The Analyser.::Personal::.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Remove blogger tool bar in new blogger

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Friday, July 21, 2006

Get Your Name Immortalized on the Firefox Friends Wall

Are you a Firefox lover? Have you tried convincing all of your friends to replace IE by a better, safer alternative? If you answered a hearty "YES" to both of these questions, then now is the time to get to work and have everyone you know start using the world's favorite alternative browser via this location. To thank you for your hard work, Mozilla will have the names of all participants immortalized inside Firefox 2 and also on the Firefox Friends Wall, which will be located at Mozilla headquarters, in Mountain View, California.

So what are you waiting for? Stop being lazy and spread the good news!

Flash Drives to Challenge Hard Disks for Laptops

A new study by market research firm In-Stat concludes that Flash-based solid state drives (SSD) will pose a real challenge to traditional hard disk drives found in portable laptop computers.

"The HDD industry has done a phenomenal job of driving areal densities; however, it is clear that there are user segments for which drive capacities far exceed the user's need," said Frank Dickson, In-Stat analyst. "When one examines the declining cost trends for Flash, the user's need for storage and the premium that consumers place on the benefits provided by SSDs, it is easy to see that there will be a clear demand for SSDs."

In-Stats research has led them to believe that Flash-based drives could make up 50 percent of the market share in mobile computers by 2013.

Of all the benefits users get with Flash-based drives, respondents to In-Stats survey singled out power savings as the most important. With this in mind, two-thirds of the respondents also said they would be willing to pay more for the drives than they are currently paying for hard disk drives.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Fresh Download v7.54

Size: 1.94MB

Publisher: Visit Website

Release Date: 05-22-06

Submit Date: 05-22-06

OS: Win 9x/ME/2K/XP/NT

Downloads: 36596

Fresh Download is a robust and very fast download manager software that turbo charges downloading any files, such as your favorite software, mp3 files, video files, picture collections, etc.

Unlike any other similar utilities (e.g. Gozilla, Download Accelerator, Getright), this software is 100% free, no charges, no banners/ads in the software, no spyware.

Also includes split, resume, schedule and browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, and Mozilla) integration features, clipboard monitoring, drag and drop url, download basket, internal zip extractor, integration with antivirus programs

New in this version: support for Crazy Browser (using Method 2 of IE integration) and reported minor bugs fixed. Close the old version before installing it.

Monday, May 22, 2006

First Walkman Phone on Sony Ericsson

Japanese wireless carrier KDDI has said it will be launch the W42S 3G Walkman phone made by Sony Ericsson in Japan in June.

The new phone will come with 1GB of internal memory which can be supplemented with up to 4GB of Memory Stick Pro DUO and promises 30 hours of playback.

The phone will also feature a 1.3 megapixel camera, a 2.2-inch, 240 x 320, 262k colour LCD and FM radio.

A result of partnership between KDDI and Sony Ericsson, the phone is compatible with KDDI's Au CDMA2000 mobile network, and supports MP3, AAC, AAC+ and eAAC+ music format files.

The retail price of the phone is expected to be about $180 and users will be able to download music via KDDI's download service which is similar to 3's here in the UK.

Last week Sony Ericsson announced the launch of four new phones including a new Walkman branded model and a phone aimed at the fitness set.

Friday, May 19, 2006

MsN Loader

This is a small script which will run multiple MSN messengers simaltaneously. This might be not new to you guys but for you convinence i have uploaded it. So enjoy using it.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

darkmOOn ::..: Dhivehi SMS

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Microsoft combining desktop and web search

A report from (reports) Microsoft states that they will start integrating desktop and intranet search results with their internet web search.

From the initial reports, the new Microsoft product sounds very similar to Google Desktop Search, which nicely integrates search results from your desktop with all of your web searches.

Longer term, this likely is the beginning of a Microsoft strategy to win the search war by leveraging their control of the desktop. For more on that, see my earlier post, "Using the desktop to improve search".

