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Google Sidewiki – New Google Toolbar Feature allows to Read, Publish & Share your Insights + Video

Posted by on September 15, 2011 1 comment

Now Google Toolbar is equipped with a new feature, Google Sidewiki which is meant to allow users to Read, Publish & Share Insights & related information in the sidebar, next to any webpage. Its really very useful to track how many people visit the same pages and look for the same information & get the information that is added by many others have done while searching the same.

Google Sidewiki, with the major aim to contribute helpful information to webpage visitors, appears as a browser sidebar, where you can also read and write entries along the side of the page & share them.

Google has implemented an algorithm that promotes the most useful, ordered & high-quality entries allows you to see the most relevant entries first.

Google Sidewiki as a feature of Google Toolbar, is now only for Firefox and Internet Explorer but it will be available soon  in Google Chrome and elsewhere too.

Also, you can to start exploring the web with Google Sidewiki, visit google.com/sidewiki to download Google Toolbar with Sidewiki and contribute your own entries alongside pages on the web.

Trillian Astra: Revolutionizing Instant Messaging

Posted by on August 21, 2011 3 comments

At long last, Cerulean Studios has released Trillian Astra, the long-awaited next version of its popular multi-protocol instant messaging client. Currently, Trillian Astra is avtrillian-logoailable an invite-only download, this Cerulean Studios product is best in its class.

Trillian Astra helps you organize your online life with its powerful and flexible interface for IM, social networks, content syndication, the Web, and email.

Trillian was not the first IM app to offer multi-network connectivity, but it stood out of the crowd thanks to an intuitive interface design that helped users manage their contacts from different networks in a much easier way.

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The program now supports Live Messenger, AOL Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Facebook, MySpaceIM,  Skype, Jabber, IRC, Twitter, e-mail accounts (POP3 and IMAP) and Bonjour, besides the Astra proprietary network. Trillian Astra boasts a nice interface design, though it can get quite bloated with contacts lists from a dozen different IM platforms. Trillian Astra is now at a beta testing phase, but if you are too curious to wait until the final official release, fill in this form, sign up to subscribe as beta tester and you’ll probably get an invite soon. Mine took hardly a couple of minutes to arrive.

Some of the interesting Features Trillian Astro offers:

  • One Login for all accounts
  • Offline Messaging
  • File transfers with proxying
  • Video & voice calls
  • Easy inline image transfer
  • Sign on from multiple locations
  • History window
  • Bookmarking
  • Group Conversations
  • Program Execution & control
  • Tabbed windows
  • Color themes
  • Your contact list everywhere
  • Protocol refresh
  • Powerful plugins

Complete List of IFSC Codes of Indian Banks for Paypal NEFT

Posted by on November 2, 2009 5 comments

PayPal is by far the most popular payment method on the internet (over 155 million accounts worldwide) and used by over 100.000 online merchants, according to PayPal. Here we are going to know how to sign up, add a Paypal account & all about ISFC codes of Indian Banks.

PayPal is the safer, easier way to pay and get paid online. The service allows anyone to pay & receive money in any way they prefer, including through credit cards, bank accounts, buyer credit or account balances, without sharing financial information.

So if you haven’t registered yet, what are you waiting for? Register a Paypal Account now. Its free. Signing up in Paypal is very easy but care needs to be taken while entering your Name & Address.

It’s a fact now, that there are many top Indian bloggers who have become full time publishers and make money online by online advertising and reviews. After Paypal offered Withdraw Funds directly into Indian Banks, big sums of their money must be coming through Paypal.

Paypal e-Transfer facility is available with following banks in India:

Axis Bank [UTI Bank], Bank Of India, Canara Bank, Citibank India, HDFC Bank, HSBC, ICICI Bank, ING VYSYA Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, State Bank Of India, Union Bank of India

Adding Bank Account in Paypal

While adding your bank account to Paypal, you need to enter:

  • First name (It can be yours or your family member with same Surname)
  • Bank Name
  • IFSC Code of that Bank
  • Bank Account Number

Note: While entering your Bank Account name you need to make sure that your PayPal’s account also has the same name as your name in your bank account, failing of which your transferred money will be returned with charges of INR 250.

