a metal, What they have done is removed that cover and made it more sleek. May be they have compromised with the durability and balanced it on the size. But its worth a look.

I am not aware of the rates of these pendrives that come in different storage sizes ranging from 256 MB to 2 GB or more.

You can carry your data as an earing. You can sport your pen drive in y0ur bracelets, it can also be used as a pendent. Thats upto you how you use it, but don't forget to copy your data.

What the hell is a blog?

Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.

A short form for weblog, a frequent and chronological publication of comments and thoughts on the web. They usually include philosophical reflections, opinions on the Internet and social or political issues.

Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.

These are the few of the many definitions available on Google.

How do we start a new Blog?
Its a very simple process. There are many sites that provide free space to write and post your blogs. Blogger is one of them, which is a Google product. Then there is Word Press (recomended for new bloggers) which has a large variety of templates and features. Blogster is another free blogging site, LiveJournal is another one, there are 100's of them waiting for people who can write.

No restrictions, you can take up any topic, purely upto you and start writing, let it be about u, or your hobbies, your passion, your sport, your favourite personality, your religion, your past your future and whaterver comes to your mind.

So wat are u waiting for? Grab a blogging site and start posting.

Now Google Themes !

Now Google Themes !

Yet another feather in Google's cap. This time they have come up with Thematic personalisation of Google page. If u remember, one of my previous post was customise Google and how to add Google messenger to it, this time its changing themes to your tastes. Though the list is about just 6 odd, like bus stop, Classic, beach, City Scape, Tree House and Seasonal Scape. but to add new themes is not very difficult for Google.

The best part of it is the layout colours change - according to the time zones, night for night and day for day.

This theme will dynamically change to match your time of day, including local sunrise and sunset times. Your location currently is set to: India.

What are u waiting for - Grab it.
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en

One important thing, if u try it for google.co.in it wont work as it works only on .com, for now so be careful.

What is RSS ?

What is RSS !

Have you seen these images on any site and you are not aware of what is it ???



Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)

RSS (Really Simple Syndication also known as Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. You can subscribe an rss feed. On similar lines is an Atom, its also the same thing, with a different name you can say.

How do i open RSS feeds?

You need a reader or aggregators that will do it for you. A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook).

Google is not behind in this war too. try www.reader.google.com and you can use the RSS reader provided by Google.
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A small story about Goolge News.

Google is not a News channel, they were technologists and they are technologists. No where linked to news agencies but are famous for making news.

Ever wondered why is google news so famous. Ha Ha - this is what technology can do.

RSS is what is behind their technology. Almost every news channel has an RSS feed. What google does is, they pick the latest RSS feeds intelligently from websites around the world and incorporate it in their www.news.google.com
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Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.

Want more traffic? An easy way to distribute your news? Then you need an RSS news feed. To start all you need is content you want broadcast, and one RSS text file.

Customise your google !

Here is how you can customise your Google page !

Y do i do that???

Yes thats a very obvious question, but when you see the seamless options available at personal google page you are bound to atleast give it a try,

You can have a google page, with all your widgets placed according to your will and wish.

Now wats a widget :~

A Widget is a tool created by google or by some third party and can be added on your personal page. (this is not the official definition, mind you :P)

Many programmers at google and throughout the world keep making their own widget which can be easily added. One of the latest widget from google is the google messenger, and see how it looks. So wat are u waiting for !

start today, heres how my google personal page looks

Accessing localhost through the network...

Have you ever tried accessing your localhost through other machines in the network???

Localhost :~ Now wats that???

In computing, in the context of a TCP/IP (Transmission control protocol/Internet Protocol) network such as the Internet, localhost is a reserved name meaning this computer, which means your local computer.

Still not clear ???

I will try and explain in a simpler manner. Suppose we open Internet Explorer, we open google and then search for some thing. Wat happens as soon as we click Search ? Actually what happens is the request from you is sent to the server (Google in this case), which inturn queries its database and then returns the response back to you in the form of result page. So here Google has some server(s) in the backend. There are different types of servers, Web Servers, Application Servers, Map Servers etc etc.... that take requests through different mediums and prcoess them, return the output and wait for the other request.

