Google Basic Boolean

The AND:

Google's Boolean default is AND; that means if you enter query words without modifiers, Google will search for all of them.

Google always assumes there is an and between any keywords. So, if you enter



Google will search for web pages containing both the word hacker and the word cracker.

The OR

Google will search for all the words. If you want to specify that either word is acceptable, you put an OR between each item.

If you would prefer to be searching for one word or another, enter OR in capital letters.


Google will search for web pages containing either the word world or the word series.

Exact Phrase

Putting quote marks around keywords will allow you to search for an exact phrase. If you enter for example:


Google will only search for web pages containing the entire phrase the sun rises in the east.

Google automatically excludes most single letters, single digits and common words such as “how,” “to” and “where.”
These exclusions allow Google to return search results quicker and Google will
always display which words were excluded just above the search results. If you want Google to include a common word, put the “+” symbol in front of it.


If you want to specify that a query item must not appear in your results, use a - (minus sign or dash).

hacker cracker -"computer security"

This will search for pages that contain both the words "hacker" and "cracker" but not the phrase "computer security"

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TwistedPixel – The Cool Visualization plugin

Are you one of those guys who like to have cool visualization depicting your musical flairs ? Winamp,Windows media Player,media monkey...whatever the player be,they today are equipped with visualizations .However if you are bored with the default visualizations,then you can try the TwistedPixel visualization plugin.Twisted pixel supports major media players today and has some of the coolest effects you have ever seen. It is highly customizable,programmable and light on resources. In short,Its a must have for any music lover !!!

Requirements

• TwistedPixel requires MCE, WMP, MediaMonkey or WinAMP to play.
• A 3D compatible Video Card.
• DirectX 8.x or greater can be downloaded from Microsoft.
• The visualization has been tested on Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000 and Windows XP -- to the best of my knowledge there has been no testing on a Windows 98 or Me; with the appropriate hardware and DirectX drivers there should be no issue with these operating systems.

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Internet Explorer acclerator for twitter

One of the main advantages of Firefox over Internet Explorer is the large number of extensions that exist for the Mozilla browser. Not only is the number of Firefox plugins to exceed that number for Internet Explorer, but also to IE add-ons tend to be fairly useless (there are a few exceptions to this rule, of course).

IE accelerators allows you to select some text and search for it, map it or send it by email or to your blog. There is another “jewel” that can make life easier for users of IE. Among them is Accelerator to Twitter, an accelerator for IE8 that allows us to quickly tweet by selecting any text. Select some text on a web page, right click and it will post the text and the URL of the page to Twitter.

Download Accelerator for Twitter

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Rip Videos from sharing sites like YouTube

Video sharing sites like youtube, video Google, metacafe, iFilm, Putfilm, break are many popular those days. Many of these sites are web based that means no download option. So you would like to download these videos other than watching them online.

There are many software for implement this even some of them are free of charge. But there are many defectives also.

• Normally these software very slow.

• Most of them are advertising based.

Not reliable. (not like paid software freeware can deliver some malicious files eg: browser hijackers )



Keepvid is web based software for downloading videos form many video sharing sites it is not limited to 3, 4 sites keepvid is going more beyond from that. But most people thought it just stand only for Youtube. What keepvid does is searching pages for videos so it is not limited to youtube. You can enter any web page that has embedded video.

For the demonstration purpose I’m going to show you about downloading metacafe video. But as I said this is not limited to metacafe or even youtube. You can just try any site that has online video players.

• First you need to copy the url of any metacafe video.

(Ex: "http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2318765/crazy_plane_ride/" )

• Open Keepvid.com

• Paste the URL in the url bar in the opening page

• Click download

• This will bring you video download links, some of these videos are available high quality and low quality formats. You choose high quality if available.
  

If you use download manager then you can download these video through it. NO more slow downloads.

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Watch Videos right in Gmail chat

No one else thought about this. But how many times you share YouTube links with your friends while chatting. One of the problem is you will go to a different tab or window and you might forget the chat or you might feel too lazy to go to the link.

All this problems been fix by simple hack. Now you can see a preview of the Video in Gmail chat. Do I need to say more? Enjoy the new simple but effective feature and another reason why you should chat in Gmail.

Via [Gmailblog]

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The Google Operating System

The Google Operating System. Many of us wish Google would make one so they can beat Microsoft at their own game. Sadly, there is no leaked news to report. However, an analysis of why Google should build an operating system is in order.

