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Job Search OnChat

2009-03-13T00:07:00.000-07:00

Naukri Job Portal releasing JOBS ONCHAT

You can Search and Apply to jobs directly while chatting on Gtalk, without having to visit the Naukri.com website
You can hunt jobs at Naukri.com even on slow internet connections
You can access the latest openings, even if the site is blocked at your workplace

3 Steps to Starting NaukriOnChat

Login to Gtalk or Gmail Chat.
Add JOBS@CHAT.NAUKRI.COM to you are friend list.
Now you just search jobs on chat.

Various commands with the help of which you can search and even apply to jobs using Gtalk

js » stands for job search, use it to search for jobs. e.g. js project manager delhi 3 yrs, js sales manager Mumbai 5 yrs.
next » to view more jobs from your search once you see 3 jobs as search result
apply » to apply to any job.e.g. apply ab0c1 abcNaukri...

You can apply to the most suitable job/s by just typing the below command apply jobID Naukri Username, JobID is mentioned at the end of each job in search result, Username is your naukri account with which you login to naukri.

You can’t do on NaukriOnChat

You cannot upload your resume.
You cannot modify your naukri profile.
you cannot apply from your Gtalk by putting someone else's Naukri Username.

Via NaukriOnChat , Help & FAQs , Demo

Google in Twitter

2009-02-26T09:52:00.001-08:00

Google is now on Twitter. Least massage in Twitter…. Thanks to everyone for your warm Twitter welcome - we're excited to be here. By twitter.com/google

Google years to start using their Google account in Twitter, which is located at

Twitter.com/Google

1st Status

Current Status

Their first post, a Twoogle if you will, was a binary message

Some one say is “ i’m F E E L I N G L U C K Y ”

Some one called Google + Twitter = Twoogling?

With in 17 hours 16,266 followers…amazing Hit...but right now i can't count it....

Twitter Search Engine

Explore the world of the Internet GBUS

2009-02-05T00:49:00.001-08:00

Google India has worked to increase Internet usage in our country of a billion people via various products. Google announced the launch of the Internet Bus Project – a mobile bus designed to showcase the benefits of the Internet to the people across the cities of Tamil Nadu. The bus was flagged from Chennai today and will cover most cities in the state of Tamil Nadu over the next six weeks.

Google welcome you to visit the Internet Bus Project website at http://www.google.co.in/internetbus to see when the bus will visit your city, get regular updates, and view photos and videos as we travel around Tamil Nadu. The Internet Bus Project is an attempt to educate people about what the Internet is, and how it may be beneficial to their lives, by taking the Internet experience to them through a customized Internet-enabled bus, which will travel to several towns and cities across India.Tamil Nadu proud to be a first Internet Bus Started, from Chennai.

Follow our route

03 Feb Chennai
05 Feb Vellore
06 Feb Krishnagiri
07 Feb Salem
11 Feb Erode
12 Feb Tiruppur
14 Feb Coimbatore

18 Feb Dindigul
19 Feb Madurai
23 Feb Tirunelveli
25 Feb Nagercoil
27 Feb Tuticorin
02 Mar Pudukkottai
03 Mar Tiruchirappalli

06 Mar Thanjavur
08 Mar Kumbakonam
10 Mar Neyveli
12 Mar Cuddalore
13 Mar Tiruvannamalai

Photos and Videos from the places GBUS have visited, and join our Orkut Community.

Credit: via Video India Google

Face to Face video chat

2008-07-10T11:45:00.000-07:00

ooVoo is the next evolution in online communication — a remarkably easy way to have a face-to-face video chat with friends, family or colleagues, no matter where they are in the world. ooVoo Video Chat is remarkably easy to use: easy to download, easy to install- it's FREE!

ooVoo...now you see!

First there was email. Then there was IM. Then the Internet phone. Although each of these technologies promised faster, better communication, the team at ooVoo has never been satisfied. The way we see it, online communication has always lacked human expression. Typing to someone online is not the same as watching a heartfelt smile. :-)

ooVoo adds the human experience into communicating online.

» Connect
Whether separated by miles, generations or oceans, ooVoo brings people together.

» Collaborate
Use your emotions, not emoticons, and express yourself.

» Communicate
We want to hear from you! Tell us what you like, what you don't like, or send us your ideas for making ooVoo better.

(Credit: oovoo)

Blogging by email - posterous

2008-07-09T12:24:00.000-07:00

Posterous is dead simple to use and does the micro blogging thing very well

* What happens when it's so easy to post an mp3, you want to do it every time you fall in love with a song?
* What happens when it's so easy to post photos from your iPhone, people see what you're up to, live throughout the day?

* What happens when anytime you email your friend a link to a news article, you ‘cc’ your blog?
* And what happens when you can blog photos of your vacation, *while you're still on vacation*?

Posterous' setup process takes minimalism to the extreme - you don't even have to register... Registration is dead simple as well - just enter your email address and a password.

The ease of posting to it is going to make it very attractive to even novice users.

Posterous would also work very well for those who want to send quick updates from their mobile devices. There is, after all, no need to install any apps - simply send an email and be done.

...posterous might just be different and simple enough to set itself apart from the rest.

(Credit: Posterous)

Presentation Lifecycle-- SlideRocket

2008-07-08T07:59:00.000-07:00

SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.

SlideRocket is a rich internet application that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle. It integrates authoring, asset management, delivery and analytics tools into a single hosted environment that allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, intelligently manage your assets, securely share your slides, and measure the results.

Don't like to read? Watch SlideRocket demo videos here.

CREATE
AUTHORING TOOLS – Quickly create stunning presentations with easy to use flexible authoring tools.

PowerPoint IMPORT/EXPORT – Import and export your presentations to and from PowerPoint 2003 and 2007.

MANAGE
LIBRARY – Store and access all your assets and slides in one place. Slides, images, video, audio and animations at your fingertips.
TAGGING – Tag your data and define your storage system as you go.

DELIVER
OFFLINE CLIENT – Synchronize your presentations for offline presenting. Download here.

INVITE – Invite only the people you want to see your presentations and prevent them from redistributing or printing your slides.
SEND – Easily publish your presentation with a unique URL and send via email or IM. No more hefty files to attach or upload.

(Credit: SlideRocket)

e-Communication service designed for everyone

2008-07-08T01:28:00.000-07:00

The Act-On service is an on-demand e-communication service designed for everyone in your enterprise. Use Act-On to manage your e-marketing campaigns as well as your interactive two-way dialogs via e-mail.

Whether you're a large company collaborating with your channel partners to run joint promotions, or a smaller business looking for a do-it-yourself email and web marketing service.

Act-On Software combines Salesforce.com's leads database with WebEx's large-scale conferencing to add invitation and follow-up services and pull data between the two. For example, Act-On runs as a tab within Salesfoce, WebEx, and Microsoft applications, and can show Salesforce data after a WebEx conference. Act-on will manage the invitation to promote a webinar, track attendance, and offer follow-up analysis on a given WebEx webinar.

Features Overview

Rich Email Creation
Web Forms Creation
List Management
Email Delivery
Real-Time Activity Tracking, Reporting & Analysis

(Credit: Act-On , Webware)

Organized & Integrated all IM one place

2008-07-07T10:51:00.000-07:00

Imagine your personal communications cockpit, where every tool you need to communicate and express yourself is organized and integrated together in one place online - all your email accounts, all your IM accounts, video chat, video mail, SMS and more, working together to give you one seamless experience.

Orgoo is currently in private beta and will be launching to the public soon.

sign up

(Credit: Orgoo)

Most cutest URL shortening service

2008-07-01T07:08:00.000-07:00

moourl:web's cutest URL shortening service. If you have a really loooong URL, just paste it in the text field below, and we'll milk it, creating a moourl for you. It lasts forever, It's automatically copied to your clipboard, and It's really cute.

SnipURL:SnipURL is a URL shortening service with a social twist. You can sign up for an account which lets you edit URLs, subscribe to the RSS feeds of your latest Snips, password protect them, and snip multiple URLs at once.

Vital Stats
* 5,721,836 snippings [13,997 today]
* 20,515,766,861 clicks [194,625,448 today]
* 1,188,577 users [67,152 registered]

Rurl is a URL shortening service ideal for mobile use, since the page is very phone-friendly, and the URL itself is really short (about 19 characters long). The short URL is also good for Twitter, because of its character count limit.

Metamark Shorten Service

Metamark also prides itself on providing really short URLs (about 20 characters long), but like SnipURL, Metamark lets you add an optional nickname to a link. There's also a "secret" option to add a secret word after the URL if you don't want people to guess the link. You can sign up for an account if you wish to retrieve the statistics associated with your link.

Tweetl: With the popularity of Twitter, a service like Tweetl was bound to come along. Its slogan is "Little Links Built for Twitter" and the links are indeed sublimely short (about 17 characters long), which is good for fitting within Twitter's 140 character count limit. You can get stats of any Tweetl link without signing up just by entering the site ID after s.tweetl.com

LiquidPlanner calculates project management estimates

2008-06-26T14:36:00.000-07:00

LiquidPlanner's collaborative project management software doesn't gauge your project's progress by how on-target you are; it measures its deficiencies (coverage). LiquidPlanner can calculate schedules and predict using mathematical probability when a project is likely to get done. It also cooks up a range of best and worst case scenarios to project the soonest you'll conclude assuming everything goes right, and how long you'll struggle if everything goes wrong.

Ranged estimation creates accurate timelines.

Probabilistic scheduling helps prevent project-killing delays.
Social project networking allows seamless collaboration.
Wiki-like commenting keeps project dialogue open.
Web-based, hosted software is always on and easy to use.

Collaborate and Review images and videos with own time

2008-06-25T14:14:00.000-07:00

Cozimo you can collaborate and review images and videos — together in real-time or on your own time. Get feedback from clients and colleagues instantly. Cozimo is the faster, better, simpler way to work. It shares a few similarities with FeedbackFX with much more attention on real-time collaboration of rich media documents.
Each member in a work group is assigned a layer where they draw and scribble comments, all of which are saved in the session even as it's synchronously presented to the group. Cozimo can also be used asynchronously through a collaboration widget that can be pasted onto any image on any Web site.

* Draw and annotate onto images, videos, PDFs from any web browser, anytime, anywhere.

* Get to ‘yes’ faster with live online interactive meetings, review and collaboration sessions.

* Stay organized with a complete, easy-to-find record of all project-related communications.

* Compete more effectively by supporting your clients with the latest design technology.

1.Communicate Directly on Images
2.Synchronized Video Collaboration
3.Online Presentations and Reviews
4.Display and Collaborate on Multi-page PDFs... Sign Up

(Credit:Cozimo , webware)

Twitter Search Engine in realtime ? yes Summize

2008-06-23T00:00:00.000-07:00

Summize's mission is to search & discover the topics and attitudes expressed within online conversations. Our home page currently features realtime conversations on Twitter. Also check out Summize Labs for prototypes that harness conversations within blogs and reviews. Additional sources of online conversations are coming soon!

Twitter is a fascinating new source of realtime recommendations, opinions, and buzz. We index Twitter's public timeline in realtime, thread together associated tweets, and give you the search tools to dig in. Check back often as we continue to explore Twitter-based summization.

Craft your queries using our many advanced search operators. You can also use the advanced search page to easily incorporate search operators in your queries.

(Credit:Summize )

Technoratimedia - AD network to enable blog and social media publishers

2008-06-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

If you're looking to maximize your online advertising revenues, Technoratimedia can help. With our deep agency and client relationships, Technoratimedia can deliver targeted campaigns from top brands at high CPMs. Because Technorati has the most comprehensive index on the blogosphere, indexing more than 1.5 million posts daily, Technorati not only able to bring you premium advertising campaigns, Technorati able to bring you the ones most relevant to your content and audience.

Technorati collects, organizes, highlights, and
distributes the online global conversation.

As the leading blog search engine and destination designed to showcase and bring consumers to blog content, Technorati's mission is to help bloggers succeed. Technorati designed a network to enable blog and social media publishers at every level to maximize online advertising revenues.

