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Google spins Docs preview into Gmail without Leaving your Inbox

Posted by on September 20, 2011 1 comment

Gmail users who share Google Docs with friends and coworkers now have an easy way to preview documents right inside their inbox. In the last post where we have seen how to Twitter from Gmail account, made use of Gmail Labs.

Now Gmail Labs have added a new way to peek at the content of shared Google Docs documents, spreadsheets, and presentations without opening them in another tab or window.

The feature follows previous preview features for YouTube videos, Google voice, Yelp reviews, and Flickr and Picasa albums.

How to activate Docs Preview in Gmail?

Google Docs previews in mail can currently be activated under the “Labs” tab in Gmail settings.

To activate Docs Previews in Gmail, just go to Labs, Enable Google Docs previews in mail & click on Save Changes.

Gmail will automatically detect when Docs files are linked within an email and display the name and type of document below the email. Click the “show preview” link quickly discover whether a linked file is useful or spam either.

Our 100th Post & A SEO Link Building Contest

Posted by on September 18, 2011 3 comments

Inforids.com has had 100 posts with this! We’ve made it a long way since our humble beginnings from April 19th, 2009 on. Online for about 6 months we’ve had more than 1000 comments, thousands of unique views, and now we have reached our 100th post & we’re going to run a contest.

We’ve really enjoyed writing these posts up and plan to keep on churning them out.  One thing we’ve missed though is discussion & link love. Blogs are great for a lot of reasons, but perhaps the best reason is the fact that you can comment on posts with your own ideas, get link love and get into conversations with other readers.  In doing so, you can get new ideas, offer your own expertise, and make new connections in the process! It’s a win-win scenario for everybody.


So to foster some more discussion, project writing & link love on this blog, we’re going to run a contest.

The Contest

The objective of this contest is to collect some Best Search Engine Optimization Techniques to allow people to discover, interact & help  new bloggers and to share the link love.

Topic of Post: Search Engine Optimization Techniques

Rules to Participate:

  1. Write a post on your blog about only ONE Search Engine Optimization Technique that you think, is needed for search engine optimization. Describe how this technique affected your blog and how it affected your blog traffic & ranking. There are no limitations on the number of words so feel free to write a short or long post. ** You can also enter if you have already written a post on your blog but it should be published after 31 December 2008.
  2. Send us an email using the Contact form (below this post)with your name, post title and permalink of the post.
  3. Make a Comment below to enter the contest (**Do not write your post link in the comment.)
  4. After We publish the final list of selected entries you write a post on your blog linking to all of them.

In order to avoid some selfish participants would receive backlinks and not link to other people rule number 3 will ensure that every participant agrees to link to every other participant.

The mathematics behind it is pretty simple, if 50 people participate in this contest you will write a post linking to 49 people (according to rule 3)and in exchange you will receive 49 quality backlinks as link love.

So, As a prize if 50 participants are selected then each one will get 49 quality backlinks as link love.

Contest Deadline:

Entries can be submitted until 30 November 09 (Monday) and the final list of entries will be published within 2 days after that.

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So, We are looking for some Best Techniques for Search Engine Optimization.


How to Access & Activate Windows 7 Hidden Regional Countries Themes

Posted by on September 18, 2011 2 comments

Microsoft windows 7 has default 5 theme but Windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 onwards has several hidden & locked themes provided for regional countries such as Australia, Canada, Great Britain, United States and South Africa.

Since these hidden themes are installed along with your Windows 7 installation you can unlock/unhide these hidden Windows 7 Themes for regional contries.

If you want to enable these hidden themes, do the following:

  • First Show hidden files, folders, or drives and show the protected operating system files. [Go to Explorer -> Tools -> Folder options and select View tab]

  • Now navigate to C:\WindowsGlobalization\MCT. You will see the 5 theme folders, one each for Australia, Canada, Great Britain, USA & South Africa.

  • Double Click on the .theme file inside each to the Themes folders to activate the themes.

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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.

Understanding & Installing VMware in Windows | Run your Favorite Guest Operating System(OS) using VMware

Posted by on September 13, 2011 No comments

Although there a different methods like  installing dual OS on the same system, but when you have only one workstation, & you want to play with multiple OS on the same computer, VMware comes to play a power role then. Yes its right.

Having your Favorite Guest Operating System(OS) on Linux with VirtualBox 3.0.0 is great for those who like working in linux as the host OS & want other OS in addition there. Running multiple OS on the system is the choice of various curious programmers who indulge themselves in working on different OS on the same PC  which is very helpful to get knowledge, understanding the technology behind them &  how they works. So, now looking at VMware.

What is VMware?

VMWare is application software that provides a virtual computer on which you can install another operating system.The virtual computer or virtual machine(VM) runs as if it were a real operating system on a real computer with real devicesThe VM has its own CPU, memory, hard disks, and other I/O devices.

