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Tweak Bing Search Engine To Get Effective Search Results

Bing Search engine is a good Google alternative and people want to extract utmost use from it.Here are some simple tweaks for Bing search engine to get effective results for you search queries on Bing.

You can tweak a little of the search engine by adding some keywords to your search query to enhance your search results. The principle behind this is that we enter some keywords which is recognised by the search engine as commands and this tweaks the search engine. Here is a list and the uses of some such keywords.

1) AND (&)- This combines two or more queries that you enter. For example, if you enter Michael Jackson + dead it will combine those keywords and gives you the search results. You may wonder that it is also the same if you enter it without AND command. This is because AND command is set as the default by the search engines.

2) OR (|)- This command would help you to get
webpages that contains either the "first keyword" or the "second keyword" but not both.

3) NOT- Excludes the term that is proceeded by NOT command. For example, if you type "michael NOT dead", then you will get the results only for "Michael" and not for "Michael dead".

4) " " - It includes the webpages that contains the exact phrases. For example if you type, ""Michael is great"", then you would get the
webpages that contains only that particular phrase.

These were some of the simple keywords. in order to get more power over the search engines use the following ones:

1) contains.(file extension) - This helps you to find videos, images and other files easily. The use of this command is, it returns the webpages that contains the extensions that your search query has. For example, if you type "images contains.jpg", it would show you the webpages that contains only the .jpg extension images.

2) site: (sitename) - This is a command well-known to everybody. This helps to search in a particular site. For example, if you enter, "site:http://www.tweakdaddy.blogspot.com/ Google", then you would get the pages of this blog that contains the word "Google"

3) translate : It helps you to translate particular words or phrases directly to the other languages.

4) location or loc - This helps you to search for the webpages with location filter, i.e., if you type "Google (loc:US)", you would get results that contain the keyword "Google" from USA.

5) url: - This is a command that helps you to check whether a URL is present in the search engine or not.

Add MS Bing Custom Search Engine Into Your Website | Bing SearchBox

Most of the websites we come across uses Google as it customised search engine. Now, Here comes an alternative for this search option. MS Bing also now provides the search tool for your website. Here is a clear way of how to set up a Bing SearchBox.

1) To add Bing search to your website click here or go to Bing searchbox page.

2) You can access two types of search options. a) Basic SearchBox, b) Advanced SearchBox.
A basic search box is the one with which it displays the search results in the Bing website. A Advanced search box is the one in which the results are sh0wn on your own website.

3) After selecting any of the one, you will have to enter the sites through which you want the engine to search.

4) The next part is the formatting part, i.e., to customise the look and size of your search engine tool.

5) You will get the code for this. You can copy it and paste it in your blog's template.



Add Bing Search In Google Chrome

You can now add Bing search in Google Chrome. This is a very easy task to do. If you just want a search box for Bing in the "new tab page" then all you have got to do is press "Tab" after you type the domain name in the address bar.

If you want to make it as the default search engine then click on the "customise Google chrome" option and select "options". There go to the tab, "basics". Under that you wiil find Google as the default search engine. Click on "Manage" .Change it to bing.com by selecting the bing.com in the "other search engines list". This is possible only if you had pressed "tab" in the address bar as I had told previously. If you have not done that either do it or copy the following URL and place it in the URL box that is to be filled while adding the search engine.

URL: http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s&go=&form=QBLH&filt=all

So, after pasting this click on add button and you will get the Bing search engine. Click on "Make Default" to make it default.

Here u\is a way to add Bing search in Opera 10 beta

Top 6 Sites To Check The Google And Alexa Pageranks For Any Site

Blogging becoming more easier and easier in these days there are lots of bloggers emerging in the cyberworld. The competition between the bloggers is rising so much that it is very much necessary to know the position of a blog on the web. This is the main reason for the start of ranking the pages. The two main page rankers are Alexa and Google. These are the two main tools that are used by the bloggers to know their position on the web. So, this was about the need for the bloggers. Now coming to the counterpart, the readers too need the stastics of a blog. They too are very eager to know about the complete statistics of a blog. Many blog owners are not ready to post or publish their traffic details to the public. Such people can browse these sites to know the complete stats of a website.

How do these sites calculate the statistics?

These sites calculate the statistics of a blog or a website by considering the two main factors i.e., Google PageRank and Alexa PageRank. Apart from these it also calculates on the basis of no. of links that point towards a particular site.

How and for whom is this useful??

Firstly, as I told earlier it is useful for the curious people who want to know the statistics of a website. Secondly, for the advertisers. Advertisers too want the statistics of a blog to put their adverts and they always look for higher traffic websites.

So finally, here are the list of the sites that will help you knowing the rank stats and traffic information about a blog.

1) Quark Base

This a website for the people who are striving hard to get the latest updated information and complete statistics about a blog. Or to be more specific this is a tool for the advertisers. This gives what is called the bio-data of the blog also the contact information and also about the feeds and also a great analysis of the site's traffic.

2) sitelogr.com

This is a very good site for knowing the ranks like world rank, Google PageRank or Alexa rank. This gives you a clear map about the Alexa ranking and also the similar sites with near ranks for the respective website. A great tool for overview of a website's traffic.