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Google talk on Nokia Series.

The news that mobile handset market leader Nokia will release a new tablet handheld device with Google Talk heralds the beginning of a new era in mobile communications and sounds a warning to traditional mobile carriers. Mobile internet telephony is about to burst upon the scene and both Google and Nokia want to be at the forefront of an emerging market for both applications and hardware.

Unlike mainstream mobile telephony, which relies on cellular base stations, the new Nokia will connect to the internet via localised Wi-Fi networks, which are becoming more prevalent by the day in large cities, with wireless hot spots at places like cafes and airports. With the emerging WiMAX techology promising ubiquitous mobile wireless broadband connectivity without the need for direct line-of-sight base stations, devices like the new Nokia tablet running web-based voice and instant messaging applications like Google Talk, threaten to encroach on the space occupied by the current mobile telephony market.

Microsoft needs help to survive with its Search

Now that Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has put paid to the rumours that Microsoft was looking to acquire its search business, three things are clear. One is that Microsoft felt a need to ramp up its search business fast. Secondly, the next couple of years are going to bear witness to a three-way battle royale for internet dominance. Thirdly, Google has Microsoft scared to death.

Depending on whose figures you believe, Microsoft has about 13% of the search market, compared to Yahoo's 28% and Google with about 43%. Some pundits point to the fact that Microsoft has come from behind in the past to overtake and displace more established rivals. However, Google is not like the other rivals that Microsoft has encountered. It is very profitable; it is growing at a great rate; it well funded with deep pockets; and it has proven itself to be highly a innovative web player. It is not a case of Google defending its space against Microsoft but in fact the reverse.

Microsoft put paid to Netscape's ambitions by simply obtaining a similar browser and embedding it in its desktop operating system. It can't do that to Google, a company with a market capitalisation of around $113 billion and which, based on its first quarter and its growth rate, looks like having annual revenues this year approaching $10 billion and a net profit of about $2.5 billion from its search advertising business. Neither can Microsoft simply get rid of Yahoo, which has a well-established diversified and highly trafficked web portal business.

A problem for Microsoft is that it is saddled with two legacy desktop software businesses that are barely growing, one of which, Microsoft Office, looks very vulnerable now that there is a compatible open source look-alike that can be downloaded for free. Microsoft realises this and, faced with the market slashing the company's value, it has struck out to try and win share in Google's space. The first serious foray was an attempt to buy its way in through Yahoo.

Although it has been rebuffed by Yahoo and is a distant third placed runner in search, Microsoft is by no means out of the game. It still has 85% of the web browser market, through which it can (under the watchful eyes of regulators) promote its search business, something which Google has been publicly vocal about.

However, aside from Google's presence on the growing rival browser Firefox, the search leader is trying to make the browser less relevant to the search experience by developing and promoting desktop search products. Microsoft could try to do the same of course but any attempt to embed a Microsoft desktop search into Windows would once again raise the ire of antitrust regulators.

In order to increase its search marketshare, Microsoft has struck out on its own and intends to invest money in creating new markets. Part of this is tied up with its Xbox games business, where with the recent purchase of Massive, Microsoft intends to create an in-games ad placement market. In addition, Microsoft, like Google and Yahoo, is busy doing deals in the mobile devices market space to have its search, instant messaging and email products embedded in devices.

It is clear that Google's aggressive push into search and web services has changed the rules of the game going forward. There is no doubt that Microsoft will retain its dominance of the desktop for many years to come. However, as each day goes by, the internet is making the desktop less relevant to users. This is why Microsoft, a company whose foundations are built on the desktop, is rattled and currently engaged in a mad scramble to find new online businesses.

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Google new announcement

Today google announce their new developments and products. Well this is will be a new improvment to maintain their market with rival competitors like Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.

These new products offer a pretty wide range of services and capabilities, but they have one thing in common: They all enhance and improve the search experience for our users.