Where the hell does localhost come into picture in all this ?

Coming to Localhost, Its a Web/App server installed on your machine to make it look and function like the one in reality, As soon as we install a web server like Apache Tomcat or many other servers available, a server starts running on our system, Microsoft XP comes with a default web server called the IIS server, which stands for Internet Information Server. It has to be explicitely installed from the windows disk, Once we have installed the default address we get is

http://localhost or
http://127.0.0.1 or
http://your computername

and the port is 8080

Can we have multiple servers running on one system ?
Suppose we have many servers running on the system, like Apache Web Server, Apache Map Server, Zope1, Zope2, Zope3, Oracle Application Server, etc .... (These many servers run on my system at a time)

What happens is that we can have multiple ports assigned to these services, They have unique port addresses from 8080 to some value (I dont remember exactly) but i have like 8025, 8045, 8055, 8855, 8080, ports assigned for the different services running in my system.

And how do we access these services (localhosts) through the different machines in the network?

Its simple,

say your IP is 10.10.125.3 and you want to access this machines localhost from some other machine with another IP say : 10.23.52.4

So what you do is, on the other machine type the machines ip address which is to be accessed, in this case its your localhost (machine) i.e. http://10.10.125.3 and specify the port which is to be accessed

i.e.

http://10.10.125.3:8025/aa.jsp

thats it !

If you have firewalls enabled in your windows xp system you will need to configure it to open the ports that are to be accessed in the network. That is done as follows:

Go to control panel > Windows Firewall > Exceptions
(see illustrations below)

in that add the port number and the service name and you are through, now your local host website can be accessed through the network.

Theres an alternate to this setting as well,

Go to Network Connections > Properties > Advanced > Internet Connection Firewall (Check it if Unchecked) and down ther is a settings tab in that

Settting > Services > Add a service port and service name,

Done....

How to add placemarks in Google Earth ?

Its very simple to post a placemark on gooogle earth and to share it with the world,

Just open google earth if you don't have it you can download it from the right pane (Google PACK)

For that you need a google account!

To mark a placemark in google earth
just click on placemark icon,
write the heading and description (we can't post empty placemarks) ,
right click on the placemark,
and then select the option of Share/Post.

A browser window will open showing that u are willing to post a placemark. say continue, again it will say that check if there exist a similar post or not, mark those two check boxes, and say continue, if u are not logged in, login and say remember password (it sometimes gives problems), Follow the procedures and then, You are through.

You can send these published placemarks to any one in this world. These placemarks need to be approved by Google, so it takes around a couple of weeks or more to get approval, and once approved you can see them on your google earth or google maps.

If your palcemarks are fresh still people can search for them and download them

and then finally the page opens saying enter the details about the point, wat kind of point is it? choose from a list of it. and then finally enter the title and description and it is done.

You have sucessfully posted the placemark,

To view my placemarks visit this page

I have posted around 150 placemarks from Bombay to pune to mumbra to dubai to US and many more places. Enjoy

Astala Vista Baby

Astalavista baby or See you later - Baby (in Spanish !)

Here i talk about a new operating system by Microsoft. Yes I am talking about Microsoft Windows Vista, Get Now the wow factor. Had a sneak preview of this on their website. Among the different versions available, Windows Vista Ultimate is the top model of their OS. Similar like the Windows XP Professional was. Looks are promising. They say that this will change computing and they always say that :) .

Apart from the various functionalities that are listed on their website, The looks are great. The minimum system requirements have increased obviously, u need good computers to handle such great graphics.

They have changed XP, It has been re-written from scratch. And promises to improve the performance. The software installer bundle is whopping 2.9 GB, tried few things on it yesterday, looks are great no doubt, but of course there are a few compatiablity issues that i will discuss in my next blog, i got a list of softwares from the net and will display it, That list shows the level of compatibility vista supports.

I cant miss to tell you that Chess in vista looks great, chess yes the game chess that comes bundled. It looks as if we are playing on a mirror like translucent chess board. simply great. Will get hold of it soon and then reveal some great features. Till then happy reading