Month: December 2009

Google Nexus One Coming This Jan 5 (2010)

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"Android Press Conference"  which is scheduled to be held on January 5, 2010 in Google’s Head Quarters, Mountain View, CA might feature the release of Google’s Nexus One phone.

The scanned copies of the innovation for this event are making rounds in the internet one.(check out a copy in this Gizmodo post)

 

 

 

The Text of the invitation:

With the launch of the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we’ve seen how a powerful, open platform can spur mobile product innovation.And this is just the beginning of what’s possible.

Google Nexus One pic

The last line “just the beginning of what’s possible” might just give us a hint about what the Android conference is going to reveal to the world, most likely the Launch of Google Nexus One officially?

There is some leaked information about what the price of this device going to be,

Nexus One Phone Unlocked – $529.99 (Rs. 25000 INR aprrox)

Nexus One Phone + T-Mobile 2 Year Contract — $179.99

Image:Gizmodo

My IP Neighbors- Find Other Domains Hosted On Same Server

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My IP Neighbors is a great site to find the other websites hosted on your same web host/ server.Often this is useful particularly in case if you are using a shared hosting service, as all these websites will be hosted on the same server/ IP address.

Visit My IP Neighbors, Just enter the name of the website like ‘google.com’ for instance in the text field to look up the other websites hosted on the same server as that of google.com

The result is as shown:

IP Neighbors

realtibiaserver.com = Google ?

The other domains on the same server are google.co.in,google.com,google.nl & realtibiaserver.com.

and folks, realtibiaserver.com is taking us to Google Homepage when I tried to access.Please don’t ask me more about this site as I haven’t even heard before it, but interestingly, Google owns this domain.Whois Lookup also included in the results, courtesy whois.domaintools.com

Twitter, Facebook, MySpace Ribbons For Websites

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Noticed a ribbon reading ‘Follow Me on twitter’ and with a link to our twitter account ‘twitter.com/techrena’ ? (Don’t forget to follow us, tweeple)

I have created this ribbon for this site from socialribbongenerator.com.This site offers social ribbons for websites like Facebook ribbon,MySpace ribbon,YouTube and Twitter ribbons.

I have used Twitter ribbon for my site and you can notice the same on the right extreme corner of this blog.Go grab one for your site and pick the ribbon which suits your site design.You can also have

Twitter Ribbon techrena

more than one ribbon but you need to make sure they don’t degrade your site’s look.

Meebo bar- Drag and Drop Links From Any Webpage

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Many people over the internet might have noticed the Meebo Bar, in some popular blogs and websites with huge content which allows you to drag and drop headlines and links, images from the Webpages to popular social networking sites like Facebook,Twitter,Yahoo,or through IM etc..

Meebo bar now has been officially available for all.Any website/ blog owner can get it to their site by registering with Meebo.

Visit bar.meebo.com, grab an account there to get started.

meebo bar small

In the dashboard, you can customize the buttons and choose the buttons form the list of available there.

meebo bar buttons options

Meebo Bar @ TECHRENA

As you may have noticed, Meebo bar is now available in this blog too.Just drag the photos inside any of your favourite posts and drag it to the service to which you want to share it with your friends and share the love.

Year-End Google Zeitgeist India 2009

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Worldwide recession in this year has taken on a toll on the common man in India, it is evident even on the data released by the 2009 Google Zeitgeist for India (zeitgeist — the spirit of the times).

Google has prepared this putting together data from all the billions of anonymous search queries from Indians.

Google Zeitgeist 2009 India

Take a look at the above chart, the recession effect is clear during the end of 2008 and it has reached to it’s peak level around the first quarter of 2009 before just starting to dip from the second quarter of 2009.

A Look Back @ 2009

Below are the list of the popular searches/topics on the Google among the Indians.

‘Budget 2009’ has been the fastest rising search term in 2009, it can be attributed to the anticipations if the people waiting for tax reductions in the recession hit economy.While the movie ‘Kambaqt Ishaq’ takes the next position, IRCTC is at #3 as more people found it to be easier to book railway tickets from their PCs.’Satyam share price’ is at #4 as it has reached to lowest Rs 6.50 at the NSE earlier this year.ISRO’s own Google Earth like Bhuvan definitely made the Indians interested so as general Election results 2009(#8) of April-May.Other major incidents included the death of Michael Jockson(@ #6), the launches of Windows 7(@ #9),Nokia 5800 (@ #10).Twitter managed position #7.

Google 2009 Zeitgeist Most Popular

3 of the Google’s services have made it to the most popular searches of 2009: Gmail (#1),YouTube(#2),Orkut(#4).

Katrina Kaif managed to stay back at #1 spot in the category of Most popular celebrities as she did in last year too.She is placed ahead of Micheal jackson(#2), Salman khan(#3), Aishwarya rai (#4), Shahid kapoor(#5), Kareena kapoor(#6).

Rahul Gandhi, as a youth leader of congress is undoubtedly the most popular politician on Google India, also in the list is another young MP from Congress, Sachin Pilot.

Love Aaj Kal(#1) has been declared as the most popular movie on Google India, followed by Harry Potter(#2), Slumdog millionaire(#3)

Most Poular Movies Google 2009

How-Tos of Kissing, hacking, Meditation etc. have been popular in the year 2009 among Indian users.