Host operating system is the one that runs VMware Workstation. Guest operating system is the virtual OS. The host OS can be either NT-based Windows or Linux (RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE). The guest OS can be DOS every flavor of Windows, Linux, BSD or other OS that runs on an X86 platform.

  • VMWare can boot iso images
  • Snapshots can be taken (up to 100 per VMWorld)
  • Videos can be taken using VMWare tools
  • You can drag and drop between the host of virtual OS easily

VMware Server will run on any standard x86 hardware, including Intel and AMD hardware virtualization assisted systems. The host operating system can be Windows or Linux. This article assumes you are using a Windows XP machine as the host operating system. The most important thing you should know about installing VMware server is that it will use significant amounts of your RAM.

VMware Download & Installation

1. VMware server is available for FREE. However, even though it is free, you must register to obtain a serial number to use it. To register, go to the Download VMware Server website and don’t forget to Register. By registering, you will receive a VMware Server serial number, save it in a notepad for later use.

2. Click the Download Now link then click Yes to accept the end user license agreement. On the next screen, click that you want to download the Binary.exe file. It is an executable, RUN it when downloaded & then it will download the VMware server.

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3. To Install VMware, open the setup & inside the VMware installation wizard, click Next to get started. Accept the license agreement and click Next. Take the default of a complete installation by clicking Next. If you are running Windows XP as your host operating system, you may get an error  message, simply click ok.

4. If you have autorun enabled on your CDROM drives, you will now see a window. Click Next. Finally, click Install to begin the installation. The setup will proceed and VMware server will be installed.

5. After the installation is complete, you will be asked to provide customer information. Enter your User Name in the box provided & paste that Serial Number in the proper box on the VMware customer information screen. Click Enter, Installation Wizard completed and you must restart your computer.

Going with the First Steps to Start VMware

1. Looking on VMware after installation, you may notice is a VMware Server Console button down on the quick launch section of your taskbar.

2. If you click on the VMware Server Console button on your taskbar, the console will appear, now click OK to connect to your local host VMware system.

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3. The first thing you would normally want to do on VMware server is to create a new virtual machine before installing any new OS.

The Best Free Powerful FTP clients for Website Administrators

Posted by on September 10, 2011 No comments

If you maintain a Web site or blog, you need a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client to interact with the files stored on the host(Server). Mainly used for uploading and downloading files to and from a Web server, FTP clients can also download obscure files and documents from any number of servers around the world. The good ones make the process of uploading and downloading fast and painless with features that eliminate unnecessary steps and offer common security protocols. Instead files transfering, good FTP clients can give give you the power to mangae files at the both ends with the ability to perform more administrative actions on the files.

A number of different clients are available and found many that work quite nicely. But there are things in an FTP client, like drag-and-drop support and user friendly bookmark management might not be as high on your priority list. What’s most important is finding one that offers the best features for your specific needs.

There are plenty of FTP clients you can buy with all the features you need, but why pay if you don’t have to? Here are some free ones that make the process a little easier.

Best Free Powerful FTP clients for Website Administrators

FileZilla offers a paned, side-by-side interface in which you can drag-and-drop files to and from a specified server. It has all the advanced features you might need, like timeout detection and SSL secured connections. The site manager makes it easy to sift through your sites (if you have more than one) so updating specific pages is easy. You can also run multiple simultaneous transfers.

Core FTP LE is a feature-packed FTP client that’s free to home users and students. This one offers drag-and-drop transfers, a session manager, auto-transfers, and much more with an easy to understand interface. It’s a wonder this one costs nothing.

If you need a good FTP client or are looking to switch from your old one, check out one of these free programs. As always, let me know in the comments if you have a FTP client you like better (so I can use it!).

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Find & Delete Duplicate Images on Hard Disk with Dup Detector

Posted by on September 10, 2011 2 comments

Duplicate images are redundancy and they causes extra hard disk storage space. Somtimes while copying & pasting images with keboard(ctrl+v), unrequird copies of previously existing images are pasted. Finding and deleting them manually is tedious and requires absolute patient. Imagine all the searching, compare and delete.

Dup Detector in a Windows software developed by William L. Hunt that can detect and delete duplicate images intelligently. Dup Detector searchs a folder (including subfolders) for duplicate and near duplicate images.

But how does Dup Detector manage to find the duplicates? Here’s the recipe:

Dup Detector creates a data file by opening and reading image pixel data for each image in your collection. It then finds duplicates by % match and displays matching pairs from a log file.

Dup Detector supports checking on these following image file formats – jpg, bmp, png, tif, pcx, tga, wmf, emf, psp. It’s free, so you don’t have to pay a penny to clear some extra space for your hard disk.
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Make a Ton of Ringtones & Swap Ringtones on Android (First Look Video)

Posted by on September 8, 2011 No comments

The Wonderful Mobile Application, Sharetones which is available for iPhones & windows, is now availabe for Android users, as Sharetones 1.0 beta.