Technorati.com surfaces the best of the online global conversation, allowing millions of consumers to navigate, filter and evaluate the top and emerging topics across news, entertainment, technology, sports, politics, business and lifestyle – and also serves as the central point for essential services and data for bloggers.

The Technorati Network is a collection of blogs and social media sites that provide community and services to bloggers and bring the most relevant content to millions of consumers via vertical content channels, and the most influential blogs and social media sites within those verticals. Apply For Bloggers & Publishers

(Credit:Technoratimedia )

Allow your websites to speak

2008-06-21T20:00:00.000-07:00

Dixerit has launched! The new generation of speech-enabled websites is here. Your users will benefit from a new level of service quality, speed and features: the best voices in the market, the fastest response out there, new accesibility options and speech-enabling without downloads and installations. Dixerit creates a high-quality audio version of your web content in real-time. Our service offers your visitors an alternative way to access public and corporate information, listening to it online on their PC, on their mobile device while on the move or offline on an mp3 player.

As a server-based service Dixerit does not need a big implementation project. A single link in your pages is all you need to integrate it easily into any website. The end user only needs an Internet enabled device and speakers or headphones: no download or installation is required.

You can rest assured that your web content and service offering will be even more helpful for a wider audience, complementing your best accesibility efforts.The basic Dixerit speech service enables your site in a simple way: just add a link and start listening.Dixerit Plus is an advanced accesibility suite that provides additional features on top of the audio generation, such as magnification and color contrast tools.

* Inmediate response time
* Super fast set-up time
* The highest quality voices in every language
* A wide selection of languages and voices
* Ease of launch: no redesign or development needed
* Outsourced service, no investment needed
* Real time conversion, no multimedia content management
* Every web technology is supported
* Online site magnification
* Colour contrast tools
* PDF conversion
* Automatic language recognition
* Ease of use
* No plug-ins or downloads needed
* No special system or connectivity requirements needed

(Credit:Dixerit)

Becoma a MindMeister

2008-06-20T20:00:00.000-07:00

MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions.

Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere.

In brainstorming mode, fellow MindMeisters from around the world (or just in different rooms) can simultaneously work on the same mind map - and see each other's changes as they happen. Using integrated Skype calls, they can throw around new ideas and put them down on 'paper' at the same time.

MindMeister is a clear mind mapper if you're fond of the traditional view. It supports attachments and notes on each node so you can annotate your thought bubbles as you go. It has a useful wiki-like revision view, and it will color-code your collaborators' changes in the main map. I found it both intuitive to use and capable. It's the most well-rounded Web-based mind mapper in this roundup.

Me.dium - Graphically connects users with their friends

2008-06-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

Me.dium is a social browsing software company offering a browser extension that allows people to surf with friends for the first time. By revealing this new Social Exploration Environment TM (SEE), Me.dium graphically connects users with their friends and others enabling users to interact online, similarly to how one interacts with people in the real world.

In June of 2007, Me.dium was recognized by CNET's Webware100 as one of the top 10 community products on the Internet.

Me.dium is compatible with a range of browsers in addition to Microsoft Internet Explorer, including Firefox, Flock, and The Songbird Media Player.

For the first time, Me.dium is showing you where others are gathering in real time.Based on where you are, the Me.dium engine will recommend related sites and show you who is using them. Reach out, chat with others or dive deeper down a rabbit hole.

Me.dium allows you to browse with your friends and follow where they are going. As you both move from page to page you can finally chat about what you're seeing while actually seeing it.

me.dium creates a personalized map of the Internet based on where you are. As you surf, your map updates with new recommendations.

(Credit:Medinm , Webware)

Drag pictures between photo and social sites

2008-06-19T20:00:00.000-07:00

Oosah is an solid Flash-based media manager that lets you create little slideshows and share pictures with your friends.It competes with some pretty good apps, like Flektor, Slide, and Splashcast, though, and isn't likely to rocket to superstardom as just another media destination site.Oosah lets you transfer media and entire folders between your online accounts.

It lets you drag images between your PC and online accounts, like Flickr and Facebook, or even directly between your online accounts, avoiding your PC and your Oosah storage allotment. That's not just new and cool, it's very useful. I plan to use this feature to drag images between my private Picasa Web and public Flickr profiles when needed, in fact, and ignore the whole cutesy slide-show feature.

The first services supported by this feature will be Picasa, Flickr, and Facebook. MySpace is coming soon,... service will also let you drag videos to YouTube. I strongly doubt you'll be able to drag vids off YouTube to other services.

If you tag images in any of the services, the tags go with the media when they're dragged to other services. User comments, however, don't make the transition. You can also import images from a Web page just by providing the URL. The service then gathers up the images for you.

(Credit: Oosah)

RSS feeds into personal voice as mp3

2008-06-19T00:00:00.000-07:00

Dixero - Listen your interest anytime, anywhere Import your favorite RSS feeds, organize in channels and vocalize with different voices, and download as a podcast on your device

Import your feeds - Open your account and import OPML files directly or import your feeds (in english language) from your reader

Set them into channels - Create your own channels based on your topics, you can easily order posts according to you interests and create different podcasts

Choose your voice - Match each channel with a personal voice reading of your topics

Download the mp3 - Synchronize your account with your reader and download the files into your favorite portable device .. Sign Up

Dixero's player lets you skip between blog posts as audio files. The actual player is a little less extensible, offering a simple play/pause button and the option to skip back and forth between posts. You can also grab the RSS feed and subscribe to the feeds as a podcast in your favorite feed catcher. What it's missing is a way to embed it on other sites or swap between the voices--something that's left to the whim of the creator.

(Credit:Dixero)

Profy New easy blogging arena

2008-06-18T17:37:00.000-07:00

Profy, a new player in the blogging arena, provides users with a one-stop web platform for all things blogging. The Profy solution provides a single point of comprehensive access to the full range of activities involved in blogging,from reading and sharing news to publishing posts and networking with other bloggers and readers. Profy's vision is to provide bloggers with all the creative tools they could possibly want - in one place.

Profy blogging platform demo from Svetlana Gladkova on Vimeo.

The Profy platform has been in development since September 2006 and currently is in the private alpha testing stage. Bloggers interested in joining the testing program can request an invitation at Getinvite

(Credit:Profy)

Get Voice mails as Real Time text

2008-06-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

VoiceCloud is the premier provider of true, next-generation, real-time voice-to-text transcription services.

VoiceCloud's cost-effective solution is based on patented streaming audio technology and offers users anytime, anywhere, instantaneous audio and voice transcription.

* Unlimited Voicemail Storage
* Real-Time Transcription
* "Do Not Transcribe" Feature
* Support for all Major Carriers
* Intuitive User Interface -Best on the Web
* Keyword Search your Voicemail

(Credit:VoiceCloud)

Unique Social Networking Search (SNS)

2008-06-16T17:00:00.000-07:00

The world is social, the web is social, your site is social, do you have a social search?
Originally the internet was pages created by people – users were searching for the pages. Today users are searching for the social entities that created the pages and the best means of engaging them.

Sightix is the next step in the evolution of search, supplying the user with relevant, focused search results based on the user’s friends and relationships (Social Graph).

Sightix is providing a unique search service specifically to Social Networking Sites (SNS) which filter search results through the user’s social graph. As such, each user’s who search will receive different, individually personalized and relevant results relating to the social entity that they are looking for.

Who is it for?
Any web2.0 site - Social Networks, Communities, Forums, Blogs, Social Platforms or any other kind of social site.

You can integrate Sightix Search in just couple of minutes.
You will need to fill some contact details and copy a simple HTML code in order to integrate it in your site. To begin the integration process start here.

(Credit:Sightix)

Mead mapper Designed for students

2008-06-15T17:08:00.000-07:00

MeadMap is a mind mapper designed for students, and probably the best of these apps for people who think in outlines. It creates networks left-to-right, not from the center out (in Rafe terminology, the sun-and-planets view). It's fast and easy to use. It also allows real-time collaboration and supports live chat with collaborators, which is very useful.

Online Collaborative Mead Map Note taking made easy.

Get all the key points down and easily reformat and organize. Save time by working and collaborating with people you trust.It’s a thankless job, but somebody has to do it so why not let Mead Map help you when you’re planning the next big event. Monitor progress while reducing the number of group meetings Keep everything in one place. Make sure everyone is on the same page. Delegate tasks and track progress

Save Time. Work Smarter.

(Credit:Mead Map)

People can structured bits of Digital Information

2008-06-14T17:00:00.000-07:00

Spinscape, an application people can use to structure the countless bits of digital information we are faced with daily.

What does this mean? Well, with Spinscape you can brainstorm, collaborate, tag, link, and navigate through information more quickly and easily than ever before.

Spinscape is currently invite only. You can play the Twitter game to get an invite code.
(details at spinscape.com/blog) Otherwise, you'll have to wait until June when Spinscape is unveiled to the public.

This is an app that gives great demo. It looks great and it's got a lot of capability, but I found if you're using it to capture your own ideas, or maybe map out the ideas that pop up in a meeting, the interface slows you down, at least at first. On the other hand, if you want to annotate a map with notes, links, and pictures, and you have the time and gumption to create the map in the first place, Spinscape will handle it. It also does some useful automatic lookup in Wikipedia and other sources to fill out nodes if you're gathering data and ideas on a topic.

(Credit:Spinscape, Webware)

Picnik teams up with Photobox, QOOP

2008-06-13T17:13:00.000-07:00

Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.It's fast, easy, and fun.

Picnik users will be able to print their shots using QOOP which lets you print your photos on items such as coffee mugs, posters, and T-shirts. Users of Flickr and Picnik won't find this very useful since Flickr's offered QOOP integration since mid-2005.

Picnik users now have new options to print their photos using QOOP. They can also grab and edit photos from Photobox.

This morning Picnik, which has already begun to get some traction as the primary editing tool for Flickr has teamed up with Photobox, another large photo host in the United Kingdom.

Photobox is about a fifth of the size of Flickr in active users, and the two have very different services. Photobox provides 1,000MB of storage and gives users more space each time they order prints while Flickr operates on a paid premium membership that requires a yearly subscription of $25.

(Credit:Picnik, CNET)

Free forum hosting made easy - lefora

2008-06-12T17:48:00.000-07:00

Easy to get started - Free, hosted, and just a few clicks away. Save time moderating with our community tools and anti-spam support.

Self promotion - Automatic email notifications and newsletters to your members. Provide a better experience for your community members.

May 8, 2008 Lefora passed 10,000 forums

* FREE - Yes, we said free. No limit on the amount of posts or members in your forum.
* Quick & Easy - With just a click your free forum will be created - it's that simple.

* Forum Hosting - No downloads, no setup - you don't have to do any work.
* Customizable - Choose from our different themes or create your own.

You've got the power! We give you all the tools to make running your forum a breeze:

* News and Blog Importers
* Community Voting & Moderation
* Spam Detection and Removal
* and much more....Get up and running in less than 1 minute

(Credit:lefora)

YUDU - Publish any document online for free

2008-06-11T17:21:00.000-07:00

Create page turning publications and share them online. Get noticed and captivate your audience with interactive online brochures, magazines, portfolio's and more...Upload your documents and view them online within seconds – we will send the interactive page turning digital publication to you on email, for you to forward to friends, or add to your website or blog. Not only is YUDU completely free, to use, we will also host your digital publications for free, forever!

YUDU Freedom works for the online publishing of books, brochures, magazines, reports...in fact, almost anything you would normally print!

# Get it noticed online... YUDU publications are search engine friendly!

# Includes live web links to click to other sites.
# Includes live email links - email direct from the page!
# Readers can add their own 'Bookmarks' and 'Notes' to your publication.
# Add it to your website or blog, send it out on email or post it online.
# Hosted by YUDU for free, forever.
# All publications are carbon neutral and family friendly.
# No need to download... just read!
# Multiple views & zoom for easy reading..
# Uses high resolution images and crisp vector text

(Credit:YUDU Freedom)

Your Brain Reclaim - Lumosity

2008-06-10T12:00:00.000-07:00

Did you know that the human brain starts slowing down as early as age 30? The good news is that you can speed it up, and improve even your most basic cognitive abilities at any age. Keep your brain performing at its best with Lumosity, a brain training program consisting of engaging brain games and exercises developed by some of the leading neuroscientists in the country.

