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Enable/Disable Auto Fill Or Auto Complete In Firefox

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AutoFill Firefox

Firefox by default is coming up with AutoFill or Auto Complete feature in location bar (address bar), but for some reasons if you see it disabled in your Firefox, you can enable it in the following steps:

1. Type about:config in the address bar.

about: config firefox

2. Just accept the “This might void your identity” warning to proceed to the about:config settings page

3. Under the Preference Name, filter the entries by typing “Autofill” in the filter bar.

Autofill in browser urlbar

4. Change the value field to “false” to enable the Auto Complete feature in the browser URL bar.

Just set the value back to “false” to disable the auto-fill feature in the location bar.

Setup Windows Live Hotmail SMS Alerts

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Windows live mobile

Hotmail users has now something to cheer about, the new Hotmail mobile SMS alerts !! Yes, Windows Live Hotmail is offering free mail alerts via SMS, without requiring a GPRS enabled phone. To get started, follow the steps below:

1. Go this Windows Live Mobile Signup page, login using your Windows Live ID.

2. Now you can add a phone to your Windows Live account. Enter your mobile phone number and click “Next”.

add phone in Windows live mobile

3. You will now receive a verification code as a text message to your phone.

4. Enter the verification code, and select Hotmail under SMS services and click “Save”.

SMS Service Hotmail

You will now start receiving SMS whenever you get a new mail. You can also configure them to receive alerts from a set of recipients and also the time where during which you can receive them.

You can also read, compose, delete and forward e-mail right from your mobile phone using the following shortcuts with Hotmail.

SMS text Shortcuts for Hotmail:

Inbox- I or IA

Compose- C

Read – (msg num)

More – M

Reply – R or RA

Delete – D

Forward – F

Next – N

Previous – P

Mail header – MH

Bing Facebook Map App Shows Your Friends Location On Facebook

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Fconnect my friends on bing

Bing Maps team has created a new app called “My friends”, which pulls your data from Facebook profile to show your friends locations on Bing maps.

Just open the My Friends application, login through Facebook Connect, select “Allow” to allow the Bing Maps to connect to your Facebook profile, that’s all you need to. Now the profile pictures of all your friends who have listed a “Current City” in their profile will be pinned to the map,

Current City in Facebook

as you can see here:

Facebook friends in bing

It’s really fun to see all your friends location on a map like this, just click on the “+” sign that may appear above any of your friends profile pictures to see more friends located in that particular city.

Link: My Friends Map App @ Bing

New Orkut Upgrade Brings More Facebook Like Features

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orkut logo

Orkut team has yesterday announced minor upgrades to the Google’s social networking site, definitely in a attempt to catch up to the Facebook’s domination in the arena.This is evident since the launch of new version of Orkut with changes like enabling friends to comment on the status updates,auto-magic groups, file transfer in chat etc.

The new upgrade to the site will bring three feature changes:

# Scraps are now being replaced by conversations:

“From now on, all scraps you send to your friends will also show up in your profile, making it easy to start new conversations”

You can even comment on the ongoing conversations that any of your friends have already started, now this conversation will start appearing in your profile, much like that way how Facebook shows them up.

# Private scraps:

You can now send a private scraps to your friends which will be visible to only selected friends:

orkut private scraps

“To keep something secret, just send a private scrap to your friends, and just those people selected will see it”

# Privacy Levels:

Orkut has added privacy settings for each of the individual items like who can see content on your profile, who can send a scrap to you, etc.

orkut_new_privacy_settings

“Every piece of content on orkut (a scrap, photo, video, etc) will be labelled with a privacy level, so you know who else is seeing it or not “

What do you feel about these new changes ? let us know.

Different Ways To Watch FIFA 2010 Football World Cup Live On Your PC And Mobile

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FIFA 2010 World cup

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is all set to kickoff today (June 11, 2010) with the first match to be played between South Africa Vs. Mexico. The best way to watch Soccer World cup matches live is to sit out in your home, relax and enjoy the live action your HDTV. But if you are away from home on your work or for some other reasons, being a big fan of football, you might still want to catch up with the all live action. Here we are coming up with a guide on different ways to watch 2010 FIFA World cup matches live streaming online on your PC as well as on your mobile phone.

FIFA World Cup 2010 Live Online Streaming:

1. ESPN, the leading sports network in the USA is offering online live streaming via ESPN 3. Starting from the World cup kick-off  on June 20th, ESPN 3 will stream all 64 games of FIFA soccer world cup 2011.

Espn live webcast.