3) The Google PageRank

As the name itself says it gives you the information about the Google PageRank. It also enables the website owners to embed their PageRank notifier in their website.

4) StatBrain.com

This is a site that shows the average visits to a particular site. This also works well for blogs that use sub-domains.

5) The Alexa PageRank

It gives you a overview of a site's traffic like site's linking in, the locations of the visits and also the average visit per day etc.

6) Google Chrome Fans

This is a site dedicated to google chrome fans. This gives you a addon for the Google chrome and also live checker of Google an Alexa PageRank.

Check All Places On Web That Has Your Site's Link With Google | A Google Tweak

Web is an unimaginably great space which you can't even imagine. It grows so rapidly that once you enter a name on the web you cannot delete it again. So, news spreads so rapidly that the name you entered would have circled this whole globe in 1 to 2 hours. If a name could spread so fast then what about a blog or a website. It would have grown so large that you can't imagine it.

So, how to search for the links that are placed on the web in millions of places?? Here is the way.

We all know that Google is the only search king that has the most powerful searching capacity. Then let's use Google for our work. Let's say you have a website named "www.mydomain.com".You would type the keyword as "www.mydomain.com" or "mydomain.com". This would give you either the links that are named only as "www.mydomain.com" in the first case or "mydomain.com" in the second case. Google actually takes these two URLs i.e., "www.mydomain.com" and "mydomain.com" as two different URLs. So in order to access both the URLs here is a simple tweak I found with Google. Instead of typing either as "mydomain.com" or "www.mydomain.com" you could type in as "*.mydomain.com". This would tell the Google to search both the domain names. Here asterisk (*) acts as a wildcard in searching for the domain name.

Maybe you don't find a lot of difference with this tweak but I surely say that there are subtle differences to the search you make.

Google Translator Has Added a New Language | Persian

Google translator is one of the hottest topic right now on the web. It's one of the latest developed application of Google. Google constantly upgrades all of its applicatons and this time it has added a new languge to the Google translator, Persian language.

You can now translate Persian language into any other language or any other language into Persian. This is currently the Alpha version and may breakdown sometimes but Google will try as soon as possible to fix it. It is a little slow as it is a new addition and there are many bugs but still its great and worth a try. :)

Watch Your Visitors LIve and Online Using populatetheweb

Blogs with high traffics put their web traffic stats on their blog to boast about their blogs infront of other visitors. They show the recent visitor name and photo or just the list of their places. Here is a tool that will help these boasters to get more advantage of their traffic.


Populatetheweb.com offers the bloggers a tool that helps them to show-off their traffic in a more innovative way. The tool is called "webbymap". This provides a map in which the it shows the locations of the visits the second they enter into your site. This uses what is called Geo- technology. You have complete power to change whatever options or preferences you like. For example, if you don't want sounds, then you can disable sounds and also the markings of the visitors location can be changed. This is a free widget, which you can add into your site.
Note:This is free because it's a basic version and it shows a small ad beside the map. However, to get higher version you have to pay a certain amount.

Use Wikipedia More Effciently Using Powerset | A Microsoft Online Tool

Searching through Wikipedia is often very cumbersome. One has to type the exact keyword or the title of the page being searched. So this often makes it a little useless. The other thing is that Wikipedia is very slow in loading.... I mean in slow connections. So this also is a setback. Powerset helps you to overcome these setbacks.

What is Powerset??

Powerset is a online search engine hosted by Microsoft. To be more specific it is a Wikipedia search engine and this helps people to navigate through the Wikipedia article easily even by typing long keywords which is not possible in Wikipedia.

The next feature is its unique feature of listing the information. Let me tell you about this by giving an example, if you enter "Google" in the search box you will get a intro to the article and then it will give you a tabular column. In this tabular column there will be related information about Google like 1) Used 2) Offered 3) Acquired. The first one means info about the things used by Google. The second one, in a similar way gives you the results about the thing that are offered by Google. The third one tells about the things that are acquired by the Google. This helps you to analyse the Wikipedia articles more efficiently.

Moving on to the next feature, The Search Panel: After you enter into the Wikipedia article you will get a panel on the right side. Here you can see the contents of the wikipedia page. This panel remains on the window screen even while scrolling to help users for easy navigation.

You can also search for the facts that are present in the page by going to the "factz" tab at the top. You get all the facts arranged in a tag like structure. You can look for these facts in the articles by clicking on them. For your easy navigation navigation you can set the panel to the option "show facts".

Here is a video tutoral:





So, this feature really helps you to get a thorough view of Wikipedia so much that you may not have got it in the Wikipedia itself!!!

Note: When you search for anything in Bing then you will get all your keywords highlighted which does not happen usually.

Check Availability of Usernames In The Social Bookmarking and Other SItes Under One roof

Fed up of searching for the username in many social sites?? Want to know where is the availability of your desired usernames?? Then here is a simple tool that helps you to check the username availability in almost all social sites.

The tool I am talking about is the NameChk.com. It gives you a complete list of 122 sites and you can just check the username availability in all these sites within 8 seconds. This helps you to improve your business by choosing the correct name and checking where it is available.
Apart from just giving you the availability of usernames it also gives a brief description of the sites. This is very helpful for the new users as it gives a simple description of all the sites. It also has a option to look at the profiles of the users that are already registered.
For example, If you type "tweakdaddy" in the search box, you will get a notification saying that it is "taken" and if you click on that it will take you to my blog. If the name is not registered you will fall into the home page of respective sites you click.Thus. it helps the people to save a lot of time.