For complete list and other details, please visit 2009 Google Zeitgeist India page.

I’m Feeling Lucky Now Shows Countdown to 2010

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Yesterday I just opened Google as I usually do but I hit ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button without actually entering any search term in the search box.

And I observed something different at the bottom of the page.It’s actually a countdown.

Google Count down to New year 2010

As you can see it is showing 465198 seconds to 2010, Jan 1st as of the time this post being published.You can use Google Calculator (via search) to convert this into hours.

google calculator seconds to hours

Get Free Backupify Account To Backup Your Online Data

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Backupify, well-known paid online data backup service is offering free signups to the service till January 31, 2010.After this period, however it’ll be switched back to paid service, so you have to pay to use the service for unlimited data backup.

If you signup during this period, you will get a free account with unlimited data backup for all your online accounts.Currently Backupify supports the following services: (See How Backupify works)

Backupify Free Signups till Jan 31-2009

  • Twitter
  • WordPress
  • Facebook
  • Google Docs
  • Gmail
  • Flickr
  • Photobucket
  • Delicious
  • Zoho
  • Basecamp

backupify Service setting

They are also working on to provide support for ‘YouTube’ service too.

SO remember the dead line Jan 31, 2010 and it remains free service with unlimited storage until then.

Awesome deal, isn’t it? Go get your free Backupify account now.

Goo.gl, Youtu.be URL Shorteners

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There seems to be URL shortening competition going around the web off late.Every one is going crazy about shortening those looooong URLs, thanks to twitter.

Now it’s Google turn, Google has launched 2 such URL shortening services.

1.Goo.gl :

Goo.gl service has been launched for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner.Just install latest Google Toolbar for Internet explorer to be able to use this.

Google toolbar with Share option

Share goo.gl links in Google toolbar

As shown in the above screenshot, the shortened goo.gl link can be shared with your friends in various social networking services.

Creating Goo.gl links Using Firefox

But as of now there’s no such option in Firefox version of the Google Toolbar.But still, there is a Firefox extension which will do the same for you without installing the toolbar.

Goo.gl Bookmarklet:

(Thanks to Matt for this Bookmarklet)

Goo.gl This  <goo.gl bookmarklet link with prompt for copying

Just drag it to the your bookmarks in case of Firefox, Safari, Opera(?) or just add it to Favourites in case of Internet Explorer.

Goo.gl Bookmarklet URL Shortener

Video:Google Toolbar with Share

2.Youtu.be :

If Goo.gl isn’t enough for you, there’s a new dedicated URL shortening service Youtu.be which shortens the YouTube URLs whenever you favourite a video using your YouTube account.

Using Youtu.be Manually:

Replace the "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" with "http://youtu.be/"

Or just copy the video-id (the string after ‘?v=’ in the YouTube URL) of the video(cebbvcMW5Uo in this case) and paste it after ‘youtu.be/’ part.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cebbvcMW5Uo

http://youtu.be/cebbvcMW5Uo

Facebook too is getting into URL Shortening service with ‘fb.me’

Happy URL shortening folks…

IMEI SMS Verification For Indian Mobile Phones

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ATTENTION Mobile Phone Users in India:

Indian govt is all set to block millions of mobile phones starting from today for security reasons.

Many of the mobile phone users may not be aware that the Government of India has ordered all the mobile network operators across the country to stop services to all those mobile handsets that don’t have an IMEI number or have an invalid IMEI number beginning from today i.e. December 1, 2009 as they are found being misused by terrorists thus posing security threat to the nation.

What is IMEI and what’s this all buzz about this?

Well, IMEI stands for International Mobile Equipment Identity, as the name suggests it is an unique 15 digit number for mobiles all across the globe.So no two mobiles will have the same IMEI.

The IMEI number is used by the GSM network to identify valid devices and therefore can be used to stop a stolen phone from accessing the network. For example, if a mobile phone is stolen, the owner can call his or her network provider and instruct them to “ban” the phone using its IMEI number (from IMEI Wiki page)

To find your mobile handset IMEI number, press *#06#

IMEI number display in mobile phone

Note down your phone IMEI number in places like a dairy so that you can retrieve it later when required to use it in your mobile’s tracking.

VALIDATE YOUR IMEI:

Q. I have pressed *#06# on my phone and got a number, Is my mobile phone safe then?

Ans. No, sometimes your mobile handset may have come with an invalid IMEI number (mostly in the case of those smuggled cheap phones that are available in huge numbers in market nowadays).

Q. How to validate my IMEI number?

Ans. IMEI Validation through SMS: It’s so simple, just type “IMEI<space> Your 15 digit IMEI” and send an SMS to 53232 or 57886 (Premium SMS charge of Rs. 2 or 3 will apply for each SMS0

If your IMEI is valid you get a message saying success and details of your manufacturer, else if you are informed that the IMEI that you sent is invalid, then you have to approach Mobile Standards Alliance of India (MSAI) to get a new and valid IMEI at a cost of Rs. 200 /-.

Use Genuine IMEI Implant Service MSAI centre Locator to locate IMEI implant service at near your place.