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From most of the people using internet do use some chatting softwares like Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AIM and lot more. These softwares allow you to chat, send files, call and even have a Video Chat with people all over the globe.

You have the option to show yourself or hide yourself from others as your status. In Yahoo Messenger you can become invisible to others by selecting “invisible” as your status. But you can still be caught that you are online or you can catch others trying to hide themselves from you by using this tool.

Yahoo Invisible Detector is a tool that lets you know who is online but pretending to be offline or being invisible. You just need to type their YIM Id in the bar and press enter. It’ll return the result as either “Online“, “Invisible” or “Offline“.

Yahoo Invisible Detector Result

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There are times when we want to block website at home or office for some purpose or the other. At home you may want to block websites that are not for children to watch or at some institutions which are to be restricted to be used.

Mozilla Firefox is simply the best browser as it offer multiple Add-ons like Image block and take complete Screen shots and it also has an Adblock. Adblock is a content filter extension. This Adblock is for Mozilla Firefox and Mozila application Suite based web browsers.

This Adblock is mainly used to block advertisements. It also lets users to prevent page elements from being downloaded and displayed. An improved version of the Adblock of Mozilla Firefox is Adblock Plus. Adblock Plus has grown to replace the old Adblock.

Mozilla Firefox also allows you to block websites using the Block site plugin. There are some parental control softwares available on the internet to block websites. You can download such softwares and block websites.

Download Website Add-on Plugin

For all those who are using DATA Cards or Mobiles to use Internet will be worried about the Slow speed they get and the amount of Data they have downloaded and has it exceeded their downloading limit as not many Internet Service Providers offer Unlimited Downloading Plans.

So if you want to Increase your Browsing speed then Firstly block the Images to be loaded in your browser. There are times when we visit blogs or websites for the content but it takes time to load due to the images in the background or along with the text. This consumes lots of time and bandwidth and reduces the loading speed.

To increase internet browsing speed you need to block un-necessary material like background images, audio files, videos etc that consumes large bandwidth.

This can be done within the browser itself by adjusting the options or the same job through a Firefox Add-on called Image Block 3.5. Image Block Add-on displays a button which would allow you to block/allow loading of images on websites.

So follow this and speed up dial up connection and enjoy fast speed internet connection.

Download Firefox Image Block Add-on.

Almost everyone have accessed Google Earth to view a site on Earth but it has gone too far now. Now you can even visit moon, mars and outer space from Google Earth. The toolbar on top of Google Earth Allows you to select various options and you can even select the option among Earth, Moon, Sky and Mars.

So now you can even make a tour, not just a world tour but even outside our world with the help of Google Earth just by sitting at your home. So download the latest version of Google earth and enjoy this amazing experience.

Surface of Moon in Google Earth

Landmarks on Moon

Day and Night on Moon

Sky view

Constellations in Space

Sun Signs

View of Mars

Surface and Landmarks on Mars

Spot on Mars's Surface

Aarti is a combination of sentences mainly in a rhyming form made by the devotees to worship Gods in India. Aarti is a tribute to God, its similar to prayers but the difference is that mostly Aarti is performed with Lights, mantras and Fire.

But the impact of technology is on this thing too as IT guys are performing an Aarti. Well the difference is that their God is “Google” and why not, its the best search engine and also provide multiple helpful applications from Gmail, Google Translater Toolkit, Google Latitude, Earning Opportunities and many more.

Here is the Aarti about Google:

Om Jai Google Hare !!
Swami Om Jai Google hare
Programmers ke sankat, Developers ke Sankat,
Click main door kare!!
Om Jai Google Hare !!

Jo Dhyawe vo pawe,
dukh bin se man ka, Swami dukh bin se man ka,
Homepage ki sampatti lawe, Homework ki sampatti karave
kasht mite work ka,
Swami Om Jai Google hare!!

Tum puran search engine
Tum hi internet yaami, Swami Tum hi internet yaami
Par karo hamari Salari, Par karo hamari apprisal,
Tum dunia ke swami,
Swami Om Jai Google hare.

Tum information ke saagar,
Tum palan karta, swami Tum palan karta,
Main moorakh khalkamii, Main Searcher tum Server-ami
Tum karta dhartaa !!
Swami Om Jai Google hare!!

Din bandhu dukh harta,
tum rakshak mere, Swami tum thakur mere,
Apni search dikhaao, sare reasearch karao
Site par khada mein tere,
Swami Om Jai Google hare!!

Google devta ki aarti jo koi programmer gaawe,
Swami jo koi bhi programmer gaawe,
Kehet SUN swami, MS hari har swami,
Manwaanchhit fal paawe.
Swami Om Jai Google hare.

Google Aarti Words

Nowadays everyone has a mobile phone and most people access or surf internet with their mobile phones by either Pay per use plan or some monthly plan with fix charges but now you can use free internet with your Airtel connection.

