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online php course training classes in dilsukhnagar, hyderabad, india

2009-09-22T05:36:00.001-07:00

WEBSOFT -Software Development & Leading Training center in dilsukhnagar, Hyderabad, india.
we are offering excellent Online php training classes from our Organization.

- The training would be on XAMPP latest version with the latest PHP
and MySQL softwares.

- You would be provided with excellent study material with some live real time examples,
case studies.

1, Training on php 5.3 (latest Version).

2, Special Session on Upgradation changes from PHP5.0 to PHP 6.0 Version

3, PHP trainer is a developer from WEBSOFT, Hyderabad.

4, Domain Experience of 2 years in PHP.

5, Duration of the Course is 30 days.

6, Short-Term Courses and week-end batches(saturday & sunday) were also available.

7, Study material consists of theoretical concepts & complete practical concepts involving the designing techniques of Real-time projects.

8, Assistance in the installation of XAMPP in your PC or Laptop (One special session)

9, Batch Restricted to 5 Candidates Only.

10, Integration with MySQL in PHP is covered in the MySQL concepts session.

Contents:

* php Introduction

* php Basics

* php terminology

* php Conditionals and loops

* php Functions

* php Arrays

* php Dynamic Designing

* HTML forms using php

* Sending E-mail using php

* php sessions

* mysql basics

* php Project designing and development

For more details on online php training contact Mr.Harsha at harsha@thewebsoft.com
or call to +91-9701935333.

or visit the company at http://www.thewebsoft.com

mallanna telugu movie review and story

2009-08-21T11:25:00.001-07:00

Cast: Vikram, Shriya, Krishna, Prabhu, Brahmanandam, Ashish Vidyarthi, Mukesh Tiwari, Mumait Khan and others.
Action: Chatrapathi Shakti.
Art: Padmashri Thota Tharani.
Cinematography: NK Ekambaram.
Editing: Praveen KL & Srikanth KB.
Lyrics: Sahithi.
Music: Devisri Prasad.
Presenter: V Creations Kalaipuli S. Thanu.
Story, Screenplay, & Director: Susi Ganeshan.
Release Date: August 21, 2009

Vikram and Shriya After all that hype and numerous delays, Mallanna is finally here. If it had released right after the hit Aparichitudu, it would have gotten a different reaction. As it is, a lot of curiousity has been aroused-what took so long to make? After Gentleman and Shivaji, this is another movie on Black Money. While Bharatiyudu was essentially about bribes and Aparichitudu on corruption, and the former had a freedom fighter and the latter an multiple personality disorder (MPD) patient, Mallanna has an honest cop who raids rich homes and with a gang of poor childhood pals all of them now in the department, gives it to the poor a la Robin Hood. He comes in the guise of an Avtaar of Lord Shiva, Mallanna, with an elaborate super hero costume and feathers.

He has his reasons for the set-up and while he is scrupulous, he isn't omnipotent. People who pray to the village deity write letters and tie it to a tree outside the temple. With a whole crew working for this cause, the letters are brought, read and acted upon and black money goes back to the public. Logically unattainable? Oh yeah? When was the last time we met someone who got bitten by a spider and started jumping off scrapers without injury? It's fiction so view it as such.

It's not without its faults. Parts of it look outdated. Shirya is Subba Laxmi, a spoilt rich kid whose father is paralysed due to a raid by Mallanna-IPS, and she seeks revenge and the duo have a love-hate relationship trying to outwit each other and pretending to be in love. Sometimes those parts drag, along with Brahmanandam who is wasted in a series of not-so-funny sequences where he pretends to be Mallanna. But they spent all this time not for nothing. The script seems to have been reworked and the effect is that it is compact for the most parts and does not drag as a whole.

Vikram's job is not easy, but it is simple. He seems to pick one animal per movie. Like a gorilla or a rooster this time. As Mallanna IPS he is a suave, smug officer, straight-backed, tuck-shirt, aviators. As Mallanna-the-rooster-avataar he's over the top, graceful and clearly enjoying himself even though as an officer he has a permanent "the joke is on you" expression. He has a strong screen presence, and even Shriya in her brief and slightly irritating role with that silly hairdo has a good presence, seems to have grown very confident as an actor and somehow manages to pull off a sensual and grey portrayal like this-a big deviation from looking pretty and acting 'bubbly' or dimwitted. She dances and moves really well, but the music by Devisri Prasad is too repetitive and even the Tamil dubbing sounds off sometimes.

The movie has its moments like when you realize that a team of young officers are pulling off a spectacle show for real to scare people or make them believe in the enigmatic God. The black money routing, as shown in Shivaji, is explained again with some real people references (find them). Mallanna using Subba Laxmi to get the password after she cheats him into confessing about his alter nature.

Two of the action sequences are good. Overall, it's an entertaining one-time watch!

vizag steel plant management trainee (MT) admit card

2009-08-20T22:46:00.000-07:00

Admit cards are now available at the below link. The centers are also changed now!

admit card: http://220.226.203.66/VSP_mtt/reg1.php?q=dbo

information booklet: http://220.226.203.66/VSP_mtt/info.pdf

abdul kalam's speech about india, indian's must read article

2009-08-19T23:22:00.000-07:00

r u really an INDIAN!

do u really love ur country! INDIA

can u spend 10 min! to know real fact of citizen of INDIA

like u!!!!! & off course me too,

THE WORDS OF Dr. A.P.J.ABDUL KALAAM

*Please read this article by giving 10 minutes from your busy life. Really good.... ** *

* The President of India DR. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 's Speech in Hyderabad .. *

Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our
Achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success
Stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice..
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a
Self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements
But our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters. I
Was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the
Day
After a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The
Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a
Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid
And a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The
Gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the
Newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so
NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign
Things? We want foreign T. Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign
Technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that
Self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this
Lecture,
When a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal
In life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her,
You and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India
Is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation. Do you
Have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is
Yours.
YOU say that our government is inefficient..
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke,
The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?
Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - YOURS. Give him a
Face - YOURS. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International
Best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in
The stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are. You pay
$5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim
Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking
Lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or
A shopping mall irrespective of your status identity... In Singapore you
Don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during
Ramadan, in Dubai . YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered
In Jeddah . YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange
In London at 10 pounds ( Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD
Calls are billed to someone else.'YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph
(88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop,
'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son.
Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell
Anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New India ?

Once in an interview, the famous Ex-municipal commissioner of Bombay , Mr.
Tinaikar , had a point to make. 'Rich people's dogs are walked on the
streets to leave their affluent droppings all over the place,' he said. 'And
then the same people turn around to criticize and blame the
authorities for inefficiency and dirty pavements. What do they expect the
officers to do? Go down with a broom every time their dog feels the pressure
in his bowels?
In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job.
Same in Japan . Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to
the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.
We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do
everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the
government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all
over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper
and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms
but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air America to bask in their
glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to
England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out
to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and
brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape
the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is
mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great
deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too.... I am echoing J. F.
Kennedy 's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians.....

'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA
AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA
WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'

Lets do what India needs from us.

Forward this mail to each Indian for a change instead of sending Jokes or
junk mails.

Thank you,

Dr. Abdul Kalaam

plz change ur self!

after all! nation can be made healthy & best, only by citizen! then who else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!plzzzzzzzzzz

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY---------------

indian squad for champions trophy and triangular series

2009-08-18T23:02:00.000-07:00

India squad for Triangular Series:
Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Suresh Raina, Abhishek Nayar, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, R.P.Singh, Ishant Sharma, Amith Mishra, Dinesh Karthik, Virat Kohli.

India squad for Champions Trophy: Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Suresh Raina, Abhishek Nayar, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ashish Nehra, R.P.Singh, Ishant Sharma, Amith Mishra, Dinesh Karthik.

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Scientific Prevention of Swine Flue using Household Products

2009-08-18T10:34:00.001-07:00

Homeopathy medicine for Swine flu

Influenzum 200 5 pills three times a day for 5 days - homeopathy
medicine as prevention for swine flu for kids - pls pass it on to all
concerned .

Swine Flu Prevention- Ayurved..

Scientific Prevention of Swine Flue using Household Products
1. Inhale Clove Oil (Lavang) For 1 Second.
2. Chew 1 Clove In a Day
3. Eat Raw Garlic (Lasun), Onion, Ginger (Aale) (1 to 5gm)
4. Drink Hot Milk With 2gm of Turmeric
5. Consume Plenty Of Vitamin C Fruits-Lemon/ Avala '

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swine flu symptoms

2009-08-18T10:29:00.000-07:00

The typical symptoms are:

a sudden fever (a high body temperature of 38°C/100.4°F or above), and
a sudden cough.

Other symptoms may include:

headache,
tiredness,
chills,
aching muscles,
limb or joint pain,
diarrhoea or stomach upset,
sore throat,
runny nose,
sneezing, or
loss of appetite.

Checking symptoms

It makes sense to have a working thermometer at home, as an increase in temperature is one of the main symptoms.

Call your GP directly if:

you have a serious existing illness that weakens your immune system, such as cancer,
you are pregnant,
you have a sick child under one,
your condition suddenly gets much worse, or
your condition is still getting worse after seven days (five for a child).

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achytam keshavam (krishna) video song with latest music beats

2009-08-18T03:29:00.000-07:00

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Bing Still Growing, Steals Market Share from Google

2009-08-17T04:07:00.000-07:00

We already knew that Microsoft’s Bing got off to a good start by gaining Microsoft will soon take over in June, according to comScore.

Now, analytics and research firm StatCounter has released their July numbers for search, and they’re telling the same story: Bing is gaining traction. According to the report, Bing has gained 1.24% market share, up to 9.41%.

But this time, those new searches didn’t come at the expense of Yahoo, whose search engine Microsoft will soon take over, but from Google itself, which lost nearly 1% of the search market during the month.

According to StatCounter, Yahoo and Bing combined now control more than 20% of the search market, up from 19.27%. comScore indicates that their combined market share in June was 29%, so there is some disagreement as to the actual numbers.

Should Google be scared? Perhaps not yet, but at the very least, it indicates that the Google vs. Microsoft rivalry is heating up, with the Yahoo search deal only intensifying the competition.