Lumosity comes with nearly a dozen "games" to play, with each one working out a different aspect of your mental prowess, including memory, cognitive control, processing speed, and the all-important attention. As you play, your scores are tracked and grouped together in an progress chart that you can dig into and try to figure out what's been improving--or what needs some work. Games will also let you know when you haven't performed as well as you usually do by tracking your historical performance.

Lumosity users have experienced:

* Clearer and quicker thinking
* Improved memory for names, numbers, directions, etc.
* Increased alertness and awareness
* Elevated mood
* Better concentration at work or while driving

(Credit:Lumosity, CNET Networks)

New way of home WebChat - Mibbit

2008-06-08T12:00:00.000-07:00

The new home of webchat! Join millions of people chatting right now. If you know where you're going, simply enter the details and click connect. You can also search for channels on over 50 IRC networks just by using Find channels. Mibbit a delightfully simple approach to IRC that runs right in your browser--no special client required. For any newbie IRC users, this is a great way to get your foot in the door.

IRC nuts will be in love, as Mibbit lets you hop to all your usual servers and keep a hot list of your favorite channels to launch every time you sign on. Users can tweak the look and feel of Mibbit down to the coloring and fonts that are used.The entire experience is also tabbed, so depending on the width of your screen you can easily have 10 or more channels open and have several private conversations going without a hiccup. Even though it's Web based, the creators have built Mibbit with a generous amount of Ajax, meaning there will be no need to hit the refresh button to update the chat.

*Connect to multiple servers, multiple channels and PMs.
*Works on major browsers, iPhone, wii, etc
*Full UTF-8 support
*Recent chat - When you join a channel, you get some recent chat! Magic!
*Typing notify - Now you know when someone is done explaining something
*On the fly language translation - Now you're multi-lingual!

*Auto image URL thumbnailing - You get nice thumbnails in the chat

*Integrated pastebin - No more having to find a pastebin * Parsing of smilies, links, channels, nicks, mIRC color * Extended whois information with user profiles * Supports SSL IRC connections * Setup auto connects to join your favourite channels * Tab complete on nicknames *Input history for each tab (up/down)

Credit:mibbit

Google's New Blue Fav Icon

2008-06-01T12:01:00.000-07:00

This is one of the smaller changes to Google – at least if measured in pixels! Google changed their “Favicon.ico”, the 16x16 image file that usually shows in the browser address bar or in bookmarks. The old icon used a square with red, green and blue edges, wrapping an upper-case “G”.

The new logo is a bit more open, showing just the lower-case blue “g” from the Google logo, without borders, and a bit of shadow. To see this, visit Google.com (or images.google.com, Google Product Search and so on), empty your browser cache and reload the page.

If you do not see it, try shift refreshing on the google.com/favicon.ico page a few times and then go back to Google.com.

Before:

After:

Credit:Google

VideoClix.TV--Interactive Hypervideo,High Quality Content,Zero Intrusive Ads

2008-05-25T11:40:00.000-07:00

Last year VideoClix.TV demoed an early version of its creepy, yet intelligent video advertising technology in an episode of Revision3's Diggnation, the popular podcast starring Digg.com's Kevin Rose and co-host Alex Albrecht. The technology, which inserts clickable advertising in every element of the video, gives users a way to be linked up to online retailers for any product or service that's seen in videos. It also lets users click on things not for sale to see any related information from elsewhere on the Web--a handy service that's usually ended up with horribly annoying results when applied to text ads (see IntelliTXT).

Today the company announced it will be put into use in all of Revision3's programming--starting with the latest episode of Diggnation filmed last week in Amsterdam. Other Revision3 shows will follow, including Tekzilla, The Totally Rad Show, and Internet Superstar. In its first version, users were required to download the video and play it back in Apple's QuickTime player to get the technology to work. However, in the latest model, the self-contained Flash player now includes small overlays that pop-up from the right side of the player and link off-site. There's also an entire list of embedded objects users can browse. Clicking any of them will skip ahead to the part of the show.

Credit:VideoClix.TV ,CNET Networks

Blogger now schedules future-dated posts

2008-05-24T11:22:00.000-07:00

Scheduled post publishing, which we talked about testing on Blogger in draft last month, is now live for everyone. If you set a post’s date into the future, Blogger will wait to publish until that time comes.

Have you ever wanted to announce something on a certain date but knew you wouldn’t be at a computer to make a post? Or you wanted to keep posting regularly but knew you’d be on vacation for a few weeks? Scheduled post publishing is here to help you out.

Scheduling a post is easy to do: on the post editor page, click the “Post Options” toggle to show the “Post date and time” fields. Then, type a post date and time that’s in the future. When you click the “Publish” button, your post will become “scheduled.” When the date and time of the post arrive, it will be automatically published to your blog.

“Scheduled” posts appear in your Edit Posts list alongside your drafts and published posts. To un-schedule a post, simply save it as a draft any time before it gets published.

One quick note: If you want to give a post a date in the future but have it appear on your blog now, you’ll need to add in an extra step. First, publish your post with the current date and time. This will make it appear on your blog. Then, edit the post to change the date into the future and publish it again.

We don’t re-schedule posts that are already published, so the post will stay on your blog but sort to the very top. The same is true of future dated posts you’ve already made, so there’s no need to worry about your existing posts disappearing, or having your blog assaulted by unplanned entries in, say, 2027.

Credit:Blogger

AOL has acquired Sphere Ad Network

2008-05-22T13:35:00.000-07:00

AOL will announce the acquisition of San Francisco-based Sphere (link) (link), Sphere a blog content engine that launched in 2006. The price is not being disclosed, but sources are suggesting it’s in the $25 million range, or possibly a little more. When Sphere first launched as a blog search engine they were already late to the blog search game. Technorati and others had been around for some time already, and even Google Blog Search was nearly eight months old. Sphere had some nice features, but it was in a tough and competitive space.

Sphere is currently integrated into over 50,000 leading sites and is live on over 2 Billion monthly article pages across the web.(link)

Sphere provides contextually relevant content tools that make connections between text, video, photos and ads. Sphere is currently integrated into over 60,000 leading sites and is live on over 2 Billion monthly article pages across the web.

Sphere’s core technology is a patent-pending process utilizing Sphere’s proprietary Content Genome.™ The Content Genome™ was developed specifically to deliver high-precision, low-cost (automated) related content delivery in dynamic online publishing and news environments. Unlike other solutions, the Content Genome™ does not require a taxonomy or training — Sphere can index any text artifacts, or media with associated text, and generate related content out of the box. Integration time on the publishers’ side is minimal, and no additional meta-data is required.

Sphere has a broad range of partners including A-list publishers, micro-publishers (i.e., BIG blogs like TechCrunch) and Blogs. Sphere is best known for their Sphere Related Content Widget but they have a broad product suite on Embedded Link applications.

(Credit:AOL,Sphere)

Coghead. Drag. Drop.Deliver

2008-05-21T13:07:00.000-07:00

Coghead provides a radically new way for tech-savvy business people to create, manage, and deliver their own web-based applications. The Coghead service enables the users closest to a business challenge to create customized solutions in hours or days at a fraction of the cost of large packaged applications or custom development projects.

Coghead is a 100% web-based system that allows knowledge workers to create their own custom business applications. There’s never any software to install or servers to maintain. Just think it, build it and share it! The applications, written with Coghead's visual-development tool, run on its hosted platform. The platform, built using Adobe Systems' Flex, runs on Amazon Web Services.

Developers can join the Coghead community to share technical ideas, develop their skills, or contribute to the application gallery. More entrepreneurial types can join the Partner program and make money re-selling Coghead.

Coghead is a platform for creating, using and sharing applications. Coghead provides a directory where members of the community can publish and subscribe to applications.

Credit:Coghead

Syncplicity is easy. It just works.

2008-05-20T00:34:00.000-07:00

Effortless synchronization, backup & sharing..........Access your files anywhere, anytime, online & off, on all your computers or through the web.It just works. Syncplicity is about removing complexity, not adding it. We don’t ask you to change the way you work. All of your files, from web browser bookmarks to your documents are automatically synchronized without forcing you to create new places to store your data.

Effortless synchronization
You're writing a letter at home on your desktop, but need to run out the door.No problem...Just save the file like you normally would, grab your laptop and go...Your letter will be on your laptop, ready and waiting...While out, finish the letter on your laptop at work...When you get back home, the final version of your letter is already waiting for you on your desktop.

Syncplicity Synchronization

You're at a friend's computer but want to print one of your files On your friend's computer, visit the Syncplicity File Browser, navigate to your file, and open and print it...Find a typo? No worries! make the change and upload it back through the File Browser. When you’re back at your computer, the updated file is already waiting for you, safely backed up and ready to go.

Syncplicity offers unlimited storage.
You accidentally deleted a file you created just a few minutes ago No problem – just visit the Syncplicity website to retrieve the deleted version.Unlike other products which backup only once an hour, once a day, or once you ask it, Syncplicity has you covered with continuous synchronization of every file version.

Sharing made easy
Your friends and family can easily access the original, full resolution versions of your photos and videos, and you and your colleagues can collaborate on a set of documents without constantly emailing them to each other.

Syncplicity Introductory Video
Effortless synchronization, backup & sharing.

Credit:Syncplicity

We are making blogging fun again-Zemanta

2008-05-19T11:17:00.000-07:00

Have your browser understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more vibrant. We are making blogging fun again.

Zemanta Blogger integration from zemanta on Vimeo.

Zemanta Gives you:

Pleasure: it's fun to see your words paired with great links and pix
Content: Pictures, Links, Articles and Tags
Convenience: no more trolling the web for content for your posts
Traffic: links to recent blog posts frequently result in return traffic

ReadBurner is a great way to track news

2008-05-15T12:20:00.000-07:00

It just seems that every medium is getting its own "what's hot" feed these days. Even Twitterheads are getting in the act, with the new Twitlinks (review), which I find of dubious value... I mean, really, we're talking about Twitter here, not the New York Times. But the newly re-launched ReadBurner looks like it could, possibly, become genuinely useful.

It's a simple service. It tracks the number of times items are shared in Google's RSS Reader, and puts the most-recently popular stories (assuming sharing means popularity) at the top of the list. Commentary items also get linked in,TechMeme-like. To round things out, it also lets you access your Google Reader feed from within the site.

Currently, ReadBurner is a great way to track news about ReadBurner.
If you assume Google Reader speaks for blog article popularity, ReadBurner makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, while Google Reader is a very strong RSS client, there are many smart people on the Web who have alternate methods for reading their feeds (I use Netvibes, although I'm not sure if that makes me a smart person or just different).

The data in the ReadBurner service seems a bit sparse right now, indicating that relying on Google Reader as an arbiter of what's hot may not be the killer model in this space. But neither does ReadBurner suffer from the pile-on effect that you see in TechMeme, where articles get regurgitated in followup blog posts until there's nothing left to say about the topic at all. So check out ReadBurner if you're looking for another source of What's Hotness.(Credit:ReadBurner)

Faceroller with photos and geolocation

2008-05-14T11:50:00.000-07:00

Faceroller is the latest Web app from the folks at PopMinds who have done such Web marvels as the Web 2.0 stripe, tartan, and reflection generators. It's a delightfully simple microblogging service that combines Webcam photography, text, and geolocation. Users can use their Webcams or the cameras on their mobile phones to take a picture, add a short message, and send it out to the world. What sets it apart is that it automatically figures out where you're posting from and adds it to your message.<

Besides the Web and mobile front ends, you can simply send photos to a special e-mail that posts them (sans location). You can link it up with both Flickr and Facebook to cross post your photos into albums. The photos are transferred instantly, which I found to be a really marvelous way to turn your Flickr photo stream into an unabashed photo booth. The Facebook integration is a little smarter, simply putting your photos into a separate album and making note of it on your news feed every time you upload a new shot.
Like Twitter, there's an exploratory social component. There's a public feed with everyone's shots. You can also create your own list of Faceroller friends to follow, who can follow you as well. Missing, however, is a way to skin your personal page, or change the orange and blue color scheme. There are several other microblogging services that incorporate photos, but few employ the geotagging. Zannel, Poodz, and Twitxr let you take and post pictures with small bits of text. Of the three, Twitxr is the only one with location guessing using cell tower and Wi-Fi positioning.

