Free 2GB USB Flash Drive at DotAsia Domain Registration-FreeB.Asia

DotAsia Sets Another Industry First with FreeB.Asia:
Free USB Gadget for Every “.Asia” Domain Registered

DotAsia announces the launch of FreeB.Asia program (http://www.freeb.asia). Starting this month, DotAsia is giving away one free 2GB mini USB stick for every new “.Asia” domain registered for 2 or more years with participating partners (http://www.freeb.asia/redemption/page?p=participate).

This is the first time a domain registry is giving out nifty tech gadgets for every domain registered. With Asia being the undisputed region of gadgets, it is fitting that “.Asia” is the first to offer such an unprecedented premium for the global domain community.

“It ties in well with the identity of the ‘.Asia’ domain for a region known for its tech miniaturization savvy,” says Edmon Chung, CEO of DotAsia. “Besides being first of its kind, the offer also aligns with DotAsia’s support for SMEs around the world to do business in Asia.”

Alongside this amazing offer, DotAsia continues to build value for the “.Asia” namespace through
community and market initiatives. KeepClicking.Asia (http://www.keepclicking.asia) is a social platform inviting domain investors and SMEs to a dialogue about the growing Asian Internet marketplace; ListenUp.Asia (http://www.listenup.asia) is a podcast series about business, entertainment and the Internet market in Asia; Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award (APEA –
http://www.apea.asia) recognises leaders for outstanding entrepreneurship and has an objective to stimulate the growth of Asian brands and enterprises.

“SMEs represent 95% of the economy, employing 65% of the workforce in Asia. With 650 Million online customers in Asia, the Asian Internet marketplace represents significant potential market for SMEs worldwide. DotAsia is working hard to provide support for businesses around the world to serve the Asia community through establishing ‘.Asia’ as the domain of choice for ecommerce in Asia,” adds Chung.

Asian businesses are starting to adopt “.Asia” as the domain of choice for their online presence.
Restaurants and bars (http://www.sakura-cafe.asia, http://www.somo.asia), real estate developments (http://www.kirikhan.asia, http://www.oystercove.asia), tech companies (http://www.riverwalk.asia, http://www.ripple.asia), artists (http://www.absorb.asia, http://www.solfa.asia),magazines(http://www.10magazine.asia, http://www.walkyourtalk.asia) and others (http://www.leluxe.asia, http://www.abbf.asia) are just some of the examples found at KeepClicking.Asia. A number of professionals as well as organisations have exclusively selected “.Asia” even when the corresponding “.com” domain is still available (e.g. http://www.artquve.asia, http://www.chris316.asia, etc.).

The FreeB.Asia (http://www.freeb.asia) program aims to attract SMEs and individuals around the world to adopt a “.Asia” domain when expanding their business to Asia.


About DotAsia Organisation

DotAsia Organisation (http://www.registry.asia) is a not‐for‐profit corporation with a mission to
promote Internet development and adoption in Asia. The organization oversees the ‘.Asia’ top‐level Internet domain name, and is formed as an open consortium of 20 official top‐level‐domain authorities around the region, including .CN (China), .JP (Japan), .KR (Korea), .IN (India), .NZ (New Zealand), .PH (Philippines), etc., and 5 regional Internet organizations including APNIC,APNG, APCERT, PAN and APTLD. Asia has developed into a global force in the international commercial, political and cultural network. The .Asia domain aspires to embrace this dynamism in the Asia Century to become a nucleus, intersection and breeding ground for Internet activity and development in the region.

Get free international calls from Gizmo OpenSky(pe)

Yes it is true that Gizmo provides free international calls now with Opensky[pe].Once the service used to provide 10 minutes per registered user in 2007-2008.Later it was providing just 5 minutes.

Any software?

No need of any software explicitly.You can call by just installing a Gizmocall Plugin of 1 Mb.Apart from that if you are a regular user then you can go for this software.

How to call ?

You can type in the number you want to call preceeded by the country ISD code in the provided box.

The above was a yesteryear's scenario.But now it tied a knot with Skype and got into new name Opensky.

It also offers GizmoCall Firefox Add-on, or install our Firefox Plugin right now which will automatically make any phone number on a web page clickable and place a call via GizmoCall.

Register here to get into calling right now

Reliance Netconnect Broadband Plus 3.1 Mbps

This is the new broadband service  which RCom[Reliance Communications] introduced in India.This service will get started on Tuesday May 17 in 35 main cities in India.

The new product is said to have a downlink speed of up to 3.1 mega bytes a second (Mbps).

The prices of the new package starts from Rs 299/- till Rs 1750/- per month.

For Rs 499 /- pack, there will be free unlimited broadband during night time.

For you to get this service,you should have Plug and Play USB device variants,  priced at Rs. 3,500.