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art of living bhajan, shiv sambho sambho bhajan

2009-08-16T23:36:00.000-07:00

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art of living bhajan, jai jai radha ramana hari bol

2009-08-16T23:34:00.000-07:00

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Sri Sri Ravi shankar about "time", art of living

2009-08-16T23:32:00.001-07:00

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art of living, sri sri ravi shankar, aol, about human mind

2009-08-16T23:29:00.000-07:00

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Customize the Start Menu Button in windows xp

2009-08-16T05:54:00.000-07:00

Change the word START:

Copy the file EXPLORER.EXE from your Windows directory to a temporary working directory.
Using a hex editor (like UltraEdit-32), open the copy of EXPLORER.EXE.
Search for 53 00 74 00 61 00 72 00 74, which are the letters in the word "Start," separated by null characters (#00). It's a good idea to search and replace all occurances of Start in the file, as just editing this one doesn't seem to do it.
You can replace any of the five characters, but do not change the null characters. Although you can't use a word longer than five characters, you can have shorter words by including spaces (#32) for the remaining places.
Save the changes and exit to DOS (for Windows 9x/Me) or reboot into the Windows Recovery Console (Windows XP/2000).
Here, you'll be able to backup the original file and replace it with your modified version. When you restart Windows, the change should take effect immediately.
Note: if you can't find START at the address above, do a search for it (make sure to include the interstitial null characters), as it may have been altered by another program.
Note: there has been at least one report that the only occurrence of S T A R T that you need to change is the last one. If changing just the last occurrence works for you, then that's all you need. If not, try replacing them all.

Change the icon:

Copy the file USER.EXE from your Windows\System directory to a temporary working directory.
Using an icon editor that can read executables (like Microangelo), open the copy of USER.EXE.
The Start Menu uses the flag logo, the very first icon in this file. What you need to be aware of, is that there are several versions of this icon in the file, each a different size. Depending on what font size you have your Start Menu font configured (Control Panel -> Display Properties -> Appearance), the actual icon may be the 16x16 or the 22x22 variations. Your best bet is to edit them all, and save your changes when you're finished.
Next, exit to DOS (for Windows 9x/Me) or reboot into the Windows Recovery Console (Windows XP/2000).
Here, you'll be able to backup the original file and replace it with your modified version. When you restart Windows, the change should take effect immediately.

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how to customise or edit or get your name in uour start button

2009-08-14T02:21:00.000-07:00

First you need a tool called "Resource Hacker". This free program allows you to change resources in any .exe file such as "Explorer.exe", which includes the [Start] button's Label. You can visit Download.com and search there for "Resource Hacker".
After you download it, follow the guide here:

Step 1:

A - Run "Resource Hacker" and open the file "%windir%\Explorer.exe".
B - You see a Tree of all Resources in this file, expand the "String Table"
C - Find the "start" and replace it with your own text. then press the [Compile Script] button.
D - Save "Explorer.exe" as "MyStart.exe" DONT save it as Explorer.exe, do "save as.." and give it a new name.
E - Quit "Resource Hacker".

Step 2:

A - Click on the [Start] button and choose the "Run..." item from the start menu. (Or use the shortcut key WinKey+R)
B - Type "RegEdit" in the Run "Dialog Box". And then press the [Ok] buton to run the "Registry Editor" program.
C - Go to: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon" and find the "Shell" property.
D - Replace value of the "Shell" property to "MyStart.exe".
E - Quit "Registry Editor".
F - Restart your system.

Note about Registry Editor:
if you did not find the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon", you can search the Registry for the "Explorer.exe", to do this use the Edit Menu | Find Next (Ctrl+F).

AmirBehzad Eslami's site has a handy tool for altering your start button, which makes life much easier, you can find his site here:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/change_text_on_xp_start_button.htm

how to view or execute chm, .chm files in linux

2009-08-14T02:07:00.000-07:00

download the following rpms on ur pc:-

rpm -ivh http://dag.wieers.com/packages/chmlib/chmlib-0.35-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/fedora/3/en/i386/dag/RPMS/wxGTK-2.4.2-5.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh http://acmserver.cs.ucr.edu/%7Ensoracco/rpms/xchm-0.9.8-1.i386.rpm

Note:- i am giving the path of packages for fedora core 3. if want for any other os take a look at the following sites.

chmlib:- http://dag.wieers.com/packages/chmlib/
wxGTK:- ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/

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vishakapatnam steel plant recruitment of management trainee, it, technical, vsp retest

2009-08-14T02:04:00.000-07:00

VISAKHAPATNAM STEEL PLANT
Recruitment of Management Trainee (Technical)
Dt. 11-8-2009
On the basis of the feedback received from the candidates and other sources, it has been decided to conduct re-test for the post of Management Trainee (Technical) which was held on 28th June, 2009.
All the candidates who appeared for the Written Test on 28th June, 2009 shall be issued fresh Admit Card that should be downloaded from the website www.vizagsteel.com from 19-8-
2009 onwards.

The date of re-test will be 6th September, 2009(Sunday).

you can find the same at http://www.vizagsteel.com/code/tenders/jobdocs/9338notice%20retest-web.pdf

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how to speed up your Internet in 3 easy steps

2009-08-14T01:56:00.000-07:00

Instructions

If your internet is slow, the first thing you may want to try is to delete all of the cookies or saved web pages that your computer might be storing. Simply click the tools tab in your browser and scroll down to internet options. Underneath browsing history, click the delete button. Make sure you check the delete all offline content box.
A slow connection could also be because of too much adware or spyware on your PC. Luckily, that is easily taken care of. Try Lavasoft's Adaware program. It is free and reliable. Make sure that you update the definition file every time you use it, however. This is the only way to keep Adaware accurate.
Another thing that could be slowing down your internet or computer is a virus. Unfortunately, this may require the purchase of a virus detection and deletion program. Prices are usually not too expensive, and are quite worth it.

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how to speed up your computer in five (5) easy steps

2009-08-14T01:48:00.000-07:00

Speeding up your computer performance is not as difficult as you might think. Just follow these simple tips and you will find your computer run at its top performance. Once more, don’t trust any articles that claim a registry cleaner alone can make a radical improvement.

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Windows OS
anti virus (free version)
registry cleaner (free version)

Windows System Configuration Utility Console

Shut off Unneeded Services and Control Windows Startup Programs.
In order to get rid of the resource-wasting programs, you must open "System Configuration Utility" by typing and entering "msconfig" in the "Run" command that lies on your Windows start menu. Under "Startup" tab, choose which application that you don't need.
Windows Disk Defragmenter

Defrag your hard drive. When you write, create, or copy a new file, Windows will allocate space needed for that file. It will automatically write the new file in the next available empty space. The problem is that most often the available space is limited by other file resides right next to that space. If the available space is not enough, Windows will split the new file and allocate the other part to another area of your hard drive. With more and more data are written this way, your file becomes fragmented because all the file’s parts are not in one location. This way, your computer needs to work harder to find all the pieces. As a result, performance slows over time. Defragmenting your hard drive will rearrange these files, reuniting the separated parts to make your files more quickly accessible. It should noticeably speed up the launch of programs and startup process. To run defragmenter using the built-in module in Windows XP and Vista, click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools then Disk Defragmenter.
Run anti virus and anti spyware scan. If you run Windows, frequently surf online, visit various websites, and download files often, you have high risk to be infected by malicious software (malware). Malware is one of the biggest culprits when it comes to a slow-running Windows. That’s why you need to run a full system scan at least once a week. Running antivirus scan can clear out resource-hogging infections. You don’t need those expensive antivirus services. Use AVG Anti-Virus free version (scroll down to get the download link). Keep also your virus definitions up to date and maintain good browsing habits to minimize the odds of getting infected.
Step 4

Windows Disk Cleanup

Remove Junk Files. Clean your system by doing some basic housekeeping regularly to preserve it from all the junk that tend to pile up in no time like your browser's cache and temporary files. You can use internal Windows Disk Cleanup. Open your Windows Explorer, choose the folder you want to clean and then right click it, choose Properties, and last choose Disk Cleanup. Similarly, you should consider uninstalling any applications you haven't used in over six months.
Step 5

CCleaner-The Free Registry Cleaner

Scan, Clean, and Fix Your Registry Problems. Windows Registry holds thousands of information of all those settings on your computer. With so many activities we do like installing and uninstalling programs, changing and modifying setting for every application, or updating new drivers, it is very possible there are missing or invalid registry entries and left-out registry keys from previous software installation. The problem is Windows isn’t good enough at optimizing and cleaning its own registry. For a while, this won't be a problem, but after some time the problem will be accumulated and soon become potential to cause various irritating computer problems. Thus, you need a registry cleaner that can fix this entire problem. No need to pay, just use the free registry cleaner like CCleaner (scroll down to get the download link). It is absolutely free to use. If you concern about the scanning capability of a free registry cleaner, you can use TuneUp Utilities 2009 trial version. Its registry cleaner module allows you to scan, clean, and repair your registry for 30 days.

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icc champions trophy 2009 schedules or fixtures

2009-08-14T01:45:00.000-07:00

ICC Champions Trophy 2009 will be played in South Africa. The sixth edition of ICC Champions Trophy will be played in Johannesburg and Centurion from September 22^nd to October 5^th.

The following are the two groups:
Group A: Australia, India, Pakistan, West Indies
Group B: South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, England

ICC Champions Trophy 2009 Fixtures (All timings are mentioned in GMT+05:30)

Timing	Teams	Venue	Results
Tue 22 Sep (D/N) 18:00 PM	Group B – Sri Lanka v South Africa	SuperSport Park, Centurion
Wed 23 Sep (D/N) 18:00 PM	Group A – Pakistan v West Indies	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Thu 24 Sep 13:00 PM	Group B – South Africa v New Zealand	SuperSport Park, Centurion
Fri 25 Sep (D/N) 18:00 PM	Group B – England v Sri Lanka	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat 26 Sep 13:00 PM	Group A – Australia v West Indies	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sat 26 Sep (D/N) 18:00 PM	Group A – India v Pakistan	SuperSport Park, Centurion
Sun 27 Sep 13:00 PM	Group B – New Zealand v Sri Lanka	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Sun 27 Sep (S/N) 18:00 PM	Group B – England v South Africa	SuperSport Park, Centurion
Mon 28 Sep (D/N) 18:00 PM	Group A – India v Australia	SuperSport Park, Centurion
Tue 29 Sep (D/N) 18:00 PM	Group B – England v New Zealand	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Wed 30 Sep 13:00 PM	Group A – Pakistan v Australia	SuperSport Park, Centurion
Wed 30 Sep (D/N) 18:00 PM	Group A – India v West Indies	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Fri 2 Oct (D/N) 18:00 PM	1^st Semi Final – A1 v B2	SuperSport Park, Centurion
Sat Oct 3 (D/N) 18:00 PM	2^nd Semi Final – A2 v B1	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg
Mon 5 Oct (D/N) 18:00 PM	Final – 1^st Semi Final winner v 2^nd Semi Final inner	SuperSport Park, Centurion

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andhra pradesh icet second (2nd) phase counselling in September

2009-08-14T01:17:00.000-07:00

Special Correspondent

Hyderabad: The second phase of counselling for ICET is likely to be held in September first week.

According to APSCHE Chairman K.C. Reddy, around 10,500 seats are still available in the new colleges .

Similarly, 115 MBA colleges with an intake of 9,000 seats and 15 MCA colleges with 1,500 seats submitted letters .