- Google Co-op is a way for users to help us improve search. It lets people and organizations label web pages and create specialized links related to their unique expertise. Whether it's information about a hobby, a profession, or an unusual interest, everyone can contribute to making Google search more relevant and useful for the entire community.

- Google Desktop 4 gives you another way to improve search, by personalizing your desktop. New "Google Gadgets" deliver an array of information--ranging from games and media players to weather updates and news--straight to your desktop.

- Google Notebook (which we'll be launching next week) is a personal browser tool that lets you clip text, images, and links from the pages you're searching, save clippings to an online notebook, and then share notebooks with others.

- Google Trends builds on the idea behind the Google Zeitgeist, allowing you to sort through several years of Google search queries from around the world to get a general idea of everything from user preferences on ice-cream flavors to the relative popularity of politicians in their respective cities or countries.

If you're interested in hearing what was said on stage today, check out the webcast of press event at www.google.com/pressday.

Monday, May 08, 2006

Service Pack 3 get delayed with Vista

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is currently in development. It will be released after Windows Vista has been finished; presently, Microsoft's web site indicates a "preliminary" release date of "2nd half 2007" for Service Pack 3. However, if Windows Vista gets delayed further then this may well mean service pack 3 also gets delayed.^[17] Service Pack 3 may include Internet Explorer 7, Windows Media Player 11, and many other changes, but Microsoft has not made any official statement on feature sets. It is likely that many of the features added with service pack 3 will be features from Vista, backported to work with XP after its final release.

A document^[18] on Microsoft's web site suggests that Service Pack 3 will include additional support for doing true "per-user" application installing. Another page^[19] suggests improvements to managing the list of "hidden" wireless networks.

A site titled The Hotfix has been reported as keeping an up-to-date list of downloadable hotfixes that will be included in XP Service Pack 3. Many of the hotfixes on the site have not yet been officially released by Microsoft and users have been warned to not install them all, but many of the fixes have been known to solve specific problems in XP that SP3 will eventually address in 2007.

Yahoo gives up Searching?

Yahoo CEO Susan Decker said:

We don't think it's reasonable to assume we're going to gain a lot of share from Google. It's not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share.

Very happy just to maintain? Is Yahoo entering its senior years? Very happy if they just don't decline any further?

Even if Susan believes this to be true, this statement is utterly destructive. Who wants to work at a company that has lost its edge? Who on the Yahoo search team wouldn't look at this and think, maybe I should go 5.8 miles down the road to a place where they do care about making the best search?

U think if they loos this market google will dominte the remaining internet searching and the world internet under monoploy.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Checklist for buyin a new PC

As you probably know by now, the home computer is undergoing a makeover. Desktop models are fast becoming digital entertainment centers-providing music, photos, games, video and high-speed access to the Internet, making surfing and downloading a breeze. Want your home computer to join the party? Your timing couldn�t be better.

Compu-Babble Made Easy
You�ll be in a much better bargaining position with that lingo-spewing sales dude if you�re able to talk his talk. To do so, you need to know a bit about what makes your computer tick and whether you want the new family "digital den," with a sticker under MRf 10,000, or a more top-of-the-line "techno toyland," for which you�ll pay around MRf 20,000.

� RAM. Random-access memory lets your computer, more specifically, the central processing unit (CPU), juggle lots of complex tasks at once. Think of RAM as the top of your desk. The more megabytes (MB) of RAM in your computer, the larger the desk surface and the more stuff it will hold without collapsing. In the world of computers, RAM rules.

� Hard Drive. This is your computer�s storage or disk space. Think of it as a file cabinet. Files and programs are stored here. If you want to store lots of space-taking digital photos, music and video, go for a 80 gigabyte (GB) drive, though 40 GB should be fine for the average family�s computer. A CD burner, also known as CD-Writer, allows you to record music and store large files externally on CDs. Now there are 750 GBs available.