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New Google Adsense Home Page

New Google Adsense Home Page 

This is a very late post.It is good to see Adsense home page having a great look in this new theme.

Here it show offs about Content,Mobile,Search and Feeds

Google Voice Transcripts for GrandCentral Users

Google today announced that Google Voice free service is for only GrandCentral users.GrandCentral is a free Google-owned Internet service that uses VoIP  to link customers' phone numbers together. 

Currently only GrandCentral users have access to Google Voice, but they will be opening up the new service to new users soon. But you can get latest information about Google Voice when they are going to provide the service for all the new users.Here you can give your email and other details so that Google Voice will invite you when it is for all.

 

So GrandCentral users,inorder to get this service you have to upgrade to Google Voice by signing in to your GrandCentral account and just follow the instructions at the top of your inbox.

Ok what are the advantages of Google Voice ? 

It has three features as here they go.

1. Google number - One number for all your calls and SMS

 

•       Call screening - Announce and screen callers
  
•       Listen in - Listen before taking a call
  
•       Block calls - Keep unwanted callers at bay
  
•       SMS - Send, receive, and store SMS
  
•       Place calls - Call US numbers for free
  
•       Taking calls - Answer on any of your phones
  
•       Phone routing - Phones ring based on who calls
  
•       Forwarding phones - Add phones and decide which ring
  

 2. Google voicemail - Voicemail as easy as email, with transcripts

 

•      Voicemail transcripts - Read what your voicemail says
  
•      Listen to voicemail - Check online or from your phone
  
•      Notifications - Receive voicemails via email or SMS
  
•      Personalize greeting - Vary greetings by caller
  
•      Share voicemail - Forward or download voicemails
  

 

3. Voice features - More cool things you can do with Google Voice

  

• Conference calling - Join people into a single call
  
• Call record - Record calls and store them online
• Call switch - Switch phones during a call
• Mobile site - View your inbox from your mobile
  
• GOOG-411 - Check directory assistance
  
• Manage groups - Set preferences by group
  

Top five Best Blogging Platforms

In the early days of my blogging life,I tried to choose the blogging platform.I was unaware of the platforms available at that time.Unaware of the price needed to set up.Later came to know that many of them are free of cost.

And it is my friend who told me about these stuff.

So here i'm giving the best available blog platforms for you.

1.Wordpress

2.Blogger

3.Typepad

4.Movabletype

5.LifeJournal

This rating is as per my view.

There are several sites that give you ample information about the same.So here goes the list for you.

1.Problogger 

2.Speckyboy 

3.PC World 

What made me to start blogging

Every new blogger will say the same thing  "I got inspired by this blogger"......"I want to earn money for my daily needs"....some thing like this.

Coming to me I was a newbie in the past 6  years to Internet world.I dont know what are the things going around me.

Later when i started doing my Engineering,that was the time things actually tought me.

It is my passion to know about new technology and what is going on in the world.

Neverthless there should be a "Guru" for blogger who certainly would have inspired to start blogging.For me it is none other than "Amit Agarwal" of Digital Inspiration.

I can't find words to praise this professional and technical blogger who is really helping co-bloggers through a  lot of his effort.

Koobface Worm/Virus attacks Facebook W32.KOOBFACE.B VIRUS

Recently we had ViddyHo Phishing attack on Google talk and Twitter. And now it is Facebook

 this this time in new threat.

 This virus emerged as a hot topic last year December 2008.This virus mainly spreads easily by just spoofing Youtube Video links.

How will you be affected?

First of all you will receive some sort of Youtube Video links.If you click on them,you will be redirected to some sites that will ask you to update some software versions.The update files will be mainly of the kind "setup.exe" which when installs,causes the damage by taking your personal information that is present in cookies of your browser.

So Facebook users be careful !!

More details on how this virus affects you can be known here

www.avertlabs.com

community.norton.com

Tags:

W32.KOOBFACE.B VIRUS,facebook worm threat, koobface, facebook worm, facebook worm virus, facebook virus,

Yahoo! Briefcase Closing on March 30,2009

The day when Yahoo! notified of closing down its own briefcase wonders me.

We know that Yahoo Briefcase is an online storage service that lets users to store all the information.

This was the email that i had received from Yahoo.

"Dear Yahoo! Briefcase user,

We will officially close Yahoo! Briefcase on March 30, 2009. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to download your files back to your computer. You need to take action before we close, after which any files remaining on Yahoo! Briefcase will be deleted and no longer accessible.

To access your Yahoo! Briefcase account, click the link below:

http://in.briefcase.yahoo.com/

If you are a Yahoo! Briefcase Premium subscriber, your current subscription will be cancelled on March 30, 2009. We will refund the unused portion of your Premium subscription, if any. The refund will appear as a credit via the billing method we have on file for you. So please make sure that your billing information is correct and up-to-date. For more information, please visithttps://billing.yahoo.com.

