Know your Battery status the command line way

Well no big deal:-). The battery information can be easily got by clicking on the battery icon in your Ubuntu's taskbar. The good thing here is you will know from which file the information of the battery is fetched.
To know the current state of the battery:
pradeep@pradeep-laptop:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state
present: yes
capacity state: ok
charging state: charging
present rate: 0 mA
remaining capacity: 3599 mAh
present voltage: 12578 mV

To know all the info regarding your laptop battery:
pradeep@pradeep-laptop:~$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info
present: yes
design capacity: 4400 mAh
last full capacity: 3789 mAh
battery technology: rechargeable
design voltage: 10800 mV
design capacity warning: 185 mAh
design capacity low: 129 mAh
capacity granularity 1: 56 mAh
capacity granularity 2: 3604 mAh
model number: VE06047
serial number: 453
battery type: LION
OEM info: STL-LG22


Ahh, 3789mAh/4400mAh = 87%, Not bad after 1.5 years of torture to my lappy;-). Let me know your' s too.

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Twittering the command line way

As you might have noticed my previous post was browsing the command line. Now lets see how to twitter the command line way:-);-)
At first you need to install cURL.(a client for getting files from servers) to post to Twitter through the Terminal which can be installed using the following command:

pradeep@pradeep-laptop:sudo apt-get install curl

With cURL installed, you can post to Twitter from the terminal window by using the following syntax:

pradeep@pradeep-laptop:curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status="Your Message Here" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

You will receive a response containing the XML coding for your post which acts as a confirmation that your post was submitted.

So have fun twittering the command line way:-)

Post in your reviews:-)

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The command line way of browsing

One of the best things in Linux I like is the command line way of doing things. Well now I can do almost all my work from the terminal and the latest being browsing and chatting. The only thing I cannot do is viewing images and watching videos which soon might be possible:-).
So how do I browse from my terminal??? I thought was it possible? I have realised lately there's help for everything and anything on Linux. After doing a small research I found out this cute command line app called "Elinks"(command line browser)

Ever wondered how fast the browser Elinks is ??? No pop ups, no images, but absoultely cool plain test views,option to see images using eog(Eye Of Gnome) , tabbed browsing, history, bookmarks, history : everything one might need in a modern day browser. It doesn't crash , doesn't require any extra plugins for working. Actually above anything else its the speed of browsing is what that beats me ! Brilliant! Don know what adjective would describe the power of elinks. Check out the google page opened on elinks.
Accessing my Gmail account is fun in elinks. So damn fast!!
"finch" is a command line chat client which is the same as pigdin.:-)

elinks can be installed on your ubuntu as follows:
#pradeep@pradeep-laptop: sudo apt-get install elinks


PS: I agree that GUI way of doing things is friendly,easy and all. But after a few tries the command liners are easy to use , more productive and damn cool!!!

Always try and do things differently:-);-)

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SMS Typing

Of late I have been solving a lot of problems. Here s a problem which you guys can solve.

Cell phones have become an essential part of modern life. In addition to making voice calls, cell phones can be used to send text messages, which are known as SMS for short. Unlike computer keyboards, most cell phones have limited number of keys. To accommodate all alphabets, letters are compacted into single key. Therefore, to type certain characters, a key must be repeatedly pressed until that character is shown on the display panel.

In this problem we are interested in finding out the number of times keys on a cell phone must be pressed to type a particular message.

In this problem we will assume that the key pad of our cell phone is arranged as follows.

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| | abc | def |

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| ghi | jkl | mno |

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| pqrs | tuv | wxyz |

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| |sp | |

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In the above grid each cell represents one key. Here SP means a space. In order to type the letter ‘a’, we must press that key once, however to type ‘b’ the same key must be repeatedly pressed twice and for ‘c’ three times. In the same manner, one key press for ‘d’, two for ‘e’ and three for ‘f’. This is also applicable for the remaining keys and letters. Note that it takes a single press to type a space.


Input:
The first line of input will be a positive integer T where T denotes the number of test cases. T lines will then follow each containing only spaces and lower case letters. Each line will contain at least 1 and at most 100 characters.


Output:
For every case of input there will be one line of output. It will first contain the case number followed by the number of key presses required to type the message of that case. Look at the sample output for exact formatting.

