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Top 5 filehosts for free users
As a free user you might be frustrated as most filehosts limit the number of files you can download in a single day or may restrict your downloads by forcing unnecessary delays . I have compiled a list of top 5 filehosts for free users that provide limitless download opportunities for free users . I have pionted out the advantages of each one .
1) http://www.mediafire.com/
Mediafire doesn't limit the size of the file you can download as a free user . You can download multiple files simultaneously . You don't have to enter any code to access the download . Mediafire offers fantastic download speeds .
2) http://ifile.it/
Though you have to enter a code to enable downloads after some number of downloads ifile filehost offers unlimited number of downloads of files of any size at great speed .
3) http://www.megaupload.com/
Megaupload doesn't limit you by the size of the file and supports unlimited downloads though you have to enter code and wait for few seconds .
4) http://www.4shared.com/
4shared makes you wait for just 10 seconds and you can download unlimited number of files.
5) http://www.sendspace.com/
Sendspace also allows instant download after entering a simple code .
1) http://www.mediafire.com/
Mediafire doesn't limit the size of the file you can download as a free user . You can download multiple files simultaneously . You don't have to enter any code to access the download . Mediafire offers fantastic download speeds .
2) http://ifile.it/
Though you have to enter a code to enable downloads after some number of downloads ifile filehost offers unlimited number of downloads of files of any size at great speed .
3) http://www.megaupload.com/
Megaupload doesn't limit you by the size of the file and supports unlimited downloads though you have to enter code and wait for few seconds .
4) http://www.4shared.com/
4shared makes you wait for just 10 seconds and you can download unlimited number of files.
5) http://www.sendspace.com/
Sendspace also allows instant download after entering a simple code .
Windows 8 : The next revolutionary OS from Microsoft
According to a presentation leaked on the web Microsoft is currently working on its next big OS that is scheduled to be released in 2012 and consists of features you all might be waiting for eagerly .Some of the features expected in Windows 8 are :
Face Recognition :
Windows 8 will consist of login based on face recognition , so you need not be worried about somebody stealing your username and password .
Energy Efficient :
There will be a logout + Hibernate feature that will help save energy .
Fast startup
Better Help and Support
Push Button Reset
With push button reset you won't need to backup your complete data in case you need to reinstall your windows .
Microsoft App Store
Microsoft seems to walk on the lines of Apple and looking at controlling a greater share of the market by launching its own app store for its operating system .
"Google Me " to be launched in spring 2011
Facebook continues to grow as a major social web in itself whether Google Me could fight the war with Facebook only time can tell .
iOS 4.3 rumored to be released in December
AirPlay helps compatible devices to receive content from iPad or iPhone to that device. AirPrint utilizes Wifi and works with AirPrint compatible printers .
iOS 4.3 is romored to introduce a new subscription billing API for in-app purchasing . A popular subscription news app called The Daily from News Corp. is expected to be released with iOS4.3 that would cost readers 99¢ per week for daily news updates. Improved support for AirPlay is also expected .
Toshiba, Vizio to friend Google TV
Google TV had faced strong opposition from leading content providers such as CBS and NBC considering the fact that it supports piracy .Well if more television and set top boxes manufacturers continued to support Google TV soon you might rid of your TV remote and rather use the Google search box for any program you want to see on your TV .
Top 4 mobile instant messaging applications
Meebo supports multiple IM services, including Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger ,AIM, ICQ, MySpaceIM, Facebook Chat,Google Talk and others .
Meebo bar allows users to connect with their friends and share content on hundreds of content sites across the web including TV Guide, Slate, TMZ, CafeMom, Entertainment Weekly and others.
Meebo reaches over 190 million unique users globally .
The "meebo me" widget gives bloggers and webmasters a way to add chat using meebo to their sites.
Meebo group chat rooms allow group chat as well as the ability to post media like pictures, video, and audio.
Trillian
Trillian is a proprietary multiprotocol instant messaging application for Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone OS, BlackBerry, Android, and the Web, created by Cerulean Studios.
It can connect to multiple IM services, such as AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Bonjour, XMPP, and Skype networks as well as Social Networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace; and email services, such as POP3, IMAP, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail .
Trillian will automatically shorten URLs in your tweets, and handle direct messages, re-tweets, and replies.
There's support for drag-and-drop file transferring .
You can preview a Web site when you hover the cursor over a URL in the conversation window
BeeJive
BeeJive is an extremely popular Instant Messenger app for the iPhone .
It’s a premium app that combines gorgeous visuals with an intuitive user interface .
BeeJive IM supports multiple IM services, including AIM, Google Chat, Facebook chat and many others.
It lists your chat sessions in a column on the right side of the screen.
Rather than require a friend to accept a file transfer, BeeJive sends multimedia in the form of a URL for the recipient to view on a webpage.
Cost:$9.99
BlackBerry Messenger
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is a proprietary Instant Messaging application included on BlackBerry devices.
It was developed by Research In Motion (RIM) .
Messages sent via Blackberry Messenger are sent over the BlackBerry PIN system , thus, communication is only possible between two BlackBerry devices.
