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Microsoft Windows 7 comes with robust, but easy way for setting up time limits and restrictions for different users with the Family Safety feature. Individual computer users can have their own computer usage limits also. Watch the below video for more details on using parental controls in Window 7.
What all things you can do with a match stick. Of course you can light a lamp, but apart from that what all creative things you can do?. And, you might remember the matchstick game you played in the childhood days. Okay, can you imagine what all models you can build using matchsticks?. Of course you might tell, house, a fish, ball etc.
But, here are some awesome matchstick models that shows the real creativity of artistic minds. This has been compiled by The Toy Zone, and those models include, F1 racing car, an Oil Rig, Harry Potter Hogwarts, Gorilla, Horse, Tower Bridge, Taj Mahal, Helicopter, Capitol Building and Space Shuttle.
To keep alive the memory of the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, NASA released a partially restored video of a series of 15 memorable moments from the July 20 moonwalk. The video below shows Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raising the American flag on the moon.
Advertisements in the internet are the main way to sell/promote or buy your products, properties or services. You could find number of online advertisement agencies that can help you according to your requirements, but all these facilities come with a price tag. And of course, there are few sites which allow you to publish your own free advertisements.
The first one that would come to your mind would be Craigslist.org, which was pioneering in the online classified programs. But, there is one more online free free classifieds portal, named OLX. OLX is based in New York, they have made their presence felt by adapting the classified serving with Web 2.0, easy accessibility and simple procedure to publish ads. And, OLX is now present in 87 countries and 36 languages.
Get your classifieds floated and noticed on the internet using OLX.
It was a great surprise for all the audience and the judges of Britains Got talent 2009, when the 47 year old Susan Boyle from a remote village delivered the song "Cry Me A River". Her voice was so sweet and well modulated, like a very well experienced professional singer.
And the song she delivered for Britains Got Talent 2009 auditions will change her life very much. I think she will be listed among the very few fortunate people who turned celebrities in few days. I strongly feel that, we were missing this sweet voice for many many years. Its certain that Susan Boyle, would become one of the top singers, not only in UK but in the whole world.
And here is big take for our YouTube owner Google. Within few days of Susan Boyle's audition song, the video of the event started getting popular in the internet. The views of Susan Boyle's video has increased like in a chain reaction. The views have grown even to make the Susan Boyle's video among the most viewed videos of all time (If we club the views to different videos uploaded on the same show).
Google has recently added new profile section to the Google account. The Google profiles can be used to describe yourself, your personal details like contact email id, phone numbers, your address and even the keywords that describe you or your profession, your area and your interest.
The Google profile will also show up your profile information in the Google search, if a relevant search has been made requesting the details matching your profile content. You can also configure whether your profile need to be listed in the search results.
One way this will ease the people searching paradigm, and other way it will keep the users privacy will be available to other users with few keyboard strokes.
YouTube has made a revolution in sharing and viewing online video. After the acquisition by Google, YouTube has added lot of new features to improve the user experience in Online Streaming Videos.
There are many types of videos being shared and viewed through YouTube. Because of my curiosity, I found out by searching, the most viewed, rated and commented video on YouTube, its about Evolution of Dance by Judson Laipply. It has 119,279,970 views (more than 100 million) and 525258 ratings till today.
Watch, enjoy and share this video with your friends.
Google advertisement placing strategy was more program driven, without any bidding of advertisement values on particular website. This makes the Google ads pricing known only to the programs and ad managers, but not to the advertisers and publishers.
Google took a new step towards the advertisement strategy by adding Ad Planner for publishers, to define the available audiences of a particular site by its owner. The same Ad Planner is also available to the advertisers, to help them choose one or more websites to advertise in their expected niche of audiences.
Advertisers can gain following benefits out of Ad Planner
Define audiences by demographics and interests.
Search for websites relevant to your target audience.
Access unique users, page views, and other data for millions of websites from over 40 countries.
Create lists of websites where you'd like to advertise.
Generate aggregated website statistics for your media plan
Ad Planner can be used by publishers to;
Promote their own web site.
Specify the niche of the website content or activity.
Improve the data that advertisers see.