What is IFSC?

The Indian Financial System Code (IFSC) is an alpha-numeric code designed to uniquely identify bank branches in India. This is an 11 -digit code with the first four characters representing the bank code, the next character is a control character, and the last 6 characters identify the branch. The Reserve Bank of India publishes the IFSC and MICR codes.

IFSC Codes which is required when they are trying to add bank account & withdraw funds to their Bank Accounts. Below you can find ISFC codes for India banks.

Why PayPal asks for IFSC code?

Paypal uses the National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) system for Funds Transfer, which is the reason you need to enter the correct IFSC code of your Bank Branch for the payments to be processed and correctly deposited.

How to get IFSC code for Indian Banks?

Go to the Reserve Bank of India website at this link and click ‘List of NEFT enabled bank branches’ to get full list of NEFT enabled bank along with IFSC code.

Download IFSC Codes PDF (Right Click & save) or XLS (external Download)  for your bank branch in India.

Just enter the correct IFSC code of your bank along with all the details & once you add your bank account with the details, you will be shown with a message like ‘You have successfully added a bank account.’ following which you can withdraw funds.

If you have any queries & suggestion for using PayPal please share with us & comment your views.

KickassTorrents – Torrents Search Engine Review

Posted by on October 15, 2009 10 comments

Torrents is a great way of downloading very large files from Internet & they have become very popular downloading method in recent years. Also there are a large number of torrents search engines available on the web and all of them have some or the other pros and cons. So, the information and accurate review of all such torrents search engines can be helpful & time saving to search torrents & get the best results for those torrents that you are looking for downloads.

KickassTorrents is such a torrents search engine which is quickly gaining popularity among downloaders. This site has a very simple, user friendly but attractive, efficient design which lets you make your torrents searches very easily & quickly access the  results. Site home page is also equiped with tag cloud of the most popular searched torrents, that makes searchs one click away.

KickassTorrents search engine allows you to search & download torrents in Anime, Applications, Books, Games, Music, Movies, TV Shows, XXX & other categories. People can search for files manually by entering the title, subject or search term they wish to download, or they can search by browsing the categories. The site have files from seeders who are the file uploaders, and anyone who wishes to download certain files are free to do so. The site also offers free user registeration & after registering you can set up your own preferences, bookmark torrents you like & upload your own torrents.

When any search is made, resulted torrents are listed in different categories with their health status, size, date uploaded, seeds & leechs which helps you to analyse which one is best to download. The good thing about this website in particular is that it contains some user comments and thank you notices next to each result. A number of thank you messages potentially indicates that the file is safe and working to download, other irrelevant messages and where the users say the file is not working, allows the viewer to avoid these torrents.

The torrents take a variable amount of time to download and depend on your internet connection and also on the file size being downloaded. The more demand on a particular file, the more users that will have the file, and the faster it will download. The site also provides direct downloads for some popular items. However, The torrents with the majority of files are safe to download and install, some contain viruses which are hazardous to computers.

Further, KickassTorrents provide Firefox search plugin so as to directly search torrents from your firefox web browser. Their blog will keep you informed about updates & announces. Its Community with 170,000+ member will help you connect, share & solve your problems.

As a good search engine requires a good level of relevant results, KickassTorrents actually delivers reliable and accurate results.

Best & Simplest Way To Add Thumbnail to Post Excerpts in WordPress Themes

Posted by on October 4, 2009 21 comments

Adding images to post excerpts can be done in number of ways but the simplest & best way is the concern of most of the wordpress users. Why? Adding images using custom fields is good but not the best.

What if, after writing so many posts to your blog & then after going to add images via custom field separately for each post. Its hectic.

Why not go for a solution that is just 2 clicks away?