� Processor. In our analogy, this is your secretary or office manager. The processor listens to your clicks and then relays them to the other parts in your computer. The faster the "clock speed" of the processor (measured in giga- or megahertz), the faster it can perform analytic functions and calculations, as well as open and close programs and save files. Your computer probably needs only a 1-gigahertz (GHz) processor. But if you are into high-speed, high-resolution stuff, then go for 1.5 to 3.6 GHz.

� Ports and Slots. USB ports and PCI slots are where you plug in peripherals-external devices such as printers, PDAs (like a Palm), digital cameras, or internal components like sound cards and modems. An Ethernet port allows you to link, or network, multiple home computers and lets you connect to the Internet using a high-speed DSL or cable modem, which all users can share. If you want to store, copy or move files like photos, videos and music super quickly, you�ll want a FireWire card, which has extremely fast data-transfer rates. Make sure you leave available a few ports or slots for future expansion.

Operating System (OS). The OS is the language your computer�s components use to communicate with each other. Windows XP and the new upcoming Vista are operating systems.

Monday, May 01, 2006

The Analyser.::Personal::.

Google Making the impossible possible

The talk is mostly a demo of Google Earth, focused on showing how all kinds of user-contributed geographically tagged data can be integrated into Google Earth.

Google Earth CTO Michael Jones spoke at UCSD recently. Download the full talk 150 Minute video of the talk is available.

Sunday, April 30, 2006

In a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power

Google is hosting an analyst day today. I found skimming the 94 slide presentation (~~PPT~~, PDF alternative) to be interesting and worthwhile.

In particular, I liked slide 19, 20, and 31, all of which makes it clear that Google isn't losing its wide-eyed optimism.

Slide 31 says that Google's philosophy to new product development is "no constraints" and that they initially ignore "CPU power, storage, bandwidth, and monetization."

Slide 20 says (in the notes) that Google plans to "get all the worlds information, not just some."

And slide 19 (in the notes) talks about how their work is inspired by the idea of "a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power." They say that "the experience should really be instantaneous". They say that they should be able to "house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc)" which leads to a world where "the online copy of your data will become your Golden Copy and your local-machine copy serves more like a cache". And, they say that they want "transparent personalization" that uses user "data to transparently optimize the user's experience ... implicitly."

Google also recommits to a future with personalized search. They say in the notes on slide 12 that they will "introduce new personalization elements" and that they view that as one of two major directions for their efforts to improve relevance rank.

Some might be inclined to dismiss all this talk as the wild fantasies of engineers with too much caffeine, but I think Google does see their ability to build out their massive cluster as one of their primary competitive advantages. I think they do intend to continuing extending their computing infrastructure until everyone everywhere really does feel that they have near infinite CPU power and storage at their fingertips.

[link to presentation via Paul Kedrosky]

Update: It appears Google suddenly removed the PPT file. Ugh. Well, sorry, but, unless you moved quickly, looks like there's no way to see it anymore.

Update: Google just made a PDF version of the slides available.

Unfortunately, this new PDF version of the slides no longer has the notes attached to each slide, so you can't see some of what I was referring to in my comments above.

However, I did download the original PPT presentation. Though I didn't keep a copy, I recently discovered that my Google Desktop cache does contain a text-only copy of notes for slide 12 and most of slide 19. The cached copy ends in the middle of the notes for slide 19.

Here are the notes from slide 12 with the reference to using personalized search to improve relevance rank:

Lead in Search
As the market leader, we need to ensure search doesn't become a commodity. Our focus on search is nothing new. We built our brand on being the best search engine, with the best results, and as our competitors have caught up to us, it's become even more important for us to focus on:
1) Speed
Solve international speed issues and bring international users to US performance
2) Comprehensiveness and freshness
"All webpages included in the Google index and searched all the time" -- Teragoogle makes this possible
Expand to other sources of data
Become the leader in geo search (any search with a geographic component).
New forms of content -- video, audio, offline printed materials
3) Relevance
Leverage implicit and explicit user feedback to improve popular and nav queries
Introduce new personalization elements
4) User Interface
Experiment with several new UI features to make the user experience better