Increase the earning potential through Google ads
Register yourself for your Google Ad Planner account.
Splendid and beautiful moments captured in photos are priceless. And for many initial photographers, photos may not look as good as the real life quality pictures. In such a case its always better to rely on an easy photo adjustment and enhancement software.
Windows Live Photo Gallery is a very simple and user friendly image adjustment and fixing software from Microsoft Corporation.
To enhance and adjust an existing photo, you have to open the specific photo with Windows Live Photo Gallery and click the "Fix" button on the top tool bar.
Now you can see the adjustment and enhancement options on right side. Click "Auto adjust" from the right panel. Done.
Indian Premier League is the new sensation in the World of Cricket. Even though the IPL matches are played from South Africa, Indian cricket fans are excited about the matches as if it is being played in India. As the live matches are being telecasted through Set Max, cricket fans need to depend on the internet for getting the live scores and watching live matches at office and schools.
If you try google for watching live ipl matches, you may be taken to some sites full of advertisements or one which shows the old match highlights. Its very difficult to find any particular site that shows the live streaming of the ipl cricket matches.
But, there is a way out for watching the IPL cricket match live through the internet using ustream.tv at work place and colleges. www.ustream.tv provides the facility to stream live videos by its users. So if you search for ipl live matches in www.ustream.tv you will get a set of third party sites which provides the streaming of IPL live matches from their computer using internal tv tuner cards with help of ustream.tv.
Visit the ustream.tv to watch IPL matches live online. Also if you want to watch the same in mobile, you can go to m.iplt20.com from your mobile web browser.
Here is a nice opportunity for iPhone Application developers and mobile application developers with passion for developing applications for Apple iPhone. You could win $5000, if you can develop an iPhone Web Tracking Application designed specifically for iWebTrack.
This is competition is hosted by OpeniWeb.com for helping their iWebTrack to reach more levels. You can get more details on the requirements of the application development from here. The iPhone Application Development Competition is open to the public and runs from March 9-May 1, 2009.
In Opera, Safari 4 and Google chrome you can find the speed dial facility for accessing most visited webpages. Unfortunately Firefox till now did not have a speed dial kind of feature in built with the standard web browser. But, now a new add-on can help you add this feature on your Firefox web browser.
Wikipedia defines Sixth Sense as, the apparent ability to acquire information by paranormal means independent of any known physical senses or deduction from previous experience. There has been a lot of research going on in different parts of the world, to put together all available technologies to realize a device that can give the abilities of a sixth sense.
Researchers from MIT Labs has made a break through by unveiling a new wearable device with an any surface projector, camera and some necessary computation and communication components. The device can help a user to interact with the environment with natural gestures and there by perceiving the meta data about the subjects in real-time. Its a wonderful invention that will lay the foundation for more sophisticated sixth sense devices to come.
You will feel that those scenes from film "Minority Reports", will be part of our everyday life in near future. Also, this invention would change the way we play computer games, it would add more reality in game simulations.
Hearty Congratulations to Pranav Mistry, the genius behind this invention.
Online conferencing, meeting, presentations and sharing reports are very important part of a client oriented business. All these activities had come with a price, till the Adobe ConnectNow has launched its free web conferencing facility with added features.
Using Adobe ConnectNow you can share ideas, discuss details of the business and activities, move the work together through web, even if your team members or clients are across the continents. Thus you can, reduce travel costs, save time, and increase productivity with a free web conferencing solution which is pretty easy and simple to understand.
Adobe ConnectNow comes with following features
Screen sharing : To enable meeting participants to see what's happening on your desktop with a Screen sharing palette to control the sharing.
Video conferencing : Your webcam can be integrated to have a live video online meeting.
Chat window: To send instant messages to the participants with emotion icons.
Whiteboard: Use the shared screen like a white board, draw lines and shapes, drag and reshape them, add text, and also you can save the Whiteboard as a PNG file.
Remote control: A meeting participant can control another participant's desktop with permission.
Integrated audio choices: Facility to use the microphone to make voice conversations.
Unique meeting room URL: Its a unique meeting room available online
After finishing the documents, before handing it over to other people, it is necessary to apply watermark to show the status or the confidentiality of the printed document (or even pdf document). Microsoft Word provides a very easy interface to add watermarks in the word documents.