Bing Provides Seach Challenge Between Itself And Google | Bing VS Google

Microsoft Bing helps the users to compare the results they get in Bing with Google. This is called as the search challenge and it helps the visitors to analyse the information they get from Bing and Google.

The Bing's decision engine has launched a tools that is called as the "Search Challenge" that provides two windows: 1) The Google Search Engine 2) The Bing Search Engine.

You can search for the information about the topics that are provided in the tabular column or write your own search query in both the search engines. This helps you to analyse the results that you get from the Bing Search Engine as well as the Google Search Engine.

You can look at the way it is organised for the people to analyse:


Google Translator Toolkit Has Intergrated Wikipedia And Knol

Google translator is now integrated with wikipedia and knol. You can translate any Wikipedia article into your own language or any other language you want within seconds.




This is a new addition to the google translator. It also adds some more file formats like word document and .txt formats too. You can translate and even save the document online. It also enables you to share your translated documents. This means that others can view your translated documents. You can set the visibility to "everyone" or specific group.

When you save your documents in sharing, when others search a transaltion of similar kind then they need not do the same work again and again.

So, Google becoming so developed it looks as if we have a desktop on the net.

Alternatives For All The Sites That Are Blocked In China

The Great Firewall of China (often known as GFC) haas blocked many popular social networking sites. The China government "Love" has also ordered the computer vendors to add web blocking softwares to the computers. So, Chinese government becoming so strict, there is no other way like hacking etc. I have brought some of the sites as alternatives to the sites that are blocked by GFC.

First let me give bring to your knowledge about the sites that are blocked in China. Here is the list and its alternatives:

Youtube - Metacafe
Blogspot - Wordpress
Hotmail - Gmail, Yahoo! mail
Twitter - Digg, delicious
Plurk - Tumblr
Webshots - Photobucket
Wretch - Photobucket, Tumblr

So, These are some of the list of alternatives for the sites that are blocked in China.

Yahoo 360 Getting Closed | Opera Dives in For Help

Yahoo 360 is getting closed due to unknown reasons. But, don't worry there is always a way out. Here My Opera comes to the rescue.


Opera's official site has a blogging community where you can host your blog for free. You can upload images upto 1 GB for free. This is a feature that most of the people don't know. So, in order to increase the popularity of it's hosting platform, it has made a step to import the Yahoo 360 blogs in it's blogging platform. Here is the link for the tool: http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2009/06/05/yahoo-360-blog-import-tool

You can also find more info about how to import your blog in the above said link. It states like this:
"So far we've imported 1000 blogs and have more than 100 requests in queue, waiting to be processed. The amount of weekly blog posts has increased by 20%. Some new bloggers from Yahoo! 360° have already customized their blog with colourful and creative skins."

So, that's it. The problem solved for Yahoo 360 bloggers.

Add Bing Search In Opera 10 | Opera 10 tweak

Here is a way to add the Bing search in the new beta version Opera 10. This is a very easy task to do but still many people find it difficult. So, I thought I would give people information about what I did.

First, open Opera 10. There enter into the Tools option. Hit the preferences button and there go to the search tab. It will give options like add, delete and edit. First, select the Google search engine and click edit. Then, click on more details in the context box and copy the url that's shown.
After this go back to the search tab and click on add button, there type the search engine name and keyword you want to use. Click on more details button and you will get a space for typing the url. There paste the url you copied earlier and change at the beginning of the url from "www.google.com" to "www.bing.com" . Do not change any other part!! Your integrated search engine will be ready to use.

Note: If you just write the url as "www.bing.com" it won't work.

Browse At Amazingly High Speeds Using The "Opera Mini Mobile Browser Demo"

Running on a slow internet connection of 128kbps, 140kbps or 256kbps??? Then here is a simple solution to overcome this problem. All you have to do is visit this address and you will get a virtual mobile phone on which you can experience a lot speeder browsing then the normal.

What's the trick??

Actually the link I said above is the link to the Opera official website where they have given a demo of their new "Opera Mini" browser that is used on the mobile phones. So, I thought of trying out this demo. It gives you a complete browsing function on a virtual mobile through the Opera Mini browser. As the virtual mobile loads mobile phone modified websites, it amazingly fast to browse and you will have a fine browsing experience.

The features:

1) You can browse any site you wish at a great speed compared to the ordinary computer browsers.
2) You can see images loading faster than your ordinary browser loads in Orkut, Flickr, Facebook etc.
3) You can also browse for downloading torrents, but the actual downloading takes place in your default browser only.... No high downloading speeds.

Disadvantages:

1) You cannot watch videos on Youtube, Metacafe or any other site.
2) The browsing becomes cumbersome as it is difficult to navigate through non-mobile sites.
3) It's just a demo that cannot be relied upon as the Opera site may remove it anytime it wants.

Here is the pic of the virtual mobile:

So, overall, just for browsing it's a very fine experience as it gives ultimate browsing in a connection with a speed very low.

Tweet more than 140 Characters Using "TWITTERCONTD.."

