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17th May 2007

YouTube Video Search v1.0

YouTube-Video Search is a tool that will give you easy access to YouTube.

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Features:
* Searching videos on YouTube
* Results (up to 100) with information about name, length, rating.
* Download videos on YouTube directly to your hard disk.
* Thumbnail viewing.

[ Download ] (rs link)

17th May 2007

Some changes seen in Google’s sites

Nowadays Google is enhancing the look of their existing services. recently some changes were seen on orkut , google analytics and its google search page. It also included changes seen in Gmail page too..

In Google search page, the beveled type of look wasn't there earlier. In the header as well as the footer ! 

below are some screenshots :

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[ Google Search

13th May 2007

Mother’s Day 2007-sites show off their logos

I always loook at different sites of what they offer on such events.. here are some logos shown off by some of the famous sites !

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yahoo_mom_day_07.jpg  Yahoo had a lively logo with animated flash ..

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Happy Mother’s Day Mom!!!

9th May 2007

Download of the day: Access eBay with the eBay Toolbar

The eBay Toolbar lets you search eBay, access your account and more, all from within Firefox. Currently, eBay's own browser toolbar is an Internet Explorer-only product. grow up ebay !!

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You can do everything which is possible on present ebay's toolbar - Search eBay from anywhere, Access your account easily, Get to ending auctions quickly, See image previews for all search results. Compatible with linux,mac,windows. we can say that this works wherever Firefox works !!

My eBay Fox rocks ..njoy !!

[ My eBay Fox ] [ Download Plugin ]

9th May 2007

AOL: Password problems threaten user security

The Washington Post’s security guru Brian Krebs has written an intriguing article on AOL’s password practices.

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A reader wrote in to Krebs to tell him that AOL’s password system seemed to be accepting the first eight characters of his (more than 8 character) password plus any combination of characters thereafter, bringing into question the strength of AOL’s password security.

 

Krebs said that AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein explained that “the company was looking into the matter” but didn’t provide any further information.

9th May 2007

MySpace to acquire Photobucket for $250 million

Social-networking site MySpace, owned by Murdoch's News Corp., has agreed to acquiremyspace_photobucket.jpg Photobucket, the Web's No. 1 photo-sharing service, according to a source close to the deal.The source, who requested anonymity because he isn't authorized to discuss the deal publicly, confirmed a story about the acquisition in the blog Valleywag on Monday.

TechCrunch blog said it had confirmed the acquisition at $250 million. Both MySpace and Photobucket representatives declined to comment–which could very well mean that something is going on between the two companies. Or not.

Only last month Myspace had blocked slide shows and videos stored on photobucket, saying the company was violating its terms of service by embedding its own advertisements in the media files.

Many changes and events going on @ Myspace , recently launched news on myspace..and now its acquisition of photobucket..whats next in the row ??

Some Facts about Photobucket :

- Photobucket cited 41 million users.

- site is free for basic use, but charges $25 a year for a premium subscription that includes extra storage space and the ability to store videos more than five minutes long.

- It also displays advertisements to in users account pages.

- unique monthly visitors approx 18 million

- about 45,000 videos added to the site daily. 

Some recent happenings about myspace & photobucket:

- Hackers Promise Month of MySpace Bugs

- Wow-MySpace Account with Over 100,000 Friends Sells for $2,125 on Ebay

- How to Download Any Song on MySpace

- MySpace Blocks Photobucket

- MySpace News goes live

8th May 2007

How to remove Scratches from CD or DVD

You must have already gone through our earlier article on How to Fix scratched Cd's. Here is a nice video which explains the method to remove scratches from cd's and dvd's..

Watch the video tutorial to know how to remove scratches from cd /dvd:

 

 



8th May 2007

How to get PR 7 for your Blog or Site

I have been in this website thing since many years..and blogging since two years or so.. My blog PRpagerank.jpg was 5 , it got reduced to 4, i donna why .. anyway.. i am gonna try out what yugatech says ..below are his tips ! 

Steps to increase your site ranking to PR7 : 

1. Get links from old and highly trusted domains.
2. Get site-wide links from a huge site with 150,000+ pages (a large forum perhaps).
3. Get a few deep links from relevant articles or content.
4. No massive and low-level directory submissions.
5. Avoid link exchanges, esp. from new domains.

8th May 2007

Link Popularity Using popuri

Its one of the very good link popularity checking sites ..popuri_link_popularity.jpg

A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!

Remember that a domain with the "www." prefix will show different results than the same domain without it. You should try both.

 

[ popuri

8th May 2007

Search all Torrents Sites at one Place

TorrentPond as the name goes is a pond for all torrent sites. You can search torrents from severaltorrent_pond.gif sites such as TorrentSpy,ShareTV,BT Junkie,FullDls,MegaNova,MiniNova,BushTorrents,IsoHunt,The Pirate Bay,Demonoid,myBittorrent,Torrent Box,BiteNova,New Torrents & Torrent Valley.

Its really a good place . Its better than going to each site and searching for the torrents..( but it dosen't work properly with sites which have compulsory registration and login, like demonoid.)

Happy Torrrenting ! 

[ TorrentPond