Now a days it is hard to find a person who doesn’t have a cell phone and it has become a very vital thing. A lot of advancements have happened in the cellular arena and the cost of cell phones have also become very affordable. More than the facilities have increased a lot and you can do lot of stuff with the cell apart from the normal talking, pictures and music stuff. The thing is there are lot of add on accessories which will make your phone more usable.

I own a sony Ericsson phone but the point is i don’t make the best use of it. A lot of wireless applications can be invoked and for the past few days i have been trying out some stuff. One of the most important things is to get good cell phone accessories to get the best value. I was searching for some good accessories and stumbled upon the Cellular Blowout store. There have a very good collection and you can search for the cell phone accessories by a particular brand and this will make your job much easier. So from now on stop using your phone for just the basic features and explore it to find what all it can do.

Hi guys, of late, gmail has been loading very slowly for me. This means that, when ever I give my username and password at the login screen, after successful login, the screenshot shown below displays.

[Click to see a bigger version]

When that happens we hate to wait for infinitely long times. So, I discovered a simple hack through which you can eliminate that screen.

Notice that the address bar contains the URL of the format http://mail.google.com/mail?auth=DQAA etc.

Now, all you have to do is, change the “http://” in your browser’s address bar to “https://”, which means the URL will now look like https://mail.google.com/mail?auth=DQAA etc. Press Enter. Gmail loads faster.

This script allows php code to be run every time a certain jpg is loaded. The script below would log the IP that loaded image, the date, referer, and useragent, but it could be edited to do loads of things. Strictly for educational purpose.

Just create a directory, put this php code into a file which is saved as a .jpg file. You need a real image, in my case called sig.jpg in the same directory, and a file called (in my case) siginfo22.txt - this must be chmod’d to 777. Obviously, file names etc can be different, but must also be changed in code below. Oh, and create a .htaccess, as shown at top of that code.

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The Script
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<?php /*
create a .htaccess file containing the following two lines:

Options All -Indexes
ForceType application/x-httpd-php

the first one means if someone tries to view directory, they are not
shown it, the second allows the script to work

*/
header(”Content-type: image/jpeg”);
$ip = getenv(”REMOTE_ADDR”);
$date = date(”d”) . ” ” . date(”F”) .
” ” . date(”Y”);
$ref = getenv(’HTTP_REFERER’);
$ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$intofile = $ip . ” || ” . $date . ” || ” . $ref
. ” || ” . $ua . “<br />”;
$hfile = fopen(”siginfo22.txt”, “a”);
fwrite($hfile, $intofile);
fclose($hfile);
$BGImage = imagecreatefromjpeg(”sig.jpg”);
imagejpeg($BGImage);
imagedestroy($BGImage);
?>

The construction business in very vast and many projects will involve several thousands of dollars or even millions. At times some of the projects may get abandoned and the client may refuse to pay the expenses that have been incurred. It is always good to move legally in such cases and you may seek the help of Prolein who is one of the leading lein notice company. Prolein will help you through the entire process right from filing the preliminary notice, issuing the demand notices and then obtaining the necessary payment. If you are looking to file a mechanics lien in california then check out the services offered by Prolein and they are undoubtedly one of the best in the industry. If you are looking for further information then check out the detailed FAQ in the site or call the Attorney Hotline to get things clarified.

Zero Cafe has got a good round up on why students should go for entrepreneurship.It is a must read for any student who remotely has an idea of start ups and doesn’t feel ms/mba or a job at Infy is his future. Some of the points there drive the nail thro’ the head. It is amazing that students can be good entrepreneurs basically cauze they have nothing to lose. You suck at it, you just give it up and go on to do an MS or MBA or take a day job at some software company.

4. Only you get screwed

When you are a fresh graduate and your venture or ventures fail, its you who gets screwed and no one else. But if you fail in the same fashion 10 years later your spouse, your children’s trust funds and all your dependents will feel the impact. As you can see most people have a very small window of opurtunity to fail, from their mid 20’s to their early 30’s beyond which people around them start to bare the brunt of the failure. This is the reason why there are so little first time entrepreneurs that start when they have a young family.

5. Can’t loose what you ain’t got

When you begin with nothing(no capital) and try to bootstrap your venture like most young entrepreneurs do, you have little to loose other than your time. On the other hand if you launch a venture after you have been working for a couple of years, more often than not you are going to have a higher intial investment and burn rate. Here the young entrepreneur can afford to fail and as a result is able to tackle high risk high rewards ventures. However when a major investment of capital your own capital is involved high risk ventures don’t exactly seem that attractive. A fresh graduate has better downsides to most ventures than someone who has worked for a couple of years. However they share the same or similar upsides to most ventures.