Here is a simple tool for twitter that helps you to tweet (write messages or updates) more than just 140 characters. The tool is called as "twitercontd...". This tool helps you to tweet about 1250 characters.

This also helps you to upload files upto 100MB and the files more than this size may require more time. You can access this tool with the default twitter account itself. You can also search for some of the latest trend in the Twitter and browse them.

Send Small Files upto about 250-350MB Online Within Minutes

Here is a tool that will help you to send files about 250-350MB online within minutes. It is very useful for people to transfer the files from one computer to another without any device like USB or CD-Rom. The topic I am discussing here is about a tool called Pipe Bytes.

Why does one need this?

1) When one does not have any device to transfer the files from one computer to another.(Of course, this can be done by mailing but it's time consuming when compared to this.)

2) When you are in a net browsing centre and want to get the printout of a file which you forgot.

So, how does this work?

After knowing about the use of this Pipe Bytes, let's know how it works. This works just like the bit torrent download but it's purely private. First, let me explain the working of a torrent. In the torrents, the files are simultaneously downloaded and uploaded, i.e. if one is uploading a file the other will be downloading the same file. That is what senders and peerers means.

So, we can consider this tool as a small torrent. If you upload a file to the Pipe Bytes it will give you a code and says "searching for the receipent". That means you have to send the code to whomever you want to download the file. After he gets the code he can enter it there and hot "Download: button and the file will start downloading. For this both the sender and receiver should be online. You can download at a faster rate by paying the money. For more info got to "speed pass" at the below said site.

You can also add the widget for this tool at this site: www.pipebytes.com

The Day in the Cloud Challenge featuring Google Apps on June 24th

This is a good news for gamers and Google apps users. Google is launching a new game called "The Day in the Cloud". Just like it had held a game called "puzzle extravaganza". The sponsorer for this is : "Virgin America".

All you have to do in this contest is to create some puzzles, trivia and brain teasers using Google apps. They will select the best game or puzzle and the winner will be selected.

The winner will recieve a "year in the cloud" prize package. This consists of free Wi-Fi sevice in the Vigin America flights and a year of flight fare deducted. You will also get 1TB of space for you Google apps and photos!!!

With Google developing so much will Microsoft Bing be a ble to compete with this??

Want gadget and tools for Bing?? Visit this: Tools and gadgets

Bing Launches TravrlTwivia Twitter Contest | 3rd June 2009

The new Microsoft Bing lauches a contest on June 3rd 12:01(Pacific Time) called as Twitter Twivia contest. It is a contest via twitter. Twice each a day, a question will be asked about the travel via fareologist twitter feed(@fareologist). You must also report the same via a tweet. Your tweet should be like this: "#TravelTwivia @fareologist [Answer here]". But you have some rules for playing this game. You can get the rules here.

The prizes are given by selecting a lucky winner out of the eligible entries they have got. The winner will get a travel voucher of USD 500.

Human or Robot?? Very Impressive | Must Watch

This is the Android age and is becoming difficult to differentiate between the human and the robot. I have got you a collection of videos that you will say "unbelievable" after looking at it.
In the first video you have a robo(which actually doesn't look like that unless with a careful look) actually it's the replica of a real person which you will notice at the end. It mimics wahtever the real person tells. A very impressive video.





The second video shows a person who is greeting the visitors in a party, when the camera closes up you will see that it's a robot and that it's head at the back is open!!!


And the third one you watch it and you will never close your mouth again!!! I am not going to tell anything about it....Very surprising!!


Share your Wonderful Experiences With Orkut on Orkut Blog

Did orkut make you meet your old friends?? Did it help you to improve relations with others? Do you have a wonderful experience with orkut and want to telll it to this world?? Then share your experience with the orkut management and others.

The thing I am talking about is about the Orkut Blog. This may be a known thing to many people. But, most of the typical users don't know about this. So, i thought of writing about it.

Let's get into the topic. Point your browser to the following address: There click on the "share your experience - Spill It Here" option and submit your story in a well formed way. I say "well formed way", because it's going to be published in the orkut blog. So, if your story is found to be interesting then your story may show up in the orkut blog.

Get The Tools and Gadgets For Microsoft Bing |.discoverbing.com

You can now get the gadgets and other tools that help you to increase your potential while searching through the Bing Search Engine. There are many tools and also the product guide available for using Microsoft Bing.

A list of those are given below:
1) MSN toolbar with micrsoft search.
2) MSN optimised Internet Explorer 8
3) Windows Live Essentials
4) Bing Maps Gadget
5) Bing For Mobile

You can download these here: www.discoverbing.com

Also get the Product guide for working on Microsoft Bing right here: Product Guide

You can also attend the interactive live demo on June 1st(PDT) wherein you can ask questions. just browse into this site: http://ms.istreamplanet.com/search.

PS: You may have to install Microsoft Silverlight for this.

Create Your Own Google Custom Search Engine For Free | Some Imteresting Tips

Now you can create your own customized search engine for no cost. You can also add this search engine to your blog also. All you have to do is go to Google Create Custom Search Engine and there click on "create custom search engine" . From there follow the wizard and you will get your custom search engine.

