Hindi Song | Xplorer2 – This File Browser Is Better Than Your Windows Explorer

Xplorer² is a Windows Explorer like desktop file manager with some very unique features. Here are five quick reasons why you would love to use xplorer2 -

• Dual Pane - Great for moving or copying files from one pane to another.
• Tabs - Useful to have 10 different folders open at once (see image).
• Instant Preview - Preview most text, graphics, audio/video, and html & office documents.
• Visual Filter - View files which match a certain pattern (*.txt) in a folder.
• Find Text in files - Highlight files which contain certain text in them.

You can download the lite version of xplorer2 – it is free for private and academic use. A portable version of xplorer2 is also available – the unofficial version is free while the official one is note.

Also see: Find Files in Windows Vista via Explorer

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Hindi Song | Block Certain Words From Appearing On Web Sites with FoxReplace

FoxReplace is a nice little Firefox add-on that you may use to substitute certain words on web pages with something else. It’s as simple as instructing the browser to replace all instances of word "xxx" with "yyy" like in Notepad.

And in case you like to completely hide a word from appearing on web pages, just use a blank instead of specifying a replacement string.

To understand the usage, let’s take this real-world example: Comments written on Digg and YouTube can sometimes leave a normal person depressed because of their language but here’s how FoxReplace can help you.

First create a new rule that applies to all URLs from digg or youtube.com. We use *.youtube.com instead of youtube.com to take care of country specific domains.

Now in the Substitutions panel, choose the "Regular Expression" option and add multiple ‘find & replace’ entries as show in this screenshot.

If you are new to regular expressions, a.*hole will match all words or phrases like a**hole, a**-hole, a** hole, etc. and they will automatically get replaced with the word "awesome".

This is just one example. You may even use Fox Replace to turn Firefox into a slightly more kid-safe browser by specifying a list of stop-words that never appear on web pages.

Or you can use the add-on to edit web pages before capturing not-so-original screenshots.

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Hindi Song | Take Automated Screenshots of Web Pages from Command Line

If you like to capture screenshots of multiple web pages in one go, the regular screen capture utilities (like SnagIt) can do the job but they require way too much effort.

You’ll have to open each site manually, then wait for the web page to load and finally hit the print screen key. Now imagine repeating this process for 10 different websites every morning. Impossible, right?

What you really need here is a command line screen capture utility like CutyCapt or IECapt – both are similar in execution but differ slightly in the way they render web pages because the former use WebKit engine (same as Google Chrome or Safari) while the latter will save screenshots as if you are viewing the page in Internet Explorer.

Screen Capture Web Pages from Command Prompt

Now to capture a screenshot of Google homepage from DOS, you write a simple like this:

IECapt --url=http://www.google.com/ --out=google.png

You have complete control over the output image format and the page dimensions.

To screen capture multiple web pages, you can write a simple DOS batch file and then configure it run at regular intervals using Windows Task Scheduler. The trick may used to create a time lapse video of web pages as this Techmeme video.

CutyCapt offers some extra options like you can turn off JavaScript and browser plug-ins so web pages may render a little faster.

Also see: Archive Web Pages Automatically at Regular Intervals with Iterasi

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Hindi Song | Find Spelling Mistakes on Web Pages with Spellist

Nothing looks more unprofessional than a couple of spelling mistakes on your site so here’s an online tool that will help you quickly spell check an entire web page though it wont’ fix these errors for you.

Called Spellist, this online spell checker for websites uses the Google API to search for spelling mistakes. You just type the URL and it will quickly point out the potential spelling mistakes that may be in the text or even the meta description of the page.

Spell check your website like a Word document

There are no advanced features like scheduled spell checks, RSS, alerts or support for adding new words to the dictionary but as a quick and simple tool, Spellist does the job. Thanks KillerStartups

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Hindi Song | Google Blog Search - Not So Fresh

This is a snapshot of four stories that are currently ranked at the top on Google Blog Search as of now (October 6, 2008).

In case the fonts in the above screenshot appear small, let me give a quick summary – the stories are about Nokia’s new touch-screen phone, Steve Jobs’ heart attack, Sony’s new e-book reader and some commercial tool for converting video to audio.

Now compare the time when the same stories hit Techmeme home page.

• Nokia 5800 XpressMusic hands-on (published October 2)
• Apple Denies Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report (published October 1)
• Sony’s PRS-700 Reader Adds Touchscreen (published October 2)
• The fourth story obviously didn’t make it to Techmeme.