2. Canada’s popular national public broadcaster CBC Sports website is set to stream every match live between June 11th to July 11, 2010.

CBC canada

3. TVU networks, popular internet live streaming platforms is also expected to provide live streaming of  FIFA 2010 world cup matches.

TVU screenshot

4. BBC also steps into the live webcast arena with its BBC Sports website and the folks in the UK will be able to watch the live football world cup matches (in high quality) online.

bbc sport uk

5. Apart from BBC, popular commercial television network in the UK, ITV will also be providing the 2010 FIFA World cup matches online streaming via ITV Live. Viewers can  see all 64 matches live including video highlights, real-time stats and much more.

ITV Live FIFA 2010

Live stream on your phone:

1. Optus, the second biggest Australian telecom company will be live streaming FIFA World cup 2010 South Africa matches free to the customers with compatible 3G mobile phones.

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2. ESPN Mobile TV will stream 56 2010 FIFA World cup matches live including Kick-off, semi-finals and final with HTC EVO 4G and other Sprint phones ay 3G and 4G speeds. This is also available on

AT&T Mobile TV – $9.99 per month (available on limited phone models)

FLO TV – $14.99 per month

MobiTV –  $9.99 per month

Sprint TV – according to data plan

Verizon V Cast Mobile TV –  10 matches will cost $15 per month (on limited phone models)

ESPN Mobile TV

3. MobiTV [Update: Link expired] is another good application to watch live matches online on your phone. It supports many AT&T, Sprint and Verizon phones and also on T-Mobile with HTC HD2 device.
mobitv

4. If you are using an iPhone, read about Top 6 fee World cup iPhone apps.

Follow FIFA 2010 WC updates on Twitter:

Follow the 2010 FIFA World Cup updates on Twitter from FIFA official Twitter account @fifaworldcuptm.

There are popular sites like Justin and UStream where some users may provide live streaming obviously through some illegal ways (like streaming their TV screen through a webcam etc.). They won’t longer for much time and will be removed by the corresponding administrators of the websites.

Earlier we had covered live streaming of WWDC 2010 event and Oscars 2010 .

Watch WWDC 2010 Keynote Live Stream Online

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WWDC 2010 Apple iPhone launch live

Update: Watch Apple iPad 2 launch (March 2, 2011) event live online here.

Apple is all set to unveil the 4th generation iPhone, iPhone 4G or iPhone HD as it is to be called at the World Wide Developer Conference WWDC 2010 which is going to start today (June 7, 2010) at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Besides the iPhone 4G/HD, Apple may also introduce Mac OOS X 10.7 version, Safari 5, possible upgrades to Apple iPhone OS 4.0 for iPhone 3G/3GS, iPad & iPod touch 3G, Apple TV and may also feature other unheard announcements from Apple.

The latest buzz is that the fellows at Gizomodo, which was responsible for iPhone 4G leak months back, haven’t been invited for the event. Steve Jobs will present the WWDC 10 keynote

If you want to keep up with the latest on WWDC by watching it online or reading through live blogging, here are the handy resources for you:

WWDC 2010 Keynote Live Streaming Links / Live Blogging / Live Text Updates:

# Engadget
# Gdgt live

# MacRumors

# MacObserver

# ArsTechnica

# Apple blog

Update: Checkout official iPhone 4 full technical specifications.

WWDC 10 Live Twitter Feeds:

You can catch up with the latest live feed from the WWDC 10 keynote by following the official accounts @macrumors (you can receive updates via SMS) and @arsWWDC

WWDC 10 Start Timings [June 7, 2010] :

Hawaii 07:00 AM
Pacific 10:00 AM
Mountain 11:00 AM
Central 12:00 PM
Eastern 01:00 PM
London 06:00 PM
Paris 07:00 PM
Moscow 09:00 PM
Mumbai 10:30 PM
Tokyo 02:00 AM (June 8th)

Most of  the major previous announcements of iPhone and iPad products were announced in previous WWDCs. WWDC 2007 marked the announcement of iPod Touch along with iPhone 2G, WWdC 2008 had seen iPhone 3G, while iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3G were announced during WWDC 2009.

Add A Background Image To Google Homepage

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Google new official logo

Google has recently announced a new feature that lets you choose your own background images for the Google homepage similar to the Bing.

This feature is initially available to US version of Google, Google.com. This feature will be rolled out to the users outside US very soon. However no will stop you to visit Google.com/ncr and access this feature. Here’s how we can add the background image for Google homepage.