For using Free Internet with Airtel GPRS we make use of two mobile browser softwares,Teashark and UCweb . Teashrk is Sony Ericsson’s native mobile browser , but can be used in almost all Java supported mobile devices . UCweb is another popular mobile browser .

How to use Free GPRS on Airtel

• Now you need to download and install Teashark and Ucweb browsers.
• Now on settings , select access point as Airtel live.
• The normal rates of GPRS through Airtel live is 30pisa/50 kb. But amazing thing is that when browsed through these browsers, Airtel GPRS is completely free and you won’t be charged.

If there is any problem with Teashark browser, use UCweb. Airtel GPRS works perfectly on UCweb browser . If you experience any difficulties on page load , clear you browser cache and try again. But do check the balance after few mins as a precaution.

Well as we all know that piracy is a crime and distributing media like movies and songs is illegal. But most of us keep on doing it and break rules without even bothering to think that we may get caught. Now we must be aware of these things as there is a case in US where a guy has been fined $700,000 for File Sharing.

A US student has been ordered to pay $675,000 (£404,000) to four record labels for breaking copyright laws after sharing music online.

The Boston University student, Joel Tenenbaum, had admitted in court that he had downloaded and distributed 30 songs at issue in the case.

It is the second such case to go to trial in the US.

In the first case, a woman in Minneapolis was ordered to pay $1.92m for sharing 24 songs.

On Friday, the jury ordered Mr Tenebaum to pay $22,500 for each infringement. The maximum that he could have been fined was $4.5m.

Following the ruling, he said he was glad the fine had not been in the millions.

“That to me sends a message of ‘We considered your side with some legitimacy’,” he said, according to the Associated Press news agency.

Fined $700,000

But his lawyer said the verdict was not fair and that he planned to appeal.

‘Loved technology’

Mr Tenenbaum used a computer at his parents’ home and at his college to download and distribute digital files.

Prosecutors working on behalf of the record labels focused on 30 shared songs.

Under US law, the recording companies are entitled to $750 to $30,000 per infringement.

However, the jury can raise the amount to $150,000 per track if it finds the infringements were wilful – a matter that they will debate now that the judge has ruled Mr Tenenbaum violated copyright laws.

In the Minnesota case, the jury awarded $80,000 per song.

On the stand, Mr Tenenbaum admitted that he had downloaded more than 800 songs since 1999 and that he had lied in pre-trial proceedings when he suggested that other family members of friends may have been responsible for downloading songs to his computer.

“I used the computer. I uploaded, I downloaded music,” he told the court under questioning from his own lawyer, Charles Nesson.

He said he had used Napster and then Kazaa to download the files.

“It was like this giant library in front of you,” he said.

In opening remarks on Tuesday, Mr Tenenbaum’s lawyer said he “was a kid who did what kids do and loved technology and loved music”.

Recording companies had been slow to adapt to the internet, he added.

But prosecutors argued that file-sharers take a significant toll on the revenues for artists and others involved in music

‘Got off easy’

The recording industry has recently changed its tactics in file-sharing cases, preferring to settle quickly for much smaller amounts.

However, cases such as those against Mr Tenenbaum, which were already filed, are proceeding to trial.

The four recording labels involved in the case are subsidiaries of Universal Music, Warner Music and Sony.

Kevin Cullen of the Boston Globe said Mr Tenenbaum had “got off easy” compared to the Minnesota case.

“I went through the song list of what he was actually convicted of downloading and my favourite one was Beck’s Loser,” he told BBC News.

Source: BBC News

Almost everyone uses Search Engines to find information on the Internet and they do give the best possible results to the person searching the information. But what if you want to search some of your old friends or relatives? In that case there are special search engines People Search Engines.

People search Engines are specially made to search information regarding people by their name, email id etc and you can get complete information about them. You can search your school friends, relatives or any person without have to ask any detective agency or contacting some common friends to gather information.

Wink People Search Engine

There are many People Search Engines that can give you the information regarding the person you are looking for. You can search a person with his/her name, email id, phone number and many other search options. Wink People Search and PIPL People search are the most popular People Search Engines and you can search your friends right now.

PIPL Search Engine

Almost everyone uses Internet these days and we tend to download lots of stuff from Internet. There has been a question that “using Limewire is illegal”? Is this true? Well if it is then you may get your Internet connection banned by the ISP.

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Websites are growing in number and everyone is looking for good website hosting service to host their websites. There are many reliable Hosting providers like Hostgator and Hostpapa, but if you are new then you may need a cheap Website Hosting Service.