The Google Blog says that this new home page of Google BlogSearch lets you "browse and discover the most interesting stories in the blogosphere". That may be the ultimate goal but frankly, the product is nowhere close yet.

Another point: Google BlogSearch doesn’t offer RSS feeds and the site is written in some complex JavaScript so you no option but to visit the page manually.

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Hindi Song | Mutiny Blog Now Published as a Print Magazine

Jacob Joseph launched Mutiny as a personal blog some five years ago but it soon acquired the shape of a community blog with dozens of contributors (they call themselves mutineers) who all have day-jobs but still contribute religiously to Mutiny.

Now what this team has done is even more interesting – they have launched a print magazine based on their blog. This is probably the first blog that is available for reading both inside news-readers and on news-stands.

The motivation for launching a blog as a print magazine was simple – they want to reach more people as only a minuscule minority is reading blogs online at least in India.

My initial reaction to Mutiny’s blog magazine is exactly the same as Amit Varma - "It takes gumption and commitment to take a bold step like that, and I wish them all the best."

The first issue is available online as well.

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Hindi Song | Is That Company a Scam? Google Suggest May Have a Clue

Here’s one clever use of Google Suggest. Type some name and look at the search suggestions to see how legitimate the company you’re dealing with is. Thanks Techdirt and LooseWireBlog.

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Hindi Song | Ubiquity Tutorial: How to Write a Simple BSE Sensex Tracker

Ubiquity is a new Firefox plugin that can be used as a command line for creating simple Web mashups. What follows is a simple tutorial on how to write a new Ubiquity command (let’s call our command ’sensex’) that displays the current BSE Sensex chart inside any website in Firefox.

To get started, install Ubiquity, press CTRL+Space, and enter the command "command-editor".

Then copy and paste this code in the text editor – the command is automatically saved as you type and you may start using the command with restarting Firefox.

CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
  // The name of the Ubiquity command - this is what you would type to invoke the command.
  name: "sensex",

  // The description of the command.
  description: "BSE Sensex charts.",

  // The preview display - since we only need to view the graph (and nothing else).
  preview: function (html) {
    // Take the graph from the bseindia.com site, and insert it into the Ubiquity preview window.
    html.innerHTML = '

';
  }
});

Press Ctrl+Space again and type "sensex" – There you have the live sensex chart accessible from just about any other website.

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Hindi Song | WordPress 2.7 Release Scheduled for Nov. 10th

My WordPress dashboard keeps reminding me to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress 2.6.2 but I am holding off because WordPress 2.7 is expected sometime early next month.

The WordPress roadmap says that version 2.7 release is planned for November 10, 2008 and now there’s a "not so official" WordPress Upgrade party on the same day at CubeSpace to celebrate the launch of 2.7.

That may be a strong hint that WordPress 2.7 release may go as per schedule. Go here or here to see a list of all features that are expected to be part of WordPress 2.7 or check this detailed review of what’s coming next in WordPress 2.7.

*This screen capture shows the new navigation panel of WordPress 2.7 – courtesy Jane.

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Hindi Song | Optimize Image Sizes Online With Yahoo’s Smushit

Yahoo recently introduced a web based tool called Smushit to help you optimize the size of web images without affecting visual quality.

Smushit reduces the file size of images by reducing the number of colors, strips off excess metadata, and also discards other non visual data.

There are three ways you can use Smushit:

• Upload a bunch of pictures in your browser
• Provide a list of image URLs
• Firefox Extension to optimize the images found on any web page.

Interestingly, the Smushit site seems to hosted on Dreamhost, not on Yahoo servers as one would expect.

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Hindi Song | Convert PDF Files to HTML Web Pages with Quick PDF - For Windows Only

If you like to read PDF documents on a mobile device or some e-book reader that doesn’t include native support for PDF format, the "Convert PDF to HTML" (yes, that’s the full name) utility from Quick PDF will come handy.

To download this $50 Windows-only freebie, quickly jump to GOTD.com as the giveaway will end in another hour or so.

Convert PDF to HTML Dialog Box - No Batch Support

There are tons of other options for converting PDF documents online but this software may be useful if you like to perform the conversion offline – much faster and you don’t have to upload or download any files.

In case you miss the deadline check this guide on how to convert PDF to HTML with Gmail. The difference is that Gmail will only convert PDF to Text while the above utility will extract both text and images from the PDF.

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Hindi Song | The Best Photo Sites on the Web for News in Pictures

Here are some of the best photos blogs and websites where you can view pictures related to current events captured by professional photo journalists. Not all news sites in this list provide photo feeds so make sure you bookmark them.