Sample Input : Sample Output

welcome to ulab : 29

good luck and have fun : 41


Problemsetter: Shamim Hafiz

Special Thanks: Sohel Hafiz

You can download the solution done by me and my friend amruth at here.
The code was compiled and executed on a gcc compiler

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Bash SpellChecker

Reason for this post is that i tend do a lot of typing mistakes while typing at the terminal:-).
Spell checking in bash can be enabled adding the following line below into your bashrc file

shopt -s cdspell

#pradeep@pradeep-laptop:gedit ~/.bashrc

Add the command mentioned above to the end of the file and save.

That’s all :)

If you want to enable this for all the users, then append this to your /etc/bash.bashrc (in Ubuntu) or /etc/bashrc (in Fedora). Of course, you need the root privilege to edit the files in /etc.

Now try these
cd /hoem
cd /hoe

Ain't it cool.

So by the way what is a bashrc file?
Ok in short it is a script which is run by the bash shell when ever a terminal is invoked once you login.
To know more please see /usr/share/doc/bash/INTRO.gz as in "Ubuntu 9.04". Not sure about other versions. It should be the same according to me.




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Microsoft Visio

Ok i don usually like writing about microsoft stuff:-). But saw my friend amarnath installing this software, so writing:-)

Microsoft Visio (pronounced VIZ-ee-oh, not VIZH-ee-oh) is a diagramming program for Microsoft Windows that uses vector graphics to create diagrams. It is currently available in two editions: Standard and Professional.

The Standard and Professional editions both share the same interface, but the latter has additional templates for more advanced diagrams and layouts as well as unique functionality that makes it easy for users to connect their diagrams to a number of data sources and display the information graphically.^[1][2]

Microsoft acquired Visio Corporation in 2000. Visio 2007 was released on 30 November 2006. Also released alongside version 2002 were Enterprise Network Tools, an add-on product enabling automated network and directory services diagramming, and the Visio Network Center, a Web site where users could locate the latest network documentation content and exact-replica network equipment shapes from 500 leading manufacturers.^[3] The former has been discontinued, while the latter's shape-finding features are now integrated into the program itself.^[4]

Microsoft has revealed that the next version of Microsoft Visio will feature the ribbon user interface
Source:Wikipedia

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Vim plugin you must install

Ok why I am writing this post.Two reasons for it:
1) We have a Web Programming Lab this semester
2) I hardly use windows now:-). Using windows has exponentially decreased:-)

Snipmate.vim is probably the best snippets plugin for vim. A snippet is a piece of often-typed text or programming construct that you can insert into your document by using a trigger followed by a tab. It was written by Michael Sanders.

Here is an example usage of snipmate.vim. If you are a C programmer, then one of the most often used forms of a loop is “for (i=0; condition ; i++) {}”. Without snippets you’d have to type this out every time. Even though it takes just another second, these seconds can add to minutes throughout the day and minutes can add to hours over longer periods of time. Why waste your time this way? With snippets you can type just “for tab” and snipmate will insert this whole construct in your source code automatically! If “i” or “n” weren’t the variable you wanted to use, you can now use tab and shift-tab to jump to next/previous item in the loop and rename them!

Michael also created an introduction video for his plugin where he demonstrates how to use it. Check it out:

snipMate.vim Introductory Screencast from Michael Sanders on Vimeo.

How to install snipmate.vim?

To get the latest version:

1. Download snipmate.zip.
2. Extract snipmate.zip to ~/.vim (on Unix/Linux) or ~/etc/vim (wherever vim is installed)
#pradeep@pradeep-laptop: sudo unzip snipmate.zip -d ~/etc/vim (provided snipmate.zip is in your HOME folder else provide the desired path)
3. Run :helptags ~/.vim/doc or ~/etc/vim/doc
4. Restart Vim.

The plugin comes with predefined snippets for more than a dozen languages (C, C++, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Objective C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, Shell, HTML, VimScript). Be sure to check out the snippet files in the “snippets” directory under your ~/.vim or ~\vimfiles directory.

If you need to define your own snippets (which you most likely will need), create a new file named “language-foo.snippets” in the “snippets” directory. For example, to define your own snippets for C language, you’d create a file called “c-foo.snippets” and place snippets in it.

To learn about snipmate snippet syntax, type “:help snipmate” and locate the syntax section in the help file.
Have Fun!
Post in your comments if any queries!