Microsoft entered into the search engine game late, but their vast wealth and resources may be able to make up for it. Microsoft realized that they won't make billions from their Operating System forever, so they are trying to get their hands dirty in many other projects and investments.

Google, a younger company that has astonished everybody from the seasoned Wall Street Veteran to the most novice of computer users, has most of it's eggs in one basket. It has been reported that approximately 99% of Google's revenue is through AdWords, their Pay Per Click text advertising service. While the majority of people use Google today, it doesn't mean the majority will use it tomorrow. Google's financial success is due in part to the fact that more people use Google than any other search engine. However, if that changes, it doesn't seem like Google has any backups yet.

Microsoft has realized that they wont be selling there new operating systems through CD's in the future. They have most likely realized that the next big thing in operating systems would basically be an extremely secure online type operating system (whenever they make it so that all new computers always have an internet connection). Thus, Microsoft has invested heavily in many industries. Live.com, Xbox, Zune, and the MSN Network has shown that Microsoft has a long term strategy and desktop operating systems may not have a place in this strategy.

Google has been investing in various other medias as well. However, because Google itself says that Microsoft is one of it's biggest competitor's, it's vital that Google take on Microsoft in Microsoft's home territory.

Microsoft came in to the search engine world, flexing financial muscle, yet have not even come close to toppling Google. It is only right that Google, using it's own financial muscle, comes into the Operating System world.

Now by Operating System, I mean something different than what most of you are thinking. For Google to win Microsoft, it would have to develop such an amazing "Operating System" that it would redefine the words "Operating System." It would have to make Windows seem like an ancient and primitive system.

Via[Ezine Articles]

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New Google Gadgets for Linux 0.10.4

Google Gadgets for Linux provides a platform for running desktop gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. It's compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle. Following Linux norms, this project is open-sourced under the Apache License.

An important area where Google Desktop for Linux is different from its siblings on other operating systems is support for gadgets. Now, the Linux version of Google Gadgets will extend the gadgets platform to Linux users. By enabling cross-platform gadgets, a large library of existing gadgets are immediately available to Linux users. In addition, gadget developers will benefit from a much larger potential user base without having to learn a new API.

There's two main components to the application: one is a common gadget library responsible for running and presenting a gadget, and the other is a host program that allows the user to choose gadgets and run them on the desktop. Currently we have hosts written for GTK+ and QT, with the GTK+ host offering a sidebar similar to that of Google Desktop for Windows.

Download Google Gadgets for Ubuntu

Follow the Open Source Initiative here

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Make Your Own Cartoons Online

Do you enjoy watching cartoons and always wanted to make your own?
So here's something that you will surely like, Aniboom
You can watch great videos of cartoons, make your own cartoons, make some great animated stuffs and all the things related to animation.
It allows you to do everything which can be done with animation. So enjoy your stay at Aniboom

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Google Shared Storage

In 2007 Google added an option to pay for additional storage for Gmail and Picasa Web. The prices have changed since then: for $20/year you get 10 GB instead of 6 GB, for $75/year you get 40 GB from 25 GB, for $250/year you get 150 GB instead of 100 GB and $500/year is the price for 400 GB, up from 250 GB.

Google's offer doesn't look very good if you compare it with the storage offered by Yahoo Mail and Flickr. Yahoo Mail promises to offer "unlimited storage" if you don't abuse the system. "The purpose of unlimited mail isn't to provide an online storage warehouse. Usage that suggests this approach gets flagged by our anti-abuse measures."



Flickr is less generous: you can only upload 100 MB of photos each month if you have a free account. Picasa Web Albums offers 1 GB of storage for free, but a Flickr Pro account costs $25/year and you get "unlimited storage".

Google's offer would make sense if you could use the storage in a service like GDrive, but uploading photos and storing more attachments in Gmail is not enough. There's no defined limit for uploading videos at Google Video, but you need to pay if you want more than 1 GB of storage at Picasa Web Albums.

Google offers a way to purchase more storage space to use with some of its products (currently Gmail and Picasa Web Albums). This extra storage acts as overflow when you run out of free storage space in either product. If you've filled your free storage (5 7.2 GB and counting for Gmail or 1 GB for Picasa Web Albums), you'll automatically use your purchased space to store more pictures and messages up to your new storage limit.