The Big Picture – This is a photo blog of Boston Globe that highlights current events and lesser-known news stories through some awesome high-resolution pictures that are sourced from AP, Reuters Pictures, Getty Images, NASA, and others private photographers.

Check some breathtaking pictures from Ramadan, India, Soldiers in Afghanistan or the Brazilian tribes that were discovered by the outside world only recently.

Time Photo Essays – Each photo essay includes a collection of 10-12 pictures that narrate (in text and sometimes audio) a story related to current news events. The pictures are also published in the TIME magazine.

Check these photo essays about floods in India, Olympic Games, Georgia conflict or learn how to make your own photo essay.

Getty Images – This is the best place if you are looking for live-coverage photos of news, sports and entertainment related events around the world.

You can legally embed Getty Images in your site without paying any license fee via PicApp.com.

BBC News – The BBC news website has a full section dedicated to news photographs including a popular "Day in pictures" segment that is a slideshow to top news stories of the day in pictures.

BBC In Pictures site also highlights photos that are submitted by citizen journalists. And if you work for a UK based publication, register at BBC Pictures and you’ll get access to BBC images for editorial purposes.

Reuters Slideshows – Wired news agency Reuters uses picture slide shows to narrate news stories and offbeat events.

Like Getty, Reuters too has separate photo galleries for showcasing pictures that are related to the top news events of the day, Entertainment, Sports and even Technology related events.

Yahoo! Photos – This is part of the Yahoo! News website and features an extensive collection of news pictures and slideshows that are sourced from news agencies like The Associated Press, Reuters, etc.

The best part about Yahoo! News photos is that they are available via Feeds but have a short shelf life just like Google News.

National Geographic – This is the place to go if you need a daily dose of photos from the world of science, nature or the animal kingdom.

US Defense – Look no further if you are interested in photographs from the United States Military. This is an official Pentagon site and often includes pictures from areas that are inaccessible to most people.

There’s a large collection of photo essays as well on the US Defense site. You may search for all images hosted on the US Government sites via this Google AJAX API powered image search tool.

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Hindi Song | Websites That Are Popular Among Rich & Affluent Americans

When Forbes.com asked Bill Tancer of Hitwise to name some websites that the rich ‘upper class’ of America likes to visit, he shared some very interesting data.

Bill says that last year, during this period, this group of people was largely flocking to financial and brokerage related sites like Etrade, Charles Schwab and Fidelity.

However there has been a considerable shift in the online behavior of rich Americans due to the ongoing crisis at Wall Street and this $150,000+ income group now prefers surfing celebrity gossip sites more than finance websites.

He especially named PerezHilton.com as the one leading the pack saying that Perez Hilton might now be a good place for some brokerage firms to advertise.

Another interesting detail is that the largest segment of visitors that are flocking to sites like Slick Deals (coupon codes), Shopzilla (online comparison shopping) and Fatwallet.com (coupons and rebates) are the affluent American customers looking to get the best price.

Bill also noted that rich Americans are not visiting sites like MSN and The Drudge Report as much as they used to do last year.

Forbes: How Rich People Surf The Web?

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Hindi Song | Completely Test Your BlackBerry Phone for any Problems with this Secret Shortcut

If you own a BlackBerry mobile phone (or plan to buy one), here’s a very useful shortcut (or can we say Easter Egg) that enables you to perform a complete health checkup of your BlackBerry hardware.

You will be able to test the keys of your BlackBerry keyboard, trackball movements, audio volume, Bluetooth connection, handset, speakers, LED, LCD screen pixels, etc.

To begin the test, click "Options" icon on the home screen of your BlackBerry and then select "Status."

On the status screen, type the wor d "test" without quotes and from the menu on the Device Self Test Application screen, select Start.

If you have a BlackBerry Pearl or another model that supports SureType, use the multi-tap input method to type "test".

As you may have seen in the test report, it says "Fail" for the Keypad Backlight Test on my BlackBerry Curve – that looks like a false positive to me.

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Hindi Song | Now Upload Large Video Files to YouTube via Web Browser

YouTube has released a new web uploader that enables you to simultaneously upload up to 10 video clips in one go and each of these clips can be as large as 1 GB in size. Discussion here.

Though you could also upload large video files to YouTube earlier, it required you to download the desktop based uploader software but now you can send big videos to YouTube from the web browser itself without requiring any software.

Other than file size, YouTube had imposed another limit on the duration of the video clip. You were not supposed to upload any video that was longer than 10 minutes in length and I think that was in place to prevent people from upload full movies and TV shows onto YouTube. Not sure if that limit has been relaxed with this new update.

