Here i come again, with a cool site. The site is Living with style forums, it is full featured discussion board where you can talk about your life, style, fashion, lifestyle or whatever you want. Make friends, gain knowledge is all what you can do the forums. livingwithstyle.com is a total fun ride for you. The forums has over 79000+ members, aggregating a total of 353247 threads and 5071253 posts. They have a large number of active loyal members who are always there to share their vast knowledge and help you in every matter.
The forums have a many categories, Technology today and Gamer’s haven have always ben my favorite. The registeration is free and easy,you just need to fillup a small form. So, don’t wait anymore join the club right now, and have access to giant amount information about fashion, lifestyle, personal life, jokes, games, technology and more.

Filestuff provides information of almost every file extension that you can think of and that you can’t. I found this site while random stumbling today. It is a great resource for techies. Filestuff has information on over 5000 file extensions, and the number is increasing day by day. You can use this site to find out which application a particular file type belongs to or to find out the default file extensions used by specific software. To do this you just need to enter the name of your software and click the find button, it will show the default file extensions used for that particular software.
If you feel like you can contribute to this project, you can add file extensions by giving a brief explanation of that extension. The database is updated everyday. You can even Continue reading ‘Find File Extensions’

Bollywood-Songs.org is the new blog, and as it title says it’s all about bollywood music. Bollywood songs are liked by people across the globe. Bollywood-Songs.org is all about bollywood. From latest bollywood songs downloads to crispy gossips. This blog keeps you updated with all the latest happenings in the bollywood, bollywood actors, celebs and bollywood music.
The blog is fairly new, and has a little content as of now. It’s taking off from the ground and will be rocking soon as the more latest fresh content is added. You may like to subscribe to their Bollywood RSS Feed to remain informed about what’s all happening in bollywood.

Here i come with one more quality web directory. This time it’s a bidding directory. Most of you must have heard about bidding directories but for those who haven’t “A bidding web directory where quality sites are listed in order of the amount bidded.”. Okay, so today i’ll talk about one such directory where you bid and you link is placed in accordance with the amount you pay. This bidding web directory i.e. Zorg-links is a quality nice looking and well seach engine optimised site.
The site has a custom theme, the pages are structured and linked very well so that the links get a good juice out of it. You can a get a very good quality link for as low as 3$, i would say Continue reading ‘Bidding web directory.’

As i pointed out the importance of backlinks from directories in one of my previous posts. The links from directories are indeed important but you should take care of the quality of those backlinks also, don’t just run after every link thats coming your way in a few bucks. Quality is even more important than the number of links, so from time to time i will discuss and review some quality search engine optimised web directories.
Today we will talk about one such quality directory. This directory is very much search engine optimised, that means the links get enough juice out of it. 1st-direct.org features almost all the popular categories under which you can submit your site. Continue reading ‘SEO web directory’

Blogging has been the buzz word in recent times, and it seems to keep buzzing for a while. Web 2.0 is all about blogging, syndication feeds, photo and file sharing, social networking. We are seeing new web 2.0 services everyday, these services have made our life a “Life 2.0″. When all the web 2.0 things come under one roof, that’s what we should call the actual web 2.0 house.
One such service which i found today while random stumbling is www.thoughts.com, it is blogger community. So you may wonder whats new in this service and Continue reading ‘Blog, upload and share’

As a webmaster i know the importance of backlinks to my sites, in my initials days of blogging and site marketing i just did not care much about backlinks from directories i used to do simple sitewide blogroll exchanges from my fellow bloggers, that indeed helped me in my initial days. But soon i felt the need of some quality backlinks from web directories. I beagan to search for directories and submit my urls there. I didn’t care much about the quality and PageRank of those directories. Soon, i realised that i am being penalised for having too many links from red flagged directories.So, then i started looking for only quality web directories.
The one i found today is Site-Sift. It is a high quality web directory. Google PageRank for this directory is 6, thats really good. Links from such high PageRanked sites is always good for the popularity of your site. Continue reading ‘Site Sift - Web Directory’

Today we will talk about some cool links i found last week. My good blogs inspired my my and looked very informative to me, i usually write about orkut tips and tricks or about orkut proxy but this post is dedicated to some cool wonderful blogs.
Tech Reviews : It is a blog mainly about technology, covering all the latest in the technology world.
Blog Reviews : Here you will find lot of reviews about websites and blogs. It is worth being bookmarked.
Technoblog It is another wonderful blog that i found last week. The content is updated fast and all the posts are good quality technology articles.

Web everything is a good resourceful site that i found today while random stumbling. It is especially a much needed one stop tools site for webmasters. STCFX offers some great tools like pagerank prediction and link popularity calculator. Pagerank prediction is the one which i liked the most, it keeps me informed about how hard i am building my links and how much more i need to do.
Overall, the site is worth being in your bookmarked list. Apart from such tools web everything also offers some great services like site submission to various good pageranked quality websites, i know directory submission is very tedious and time consuming task. But STFCX.com do it for you for some negligible amount. The site also offer you social bookmarking service, as a webmaster i know the importance of backlinks from such social bookmarking sites, they generate a good traffic also.
So, Web everything is must visit site for any webmaster or wanna be webmasters.