Creating ringtones from songs you already own on your phone, Sharetones is able to send your songs to a database of over 65,000 tones and return several options that someone else has created. One ringtone may capture the intro instrumentals; another may clip the chorus. Best yet, for a limited time, it’s beta version is also Free.

The app won’t charge a thing on Android throughout the beta period, but after that it’ll cost you $1.49 for 3 recipes, $2.49 for unlimited use for a month, or 7.49 for unlimited use for a year.

Here is a video(Very First look) showing Swapping Ringtones on Andriod.

Feel the taste of your Favorite Guest Operating System(OS) on Linux with VirtualBox 3.0.0

Posted by on September 6, 2011 1 comment

Running multiple OS on the system is the choice of various curious programmers who indulge themselves in working on different OS on the same PC  which is very helpful to get knowledge, understanding the technology behind them &  how they works. Although there a different methods like  installing dual Os on the same system etc. using Virtual machines has become quite popular one commonly known as VirtualBox.

VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use the popular, amazing, open-source, virtualization software from Sun Microsystems. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).


Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

Sun xVM VirtualBox allows users to create “virtual machines” in their host operating system so that they can install any guest OS, facilitating the development, cross-platform running and testing of multi-tier applications on a single computer. Being very space efficient, Sun xVM VirtualBox has around 40 megabytes and is ready for use after just a five-minute install.

Recently VirtualBox from Sun Microsystems, reached version 3.0.0 a day ago. So, a more powerful one thatis VirtualBox 3.0.0 ia available now with  lots of new features.

The big and breathtaking  implements in VirtualBox 3.0.0 are:

  • Users can now use Direct3D 8 and 9 games or applications.
  • The new SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessing) guest support with no more than 32 virtual processors.

Other major improvements & additions in VirtualBox 3.0.0 for Linux are:

  • Support for Linux kernel 2.6.31
  • Support for Guest Additions in Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
  • Fixed CentOS 64-bit support
  • Better performance for PAE guests on Linux kernel 2.6.29 or higher
  • Better network I/O
  • Revamped settings dialog
  • Lots of fixes for 3D support
  • Windows 7 Remote Desktop Protocol client support
  • Fixed TX checksum offloading for Linux kernel 2.16.8 or higher
  • Time synchronization handler provided by the new vboxadd-service module
  • Added guest properties, which offers information about logged in users, operating system or network;
  • Added USB high-speed isochronous endpoints support, with read-ahead buffering for input endpoints & many more.

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Whats New in FireFox 3.5 Web Browser that makes it More Advanced

Posted by on September 6, 2011 No comments

FireFox browser’s latest version 3.5 is released. Firefox 3.5 release promises a lot of new Features that provide its users a much better experience in browsing the web world.

Private Browsing

Now Surf the Web without leaving a single trace.

Search Suggestions

Start typing in the search bar and it will prompt you with a drop down of filled-in suggestions, plus you can use the search bar as a calculator, converter and more.

Password Manager

Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.

Awesome Bar

Find the sites you love in seconds (and without having to remember clunky URLs).

Downloadable Fonts

View a wider variety of fonts on Web sites while you surf.

Super Speed (With TraceMonkey JavaScript engine)

According to Results of a SunSpider test on a Windows XP machine FireFox 3.5 is fastest, compared to FrieForx 3.  New View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory. Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox3, and ten times as fast as Firefox2.

Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware

Enjoy the most advanced protection against online bad guys.

Session Restore

Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off.

Open Video and Audio

Firefox is the first browser to support open video and audio formats, allowing practically limitless new ways for sites to display rich content.

One-Click Bookmarking

Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.

Forget This Site

Having second thoughts about having visited a certain Web site? With this feature, you can remove every trace of that site from your browser—no questions asked!

Easy Customization

Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own.

Web Application Integration

Expand the power of Web-based applications. Now you can choose a Web mail clients (like Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo! Mail) to launch when you click on that email address.

Tabs

Do more at once with tabs you can organize with the drag of a mouse.

Instant Web Site ID

Avoid online scams, unsafe transactions and forgeries with simple site identity.

Location-Aware Browsing

Now Firefox can tell websites where you’re located so you can find info that’s more relevant and more useful (for example, getting directions or finding restaurants near you).

The Video taking a close look on FireFox 3.5

Download Link: Click here to download Firefox 3.5

The Next Firefox 2010: Meet Namoroka

The next Firefox is currently slated to be released in early- to mid-2010, according to Mozilla’s developer notes. That, as we saw with Firefox 3.5 , can always change as things moves forward; in fact, Mozilla’s already given Namoroka the additional nickname of “Firefox.next” to avoid getting attached to any specific figures.

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