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2009-08-14T01:11:00.000-07:00

The Eamcet admissions committee will conduct another round of counselling for engineering seats in September after 82,500 students stayed away from the process in the first round.

“Some new colleges have been approved by AICTE.
This apart, some existing colleges have got additional branches and seats. We have no option but to conduct the second phase of counselling,” said Prof.
K.C. Reddy, chairman, APSCHE. He said the final allotment of seats will be made on August 31. “After this, counselling for pharmacy courses for BPC students will be conducted and later the second phase for MBA and MCA. The Eamcet second phase will be conducted after that.”

The committee will announce a detailed schedule for re-conducting the certificate verification process, and the ICET seat allotments for MBA and MCA courses will be made on Thursday. “The list will be kept on the website by evening,” Prof. Reddy said.

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, which runs IIITs at Idupulapaya, Nuzividu and Basar, will announce its fresh list on Thursday.

How to delete a blogger's blog(blogspot)

2009-08-11T02:38:00.000-07:00

New bloggers often miss this as the delete button is not displayed in a prominent place. If you want to delete a blog, sign into Blogger (Dashboard) and you should get a lists of all your blogs (obviously you will see only one blog if you have created only one). Click SETTINGS then you will see the option "blog tools". On the right of the blog tools you should see a "Delete This Blog" button. Click that button and you will be asked to confirm. If you are sure you don't want the blog, go ahead and confirm and your blog will be gone from the web.

However, note that if your blog had been indexed and cached by search engines, surfers may still be able to see the cached copy of the blog until it is deleted from the cache. That may take some time.

how to run and install teamviewer, remote desktop

2009-07-29T05:51:00.000-07:00

enter the url:http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lnymoznvtzj or click here.

you'll get an exe file.

Now open it, you'll see the following screen:

Also ask the other person to do the same as above.
Then ask his Id and click on connect to partner.
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How to install xampp in windows xp

2009-07-29T05:28:00.000-07:00

open the link http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/X AMPP%20Windows/xampp-win32-1.7.1-installer.exe/download in browser. with the above link you will be downloading the necessary xampp exe file in your computer.

double-click or press enter the xampp exe file.

when you double-click or enter, you'll get a option to choose language.

then you will get a screen like this:

By clicking next, you will get

choose the path( better choose the drive in which the operating system is not installed!), click next.

select those services, which you want to run at startup. then click next!

you see this installation process screen:

now click finish. Once you click finish you will get the following screen

click yes, and you'll get the control panel of xampp.

now you start the apache server and mysql.

to check, whether they are working correctly or not!

Open the browser, enter the url http://localhost/

you'll see a webpage displaying xampp, select language, then you'll see the feathers of the xampp, hence you can confirm it is working.

now enter the url http://localhost/phpmyadmin

here you can configure databases and create tables.

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2009-07-29T05:26:00.000-07:00

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How to Improve Your Speaking Voice, Improve Voice

2009-06-30T22:14:00.000-07:00

Step 1

Breathe from your diaphragm. Practice long and controlled exhales. When you speak, use breath to punctuate your point. For example, take a breath at the end of each phrase whether you need to or not. Use that opportunity to pause and let the listeners absorb what you say.

Step 2

Moderate your volume. Find out if you speak too loudly or too softly. When you begin speaking, ask your audience how your volume is (each situation is different). Try to stay at the appropriate volume throughout your speech.

Step 3

Moderate your pace. This one is also closely related to breath. If you speak too quickly, people can’t keep up. If you speak too slowly, people will lose interest. Record your speech to determine if you need to change your pace. Get feedback from others.

Step 4

Use pitch. Lower pitches generally are more soothing to hear. However, modulating your pitch for emphasis will keep your listeners engaged. Develop your pitch by practicing humming.

Step 5

Articulate. Try exaggerating your lip movement to reduce mumbling. Practice articulating tongue twisters and extending and exaggerating vowel sounds. Become an expert at articulating tongue twisters as quickly and crisply as possible. Focus on the ones you find difficult.

When Giving a Speech

Step 1

Follow the instructions above on improving your speaking voice.

Step 2

Practice your speech in advance and determine where you want to pause for a breath. For more emphasis, pause for more than one breath. Mark your breathing points in your notes.

Step 3

Loosen up before you begin. Look side to side. Roll your head in half-circles and roll your shoulders back. Shift your rib cage from side to side. Yawn. Stretch. Touch your toes while completely relaxing your upper body, then slowly stand up, one vertebra at a time, raising your head last. Repeat as needed.

Step 4

Release tension in your face. Blow through your lips. Move your face through various expressions. Stick out your tongue. Yawn. Stretch your jaw.

Step 5

Notice your breathing before you begin. Make sure it’s even and natural.

Step 6

Hum before you begin.

Step 7

Drink plenty of water. Have water or herbal tea available during your speech. Punctuate your message by pausing for a drink of water at key points. Avoid milk and caffeinated drinks when giving a speech.

Step 8

Stand up straight and tall to allow full lung capacity and airflow.

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2009-06-28T20:17:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-28T11:21:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-28T11:16:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-28T05:20:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-25T02:29:00.000-07:00

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2009-06-23T10:54:00.000-07:00

Most employers do not hire people based on merit alone. Personality, confidence, enthusiasm, a positive outlook, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills count heavily in the selection process.

After your cover letter and résumé, the interview is your best opportunity to wow the employer-regardless of your background and experience. To do this, use every possible strategy to develop effective interviewing skills. The best way is to prepare a selective presentation of your background, thoughtful answers to potential interview questions, well-researched questions about the organization, and an effective strategy to market yourself. Also consider your career goals and what the available job offers so that you can discuss both of these topics with employers. Interviewing is a skill that improves and becomes easier with practice. Check with your school career center or your local Employment Service office to see if it offers workshops and individual videotaped mock interviews for practice.

Research

It is to your advantage to carefully research the job and the organization. There are many ways to do this. You can request printed materials from the employer, such as annual reports and job descriptions. This is an entirely appropriate request, so don't hesitate to make it. Use your library and career center resources. Ask colleagues, friends, and faculty about the organization, and about any personal contacts at the organization they might have. Look at the organization's home page. Knowing about the job will help you prepare a list of your qualifications so that you can show, point by point, why you are the best candidate.

Practice, practice, practice

Prepare a succinct, clear answer to each of the questions in the interview questions section. Practice answering questions with a friend, or in front of a mirror. Ask your friend to give you constructive criticism on your speaking style, mannerisms, and poise. As you practice, avoid colloquialisms, such as "like" and "you know." Make sure you don't script all your answers-you'll sound as though you're reading cue cards! It's important to prepare yourself for talking with complete strangers.

Find out the logistics of the interview

The more you know, the more focused your answers will be. Find out when the interview is scheduled, what to expect during it, and how long you will be there. Also find out if you will be talking to just one person, or to several.

Be prompt and professional

Always arrive early. If you don't know where the organization is located, call for exact directions in advance. Leave some extra time for any traffic, parking, or unpredictable events. If you are running late, call right away and let someone know. The best time to arrive is approximately 5 - 10 minutes early. Give yourself the time to read your résumé one more time, to catch your breath, and to be ready for the interview. Once you're at the office, treat everyone you encounter with respect. Be pleasant to everyone as soon as you walk in the door.

Dress for success

Wear a professional business suit. This point cannot be emphasized enough. First impressions are extremely important in the interview process. Women should avoid wearing too much jewelry or make up. Men should avoid flashy suits or wearing too much cologne. It is also important that you feel comfortable. While a suit is the standard interview attire in a business environment, if you think it is an informal environment, call before and ask. Regardless, you can never be overdressed if you are wearing a tailored suit.

Be organized

Carry a portfolio notepad or at the very least a manila file folder labeled with the employer's name. Bring extra résumés and have the names, addresses and phone numbers of references, in case the employer asks. Also, bring a list of questions for the employer. You may refer to your list of questions to be sure you've gathered the information you need to make a decision. Do not be preoccupied with taking notes during the interview.

Know yourself

You will make the interview process easier for the employer if you volunteer relevant information about yourself. Think about how you want to present your strengths, experiences, education, work style, skills, and goals. Be prepared to supplement all your answers with examples that support the statements you make. It is also a good idea to review your résumé with a critical eye and identify areas that an employer might see as limitations or want further information. Think about how you can answer difficult questions accurately and positively, while keeping each answer brief.

Be honest

An interview gives the employer a chance to get to know you. While you do want to market yourself to the employer, answer each question with an honest response.

Be positive

Never say anything negative about past experiences, employers, or courses and professors. Always think of something positive about an experience and talk about that. You should also be enthusiastic. If you are genuinely interested in the job, let the interviewer know that.

Show your interest

One of the best ways to show you are interested in a job is to demonstrate that you have researched the organization prior to the interview. You can also show interest by asking questions about the job, the organization, and its services and products. The best way to impress an employer is to ask questions that build upon your interview discussion. This shows you are interested and paying close attention to the interviewer. It is a good idea to prepare a few questions in advance, but an insightful comment based on your conversation can make an even stronger statement. At the end of an interview, it is appropriate for you to ask when you may expect to hear from the employer.

Save discussion of salary for later

Find out as much as you can before the interview about the salary levels for the position you are seeking. Do not bring up the issue of salary during the first interview. If the interviewer asks about your salary expectations, give only a general answer, such as that your expectations seem to be within, or close to their range.

After-interview notes

After the interview, take time to write down the names and titles (check spelling) of all your interviewers, your impressions, remaining questions, and any information that may influence your decision to accept a position with the organization. If you are interviewing regularly, this will help you keep employers and circumstances clearly differentiated.

Always follow up

You should write a thank you note within 48 hours after an interview, even if the interview (or the interviewer) was not productive and/or you are not interested in the position. It is important to say thank you for the time the interviewer spent with you. This letter should be brief. (Refer to the section on writing thank you letters.)

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2009-06-23T02:21:00.000-07:00

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Install more then 100 games in one command with Djl

2009-06-22T10:37:00.000-07:00

Djl is an open-source (GPL licensed) game manager written in Python 2.5 for the GNU/Linux

Operating Systems. It is inspired by Valve's Steam software for Windows.

Djl makes it possible (via a repository) to download, install and remove a reasonable number

of games placed into a distrobution independent subdirectory (but without dealing with any

dependencies). It can also execute ,desktop shortcuts located in another directory.

Actually Djl have more that 105 game in his repository, games like Alien Arena, Blood Frontier........,

see the complete list of games.

