One of the advantages of Orkut over Facebook is "Recent Profile Visitors" section which displays last 10 visitors of your profile. But what if you need to know more, like where your profile views coming from i.e real time visitor map or number of visitors online.

Here is a great tool for getting the real time stats for your profile cum scrapbook page.


Go to http://maps.amung.us/customize and customise your map. Once you are done, copy the code and paste it in your orkut scrap book.

You can get other real time stats from http://amung.us/

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Here are the 11 reasons why Brazil loves orkut. Though some of the reasons have been highly criticized but makes a great point against myspace.com or facebook.com

1. Brazilians are incredibly community oriented and refer to groups as Tribalistas, or tribos. People tend to associate with these groups in everyday conversation and continuously refer to how they are Heavy Metal fans, Evangelical Christians, Sambistas, Macumberos, PT supporters, or whether they prefer Skol to Kaiser.

Social Networking caught on really quick in Brazil because of this relevance to everyday life. There is definitely more of a coolness factor to social networking in Brazil.

2. Orkut is very easy to pronounce in Portuguese. Try telling someone from Brazil to go to Friendster.com or MySpace. The names of those sites are lost in translation. When someone pronounces “Orkut” in Portuguese (especially Brazilian Portuguese with the heavy incluence on the “ch” T sound), they can easily spell it, visualize the word and remember it next time they get infront of the computer.


3. Orkut sounds like Yakult or “iogurte” (yogurt). Yakult is the Brazilian version of the popular Japanese Yakult yogurt drink. Everyone drinks it in Brazil when they’re kids. There is a totally unintentional instant association between the words Orkut, Iogurte and Yakut in Brazil.

4. Brazilians with constant Internet access are on the upper echelon of “differencia social.” Although Brazilians are some of the most outgoing people I’ve ever met, they are quite cautious when meeting others and inviting them into their circle of friends.

By using a service like Orkut, users can prequalify the new friends they make by judging their ability to access the Internet, write and read correctly, and see which friends they share.

5. The fact that Orkut is now associated with Brazil has added flame to the popularity fire. This is a country which is quite proud of their culture, economic position in South America, and World Domination of Soccer (futbol). Now, they are proud to have Orkut as their own.

6. Mobility - Many young professionals or just younger Brazilians in general have moved from Sao Paulo to Curitiba, Floripa and other bustling southern Brazilian towns (not to mention Miami, New York, Washington DC, Italy, Spain, and Japan). Social Networking is a way to keep in touch with groups of friends much easier than mass emails.

7. A large number of Brazilians access the Internet from Internet Cafes and online gaming cafes. Orkut has grown in popularity due to this mobility factor. One can access their accounts from anywhere.

8. I’ve noticed with some Brazilians, especially women, there is a lot of competitiveness when it comes to attracting attention (this could be universal of course). The awards, fan citations and friendship offerings in Orkut just fuel this tendency. It’s also cool to have Orkut ‘friends’ from Europe, the US, and Japan on your profile.

9. Again, Yakut and pronunciation. When I told the people at Google about the pronunciation factor they seemed amazed. Google is beginning to enjoy the same compatibilty with the Portuguese language. Not to say Yahoo does not, and Hotmail certainly does, but the Google hip factor has made “goo-gly” a new part of the Brazilian Portuguese language and its association with Orkut is beginning to lead to Google and GMail converts.

10. Orkut’s color scheme is the same as the Brazilian World Cup team’s away jerseys (or is it home? the BLUE ones). This is going out on a limb however, since the color is also similar to Argentina’s flag and uniform colors.

11. Lack of advertising. Most Brazilians I know are sick of advertising. Outdoor billboards, political radio infomercials, ads painted on walls, cars driving around with loud speakers on top, people selling water or Silvio Santos Tele Sena lotto tickets clapping their hands at the gate outside of the house - referred to as Poluicao Visual. Orkut has no advertising, yet :)

source : http://www.searchenginejournal.com

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I am tired of having multiple applications (Yahoo Messenger, Gtalk, MSN Messenger) just to talk with friends from different networks. Then I remembered that old copy of GAIM I used to have on some dusty CD and installed it. The Latest version of GAIM has been renamed to Pidgin. Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.