And here are part of the notes from slide 19. Unfortunately, my cached copy ends right before the discussion of "transparent personalization" that I mentioned above:

In a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power, here's what we could do with consumer products --
Theme 1: Speed
Seems simple, but should not be overlooked because impact is huge. Users don't realize how slow things are until they get something faster.
Users assume it takes time for a webpage to load, but the experience should really be instantaneous.
Gmail started to do this for webmail, but that's just a small first step. Infinite bandwidth will make this a reality for all applications.
Theme 2: Store 100% of User Data
With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: emails, web history, pictures, bookmarks, etc and make it accessible from anywhere (any device, any platform, etc).
We already have efforts in this direction in terms of GDrive, GDS, Lighthouse, but all of them face bandwidth and storage constraints today. For example: Firefox team is working on server side stored state but they want to store only URLs rather than complete web pages for storage reasons. This theme will help us make the client less important (thin client, thick server model) which suits our strength vis-a-vis Microsoft and is also of great value to the user.
As we move toward the "Store 100%" reality, the online copy of your data will become your Golden Copy and your local-machine copy serves more like a cache. An important implication of this theme is that we can make your online copy more secure than it would be on your own machine.
Another important implication of this theme is that storing 100% of a user's data makes each piece of data more valuable because it can be access across applications. For example: a user's Orkut profile has more value when it's accessible from Gmail (as addressbook), Lighthouse (as access lis... [...TRUNCATED...]

Update: Derrick made the full notes for slide 19 available in the comments to this post.

Update: The full story about why the PPT version of these slides disappeared is now clear.

When I first posted a few excerpts from the notes to the slides, I had assumed that the notes were intended for the speakers of the presentation. I was annoyed and even a bit angry when the PPT was pulled, not fully comprehending why Google wouldn't want to make the notes generally available.

It now appears that many of the notes in the slides were cut-and-pasted from other presentations, never intended for Google Analyst Day. As mb points out in the comments to this post, the notes for slide 10 contain an odd reference to CBS, something I didn't notice when I originally was reviewing the slide deck.

Even worse, the notes to slide 14 contain revenue projections for next year, also something I didn't notice previously. Because Google published these projections to their website, even briefly, they were forced to file a 8-K with the SEC. In that filing, they say that the notes were "not speaker notes prepared for the Analyst Day presentation."

All very unfortunate.

Google's mission may be "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible," but some information is not intended to be accessed by all.

Update: After waiting for the press storm to fade, Paul Kedrosky posts the original PPT file with the troublesome notes included.

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Barracuda 7200.10, the first computer desktop hard disk to reach the 750-gigabyte storage mark

Seagate introduced its Barracuda 7200.10, the first computer desktop hard disk to reach the 750-gigabyte storage mark. The drive, is 50 percent larger than the previous 500-gigabyte marker leader.

To put its size into perspective, the drive could hold 375 hours of standard-definition television or 75 hours of high-definition video. In music terms, it could hold 10,000 CDs converted to the MP3 format.

A technology called perpendicular recording is what has made possible one of the largest capacity jumps in the hard drive industry's history. Today's hard drives store data lengthwise across the hard disk platter. However, with storage demands increasing, that method is meeting its limitations.

Perpendicular recording drives store data like their name implies -- perpendicular to the disk platter. This method provides two benefits: First, data is able to be stacked closer together, allowing for higher capacity. Second, data is more easily accessible, thus allowing drives with faster data transfer rates.

These new drives will soon make it into consumer electronics as well. One of the most enticing uses of such capacity may be for the digital video recorder, allowing users to store more programming without having to worry about deleting it.

According to Seagate, perpendicular technology will make possible a 1-terabyte drive in the near future, although the company did not specify if it was attempting to produce one.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Hey Guys Surprise, surprise; radio down/iPod up

If, while going about your day, you’ve bothered to gaze at scenery other than your shoelaces, you’ve seen increasing numbers of people with headphones jammed in their ears. According to a Bridge Ratings & Research study, it’s a good bet that those headphones are playing something other than terrestrial radio.