To install Djl download the tar file from this link :

http://en.djl-linux.org/?q=node/19

then download the latest version djl-1.2.14.tar.gz

Now before to install the game be sure that these dependencies are installed :

python

python-qt4

If the dependencies are not installed then use :

For fedora/redhat/centos, under root :

yum install python python-qt4

For Ubuntu :

sudo apt-get install python python-qt4

Now after the dependecies are installed we will extract the downloaded file djl-1.2.14.tar.gz

tar -zxvf  djl-1.2.14.tar.gz

Go to the folder where you extracted the tar file :

cd   djl

And launch the installation using this command :

sh djl.sh

Please indicate the install directory and location of your browser

the script will contact the Linux games servers and download some games for you , plus their

plugins and chat between gamers.

Now once the games are installed, they can be launched from main window, which not only

contains games that are installed from the repository, but also shortcuts as .desktop files.

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Great themes for Ubuntu 9.04 and how to install

2009-06-22T10:26:00.000-07:00

The installation is easy because can be done after adding a repository, so with sudo apt-get install theme-name you can have the theme installed,

Now i will show you the steps you have to follow to install the themes.

To add the repository ,open the source list :

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

add these 2 lines at the end of the sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bisigi/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

after open the terminal and add the repository verification key :

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0x1781bd45c4c3275a34bb6aec6e871c4a881574de

Now update the cache

sudo apt-get update

Now, If you want to install the themes one by one ,then you will have to type the command correspondent to the theme you want to install (first follow the steps above to add the repositories) :

1-Showtime for Gnome :

sudo apt-get install showtime-theme

2- Balanzan

sudo apt-get install balanzan-theme

2-Infinity

sudo apt-get install infinity-theme

3-Wild shine

 sudo apt-get install wild-shine-theme

4-Exotic

sudo apt-get install exotic-theme

5- Tropical

sudo apt-get install tropical-theme

6-Bamboo Zen

sudo apt-get install bamboo-zen-theme

7- Ubuntu sunrise

  sudo apt-get install ubuntu-sunrise-theme

8- Aqua Dreams

sudo apt-get install aquadreams-theme

To remove thethemes you have to use the command :

sudo apt-get remove theme-name

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2009-06-22T04:48:00.000-07:00

Title	Rating	Download
Ableton Live - Ableton Live brings to music creation, production and performance the flexibility of loop based software plus the power of full fledged music production suites.
AnalogX Scratch - An simple program that simulates "scratching" a record with digital audio samples and a simple interface.	n/a	338.3 KB
Beat Master - A simple BPM list generator for DJs.	n/a	854.3 KB
BeatCalc - Finds the tempo (in BPM) for a WAV file, tap speed or manual input and then calculates delay times, LFO speeds and pitch transpositions.	n/a	1.6 MB
BeatIt! - Manual BPM counter with 4 memory banks for tapping in tempos.	n/a	136.1 KB
BPM Studio - Digital audio mixing software for professional DJ's that plays MP2, MP3, WAV, CDA and WMA files on up to 6 sound cards.	n/a	4.0 MB
BPM-Meter - Automatically measures the beats per minute of an incoming audio signal.	n/a	41.5 KB
CDumper - Controlling up to 15 CD-Drives on a single computer simultaneously with pitch, tempo, 3D positioning and effects for each.	n/a	5.5 MB
Deejaysystem Mk-I - DeejaysystemÂ™ Mk-I is a simple yet DJ-Oriented audio player.	n/a
Digital 1200SL - Professional DJ software that lets you mix MP3 and WAV files between two players with a virtual DJ interface.	n/a	1.8 MB
DiscoSoft - Digital audio mixing software that plays MP2, MP3, WAV, CD and WMA files on up to 3 sound cards, plus includes a bunch of extras.	n/a	5.3 MB
DJ Master - A digital audio player that plays audio files in a wide variety of modes for mixing and creating play lists.	n/a	680.7 KB
DJBPM - Manual BPM counter software for disc jockeys.	n/a	1.5 MB
DJPower - A full encompassing program to meet all the needs of a modern and professional DJ. (see Terms for demo password)	n/a	3.1 MB
Dr Benway - The Dr Benway is a free plug-in VST beatslicer effect for Windows only.	n/a
LiveSlice - LiveSlice is a beat slicer that can load up to 64 wave files at a time, slice them up and combine the slices in the multitrack arranger.	n/a
MGC DJ 2000 - Very basic DJ software that provides 3 players and 19 customizable sound effects. Uses Windows Media Player to support a wide range of formats.	n/a	0 bytes
MixVibes - DJ application that lets you play and mix multiple sound files (MPEG, WAV and more) on up to 16 channels using 1 to 4 sound cards/devices.		721.0 KB
MJ Studio - A virtual mixing console for the digital DJ.	n/a	2.2 MB
OpenSebJ - An Open Source Realtime Audio Mixing Tool	n/a
Ots CD Scratch 1200 - Free "Virtual Turntables CD Player". Play two songs from the same CD at the same time - one forwards and one in reverse!	n/a
OtsDJ - CD/MP3 Radio and DJ software, auto mixing, smooth audio compressor.	n/a
OtsTurntables - OtsTurntables is a DJ program that empowers you to scratch, play backwards/forwards, tempo/pitch-shift and mix audio. There is a free version and several levels of commercial versions	n/a
PCDJ Mix Master - DJ software that lets you mix MP3 files between two players with a virtual DJ interface.	n/a	1.8 MB
PCDJ PHAT - Simple DJ software that lets you mix MP3 files and CD audio tracks between two players with a virtual DJ interface, plus CD ripping and more.	n/a	2.6 MB
Pitch Calc. - A program for calculating relative pitch settings for mixing songs of different tempos.	n/a	346.0 KB
Stylus RMX - Stylus RMX is a groove-based virtual instrument plug-in for Macintosh and Windows.	n/a
Sxratch - Sxratch is a free VST plug in Virtual Scratcher.	n/a
Tactile 12000 - A 3-D, interactive simulation of a DJ setup.	n/a	3.1 MB
Traktor - DJ-mixing tool that provides 2 players, a playlist section, mixer, beat matcher, digital scratcher, cue section, filters and extensive automation.	n/a	3.8 MB
TRAKTOR DJ Studio 3 - TRAKTOR DJ Studio 3 brings new features including four decks and integrated mixer to the versatile and comprehensive digital DJing solution.	n/a
UltraMixer 2 - UltraMixer is a DJ-Mixing-Software for Linux or Windows.	n/a
Virtual DJ Studio - Mixes MPEG and WAV files on 6 lines and has an AutoPilot line for playlist support.	n/a	6.9 MB
Virtual Turntables - Allows you to mix MP3s and WAVs like you would CDs with a real mixer and multiple DJ CD decks.		3.6 MB

Easy and Simple 10 Tips to Drive Traffic to Your Site

2009-06-22T04:46:00.000-07:00

There are plenty of tips on how to drive traffic to your website. What follows is a few tips from my experiences.

Before I start listing the 10 tips there is one general piece of advice, to do with research really. Before you begin doing any kind of promotion you’ll need to think about what kind of visitors you want to visit your site. Getting people to your site is one thing but if they’re not interested in your site at all then why waste bandwidth on them? Think about where these people are likely to be, and do a bit of searching on google to find these websites. Type in keywords these people might type into google and you’ll find sites they’re likely to be visiting frequently. Make a list of these sites as they’ll come in handy, try and find about 10.

1. Blog Comments
Now it’s time to put your list to use. In your list you should have a few blogs. Head over to these blogs and start reading posts. When you come across a post you have a response or an opinion on, write a comment about their post. The trick here is not to promote your site, the comment should be about their blog post giving your opinions. The reason for this is two fold, firstly if your comment is just promoting your site the blog owner will probably delete the comment thinking it is spam. Secondly, if other visitors to the blog see you commenting regularly and appear to be knowledgeable on the subject, they are more likely to visit your site. Of course, comment forms usually include a website box, which will make your name clickable. So you are still getting your website link in there, but you are giving it more importance and increasing the chance people will actually click it by commenting something meaningful.

Once you’ve done this on the blogs you found in your research, you can try and find similar sites on Google, using your keywords and “blog”. You should also visit all of the blogs regularly, if not daily, commenting regularly. The more links back the better!

2. Forums
Next up go back to your list of sites and you are likely to find some of them are (or have) forums. In a similar way to blogs, you shouldn’t join forums to advertise your site on. What you should do is join up and contribute to the discussions. Read threads and if you have an opinion or response, post up a reply. Even start some topics to get some discussions going. In your control panel you can set a signature, which is attached to all your posts. Pop in a link to your website and your website link will appear on all your posts! Again, the theory behind this is to let people know you know what you’re talking about. If people see you to be knowledgeable on the subject, they will trust you more, and are therefore more likely to visit your website.

Once you’ve done this on the forums you found in your research, you can try and find similar sites on Google, using your keywords and “forum”. You should also visit all of the forums regularly, if not daily, posting regularly. The more links back the better!

3. Articles
Writing articles about your subject can drive a significant amount of traffic to your site, and there are two ways you can do this. You will need to write some quality articles about your niche, articles about things your target audience will want to read.

The first way to use these articles is to have an articles section on your site (or indeed a blog). Put your articles up and use Social Bookmarking (see No.5) sites to drive traffic to them. They will also fill your pages with keywords that will help with your SEO (see No.4).

The second way is to submit articles to article directories, such as ezine articles. To do this the article must not be published elsewhere on the internet. These article directories allow users to publish these articles on their websites, keeping the entire article intact. So all links in your article will appear on many websites around the net! You can also include an “About Me” section with each article, which is where you say a little bit about your website and have a link to it - again this will appear on any website the article is published on.

One trick you can use when submitting to article directories is what is known as “spinning” articles. This is simply rewriting articles so that the content is slightly different. Because the two articles are not identical you can publish one on your website and one on an article directory. A good way to do this is read an article you’ve written, and then attempt to write it again without looking back. You’ll end up with a different article.

4. SEO
SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a whole beast of its own. I’ll just put a summary of things you should be doing here, and go into more detail in a future article.

You should be targeting certain keywords (you thought of these during your research). These keywords should appear in your page title (in the browser window), in your meta description, meta keywords, h1 tag, in one tag, in image alt tags and in your page content a few times. The trick is to include these keywords while still keeping your text humanly readable. Other good places are in your domain name and image file names.

On top of the above, keeping your code clean and fully XHTML/CSS will help a little, while also keeping your site nice and super fast.

Finally incoming links to your site are important too. Put simply, the more people linking to your website, the more important your site is seen to be, and therefore it deserves to be higher in the rankings. Taking Google as an example, each web page has a “Page Rank” between 1 and 10 which determines how important that page is. The more links back you have the higher your Page Rank will be. How important the pages linking to you are is important also. A link from a Page Rank 8 page will be much more beneficial than one from a Page Rank 1 page. A lot of the promotion methods here involve increasing the number of links you have pointing to your site. Things to avoid are just spamming places with your link, and pages that are just full of external links.