Socialtext extends wiki with new Dashboard and People modules

2008-05-13T11:11:00.000-07:00

What is a Wiki?A wiki is a group-editable website. Wikis are composed of web pages you can write on, enabling fast and easy collaboration. The word "wiki" comes from a Hawaiian word for "quick". Wikis were invented about 10 years ago by Socialtext advisor and friend Ward Cunningham. Wikis became the collaboration tool of choice because they are simple and flexible. Most wikis today still require technical skill to install and use, while others are full of confusing features.At Socialtext we focus on making wikis simple to use, whether you're working with a few people, or in a company of thousands. As a result, over 4000 customers use Socialtext as their collaboration backbone.

Collaborative Intelligence:
Collaborative Intelligence for sales and marketing, as implemented for market leaders including Humana and SAP In 2007, the typical business user processed over 150 messages and spent 25% of their time managing this email deluge. Communicating dynamic and complex knowledge across a business usually depends on email or static web pages, yet fails to support on-the-fly sharing of collective insights. With wikis and social software, businesses can boost productivity, increase efficiency and better capture knowlege for greater innovation, faster project cycle times and better overall communication.

Participatory Knowledgebase
Participatory Knowledgebase for service and support, as implemented for market leaders including Symantec and Microstrategy Today, 75% of organizations' knowledge gets stored in the email inbox. Other knowledge gets stored in rigid databases, shared drives, content management systems, or published on web pages that quickly become out-of-date. For employees, finding the information they need is difficult or impossible, and with employee turnover the problem only gets worse. Wikis provide a simple-to-use structure for capturing and organizing content into rich knowledgebases that cuts in half the time spent by employees searching for critical information plus fosters active participation and contribution.

Flexible Client Collaboration
Flexible Client Collaboration for professional services, as implemented for market leaders including MWW Group and CoActive Marketing Group Managing projects with internal or external clients typically involves distributed team members and external partners. Today, this activity relies heavily on static websites, email conversations, expensive in-person meetings or conference calls. With wikis and social software, collaboration can occur more quickly, with greater engagement, higher client satisfaction and cycles times can be reduced by more than 25%, since wikis provide a lightweight, shared workspace for secure project collaboration and coordination.

Business Social Networking
Business Social Networks for partners and customers, as implemented for market leaders including United Business Media and Epitaph Records Successful businesses recognize the importance of increasing loyalty through vibrant, active communities for their partners, suppliers and customers. In fact, over half of companies today are using Web 2.0 technologies, like wikis and social software, specifically for building out these communities. To foster communication, social networking, expertise discovery and greater overall engagement around a brand or shared goal, wikis and social software provide the ideal platform for these extranet or public community sites.

Once you find the person you're looking for in the new people pages, you can follow them and get updated whenever they change your company wiki. It's like an enterprise Twitter. It's potentially very useful, if also possibly creepy. Every Socialtext user now also gets his or her own personal Dashboard, where they can track pages and people they're interested in, watch stats on their wiki, or see info from other sources, like blogs, or OpenSocial widgets. These changes, Mayfield admits, "are not all that new from the consumer perspective," but they do make the wiki platform a more comfortable place to work for people who likely spend their personal online time in apps like Facebook.
Credit:SocialText

AT&T launches its own browser, Pogo

2008-05-12T00:50:00.000-07:00

The obvious first question one asks the AT&T execs when beginning a discussion of Pogo, their new Web browser, is "What is AT&T doing getting into the browser market?" The answer you get is, at first, amusing. It's a chance to build "another relationship with the customer," they say. They also tell you it could be a great conduit for AT&T messages (e.g., brand or product advertising). Sounds like the makings for a truly awful product, But here's the weird thing: Pogo is not awful. Putting aside what might happen to the product should the AT&T brand Nazis get hold of it, it is, even in the early beta I got access to, a sold, usable Web browser.

Pogo is a combination of the Mozilla browser code base with technology from Vizible, which AT&T has invested in. As a basic Web browser it works as expected. Type a URL and it loads. No drama. Things only get weird when you dive into the browser bookmarks or history, or use the multi-homepage feature called Springboard.
The best use of Pogo's graphical chops is in the history viewier, which lets you smoothly scroll backward and forward through snapshots of your visited Web pages. For these three functions, Pogo puts snapshot images, which it calls "cells," into a slick 3D rendering engine. In the bookmark feature, for example, you can thumb through categories like flipping through index cards. When you zoom into a category, you see all your site bookmarks as snapshots of your pages, not just page titles. The history function also uses visual snapshots. I found this very useful. Seeing your previously-visited sites in graphic format added a lot of context that's missing if all you're looking at is a stream of titles. You can set the browser's homepage to be your "springboard," which is a grid of cells for sites you visit a lot. It's a little better than having your browser start with several homepages in separate tabs, although it's not a big enough feature that anyone should switch browsers for it.
You can fly through your bookmarks and the "collections" they are categorized in. Pogo is a tabbed browser, but instead of using text tabs it uses little page snapshots. This may appeal to some people; I didn't find it much of an advantage. All cells, be they on the Springboard, the history, or bookmarks, can be tagged and moved around (you can drag history items to the Springboard, for example). The browser also has a search feature that scans for pages living in the the three sections just mentioned. For Web search, Pogo remembers the pages you visit from its integrated search engine (Google, currently), and saves them as cells, too. Unrelated to its 3D features, the browser also supports mouse gestures for navigation, a fun feature that could become very useful if Pogo is ported to touch-screen mobile phones. (See also: Opera.) Pogo does not support add-ons or plug-ins yet. Vizible built the browser with the older Firefox 2 code from Mozilla. They are waiting for the Firefox 3 code, which they will re-configure their product in. Vizible will support plug-ins shortly after that. While I've derided 3D interfaces in the past, the truth is that using the graphics power of a local computer can make for more engaging, and easier-to-understand interfaces. See PicLens, a recently-released plug-in photo browser. Also Flip3D in Vista, and Time Machine and CoverFlow on the Mac. Finally, Picasa has a timeline view that's very similar to the Collections view in Pogo. Pogo's 3D interface works because it doesn't get in your face most of the time, and when it does, it's in functions where using visual devices to jog your memory can make a positive difference in your productivity in the app. That said, I do not expect Pogo to take the world by storm. It is a nice, slick, graphical browser. It's probably an easier product to teach than the other browsers. I wouldn't be surprised to see it show in the mail in AT&T DSL bills, or maybe even on some new computers. And that will be just fine. But it's still weird that AT&T is in the browser business, and I don't think this product will win the hearts and minds of people already accustomed to Firefox or IE. Pogo is quite good, but it's not so good that current heavy browser users are going to feel that they need to switch. The pre-public version of Pogo that I tried was too slow to live with, but AT&T is planning on opening up a private beta in May with a newer build. We'll have some invites to the beta to give out when that happens. Open availability is still three or four months out.

Ex-Googlers launch Rentbits

2008-05-09T09:15:00.000-07:00

I'm in the middle of a hunt for a new place to live, and have been using a variety of tools to keep an eye on local openings. The best offense against the horde of competitors seems to be finding those small, obscure listings, as well as utilizing as many sources as possible.A new service called Rentbits, created by some former Google employees, is officially launching this morning and is joining a crowded group of other search verticals that help people solve this problem.rentBits is a search engine for rental listings. We offer a consumer search experience that is simple, fast and comprehensive.

The rentBits index includes hundreds of thousands of single family home, condo and apartment for rent listings from major rental sites, associations and property management websites!

The tool grabs sources from all over the Web with its crawling technology. In most cases I found the results came from ApartmentHunterz.com, but mixed in with those were listings from Sublet.com CityCribs.com. A lot of it depends on which city you're looking in, as the service includes some local listing sites. Craigslist however, is nowhere to be found, which is unfortunate. and

Also missing is an advanced search. You can set how many rooms you're looking for and how much you want to pay, but there's no way to add things you're looking to be included like hardwood floors, a dishwasher, or laundry room. If these amenities are listed, they'll be included as part of the search results, but some way to weed out places that don't have some of these amenities would be useful.
Despite the handy metasearching qualities of Rentbits, I continue to be impressed by another search vertical called HousingMaps. It's a very simple mashup that uses Craigslist data and keyword search, and combines that with Google Maps. However, the key in any of these services is to mix a great list of sources with a highly customizable search tool--something that Rentbits doesn't quite have yet.

Get your hands on Firefox 3 beta 4

2008-05-08T07:55:00.000-07:00

Claiming a massive number of fixes, Mozilla has released Firefox 3 beta 4 (download for Windows and Mac). This version is more stable than previous FF3 betas, but it also showcases some of the more interesting new features that we'd been promised, but until now hadn't yet arrived.Of the more than 900 changes and fixes, four of the most useful are the add-on finder, the full page zoom, the one-click site info, and greater cross-platform integration. Extensions are handled the same way as in FF2: users can click on an XPI and it will automatically be saved to Firefox's add-ons folder. Now, though, you can search for add-ons and get your search results within the add-on window. You can also search for and add recommended add-ons. Peter Butler has taken a longer look at the changes Firefox 3 has wrought on some of his favorite extensions.

Although the new features installed plug-ins without a hitch, the discovery feature had some difficulty recognizing recommended Firefox 3-compatible add-ons that weren't installed.
The one-click site info finally takes the charming but useless favicon and turns it into something worthwhile. Clicking on it in FF3 beta 4 provides site information such as whether the connection to the site is encrypted or not, the Web site owner, and their location. Favicons for Web sites like PayPal that use Extended Validation SSL will turn green. Non-verified sites will indicate only that the site status is unknown.
The full-page zoom is a useful tweak to an old feature. Although you've been able to zoom in or out on text in Firefox 2, this new feature allows for entire pages--including graphics--to be enlarged or shrunk at constant proportions. It's a good improvement, although I'd also like to see a "quick restart" button standard on the Toolbar. They both strike me as being about as equally popular.
The cross-platform integration speaks to Firefox's desire for broad appeal: improvements have been made to Firefox iterations running on Windows Vista, as well as Linux and Mac platforms. The Vista improvements take advantage of Vista widgets in the browser and Web forms. The Mac changes are largely cosmetic, with a new OS X theme designed to make FF look like a native app, as well as support for OS X widgets and Growl notifications. The Linux changes are cosmetic as well, utilizing the native GTK theme.

Adobe brings content controls to Flash video

2008-05-07T08:03:00.000-07:00

Adobe Systems on Wednesday released a new server for putting restrictions on content delivered from its Adobe Flash Media Server.Called Adobe Flash Media Rights Management Server, the software is aimed at TV and movie producers who want more fine-grained control over how users view videos.

A content producer could let a user view a video only after seeing an advertisement, for example. The software also allows people to serve up media that can be viewed for only a certain amount of time.

The company is also releasing application programming interfaces (APIs) for the server that will allow developers to write AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) media applications with digital rights management embedded in them, said Laurel Reitman, senior product manager for Flash media services.

AIR is the company's platform for running Web applications offline.
The Adobe Media Player, due in the spring, will incorporate the content rights management software, Reitman said.

What You Can Do with FaveBot ?

2008-05-06T09:28:00.000-07:00

FaveBot searches the web and discovers new content matching your favorite things. Just set up the list of what you want to track and FaveBo will do the searching for you, day after day.Here are some example to give you an idea of what you can with FaveBot. Let’s say I sign up as user named MikeInNewYork. I want to track events near me (in New York City) so I enter my location. Then I set up my tracking list which could contain any or all of the following:

News, videos (highlights), photos, newly released DVDs and events (games) near me for my favorite sports teams and athletes. (e.g. Pittsburgh Steelers, Duke Blue Devils, Ronaldinho)
New music (CDs & MP3s) releases by my favorite musicians. I can enter a list manually or import all my artists from iTunes.
For the musicians that I really like I also want to track concerts (events), YouTube videos, podcasts, new DVDs, news articles, photos and podcasts. (e.g. Alicia Keys, Foo Fighters, Kanye West)
Blog posts, news, podcasts & video about stocks / companies in my portfolio (Amazon.com Inc, AAPL, Under Armour, Inc.)
Events, new books & DVDs related to some of my hobbies. (e.g. Tai-Chi, cooking, photography)
News, blog posts, events, videos & podcasts about my favorite (or least favorite) politicians. (e.g. Barack Obama)
Photos & videos of my favorite places (Hawaii), people (Angelina Jolie) & things (Ferrari)
New books and local appearances (events) by my favorite authors (e.g. John Grisham) and artists (Annie Leibovitz)
Many other things — whatever topics I blog about, info about some place I want to visit, product reviews, etc.