For additional information or to review a list of our frequently asked questions, click the link below:

Briefcase Help

We sincerely appreciate your being a Yahoo! Briefcase user.

Sincerely,

Yahoo! Customer Support"


After seeing this letter,i have to download all the files that were present in my briefcase.

I wonder why Yahoo had taken this decision.This might be sparked with Google's invention of "GDrive" which is also new online storage service.

Download Apple's Safari 4 Beta Enriched Browsing speed

After Google's latest browser Google-Chrome,now it is Apple's Safari turn to attract netizens.

Today Apple released Safari 4 Beta version promising good browsing speed.This new beta version is flavoured with Javascript that  runs this beta version much faster than Safari 3.

It is also equipped with Google Suggest.

To know more about the features of Safari browser check here

To try how fast is the browser performing,Download the Safari 4 Beta version[Web kit version 528.16]

How to Remove or Hide Navbar from blogger-Tutorial

We usually use navbar to search something and also it do has "Next"botton.

It is also used to "Flag" blogs.

But if you want to give yor blog a website look,you really thinks of removing the navbar that is present right at the top of the blogger header.

The process is simple.



1.First Go to Layout.

2.The choose Edit HTML.and go to the position marked in the picture.

3.Then the following code should be added above the #header-wrapper as shown in the picture

#navbar {
 height: 0px;
 visibility: hidden;
 display: none;
}

After placing the code,click on the "Save Template" to save the changes.

That's it !! Now there is no navbar .It's gone.

This tutorial is for just hiding the navbar and it not against of Blogger Terms of service.

Gmail service outrage-Troubled many users

Quite often we usually get some login problem with Yahoomail.But now it is Google's turn now.

Yesterday Gmail was not able to provide services to almost all of its users on Tuesday during 09:30 GMT.

It is said that Gmail has more than 113 million users and stands in third position next  to other two mail service providers .

Tags:

gmail, gmail not working 2009, gmail down, gmail broken, gmail downtime 

Yahoo's new multimedia advertising-A threat to Google Adsense?

Yahoo ! which is search gaint Google's competiter is steppimg into new innovative ideas to attract advertisers.Yahoo had introduced new multimedia type of ads as a part of its advertising scheme for all its publishers.

Above is the simple search facility mechanism that Yahoo adopted as a part of its Advertisements. But we know Google's Adsense is  far most the better way all the advertisers choose for advertising their products.Can Yahoo's new ideas become a threat to Google's Adsense !.Anyhow Yahoo had sent invitations only to a few advertisers.Pedigree, Esurance and Razorfish are some of them.

In these multimedia type of advrtisements,we can see images,videos next to the text links.After clicking the images,there can be videos.

So Yahoo is trying all the possible ways to lead the  search market!

Facebook says Sorry for Change of TOS at Delete my Account

Recently Facebook changed some of it terms of service.After all it is the people who have to decide which information can be owned by them.

Thinking that people may delete their accounts,Facebook Team realised its mistake of taking ownership of the peoples information like photos,videos...

Here is a snapshot of what they say sorry if you are deleting account due to change of TOS.

[Note : Please dont press Submit button if you really donot intend to delete your Facebook Account]

Here is the new Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities

 " Here are responses to some of the things you've written below:

1. You own your information. Facebook does not. This includes your photos and all other content.

2. Facebook doesn't claim rights to any of your photos or other content. We need a license in order to help you share information with your friends, but we don't claim to own your information.

3. We won't use the information you share on Facebook for anything you haven't asked us to. We realize our current terms are too broad here and they make it seem like we might share information in ways you don't want, but this isn't what we're doing.

4. We will not share your information with anyone if you deactivate your account. If you've already sent a friend a message, they'll still have that message. However, when you deactivate your account, all of your photos and other content are removed. "

5. We apologize for the confusion around these issues. We never intended to claim ownership over people's content even though that's what it seems like to many people. This was a mistake and we apologize for the confusion.

Gmail's Offline feature with Google Gears-How to enable

This is really amazing to see how one can access Gmail in Offline mode.I was thrilled at how this feature works. 

As shown in the screenshot,

1.Go to the Settings tab.

2.Choose "Labs".

3.Enable the option button

To download Google Gears,go to the link http://gears.google.com/

Still it is experimental in the Google Labs.

Internet Explorer 8 RC 1 Not Impressive, Not that Secure!!

Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1(RC1), most likely the final, official version of IE 8.

The IE 8 RC 1 has several improvements from the past versions especially when it comes to enhanced usability, security and flexibility. Microsoft’s new Web browser does look better, but only compared to its older IE versions. When put in the balance with the latest versions of Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera, the new Microsoft Web browser doesn’t impress much.