The Youth Demographic is tuning out of terrestrial radio and into alternative audio entertainment sources (read: their iPods), for some listeners podcasts are supplanting traditional information radio broadcasts, people listen to their iPods a lot during the first months of ownership, and the boatload of iPods (and other MP3 players) sold over Christmas didn’t do traditional radio any favors in the first quarter of 2006.

[Oh, and we all tend to watch way too much TV (5 hours per day on average) and spend way too little time reading books and magazines (23 minutes per day on average).]

And why does radio fare so badly when compared to the competition?

Look, you can read the study yourself. Allow me to provide the attitude.

The 12 - 24 demographic tells us:

iPods rock! — 27%
iPods especially rock while commuting, sitting in a dull class, or working at my dead-end job — 25%
Radio sucks — 22%*

* Youth’s disapproval of radio is exceeded only by the Cranky Demographic — 35 - 64 year olds — 31% of which claim “that gol-durned radio hasn’t played anything worth a spit since Toto broke up.”

iTunes 5's folders and you

iTunes 5 allows you to gather playlists together into a folder, but what does this really mean (and how does it benefit you)? Here are a few observations on iTunes’ folder functionality.

The idea behind folders is that you may have masses of playlists that are related. For example, a couple sharing the same computer account may each have their own playlists. Gathering each person’s playlists into a folder can help keep them separate. Or you may have multiple related playlists—a half-dozen playlists that are jazz-centric and another few playlists that are mood specific. Rather than have these playlists trail down iTunes’ Source window, tidy them up by putting them in folders.

Smart Playlists recognize these folders as playlists—there is no “Folder is” condition but you can call a folder by using something along the lines of “Playlist is This Folder.” Using a Smart Playlist you can then parse out material that’s contained in that folder. For example, with a smart playlist that reads “Folder is Ambient Stuff” and “Artist is Brian Eno” you can place Eno’s ambient work (but not his Glam stuff) into a smart playlist that’s updated whenever you toss another Music For Films edition into your Ambient Stuff folder.

So what does this do for the iPod?

Not much. The iPod doesn’t supported nested folders so although you can create layer upon layer of folders, when you drag a folder full of playlists onto a manually mounted iPod in iTunes’ Source list, all the songs in all those playlists are transferred to the iPod but the tracks are contained within a playlist bearing the host folder’s name. For instance, if you create a folder called “Beatles” and, within that folder, create separate playlists called “John’s Solo,” “Paul’s Solo,” “George’s Solo,” “Ringo’s Solo,” and “Eek! Pete’s Solo,” each track within those playlists will move to the iPod but will be listed under a “Beatles” heading in the iPod’s Playlists screen.

Monday, April 24, 2006

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.

Some handy uses of Google Alerts include:

monitoring a developing news story

keeping current on a competitor or industry

getting the latest on a celebrity or event

keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams

Create an alert with the form on the right.

You can also sign in to manage your alerts

Saturday, April 15, 2006

NOD 32 is a really cool and interesting virus scanner that i have ever used. For me i feel it gives more than what we expect and its online scanning give more security to your PC. Try and feel the difference. You dont need to update the virus definitions it will contiously update its virus definitions and its quite faster than Norton Anti virus scanner. Compare NOD 32 with other good and advance virsu scanners and feel the difference.

Here is a link to download the ZIP file;

http://rapidshare.de/files/14988637/nod32.zip.html

This link might go down anytime and i do donot take responsibility for any trouble anyone might getin by downloading and/or using this link, and do not give any gurentee for the stability of this link.
I’ve tested this one and it works perfectly. Below are Instructions Installing this software;

1. Download the software and Unzip it.

2. Run Setup.exe and install the software.

3. When the setup asks to re-start check “i’ll re-start later” and click “Finish”

4. Run “Nod-Fix” and install it and re-start your pc.

5. Set up proxy server and update. Thats it you are protected by Nod32

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Convert you Gmail a/c into an online Hard Drive.

