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A beginner’s guide to Search Engines

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:51:00 +0000

Internet is a place where you can literally get any kind of help. You can access a great amount of information in a very short time. Internet is not only a library in which all the available items are identified and retrieved by a single catalog. But also it does provide access to a wealth of information on countless topics contribute by people around the world.

On the Internet, a user has access to a wide variety of services as it has vast information resources, interesting groups, email facility, multimedia displays and so on.

So how exactly you can find information on the net ?

1. You can look for the subject or topic by using any or all of these ways.

2. Browser.

3. Explore a subject directory.

4. Conduct a search using search engines.

5. Join an email discussion group.

6. If you have the address URL of a web site you can directly go to the website.

Now how each method helps you in searching for information,

Browser – The home pages on the web are huge in amount but are interestingly you can find desired material on the net.

Explore a directory –

Increased number of universities, companies or libraries or organizations and even volunteers are creating subject directories to catalog portions on the Internet.
Most of these provide search feature that allows you to query the database on your topic of interest.

Conduct a search using web search engine –

1. Forming your queries involves these simple steps –

2. Identify your concept or need.

3. List keywords for the concept, for instance ‘budget’, ‘budget details’.

4. Specify the logical relationship among the keywords using ‘and’, ‘or’ and ‘not’.

5. Web search engines offer access to vast range of resources located on the Internet. Some good search engines are obviously Google followed by Alta Vista, HotBot, Infoseek

6. The key word needs to be as a way to ask the search to proceed easily. The engine searches its index and generates a page with links to these resources related to your words.

If you have too many results –

• Search for particular words or fields.

• Add concept words.

• Use vocabulary specific to the point.

If your search term is a phrase include it in ” ” double quotes.

• Drop the least important concepts.

• Use more general words.

• Add alternative terms or spellings.

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Hidden Programs in Windows XP and How to run them

admin — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:40:00 +0000

There are plenty of Windows based utilities and programs that a System Administrator (or a geeky person) can run. Here’s a collection of such little utilities and instructions on how you can initiate them.

1- Private Character Editor
This program is for designing icons and Characters(Alphapet )
Click :start
Then :run
type :EUDCEDIT
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2- iExpress
This Program is for converting your files to EXCUTABLE files
Click : start
Then : run
type : iexpress
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3-Disk Cleanup
This program used for cleaning harddisk to offer space
Click : start
Then : run
type : cleanmgr
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4-Dr Watson
This program Is for repairing problems in Windows
Click : start
Then : run
type : drwtsn32
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5-Windows Media Player 5.1
Opens the old media player
Click : start
Then : run
type : mplay32
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Program ………… . CODE
__________ __________
Character Map = charmap

DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag

Object Packager = packager

System Monitor = perfmon

Program Manager = progman

Remote Access phone book = rasphone

Registry Editor = regedt32

File siganture verification tool = sigverif

Volume Control = sndvol32

System Configuration Editor = sysedit

Syskey = syskey

microsoft Telnet Client = telnet

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If you tired of blogging, then try Microblogging

admin — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:08:00 +0000

If you are tired of keeping a blog running, then microblogging is for you. With microblogging, you can post just a picture, a link or a quote that you liked or a status update on what do you do or where are you. With web services such as Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce, everyone is catching up with microblogging.

A microblog is easy to maintain with only brief text updates that you can type and send with your mobile phone, email or instant messenger. Now, even facebook has a feature that lets you to inform your friends about what you are doing.

There is another interesting development namely, “Tumblelogs”, that are also increasingly becoming popular. Wikipedia defines a tumblelog ‘as a variation of a blog, that favors short-form, mixed-media posts’. If blogs can be compared to commentaries, with tumblelogs, you can post only your creations – that include web links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Tumblelogs are even better because, you can feed RSS into a tumblelog. For instance, Tumblr (just like Blogger for Blogs)- a popular tumble log service – allows you to combine your RSS feeds from your favourite sites and publishes automatically. You can point your flickr photostream RSS, Twitter RSS to your Tumblr blog which publishes updates when you update on flickr or twitter. For example, see my photo tumblelog that is fed by my flickr photostream.

If any of your friends think that starting a blog is a big responsibility, ask them to try microblogging.

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Google TV is coming. Are you ready?

admin — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 05:34:00 +0000

“I do not want to watch 100 channels for my favourite tv shows. I want one channel that could provide me with all my favourite shows”.

I am agreeing to the words spoken by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association, in a conference a few months ago.

You call it a personal television or a customizable tv or whatever fancy name you like.

This is the future of tv, I guess.

We spend most of our time in front of our PCs and on the web. Make that as a personal, internet tv. You have understood the concept what Google is talking about.

Already, the success of social video sharing sites such as YouTube and MetCafe shows that we no longer would rush home to watch our evening favourite tv shows. We can afford miss them because, most probably we can find them online and we can watch them whenever we wish.

Google has much grander plans for Internet TV. For instance, the relevancy of ads specific to the users. Say, the advertisers can specifically show relevant ads to the viewers of a specific show, specific to a geographic region and time of viewing. The viewers of ‘The Simpsons’ will watch different ads compared to the viewers of “LOST”.

“With a little Internet know-how, the TV industry can enjoy a brighter future, says the search giant. Google style.”

Now on, users will have the option of searching for their favourite episodes and view them on pay-per-view basis. You pay only for the episodes that you view.