Numerous IE 8 RC 1 new features are new only for IE and in fact a catching up to the aforementioned Web browsers. IE 8 still has some catching up to do. The IE 8 has just 0.82% of the global market share, compared to Google Chrome’s 1.04%, Mozilla Firefox’s 21.34%, and Apple Safari’s 7.93% (all versions).

The IE (all versions) lost a big chunk of its global market share from 91.27% in 2004 to 68.15%, according to data from Net Applications. 

Nevertheless, there are some new feats on IE 8 that are unique: the tab management is excellent thanks to its feature of color-coding sets of tabs. 

However, when it comes to security, Microsoft’s newly-designed technology released to protect IE 8 users from powerful new Web-based attacks won’t’ do the job, according to security experts. The company said it released the security technology to safeguard users of IE 8 from an attack known as clickjacking.

In clickjacking, attackers use a special Web programming in order to deceit users into clicking Web buttons without realizing it. By controlling a user’s click, the attackers can basically do very nasty things from turning off one’s firewall to executing stock transactions on Web sites.

Google’s Gmail Goes Offline with it's Gears Plug-In

Google announced a long-expected feature – the use of its Gmail Webmail interface in offline mode. This feature, to use the Gmail service even when an Internet connection is not established, has been expected since about mid-2007. 

The offline access to the Gmail Webmail service is provided by Google through the Gears plug-in, which is currently used to get offline access to several other Google applications (the Reader RSS manager, the Docs word processor). 

However, Gmail was “a tough hurdle," as Rajen Sheth, senior product manager for Google Apps, put it. Applying Gears to Gmail was very difficult mainly because of the high volume of messages Gmail accounts can store. 

Users will be able to access the Gmail interface, read their e-mails and reply to them. The latter will be sent to their destination once a broadband connection is detected. The plug-in does not replicate the entire Gmail inboxes to the user’s PC because this would mean gigabytes of data on that PC. Google developed algorithms that determine the messages most important and most-likely to be read by the users and downloads them to the computer. 

"We had to make it such that we're managing a sizable amount of information offline and doing it well in a way that's seamless to the end-user," said Sheth.

The messages most-likely to be downloaded into the PC and available in Gmail’s offline mode are the most recent as well as the messages labeled or tagged with stars to indicate their importance.

The Gears plug-in is available in a beta version through Gmail Labs, but it won’t be immediately available because Google wants to experiment with the new feature first.

Download Google Gears at http://gears.google.com/

About:

Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser:

Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop

Store data locally in a fully-searchable database

Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance

Developer site
Frequently asked questions
More help

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Released

Internet Explorer's creator Microsoft officially announced the public release of Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 on Monday. The “Release Candidate” label suggests that the product is virtually ready to be rolled out on the market, as the company representatives stated that there is a big number of small improvements compared to the Beta 2 release of the web browser, but there are also some new features that aim to deliver a different user experience.

Esthetically, the RC1 and the Beta 2 versions of the browser are very similar, but people who will make the switch from Internet Explorer 7 will notice several changes regarding the user interface and the overall functionality of the new version.

One of the most important features that come with Internet Explorer RC1 is the InPrivate Filter. In a nutshell, this feature is quite similar to the previous InPrivate Blocking, as it will not allow third party website and services to track the user’s search and browsing patterns, both of which are invaluable information for advertisement companies.

Along with the InPrivate Filter, another sought-after feature that was first implemented in IE 8 Beta 2 is an updated version of InPrivate Browsing, similar to Google Chrome’s Incognito window.

The InPrivate Browsing option is particularly useful when users don’t want to leave tracks of their browsing activity, as this feature makes sure that no browsing information, including URL history, cookies, cache and account information is stored while using Internet Explorer in this mode.

An all-new feature is the clickjacking protection, which is the first ever to be implemented in a web browser. Clickjacking happens when a website containing a login box is covered with an identical frame through which hackers can steal the account information typed into it.

Performance wise, it seems that the new iteration of the Internet Explorer browser narrows the gap between previous versions and its main competitors, Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

Even so, it seems that Java-based websites are still loading slower on IE 8 RC1 compared to Firefox and Chrome, but it is worth mentioning that start-up times are much faster than ever before.

Internet Explorer 8 RC1 has also implemented the “sandbox” concept, the same used in Google Chrome. Therefore, each opened tab has its own corresponding process, which means that if a browsing tab stops responding, it will not affect the other ones.

The RC1 version of Internet Explorer 8 is available for download through Microsoft’s website. The company is offering 32-bit and 64-bit versions for Vista and only a 32-bit version for Windows XP.

Currently, there is no version available for Windows 7, probably because this version of the IE is already bundled with the public beta of the operating system. Microsoft has not yet announced the official release date of the final version of Internet Explorer 8.