Check out the rest of the points too. Makes for a good read. This article is only the part one. I can’t wait for the part two…

Top 11 reasons why you should become an Entrepreneur

I am a hardcore computer user and sit and work in it for hours and hours together. Most of the people who work in the internet and the software industry are like this. Working on continuously like this will lead to a lot of disorders in the long run. Many things like neck pain, back ache, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome., eye sight problems will occur and adequate steps should be taken in order to prevent those. One basic step is to correct your sitting posture and the way you work on the system.

Ergo ware is a company which sells ergonomic office products. The computer keyboard tray will help you to get rid of many problems and t will be strategically placed so that it gives you very little stress when you work on for long hours. I like the keyboard tray with the swivel mouse platform and i am planning to get t in a short while. Doc heck out the other products monitor arms, privacy screens and many more at Ergoware.

Money can be obtained by pledging any property of any form. But there are several procedures to be followed before we claim it and in case if is an ancestral property and you are the legal heir for it then you can’t get a normal loan. If you go on to a bank or a money firm there will be lot of documentation work to be done and claiming of money for urgent purpose will not work out. Getting an inheritance cash advance is a good solution and this can be done without much hassles. You can check out the Inheritance Funding Company which is the leading provider of Inheritance Loan in the country.

In the period of time if there arises an emergency for money, we can get loan against the inheritable property with out much of procedures. Inheritance Funding Company will help out and they provide quick finance within the stipulated time. If you are planning to get some inheritance money then fill out the application at the IFC site.

Students at Cornell University were given the responsibility of choosing, designing and building a microcontroller project,. This year’s projects include laser pong, air guitar, an evolving neural robot, and a USB host controller.

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/FinalProjects/

During the last 5 weeks of the semester in ECE476, Microcontroller Design, students have to combine sensors, actuators, microcontrollers, and mathematical techniques to build something.

Some projects are infrsstructure, such as an 8-bit color display for video games or a voice recognition scheme. Many groups built some kind of robot or musical device. All projects show a great deal of originality and work. There are over 200 projects on the page.

Playing in the online casino is great fun and in the recent years many such casinos have come up. For an amateur player it will be a tough task to judge the various casinos and select the best. You can check out top 21 casinos which lists the best casinos and also provides ratings and reviews. It is also lists if the casino permits US citizens to play because it is against the rule book. So go and check out where you can get the maximum sign up bonus and start playing! You can play it any where,any time. It is like bringing Vegas to your home! Go enjoy!

If you are planning to start a new website/blog or a online firm then the first thing which you should concentrate is the web hosting part. There are certain criteria which should be looked upon when selecting your host and on the top of the list should be the uptime. It should be close to cent percent. At Mckremie web host company you can get an uptime of 99.9% which is pretty good and also they offer many other features.

One thing which i liked in Mckremie is they offer unlimited SQL databases and this would be very helpful when you scale up your business and include more and more sites. The standard plan which comes at $9.95 a month will be perfect for starters and some of the features which come as a part of the package are nightly backups, unlimited sub domains, email accounts and many more. You can check out a free cPanel demo and also they provide a 30 day money back guarantee if you feel the service is not up to the mark.

If you watch youtube funny videos then you will love this youtube video site I have found. It is turtlesays.com and they have the best youtube videos on their website. It is constantly being updated and you will find only the funniest material on the site. It has its own unique turtle mascot which is awesome for a website like this as it adds uniqueness. It also includes a joke and picture section for your entertainment. The site is safe for children and all the content is sifted through before being posted on the website. There is no adult content to worry about here.

Most of us can’t imagine a day without the search engines and especially the one starting with the big “G”! When ever we need some information the first thing we tend to do is key it in the search bar. Many times we don’t find what we need and at times what we are looking for may have got buried in the list down some where and and all the lazy peeps like me will never even tend to scroll down and find it. Ergo looks like a very good option and it gathers the information from various sources and presents it in a single step.

Ergo is basically a Desktop search and if you ask me how it is -”simply awesome”. One thing which i liked very much is the super cool interface. It has given a new dimension to searching and gives the various options to the end user. It can be either visualized as connected lists from where you can navigate to the desired result or simply in the normal list format. The pen mode and Ink notes are some nice add on features. Just download ergo and give it a shot!