Detailed Post on ‘Google wants to do for TV what it did for the Web‘ from Daniel on last100.com

Now, you can download Alexa Toolbar for Firefox

admin — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:14:00 +0000

In a previous blog post, I mentioned about Alexa Pagerank and how you can improve your site’s rankings.

Earlier, the firefox users did not have an exclusive alexa toolbar. Now, we can download the official toolbar named, Sparky – the alexa toolbar for firefox.

When you visit a site, you can automatically see the alexa parameters such as..

Related Links: Find sites that are similar to the one you are currently visiting.
Traffic Trend: A sparkline showing the traffic trend from the last four months.
Reach Meter: A neat little indicator that shows the site’s Reach.
Traffic Rank: Shows the current site’s Alexa Traffic Rank.

What a cool tool.

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New Weapon of Destruction: A Cellphone Battery

admin — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 03:57:00 +0000

Can you believe this? A cell phone battery has exploded and claimed the life of a Chinese welder.

“Reportedly, a 22-year old Chinese welder actually perished after a cellphone battery residing in his pocket exploded. The eruption was so violent, in fact, that it “broke a rib and drove the remnants of the pack into his heart,” and while rescue crews were able to get him to a hospital, he passed away shortly thereafter.”

via Engadget

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Are you going to buy the Apple iPhone?:11 things you need to check

admin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:35:00 +0000

Official Techical Specifications:

Screen size

3.5 inches

Screen resolution

320 by 480 pixels (160 ppi)

Input method

Multi-touch

Operating system

OS X

Storage

4GB or 8GB ¹

GSM

Quad-band (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

Wireless data

Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) / EDGE / Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Camera

2.0 megapixels

Battery

Talk Time	Up to 8 hours²
Standby	Up to 250 hours³
Internet Use	Up to 6 hours⁴
Video Playback	Up to 7 hours⁵
Audio playback	Up to 24 hours⁶

Dimensions

4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm

Weight

4.8 ounces / 135 grams

Positive Features (Why you will go for Apple iPhone):

1) The design is great, and we have not seen such a good designed gadget for a long time.

2) Touch screen feature is the most-talked-about one. It has a glass screen to minimise scratching marks.

3) It is the most anticipated gadget for the year in US. Well, we copy that.

4) Wirless Internet. Now, you can check your emails, facebook messages and orkut scraps while you are on the move.

5) Google is going to release exclusive web applications for Smart Phones especially, for the Apple iPhones.

6) The iPhone weighs 127.57 grams to be exact which is roughly equivalent of 1 box of 24 crayons.

Negative Points (Why I wont buy the first version):

1) Wow, it has a 2 mega-pixel camera. Duh, it is the age of 5 mp cam, bro. Wake up.

2) You need to pay A$ 590 for a 4GB storage and A$ 700 for an 8GB storage. Is that all?

3) You can only browse the web for 6 hours. Just 6 hours? At least I want that to be 8 hrs, dude.

4) The talktime is 8 hrs (Great). Recently, another smartphone, O2 Jet , was launched with 10 hours of talk and 540 hours of standby that costs just A$140.

5) Even though, Apple iPhone is open for sale from June 29th (2007) in the USA, it wont be available in Australian stores until 2008. So, unless I touch and feel, I wont buy it.

Well, those are the points that you need to ask yourself before you buy the ‘Big Product’. Will you go for it, still?

By the way, if you want a Free iPhone, take this offer. Easy.

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Search Torrents

admin — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:54:00 +0000

BitTorrent – an efficient technology to transfer huge files over Internet -has made the life easy for many people who live on low-bandwidth.

There are many torrent sites that organize specific content – from movies to e-books.

How do you find them? though, at least 10 sites cover they are “the largest torrents search engine”.

Try these 5 search engines. They are the best torrent search engines.

1. Torrent spy – arguably has most number of visitors per day.

2. Mininova – Watch the search cloud – the best way to get active Seeders.

3. Torrentz – Excellent results.

4. Iso hunt – a very efficient search engine for BitTorrents and P2P.

5. Torrent scan – a meta search engine for Torretnts (that connects and searches all other torrent search engines).

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Put your life to music

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:04:00 +0000

Fliptrack introduces musical slideshows that you can make with your pictures. Upload your pictures, choose a music track for the background score , fliptrack converts into a nice video. They host a variety of music tracks that you can legally use for free. A special technology automatically adds cool effects and animations (transitions) suiting to the beats of music.

You can share fliptrack slideshows on myspace, blogger, friendster or any other community sites. If you are a group of artists or a band looking to sell your music, you can do with fliptrack. The webservice is free, but if you like download and work offline, you can do so by downloading fliptrack application (windows only).

Go on put your life to music.

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Fight Spam

admin — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:17:00 +0000

Fighting spam has become a compulsive act of our online living. Spams come in different forms and pose siginificant threat to your privacy and security. BorderWare MXtreme is an efficient at handling and filtering out these spams reaching your office servers, it filters almost about 98% of spams. Commonly, the spam filter programs rely on sifting through the keywords from which a message is classified as a spam. Now, the spams got even better. Now, a new kind of spams are emerging which are called as “image spams” – spam messages are sent as images so they will escape through the spam filters. The emails look like text but, automatic programs form such text-to-image spams with differnt colours, designs and attributes. BorderWare MXtreme has developed an anti image spam that uses a patent-pending technology that analyses each image for about 30 attributes, number of pixels, size and colours so they can be eliminated as spams. Now, what have you got spammers?

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