I have some tips for you here while creating your search engine. While creating. you will be asked to enter the URLs of the web pages that you want Google to search for. There instead of entering domain name as "www.mydomain.com" (without inverts) enter it as "*.mydomain.com/*"(Without inverts). Here asterisk sign acts as a wildcard and tells your Goolgle search engine to search even for "mydomain.com" rather than "www.mydomain.com".

Here is a screenshot of the search engine I created. Will be soon including it in my blog.

The disadvantage is that Google puts ads on the search pages, but I think that's not much of a disadvantage.

Microsoft Bing Search Engine Names Its Domain as "www.decisionengine.com"

The most awaited Search Engine that is said to take over the Google Search Engine has named its domain as "www.decisionengine.com". You can go into your browser's address bar and type in the said domain and you will be in the Bing search Engine. (Yet to be released)

It says that search engines are not just to search, it's a search for making decisions. Microsoft Search engine (Bing) helps you in making such decisions. It helps especially for people who buy online, book online tickets for flights etc. This new search engine gives more descriptive results about the flight timings, fares and also the prices of different products.

You also get latest user reviews about the products you choose in the search engine itself and that would help the buyer to make a more accurate decision. Well, according to me Microsoft Search Engine "Bing" will give it's users a completely new experience provided it is more faster than Google.
Watch this short video and you will understand:


Funny GMail Video | Very Creative and Funny to watch

This is a funny clip about Gmail . It actually depicts that Gmail is all over the world. In this video you will find a Gmail symbol traveling throughout the world. Very funny to watch. Enjoy!!

Get Zoo Zoo Cursors, Walpapers and Screensavers For your Desktop | Vodafone

The Vodafone Zoo Zoo ads has become so famous that they are being used in many ways like Cursors, Wallpapers and Screensavers etc. So, I thought of searching all these and give my readers all of it under one roof.

After seeing the Vodafone Zoo Zoo videos its time to use it as Wallpapers, Screensavers and even as Cursors. So, here is a pack of Zoo Zoos:

Screensaver: Zoo Zoo's day out!!!!

Wallpapers or E-Cards.


You can use these wallpapers even as E-Cards to express your feelings to your friends.


Mobile Wallpapers: You can now get your favourite Zoo Zoos on Mobile Phones too.


Cursor: Thanks for the author Sakshit Vig. Download cursors by clicking at this link.

Emoticons: Wait there is some more, Download Emoticons from this link

You can also visit the Facebook Vodafone Official Club for Vodafone Zoo Zoo videos etc.

In the meanwhile, if you have time watch this video that consists of all the IPL Zoo Zoo ads in one frame:


The Best Blog | Tweak Daddy

I am very happy and proud to say that I got the award for the best blogger 2009. I am also pleased that I got this award from the President of USA, Barack Obama. The felicitation program was held in USA on 26th May 2009 (IST) . Here is a clipping of the news paper report about this incident:

I am thankful to all my readers that they read my blog posts and found it interesting..... Thank You everyone.


PS: Hello guys,
This was just a prank I played using a online tool. This is the link for it: http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp..... Well, what I have written is truly my aim but, I have not yet reached it.

If you were looking for the best blog, then sorry for disturbing. Here are some of them:
1) Digital Inspiration (The best Indian blog).
2) Some of the top blog sites (all over the world)

Black Search Engines Save Electricity | BayDark (TM)


With a look at the present energy crisis, it becomes the the duty of every human on this earth to contribute something to save electricity. But, what can we do?? We want computers, right? (I mean for Bloggers and Software Engineers or anybody who uses computers a lot..). I have way by which you can save electricity.

Bay Dark(TM) is a search engine website that helps you to save electricity. I mean, it is a website that helps you to surf through the Google Search Engine in a black interface. The Bay Dark(TM) site says that it is scientifically proven that black consumes less electricity when compared to white.

It says like this "This issue is a real major one, as the present day crisis of global warming is making continuous calls to save energy. We have tested this issue with one of our friends who uses C language: while he used compilers in C language whose screen is predominantly blue, his laptop(compaq company with 65W adapter) worked for 45 minutes when run on batteries. However, if he changes the background of compilers to black, he was able to run the computer for more than 1 hour and 20 minutes with all the parameters kept same. So, it does happen." It also gives many tips to the users about how to save electricity by changing the apperarance of the computer screen.

You can visit this site and set it as a homepage following this link: Bay Dark (TM)

Source: Bay Dark (TM)
Image source: aspshop.net

Surf the Complete Universe Sitting in Front of your Desktop | Celestia

This is a open source software called "Celestia" that is available for free download. This is a very good software that is used for navigating through universe. I came to know about this software when I was giving a presentation in my school. This is very helpful for the students to understand the concept of universe in an interactive way.
This is a 3D simulation software and this makes the surfing even more enthusiastic. Its animation of travelling in the space makes the people get involved in Universe. In other words, we feel as though we are in the universe. It gives the complete structure and components of universe from "Asteroids" to "Black Hole". You can also get information i.e., statistical data from this software by getting connetcted to internet. This is completely a open source software that is availalable for editing to users. You can get many addons from its home site Celestia Motherlode.