5. Social Bookmarking/Networking
Social Bookmarking sites are sites such as Technorati, Digg, Stumble Upon etc. There are lots of them out there, and the idea is based around sharing links with others. Typically the best links receive more kudos from the community, and therefore more traffic is sent your way. When joining these sites it is a good idea to participate in the community before submitting your own links, making a few friends and showing that you are real and not just there to submit your links.

Social Networking sites are sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc. These sites have a community feel about them, and are based around connecting with others. Again joining these sites and being a part of the community is the way to go. Contributing and connecting with people.

6. Directories
Directory submissions can provide you with decent traffic and back links. I would suggest going for the big directories such as DMOZ and Yahoo, along with niche specific directories for more targeted links.

7. PR
Traditional PR and online PR is good for raising your website’s profile and sending some traffic your way. A good press release is key for this, and I would probably recommend getting some advice or even hiring someone to write it for you. A good online PR distribution service is PR Web.

8. Offline Promotion
Even though your website is online, offline promotion shouldn’t be ignored. Business cards, flyers, ads in newspapers and magazines, posters and networking can all help in getting people to your site, especially if your site is localised or for a specific audience.

9. Product Feeds
If you are selling products, product feeds that you can submit to price comparison websites such as Google Products and Shopping.com can send some good leads your way. You probably won’t see masses of traffic, but those who do click through are very likely to buy your products.

10. PPC Advertising
Finally, PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising when used well can give some good results for little investment. Services such as Google Adwords provide you with tools that allow you to narrow down your target market with keywords, set daily budgets and control how much you’re spending. A good tip is to use very specific keywords, as they will be cheaper and more targeted. For example someone looking for black stripy socks will type “black stripy socks” into google. If you’re targeting “socks” as a keyword it is going to be more competitive and cost you more money, and if you don’t sell black stripy socks you’ve wasted that money. If however you do sell pink spotty socks, you can target those keywords, pay less for the clicks and have visitors who are looking for you product exactly.

Hopefully this post has given you a few ideas about how to promote your site!

simple 6 Step Guide to a Successful Website

2009-06-22T04:42:00.000-07:00

What follows is six steps for creating and running a successful website. There are billions of websites out there, created for different purposes. The following guide is a method for making yours stand out from the crowd. Each website is different however, so these are not hard and fast rules. What you should hopefully be able to do with the list however is relate each step to your website is some way.

1. Plan
With all projects it is a good idea to plan what you’re going to do. Outline the website’s goals - what do you want to achieve with your site. It might be sales, traffic, member registrations or many other things. Then think about how you’re going to achieve these goals, what pages and features your website needs. Sometimes I like to rank this list against how important each one for meeting the goals. You don’t need to spend too long planning, but having a list of features ranked by importance, and an outline of all the pages on your site, can be very handy when it comes to thinking about how to lay out your pages and navigation.

2. Good, User Friendly Design
Having a good looking site is an important factor to me. Something that looks good and is sensible for the target audience, and is considered with user friendliness in mind. I’m not necessarily talking about having lots of fancy graphics - that might not be appropriate. A good start is to look at similar websites to yours (or websites in your niche) and see if there are any similar attributes in the design (colours, layout, images and type of images etc). If there are some similarities there may be a reason for it. A visitor to a website can quickly determine whether a site looks good to them or not, and a website can fall down if it gives the wrong impression.

3. Clean, SEO Friendly Code
When coding your pages, keeping the code clean will help both in loading times and maintenance down the line. Doing some basic SEO will also save headaches later on. Things such as considering what your header tags are on each page, adding titles to links, adding alt tags to images and including keywords in URLs and file names. SEO is a whole beast of its own so I won’t go into lots of detail here.

4. Quality, Relevant Content
Depending on what your site’s purpose is this step will change accordingly, or might not even be relevant. The content of your website is just as important (or even more important in some cases) than the look and feel. People are coming to your website for a reason, and you want to offer them what they’re looking for. Whether it be articles, news, reviews, products or anything else - if it’s not what they’re looking for they will leave. You want to offer the best possible content you can.

5. Regularly Update
Tied in with the last step, you want to keep updating your site regularly. If its articles, publish them regularly. Release new products regularly. Review things regularly. Whatever your site is about, if you can, update it regularly. People like to see that the information they are reading is recent, and that websites they visit are still active. This will make people come back to your site, and more likely to tell others about it. The best way to keep your site updated is to use a content management system.

6. Review
At the end of the process you should have a great looking website that’s churning out quality content regularly. It’s a good idea to review how things are going after a while - is your site achieving the goals you set in step 1? Do you have any new goals now the site is running? From this you can return to step one and plan for the next stage - either adding new features or refining what you already have.

Bjarne Stroustrup's interview

2009-06-22T04:31:00.000-07:00

On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave
  an interview to the IEEE's 'Computer' magazine.
  Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving
  a retrospective view of seven years of object-oriented
  design, using the language he created. By the end of the
  interview, the interviewer got more than he had
  bargained for and, subsequently, the editor decided to
  suppress its contents, 'for the good of the industry' but,
  as with many of these things, there was a leak. Here is a
  complete transcript of what was said, unedited, and
  unrehearsed, so it isn't as neat as planned interviews.
  You will find it interesting...

Interviewer:

  Well, it's been a few years since you changed theworld of
  software design.  How does it feel, looking back?

  Stroustrup:

  Actually, I was thinking about those days, just before you
  arrived.  Do you remember?  Everyone was writing 'C' and,
  the trouble was, they were pretty damn good at it.
  Universities got pretty good at teaching it, too.  They were
  turning out competent - I stress the word 'competent' -
  graduates at a phenomenal rate.  That's what caused the
  problem.

  Interviewer:

  Problem?

  Stroustrup:

  Yes, problem.  Remember when everyone wrote COBOL?

  Interviewer:

  Of course, I did, too.

  Stroustrup:

  Well, in the beginning, these guys were like
  demi-gods.  Their salaries were high, and they
  were treated like royalty.

  Interviewer:

  Those were the days, eh?

  Stroustrup:

  Right.  So what happened?  IBM got sick of it,
  and invested millions in training programmers, till
  they were a dime a dozen.

  Interviewer:

  That's why I got out.  Salaries dropped within a
  year, to the point where being a journalist actually
  paid better.

  Stroustrup:

  Exactly.  Well, the same happened with 'C' programmers.

  Interviewer:   I see, but what's the point?

  Stroustrup:

  Well, one day, when I was sitting in my office, I
  thought of this little scheme, which would redress
  the balance a little.  I thought 'I wonder what
  would happen, if there were a language so complicated,
  so difficult to learn, that nobody would ever be able
  to swamp the market with programmers?

  Actually, I got some of the ideas from X10, you know,
  X windows.  That was such a bitch of a graphics system,
  that it only just ran on those Sun 3/60 things.  They
  had all the ingredients for what I wanted.  A really
  ridiculously complex syntax, obscure functions, and
  pseudo-OO structure.  Even now, nobody writes raw X-windows
  code.  Motif is the only way to go if you want to retain
  your sanity.

  Interviewer:

  You're kidding...?

  Stroustrup:

  Not a bit of it.  In fact, there was another problem.
  Unix was written in 'C', which meant that any 'C'
  programmer could very easily become a systems programmer.
  Remember what a mainframe systems programmer used to earn?

  Interviewer:

  You bet I do, that's what I used to do.

  Stroustrup:

  OK, so this new language had to divorce itself from Unix,
  by hiding all the system calls that bound the two together
  so nicely.  This would enable guys who only knew about DOS
  to earn a decent living too.

  Interviewer:

  I don't believe you said that...

  Stroustrup:

  Well, it's been long enough, now, and I believe most people
  have figured out for themselves that C++ is a waste of time but,
  I must say, it's taken them a lot longer than I thought it would.

  Interviewer:

  So how exactly did you do it?

  Stroustrup:

  It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would
  take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that
  object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and
  inefficient.

  Interviewer:

  What?

  Stroustrup:

  And as for 're-useable code' --- when did you ever hear of a
  company re-using its code?

  Interviewer:

  Well, never, actually, but...

  Stroustrup:

  There you are then.  Mind you, a few tried, in the early days.
  There was this Oregon company --- Mentor Graphics, I think they
  were called --- really caught a cold trying to rewrite everything
  in C++ in about '90 or '91.  I felt sorry for them really, but
  I thought people would learn from their mistakes.

  Interviewer:

  Obviously, they didn't?

  Stroustrup:

  Not in the slightest.  Trouble is, most companies hush-up all
  their major blunders, and explaining a $30 million loss to the
  shareholders would have been difficult.  Give them their due,
  though, they made it work in the end.

  Interviewer:

  They did?  Well, there you are then, it proves O-O works.

  Stroustrup:

  Well, almost.  The executable was so huge, it took five minutes
  to load, on an HP workstation, with 128MB of RAM.  Then it ran
  like molasses. Actually, I thought this would be a major
  stumbling-block, and I'd get found out within a week, but nobody
  cared.  Sun and HP were only too glad to sell enormously powerful
  boxes, with huge resources just to run trivial programs.  You
  know, when we had our first C++ compiler, at AT&T, I compiled
 'Hello World', and couldn't believe the size of the executable:
  2.1MB

  Interviewer:

  What?  Well, compilers have come a long way, since then.

  Stroustrup:

  They have?  Try it on the latest version of g++ - you won't get
  much change out of half a megabyte. Also, there are several quite
  recent examples for you, from all over the world.  British Tele-
  com had a major disaster on their hands but, luckily, managed to
  scrap the  whole thing and start again. They were luckier than
  Australian Telecom.

  Now I hear that Siemens is building a dinosaur, and getting more
  and more worried as the size of the hardware gets bigger, to
  accommodate the executables.  Isn't multiple inheritance a joy?

  Interviewer:

  Yes, but C++ is basically a sound language.

  Stroustrup:

  You really believe that, don't you?  Have you ever sat down and
  worked on a C++ project?  Here's what happens: First, I've put
  in enough pitfalls to make sure that only the most trivial proj-
  ects will work first time.  Take operator overloading.  At the
  end of the project, almost every module has it, usually, because
  guys feel they really should do it, as it was in their training
  course.  The same operator then means something totally different
  in every module.  Try pulling that lot together, when you have a
  hundred or so modules.  And as for data hiding, God, I sometimes
  can't help laughing when I hear about the problems companies
  have making their modules talk to each other.

  I think the word 'synergistic' was specially invented to twist
  the knife in a project manager's ribs.

  Interviewer:

  I have to say, I'm beginning to be quite appalled at all this.
  You say you did it to raise programmers' salaries?  That's ob-
  scene.

  Stroustrup:

  Not really.  Everyone has a choice.  I didn't expect the thing to
  get so much out of hand. Anyway, I basically succeeded.  C++ is
  dying off now, but programmers still get high salaries, especial-
  ly those poor devils who have to maintain all this crap.  You do
  realise, it's impossible to maintain a large C++ software module
  if you didn't actually write it?