Your shared storage space will be used by whatever product needs it. Picasa's free storage is for photos only, and Gmail's is just for Gmail messages, but the shared storage can be all photos, all messages, or a mix of both. You can't set aside shared storage space for one product - it will be used by any product that's over its free storage quota on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Share Personal Information with Your Gmail Contacts

Google Profiles has a new feature that lets you share information about yourself with your contacts. "This information is not public.You control who sees it. Once you've entered your contact information here, you can share it with your friends and family, so they always have the most up-to-date information."

You can add your email addresses, phone numbers, and home address, and allow all your contacts or specific contact groups, like Friends or Family, to see this information on your profile. For some reason, Google doesn't prefill some of the fields like the email address or your Google Talk ID and you can't share the data with contacts that are not part of a group.




It's not clear if the shared data will be used in Gmail, but Microsoft offers a similar feature called Windows Live People that's integrated with Hotmail. "Windows Live People allows real-time updates to contact's information. Suppose one of the user's contacts just moved and has a new home address. When that contact enters their new information in Windows Live People, the user's contact list across Windows Live services is automatically updated in real time."

{ via Blogoscoped Forum }

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Best free Online data storing websites

If you upload your data on Internet to share it with others have a look at this post first. Below is the list of best free online file storing websites for you. I have ranked these websites according to their storing capacity :

MediaFire : Get unlimited data storage space.



Adrive : It gives 50Gb of free online storage and backup.



Windows Live SkyDrive : Get 25 GB of free storage on Windows Live. It requires a Windows Live ID



Megashares : Single session upload limit is 10GB (10,000 Megabytes!)





OrbitFiles : Get 6Gb of free space.



4Shared : With 4Shared you get upto 5Gb of space to upload, access, share your music, video, photos.



Esnips : It is a social content-sharing site, where you can publish and share any media type. You have practically unlimited flexibility in choosing what you want to share, and with whom, in 5GB of free space. The maximum file size is 10Mb and bandwidth per month is 1Gb.



MyVirtualDisk : It gives 5Gb of data storing capacity but this service is available only to Permission Research members. Click here to learn more about Permission Research.



DivShare : Its free to signup and you will get 5Gb of space and 10Gb download per month.

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75,000 drivers for Windows 2000, XP and Vista

75,000 drivers for Windows 2000, XP and Vista

no need to spend hours on-line browsing for drivers. signing up for driver sites that do not let you download you a single file unless you pay them through your nose.
Just pop the Univers


al Driver CD in and Windows will automatically search the comprehensive drivers. This CD, (Iso format) contains software drivers for over 70,000 hardware components from brands such as Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM, Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, as well as hardware component manufacturers Intel, 3Com, VIA, nVidia, ATI, SoundMax, and many more…

The CD is suitable for:
- IT, Network and Support Managers
- Organizations with multiple Windows platforms and system configurations
- Corporations, Government Departments, Training Organizations, Colleges and Universities
- PC Assemblers/Manufacturers
- Computer Technicians/Repairers
- Software Developers/Beta Testers
- PC Retailers
- PC Rentals
All you have to do is

1. Download .rar files from rapid share (Sorry I cannot afford the web space and bandwidth to host this CD)
2. Extract the .iso file using WinRAR or similar utility.
3. Burn that .iso image to a disk using the CD Burning Utility like Nero etc.

http://rapidshare.com/files/73261044/Uni_Drivers_Wrestle-Zone.net.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/73261036/Uni_Drivers_Wrestle-Zone.net.part2.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/73261005/Uni_Drivers_Wrestle-Zone.net.part3.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/73261031/Uni_Drivers_Wrestle-Zone.net.part4.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/73261038/Uni_Drivers_Wrestle-Zone.net.part5.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/73261053/Uni_Drivers_Wrestle-Zone.net.part6.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/73260988/Uni_Drivers_Wrestle-Zone.net.part7.rar

Download above links one by one and burn the .iso image to a CD/DVD and enjoy!
If you pop this cd in a freshly formatted computer with no drivers installed, This will find all your sound, video, lan, broadband.. etc drivers. You will not have to find them online.
PS: For Users who have problem with rapidshare here is a nice mirror…

DVD Edition
http://www.filefactory.com/file/dbbbc7/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/ecfcd6/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/8f03c5/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/7cc710/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/6e2411/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/aaa2f0/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/1c994b/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a4cd42/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/3bd816/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/98adb0/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/fba75f/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a28b39/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/98c924/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/3e554d/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/99dd35/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/8f0629/
1.5 GB
CD Edition
http://www.filefactory.com/file/a635ba/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/2c9700/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/abd6dc/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/662494/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/f26f15/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/fc9454/
525 MB

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nlite: Development tool for Windows

nLite 1.4.9.1



It's a freeware but useful utility.