How to Covert a Movie Maker File into other Video Formats

You can convert the MSWMM into other formats in Vista by using "Publish Movie" option. However, this option is not available for XP users or for the earlier version users. So, I thought of introducing this as it would help many people.
Just like in Vista you click on "Publish a movie" button, you have to click "Save a movie file" button in XP. This will open up a wizard. Follow that wizard and your movie will be in the playable format.
But by default it will be in the WMV format. So in order to convert this you can google for a converter.

Chat Online WIth Bots To Pass Your Time | Jeeny AI, Artemis and ALICE

Don't get bored when you have no friends to chat online. I have brought you a complete entertainment tool. You can now chat with bots (Robots) whenever you like and whatever you like. There are many bots that entertain people by answering their questions or just reply to whatever you say. But be careful, too much of negative sentences and you will be blocked by the bot.

I will give you the names of some of the best bots that were selected by the Chatterbox Challenge 09 (CBC 09). These are selected as the best by looking at the points they have scored. These points are given analyzing their ability to answer questions, personality and conversation ability. In the CBC 09, the topper was the "Jeeney AI", the next was the "Artemis" and the third was "ALICE". You can check these results at CBC 09

You can also surf for many other bots but I say these are the best bots you will ever meet. But beware!! Bots are very strict. Any negative questions and you will be blocked by the bot and you have to do a lot of effort to impress the bot after that.

PS: You have to download a bot software to chat with artemis but can chat online with Jeeney and ALICE.

If you are searching for something more entertaining then here it is..... CHAT WITH GOD.
So enjoy talking to these bots!!!!!

Concept of Working of The TouchScreen

Touchscreens are widely used in the field of technology nowadays. This has helped the people to easily work on their gadgets. So, I thought of writing this post to inform people about what I know about touch screen.
The touch screen gadgets help the users to easily access their gadgets as there is no internediate like mouse or keypad. It helps people to directly interact in the screen. This direct interaction makes people to indulge more deeply in their work.

Working:

The Touchscreen has two layers
of thin electrical sheets seperated by a tiny gap. When it is pressed a finger or a stylus, the two layers touch each other and changes the amount of electric flow. This results in component identifying the location of touch. Touchscreen can be accesed by hand or stylus (a device used instead of hand for more accurate touch).

These touchscreens are nowadays broadly used in many places like ATMs, Mobile phones, PDAs and normal computers like Apple i-mac

Do Online Drawings And Save it Online Using Gliffy.com

Do drawings and other projects online for free (a limited time), just by signing up at gliffy.com. It's a very good online editor wherein you can create lot of things like Flow charts, plans for buildings, Interior designing and many more. You can also create many schematic diagrams about computer server etc. and save it in your account. Here is a image I created using the Gliffy:

The features:

1)I t has a very user friendly interface. A novice can also use it.
2) It helps to create images like I have created above and also drawing up plans for interior designing and flowcharts.
3) It helps us to save our work online in our own account.
4) One can also share the images made.
5) It also has its own customized search engine for images powered by Yahoo!
6) You also have a option to take printout of the diagram you make.

The Drawback:

You will get a 30 day trial when you sign up for first and later you have to buy it if you want by paying $5/month. There are many other plans for business workers and others with different rates.

Extortion That Makes Credit Card the Key

Here is a video that shows about a extortion virus that enters into the computers through internet and makes the victim to pay a ransom of USD999 through his credit card. This virus hits the computers when surfing through fake antivirus sites, gambling sites, porn sites etc.

As soon as it hits your computer it will ask whether you want to download a software and gives two options "yes" or "no". But both of them are "yes". After this it asks you to pay USD 999 to remove the virus. But once you pay it doesn't stop. If you don't purchase it will keep deleting your files every thirty minutes.
The good news is that it can be eliminated by experts. But the bad news is that you have to pay them a lot; But atleast it doesn't make us suffer for the whole life. here is the video Watch it:

Send Mails Without Logging in | No Other Formalities

Fuzzmail is an internet tool that helps people to send mails in a fraction of second without any of the formalities. This helps people who are in a real hurry to send mails. This is also helpful when most popular mailing clients like Yahoo! and Gmail fail to start.

The Special feature: The special feature of this site is it does not have any formalities to complete(like signing in or signing up). All one needs to do is enter the Email address and click "send" and the mail is gone.

The working: First, Go to Fuzzmail. org. you will get a page as shown:

There type your message and the address to whom you want to send; The message wiil be sent to the address. The Fuzzmail also asks you for your Email address. This is because it also sends a copy of the mail you sent to your mailbox.

Reduce Spams in your Online Account| Spambox.us

Hello,
Here is a way to reduce the spams in your account. Actually spams are the unwanted advertisements sent to your mail by different companies (legal or illegal).

How do they get your email address?

Here is the answer:
You must have noticed that many sites ask for you to register for downloading something or just for browsing itself. Ever wondered why they need your Email-ID? They keep your Email-ID in their database and sell it to other social companies and these companies fill your Spambox.

How to reduce?
Answer: So as I told earlier there is a site called spambox.us. It's a site where you can create temporary Email-IDs and use this Email-ID for temporary purposes as I have mentioned earlier. It also enables you to adjust the time for your Email-ID. The time option ranges from 30Minutes to 1 year. Here is detailed description of what you have to do:
1. Open the site spambox.us.
2. There give yourEmail-ID and the time limit of you temporary E-mail ID and click on "Generate" button.
3. You have completed the work!! You will get an Email-ID which you can give it to the sites which ask for Email-ID.