With the release of BlackBerry Messenger 5.0, BlackBerry allows users to use a QR Code barcode to add each other to their respective friends lists rather than using only numeric PIN identification
An Introduction to Google Hotpot
If you are a travel freak and like to visit places regularly around different parts of the globe or if you are visiting a completely new place and don't know which are the best places to visit there or best restaurants there Google Hotpot can really help you a lot .
Google Hotpot lists all popular places in a particular region and stores the ratings and reviews of different people who have already visited that place . You can view the overall ratings of all people or only your friends . This can help you find good hotels , restaurants and other such places in an unfamiliar place at the click of a button .
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Google introduces instant search
After Microsoft introduced its new search engine Bing it seems Google too has been under immense pressure to introduce similar features in its search engine . And Google hasn't taken long to bring them to the market .
What is Google Instant ?
recently you might have noticed that as you type any keyword to search for something on Google you are guided by Google through different keywords that people are already using to search for things . This happens on the fly and most of the time you don't need to type the whole term in the search box . This helps you in many ways as many times you don't know exact keywords to search for what you want .
According to Google this saves 2-5 seconds per search and also improves the efficiency of the search results .
Google Instant Preview
Besides instant results you can also get a preview of the website you want to go to before actually visiting it . Google Instant Preview helps you in doing so . To get the preview you will see a lens after the each snippet representing a search result . Click on the lens and you will get the preview .
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What is Google Instant ?
recently you might have noticed that as you type any keyword to search for something on Google you are guided by Google through different keywords that people are already using to search for things . This happens on the fly and most of the time you don't need to type the whole term in the search box . This helps you in many ways as many times you don't know exact keywords to search for what you want .
According to Google this saves 2-5 seconds per search and also improves the efficiency of the search results .
Google Instant Preview
Besides instant results you can also get a preview of the website you want to go to before actually visiting it . Google Instant Preview helps you in doing so . To get the preview you will see a lens after the each snippet representing a search result . Click on the lens and you will get the preview .
Google publishes “20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web.”
Google's Chrome team has recently published a book “20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web.” The book is like a Dummies Guide to the browsers , web and the internet . You can know the basics of cloud computing , web browsers , HTML5 , Javascript etc. and how they work in a simple and interesting way . Chrome has created the open book using HTML 5 and you can turn the pages and read the complete book being offline .If you don't know much about technology jargon but still are inquisitive about how your browser and internet works “20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web.” is a must for you .
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Google Wave : The future of Web 2.0
Seems like google also is understanding the importance of social networking in the future web and Google Wave is a new example of it .
What is google wave ?
* Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless
* It helps in online real-time collaborative editing and is written in Java using OpenJDK .
Features
* Google Wave is designed to merge key features of media like e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking .
* People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
* A wave is shared.Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops.
* Playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
* A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
* It's also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when.
* Chatting, contacts, and editing can be integrated in all of your favorite applications.
* You can "Wave This" to anything you like on google wave and share it with your friends .
Google Wave can help you get your work done .
* Google wave is a great tool for people who want to share information on a common topic and work collaboratively .
* Wave is a great place to get work done, in particular for teams working together on projects that involve lots of discussion and close coordination .
Learn to use google wave .
* If you have google account you can use it to login to google wave . Google wave screen is divided into three sections .
* The leftmost section is the navigational menu .The middle section remembers all your actions in chronological order .
* The rightmost section is the place where you create a wave .
There are six types of waves you can create
* Blank wave
* Discussion
* Task tracking
* Meeting
* Document
* Brainstorm
* Once you create a new wave you can see your avatar at the top of your wave section . Use the add button to the right of your avatar to add new people you want to share your wave with .
* You can add colored text with colored background .
* Clicking at the rightmost part of the toolbar takes you to "More Actions "
More Actions helps you add has more options :
* Link
* Add Attachments
* Google Search Results
* Add Gadgets
* To add videos go to link and add the URL . Click on the bulb next to your URL to embed the video .
* You can reply anywhere in google wave .
* Attachments help you to share you files with your peers .
* Add attachment along the top, and select the file you'd like to share
* You can reply anywhere in google wave .
* Double-click the section where you'd like your comment to appear, and click Reply in the window that appears.
* You can always play back the wave if you need to see what's changed since the beginning.
* Add attachment along the top, and select the file you'd like to share
* In your leftmost navigational menu bar you can go to extensions and add a new gadget to your wave .
For more info visit Google Wave Blog .
Similar Tools:
EtherPad
* EtherPad is another web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time.
* When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen.
* Edits highlighted in author's colors Quickly know who contributed what to the document.
* Etherpad is open source . You can host your own Etherpad by downloading the source code or try Etherpad for free on one of the Public Sites.
* This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents .
For more info visit EtherPad
"So happy google waving!"
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Modern messaging system : Facebook introduces a new “social inbox”
Google vs Facebook : The Next Big Battle
A few days back when I visited youtube I was surprised to see a "like" button at the bottom of every video . There is no doubt that social networking is the future of the web and if Google is the daddy of "search engines" then Facebook is the daddy of "social networking " .