Upcoming Events Latest News Online Videos Hot New Music DVDs and Books New Podcasts Photos and Blogs (Credit:FaveBot)

Welcome to the Evernote

2008-05-03T20:33:00.000-07:00

Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and search able at anytime, from anywhere.
We are all constantly bombarded by information, much more than our brains can handle.
So , we end up forgetting all sorts of things.With Evernote, you can start capturing all of those ideas, experiences and memories, from both your real and digital life that would otherwise slip away.

How to get stuff into Evernote

Memorable stuff is always happening, so we’ve created lots of way for you to get that stuff into Evernote:
*Create--Create new notes using desktop, web, and mobile versions of Evernote
*Snap--Take a snapshot using your camera phone or webcam
*Clip--Clip entire webpages, screenshots, and just about anything else you can copy *Drag-n-drop--Drag and drop content into the desktop clients for Mac and Windows *Email--Email notes directly into your account using your personalized email address *Record--Record audio wherever you are and listen to it whenever you want

How does Evernote do it?
Three steps:
1.You capture the things you want to remember using what you already use—your Windows or Mac computer, the web, and your mobile phone.
2.We run everything through our recognition technology and then make it all available across your devices. You can then organize and tag the notes, if you want.
3.When you want to remember something, just search for it and there it is just like you remember it.

On the web. On your desktop. On your phone.

Everything you put into Evernote is always synchronized across all of your devices. That way, all your memories are available to you wherever you are.

Capture what you like, find it when you want
Stop forgetting things. Capture everything now so you will be able to find it all later.

Things to capture:
Webpages
Wine labels
Whiteboards
Scribbles
To-dosPhotos

A Quick Introduction to Evernote

Dropbox Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy

2008-04-17T07:39:00.000-07:00

Dropbox is a promising new tool for online storage, file sync, and sharing. The cross-platform system plug-in gives you a shared drop box where you can dump files and access them from multiple computers just like you would on the home machine. It also keeps track of any changes to the files, which can be rolled back to previous versions that have been archived on the service's cloud storage.

I gave it a brief spin this afternoon on one computer and it works as advertised. I had no problem dumping a bunch of files, then accessing them through the Web interface. The photo album feature has been especially well implemented, as the system will automatically group together a folder of photos and categorize them into albums using the metadata. There are other nice touches too, such as visual notifiers to let you know when a file is syncing up with the server, as well as Growl system messages on the Mac version to let you know when a change is made to your drop box.If a file needs recovery you can send it back to its rightful folder right from the Web.(Credit: CNET Networks)

gDocsBar is a sidebar extension for firefox, a perfect companion for Google® Docs.

2008-04-14T08:52:00.000-07:00

gDocsBar is a sidebar extension for firefox, a perfect companion for Google® Docs With gDocsBar, you can drag and drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents.click here

You can search and filter documents right from the sidebar. Now, gdocsbar comes with templates, webclips and smart folders.Your Gmail credentials are sent to Google directly over SSL. Your passwords are stored in Firefox Password Manager. click here to download.

New Feature: Create new documents
New Feature: Webclips
New Feature: Templates
New Feature: Saved searches or Smart Folders Added option to always open links in new tab Added option to check for open documents Fixed email validation issues Fixed right-click issues

Now, you can save content from websites right into Google Docs. Select the content (text, images) and drag it onto the upload panel to upload clips. You can set the extension of webclips saved in the options panel.

Templates
Introducing templates for Google Docs. To add your own templates, go to Actions>Manage Templates

Smart Folders
Now you can save a combination of filter and search as a smart folder for easy, and faster access. (Credit: CNET Networks,Gdocsbar.com)

Songkick is your concert-savvy friend.

2008-04-06T09:54:00.000-07:00

We send you email tour alerts when your favorite artists come to town, and we recommend concerts based on the music you like. If you're a person who loves live music but hates having to keep up on when your favorite bands are coming into town, there's a great new service for you. It's called Songkick, and it's been designed to help you stay on top of upcoming concert dates, as well as discover new music from your existing tastes. It's making a complicated process wonderfully simple, and I expect it to be the next big thing in live music in the same way that Last.fm and Pandora were with prerecorded music tracks.

It's a plug-in that tracks tours for all artists in your music library. Don't worry, you can edit this list later. No Spyware or adware, we promise. Download the Songkicker!

The Songkicker will...

Scan your music library and add all artists to your Tour Tracker.

Automatically update your Tour Tracker when you download new music.

Your profile page will have personalized listings of when your artists come to town.

More info:

The Songkicker runs in the background whenever you listen to music.

o need to open or close it.

You only need to install the Songkicker once. It will update us when you add new music.

Use the Tour Tracker to customize your list of artists.

These show up in reverse-chronological order on the band page, and can be toggled with upcoming tour dates.

Announcing Google Weblogs (beta)

2008-04-06T07:26:00.001-07:00

Since Google bought Pyra Labs in 2002, we’ve been dreaming, planning, and implementing the next revolution in personal publishing: Google Weblogs.Google Weblogs, or “GWeblogs,” or “Gblogs,” which will launch later this year in a public beta, is the next revolution in personal publishing. Here’s what you can expect:# Don’t limit yourself to “reverse chronological” publishing. Our advanced Google algorithms put your best content at the top of your blog. Even if your later work goes downhill your previous posts will still shine.

# No more template languages to mess with or sidebars to get right. Our advanced Google algorithms automatically populate your blog’s sidebar with the most relevant possible content.
# Stop worrying about your PageRank or your search engine optimization. Post directly into Google search results for maximum visibility.
# Save your readers time and effort. We’ll automatically extract the most relevant sentence from your post for the index page, along with any necessary ellipsis. We'll also put some words in bold!
# Your blog’s header will stay fresh with new images from our team of artists, each and every anniversary of a scientific achievement.
# Unsure of what to post about? Just click “I’m Feeling Lucky” and we’ll “take care” of the rest!

Audiko free ringtones for the iPhone

2008-04-06T07:08:00.000-07:00

I remember a time when making ringtones used to be a very cumbersome experience. My technique of choice was to use the open-sourced Audacity then do various conversions in iTunes or Quicktime Pro by tweaking some of the advanced settings. However, the Web has spawned newer, less tedious methods. On of them, Audiko, is a particularly well-done effort, letting you grab audio tracks from your hard drive or the Web and customize them for use on your mobile phone.

While I think ringtones of popular songs are largely annoying and superfluous, the tools to create them are actually quite fun. Audiko simply layers the entire track on one timeline, while giving you a magnified area for each minute of the song to manipulate up to a 40-second ringtone from the segment of your choice. The entire editor is overlaid on a waveform of the song, and you can toggle whether or not you want a fade on the in and out, which can be helpful if your phone doesn't automatically do it for you.

When you're all finished creating your pocket masterpiece you've got three simple download options. One will save it as a normal mp3 ringtone compatible on most major handsets, as well as an option to download the .m4r iPhone-compatible ringtone--something you normally need an application like iToner or GarageBand (both Mac-only apps) to create. There's also a WAP-friendly URL to simply grab the audio file on your handset without having to sync to your desktop. Whatever you've created gets put into a pool of other songs, and you can even see and download other ringtones from the same artist that have been created by other users when you're all done. (Credit: CNET Networks,Audiko.net)

Free Website Analytics

2008-04-03T13:40:00.000-07:00

I know you run a blog. Now, will your blog survive. Lets discuss some of the known free website analytic tools other than googel analytics that is there today. You could use two or three, even four of these so don’t feel the pressure of picking one.

StatCounter - Is the most widely used free analytics service today. In my own opinion that is. I even use it in my own blog. (link above) It provides detailed statistics on your most recent 500 page loads. The dashboard is easy to understand which includes charts and graphs.
The down-side is its 500 page load limitation. It makes it very difficult to see any kind of aggregate data at the detail level like how many visitors did you from Google search last month and more. Outbound links or file downloads are also not recorded here. There is an option for you to upgrade and extend the log quota. It starts at $9 a month which I think is not for everyone.

Google Analytics - Free stats system offered by the ever popular Google Inc. which provides highly very detailed information on your visitors. There are also features that you can’t find with other stat programs. To name a few are the views of average time on site and pages per visit by referrer or keyword.

PMetrics - Performancing re-launched their stats system back April of last year. I just signed-up on this one and is still trying to get a feel of it. PMetrics utilizes the GetClicky platform.It includes all the basics and the other stat system has to offer. You can even set it up to track your Feedburner stats without leaving PMetrics. PMetrics has a page that compares their program to StatCounter and Google Analytics. That chart really impressed me and made me sign-up.

SiteMeter - Is a pretty decent stat recorder. It’s scope is similar to StatCounter but be careful as they have reportedly made a deal with a company that will leave cookies all over your visitorsâ€™ computers. This can cause your site to load more slowly.
103Bees - This stat system is highly focused on natural search engine traffic analytics. If you’re are an SEO fanatics where you are more interested in where youâ€™re falling in the search engines for which keywords, I would suggest you give this a try. You can see how many hits you got from keywords where you ranked 1-10, 11-20, etc. and get a good view of long-tailed (SEO term) search terms.

CrazyEgg - Good for users who are keeping track of their outbound links.

Google launches tool portal for nonprofits

2008-03-21T03:50:00.000-07:00

Google launches tool portal for nonprofits....Google for Nonprofits, a site designed to educate charities about the search giant's suite of Web-based tools, debuted Tuesday.

Essentially, it's a lineup of links to Google's various applications and tutorials for using them, but with a charitable spin. A link to YouTube is accompanied with "broadcast your cause to the world's largest online video community." Google Groups come with a suggestion of "communicate easily to staff or volunteers and encourage discussions among supporters."But the Google for Nonprofits page also highlights special initiatives for nonprofits, like free advertising through the Google Grants program and transaction fee waivers on the Google Checkout service, along with success stories and testimonials for each Google application.
This is by no means Google's first effort to reach out to nonprofits. Last year, for example, Google launched an outreach program to help nonprofits take advantage of Google Earth. And Google runs a nonprofit of its own: the high-profile Google.org, which has in recent months earmarked $10 million for "sustainable transportation" development and launched a program that aims to use social-media tools for disaster relief.

Google Wants To Teach People About Audio Ads

2008-03-20T20:34:00.000-07:00

We know that most people who haven't played with Google Audio Ads are doing just fine. We also know that most people who haven't played with Google Audio Ads aren't even interested in them. But if you want a walkthrough, Google is hosting several free online seminars.

Pick a day - either February 21st, 22nd, or 23rd (1 PM EST is the only option on all three) - and inform Google of your choice by 3:00 this Thursday. Then, "Join us for tips on how to set up an effective radio campaign and optimization ideas," invites "Heather" on the Inside AdWords blog.Google Wants To Teach People About Audio Ads

There should be some promotional campaign credit-giving, as well, and she later continues, "A few members of the Audio Ads product team will also join us as guest speakers, offering ways to help you more easily track the impact of your Audio Ads campaigns."

Getting Googlers to hold your hand in this way could be a pretty interesting experience. Perhaps profitable, as well. At the same time, we don't want to push you into wasting an afternoon (or morning, if you're on the West Coast), so here's a sort of rebuttal from Mark Ramsey.

After spending a bit of time with Audio Ads, he asked, "Is this the new face of radio? Undifferentiated and anonymous brands commoditizing airtime in bundles cheap enough to be affordable and small enough to be ineffective?" We're not suggesting that you be mean, but perhaps somebody could run that by a Googler.