Create your own” Send To” icon in the Right click Pop-Up box| Tweaking the Hidden Folders

Here is a way to easily create a “Send To” to icon in the right click pop-up menu. I got to know about this when I was seeing the hidden folders in “Documents and Settings”. This is a very easy task but still I decided to write a post on this topic as many of the people do not know about this. Even if they know they are afraid to touch the hidden folders in their system. So, I am giving you a detailed tutorial on this topic that would help you to go ahead and tweak your system risk free. I say RISK FREE. Follow the tutorial below:

1.Go to X:\Documents and Settings\tweak daddy. Note that here X: represents the basic drive of your computer and “tweak daddy” represents your profile name.

2.Now enable to “show hidden folders” option. (You can enable this by following this path in the Menu bar: Tools| Folder Options…| View| Show Hidden Files and Folders)

3.The third step is to enter into the hidden folder.( Don’t be afraid coz tweak daddy is with you). Go to the folder SendTo and place a copy of the link of the folder you want on the Pop-up list. Note that you have to place a shortcut and not the folder copy.

4.That’s it!!! The job is done with no difficulty!!! You have tweaked your computer a little bit!!

5.You can see somewhat like this in the Pop-up menu:

Change the Windows Startup and Shutdown Sound

Here is the easy way to change the Startup and Shutdown sound very easily. I had already written in a post about the problem of not getting the Startup and Shutdown Sound in the computer. This is also done in the same way.

1. To change the System Startup and Shutdown Sound, go to the following address in your computer: X: WINDOWS\Media\. Here X: is the basic drive in your computer.
2. There, replace the file Windows XP Startup and Windows XP Shutdown to your desired file.
3. Then change the name of the replaced file with Windows XP Startup and Windows XP Shutdown.

NOTE: The files you replace must be copied for backup purposes. The files you replace must also be in the WAV format.

Convert PowerPoint Presentation into AVI or other video formats| Using Snag It


  Here is a way to convert PowerPoint slideshows into other video formats (avi, wmv, flv etc.). This is done with the help of a software program called Snag It. This is a very good software program for capturing screenshots. It also captures videos on the screen. You can get this software online for trial version and I have told you earlier in one of my posts about “how to extend the trial version of it.” So, read this tutorial clearly and you should be able to see you presentation in VLC media player or any other player.

You can follow these steps to convert your slideshow into a video.

1. Open your PowerPoint presentation and keep it ready for viewing the slideshow.
2. Next, open the Snag It software and change the capture type to video capture.
3. Press the print screen button on the keyboard and you will be asked to start the video capture.
4. Press F5 in the PowerPoint presentation and capture the video of your presentation.
5. Then Snag It has its own editor and it opens you video capture in that.
6. This output file will be saved in the AVI format.
So, you can play this file in Windows Media Player or VLC player. You can convert this video into other formats using any other converter. 

Here is the link for the download of Snag It: http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp

Or you can also get it in the chip DVD (March 09)

List of Some (GOOD) Proxy Sites

Hello guys,

This post is about the proxy site for the students and other office workers who get bored with their work and want to listen to music, chat or other things. But most of the schools, colleges and offices will have blocked the sites like orkut and other entertainement sites. So here are some of the proxy sites which will help you to see the sites you want to:


http://www.cardspeaker.com/
http://www.undergroundsnow.com/
http://www.razorclown.com/
https://www.flowerflake.com/

I have tried all of these and will hope it helps you too.

Google India launches Internet Bus for Karnataka



Google India has launched a Internet Bus to the people of Karnataka. The aim of this project is to help the people know about the basic uses of internet. This was before launched in many states before and now its in Karnataka. It travels through different roads and helps people to getacquainted with the use of Internet.

Recently, a school had decided to break their gate to make way for this bus. So, its a great fortune for the rural people in India.  

Unable to get XP Logon and Logoff sound and other System Sounds


When I was answering in Yahoo! answers I looked at the question “Unable to get XP Logon or Logoff sound”. I had heard about this simple problem many times. So I decided to write a post on this problem. This is a problem most of the XP users face when their XP is not correctly installed. I am going to give you a simple solution to this problem.

The problem here is a windows media file is deleted or not correctly installed in your computer. You can search for this in the following address of your computer. X:\WINDOWS\Media. Here X: represents your basic drive. Look in this folder for”Windows XP Startup sound” and “Windows XP shutdown Sound”. If you don't have it copy it from a friend's computer or you can get it on internet.

If these are present and still you are not getting the sound, try installing XP again.

Any Easy Way to Extend the Trial Period of Software.

Hello readers,
Here is very simple way to extend the period limit in many trial version softwares. The thing is so simple that even a computer novice can do it in a fraction of second.
I am going to show this with a simple tutorial to get your work done fast. I am trying out my idea on the software called Snag It. This is software I got in a CD. This was a 30-day trial limit software. It’s software for taking screenshots. I liked the software very much. So I tried many ways to extend the trial period of that software and came out with one successful way. Here it is for you people:
1. I just installed the software and saw the trial limit. It was for 30 days. I installed it on 30- 4- 09
2. I used it for a couple of days, till 07-05-09. There was 23 days left
3. Then, you don’t believe me all I did was I just changed the system date to the day I installed and lo! The software again had 30 day time period.