1. Visit Google.com/ncr and click on the “Change background image” link on the bottom left of the page.

Google homepage

2. Now you can choose the background picture from your computer, your Picasa Web photos, Google public gallery or from editor’s picks.

Google background image selection

3. Click Select to apply the background image and you are done, and the Google homepage will now look like this one in the below screenshot.

Google homepage with background image

Note:

  1. When you upload a image from your computer, it will be saved as a photo in a new unlisted album in your Picasa Web Albums.
  2. Image Requirements: Landscape, Min. resolution: 800 x 600 pixels
  3. Image formats: .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .bmp, .gif, .psd, .png, .tga

Adsense New Beta Interface Invitation

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Google Adsense logo

Google Adsense is set to roll out a new interface to all the Adsense publishers in the coming months. Currently Adsense new beta interface is under testing and is available to few publishers initially. While some publishers have already got the invitation from Adsense to enable new interface for their accounts, there are still a large number of publishers eagerly waiting for the invitation to arrive in their inbox.

As you can in the below snapshot which is a courtesy of Adsense official blog, the new interface will present your Adsense data in a more enhanced view by showing Adsense reports in using graphs. The new interface makes it easier to change the settings of several ad units simultaneously, with enhanced and improved Ad Review Center.

Google Adsense new beta interface

Can’t wait to see this new beta interface for your account? It’s easier, follow the link below and enter your name, contact email and your Adsense Publisher ID and submit the form. You can now get the new Adsense beta interface enabled for you.

Link: New Adsense interface interest form

Adsense new interface invitation

Adsense Revenue Share Revealed

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Google adsense logo

Google has recently disclosed a vital information about the share of the Adsense revenue that Google credits to the publishers for running Google ads on their sites.

According the announcement made in official Adsense blog, Google shares

– 68% of total revenue for Adsense for content (AFC) ads

– 51% of total revenue for Adsense for search (AFS) ads

with the publishers.So Google keeps 32% of the total revenue (49% in case of Adsense for search) with it.Google uses this portion of your Adsense revenue for serving ads on your site.

Adsense_login

Why Is This Important ?

This data is very useful for many webmasters to estimate the net worth of their site by calculating the total worth of the site in terms of the total worth of Adsense advertising appeared on their site.

For instance, if your site is generating $200 monthly on average (AFC only), it means that your site could run a total of $294 ($200 / 0.68) worth of Adsense advertising.

You can now make use of this data to fix a price for the ads that you run through direct advertising.In the above case, you know that your blog is worth $294 and accordingly you can fix price as minimum price for any ad that you run through direct sale of the ad slots.So this is how webmasters can use their site’s Adsense net worth as a benchmark for ad slot sales.

Google however has chosen not to disclose the revenue share for other Adsense products like AdSense for mobile applications, AdSense for feeds, and AdSense for games at the moment.

Webmasters across the world are delighted to know exactly how much of the ad revenue share that they are being credited and this is a great initiative from Google to provide better transparency.

[How To] Make Gmail More Secure By Using HTTPS Instead Of HTTP

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“If you sign in to Gmail via a non-secure Internet connection, like a public wireless or non-encrypted network, your Google account may be more vulnerable to hijacking. Non-secure networks make it easier for someone to impersonate you and gain full access to your Google account, including any sensitive data it may contain like bank statements or online log-in credentials” – Google

In order to avoid such kind of security risks we should enable HTTPS(Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) which is a secure protocol that provides authenticated and encrypted communication and the interceptors will not be able to tap the information.

You might have seen HTTPS being used in the banking and payment websites. So by using HTTPS for your Gmail, you will be able to a secure you mailbox.

In order of enable HTTPS protocol follow the steps below:

1. Sign in to Gmail

3. Check If your Gmail is secure?

Check if you have a https://mail.google.com url. If not then follow the steps else not required as it is already enabled.

gmail_url

3. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.

gmail_settings

4. Set Browser Connection to Always use https

always_use_https

5. Click Save Changes.

save_gmail_settings

6. Log out and Login.

7. Now find a secure login

You can see https://mail.google.com in the url.

gmail_https_url

Now you Gmail is as safe as you internet banking site. But never forget to Logout your account if you are using a public computer.

Notes:

  1. Using HTTPS may slow down a bit the speed of accessing your Gmail, so if you trust the security of your network, you can turn this feature off at any time
  2. “Always use https” will prevent you from accessing Gmail via HTTP
  3. Currently Gmail has enabled HTTPS by default. For the old users you can follow the method.