Remove Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and more

nLite is a GUI for permanent Windows component removal by your choice.

After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines.

With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install doesn't include, or even contain on cd, unwanted components.

Mainly, it's a little bit of a slipstreamer, customizer, reducer and iso creator all in one package.



Quick overview :

1. Slipstream - After you extract it to any folder and ran it, you can browse and point to folder on hard drive which contains your Windows installation.
If you pointed to right folder with i386 in it and Windows id files, nLite will detect if you have already slipstreamed SP1 or SP2, and if not it will change Browse button to Slipstream, when pressed it asks for Service Pack installation file (or update.exe if you extracted it). Then it Slipstreams it passively. Or you can configure your existing version without slipstreaming.

2. Customize/Reduce - Choose which components to remove from your Windows installation permanently. It's version independent, it's possible because I'm not using filelists, well, allmost. There is only an inf-filelist which then gets parsed for used files, so ~95% of file names are automatically generated from your own inf's. The other 5% are manually added. Most likely nLite will work with future versions of Windows XP without any problem.

3. Advanced Options - Make sure to keep Data directory with nLite and all the files in it unrenamed. Added automatic hacking of syssetup.dll for OOBE disabling (if you choose to remove it, this will not crack Activation). SFC is entirely disabled too simply by copying hacked dll from Data and adjusting registry. Many options to add in the future, priority so far was on reduction issues.

4. Make ISO - This section is using external file datacdimage.exe which I believe don't need introducing. When reduction process finishes you can copy additional files to installation directory and then press Make ISO, it will ask you for desired ISO name and location.

Here are some key features of "nLite":
· Service Pack Integration
· Component Removal
· Unattended Setup
· Driver Integration
· Hotfixes Integration
· Tweaks
· Patches
· Bootable ISO creation

Requirements:

· You need .NET Framework 1.1 in order to run it.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fix: Runtime error on browse
· Fix: Temp folder change applied late

Enjoi!! love

Peace!!!!!!! love


Download:

http://nlite.tcshosting.net/nlite/nLite-1.4.9.1.installer.exe

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Most popular Firefox Add-ons

The List of Most Popular Firefox Add-Ons





WOT 20081111

It has an odd name but it can alert you before you visit a harmful website. It is great if you are a web surfer that occasionally encounters misleading websites.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3456

PDFit 1.12

Ever wanted to be able to download a webpage in PDF format so that you can watch it on your Sony Reader or send it to some friends. PDFit will also convert a whole page into an image if you like.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7528

Magic's Video - Downloader 2.2.280608

This plugin allows Youtube videos as well as video from other video websites to be downloaded in .flv format. To watch these download VLC a video player for all types of formats.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6033

Facebook Video 2.1.2

Facebook Video allows a user to download and convert videos on Facebook. Choose any video you like and save it on your hard drive.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9614

Media Converter 1.0.1

"Download and convert online videos directly from your browser without the need for special software. This is a video downloader and video converter in one simple extension."
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8189

Gspace 0.5.97

This addon allows Gmail to be used as a storage device. It allows files to be uploaded to a Gmail account. "This extension allows you to use your Gmail Space (4.1 GB and growing) for file storage. It acts as an online drive, so you can upload files from your hard drive and access them from every Internet capable system. "
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1593

Fire.fm 1.1.3

"Winner of the Extend Firefox 3 contest, Fire.fm is your direct access to the extensive music library on Last.fm. Listen to music related to your favorite artist, and discover new artists and music in the process. Listen to your friends' favorite music. Find Last.fm users with musical taste similar to your own. Quickly access your favorite stations by just typing a few letters into the location bar. This is the ultimate add-on for the music junkie."
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7684

SwitchProxy Tool 1.4.1

"SwitchProxy lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations
quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your
computer from prying eyes."
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/125

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Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Google.com

Add permanent keyboard shortcuts to Google.com .If you're a keyboard shortcut junkie in Google Reader, Gmail and Google Docs you might have noticed Google.com, the mother of all Google services, is a bit lacking in the keyboard shortcuts department. There is currently an official Google-sanctioned experimental keyboard shortcuts program you can opt into it.