So, that’s how I extended the time period for trial version software.

P.S. This trick may not work on all the softwares, but sure to work on many.

Want your own Description to your Folder in the Start Menu| The Novice Way

Hello, 
Here is a very easy way to have your own description on your folder. 
When you go to the Start Menu and then when you take the mouse over the default browser it shows that “Opens you Internet browser”. Just like that I wanted a new comment to my folder that I had placed in the Start Menu. My folder’s name was My Blogs. I will give you a clear illustration about what I did:
1. First, I had placed the folder “My Blogs” in “My Documents”. 
2. I created a shortcut of it and placed it on the desktop.
3. I pinned this shortcut icon in the Start Menu.
4. Right-click on that shortcut. 
5. You will get a dialog box like this:
 
6. Write the description in the comment field and click “OK”
7. This is what you will see when you move your mouse pointer over your shortcut in the Start Menu.
 
So, I hope this trick would give your computer more dignified look. Later you can place the shortcut in the “My Documents” folder.

Password protection for Documents and Spreadsheets: Maintain privacy

Hello,
I have brought an idea which you people might already know, the topic under discussion here is “How to protect word documents and excel spreadsheets with one’s own password?” 
I came to know about this when I was just saving the document I had made. This option might be useful for the people who work on important files of office. This is also helpful if a child operates a computer in which important files are kept. Confidential files can also be kept safe through this option.
So all you have to do for this is while saving the file, Go to the option “save as”. You will get a dialog box something like this:
 
By clicking this dropdown box shown above you will get a list in which you have to select “General Options” and type the required password.
The next time you open this document you will be asked for the password.
This can also be done for documents (Word), spreadsheets (Excel), presentations (PowerPoint). 

A Quick Registry Hack: Changing the default Program files Directory

 Hello Readers,
Here is a quick and easy registry hack to change the default Program files directory in a system. I tried this when I was installing Adobe photoshop CS3 in my friend’s computer. 
All I did was I just went to the registry editor through “Run” command, there I did the following:
I headed to the following strings: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE| SOFTWARE| Microsoft| Windows| CurrentVersion|
Here is the image for that:
 
In the list provided in the right side Double-click on the ProgramFilesDir. You will get a dialog box something like this.
 
Change” C:\programfiles” to “E:\programfiles” in the Value Data box. Now, you have successfully hacked the registry. 
From now on, you were computer will take “E:\” as the default Program files directory. In the same way, you can also change the directory of Common Files and Wallpapers. 
PS: The changed Program files directory may not necessarily be “E:\”. It can be any other drive which you like.  

Shutdown made Easy: Creating a Shutdown Icon on the Desktop.

Hello, here is a way to shutdown your computer in a way other than the conventional one. This is easy when compared to the usual way. (Going to the Start Menu and clicking the shutdown button).
I came to know about this idea when I was just seeing the contents of system32 folder. I came across an icon called Shutdown. I thought of keeping a shortcut of this icon on the desktop. But, the shortcut I created did not work. So, I asked about this to my friend and he said to do the following:
1. Firstly, right-click on an empty space on the desktop.
2. Go to “new” and click “Create Shortcut” in the popup menu.
3. You will get a window like this:

4. Type “shutdown –s –t 0” without inverts in the place marked in the above image.
5. Press the “Next” button. You will be asked to type the name of the shortcut. Give the required name and press “Finish”
6. You will get a shortcut on the desktop.
You can also create restart icon in the same way. All you have to do is type shutdown –r –t 0 instead of shutdown –s –t 0. And for the Log Off icon just type shutdown -s -l in the shortcut address Dialog Box

Here is a video for entetainement: Funny computer prank...

Hello friends, here is a really funny and good video for entertainement. Watch it and Enjoy it......

 



Retrieving the files that are deleted permanently from computer.

Did you delete a very important file unknowingly?? Are you in great need of it?? Then, no need to panic, because here is a software,for free download, that helps you retrieve your permanently deleted files in windows (i.e, files that are deleted using Shift+del). It can also help you retrieve the files that are emptied from the Recycle Bin and deleted by using Command Prompt. Its name is Undelete Plus. It is compatible with almost all operating systems like Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It also helps you to retrive the data from different disk formats like NTFS/NTFS5, FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 volumes. This also helps to recover Images from CompactFlash, SmartMedia, MultiMedia and Secure Digital cards. Its easy to use interface also helps the users to get their work done fast.

The only drawback is that it is a limited version software.

This software can be downloaded from the following link: http://undelete-plus.com/RegNew.html.
You also get free updates once you get registered to this software. So, this is one of the most easiest way to retrieve your permanently deleted files.

Hello to this World!!

Hi, This is my first and the foremost blog. But, I think within a few days I am going to be one of the top bloggers. The viewers can get the important and latest info about the world of technology in my blog. This is because I love technology and want my blog viewers to know more about it. Any problems you get related to your computers and mobile phones, the solution will be there for you in my blog sooner or later. Want to be updated about the latest news in the field of technology?? Then The TweakDaddy is here for you to get all the info. So, I hope my blog will be interesting and informative for my viewers.

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