  Interviewer:

  How come?

  Stroustrup:

  You are out of touch, aren't you?  Remember the typedef?

  Interviewer:

  Yes, of course.

  Stroustrup:

  Remember how long it took to grope through the header files only
  to find that 'RoofRaised' was a double precision number?  Well,
  imagine how long it takes to find all the implicit typedefs in
  all the Classes in a major project.

  Interviewer:

  So how do you reckon you've succeeded?

  Stroustrup:

  The universities haven't been teaching 'C' for such a long time,
  there's now a shortage of decent 'C' programmers.  Especially
  those who know anything about Unix systems programming. How many
  guys would know what to do with 'malloc', when they've used 'new'
  all these years and never bothered to check the return code. In
  fact, most C++ programmers throw away their return codes.  What-
  ever happened to good ol' '-1'?  At least you knew you had an
  error, without bogging the thing down in all that 'throw' 'catch'
  'try' stuff.

  Interviewer:

  But, surely, inheritance does save a lot of time?

  Stroustrup:

  Does it?  Have you ever noticed the difference  between a 'C'
  project plan, and a C++ project plan?  The planning stage for
  a C++ project is three times as long.  Precisely to make sure
  that everything which should be inherited is, and what shouldn't
  isn't.  Then, they still get it wrong. Whoever heard of memory
  leaks in a 'C' program? Now finding them is a major industry.
  Most companies give up, and send the product out, knowing it
  leaks like a sieve, simply to avoid the expense of tracking them
  all down.

  Interviewer:

  There are tools....

  Stroustrup:

  ...Most of which were written in C++.

  Interviewer:

  If we publish this, you'll probably get lynched, you do realise
  that?

  Stroustrup:

  I doubt it.  As I said, C++ is way past its peak now, and no
  company in its right mind would start a C++ project without a
  pilot trial. That should convince them that it's the road to
  disaster.  If not, they deserve all they get.  You know, I tried
  to convince Dennis Ritchie to rewrite Unix in C++.

  Interviewer:

  Oh my God.  What did he say?

  Stroustrup:

  Well, luckily, he has a good sense of humor.  I think both he
  and Brian figured out what I was doing, in the early days, but
  never let on.  He said he'd help me write a C++ version of DOS,
  if I was interested.

  Interviewer:

  Were you?

  Stroustrup:

  Actually, I did write DOS in C++, I'll give you a demo when
  we're through.  I have it running on a Sparc 20 in the computer
  room.  Goes like a rocket on 4 CPU's, and only takes up 70 megs
  of disk.

  Interviewer:

  What's it like on a PC?

  Stroustrup:

  Now you're kidding.  Haven't you ever seen Windows '95?  I think
  of that as my biggest success.  Nearly blew the game before I was
  ready, though.

  Interviewer:

  You know, that idea of a Unix++ has really got me thinking.
  Somewhere out there, there's a guy going to try it.

  Stroustrup:

  Not after they read this interview.

  Interviewer:

  I'm sorry, but I don't see us being able to publish any of this.

  Stroustrup:

  But it's the story of the century.  I only want to be remembered
  by my fellow programmers, for what I've done for them.  You know
  how much a C++ guy can get these days?

  Interviewer:

  Last I heard, a really top guy is worth $80 - $90 an hour.

  Stroustrup:

  See?  And I bet he earns it.  Keeping track of all the gotchas I
  put into C++ is no easy job. And, as I said before, every C++
  programmer feels bound by some mystic promise to use every damn
  element of the language on every project. Actually, that really
  annoys me sometimes, even though it serves my original purpose.
  I almost like the language after all this time.

  Interviewer:

  You mean you didn't before?

  Stroustrup:

  Hated it.  It even looks clumsy, don't you agree?  But when the
  book royalties started to come in... well, you get the picture.

  Interviewer:

  Just a minute.  What about references?  You must admit, you
  improved on 'C' pointers.

  Stroustrup:

  Hmm.  I've always wondered about that.  Originally, I thought I
  had.  Then, one day I was discussing this with a guy who'd written
  C++ from the beginning.  He said he could never remember whether
  his variables were referenced or dereferenced, so he always used
  pointers.  He said the little asterisk always reminded him.

  Interviewer:

  Well, at this point, I usually say 'thank you very much' but it
  hardly seems adequate.

  Stroustrup:

  Promise me you'll publish this.  My conscience is getting the
  better of me these days.

  Interviewer:

  I'll let you know, but I think I know what my editor will say.

  Stroustrup:

  Who'd believe it anyway?  Although, can you send me a copy of that
  tape?

  Interviewer:

  I can do that.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Gmail

2009-06-22T04:05:00.000-07:00

Gmail's User Interface is quite usable, but sometimes a mouse just seems to get in the way of efficiency. The Gmail developers have included lots of nice keyboard shortcuts that can really make using Gmail quicker and easier. Read on for a detailed list of Gmail's keyboard shortcuts....

Gmail offers many keyboard shortcuts. To enable keyboard shortcuts, click on the Settings link at the top right of the screen, and click on the "General" tab. Look for the "Keyboard Shortcuts" entry and click on the "Keyboard shortcuts on" radio button.

Below is a table showing the current list as of 25-Jan-2006. Try 'em out!

(For the most recent version, click here.)

Shortcut Key	Definition	Action
c	Compose	Allows you to compose a new message. + c allows you to compose a message in a new window.
/	Search	Puts your cursor in the search box.
k	Move to newer conversation	Opens or moves your cursor to a more recent conversation. You can hit to expand a conversation.
j	Move to older conversation	Opens or moves your cursor to the next oldest conversation. You can hit to expand a conversation.
n	Next message	Moves your cursor to the next message. You can hit to expand or collapse a message. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
p	Previous message	Moves your cursor to the previous message. You can hit to expand or collapse a message. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
o or	Open	Opens your conversation. Also expands or collapses a message if you are in 'Conversation View.'
u	Return to conversation list	Refreshes your page and returns you to the inbox, or list of conversations.
y	Archive* Remove from current view	Automatically removes the message or conversation from your current view. From 'Inbox,' 'y' means Archive From 'Starred,' 'y' means Unstar From any label, 'y' means Remove the label * 'y' has no effect if you're in 'Spam,' 'Sent,' or 'All Mail.'
x	Select conversation	Automatically checks and selects a conversation so that you can archive, apply a label, or choose an action from the drop-down menu to apply to that conversation.
s	Star a message or conversation	Adds or removes a star to a message or conversation. Stars allow you to give a message or conversation a special status.
!	Report spam	Marks a message as spam and removes it from your conversation list.
r	Reply	Reply to the message sender. + r allows you to reply to a message in a new window. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
a	Reply all	Reply to all message recipients. +a allows you to reply to all message recipients in a new window. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
f	Forward	Forward a message. + f allows you to forward a message in a new window. (Only applicable in 'Conversation View.')
	Escape from input field	Removes the cursor from your current input field.

Combo-keys - Use the following combinations of keys to navigate through Gmail.

Shortcut Key	Definition	Action
then	Send message	After composing your message, use this combination to send it automatically. (Supported in Internet Explorer and Firefox, on Windows.)
y then o	Archive and next	Archive your conversation and move to the next one.
g then a	Go to 'All Mail'	Takes you to 'All Mail,' the storage site for all mail you've ever sent or received (and have not deleted).
g then s	Go to 'Starred'	Takes you to all conversations you have starred.
g then c	Go to 'Contacts'	Takes you to your Contacts list.
g then d	Go to 'Drafts'	Takes you to all drafts you have saved.
g then i	Go to 'Inbox'	Returns you to the inbox.

Using An Email Client for Gmail

2009-06-22T04:03:00.000-07:00

Gmail's POP3 access lets you leverage third-party Email Clients like Outlook or Thunderbird, giving you the flexibility you want. Read on to see some quick tips inspired by "Edwin" and "Zavie" on configuring and accessing Gmail's POP3 access...

POP3 email clients are common, handy tools to enable you to manage your email online or offline. Here are several examples:

1. Outlook Express
Outlook Express is included with just about every Windows installation. Setup is simple, and though its interface is basic, it works well with Gmail.

2. Outlook (various versions)
I used Outlook 2003, and it worked like a charm with Gmail. It's robust, a business standard, and you have all of Outlooks advanced features available to you. The only down side is that for the personal user, it can be expensive, either standalone or as part of Microsoft Office.

3. Thunderbird
Thunderbird is an excellent solution. It's Open Source, free, cross-platform compatible, very stable, and feature-rich. I used the "Portable Thunderbird" version because of its portability, and it worked very well. For personal users, Thunderbird has probably more features than you will ever need.

4. Other Email Clients
Just about any modern POP mail client whould work, provided ot allows SSL connections. There are numerous examples that can be found with a Google search.

In all cases, the key to setting up your email client to work with Gmail is to ensure that you can connect using a Secure SSL Connection. These settings are typically found in the client's Accounts settings screens where you must define specific ports to access Gmail's POP3 server. Gmail has an excellent Help section that details the setup for most popular POP3 email clients. This is found by clicking the "Configuration instructions" link found in the "Forward and POP" screen of Gmail's settings.

OK. To setup Gmail to allow POP3 access, click on the "Settings" link in the upper right of any Gmail page. Next, click on the "Forwarding and POP" tab. Depending on how much email you want to manage via POP, choose the appropriate selection:

1. "Enable POP for all mail"
This will let you download all messages you have in your email account as well as any new email that arrives.

2. "Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on"
This option lets you download only new email that arrives since the time you activate the POP setting.

The second setting, "When messages are accessed with POP" lets you determine how Gmail will handle the messages you download. How you use your email client and Gmail wuill determine the setting you want:

1. "keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox"
This option will leave all new email in Gmail's Inbox with "read settings" intact. This means that regardless of when you use your email client to receive messages, Gmail's Web client settings will always remain independent. Email messages are retained in your Gmail account. If you rely mostly on the Web client and use a POP3 clinet only occasionally, then this is the setting of choice. Think of this as a "parallel" setup with messages managed on both sides.

2. "archive Gmail's copy"
This option will automatically "Archive" the message (remove it from the Inbox and retain it in Gmail's All Mail view) when you download it using your email client. This is useful when you use your email client more then Gmail's Web client. The advantage of this setting is that it leaves the message on Gmail's server as a backup. You still have full Web access should you ever want to use Gmail's Web client.

3. "trash Gmail's copy"
This option deletes the email from Gmail's server once the message is successfully downloaded to your email client. This is useful if you use an email client exclusively, and don't want any email retained on Gmail's server.

Once you have selected your appropriate settings, click the "Save Changes" button. When you fire up your configured email client and receive messages, they will be downloaded seamlessly!