Google Losing Out On MySpace Ad Deal

2008-02-13T21:32:00.002-08:00

Users of social networks are spending less time on sites like Facebook and MySpace and it could be due to the number of ads.

The average amount of time spent by users on social networking sites decreased by 14 percent over the past four months according to comScore. MySpace has seen its users dip from 72 million in October to 68.9 million in December, comScore says. The total number of users is still growing at an 11.5 percent rate, but that's a decrease from past growth rates.

"What you have with social networks is the most over hyped scenario in online advertising," Tim Vandehook CEO of Specific Media told BusinessWeek. Still advertising on social networks is rapidly growing. Last year ad spending worldwide on these sites increased 155 percent, to $1.2 billion, according to eMarketer. This year, eMarketer predicts it to increase 75 percent, to $2.1 billion.

Social networks have low response rates, advertisers and ad placement companies say. Marketers say as little as 4 in 10,000 users who see their ads on social networking sites click on them, compared to 20 in 10,000 across the Web.

Google, which has a $900 million ad deal with MySpace, said it did not bring in as much revenue from the agreement as expected. "I don't think we have the killer, best way to advertise and monetize social networks yet," said Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

News Corp said its revenues for Fox Interactive Media were up 87 percent to $233 million, but $62 million came from Google's guaranteed ad deal with MySpace. Analysts say that Google is losing money on the deal.

On the Google, MySpace ad deal Donna Bogatin writes," MySpace has its direct hands on the 'good' MySpace ads goods, while Google is an outside ad serving player, playing around with runnerup inventory."

Google Preparing To Put Applications On Orkut

2008-02-13T21:32:00.001-08:00

As with pretty much every tweak made to the social network, we're not sure this will get much attention in the U.S. People in other countries may be interested, however, as starting this month, social applications will become available to Orkut users.

Want to get one of your own in front of their eyes? Better act fast - submissions for completed applications are due by February 15th. And as that's a short deadline that clashes with Valentine's Day, we'll once again note that OpenSocial developers courting American audiences may not stand to gain much.Google Preparing To Put Applications On Orkut

Also, we're not too sure what sort of apps Google will allow on Orkut, or how users will respond as a result. The social network's official blog has frequently made pleas to "keep Orkut beautiful," and zombies and tossed sheep have tended to have the opposite effect on Facebook.

Still, developers with a wider target than America in mind could benefit quite a bit, since Google's apparently counting on growth to occur as a result of the applications. On the Official Google Blog, Amar Gandhi stated, "We'll start ramping up to more than 50 million people over the next few weeks."

So some dates may get cancelled after all. And on one last time-related note: we'll bring updates if and when Google gets more specific about the applications' availability.

U.S. Internet Advertising Hits $25.5 Billion

2008-02-13T21:31:00.001-08:00

U.S. Internet ad spending in the fourth quarter of 2007 grew nearly 28 percent over the same quarter in 2006 to $7.3 billion, said analyst firm IDC.For the entire year 2007, online ad revenue grew 27 percent year over year to $25.5 billion.

IDC said that Google's net U.S. market share dropped for the first time in two years because of a slow down in growth in domestic fourth quarter sales. Google's net U.S. advertising market share decreased 0.5 percentage points to 23.7 percent last quarter compared to 3Q07.

The estimated net U.S. Internet advertising sales for Google (excluding the traffic acquisition costs they pay out to the partners in their networks) grew by just over 40 percent in 4Q07, but its year-on-year growth rate in the quarter before had been 50 percent.

"If a merger between Microsoft's new media business and Yahoo! would come to pass, the combined entity would have a net U.S. advertising market share of about 17% based on our 4Q07 data," says Karsten Weide, program director for IDC's Digital Marketplace: Media and Entertainment service.

"It would not quite bring Microsoft-Yahoo! to where Google is in online advertising in the U. S., but it would give them a much better fighting chance than if they went it alone."

Nokia Launches Cutting Edge Mobile Phones

2008-02-13T21:23:00.000-08:00

World's largest cellphone maker Nokia on Wednesday launched a number of new devices, including phones that offer location-based navigation services, a move that will help the company consolidate its leadership in the mobile space.

Nokia improved its market share to 40 per cent last year and hopes to better it.

Launching four mobile phones at the GSM World Congress, the company said these were no longer mobile phones but mini personal computers.

"As we continue to free the internet from the limitations of the desktop, we are taking mobility into a completely new realm of possibility," said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Chief Executive Officer of Nokia.

The four devices -- N96, Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 and Nokia 6210 (RPT) 6210 Navigator -- all exhibit different location based and multimedia experiences from pedestrian navigation to geo-tagging and movie viewing to video and photo sharing.

All the phones would be available in the market beginning second quarter of this year.

Commenting on the new range of i-phones from Apple and other companies, Nokia officials said they were ready to face the competition.

Commenting on the new range of phones, Kai Ostamo, Nokia's Executive Vice President (Mobile Phones), said that "we would like to be called Mobile Experience Company and not just a mobile phone company."

Indian Economic Growth Rate

2008-02-12T20:32:00.000-08:00

India's economy grew at an annual rate of 8.9% between July and September, beating market expectations but a slowdown on the previous quarter.The fall from the 9.3% growth seen between April and June was caused by a slowdown in manufacturing output.

Factory output, a key driver of India's past four years of rapid economic growth, grew 8.6% in July to September, down from 11.9% in April to June.

The slight slowdown will please Delhi, which has sought to cool inflation.

Services growth

With the Indian economy now the world's second fastest-growing after China, India's central bank has moved several times to cool this growth and reduce inflationary pressures.

In addition to five interest rate rises from mid-2006 to March of this year, the Reserve Bank of India has increased the amount of funds commercial lenders must keep in reserve rather than lend out.

The latest tightening of this so-called cash reserve ratio came at the end of last month.

Such a move helps to reduce inflation, as it cuts the amount of rupees in circulation.

While manufacturing growth eased during July to September, the services sector grew by 10.2%, and farming expanded by 3.6%.

"We will see further moderation in the coming two quarters...the impact of rate tightening is now being felt and it will intensify," said DK Joshi, principal economist at rating agency Crisil.

Indian industrial output up 7.6%

2008-02-12T20:30:00.000-08:00

Indian industrial output was up 7.6% in December on a year ago, official figures have shown.The growth, led by manufacturing, was slightly ahead of expectations and better than a revised 5.1% in November.

Analysts broadly welcomed the latest figure, as it shows government efforts to slow breakneck economic growth are continuing to be successful.

India saw annual growth rates of above 10% in 2006 and the first half of 2007 before a number of interest rate rises.

'Soft landing'

While overall industrial output grew 7.6% in December, the manufacturing sector saw expansion of 8.4%.

"The numbers are slightly higher than our expectations and only shows [although] there is a deceleration in the growth rate it is not a marked one," said Sujan Hajra, chief economist at Anand Rathi Securities in Mumbai.

"The economy is going into a soft landing and this data will not have much bearing on the monetary policy stance barring a serious financial market contagion or a steep slowdown in the US."

The Indian government recently said it expected the economy to grow by 8.7% in the financial year to the end of March, which would be the slowest rate of expansion in three years.

The government has raised interest rates and reduced the amount of money banks can lend out to cool the industrial and financial sectors. The government is also predicting a slowdown in agricultural output.

Microsoft Offers To Buy Yahoo

2008-02-02T04:52:00.000-08:00

The world's top software company could boost its online presence dramatically if Yahoo accepts a $44.6 billion bid to be purchased.Microsoft has offered Yahoo shareholders a 62 percent premium on their shares to sell the company. Yahoo's latest disappointing earnings announcement helped to depress the stock price, making it a renewed target for a takeover.

"We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement.

With online advertising projected to grow to $80 billion by 2010, Microsoft can grab a larger slice of that pie if it can pull in Yahoo, which ranks as the world's heaviest trafficked web property.

In their proposal letter, Microsoft said, "Under our proposal, Microsoft would acquire all of the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 based on Microsoft’s closing share price on January 31, 2008, payable in the form of $31 in cash or 0.9509 of a share of Microsoft common stock.

"We believe that Microsoft common stock represents a very attractive investment opportunity for Yahoo!’s shareholders. Microsoft has generated revenue growth of 15%, earnings growth of 26%, and a return on equity of 35% on average for the last three years," the letter said.

In the letter, Ballmer noted how a February 2007 proposal to acquire Yahoo had been rebuffed by the board, as they believed in the "potential upside" of a management strategy that included the debut of the reworked search advertising product, dubbed Project Panama.

"A year has gone by, and the competitive situation has not improved," said Ballmer.

He has a solution for that situation. $44.6 billion solutions, approximately.

How to Search Effectively Online

2008-02-02T04:50:00.000-08:00

Type in Specific Phrases
Let's say I want to get more information on a vacation where I can go scuba diving. If I type in 'scuba,' there are too many results to weed through.

The first step to effectively searching is narrow your search by typing in 'scuba diving.' Google automatically searches for variations on words, so it will include 'dive' and 'diving.'

Add Quotes Around the Phrase
To narrow the search more, we can search for just pages with the exact phrase 'scuba diving.' Just put quotes around the phrase.

And to narrow it further, I'll type the word 'vacation.' It doesn't need to be a 'scuba diving vacation,' so the word 'vacation' is not in quotes.

Use a Minus or Plus Sign
Also, if you had results you want to exclude, like 'scuba certification,' just type 'scuba' then a space and a minus sign, followed by the word 'certification' with no space in front of it, like this: "scuba diving" vacation –certification. This tells the search engine that you want to search for 'scuba' without the word 'certification' on the page.

Google does not include common words in searches, such as 'the,' 'and,' or 'a'. If a common word or digit is essential to your search, simply type a space, a plus sign, and then the word or digit. I do not need this feature for my scuba dive search.

Try a Similar Phrase
You can also try to think of other ways to say it, like another word for a place that has what you're looking for. I will try 'beach resort.' Use the uppercase 'OR' between words or phrases to search either one term or another. I will search for 'scuba diving vacation' OR 'beach resort.'

Check Your Results
Another quick tip you can do to search effectively is look at your results. If one Web page is indented, it means that it is located on the same Web site as the page listed above it.

Also notice the cache link. If you click on that, it will show you exactly what page it found the words you searched for, with your keywords highlighted.

Choose a Domain Name

2008-02-02T04:46:00.000-08:00

When you're thinking about a domain try and keep it clear and concise. You might want to avoid long sentences, dashes, and hard to remember acronyms.

Check Domain Name Availability
You can type in the address to see if someone else already owns it, but keep in mind that someone may own the domain but not have anything up yet.

Your best course of action is to go to one of the many web hosting companies such as bluehost.com or godaddy.com. Today I'll actually go to verio.com and here – like on many other sites- there is a box where I can enter in the name of the site I want.

Test Domain Name Availability
I'll type in "about" and hit go. That domain is obviously unavailable, but I am offered similar domains such as abouts.info. It's generally a good idea to stick with the more popular .com, .org, and .edu. .Com is often used for both business and personal uses, .org for organizations and non-profits, and .edu for educational institutions.

I'll click 'try another name,' and now type in my own name. Now I'll hit 'search.'

It's actually available, and for $9.95 a year I can register the domain. Keep in mind that this does not mean I have space to put up the website. I'm just laying a claim to that domain name for as long as I keep paying.

Research Web Hosting Plans
If I click 'order now,' I can buy it. As with many companies I can now add a web hosting plan. Here's one plan (the bottom one) that includes 10 gigabytes of disk space and 200 email accounts for 19.95 a month. Many sites offer many different rates and services, so you may want to shop around before settling on one.

Register the Domain Name
Once you purchase your domain and hosting plan you'll receive an email with instructions on how to access your site.

General Financial Advice

2008-01-24T04:27:00.000-08:00

Financial planning is a lifelong journey where knowledge is key. The more you know about successful financial planning the easier it will be to make smart financial decisions. When looking for financial planning advice it is important to consult with a financial planning expert, poor financial information and decisions can be disastrous. Not saving properly for retirement can lead to a reduced lifestyle in later years, poorly managed tax preparation could lead to large unexpected tax debt, or an unwise investment could result in the financial loss of accumulated wealth.