In MS Word 2003, you have to select the "Format" menu, then select the Background menu-item and then select "Printed Watermark" to add watermark in the document.
In MS Word 2007, you need to select the ""Page Layout" tab and then select the "Watermark" item in the ribbon.
In this century, the machine made items have dominated over the hand made products due to easy availability of machine made things, depending on increasing demand. The inability to increase production volume from a threshold to meet the increasing demand for products also gave machine made products an edge over the hand made things. This also lead to the deterioration of hand made items industry in recent days.
The fact is that, there are a lot many people in this world who prefer to use hand made things when compared with machine made counterparts. Here is an exclusive ecommerce site for buying and selling hand made items. Etsy.com is the site which facilitates buy and sell of exclusive hand made items. This ecommerce site can be used to sell you hand made products, as it can help you find right customer easily.
After registering with Etsy, you can will be given with page with your username as sub domain of etsy. This web page can be used to promote or sell your products. Thus you can improve the profit of your hand made things business by selling through etsy.
Facebook is one of the famous social networking site in the world. Facebook has enhanced lot of its feature by allowing user made applications to play around Facebook. I have came to know about so many people feeling that they are spending more time in Facebook, and slowly getting addicted to Facebook. In order to put an end to this addition, most of them would prefer to delete their Facebook profile.
Deleting Facebook profile is not so easy as you think, its a long process. If you go to the settings page you will get an option only to deactivate your account. The deactivation will disable your profile being viewed by others till you re-login to your Facebook account. Once you login, your profile will be reactivated.
One approach to block your profile permanently is by violating Facebook terms of use. Either by try to posting same text or link in people's wall and groups within short time, or by making friends request to more than two hundred people in a single stretch. And an extreme way is by putting indecent images or lewd pics in your profile and albums. But, this may not be a good way of dealing with your Facebook profile, as it would trash your impression among your friends.
Twitter has spear headed the micro blogging revolution by allowing its users to update their status and queries through web, IM, mobile etc. Now twittering has become an easy way to throw your status updates to your friends or followers.
Now twitter has launched a real time search facility, that can help you search about other user's updates based on your search key words. The special thing about the search facility is that, the search results can be updated in real-time. After serving you the search result, if some one make a status update which contains the search keywords, twitter will show you the number of new updates available and will ask you to refresh the result.
In light of this search facility in twitter eweek reported a possible threat to Google search. But, in my opinion twitter search will cannot be threat to Google search, as the twitter search shows the result only from the status updates available with the twitter by its users where as Google provides the result from the indexed information from pages in the web.
The browser war has officially begun when Google launched its Chrome, but now the war is going to get tougher than ever before with the new Safari 4. Apple brand is famous for launching unique products in a particular niche with maximum perfection and quality, rather than giving importance to number of varied products of same kind. Their history can speak more, till now it was iPhone, now it could be Safari 4.
Apple has launched the Safari 4 beta recently, allowing users to experience the faster and innovative browsing. Safari 4 is claiming to have 150 features, that would give a clear visibility among all other web browsers and to convert users of other browsers like IE, Firefox etc. I feel IE team will have a tough time ahead as they already loosing new users to Firefox 3.
The pretty features available in Safari 4 are, Voice over screen reader, Speculative Loading of pages, Web kit, HTML 5 media and offline support, 3d view and pin facility for top sites, 3d history search, movable tabs, extensive rss reader, a bunch of developer tools and integration with iPhoto, iTunes and other Mac products.
The famous web statistics provider statcounter has launched a global statistics section which highlights the global internet usage statistics on the basis of web browser, operating system, mobile web browser, mobile phones and search engines.
In light of the statistics analyzed for last 7 months statcounter global statistics team has concluded that the usage of Firefox 3 is getting steadily increased when compared with the internet explorer usage. This is a very good news for all Firefox fans as well as Mozilla foundation. Firefox is fighting hard against the IE, in spite of the strong competition from Safari, Opera and Google chrome. See the chart below.
So those days are not so far, if Microsoft fails to keep IE users, for Firefox to dominate the web browser share.