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Hindi Song | Number of Websites with Google PageRank 10 May Have Reduced

Another Google PageRank update is underway and as usual some sites have seen their Google PageRank increase by a few points while that number has stayed constant or even dropped for some people.

Out of curiosity, I was trying to find web domains / web pages that have the perfect score - Google PageRank 10 – but surprisingly, this list is much smaller now and a large number of popular sites that were at PR10 few years ago are now off by 1 or 2 points.

For instance, apple.com, adobe.com, whitehouse.gov, www.w3.org, nasa.gov, intel.com, adobe reader, nsf.gov, mit.edu, real.com, apache.org, stanford.edu and energy.gov were all in the PageRank 10 category before but are now down by 1 point to PR 9.

Other popular sites that enjoy Google PageRank 9 are YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Scholar, Creative Commons, SourceForge.net, Java.com, Lycos, The New York Times and Wikipedia.

TechCrunch, Google Blog, Digg, Twitter, WordPress.com and BusinessWeek have a Google PageRank 8.

Now coming to sites that have the longest green bar (meaning Google Page Rank 10) I could spot only just two domains - www.google.com and www.usa.gov which is the official web portal of US Government. It was not so lonely at the top few years ago.

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Hindi Song | Visualize the Accurate Size of Objects On Your Computer Screen with Pective

You probably know about SizEasy – an online tool that helps you visualize the dimensions of any object (like mobile phones, laptops..) through comparison.

For instance, if you have an iPhone and like to compare it with say Nokia N96, you could enter the dimensions of both these objects in Sizeasy and it will draw a 3D view making it easy for you to visualize how the N96 stacks up against the iPhone at least in size.

Comparing Mobile Phones: iPhone vs BlackBerry vs Nokia N96 vs Google Phone

Now Pective is a relatively new tool that serves the same purpose as SizEasy but takes a very different approach as here you desktop screen acts as a point of reference.

Assume, for a moment, that your computer monitor is like an horizontal table top. Pective will ask for your screen size and then draw the image (of the selected object) as if the real object has been placed on your virtual table top (i.e., the desktop screen).

Pective has just launched and therefore the number of objects available is limited but its still an interesting concept that you may want to check out.

I tried comparing the actual size of my credit card with the image suggested by Pective and it was surprising very accurate. If you spot an error, there’s an option to flag that image.

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Hindi Song | Make a Site Map of your Website with WriteMaps

WriteMaps is a web based tool that you helps you quickly draw a conceptual diagram of your website.

You may also use the tool to plan the layout of an upcoming site or for generating the sitemap of an existing website as in this example.

The tool has a very intuitive interface and the favorite feature is that you can share sitemaps online (each sitemap gets a unique URL) or you edit them with co-workers.

Now unlike your WordPress plugins that create sitemaps exclusively for search engines, the sitemap written inside Writemap is fit both for human and search engine consumption.

The downside is that this tool may not be fit for large websites as you have to create pages (nodes) manually.

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Hindi Song | Did Google Toolbar Break your Firefox Address Bar Search?

When you type something in the Firefox address bar, it automatically performs a Google search if the phrase you typed doesn’t match a web domain. The situation is slightly different with OpenDNS .

Now, for some unknown reason, the default search function of the Firefox address bar broke after installing the Google Toolbar (version 5.0).

The searches from Firefox address bar were getting redirected to some server at linkhelp.clients.google.com and then to opendns.com.

Not sure whey Google changed the defaults but here’s a a simple fix for the above problem:

1. Type about:config and click ‘I Promise’.

2. Type keyword.URL in the Filter field and change the values as shown below:

• Before: about:neterror?e=query&u=
• After: http://www.google.com/search?q=

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Hindi Song | Schmap.me: Create a Web Page with your Contact Information

Schmap is like your virtual business card – key in your contact address, website URL, phone number, email or any other details that you want to reveal in public and it creates a personal web page for you with all this information.

You can ever grab a personal URL for your contact page and it looks the same on desktop browsers as well as mobile phones.

Your virtual business card with Google Map looks the same everywhere on web & mobile phones

Schmap uses Google Maps to display the location. If privacy is a concern, just enter your city or country in the address field or you may even leave any of the fields blank.

To get your contact page, visit schmap.me. Here are some dummy cards I created to test the service – they look pretty good even on the mobile phone.

The service doesn’t require any registration but if you need a provision to edit your contact details later, they provide a secret URL for that as well.

You may also want to read this review of Schmap Local that lets you interact with contact addresses and phone numbers available on web pages.

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