Yes, I am talking about the most easiest & reliable way to add thumbnail images to posts excerpts with these benefits:

[1] Using the first image of any post as the thumbnail image of that post wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed, category page).

[2] No matter, which medium you use for storing the images used in the post, this method will work.

[3] NO need to work with custom fields. Using images that are already in the post.

In simple words, this method will work also for the images that are actually NOT hosted on your wordpress. So, you can also use blogger, photobucket or any other as your image storage medium.

So, just download the Thumbnail for Excerpts plugin for wordpress. Upload it to the wordpress directory & Activate it. All Done, it will do all the job for you. Simple & Easy.

Swift WordPress Theme | Must Theme for New WordPress Users

Posted by on September 29, 2009 7 comments

Thousands of themes available not only for WordPress but also for  blogger, heavy loaded with lots of features always taking the war of themes on & on.

Few days before, My friend Satish Gandham started working on a theme for wordpress which he aimed to load in seconds & to use minimum server resources. Today its almost complete  with its most recent version 3.0.0

Swift The fastest loading, SEO optimized server friendly & FREE wordpress theme, from SwiftThemes.Com recently striked version 3.0.0 with lots of improvements over its previous release.

Why Swift WordPress theme?

It is really very important to choose the right theme for your blog & for new wordpress users its like going for a tough job to sit on & search for the best among thousands, download them & try it on to see whether is good or not.

Swift theme is one that is developed keeping in mind the most of the needs of the wordpress users with excellent performing aspects already added to make it suitable for wordpress users.

So, Download it & just set your preferences with an ease of its very user friendly options page.

Lets take a look on Features Swift WordPress Theme:

  • Clean and simple design
  • Loads very fast, minimum number of http requests
  • Clean typography
  • SEO friendly
  • Cross browser compatible
  • Adsense integrated into killer locations
  • Easy colour picker to customize your copy of SWIFT (Infinite colours to choose from)

Whats new in version 3.0.0?

  1. Cleaner code, customization will be more easy now.
  2. Featured post slide show.
  3. Tabed interface.
  4. Better comment styling to match the overall look of the theme (Check the screenshot below)
  5. Sexybook marks and related posts are most common plugins on wordpress powered blogs,  so I styled them to match SWIFT. Just install them and you have the fancy styling ready.
  6. Swift v.2.1.4 has post content width of 620 pixels, It’s too wide to for easy reading, so reduced it to 580 pixels in v.3.0.0. This also gives more room for sidebar.
  7. Switches to minimal mode with a single click.
  8. Option to add adsense ad at the end of post.
  9. Widgetised banner ads, now you can choose where you want your banners to appear.
  10. Option to choose font and other font properties. (3 built in configurations)
  11. Integrated  page navigation.

Swift WordPress Theme Options Page

 Demo & Download Latest Version

Easiest & Fastest Way to Convert PDF Files to Word, Text, Image & Html Online for FREE

Posted by on July 14, 2009 1 comment

PDF is a very pupular & useful format for distributing and sharing documents as it can keep the originality of the documents. Most of the files (manuals, tutorials, etc.) downloaded from the internet are usually in PDF format.

You can use PDF reader to open such files and read them. However on some occasions, if pdf reader not works or you need to convert pdf format to other formats like word or more simple format like HTML, then you need some application specifically doing the conversion. But today it can be done online which is the most easiest & fastest method.

Easiest & Fastest Way to Convert PDF Files to Word, Text, Image & Html Online for FREE

Introducing a very nice pdf conversion website which allows you to convert PDF file online & then converted format can be downloaded  very easily. Convertpdftoword allows conversion of PDF format to Word.

The site is itself connected to another conversion sites through a nice navigation menu(shown above) which do the following conversions of file PDF file formats:

  • PDF to Word
  • PDF to Text
  • PDF to Image
  • PDF to HTML
  • Text to PDF

Simple browse to the PDF file, Select it & Press the convert button.  The Converted format will be available to you for download in just few seconds. Easy & fast.

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