If both of these things are holding you back from keyboard shortcut dominance, worth downloading is Janakan Arulkumarasan's Google Keyboard Shortcuts extension for Firefox. When installed you can simply use your arrow keys to sift through the results, which get highlighted in a lovely pallid yellow. There are two ways to open up the result links: you can either hit enter, which opens the link in a new window, or enter plus control which opens it up in a new tab. The extension trumps Google's own keyboard shortcuts program in this regard.
As with many of the other neat extensions we've blogged about recently, Google Keyboard Shortcuts is experimental, which means you have to be registered with Mozilla's add-ons site to download it.

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BlahblahFfish:Translates text from english to any language and back again.

Blahblahfish first takes the text in english,translates it to another language and then taranslates it back to english this looks very funny.

I translated the text "You are an incredibly beautiful woman.Would you join me for a drink?"
see how it looks in Japanese "It is the very beautiful woman. Am I for the beverage connected?"
in Portuguese "You incredibly is a pretty woman. You it would join me for a drink?" in Italian
"You are one incredibly beautiful woman. You would join for one drink? "

Via[Downloadsquad]

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Avi files Fixer DivFix++

We see that many of the avi files getting corrupted this is useually noticed during playback.Problems like freezing or distorted images occur due to bad frames and another big problem with this corrupt files is that we cannot play the movie from any position this happens because of bad index file.Which would be created during the creation of video file and the problem cannot be fixed.

DivFix++ is a portable Open Source avi fixer for Windows, Linux and Macintosh computers. It comes with a graphical user interface and a command line version. The graphical user interface is probably the most comfortable. Videos can be dragged and dropped into the interface or added by using the file browser. A click on the check errors button will scan the video files in the queue and display information if errors have been encountered.

A few settings are necessary before videos can be fixed. The first is to set a path for the fixed video files. A few additional settings are optional. Bad parts are cut out by default which could result in skips during playback. Probably still the better solution than a video that is stopping and not continuing afterwards. Errors can be written to a log file for further analysis but they will also be displayed in the log window.

avi fixer

A click on Fix will try to fix the video files in the list. Other possibilities are to strip or rebuild the index of selected video files.


Divx[Lifehacker]

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Top 10 Internet & Mobile Sites: Google, Yahoo Lead in 2008

Google, Yahoo and MSN/Windows Live were the most popular websites in 2008; Yahoo Mail, Google Search and Gmail were the top mobile websites; and the Motorola RAZR V3 series was the most popular cell-phone handset, according to The Nielsen Company, which released its annual “Top 10″ internet and mobile website rankings for the year.


Top 10 Web-Sites in U.S

Top 10 Web-sites acessed on Mobile Phones

Via[Marketing charts]

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Silver 3.55:File encryption tool

Silver Key 3.55 File encryption tool

Encrypts files and produces self-extracting executable, which can be sent safely over the Internet. No crypto software needs to be installed on the receiving side. Silver Key supports Windows drag-and-drop and can compress data before encryption. An integrated file shredder included.

Some of its features are:

License: Shareware Price: $29.95 (Free trial) O/S: Win (All) File size: 4480 kb Author: INV Softworks Last update: 12/30/2008

Click here to download

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Cherple enables instant messaging through SMS

Cherple a free service enables any one with internet connection across the globe carry on a two way text conversation with any U.S cell phone .

Cherple is powered by Globaltel Media.A company bridging the gap between the gap between the Internet and mobile wireless cellular phones through SMS(text) messages.

Developers of Cherple:

• Robert Sanchez
  
• Michael T. Simms
  
• Julia A. Simms, APR
  
• Bonnie Vieira
  

For more assistance visit the site

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Gmail Unread Message count in Favicon

There is a user script for gmail which enbles users to see the unread messeages on gmail favicon.

Allows you to easily see how many unread messages you have without needing to switch back to Gmail.As the number of unread mesages changes,the favicon in your Firefox tab or URL bar will change to show the number of unread messages you have.


Via[lifehacker]

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