The way we share data on the internet has changed a lot and many online storage mediums sprouted up in the past few year. Of all the most popular one is undoubtedly Rapidshare and it is a great repository of information. The basic service is free to use and people started using it for storing all kinds of data mainly movies, music and other media types. One basic feature which is basically lacking in Rapid share is the search option and it was made intentionally for certain purposes. But still there are two basic methods to perform Rapidshare Search, one is the Google kind of search and the other is a much proper search and it is found to be more effective.

Ghacks has come up a nice list of the Rapid share search engines and has also made a comparison between those engines. So next time if you are tired of finding the download link for your favorite movie then do Search Rapidshare. Also do check out the various ways of hacking the time limit in rapid share because it is the only irritating thing when you use a free account.

Every one loves to Make Money Online but it requires solid steps and sheer hard work. If you are going to build a blog with which you intend to make some revenue then you should lay out a plan and work accordingly. For every blog traffic is the key and to get targeted visitors from search engines you need to do good search engine optimization. Some of the other key areas which you should focus on are

-Link building(try to get as many .edu back links because they are of great value)
-Interaction with your readers
-Making your blog popular
-Quality content and traffic building

As always content is the king and if you write good and unique content the search engines will automatically send you the traffic. Key word optimization and adding relevant meta tags will also be of great help. If you want to learn more make money online tips and tactics do keep a watch on atdinner dot com.

The image you see above is not photoshoped. Follow this link to verify. Using the special characters, number of such words can be formed.

The URL looks something like:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%E2%96%84%E2%96%84%E2%96%88%E2%96%80%E2%96%80+%E2%96%88%E2%96%AC%E2%96%88+%E2%96%88+%E2%96%80%E2%96%88%E2%96%80&btnG=Search

A close look at the searh term, you will notice terms like “%E2%96%84″

The last number of the three component term, decides the position of the blocks.

%E2%96%84- bottom horizontal dash

%E2%96%88 - straight line

%E2%96%80 - upper horizontal bar

%E2%96%AC - middle bar

%E2%96%BC - Down arrow

Many other such symbols are possible. You can always do the trial and error to find them. But with the above 5 codes, you can symbolize: H, I, J, L, M, S, T, U, W and Z.

A combination of %E2%96%84,%E2%96%84,%E2%96%88,%E2%96%80,%E2%96%80 will give you the letter S. To separate letters, use the ‘+’ operator in the search term feild.

Where can you use this. As of now, this doesn’t make sense. But this can also be made use of to label your google videos/photos etc. This will help capture attention

Demo

Here is a list of features offered by WordPress.com. Not complete but hey, its got all the important ones.

It Takes Seconds and is Free!

You can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address and a name. You can blog as much as you want for free, our paid upgrades are completely optional. Check out what our signup process looks like.

Dozens of Gorgeous Themes

You can change the look of your blog with dozens of attractive themes ranging from professional to fun to crazy, and you can switch themes instantly with just a click of a button. Each theme allows you to rearrange and customize your sidebar using widgets, and several themes let you upload your own photo or image for the header bar. We add themes regularly based on user requests. If you’re a CSS pro, you can also customize your CSS code.

Categorize and Tag Your Posts

WordPress.com includes an easy system which allows you to categorize and tag your posts while you write them. We automatically create archives based on your categories and add them to our global tag system and our tag surfer, so other people interested in the same topics you are will find your post and leave comments on your blog.

Spell-check, Previews, Autosave, Words, Photos, Videos and Audios

Our built-in rich text editor makes it easy to create great looking posts. You can upload your own photos or easily include images from other services like Flickr or Photobucket. You can even embed videos from places like YouTube or Google. To keep you from looking too silly, we include an inline spell-checker that makes it easy to proof your posts. We also have a preview feature that shows you exactly what your post or page will look like before you publish them for the world to see. Finally we know how frustrating it can be to lose hours of hard work, so every minute when you’re writing a post we save it to the server to keep your post safe in case your computer crashes or something else happens. Odeo music files can be embedded into your posts.

Lots of Privacy Options, including Members-Only Blogs

WordPress.com allows you to have a completely public blog, a blog which is public but not included in search engines or our public listings, or a private blog which only members can access. If you want a public blog, but only occasionally post something private, we have a per-post password option, too!