And the best feature is its Free and Open Source.

Pidgin can work with:

* Google Talk
* MSN
* Yahoo!
* AIM

* ICQ
* IRC
* MySpaceIM

* Bonjour
* Gadu-Gadu
* Groupwise

* QQ
* SILC
* SIMPLE
* Sametime
* XMPP
* Zephyr



Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features.

According to developers' description Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM client and it’s goal is to hide protocols from the user as much as possible (users have to know about individual protocols when they create or modify accounts, but in day-to-day communication and usage, the intent is that users don't have to think about protocols at all).

You can download pidgin from http://www.pidgin.im/download/

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If you're one of those addicted Yahoo Messenger users, you're probably trying anything possible to make your chatting client look better because it becomes boring to use the same The latest version of Yahoo Messenger is also available for download on Softpedia.
old-fashioned application again and again. In case you never browsed the Yahoo Messenger settings, there is a skin ability which allows you to choose from several themes which change the way your program looks. Actually, they change only the color but let's face it, the basic interface stinks. The Sunnyvale company Yahoo offers several additional skins, all of them available for free download straight from the official page of the instant messenger.

"Add color to your Yahoo! Messenger and IM windows with Messenger skins. Skins are a simple way to personalize the look of Yahoo! Messenger. You can make it look professional with the Classic skin or a little more fun with Indigo or Maverick Blue," Yahoo encourages the users to click on the download button.

Yahoo compressed the files into an archive which requires you to extract the files straight on the drive on which you installed Yahoo Messenger, the rest of the installation process being automatically made.

In addition to the Yahoo Messenger skins you can also download some new IMvironments which improve the chatting experience and bring several elements to the application. For example, most of them come with images, sounds and a different 'Buzz' system.

The installation of new IMvironments is even easier than the one for the skins because the Sunnyvale super giant Yahoo demands you to click on a 'Try it now' button which automatically brings the files into your instant messaging client. So, have a look at this website to find additional IMvironments, choose the one you like and click on the 'Try it now' button.

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One of my good friend Himanshu is fed up with the lot of messages in his Orkut profile which he seldom sees. Most of these messages are community invitations and very rarely some friends forwarded messages.These messages which are useless and annoying can't be delete them one by one. Obliviously you don't look at them and keep on ignoring as deleting them consumes lot of time. This greasemonkey script will Delete all the Messages Rapidly.



Works With: Firefox This script work with Firefox. In case you don't have it installed, you can download Firefox from the right sidebar "Google Pack" if you wish too.

Installation Procedure.

How to Use This Script ?(firefox browser recommended)

- Install Grease Monkey in case you don't have it Click Here.

- Click on this Script Message Deleter.

- Click on Your Message option as shown above or click here it will start doing it work :)

- In case you have any problems downloading or operating these scripts, contact me.

That is all :0)

Uninstall the Script After Using :

- Go to the Tools of Firefox Browser.
- Go to Geasemonkey > Manage User Script.
- Click Uninstall.

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Hey, Google finally implemented their map in Orkut. Actually this is in beta stage and I believe this is something hidden which you all must know.

On the maps, you can see where your Orkut friends are located. currently everyone won’t be able to use the Google maps feature. We can expect Google’s Orkut team to add more features to it very soon. Many are predicting Chat to be integrated with it.Google was always lacking in Social Networking area and look like Orkut is the answer to all problem. May be soon we will be able to se the dominance of Google in other areas as well.



I have tried for India. Now those who wants to check if its working in your country then just follow these steps:-

1. Login in your Orkut Account.

2. Click the "view friends" link in the "my friends" box on your orkut homepage (right-hand side).

3. Click the "friends map" tab at the top of the page.

You can click on a friend’s profile picture to see their location on the map. Please know that if we don't have map data for a particular region or if your friend chose not to put their location in their orkut profile, you'll see a message "(not on map)" below their profile name. As shown below.

The secret link to acess this feature is www.orkut.com/map.aspx

Well, I have been planning to use such thing for a while but you can skip it. Its not for readers, just a safety measure.