One point of note: When I initiated a Send/Receive session in both Outlook 2003 and Thunderbird (I didn't try Outlook Express) it only downloaded about 300-400 messages. Initiating another Send/Receive session downloaded another block of 300-400 messages. With over 3500 messages, I had to initiate about a dozen or so Send/Receive sessions, but when they all completed, everything downloaded. Over a broadband connection, it was quite fast.

'Gmail Notifier' released to beta!

2009-06-22T04:02:00.000-07:00

Those crazy yet wonderful Gmail Developers have once again brought us a new toy: Gmail Notifier! Read on to see what it is, what it can do, and how you can get it...

The Gmail Notifier is a downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.

You can also have it be the default "mailto:" handler so that when you click on an email address on a Web page, Gmail Notify will open a Compose Window.

You can even define a sound to play when new mail arrives!

To download, go here:
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/

For FAQ's, go here:
http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/faq.html

Have fun!!!

Gmail, Cleaning Your Contacts

2009-06-22T03:59:00.000-07:00

One of Gmail's "features" can leave you with extra entries in your Contacts list. Read on for more information...

Gmail has a (debatably) nice feature that automatically adds to your Contacts list the email addresses of those to whom you send emails. While this can be helpful at times, just remember that EVERY unique email address you send to gets auto-added. So, if someone or some company sends you an emai and you reply to it, the email address will get added. For clarification, it only gets added once. We're talking about "unique" email addresses here. But how do you know what gets added?

Log into your Gmail account and click on the "Contacts" link at the top of any Gmail page. A window will open displaying any Contacts you may have. Any you have manually edited will typically have a "Name" and possibly a "Note" associated with it. By default, any Contact Gmail auto-adds and is unedited will not contain any "name" or "note" information, just the email address. Visually scan down the list and look for any that fall into this category. If you find one, determine what to do with it: Delete is, Edit it, or leave it alone. Obviously what you do with it is up to you, but I make it a personal rule to always edit any email addresses I want to keep and add names (and sometimes notes). Any I don't want, I just delete. This keeps things clean.

Until I realized that Gmail did this, I was surprised as to how many Contacts were added.

So, every once in a while, I take time to be sure to monitor my Contacts list and clean out any unneeded entries.

Gmail, why some attachments bounce or fail

2009-06-22T03:58:00.000-07:00

Gmail is trying to help combat the spread of viruses by implementing a "feature" that prevents emails containing attachments of certain file types from being delivered to Gmail accounts. With some simple workarounds, you can get your files delivered to Gmail users while still helping prevent the spread of viruses...

One way that Gmail is helping to prevent the spread of viruses is to prevent the delivery of messages sent from outside of Gmail that .exe and .vbs (and possibly other) extensions. These file attachments are very easy to inadvertently execute, and are a common source of viruses. Gmail is trying to make it at lease a bit more difficult to inadvertently execute these types of files.

If you are sending an email to a Gmail account that contains either extension of .exe or a .vbs (and possibly others) the message WILL bounce as undeliverable. The message will also bounce if these file types are contained within a .ZIP file. If you are sending an email from an outside account to a Gmail user, simply changing the extention to something else appending something like ".txt" lets the message pass through without issue. You could also use another archive format like WinAce or WinRAR as they are not filtered (yet). The point is that the file won't be immediatly and inadvertently executable without some recipient intervention.

Again, note that this only affects inbound email originating from another email provider sent to a Gmail account. This does not affect Gmail users sending email to another Gmail user or to an email address outside of Gmail. Obviously, this isn't a perfect solution, but it's a good start.

gmail, Advanced Search - 'Query Words'

2009-06-22T03:57:00.000-07:00

One of Gmail's excellent features is its Search function. Searching can be as simple as entering a keyword or two into the Search field at the top of any page to very complex using Gmail's advanced "Query Words" to better constrain searches. Read more to better understand how "Query Words" can help you with your advanced message searching...

Clicking the "Show Search Options" link will open up a pane containing several entry fields and dropdowns. This lets you easily specify more detailed search criteria. For example, say you want to search for all email that is unread, regardless of under what Label it is filed. Simply click the "Search:" dropdown, select "Unread Mail" and click the "Search Mail" button. Gmail will display a list of all unread mesasges. Likewise, you can select specific Labels and you can enter specific terms. It's very powerful and useful.

But as more savvy users, we often crave, as Tim The Toolman Taylor says, "More power!" Gmail also provides users the ability to prefix their search keywords with "query words" that instruct Gmail how to search. And there is no need to open the Search Options--these can be entered in the simple search window at the top of any page.

For example, say you want to search for all messages Labeled with the "Family" Label. You could open the "Show Search Options" pane, select the "Family" Label from the dropdown, and click "Search Mail". Or, you could just enter into the search box at the top of any page "label:family" and hit Enter! Both do the same thing, just in different ways.

But this type of searching goes way beyond this by letting you search using more complex criteria. For example, building on our example above, say you want to search for messages containing attachments from your family sent before May 21, 2004? You would simply enter the following advanced search criteria:

label:family has:attachment before:2004/5/21

Yes, this could actually be done in the Search Options pane, but in addition to the available search criteria fields, query words not only let you search using criteria not included in the Search Options pane, (like "cc:" and "bcc:") but you can do "compound" searches otherwise not available in the Search Options pane. For example:

label:doctors label:statements has:attachment before:2004/5/21 in:anywhere

would return all messages with both Labels of "Doctors" and "Statements" containing attachments, sent before May 21, 2004, existing anywhere in my account including the Trash and Spam views.

It's pretty powerful, and fairly intuitive once you get the hang of it.

For more information, you should check the direct link to Gmail's "How do I use advanced search?" help page found [here] (You may need to be logged into your Gmail account to access this page.)

Here is table of "query words" from that page:

Operator	Definition	Example(s)
from:	Used to specify the sender	Example - from:amy Meaning - Messages from Amy
to:	Used to specify a recipient	Example - to:david Meaning - All messages that were sent to David (by you or someone else)
subject:	Search for words in the subject line	Example - subject:dinner Meaning - Messages that have the word "dinner" in the subject
OR	Search for messages matching term A or term B* *OR must be in all caps	Example - from:amy OR from:david Meaning - Messages from Amy or from David
- (hyphen)	Used to exclude messages from your search	Example - dinner -movie Meaning - Messages that contain the word "dinner" but do not contain the word "movie"
label:	Search for messages by label* *There isn't a search operator for unlabeled messages	Example - from:amy label:friends Meaning - Messages from Amy that have the label "friends"
has:attachment	Search for messages with an attachment	Example - from:david has:attachment Meaning - Messages from David that have an attachment
filename:	Search for an attachment by name or type	Example - filename:physicshomework.txt Meaning - Messages with an attachment named "physicshomework.txt" Example - label:work filename:pdf Meaning - Messages labeled "work" that also have a PDF file as an attachment
" " (quotes)	Used to search for an exact phrase* *Capitalization isn't taken into consideration	Example - "i'm feeling lucky" Meaning - Messages containing the phrase "i'm feeling lucky" or "I'm feeling lucky" Example - subject:"dinner and a movie" Meaning - Messages containing the phrase "dinner and a movie" in the subject
( )	Used to group words Used specify terms that shouldn't be excluded	Example - from:amy (dinner OR movie) Meaning - Messages from Amy that contain either the word "dinner" or the word "movie" Example - subject:(dinner movie) Meaning - Messages in which the subject contains both the word "dinner" and the word "movie"
in:anywhere	Search for messages anywhere in your account* *Messages in 'Spam' and 'Trash' are excluded from searches by default	Example - in:anywhere subject:movie Meaning - Messages in 'All Mail', 'Spam', and 'Trash' that contain the word "movie"
in:inbox in:trash in:spam	Search for messages in 'Inbox', 'Trash', or 'Spam'	Example - in:trash from:amy Meaning - Messages from Amy that are in the trash
is:starred is:unread is:read	Search for messages that are starred, unread or read	Example - is:read is:starred from:David Meaning - Message from David that have been read and are marked with a star
cc: bcc:	Used to specify recipients in the 'cc' or 'bcc' fields	Example - cc:david Meaning - Messages that were cc-ed to David
after: before:	Search for messages after or before a certain date* *Date must be in yyyy/mm/dd format.	Example - after:2004/4/17 before:2004/4/18 Meaning - Messages sent on April 17, 2004.* *More precisely: Messages sent on or after April 17, 2004, but before April 18, 2004.

How to use gmail

2009-06-22T03:55:00.000-07:00

Logging In

Open http://www.gmail.com/
Logging in is typical of webmail services. The login screen is clean and simply requires you to enter your username and password. Here is what the Login screen looks like:

Inbox

Once you successfully login, you are presented with your Inbox. Once again, it is pretty typical looking:

Messages are listed in a typical way, displaying the sender, subject, the first few words of the message body, and the date. Personally, I would like to see the message size included, but I can live without it. The checkbox lets you select individual messages on which to perform specific actions. The "star" lets you "flag" particular messages (more on this later.)

On the left are links that let you compose a message, and select different standard message groups (like Inbox, Sent mail, etc.) Again, it's one of the quick ways to find a specific message. Under the message groups is the "Labels" selector which I'll explain later.

Finally, there are links to all the other functions which I'll describe below.

Reading Messages

When you click on a message in the Inbox, the message opens for you to read or taks action. Here is what the message screen looks like:

Note a couple things: First, no external graphics are displayed. By default, Gmail disables displaying externally referenced graphics. The reason is that many spam messages contain externally referenced graphics. When they are displayed, the email sender can use this to track that you opened the message thus validating your email address for future spam. Clicking on the "Display External Images" link will display the images if you want. Here's an example of the above message with external images turned on:

You can reply to or forward a message by simply clicking on the appropriate link. This is standard functionality with one glaring problem: If the original email is HTML or Rich Text formatted, Gmail will strip out ALL formatting including links, fonts, and images. ie: you can only reply in plain text. To me, this is a HUGE problem because it means that a nice, formatted message gets "altered". My complaint is that if this is supposed to be marketed to the masses, they have grown to expect to be able to simply forward on what they received and expect it to arrive at its destination intact. I don't think this is an unreasonable request. In Gmail's defense, their support emails do say that they are planning on adding an HTML editor, so presumably, this may be resolved, but as of this beta, it isn't. Note that this is NOT exclusive to Gmail. Some other Webmail services do the same thing, but it's rare.

Starring a message

When you "star" a message, you can later click on the "Starred" link on the left of the Inbox screen and Gmail will display all messages that have been "starred". Your specific reason for "starring" a message is purely personal. It simply gives you yet another way to "group" messages.

Composing a Message

Composing a new email in Gmail is simple. At beta, it is a simple, plain text editor. Gmail support says they are planning on adding an HTML editor.