Google has been a blessing for developers. I use Google Search more than 50 times a day, and I am sure that I am not the only Crazy Googler around. Google search gives us everything with just a click. I have compiled a small list of hacks that will enhance your searching experince and might help you out greatly sometimes. Enjoy some cool google tricks :

Fuzzy Search

Fuzzy search is type of search made by fuzzy matching. Google returns the results for even the relevent keywords for your query. For example when you search for ~music player, the google search also look for keywords like mp3 music, radio etc. etc. Isn’t is a cool google trick.

Number range

If the thing you are searching for has something to do with numbers or number range, theen this google trick is just right for you. If you want to search for a music player having memory between 10 to 30 gb then search for this query “mp3 player 10..30 GB” The results will show you the information about mp3 players having memory betwen 10 to 30 GB.
Wild card search : When you place a wildcard character * in your query, google will try to replace that * with the keywords that are relevent to the query. For example try searching for “google * tricks”.

Page title search

The page title is the single most part of the page. The title depicts the content. You can search only in page titles using allintitle: before the query. Try searching for “allintitle:tricks”. This query will return all the pages having the tricks keyword n their title.

Google Calculator

Just enter the expression in the google search box and press enter, the next page will show the result of that expression. Try searching for 5+2*2 and see the result.

I will update the list as more Google tricks comes my way.

Yahoo messenger is offering free calls to india during the holi festivals. The service is being offered to all the Yahoo Phone-out subscribers. Holi is an annual traditional festival of india, it is also known as “The Festival of Colors”.

Click this image to see the revised rates:

Usual rates will be reduced to 4.99¢ during the Holi season. Taxes and additional fees may apply. A new rate scheme is expected to come after Holi .. so watch out and enjoy.

For more details visit http://voice.yahoo.com/holi

1: ORKUT IS DELETING PROFILES

- Orkut is NOT deleting profiles
- Orkut is run by google which is having a 300% growth in terms of revenue for this
fiscal year
- They can handle any abysmal requirement of processing power or space
- They are NOT experiencing any information processing or storage problems as yet.

2: YOU CAN GET PAID BY FORWARDING AN E-MAIL

- There is no way to keep track of where a mail
gets forwarded.
- Microsoft will not know if I send a mail from google server to my friend (EVEN IF
IT IS A FORWARDED MAIL) unless you explicitly execute some code or click some link.

3. Crush List

- the only way of knowing your crush is if both the people add each other to their own crush list.
- there is no way of knowing anyone else’s crush’s or your own.

contents from a forward mail.. author unknown

1. Disable Indexing Services:
Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don’t search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

1. Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Double-click Add/Remove Programs
5. Click the Add/Remove Window Components
6. Uncheck the Indexing services
7. Click Next

2. Optimise Display Settings:
Windows XP can look sexy but displaying all the visual items can waste system resources. To optimise:

1.Go to Start
2. Click Settings
3. Click Control Panel
4. Click System
5. Click Advanced tab
6. In the Performance tab click Settings
7. Leave only the following ticked:
- Show shadows under menus
- Show shadows under mouse pointer
- Show translucent selection rectangle
- Use drop shadows for icons labels on the desktop
- Use visual styles on windows and buttons

3. Disable Performance Counters:
Windows XP has a performance monitor utility which monitors several areas of your PC’s performance. These utilities take up system resources so disabling is a good idea. To disable:

1. download and install the Extensible Performance Counter List
2.Then select each counter in turn in the ‘Extensible performance counters’ window and clear the ‘performance counters enabled’ checkbox at the bottom.button below.

4. Speedup Folder Browsing:
You may have noticed that everytime you open my computer to browse folders that there is a slight delay. This is because Windows XP automatically searches for network files and printers everytime you open Windows Explorer. To fix this and to increase browsing significantly:

1. Open My Computer
2. Click on Tools menu
3. Click on Folder Options
4. Click on the View tab.
5. Uncheck the Automatically search for network folders and printers check box
6. Click Apply
7. Click Ok
8. Reboot your computer

5. Improve Memory Usage:
Cacheman Improves the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings. Once Installed:

1. Go to Show Wizard and select All
2. Run all the wizards by selecting Next or Finished until you are back to the main menu. Use the defaults unless you know exactly what you are doing.
3.Exit and Save Cacheman
4.Restart Windows
6. Optimise your internet connection:
There are lots of ways to do this but by far the easiest is to run TCP/IP Optimizer.