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Install Apache webserver,mysql,perl and php

For all those who dont have apache server,mysql,perl and php on your Linux OS here's a way you can install.
People who have installed Fedora 8/9[Full installation] all the above gets installed automatically. But if you have installed other distributions like Ubuntu, Open SUSE, Red Hat etc, here is a way you can do.

If you install the above softwares separately its a very tedious job believe me. But you need not do that. The idea was suggested by my class mate Abdul Munim. There is a package by name XAMPP which installs everything including many cool things.So how do you go about it

So wat is XAMPP??
XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.

So how do you go about it?
At first you need to download the package file.You can find the file: here
Now copy the file to your home directory.Now you are three steps away:-)

Step 1: Installation
Go to a Linux shell and login as the system administrator root:
#su

Extract the downloaded archive file to /opt:
#pradeep@pradeep-laptop:tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.1.tar.gz -C /opt

Warning 1: Please use only this command to install XAMPP. DON'T use any Microsoft Windows tools to extract the archive, it won't work.
Warning 2: already installed XAMPP versions get overwritten by this command.

Step 2: Start
To start XAMPP simply call this command:
pradeep@pradeep-laptop:/opt/lampp/lampp start

You should now see something like this on your screen:
Starting XAMPP 1.7.1...
LAMPP: Starting Apache...
LAMPP: Starting MySQL...
LAMPP started.


Step 3: Test
OK, that was easy but how can you check that everything really works? Just type in the following URL at your favourite web browser:

http://localhost

Now you should see the start page of XAMPP containing some links to check the status of the installed software and some small programming examples.

You are done now. If you any queries/problems regarding the installation,please post in the comments and i will try to fix the problem:-)

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Power of Yahoo Pipes

Was wondering from many days what is this Yahoo Pipes all about. Knew it is something special. When i used it i was completely shocked. Its such a powerfull tool!! How can i describe it???

Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code.

Where does pipe come into play??

Suppose you are only interested in cricket and football news, Generally when you visit a sports website you see news associated with every sport. With yahoo pipes you can customise your results according to your needs with data inputs from various sports websites. The pipe i created is below:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=9532375934b692f6eccb152359e7b1cf

An another pipe which u guys can create is regarding movie theatres. There are many multiplexes/theatres in Bangalore like Inox,PVR,Fun Cinemas etc.. All of them will have their own websites. You can obtain data from all these websites and create a pipe which gives you info about which movie is in which theatre etc!

Well source of input need not to be from websites alone. It could be a data from feeds of a site, google search results ,yahoo search results and also data from online spread sheets etc.

Once u create your pipe you can publish it and add it google reader, google homepage, yahoo page or embedd in your webisite

Yahoo Pipes is so simple and powerful that any can use learn and develop their own application. This one blog post of mine is not enough to describe the Yahoo Pipes. The feel of you guys learnin and designing your own pipes is completely different. So go ahead and give a try.

To get you started with watch this intro video:

Learn How to Build a Pipe in Just a Few Minutes @ Yahoo! Video

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Install VLC 1.0.0 in Ubuntu

Earlier in ubuntu , on execution of the following command below you could have installed the latest version of vlc media player

#sudo apt-get install vlc

But doing the same now will not install the latest i.e 1.0.0 version.To install the latest vlc player in ubuntu follow the steps below:

=>At first edit the file : /etc/apt/sources.list file. To do it execute the command below

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

For Jaunty Users:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/ubuntu jaunty main

For intrepid users:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/vlc/ubuntu intrepid main

Save and exit the file

=>Install GPG key using the following command

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 7613768D

=>Update sourcelist using the following command

sudo apt-get update

=>Install vlc using the following commnd

sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc

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Facebook Launches Developer Contest in India

Facebook has been very popular in India. Allmost everyone is on Facebook now.Considering the popularity facebook has launched a contest in India. All you guys have to do is develop cool apps for facebook.

India ranks second in the number of software developers with 3.9 million software developers and Facebook seems to want to leave no stone unturned in gaining their attention. The Facebook Developer’s Challenge focuses on Facebook Apps (on of the most interesting aspects of Facebook with high user retention and thousands of fans) and Facebook. Connect, an important useful tool which serves as a good platform for publishers and for social media in general.