Import from Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, and More

If you already have a blog elsewhere and would like to move it over to WordPress.com, we provide several import options that can import posts and comments.

Great Help If You Need It

If you have questions about using or extending your blog, we’ve got some of the most responsive support around. We’ve got friendly fellow users in the forums and on our support team who will help you out. There is a feedback form on every page, a contact form, and the forums are active 24 hours a day.

Integrated Stats System

We have an integrated stats system which gives you up-to-the-minute stats on how many people are visiting your blog, where they’re coming from, which posts are most popular, and which search engine terms are sending people to your blog.

A Great Blogging Community

WordPress.com is a community and conversations continue from one blog post to another and through the comments. Our tag surfer feature makes it easy for you to find like minded bloggers interested in the same topics as you and connect with them.

Easily Track Followups to your Comments

When you’re signed in and leave a comment on WordPress.com, we have a special page which notifies you of any followups to your comment so you can easily follow your conversations no matter what blog they’re on.

Automatic Spam Protection

WordPress.com uses Akismet, the world’s best comment and trackback spam technology. It blocks spammers from leaving spam comments on your blog (we block over 1,000 spam comments a day for some of our bloggers!). Akismet also helps us shut down spam blogs that try to sneak onto WordPress.com (so your blog won’t be in the same community as some Viagra touting site). If a spam comment or blog slips through, you can report them and help get them blocked from the system.

Sidebar Widgets for Flickr, del.icio.us, Meebo, and More

You can add “widgets” to your sidebar and rearrange them without touching any HTML code or messing up your blog. Just drag and drop the sidebar widgets around, and instantly you can have fun stuff in your sidebar. We’re adding new widgets all the time based on your feedback and requests.

Manage Regular Pages, not Just Blog Posts

WordPress.com has a feature called “pages” which allows you to easily create web pages. For example, you could add an “about me” page with your biography, and a link to that page would be automatically added to your sidebar. You can even create an entire web site using pages on WordPress.com, with a custom home page and your blog as one of the sub-pages.

Feed Stats

All WordPress.com blogs support RSS, which is a way for people to subscribe to updates on your blog using services like My Yahoo or Bloglines. Most stats systems ignore readers coming from these services, but we do our best to tell you how many people are subscribed to your feed, a feature that very few people outside of us and Feedburner offer.

Export

You can leave WordPress.com any time you want and your content isn’t locked in. We provide a complete XML export of all your posts and comments.

Multiple Blogs and Multiple Authors

You can have as many blogs as you want! You’re only limited by your imagination. You can have group blogs with multiple authors who are allowed to post or contribute. This is great for topic blogs for things like books or politics, or just a blog for you and your friends in one place.

No Rebuilding

Every change and edit you make to your blog is INSTANT, there is no rebuilding or waiting. Same for comments.

Very Fast and Reliable Service

Last but not least, we run dozens of servers in two datacenters (Dallas and San Diego) with instant copies of all your data and uploads in each. This allows us to serve your blog very quickly, and also if something catastrophic were to happen, like California falling into the ocean or Dallas being hit by a meteor, your blog would be okay. (Even though if that happened you’d probably have bigger things on your mind.) 99.9% of blog hosts out there just have one datacenter.

Here’s a sampling of features that might make you want to use WordPress.com. (Besides it being run by some swell folks!) We’re not fancy-pants marketers, just a group of geeks who are passionate about enabling people to publish on the web. You can explore our features below, or you can go here to see what some of our users like about WordPress.com. When you’re ready, we’d love to have you sign up for a blog with us!

And many more to be updated so sit tight. You can also track this here.

Every one who uses the computer will definitely know about the VIRUS. A VIRUS is a malicious program which will run in the background and may cause destruction to your system. Some of the viruses are very risks and may even wipe of your hard disk completely and corrupt your operating system. It is always mandatory to have a good anti virus package and scan your system regularly to quarantine or remove the threats. A virus stands for Vital Information Resource Under Siege. There are lot of ways the Virus can spread such as emails, external devices like floppies, compact discs, flash devices etc and so it is important to scan all incoming material before you copy it on to your system.

There are many Anti virus packages in the market and many a times you will have to pay to get the licensed copy. For years i have been a great fan of Norton Antivirus software and it has helped me to great extends in killing all those malicious things. If you cannot afford to pay for the software then you can get a free antivirus software and scan your computer. Free-protection dot com offers Free Norton Download and you can also get the Google Pack along with it. If you want some more information on this then the Norton & Google Pack Reviews will educate you and make you clear.

