Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Hindi Song | Google Adds Search Suggestions To YouTube

Google has introduced search suggestion in YouTube similar to what they already have on the main web search engine.
Now when you make a search on YouTube, a list of related search terms and phrases are displayed adjacent to the search results (see screenshot).
The one issue is that these search suggestions can sometimes be weird. For instance, a search for Google on YouTube threw suggestions like ghosts, upskirt, barbie, porn, etc.
On the other hand, suggestions very extremely relevant for searches like Microsoft, CNN and Paris Hilton to name a few.

Hindi Song | Software for Applying Creative Commons License To Your Work

These tools will help you apply a Creative Commons Attribution license to your documents, photos and other files before you share them on the web:
CC PDF Converter - This is an open source PDF writer with an an inbuilt Creative Commons License generator. That means you can directly embed any Creative Commons license into your PDF documents at the time of conversion itself.

CCPublisher - This is from Creative Commons itself and does two things - it allows you add a CC license to your audio and video files and then uploads them to the Internet Archive website for you.
Microsoft Office Add-in - Microsoft provides a Creative Commons Add-In for Word, Excel and PowerPoint - it lets you choose the right Creative Commons license for your Office documents through a wizard.
After selecting the license properties, CC text and hyperlink is inserted into the document while the license details are added to the document properties.
CC License Generator - If you are looking to add a Creative Commons license to your blog content, use this generator to get an HTML version of the license that you can copy-paste in your blog template. For Flickr, go to this page for setting a default license for photos that you upload onto Flickr.
Want to know how Creative Commons Licenses work, watch this video:





Hindi Song | Facebook Blocked At School or Office? Access Facebook Via Email

Some businesses (particularly in UK) have blocked access to Facebook during office hours as IT managers feel that surfing social networking sites at work could make employees less productive.
If you also happen to work in such a company where the office firewall has restricted access to Facebook, there’s a workaround - your email.
A new service called MoDazzle makes it possible to use Facebook (and LinkedIn) through email commands.
For instance, you can send an email to fbreadwall@modazzle.com with the subject SELF to read messages posted on your Facebook wall - alter the subject like JOHN to read John’s Facebook wall.
You can do most Facebook actions via email including poke, status updates, writing on a friend’s wall, read messages lying unread in your Facebook Inbox and so on.
Modazzle.com - also supports LinkedIn and Google Maps.
The service could also pick up in schools and countries like Syria and UAE that have banned Facebook on religious grounds.

Hindi Song | Add Text Watermarks To Your Flickr Photos

Now that Picnik and Flickr are integrated, you can easily add text watermarks to Flickr pictures.
To watermark a image on Flickr, click the “Edit Photo” link to open that photograph inside Picnik.
Go to Create -> Text and type the text. Now select any font for the watermark from the drop-down and then drag the Fade slider to around 55%. That will make your text slightly transparent so the image portions beneath it are also visible.
To add multiple bookmarks, just do a copy-paste and arrange the text boxes anywhere on the image.
When you are done, Picnik lets you overwrite the original photo with the watermarked image or you can add it as a new picture leaving the old one untouched.
Adding watermarks is destructive editing so you could keep you public photos watermarked while keep a private copy of your non-watermarked images.

Hindi Song | Sync Files Between Your Computer and External USB Drives

Microsoft Synctoy is a must-have utility to help you synchronize files in different directories of the same computer or between a computer and external storage devices like the iPod and USB pen drives.
As in the figure above, you first select a pair of folders that you want to keep in Sync via Synctoy. Then decide the action - should the two folders be clones or only the new files have to be copied ?
SyncToy supports wild-cards in file names (like *.exe or holiday_*.jpg) so you can decide what files are included or excluded during the sync process.
And using SyncToy is completely risk free - it has a wonderful preview feature that lets you see what operations would take place during the run without performing any changes on your computer.
SyncToy v2.0 [for Windows XP and Vista]
*If you were to sync files and folders on multiple computers via the internet, consider FolderShare - it can also sync files between a Mac and Windows computer.

Hindi Song | More Reasons To Choose FeedBlitz Over FeedBurner for Email Newsletters

Though RSS feeds are becoming popular, lot of people still prefer email newsletters when subscribing to blogs. As an example, around 22% of our subscribers have chosen the email option over RSS.
The two most popular blog to email publishing services are FeedBurner and FeedBlitz - both are extremely reliable, offer easy exit options and can co-exist peacefully.
While it’s definitely tough to decide between FeedBlitz and FeedBurner email, I would prefer to go with FeedBlitz due to some recent changes at their end:
1. Look-n-Feel: With FeedBlitz, bloggers have complete control over the design of their email newsletter.
You also get a WYSIWYG environment to edit your email newsletter template. Geeks can directly edit the HTML source.
So with some effort, you can actually make the email newsletter resemble the theme of your blog.
2. Breaking News: Both FeedBlitz and FeedBurner allow you to define the time when your email update is sent to subscribers but FeedBlitz also supports News Flashes - very useful when you want to send an important (or time-critical) update to your email subscribers.
FeedBlitz also provides a couple of unique feature. For instance, you can add the OutBrain ratings widget inside your FeedBlitz email newsletters so subscribers can quickly rate your blog stories. And people can also read your blog inside Twitter or Skype through FeedBlitz.

Hindi Song | Type Less When Browsing Internet from a Mobile Phone

Unless you have a mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard, typing URLs and search keywords in the web browser of your mobile phone is not always very convenient.
For instance, if you wanted to read the Wikipedia entry related to Benazir Bhutto on a phone, you would either visit Google or the official Wikipedia website, type her complete name in the search box and hit Go. That’s lot of typing.
Now imagine a service (something like Google Suggest for mobile phones) that would automatically guess the words while you are still typing and show you the answers in real time.
That’s what Boopsie is all about – it’s a find-as-you-type service that lets you search Wikipedia, Google, Amazon, News, Word Dictionary and host of other popular websites from the mobile phone with little or no typing.
Now to read the Wikipedia page of Benazir Bhutto, you could simply select the Wikipedia channel and type “ben bhu” – Boopsie will show all Wikipedia pages that match the string and clicking on the link will take you to the appropriate web page. Similar “pa hi” will find Paris Hilton.
You can use Boopsie for regular Google search, for finding word meanings, news search, latest sports scores and more. The results appear in real time and change dynamically as you type characters.
Other that saving click strokes and time, a big advantage of using Boopsie over traditional search is that it auto-formats the target web page for the mobile phone so that they are more readable on the tiny screen.
To get boopsie, go to boopsie.com from your mobile phone browser and download the appropriate version. Boopsie is available for almost all mobile phones.
Alternatively, you can visit boopsie.mobi to experience Boopsie from your desktop. It can also act as a good workaround if sites like Wikipedia or Google are banned in your workplace.