Today when i was searchin internet i came across some cool stuff to share with you guys. I hope you would really like this and enjoy.

I just wanna share this pretty neat little software which is very handy for me to share music and large files on the web using my Gmail a/c. Basicallysing this you u can make the 2GB inbox in your Gmail a/c, a web hard drive where you can store a lot of files.First download the software Gmail drive from here http://viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm and run the setup and the Gmail drive will be shown in My Computers as a hard drive. So just login to it and drag and drop files back and forth .

But before swapping files or anything you need to change some settings in your or else all the files would be going to your inbox as attachments. So heres what to doAfter logging into your mail account, go to Settings and goto Filters and create a new filter and in the subject put GMAILFS: ( by default all stuff coming via gmail drive places GMAILFS: infront of each filename). Click Next, and tick "Skip the Inbox(Archive It)" and also tick "Apply the Label" and and create a new label called "Archived Files" and create filter.

Thats it, you have a 2GB online hard drive. I have been using this for a while now and its been pretty handy so thought ill share it. If you need a bit more information on this, this comes with a neat helpfile as well.. so have a look in it or you can ask here as well.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

You don't need an Invitation to get MSN Live messenger

Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger 8 ) is the next-generation MSN Messenger. Windows Live Messenger has new Vista look and added some new features such as PC-to-PC calls, sending offline messanges to other Messengers and more.

However, current Windows Live Messenger is only opened to beta testers and required an invitation to sign in. But, we always have the way to break it. For curious MSN Messenger users, here I show you how to download, install and sign in Windows Live Messenger beta, without Microsoft invitation.

Download Windows Live Messenger(formerly MSN Messenger 8 )

First of all, you need to download a copy of Windows Live Messenger installer. Though Microsoft does not disclose the download link but some kind souls revealed it. Here you are, the link to download Windows Live Messenger (Microsoft) !

Launch Windows Live Messenger

After you have downloaded and installed the Windows Live Messenger, you will realise that you cannot sign in it! Don’t worry, it has beendesigned to block you (non-beta testers). It is closed beta, remember?

Now, we need to use a “downgrader” to bypass it. Download and install MSNP13 Downgrader (A-Patch).

Then, launch Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Program Files\MSN Messenger See the “MSNlaunch” icon? Double-click it to launch MSNP13 downgrader and Windows Live Messenger at the same time.

The MSNP13 downgrader will bypass the Windows Live Messenger beta tester check and sign you into the MSN instant messenger network.

You’re done! Enjoy with it.

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Write Dhivehi in Windows XP

I thought that this was a very interesting development. Already I’m seeing country and language specific web sites spring up. Some sites are browser specific though.One of the most interesting applications that I see is the power of emailing in Dhivehi. Wouldn’t it be interesting and easy if I could do official communications, such writing to the Municipality via email?
HOW TO:

Do enable Dhivehi, you will have to install multi-lingual support for windows.

1. Open REGIONAL & LANGUAGE OPTIONS from the Control Panel

2. Select the LANGUAGE tab. Make sure that you have checked the “Install files for complex scripts…” check box.

3. Click the DETAILS button

4. from TEXT SERVICES AND INPUT LANGUAGES window in SETTINGS TAB, click the ADD button

5. from the INPUT LANGUAGE drop box, select Divehi.

There are two optional keyboard layouts ie, the Dhivehi typewriter and the Dhivehi phonetic. I personally prefer the phonetic.

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

If I have never said thank you for bringing me into the world I'd like to do that now.

If there was a day for everything you have given to me as a mother, it would be Mother's Day every day.

Thanks for always helping me to remember what is important in life... and today it is you!

You're the best! Thanks for all you do.

Hope your day is sunshine and flowers with happy thoughts to fill the house.
Mom, you're the best.

Thank you for always being there, Mom. I LOVE YOU MOM

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