Three prize winners in each of the two contest categories will receive cash awards. For each category (Apps and Connect):

First Place Prize : Four Thousand Dollars U.S. ($4,000.00 USD)

Second Prize : Two Thousand Dollars U.S. ($2,000.00 USD).

Third Prize : One Thousand Dollars U.S. ($1,000.00).

Which takes the total cash prize for this amount close to INR 3.4 Lakhs!

The Contest began on July 2, 2009 and will end at 11:29:59 AM Indian Standard Time on September 11, 2009. The contest is open to all legal residents of India who are over the age of 16 at the time of entry. For more information,

check www.facebook.com/developercontestindia.

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Win Free Webdomain and Hosting

Please vist ChethStudios for more details. Check out its really cool.

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Enable Root Login in Ubuntu

Everytime i had to install any application in Ubuntu, i had to use sudo as a prefix. Recently i had installed a program which wass installed in the usr directory. Everytime i had to run the program, it was asking me for a super user priviledge. This was totally annoying me.By default when you install ubuntu, the root login is disabled by default. Follow the below steps and enable root login for ubuntu.

To enable root login:
1)Go to System->Administration->User and Groups
2)Click on Unlock and enter the password which you had given during installation
3)Select the root profile and click on properties, and set a password.
4)One last thing, after doing the above steps go to System->Administration->Login Window
5)Click on the security tab and click tick the checkbox which says "Enable System Administrator Login"

After doing the above steps, Logout and login as root.

PS: Be very careful when you are in the root profile coz you have access to everything. Any small mistake might crash your system.

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World E Book Fair

There is this World E-Book fair (From 4 JUL 2009 Till 4 AUG 2009) where 2.5 million e-books in PDF& MP3 format are available free to download.

Hope you guys get what you are trying to find.

Have Fun!!

worldebookfair

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Microsoft Vision of the Future!!

Absolutely Hilarious!!!

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Google Squared

I was just visitng the site labs.google.com and found this experiment intersting. It is called google square. So what is google square?

Google Squared is an experimental tool by google that takes a category(like digital cameras,mobile phones,US presidents etc) and attempts to create a square of information, automatically fetching and orgainsing facts from across the web. You can modify the square by adding and deleting rows/coloumns which you do not like. You can also save it and come back later.Hope you liked this post.

Google Squared

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Google Translate

Have u ever struggled of not understanding a language. Want a translation from one language to the other as in English->German or Vice versa. Check out Google Translate. Its cool.. Hope this helps you in some point in time.

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Use Twitter to Spot ISS station

Long time coz its exam time for me. Well this article i read in the newspaper today and found it interesting and i am sharing it her..

Two journalists have built an online service that would let twitter users around the world to spot the Internatinal Space Station(ISS), without a telescope.

People using twitter can receive an alert on their twitter profile when the ISS passes the location mentioned in their twitter profile.

All you have to do is follow the twitter account www.twitter.com/twisst.

The service is operating in a testing phase now. Website accompaning the twitter messages will be launched in a week. As a very bright spot ISS crosses the sky in about three minutes.

Twisst may even be the first service on twitter to send out such a highly personalised information. It sends messages to every follower separately

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Photopedia-Images for humanity

Parts Flickr and Wikipedia, photo site and desktop application Fotopedia lets users create and upload topic-driven collaborative web albums complete with Google Maps information, Wikipedia entries, tagging, and more.

Fotopedia's desktop application helps you create and share your photo albums with friends. You can also upload photos from your desktop to the Fotopedia site, turning them into a slideshow web album complete with an associated Wikipedia entry and Google Maps information. Once there, you can browse other albums by topic (e.g., geography and travel), add relevant photos licensed under Creative Commons on Flickr, and follow other Fotopedia users. If you don't think a specific photo should be included as part of an album, click on the thumbs down icon to rate it accordingly.

Fotopedia also allows posting your albums to Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook.

Just visit once i feel its a cool one

PS:The database is yet to develop and it all depends on the number of users uploading the pictures..

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Torrent2exe- convert ur torrent to an exe file and download

This one's a Beauty!!! True beauty. Have you ever wondered of converting ur torrent files to an exe file!! Yes it's possible and this wonderful site does it.

Well why convert a torrent file to an exe file??