This is why BestFinanceTips.com has been established. We have compiled financial planning information from some of the best financial planning resources available. Learn about home mortgages, debt consolidation, real estate investing, forex trading and more. At BestFinanceTips.com we have information available to help you with almost every aspect of your financial planning needs now and in the future.
General Financial Advice

Before entering our site here are some finance tips which you may find useful in helping you achieve your financial goals.

Pay yourself first. Invest at least 10% of your income in consumer debt repayment or in some type of investment account. To make real financial progress you must reduce your liabilities and increase you assets.

Establish specific written financial goals. Set short term, medium term and long term objectives for yourself and your family. Review and update your goals regularly, no less than annually.

Make a realistic spending plan and use it. You must plan how your income will be used or someone else will! Track your expenditures using receipts, a notebook, or whatever is convenient for you.

Learn about the different types of insurance available. Buy only what you need to cover a specific risk. Increase deductibles to the highest amount you can afford.

Stay current with your finances by reading regularly, taking courses and working with your own personal financial coach. If you've heard all of this before but haven't acted on it, now is the time to move forward! Remember knowledge without action is ultimately the same as not knowing.

Good job comes with the quality education

2008-01-24T04:25:00.000-08:00

Good job comes with the quality education so, if you are a students who is worried about the expenses that are to be incurred during the quality or higher education then opt for the USA student loans.

Well, student loans are considered the best and convenient way of funding the education for the students who are self dependent. With the student loan, borrower can pursue any educational course through which he can brighten his future and earn his living.

USA student loans are feasible for everyone i.e. students who are planning for further studies, currently pursuing the education, students with children, disabled students, postgraduate and mature students. So, while opting for the student loan, borrower must decide the course in which he has to pursue his higher education so that he can raise the amount.

After assessing the USA borrower’s application, lending authorities determines the amount that the student is eligible to borrow, by viewing the different aspects like family income, tuition fees, accommodation, books, computers etc. For beginners, it is advisable to low down the living expenses till they get some permanent employment.

The interest rate for the student loans USA carries slightly higher interest rate compared to other regular loans. However, your proper search and research can benefit you in getting the best suited interest rates. Student loans are often supplemented by student grants which do not have to be repaid which acts as a relaxation.

If you are looking for student loans USA then don’t forget to login on the net. Today, almost every finance company owns its

Writing - Editing - Proofreading Job

2008-01-24T04:23:00.000-08:00

Freelance Editors -Basic requirements include 5+ years of editing experience as well as a track record of published books (not self-published) that you have edited.

Freelance Writing Jobs -See the "Jobs" page for current Freelance Writing & Employment Opportunities.

Freelance Editing, Proofreading, and Writing Work -Looking for skilled freelance proofreaders, editors, and/or writers. Read through the website to see how the EditFast system works.

Freelance Writing Jobs and Opportunities -Many various freelance writing opportunities listed. Site also offers a seeking work section and numerous other freelance links.

Media Professionals, Writers, Editors, Reporters -Search the jobs section and select "telecommute" under location or "freelance" under status for best results.

Proofreading Jobs -Seeking Independent Contractors to work from home. Must have a minimum of three years verifiable proofreading experience.

Proofreaders -Seeking highly proficient English editors. Must pass their entry-level test to get an invitation to take the formal test.

Freelance Proofreaders and Copyeditors -To be considered for proofreading and copyediting work at RLPG, all freelancers are required to take their standard tests.

Jobs for Writers, Editors, and Copywriters -Various writing, editing, and copywriting jobs listed. See the "Job Postings", "Freelance Jobs" and "Online Jobs" sections for best results.

Freelance Writers, Editors, Indexers, and Graphic Designers -Apply for any freelance position by completing the online application.

Freelance Writers -Freelance and telecommuting jobs for writers. Jobs listings shown cover jobs posted in the last 30 days.

Save Money When You Fly

2008-01-24T04:21:00.000-08:00

Consider Flying in Off-Peak Times
Flexibility is the key to an inexpensive getaway. If you say I'm going such and such a place and nowhere else on such and such a day, you limit your options. Discounts can be found during off-peak times and seasons. For example, everyone wants to see Europe during spring or summer. But, if you choose autumn or winter, you'll cut your costs big time.

Try Flying Into Nearby Airports
Once you pick a city, consider flying into nearby airports. Instead of San Francisco, check prices for Oakland, San Jose, even Sacramento. Sometimes you can save a bundle arriving into one airport and leaving from another.

Be Flexible With Travel Dates
Research is essential to saving money. There are gobs of great online tools to help find you find the lowest fare. Some even send you alerts when prices drop between you favorite places.lways direct these search engines to find fares for a few days before and after your date. A day earlier or later can save you hundreds.

Buy Direct From the Airline
Although these travel sites are great, they charge a service fee of at least $5 when it's time to book.so, I do my research with them and buy direct from the airline, where there's no fee and I sometimes get bonus miles for booking with them online.Don't even think about calling an airline to buy a ticket unless you absolutely have to. They all charge fees to talk with someone, in hopes you'll complete your purchase on the Internet.

Know When to Book Your Flight
The best time to book your tickets may be mid-week. Airlines usually announce fare sales around Wednesday or Thursday, and hike fares a bit on the weekend.If you need to book at the last second, forget this - and snag the best price you can find ASAP.You may want to sites that let you name your own price, but sometimes they're the same price as the airlines themselves.

Sign Up for E-mail Alerts
Speaking of last minute tickets, you can find impressive bargains when booking just before take-off. The airlines offer e-mail blasts once a week letting you know where you can go on the cheap.As long as you don't get your heart set on a particular destination, you'll be on your way to frugal flying. And every penny you save getting there is one you can spend once you arrive.

4 Steps to Good Credit

2008-01-24T04:18:00.000-08:00

As a consumer you've learned the importance of establishing a good credit rating with your
lenders. Whether you are shopping for a new home or auto, or searching for the best deals on insurance, your credit worthiness will be judged by your credit rating or credit score.

A bad credit history or bad credit habits will place "black marks" on your credit profile. These include things such as late payments, having an account assigned to a collection agency, and of course bankruptcy.

Establishing good credit habits and therefore a good credit rating will improve your credit worthiness. This will be reflected in potential lenders offering you substantially lower interest rates and better deals on credit offers.

Here are 4 tips to help you create a shining credit profile:

1 Pay Your Bills On Time

Lenders only have your past payment history on which to decide the type of credit risk you present to them. How you pay off your debts now indicates to them how you will pay off future debts.

2 Don't Carry Too Many or Too Few Credit Cards

How much is too much How little is too little Many credit experts and financial planners suggest two to four credit cards is just the right mix.

3 Pay At Least The Minimum Due

Always pay at least the minimum due payment, but never less. And remember, just paying the minimum payment means it will take you years and years to pay off that credit card.

Example: Paying off a $2,000 credit payment at 18% APR with a minimum monthly payment of 2% $40 dollars or less will take you 30 years to pay off the amount plus interest.

4 Review Your Credit Report Regularly

Monitor your credit report from all three major credit bureaus - Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax - on a regular basis. Check your credit profile at least annually. Review it carefully and make sure that any past mistakes or disputes have been corrected.

Also, if you notice an account listed that you know that you have not personally opened, contact that creditor and the credit bureaus immediately. This could be a sign that you've had your identity stolen. Request to have a fraud alert placed on your profile and account to protect yourself and your credit. Identity theft is the fastest growing consumer crime in America, with an estimated 1 million people victimized each year.

Establish good credit habits early in life and reap the benefits that your good credit rating will provide you for the rest of your financial future.

10 Tips For E-Forex

2008-01-24T04:16:00.000-08:00

1. For small accounts especially ($25,000 and under), trade with the trend. Many beginners look for trades in any direction. While forex trading easily permits bi-directional trading, trading in the direction of the trend improves your odds over the long run.

2. Have two accounts. One real account and the other a demo account. Learning doesn't stop when trading real dollars begins. Keep the demo account and use it to test alternative trades, alternative stops, etc. For example, you can shadow your real trades with identical ones in your demo account, but widen your stops in the demo in an effort to see if you're being too conservative.

3. Stop looking for leading indicators. There aren't any. While some firms make a lot of money selling software that predicts the future, the reality is that if those products really worked, they wouldn't be giving the secret away.

4. Examine daily charts, four-hour charts and one-hour charts to time your trades. While trading at 30- and 15-minute time increments is doable, it takes a great deal of dexterity.

5. Don't trade the time frame. Trade the pattern. Reversal patterns, hesitation patterns and breakout patterns appear often. Learn to look for the pattern in any time frame.

6. If you're properly funded, trading two lots is safer than trading one. Trading three lots is safer than two. Trading is a synthesis of emotions, technical analysis and money management. One lot makes it difficult to weigh these elements in deciding to enter or exit. Two lots is easier and, providing you have the capital, three lots is optimal.

7. Extreme trading can be the most conservative trading. Trading at the extremes when prices touch or break or bounce off trend, support or resistance lines increases the odds that you have chosen the correct direction.

8. Scan the Big Five the dollar/yen, euro/dollar, Swiss franc/dollar, euro/yen and pound/dollar before you decide to take a position in any one of them. There might be something obvious you're missing.

9. Follow the Upside Down Rule. If you can turn a chart upside down and it looks the same, stay away.

10. Don't count profits in your first 20 trades. Keep track of the percentage of wins. Once you know you can pick direction, profits can be increased with multi-plot trading and variations in using your stops. In other words, now is the time to get serious about money management.

Do I Need a Financial Advisor?

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Let's start with a more fundamental question: how much can I improve my financial situation? You might be thinking, "I have a good salary, I pay my bills on time, I know how to do my taxes, I have insurance.I'm handling my finances pretty well; spending time and money on financial planning is not worth it for me." Many people think this way, but often it is because of a lack of awareness of financial opportunities and best practices. Indeed, time spent devising and implementing a well-researched and sound financial plan will likely yield:

More money for you and your family Better preparation and flexibility for life changes Increased protection against mistakes and unexpected circumstances An investment in financial management provides peace of mind by ensuring your best odds of permanent wealth and comfort. This planned approach to success is the result of a multi-step process. You must: Set achievable financial and personal goals Assess your current financial health by examining your assets, liabilities, income, insurance, taxes, investments and estate plan Develop a realistic, comprehensive plan to meet your financial goals by addressing financial weaknesses and building on financial strengths Put your plan into action and monitor its progress Revise your plan to accommodate changing goals, changing personal circumstances, changing financial opportunities, and changing market and tax laws The planning process requires skill, knowledge, diligence, and discipline, but great reward makes it well worth the time and effort.

Get Your Site Listed on Google

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Open Google
First, open your Web browser and go to google.com. Then click on 'Business Solutions' located under the search box.from Fere, you can choose to advertise on Google, learn how to enhance your Web site, and much more.Under the 'Put Your Information On Google' section, click on 'Web Pages.'

Add a URL to Google's Index
Now you are at Google's Webmaster Central. Click on 'Submit Your Content to Google.'Now you will be able to select a variety of ways to put your content on Google. For your Web site, click 'Add Your URL to Google's Index.Here, you can fill in your full URL and comments. When you are finished, you must type the code word in the text box that is displayed. Then click 'Add URL.'

Check the Status of Your Web Site
Remember that Google does not add all submitted URLs to their index, nor can Google let you know when your site will be available on Google.it usually takes about a month for Google to list your site, so be patient.To check the status of your site on Google, go to Google's Webmaster Central page. Then, click on 'Site Status Wizard.' Enter your site's URL in the space provided. Click 'Next.Here, you can see if your site is included on Google's index and the last time that Googlebot accessed your homepage.

Prevent Boss From Snooping On Your Google Search

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There are chances that someone is secretly spying on your Google search tracks for various reasons. For example, the employer may monitor your Google search habits to know if you are looking for jobs elsewhere while the local ISP may be collecting your Google queries with the purpose of selling that data to large analytics companies.