Expression is priceless and many times we feel an urge to express our views to some one but we don’t find a proper medium to put it in and it dies of with time. Sharing is joy and only when you let others know about what you think it will bring in cheer for every one. It will also be a great opportunity to learn more about things and increase our thinking quotient. Blogs are one of the most powerful ways of expressing your thoughts on what ever topic you like and over the past few years it has gained abnormal popularity. There are millions of blogs in the web and every day hundreds of thousands of new ones are being created but the sad point is 65% of those never go on for a update and over a period of time it dies off.

Blogging is a very powerful medium and it is a subsidiary to the main stream media and there are famous people who make out a great living out of their blogs. It is easy to create a blog but what is difficult is to scale it up and make it popular. So you want people to read your views but you don’t have a good medium to express it and you don’t think creating a new one will be a feasible option.Good!

So what is the solution???
There are few established players who will allow you to post your content on their blogs and they would have a readership base. By this way you can create a name for yourself as the author and at the same time the blog will also be getting the content. If you can get it on Today’s Blog you can strongly put forth your point. Your Point serves as a junction where you can get information on varied topics ranging from current happenings to latest developments in the technology field.

I have always found it difficult to sell my things online. For one, there was never a good place to publish ads for my things and two even if there was a good place for my ads, it cost me a lot of money. Stumble Here came to my rescue. I am happy I stumbled across this site. Stumble Here offers free classified ads in your locality, which is a boon to people like me, who live by online shopping and selling.

The ads at Stumble Here range from housing to automobiles to personal to services. Any type of ad that you would find in your local newspaper can be found here, making it a number one choice online for your shopping needs. The ads are neatly presented under each category. The process of publishing your ad is very simple. You have to just register with the site and then go to your respective locality and publish your ad under the category that suits you best.

To avoid spam and keep the quality of content high, members are allowed to report ads which are inappropriate and this is a good method to keep the site clean and usable. The service is offered to the world at large and with ads based on localities, it provides you with ads of your locality and thereby saves time and energy in locating ads specific to you.

Apart from general ads on daily things, they also provide services to publish free job ads. This is a boon to a) the unemployed youth who are on a look out for a job and b) to companies which are on a look out for raw talent or looking out the options for sale.

Since it is a free service I am sure a lot of advertisers and users will like this site. To keep the site clean, current and healthy, the duration of an ad is fixed to 120 days from the day of publishing. Right now Stumble Here is also organizing a contest, where one can win up to $500 for just publishing ads in their site and being active in their forum.

Getting into a good college, without any regrets later is a dream come true for many students. A lot of work needs to be done to realize this dream, the works for which begin at the high school level itself.

US of A has a lot of premier institutes and universities to pursue your career goals. There are primarily three categories of people who apply to these universities.

a) The local state residents, who apply to their local state universities.
b) Other state residents who apply to different state universities
c) The international students from other countries who apply to top colleges in United States of America, for the want of a better educational experience, that universities in US of A are famous for.

The process of getting into a good university is a long one, starting with choosing which field you want to get into and which university you deem good for that particular field. Every student goes through this rigorous process and a very few succeed, but now with the help of Top US Colleges, this work is now simplified.

The site provides you with information of top universities and colleges in US of A, based on fields (art, engineering, law, psychology, medical et al) and based on geographic location (southern, northern, western et al). For instance if you are law aspirant then you can check out Boston College and the great facilities which they offer. For an ambitious computer guy the Georgia Tech College of computing will be a great learning place.

The information is neatly presented to you. What I like about their site is the detailed information about the college, its history, its facilities, its athletics, its tradition et al. They do not over dose the information and confuse you, which is why I would any day resort to Top US Colleges than other such sites.

I also like their trivia column that they provide for every colleges, which have some interesting facts that you might like to know. Like for instance the motto of Dartmouth College, which is listed under the computer category, was chosen by Wheelock. It reads , “Vox Clamantis in Deserto” in latin, which reads “The voice of one crying in the wilderness”.

Also the tradition column for each college, lets us know of important traditions that the leaflet of the college may not contain. For instance the Elmira college, have a Mountain Day tradition, which was started in 1918. Though it is not an official holiday, the classes are cancelled and the faculty, students and administrators meet and interact informally on that day. They organize sports activities and picnics on that day.

These small but important information makes Top US colleges my favorite site to choose the university apt for me.