1. Download and install
2. Click the General Settings tab and select your Connection Speed (Kbps)
3. Click Network Adapter and choose the interface you use to connect to the Internet
4. Check Optimal Settings then Apply
5. Reboot
7. Optimise Your Pagefile:
If you give your pagefile a fixed size it saves the operating system from needing to resize the page file.

1. Right click on My Computer and select Properties
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Under Performance choose the Settings button
4. Select the Advanced tab again and under Virtual Memory select Change
5. Highlight the drive containing your page file and make the initial Size of the file the same as the Maximum Size of the file.

Windows XP sizes the page file to about 1.5X the amount of actual physical memory by default. While this is good for systems with smaller amounts of memory (under 512MB) it is unlikely that a typical XP desktop system will ever need 1.5 X 512MB or more of virtual memory. If you have less than 512MB of memory, leave the page file at its default size. If you have 512MB or more, change the ratio to 1:1 page file size to physical memory size.
8. Run BootVis - Improve Boot Times:
BootVis will significantly improve boot times

1. Download and Run
2. Select Trace
3. Select Next Boot and Driver Trace
4. A Trace Repetitions screen will appear, select Ok and Reboot
5. Upon reboot, BootVis will automatically start, analyze and log your system’s boot process. When it’s done, in the menu go to Trace and select Optimize System
6. Reboot.
7. When your machine has rebooted wait until you see the Optimizing System box appear. Be patient and wait for the process to complete.
9. Remove the Desktop Picture:
Your desktop background consumes a fair amount of memory and can slow the loading time of your system. Removing it will improve performance.

1. Right click on Desktop and select Properties
2. Select the Desktop tab
3. In the Background window select None
4. Click Ok
10. Remove Fonts for Speed:
Fonts, especially TrueType fonts, use quite a bit of system resources. For optimal performance, trim your fonts down to just those that you need to use on a daily basis and fonts that applications may require.

1. Open Control Panel
2. Open Fonts folder
3. Move fonts you don’t need to a temporary directory (e.g. C:\FONTBKUP?) just in case you need or want to bring a few of them back. The more fonts you uninstall, the more system resources you will gain.

via sizlopedia

With every new version, Yahoo! Messenger seems to be using more and more memory than the previous versions. Following are the tips that can be helpful in reducing RAM storage of yahoo messenger which inturn will make it faster.

Uninstall Plugins : Uninstall plugins from the plugin manager. To do so goto Actions->choose a plugin and then click the ‘My Plugins’ tab. Click stop button and then click uninstall to remove that particular plugin.

Classic Skin : Switch to classic skin of Yahoo messenger, messenger working in classic skin consumes less memory and makes it faster. To do so goto ‘Messenger->Change skin’ and then select the classic skin.

Haven’t you always wanted chat with robots (bots), now you can do it and absolutely free of cost. It is really fun chatting with them, they often surprise you with their intelligence( artificial intelligence) . Sometimes they can even make fun of you. Just check out this site.

He is George, an animated character. He will give you expressions that according to conversations, most of the times he smiles at you. But sometimes it confuses itself in ambiguous situations. It is really worth trying. Go ahead ..

Good news to all those blogger fans who have been waiting for Blogger to come out of Beta. Now you can migrate your blog to the new version of Blogger which has some cool feature like Labels, Instant Publishing, Drag and Drop Template customization with new font and color option along with a cool looking Dashboard

Click the image to inlarge. It seems that google is now ready to compete with other blogging platforms like Wordpress, Movabletype and Typepad to name a few. Best of luck..!! Google

Read more about new Blogger here.

Here’s how you can save flash files from websites.

• Visit the webpage (here i’m using http://www.xyz.com, just for an example)
• Select Source( View > Source )
• Now it would show up the HTML code for the site.
• Now click CTRL+F buttons together or go to the Edit menu and select Find( Edit > Find )
• In the search bar type swf and click find.
• It will take you to something similar to EMBED xsrc=”abcd.swf”
• Now select the file path. Example if it is EMBED xsrc=”/files/flash/abcd.swf” , copy the entire file path starting from the forward slash(/)
• Now goto the address bar and paste the path next to the end of the current address.
• It wouldd look like - www.xyz.com/files/flash/abcd.swf
• Now click go or hit Enter and the same flash file will load for you but without the HTML - only the file.
• Goto File > Save as and save the file in a safe place.

This may not work with some websites that has the files protected / also with some sites that use frames.

I have explained the procedure for internet explorer, this can be done in other browsers also with the same easy and with quite similar steps.

Haven’t you always wanted to save those video files on Youtube / Google videos and metacafe?
It’s truly boring/tiring to save those url’s for your favourite videos, and everytime copy-pasting it to see them.

Here’s an easy way to get out of the loop and start saving the video streams into your hard disk.

Install this small firefox extension

DOWNLOAD THE FIREFOX EXTENSION HERE

You also need a FLV player
FLV Player

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