You cannot prevent these people from watching you because Google appends the search queries to the URL without encryption. So when you type "Jobs New York" in the Google search box, it returns a search page with the URL google.com/search?q=jobs+new+york and that makes data collection fairly simple.

There’s however a workaround - just use Google with a mask that comes indirectly from Google itself.

The following 10 websites are all hosted on the same server as Google.com and they are exact replicas of the main Google website - you cannot find a single difference unless you look at your browser address bar.

And the URL names of these websites ("ABN Amro Bank Group", "I Love Your Robin", "United American Fund", etc) sound fairly ambiguous so your boss (or local ISP) will never feel that they you are doing a search on Google.com.

1. www.americanlandmarkfence.com
2. www.unitedamericanfund.com
3. www.earningspace.com
4. www.jeanoffer.com
5. www.factualearn.com
6. www.abnamrobankgroup.net
7. www.glisteningwhitesmile.com
8. www.iloveyourobin.com
9. www.nuzrinmira.com
10. msm.byu.edu

They also let you search all Google sites like Google Images, Finances, News, Google Groups, etc.

Make any one of these sites as the default search provider in your web browser and toolbars and your Google searches will be secure again from voyeurs.

Related: Google also records your search queries for genuine reasons but if you are not convinced, here’s how to prevent Google from recording search habits.

What is a Blog?

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Blog is short for a web log. A web log is a series of chronological posts most of the time made by a single person. People write blogs for many different reasons. Mainly people write them with readers in mind, whether its to promote a business or to entertain readers in a number of different topics.

Blogs vs. Websites

A blog is different from a website because the posts are always in chronological order and below each post is a place for readers to comment. Commenting is a huge part of why blogs have become so popular. Most websites do not allow for reader participation, whether they are for businesses or just articles. Being able to communicate directly with the person who penned the entry is a unique feature of blogging.

How to Start a Blog ?

If you want to start your own blog about issues or topics you are passionate about, you will need to find a blog platform or host that you can use to publish your blog. Popular platforms and programs include:

* myspace.com
* Blogger
* Wordpress

These are free platforms so you will be using a subdomain name like donsblog.blogspot.com. But many platforms allow you to have your own domain. Most platforms are very user-friendly, so getting started is easy. In many platforms you can even add links to other blogs that you read and friends' blogs.

Writing Successful Blogs

If you want people to read your blog, you will have to update it pretty often. If you plan on updating once a month or once a week even, dont expect much traffic. To increase traffic, visit other blogs and post comments, adding your blog URL address so viewers might click it. You can also submit posts to social media sites like Digg.com.

Don't be discouraged if you don't get a lot of traffic right away. Keep writing and posting on your blog. It's free, and it's easy, and the best part is you can write about things that are important to you. Get comments and feedback and build community through discussions on your blog.

16 Things You Need to Make it as a Successful Blogger

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1. Passion for Your Topic-If you choose a topic you love, your passion will show through. If you choose a topic you don't know much about only because of the high paying keywords, that will be apparent as well.
2. Creativity-You're going to need to update your blog, at the very least, several times a week. A successful blogger is creative enough to come up with fresh, engaging content every time.
3. A Good Idea-Not the same idea as everyone else. Not a copycat of someone else's blog. But your own unique, good idea. If you want to make it as a blogger, you have to have great content and a fresh idea.
4. A Good Work Ethic-If you think blogging is just writing a quick five minute post and forgetting about it until next time, you couldn't be more wrong. You're going to spend hours on your blog designing it, writing it, promoting it and more. Most bloggers spend two to five hours on each blog every day.
5. The Ability to Work Alone-Most bloggers work alone. You have to be able to shut out all of the distractions of home or the coffee shop and concentrate on creating a good post.
6. A Notebook-You're going to come up with ideas at the oddest times. What if you're not close to your computer? It's helpful to have a notebook or PDA handy so you can jot down ideas.
7. A Thick Skin-You're going to be flamed, you're going to be trolled and people are going to pick your blog posts apart and call you names. You can let it get to you or you can develop a thick skin.
8. A Thriving Social Network-It helps to have people to talk to, network with, and shoot ideas off of. This will not only help to eliminate the loneliness some probloggers experiences, but by interacting with others you're sure to come up with fresh new ideas.
9. Motivation-What keeps you motivated? Passion for your topic? Advertising revenue? The adoration of your public? Whatever it is, channel it and use it to keep you driven.
10. Longevity-Blogging isn't a fly by night operation. If you want to succeed, if you want your readers to trust your name, you'll want your blogs to last through the ages. The most successful blogs have been around for a few years. It's the people who cut bait and run after two months of blogging that fail.
11. Long Term Vision-Do you have a plan? Where do you see your blog two years from now? Five years? Ten? A successful blogger has the ability to see into the future. I'm not saying you know exactly what you're going to blog about, but you'll need to think about how your blog is going to succeed for years to come.
12. The Ability to Work Odd Hours-Blogging isn't exactly a 9 to 5 gig. Ideas hit at any time. Many probloggers even work well into the night or the wake at the crack of dawn to fit blogging into a busy day.
13. A Willingness to Learn New Things-As a blogger you want to continue to feed your readers new information. This means you'll have to set a portion of your day aside to read other blogs, books, magazines and websites in your niche.
14. An Open Mind-Sometimes bloggers need to completely change their line of thinking. What might have worked a year ago, doesn't work now. Tools and techniques become obsolete. Keep an open mind, don't be afraid to admit defeat and always be on the lookout for new trends and ideas.
15. The Ability to Teach-Blogging isn't about talking about yourself. It's about sharing what you know with someone else. Many bloggers are teachers, not story tellers. Though the ability to tell a story is also something a successful blogger must possess.
16. Patience-It's been said here many times, patience pays off. Blogging isn't instant gratification. It takes time and patience to build up a successful blog. If you want an instant pay out, stick with copywriting.

Top 6 Tips for Earning Money Through Blogging

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1. Pay Per Click Advertising

It's possible to earn a decent income through Google Adsense or other pay-per-click advertisers. While some bloggers report earning a meager income with the pay-per-clicks, it's indeed possible to earn up to six figures. If you have a popular blog, you can do well. Installing Adsense on your blog is simple, it's just a matter of pasting code on your website. Every time a visitor clicks on one of the links in the ad, you'll collect a percentage of the ad revenue. Because you can fine tune the ads to match your blog, they're not as unattractive as other forms of advertising.
Sponsored Links

2. Blogads

Invitation only sites such as Blogads sell ads for placement on high traffic blogs. The good news is that this isn't affiliate income. Bloggers receive a flat fee for every ad sold. The bad news is that Blogads doesn't accept just anyone. If you don't know anyone who can offer a recommendation on your behalf, try emailing a request to be placed on the waiting list. But don't hold your breath, some bloggers have been waiting years.

3. Affiliate Revenue

Many online retailers will pay a percentage of a sale if it results from an advertisement placed on your site. Amazon.com offers a popular program, or you can visit an affiliate super-site such as Commission Junction to find retailers catering to your particular niche. Bloggers report mixed results. While it is possible to earn a decent commission, it's not as easy to earn with these advertisers as with the pay per click programs. Still, some do well. The flashing, colorful ads are a turn off for many because they're so distracting. Fortunately you can choose codes for the ads that work best for your site.

4. E-Books

If you're an expert in your field you might consider writing e-books and selling them through your blog. This would be a good way of expanding on some of the information blogged about in the past. Check your stats to see which topics garnered the most interest and take it from there. If you have loyal readers and good traffic, you might have a best seller on your hands!

5. Café Press

If you have a recognizable logo, why not Café Press it Café Press allows you to place your blog's logo or catch phrase on merchandise such as mugs, t-shirts and calendars. Sell them on your blog for a percentage of the earnings.

6. Tip Jar

Some bloggers place "tip jars" on their blog's sidebars. Tip jars are donation buttons leading to the recipient's paypal account. Some bloggers report earning hundreds of dollars through tip jars alone. While this isn't recommended for every blogger, those who put in hours to provide a useful service are certainly justified.

How to Increase Blog Traffic ?

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First, see how often you update your blog. Typically the more often you update the more there is for your readers to look at. They will come back again and again if they like what you write. Write more often and you will soon have a following.

Encourage Participation

Take a look at your posts. There are tons of blogs on the internet that involve different topics that can be discussed. Blogs are appealing because there is reader participation. Does your content lend itself to conversation or discussion? Leave open questions or inquiry for feedback. You may get more hits because people will want to read your blog and comment on it.

Increase Traffic by Commenting on Other Blogs

Another way to increase blog traffic is to post comments on other people's blogs. This way you can write your URL address in your comment and other viewers will click it to see what its about. If you want people to click on your link you might want to post comments on blogs with similar interests and topics.

Increase Traffic Through Social Media Sites

If you write a particularly good post, you can submit it to social media sites like Digg.com, or netscape.com. Some of these social media sites are geared toward specific interests, for example, ScoreGuru is clearly for sports fans and is quite popular.

There are media sites for many topics ranging from medicine, and environmentally minded folks, to video game pros and business topics. On most of these sites, people vote on articles and the ones with the most votes are featured on the homepage. So don't expect a bunch of hits right away, but if your blog is compelling it will gain attention.

How to Make a Good First Impression with Your Blog ?

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Blogs are a lot like people in that a good first impression goes a long way. In fact, a visitor will know in the first 30 seconds whether or not she or he finds your blog interesting enough to stay. There are several factors to consider when keeping folks interested in your blog. One of the most important is how to make a good first impression.

Create an Eye-Pleasing Design:

Keep your blog clean and uncluttered. Too many obtrusive ads and blinking widgets can be a turnoff. Visitors should be able to find the sections they want at a glance. Your contact information, your "About Me" page, the different categories and your blogroll should appear in plain view in your sidebar and not hidden by quizzes, polls and buttons.

Create Catchy Titles and Great Opening Paragraphs:

While it's important a title is optimized for search, you also want to be able to draw your readers in. Your title should give a clue of what's in store. Confusing or cutesy titles don't always go over too well.

Your opening paragraph should also draw people in. If the first sentence rambles or doesn't create an interest, your readers will most likely disappear. Draw them in with your title and first paragraph and they're likely to stay until the bottom line.

Top 6 Tips for Choosing a Blog Name

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Choosing a blog name is a decision one shouldnt enter into lightly. In fact, you can consider your blogs name to be its first impression. The last thing you want is to create a bad first impression, right Your blogs name should easily come to your readers minds. Remember, not everyone relies on bookmarks. What follows are some tips for creating a memorable first impression and choosing a blog name.

1. Make it Easy to Type

Your blogs name should be easy to type without too many letters. The title should be easy to spell, with all words spelled correctly. A purposely misspelled word or one with too many odd letters might be too confusing, especially if a reader has to type the URL over and over until he gets it right.

2. Make it Reflective of the Topic

It should go without saying that the blog name should say something about the topic. Joes Blog tells me nothing about the blog, except that it belongs to Joe. Joes Tulip Blog tells me Joe is blogging about tulips. If I was a gardener, especially one who is fond of tulips, Ill want to remember this blog.

3. Make it Easy to Remember

The blogs name should be easy to remember. A reader might forget a title if its long winded, intentionally misspelled or has nothing to do with the subject matter. If the blog name is short and to the point, he has a better chance of keeping it in mind.

4. Make it Catchy

Do make your blogs name catchy. A title should be fun and engaging. It should draw the readers in, not send them running away. Visit Technorati and search for different types of blogs. Check out the names of those that are most popular. What makes them so special? What makes the titles so appealing people want to read them

5. Make it Search Engine Friendly

You dont have to necessarily stock your blog name with keywords(though sometimes it helps), but you should make it search engine friendly. Someone looking for bulb planting tips might turn up Joes Tulip Blog in a search. Turning up Joes Blog About Colored things That Go in the Ground is more of a long shot.

6. Make a List

Make a list of names you feel would best reflect your blog. As you look at each potential name, ask yourself the following questions:

* Does this name reflect my blogs purpose?
* If I saw this blog name in a search, would I be inclined to click?
* Will other bloggers and blog readers see the title and perhaps consider this blog a good resource?
* Will the name work for years to come?

If the answer to all of these is yes, you have yourself a winner.