One reason is because i use a usb modem for browsing, and if i download using bit-torrent or any other torrent client i hardly get a speed of 5 kbps.After converting it to an exe file and started the download i got a pretty good speed of 50 kbps and more depending on the seeds.

Second reason, you’ll find it hard to believe but there are a great number of people who are still not familiar with the whole concept of using and downloading with torrents. This popular file-sharing method has been around for sometime but I still get a lot of questions such as: “What now? I downloaded the torrent but nothing is happening.” I assume it’s because of the fact that downloading files via torrent is not as straightforward as downloading files directly from the server or from the web.Using this service, users can download files with the torrent protocol without the need to install a torrent client.


Well its very use to use. Go to the website torrent2exe, paste the link of the torrent or upload the torrent file already there on your computer and convert it to an exe file. Then download the exe file which is hardly 500kb. Double click on the exe file to start the download. You can also resume and pause the downlaod. No torrent clients required at all!! Isn't this cool!!Post in your comments and let me know about ur experience with this.

Torrent2exe

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show RSS- download ur favourite Tv Shows

I had written a post on feed my torrents which kept track of the latest tv show torents and you could retrieve with your RSS reader. Unfortunately feed my torents is no longer working. Well no worries i found yet another one which performs the same task as feed my torrents. Its called the show RSS.

showRSS is a web service that allows you to keep track of your favorite TV shows from a website or from a RSS reader. After registering (and logging in!), you'll have to select what are the TV shows that you want to track and then you'll just have to subscribe to your feed with any RSS reader (Google Reader, your browser...) or even with your torrent client (for example, µtorrent supports RSS feeds for automatic downloads). You can also browse latest torrents for your TV shows from this website, instead of using the RSS feed, or you can use both as well.

ShowRSS

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Futuristic Concept Laptop Designs

Well i had go this mail from one of my friends Ashu and thought of sharing it here coz i found it really cool..Here are some sexy laptop designs by various companies.

1)Vaio Zoom notebook features a holographic glass screen that goes transparent and a keyboard that turns opaque when turned off. Turn it on and the touchscreen holographic festivities begin.


2) DesCom is basically a two-in-one concept laptop which seamlessly integrates inside a desk.



3)LG Ecological laptop concept uses fuel cell batteries and features organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology, it received a Red Dot Award nomination for best concept design.

4)MacTab is the complement to MyBook in the high-end. The incredibly thin wireless keyboard is used as a protection cover for transportation. It stays in place with a combination of magnets and notches.

These were few which i liked..

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Download English,Hindi,kannada,malayalam,telugu,tamil songs

Wow Wow!!! These were my reactions when i visited this site.. All  credits to my roomate Nithin who  enthusiastically downloads all the latest kannada songs!!..He happened to discovered this site.All credits to him.Okie whats so special about this site. 

1)First thing you can find all the latest songs there. 

2)Second thing English,kannada,telugu,hindi songs etc all in one place.

3)Download rate awsome.. As fast as a bugatti veron:-) trust me 

4)High Quality Uploads.

Post in your reviews!!

BangaloreLiving.com

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WolframAlpha-A Computational Search engine

Yet another discovery!!. This one is really cool guys. A 

computational search engine. So whats this all about.. Let me give you guys an example

1)How many football fields would fit between the Earth and the sun?

2)What's the likelihood of getting 2 heads in 10 coin flips?  

There are proper answers for all these questions.

 

One search engine calculates all that on the fly and more.It's Mathematician Stephen Wolfram's much-hyped "computational knowledge engine"

So what all you can do with this site?

You can compare two stocks,compare comapnies,conversions from one metric form to another,solve equations,calculate probabilities,interests, get a full detail about a country etc and there is no end to it.Please give this a try. I gurantee you guys will enjoy it.

WolframAlpha

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Create your Google Profile

when people search your name on google do they find you.. Well recently google showed google profile results at the bottom of U.S name search query pages.. So go ahead and create your profiles. Your profie can include all the links to your online photo albums, your blog addresses, your interests, where you are staying, what do you do etc........ and many more..

Create Profile

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PC World Magazine- May 2009

Here's the e-book of the PC World Magazine May 2009. Please feel free to download..:-)

Download Here

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4 Computer Magazines - April 2009

I found this one nice. So feel free to download.:-)

Download Here

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2nd PUC Results

Hey guys 2nd PUC results are available @ the site below. Direct server access


Results PUC 2009

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Gmail Manager

I always keep huunting for the latest cool add ons on firefox that make my life easy and this is yet another discovery:-)..It's called the gmail manager. So what is Gmail manager??