But how about a company that offers you completely free web hosting service? Yes you are right, a completely free website hosting service provider. Here is a company that provides 100% free website hosting service with really good add-on features:

Disk Space : 1500Mb
Bandwidth : 100Gb/Month
MySQL Databases : 2
Custom Control Panel
Fantastico De Luxe 1-Click Autoinstaller

cPanel or Control Panel enables you to control your websites easily but most free web hosting providers don’t provide you with a control panel but this company does, which is an awesome thing. There won’t be any ads on your hosting account which happens in most cases.

The company is providing this service for free because it has a paid service too, which the users may buy when their needs increases and they are satisfied with the company’s services.

So what are you waiting for? Just signup now and get going.

China has been known for its high population and is the country with the maximum population in the world. And now the number of Internet users in China is even greater than the total population of the United States. It has rose to 338 million last month, by a report.

China’s online population was the largest in the world before too and it has increased by 40 million since January, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing a report by the China Internet Network Information Center.

The number of broadband Internet connections increased by 10 million to 93.5 million in the first half of the year, and about 95 percent of townships were connected to broadband since last month and 92.5 percent of villages had telephone lines that could be used for Internet access.

Moreover the Rural coverage is expected to improve as the country’s three telecoms operators, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom invest 280 billion yuan (40 billion dollars) in a national 3G network over the next year and is expected to increase the number of users much more rapidly then the past.

For all those who like to send text messages for online websites, here is a great option for you as a new website SMS7.in allows you to send the longest SMS through a website. By SMS7.in you can send SMS up to 440 characters.

You must have used some websites like 160by2.com and way2sms.com but they have a limit of 80 characters and they also include ads in your messages but with SMS7.in you can send SMS up to 440 characters without any ads.

You just need to register with your mobile number and a confirmation code will be send to you with which you can start sending SMS to all parts of India. Well to be exact this isn’t any more SMS as 440 characters are long enough to be called a Short Message Service.

With SMS7 you can send up to 50 messages per day and 10 messages to a particular number. So what are you waiting for? Just register yourself and start sending longer SMS.

Blogging has become popular these days and social networking websites are perfect for promoting your website and increase web traffic to your blog. Just watch this video with a simple tutorial explaining how to add your blog to Facebook. This will be definitely helpful in bringing more traffic from these social networking websites.

As the whole world is talking about 3G services, 3G mobile phones and 3G USB modems, in some distant part of the world Clearwire Communications have launched their super-fast mobile internet 4G services in Las Vegas to approximately 1.7 million people.

Now the residents of Las Vegas which are under the CLEAR coverage area can access hi-speed, true broadband internet in their homes, offices, cars, mobiles and on the move. Moreover company also announced the launch of their 4G+ mobile USB which will be dual 3G/4G USB modem. Users inside the CLEAR coverage area can access 4G and when they go out of coverage area they can switch to 3G network by Sprint.

Typical 3G network offers downloading speeds of 1.0-1.7 Mbps, but CLEAR’s 4G service is expected to offer speeds which can be matched with wired connections only, which are 3-6 Mbps and may go up-to 10Mbps.

Don’t get really exited as it’ll take some time for 4G to come into your region, so till then enjoy with 3G services.

There are times when we want to capture the screenshot of complete webpage but are unable to do so as the webpage is not completely visible in the screen. The Printscreen button only take screenshot of the page visible in the display window, not outside it.
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These days web sites and blogs have become really very popular and the question that comes to everyone’s mind is how to increase web traffic to your web site or blog? Here is a video that will give you good tips regarding bringing web traffic to your blog.
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The whole world is ready to experience the century’s greatest Solar Eclipse, the world’s best search engine Google is also celebrating it. Google usually changes its logo on special days to dedicate their respect to those movements.

The change in icon usually makes people aware of that very special movement and it did this time too. When I opened Google in my browser it redirected me to Google.co.in and the image on top did showed the significant impact of solar eclipse in India. However when I checked Google.com, this wasn’t the case. It was a usual google home page.

Still this is a major day in history and this movement will not be seen again. But be careful while watching solar eclipse directly as it may be harmful. Follow safety steps and enjoy this amazing movement.

Google Solar Eclipse 2009 Icon

Google has began this trend of changing its Google logo on home page like Google modified its logo to Googlle logo on Google’s 11th birthday and Google Mahatama Gandhi Logo on Mahatama Gandhi’s Birthday.

We all are familiar with data cards being offered by various service providers along with their permanent connections. Well if you are looking to buy a data card the Micromax 611U USB modem is highly recommended as it is the only stand alone USB modem available in India till date.
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For all who are unfamiliar with “BLACKLE“, its a search engine with Google Custom Search and with a Black Background. The purpose of creating Blackle was to save energy that is consumed during the display on a CRT or LCD screen.
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In case you are wondering where to get pictures for your documents then here are sites from where you can download high quality images of different categories: Office Online and Compfight. These images can be included into your Word and Powerpoint documents without having to worry anything about legal issues.
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