Here is what the Compose Messagescreen looks like:

You enter the email address, the subject, and the message body and click "Send". Pretty normal stuff. One nice feature is that if you have contacts set up, as you type the contact's name, a quick menu of contacts containing the letters you typed comes up. You can select one of the addresses quickly and simply. Very nice. There's also an integrated spelling checker. You can also attach files.

Contacts

Here is what the Contacts screen looks like:

Underwhelming, isn't it? Simply put, it's a contact list and nothing more. You maintain names, addresses, and a short note for the name. No phone entries, no addresses, bo birthdays, just names and email addresses. Streamlined to say the least. At present, there is no facility to import or export the contacts list, but Gmail support says that they are planning on adding it.

Some may view this as a weakness, bu don't forget that this isn't a corporate groupware product, this is a free webmail service.

Archiving

One of the first concepts that you have to get used to with Gmail is that of "Archiving". The overall power of Gmail is in its message management, searching and archival capabilities. In order to really leverage this, you need to get past the "I have to delete everything because I don't have enough storage space" mindset. With 1GB of storage, the average email user will have enough storage space to hold several years worth of emails. Yes, there will always be emails that you simply don't want to keep. Don't fret, despite some speculation, you can always delete any message you want. You aren't required to retain every email you ever received or sent.

OK, so what's Archiving? Archiving a message simply tells Gmail to remove the message from your Inbox screen and keep it in your "All Mail" screen. Simple enough, but what does this mean? When you receive an email, it first goes into your inbox. You can read it, reply to it, forward it, etc. You can apply a label to it (more on labels later), you can trash it, or you can report it as Spam. Pretty typical functions. All emails will remain in your inbox until you specifically "Archive" them. Archiving simply removes the message from your inbox screen.

But what happens to it? Don't worry, all messages are always accessible through the "All Mail" screen. Archiving simply cleans up your inbox. Once a message has been archived, should you ever want to, you can easily move it back to the inbox, but there really isn't a need for that.

Labels

The next concept that you have to wrap your mind around is that of the "Label". A Label is a way of classifying an email. It's similar to "folders" but it goes much farther: You can optionally assign a user-definable Label to any email. Then, when you click on a specific label in the label list on the left of the screen, Gmail displays only those emails under that label. Sounds a lot like folders, right?

The power of Labels shows in being able to assign multiple labels to an email. When you organize emails in folders, an email can reside in only one folder at a time. Say you have one folder called "Family" and another called "Jokes". Your brother sends you a joke email, so where do you put it--the Family folder or the Jokes folder? Gmail's Labels let you assign multiple labels to each email, so you could label your brother's joke email with both "Family" AND "Jokes" labels. Now, when you click the "Family" label in the label list, you see your brother's email along with all the other emails from family members. Likewise, when you click on the "Jokes" label, you also see your brother's joke email along with all of your other joke emails. At first, this may not seem too exciting, but after a while, you will see how this could be very powerful, especially with large numbers of accumulated emails.

Here is an example of the Labels screen:

I actually like labels, and I know I'll miss it in my other email account screens.

Searching

Searching is one of Gmail's unique features and strengths. Every email you have sent or received (that you have not sent to Trash) is searchable from the Search screen. Here is what the Search screen looks like:

As you can see, you can search on text in various fields. The fields aren't exclusive either--you can enter search text int multiple fields to narrow down the searches. In its current iteration, it seems pretty solid and useful. In fact, now that I've had a taste of Gmail's searching capabilities, I sorely miss it on my other email accounts. This should become standard fare on every webmail service.

The only thing I don't like about Gmail's implementation is that it doesn't provide for partial word searches. For example, if I want to find the email that had the City "Spokane" in it, but I don't know how to spell Spokane, I'm out of luck. I cannot enter "Spo" or "Spo*" or "*kane". Not a big issue, but some will complain.

Filters

Filtering is another useful feature. Filters are similar to Outlook's Rules. First you set up certain criteria similar to the Search function:

Then, you assign an action:

It's not fancy, but it is very useful to auto-label and archive certain emails. I read somewhere that you are limited to 20 filters. This may prove problematic for some.

Suggestions

Now that I have shown you what Gmail can do, here is a list of some suggestions that I feel will significantly improve the service. I forwarded this list to Gmail's "Feedback" page, so hopefully, they will consider some of them.

Fix the "Forward" function to forward the message UNALTERED. This may seem like an odd suggestion, but currently, if a message is in HTML or Rich Text format, Gmail strips all formatting, links, and images resulting in a simple, plain text message. Messages need to be retained as-is for a number of reasons. Maybe, this could be an option, but by default, ALL messages should be handled unaltered.
Add "Report as Spam" button to same line as the "Archive", "More Actions", "Refresh" line. Yes, I could click on the "More Actions" dropdown and select it from the list, but I would rather have an easy-to-find button.
Replace the "Compose Email" and "Refresh" links with buttons for consistency. Just a cosmetic thing. If you are going to utilize buttons for some functions, be consistent across the interface.
Add an "Import " function to bring emails into Gmail. Say that I have a lot of emails residing on another email account that I would like to have "transferred" to Gmail. Yes, I could "Forward" them all, but then they would appear to be "From" me. Instead, I would like to be able to "export" the emails from my current acount in .eml format, and then "import" them into Gmail seamlessly. Gmail should recognize them as "new" emails and apply all defined Filters.
Add an "Export" function to be able to copy emails out of Gmail providing users the ability to have "offline" storage and access. Yes, I could "Forward' them to another account, but it would be nice to have an online function that saved them all to .eml files and Zipped them all up for easy download.
Integrate the Search funciton into the above suggested Export function to allow selective exporting.
Add an "External Email" function to be able to pull in emails from other POP and IMAP accounts instead of having to forward those accounts to Gmail.
Allow for partial word searches.
Add "Import" and "Export" functions to Contacts. Managing hundreds of Contacts, requires this.
Add capability to "Label" Contacts (defined separately from the Message "labels".) Currently, contacts are simply a list. Being able to apply labels to Contacts would let us better view and manage them. Then, we could select just a Contact label for emailing and it should sent to all contacts with that label--kind of like a mailing list.
Have "Filters" optionally apply to ALL emails instead of just those selected or just new emails. Once we have hundreds or thousands of emails, being able to globally process emails may become essential.
Add an "Advanced Settings" option to allow "power users" to "tweak" more options such as edit box dimensions, screen colors, etc.
On the Settings screen, the entry "Maximum page size: Show XX conversations per page" has values of 25, 50, and 100. Add "20" to the list. This is large enough to show a good number of conversations, but small enough to prevent the user from having to grab the mouse to scroll down the page on a typical 1024x768 Windows XP screen.
Integrate Gmail notification into the Google Toolbar that would display the number of new messages in my Gmail Inbox. Clicking the button would then either launch the Gmail login screen, or if I could set my username and/or password in Toolbar "Settings", take me directly to my Gmail Inbox.
Provide an HTML editor to compose messages.
Allow Labels to be "nested" or "grouped" to allow for more granular labeling.
Optionally show a Size column in the Inbox listing and while reading a message. This should be togglable through Settings.

FREE EAMCET COUNSELLING

2009-06-22T03:34:00.000-07:00

Why CET Counsellor?

Once you get the results of your CET ( EAMCET,KCET,ICET etc..), the next thing you want to know is which college you can get in to or which course you can choose based on your rank.
The information about previous year’s last rank details can come in very handy to get an idea of your chances this year.
So, you need a way to go through this information in an effective way so that you get a clear picture.
CET Counsellor helps you to achieve this with it’s unique search facility, with which you can get the exact information you are looking for.

How it works ?

It is based on the previous year’s last rank information published by the relevant CET authorities.
it’s like a mock counselling, where you specify your search criteria ( rank, category etc.. ) and get unique search results matching your criteria.
The search results can include more than one year’s last rank ( based on availability )
There is no prediction here, just pure information.
No guarantee of any sort that you get the same college or course. You can use these results to analyze your options
To make your search more effective we have provided two ways of searching options. Search By Rank and View College Matrix .

Search By Rank

You provide search criteria like College Region, Course, Category, Gender and Rank .
We fetch the last ranks based on your criteria.
To narrow your results, we search for last ranks with in the range of your rank to 10,000 + your rank.
For Example, if you provide 1234 as your rank, we search for last ranks ranging from 1234 to ( 1234 + 10,000)
You get a list of colleges which have last ranks between this range

View College Matrix

Here you select a college
and get complete last ranks details of all the courses of college.
The last ranks are provided for more than one year based on the availability.

EAMCET COUNSELLING PROCESS

2009-06-22T03:15:00.000-07:00

1.Registration: Candidates will be called as per ranks at the Registration Counter. Candidates have to pay the prescribed registration fee at the counter and obtain a receipt. They have to sign in the registration book at the registration counter. After signing in the resgiter, they have to proceed to the waiting hall at the verification counters.

2.Verification: Candidates have to submit all the required original certificates at the verification counter, when called. After verification of certificates, candidates have to wait in the counselling hall. They have to fill the details in the option forms provided to them (except the options).

3.Counselling: Candidates will be sent to the counselling counters as per ranks. At the counselling counter, candidates shall ensure that their details are correctly displayed on the counselling terminal before viewing the vacancies. Candidates shall fill their options in the Option forms provided to them as per their priorities in the order of preference. Candidates shall make sure that the counselling staff has entered the options correctly as per their order of preference. After giving options, candidates have to wait till their name is called at the Allotment counter.

4.Allotment: Allotments will be made as per merit in a sequence. If the options given by the candidates are not available at the time of allotment, they have to exercise options afresh. Once allotment is made, they are called to the Allotment counter. Candidates shall verify the allotment order for the correctness of the seat allotted and sign on the allotment order. After signing in the Allotment Order, candidates shall proceed to the bank counter for payment of fee.

5.Fee Payment: Candidates can pay the fee either in the form of D.D. or in cash at the Bank Counter when called. Candidates shall proceed to the Allotment Order Issue counter after paying the fee.

6.Issue of Allotment Order: Wait at the Allotment Order Issue counter till called. Candidates shall collect the Receipt of Certificates (receipt for the certificates they submitted), Allotment Order and Fee receipt at the counter. After taking the Allotment order and other receipts, candidates shall leave the premises and make room for others.

automatic "Lyrics" of Songs in Winamp and Windows Media Player

2009-06-22T03:12:00.000-07:00

Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself !

Plug-ins are found at http://www.lyricsplugin.com/

how to browse blocked websites at work or office?

2009-06-22T01:34:00.000-07:00

Are your favorite websites blocked at work or school?
Do you want to browse the web secretly?

open
http://ibypass.net

Simply use the "web address" box to surf to the website you want to access. It really is that simple!
Remember: All that will be visible in your web history is that you visited iBypass.com