Gmail Manager allows you to manage multiple Gmail Accounts at the same time in the same browser window. You will instantly recieve updates on new messages and replies with the use of a handy drop down menu embedded into your toolbar.

Gmail Manager

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Youtube videos to Mp3

I wanted the acoustic version of the bon jovi its my life song. I dint find the mp3 on the net. But i found a video in the youtube. But i wanted a Mp3. This is a cool website which converts all the youtube videos to Mp3 format. Here's the link below for you guys to try

Video2Mp3

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3D Search

Long time again. was a bit busy apologies. I was just using the 3D cube feature in Ubuntu. Was wondering if any such search engine exists. And it does :-).. It's fun to use. I recommend you guys to just try it out once.



http://www.search-cube.com/

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Let Live search do your algebra

This was a just a random try. For some reason i was searching in live.com. Actually the computer i was using in my college library had live.com as the default page.
But i just though of entering an algebraic expression in the live search bar and i was astonished to see that it actually computed the result. But this is not possible in google. Anyways nothing great to blah blah about coz it just computes for one variable. I just wanted to share with you. Try it out!!
Expecting google to implement the same feature soon.:-)

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Youtube Education

Have your ever thought of using Youtube for educational purposes?? You din't understand any physics or math concept in your college?? Don worry now have lecture videos of all such stuffs over Youtube..
With over 200 partnerships with higher-education institutions including Stanford,Berkeley,MIT,and Indian Institutes of Technology(IIT) -- and over 20,000 videos -- it's now easier than ever on YouTube for anyone in the world to find academic subjects of interest, tour campuses, and freely audit classes.

Whether you are a prospective student interested in learning more about a campus, or you're an avid learner that can't get enough of the classroom experience -- turn to YouTube EDU and keep learning.

Youtube EDU

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Ping.Fm

Web site Ping.fm creates a single entry point for updating all of your social networks in one fell swoop, from Twitter and Facebook to AIM and GTalk.

The service is simple to use. Just sign up, add whatever networks you want (it supports almost 40 services), and you've got an easy way to update your status across multiple networks from your Ping.fm dashboard. Ping.fm can categorize services into three groups: Status updates, blogging, and micro-blogging, and you can send out updates to one or all of them without much effort. The service also supports updates via SMS, IM, email, and third-party apps.

Ping.fm is a great way to streamline the process.

This is awsome fun:-) Hope you guys also enjoy it....

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Login to multiple accounts in gtalk

Ok.. This is just another cool trick which i wanted to share with you. Why i wrote this post because i have two gmail accounts of which one i use exclusively for orkut and other for my personal use.. I have a huge friend list in both. So wanted to be logged in google talk with both the accounts.So how to do achieve it??? Follow the steps below

1. Create a shortcut to GTalk on your desktop (if you dont have currently)
   
2. Go to the properties of the shortcut. There in the target, you’ll see something like:
3.  “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe”Add /nomutex to that target line. Then the line would be (Include the Quotes in the address) :                                    “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex
   
4. Apply it and then click ok.
5. Let me know if it works:-)

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6th Sense!!!!

What comes to your mind when you hear the word sixthsense..Sometimes you anticipate something is going to happen like for example someone is following you or it might rain etc... So how how do you relate sixth sense with technology??? I don't how many of you have seen the movie The Minority Report starring Tom Cruise.. In the movie you find Tom Cruise using cool gadgets where he uses gestures to perform lot of things.. You also digital newspapers where you can watch live news.. Do you think those things were possible???... The answer is YES...MIT media labs has an answer for it:-) 

So what is this sixth sense about???

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world, there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer. 

The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction. 

The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by Multi-Touch based systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger. SixthSense also recognizes user’s freehand gestures (postures). For example, the SixthSense system implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the ‘framing’ gesture. The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch. 

The current prototype system costs approximate $350 to build. 

Just watch the video below for what all you could do with this device:-).The video explains it all.