Just like Google is trying new Web 2.0 products to invade the Facebook's market if Facebook also launches a search engine that prioritizes results around the known preferences of a user's circle, then the commercial potential of social networking would be extended.
Facebook launches "Project Titan " .
Facebook today announced it's long awaited "Project Titan" which is also known unofficially as “Gmail killer”. Project Titan is what Zuckerberg refers to as "Modern messaging system" .The project took 15 months effort to develop Messages and has been the biggest engineering project that Facebook has undertaken, involving 15 engineers .
* The central thesis of "Modern messaging system" is that messaging should be simple and unified, which is why it integrates IM, chat, SMS and e-mail into one inbox.
* Facebook which has currently 500-million users will provide "@facebook.com" email address to all its users.
* Though it is still in Beta phase and may take a few months to provide this facility to its 500 million users .
* The "Modern messaging system " has been referred as evolutionary than revolutionary.
* Facebook rebuilt their entire messaging system from the ground up.
Potential :
* There is no doubt that the project has a huge potential as 350 million members out of over 500 million members are already using Facebook’s messaging system .
* More than 4 billion messages are sent every day on Facebook .
So what is it exactly about ?
Seamless Messaging
* This means that it's you who decides how you want to talk to your friends: via SMS, chat, email or Messages.
* You just have to choose the name of the person you want to talk to and type a message.
* Most of the facebook users are either teens or youngsters . As this generation uses e-mail rarely Facebook will try to tap the huge potential this group offers by bringing them to messaging forefront .
Conversation History
* You won't have to search your inbox to find your messages to one of your friends .
* All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS.
* You can see everything you've discussed with each friend as a single conversation.
The Social Inbox
* Inbox will only contain messages from your friends and their friends.
* All other messages will go into an Other folder where you can look at them separately.
* If someone you know isn't on Facebook, that person's email will initially go into the Other folder.
* You can easily move that conversation into the Inbox, and all the future conversations with that friend will show up there.
* You can also change your account settings to be even more limited and bounce any emails that aren't exclusively from friends.
* This kind of message control is pretty unprecedented and people have been wanting to do this with email (and phone calls) for a long time .
* Instead of having to worry about your email address getting out, you're now in control of who can actually reach you.
Cons:
* Privacy : Privacy has been the biggest concern with everything related to facebook and this project is no exception .
* It currently doesn't have IMAP support i.e. you cannot sync it with other email systems .
Know more about project Titan at Official Facebook blog .
This post is authored by http://linkbuzz.blogspot.com/ . Copying it without permission is subject to content theft .
A few days back when I visited youtube I was surprised to see a "like" button at the bottom of every video . There is no doubt that social networking is the future of the web and if Google is the daddy of "search engines" then Facebook is the daddy of "social networking " .
Just like Google is trying new Web 2.0 products to invade the Facebook's market if Facebook also launches a search engine that prioritizes results around the known preferences of a user's circle, then the commercial potential of social networking would be extended.
Facebook launches "Project Titan " .
Facebook today announced it's long awaited "Project Titan" which is also known unofficially as “Gmail killer”. Project Titan is what Zuckerberg refers to as "Modern messaging system" .The project took 15 months effort to develop Messages and has been the biggest engineering project that Facebook has undertaken, involving 15 engineers .
* The central thesis of "Modern messaging system" is that messaging should be simple and unified, which is why it integrates IM, chat, SMS and e-mail into one inbox.
* Facebook which has currently 500-million users will provide "@facebook.com" email address to all its users.
* Though it is still in Beta phase and may take a few months to provide this facility to its 500 million users .
* The "Modern messaging system " has been referred as evolutionary than revolutionary.
* Facebook rebuilt their entire messaging system from the ground up.
Potential :
* There is no doubt that the project has a huge potential as 350 million members out of over 500 million members are already using Facebook’s messaging system .
* More than 4 billion messages are sent every day on Facebook .
So what is it exactly about ?
Seamless Messaging
* This means that it's you who decides how you want to talk to your friends: via SMS, chat, email or Messages.
* You just have to choose the name of the person you want to talk to and type a message.
* Most of the facebook users are either teens or youngsters . As this generation uses e-mail rarely Facebook will try to tap the huge potential this group offers by bringing them to messaging forefront .
Conversation History
* You won't have to search your inbox to find your messages to one of your friends .
* All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS.
* You can see everything you've discussed with each friend as a single conversation.
The Social Inbox
* Inbox will only contain messages from your friends and their friends.
* All other messages will go into an Other folder where you can look at them separately.
* If someone you know isn't on Facebook, that person's email will initially go into the Other folder.
* You can easily move that conversation into the Inbox, and all the future conversations with that friend will show up there.
* You can also change your account settings to be even more limited and bounce any emails that aren't exclusively from friends.
* This kind of message control is pretty unprecedented and people have been wanting to do this with email (and phone calls) for a long time .
* Instead of having to worry about your email address getting out, you're now in control of who can actually reach you.
Cons:
* Privacy : Privacy has been the biggest concern with everything related to facebook and this project is no exception .
* It currently doesn't have IMAP support i.e. you cannot sync it with other email systems .
Know more about project Titan at Official Facebook blog .
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