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WriteOnIt--Funny photo captions,Magazine covers and many more

I was totally lazy and was browsing orkut profiles of my friends.. In one of my friends profile i happened to see cool and funny pictures in her album.. For example your pic on some ad-Board , or your photo on the first page of time magazine etc etc.. It took me some time for me to research to find out which sites provides this kind of stuff.. Amongst many i found "Writeonit" site to be pretty cool.. You can find me on the coverpage of "TIME" magazine:-).. Hope I will be one day for some good reason.. I think you should definitely try this out for some cool fun

WriteOnIt

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Digsby-All in one package

Okie sorry for the delay in posting.. Had been a bit busy with my college stuff.. 

I got to know about this Digsby application from a friend of mine elvis.. 

Digsby is a multiprotocol instant messaging application. It supports various IM protocols such as  AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, and Facebook Chat. Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.You can stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn accounts.You can set your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn status right from Digsby. Well Let me tell these are just the highlights and actual fun is when you actually use it. The link is given below

Digsby

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CooL Iris -Picture in Picture browsing

Okie let me tell you one think i do not have any adjectives remaining to describe this Cool Iris. I thought Picassa 3 was the most amazing thing. But now i have second thoughts. Hello, one more thing this is not an application as such its only a browser Add on (IE and FireFox). And it's absolutely gorgeous:-) total beauty:-) Enough of the blah blah...:-) So wat is it??


Full-Screen, 3D -- Cooliris transforms your browser into a visually stunning, lightning fast way to search and enjoy online photos, videos and more. Just launch Cooliris from the browser toolbar, and our unique "3D Wall" lets you zoom your way around thousands items on a single, ever-expansive wall. Or, to enjoy Cooliris on hundreds of supported sites such as Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, and Flickr, mouse over images on the site and click the Cooliris icon that appears.

To use Cooliris on these sites, (1) visit the gallery on that site, and then (2) click the Cooliris that appears above images and videos as you mouseover them.(3)If not step 2 you can also click the cooliris button which is at the top right corner of the browser.

• Google Images
• YouTube
• Flickr
• Facebook
• MySpace
• Photobucket
• DeviantArt
• KodakGallery
• Picasa Web Albums
• Smugmug
• Getty Images
• Bebo Hi5
• Friendster
• Yahoo Image Search
• Ask Image Search
• Live Image Search
• AOL Image Search

CoolIris

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Smarter Wikipedia adds a "Related Articles" box to the mass-edited encyclopedia's left-hand menu, helping you quickly dig into and around a topic—or easily start a long spiral of Wiki-traveling.

Assuming you can responsibly break away from the big gray information machine, Smarter Wikipedia is a helpful navigational tool. Beyond the "Related Articles" box, the add-on can search Wikipedia (or Wikipedia's pages via customized Google query) for any term you highlight and right-click on. The add-on is built small and light, too, as its author points out, aiming to put little drag on your open-source browser.

Smarter Wikipedia is a free add-on, works wherever Firefox does

Smarter Wikipedia.

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Puppy Linux- as cute and small as a puppy

This is pretty awsome according to me:-). Have you ever thought of an Operating system which is hardly 85 to 100 MB. Yes it true and it does exist. Its called the puppy Linux. What are it's goals:

• Easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
• Booting from CD (or DVD), the CD drive is then free for other purposes.
• Booting from CD (or DVD), save everything back to the CD.
• Booting from USB Flash drive, minimise writes to extend life indefinitely.
• Extremely friendly for Linux newbies.
• Boot up and run extraordinarily fast.
• Have all the applications needed for daily use.
• Will just work, no hassles.
• Will breathe new life into old PCs
• Load and run totally in RAM for diskless thin stations.

Here's a You tube video of the same. Just see the video for the features:

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Mojave Experiment

This is yet another fascinating site which i discovered as i was browsing.. Wats so fascinating about it is the 3 D video cloud. Wondering wat it is??? Its nothing but a cluster of video in a 3 dimensional view. Well wat are the requirments your browser should have to view the site? Yes since its "Microsoft" you need a silverlight plugin installed in ur browser. Although the the same thing can be achieved in Flash:-).. Don worry just go to the site, if you don have silverlight plugin installed it will guide you to install.

SO WHAT IS MOJAVE EXPERIMENT??
The Mojave Experiment is an advertising campaign by Microsoft for the Windows Vista Operating System. The participants in the experiment were asked about their perceptions of Windows Vista (having never used it) and then were shown a ten minute demo of Microsoft's "next OS", codenamed "Mojave". After the experiment was over, it was revealed that "Mojave" was actually Windows Vista. Before the session, the average rating of Vista was 4.4 out of 10; after the session the average rating for the "Mojave" OS was 8.5 out of 10. The official goal of the Mojave Experiment is to get consumers to "decide for themselves" rather than accept the commonly held negative perceptions of Windows Vista, providing links to product demo videos and other product advertising. Microsoft says that it is slowly adding more video content to the Mojave Experiment website.

Source: Wikipedia

MOJAVE EXPERIMENT

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BeFunky!!

This is just pure fun.. This is a cool web application which turns your photo into an incredible art work.. Lot of options available. No registration required:-) its free try it out. U can see my artwork above:-)

Befunky

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Ask BOSS-Natural Language image search

This one's pretty awsome and you wil definitely aprreciate it. Now the first thing i want you to do is open two two new windows and in one window open "Google image search" and in the other open "Yahoo Image search". Next type the question "Who is batman in the dark knight". The results will be as follows.




Now go "AskBoss"and type the same question and see what results you will get. You will be astonished
Natural language processing is partly used in text search today, but its use in image search is mostly unexplored. But askBOSS which retrieves images to questions posed in natural language. askBoss attempts to enhance image results for queries around factual question answering. It uses Yahoo BOSS(search API's) through BOSS mashup framework and is deployed on Google App Engine.
Here s the result on Ask BOSS:

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Call America for free

I was just browsing as usual. My friend Amogh also turns for browsing. As i was browsing he asked me that whether i had any relatives in the U.S. I said yes and asked him why.. He said that there's a website through which you can any phone in America i.e Landline or Mobile for free for fifteen minutes. So asked him why are they providing for free??. Its because they have ad's posted on their site:-)
So you just need to sign up and basically create a account and you can call any number in the U.S for free. Its really cool ain't it??

Calling America

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Add RSS gadget to your Gmail Inbox

Again back with a cool trick.How to add Feed reader gadget for your gmail inbox. Here are the steps and you will be able to add that gadget.

1) At first, enable "Add any gadget" box under the "labs" section of the "setting " page. Save

2)After saving the preferences you will find the gadgets tab in the setting page. Click on it.

3)You will find "Add a gadget by its URL" .Paste the following URL

4)http://gad.getpla.net/feed/reader.xml.

5)Once you've added the gadget, you can change the default feed by moving your mouse over the left-hand side, clicking the wrench icon, and pasting in the RSS feed URL for your preferred feed. The gadget can only be added once in Gmail, so you are limited to adding a single feed to the left sidebar, but this could prove very useful for quickly accessing important information from your inbox—or even pulling out an ultra important mail feed

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Google labs feature u must enable in gmail

Recently i was just going through the lab features for gmail. I have had a few lab features before. But I feel these two lab features is must enable if you have gmail account.  

Offline Gmail:

So even if you're offline, you can open your web browser, go to gmail.com, and get to your mail just like you're used to.

Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you're connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail's servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer's hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you're used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection. And if you're on an unreliable or slow connection (like when you're "borrowing" your neighbor's wireless), you can choose to use "flaky connection mode," which is somewhere in between: it uses the local cache as if you were disconnected, but still synchronizes your mail with the server in the background. 

Isn't this really great.It is according to me..

So how to enable:

1.Click settings,then select the labs tab.

2.Then enable the offline gmail feature and save the settings.

3.Now you will find a link on top right side of the gmail window named offline gmail.

4. Click the link and follow the instructions.

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Feed My torrents

Have you just missed the latest tv shows. I happened to find this site while searching for Prison break episode:-).This is actually far better instead of directly searching on the torrents site. You can subscribe through their feeds.It is well organized.Name any TV show you have there.:-) Their RSS Feeds are filtered, and contain no duplicates. You get the correct file, without hassle.

TV-SHOWS

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Save all images in a single page/tab at a single click

Again this is one cool Add on for the firefox. Save Images saves the images from the current tab page, from the cache, to a specified location, with either the images original file name or a file name that you specify. The size, dimensions and types of images saved may be chosen, with options if the file size is unknown or if duplicate files are found. Images may be either saved from the current tab, left or right of the current tab or from all tabs.

Save Images

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