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Free shell extension utility Shell Tools adds a few good abilities to your right-click menu, including a means of toggling hidden file showing that's a lot more convenient than digging through each folder's toolbar menus to find the switch. In addition, the configurable extension tool lets you copy file names instead of files, create (hidden) note files on any file, grab URLs or site names from Internet Explorer bookmarks, and install or load fonts for a single session from the Explorer shell.


Some of the features I like with Shell Tools are the following:

Show Hidden Files - command in folder background menu. This is a quick way to toggle global Windows Explorer’s Show Hidden Files option, that is otherwise buried deep inside folder options window.

FontLoader - Add Load/Unload/Install/Uninstall commands to context menu of font files (TrueType, OpenType and TrueType Collections supported). Windows Vista UAC is supported. (screen shot second image)

CopyURL - Copy different information from one or more selected favorites items (internet shortcuts) to the clipboard. You can customize the commands to make up your own copy strings.

Click here to know more about this software.
You can download this wonderful utility from here.

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These have been around for quite sometime now but you might want to check them out again. For newer Mozilla Firefox users, these are quite interesting. Firefox does actually have these so-called hidden pages or secret inbuilt pages. Call them easter eggs if you want but a bunch of these hidden pages are quite useful.

You can just type these in the address bar and press enter to access the pages. Here are the magnificent seven:

about: - The same as the one under the Help menu. So I’m not sure if this is exactly hidden. Shows the same thing.

about:buildconfig - Shows the build configurations and some parameters.

about:cache - Shows you some detailed stats on your disk and memory cache which includes the directory and the list of files/web pages accessed and stored there.

about:config - Allows you to configure Firefox in-depth.

about:plugins - Lists all the installed plug-ins in your browser.

about:credits - The long-ish list of people who have helped in building our favorite browser.

about:Mozilla - Freaky if you ask me. And very cryptic. It seems to be a quote from a passage in “The Book of Mozilla.” You can’t find that anywhere though. Reads:

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

Thanks to pctipsbox.com

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I was really frustrated by this problem. Each time my Windows crashes I lose all my Firefox extensions and themes? I definitely have to come up with something. My regular procedure after re-installing windows is to go the firefox add-ons gallery and search for the extensions and install them one by one. Isn’t it? There is a simple way I came out with, read on.

All the Firefox extensions are compressed and packed in a XPI package. This file can be read by Firefox only. When you click the Install button while installing extensions, Firefox automatically recognizes and runs it, but does not save the XPI file to your computer. So you actually cannot save the extensions in a compact and portable form.

To do so, instead of clicking the install button when on an add-ons page, right click it and select ‘Save Link As’. Select a location and download the file.

A sensible way will be to make a separate folder and backup all your extensions. This way you can install your extensions even when you are not connected to the internet as well as you can send these files to your friends ( in a CD or flash drive )

To install an extension: Open Firefox > File > Open File ( Ctrl + O ). Select your file and push the ok button. The normal install screen will appear.

This is one way. Another way could be that you backup your profiles folder and restore it later on. This will be useful if you want to backup all your settings, extensions, themes etc...

The Profile folder is located here : (in XP)

X:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xyxyxyxy.default

When backing up, you will have to replace the original folder with the one you’ve backed up. Although I haven’t tried this method myself, and neither I’m sure it will work. If you know the result, please share with me.

Thanks to techalerts.blogspot.com

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If you run a windows XP you’ll know like many others than after a while your system will in doubt start running slow. Most people will restart their computer to remove and idle processes. But if there’s a simpler way, why restart every time ?



Follow this steps:

* Right click on an empty spot on your desktop and select New - Shortcut.
* Type %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks in the box.
* Click Next.
* Give your shortcut a nice name like “Clear Memory”.
* Click Finish and you’re done.

Now whenever your computer starts running slow click this shortcut to clear out your memory and get your computer running at a normal pace again.

Microsot has just released SP3 Build 5508 RC2 on March 25, 2008. Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers’ experience with the operating system.

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 fixes a range of bugs in Windows XP. It doesn’t matter what XP updates you have previously applied to your system, SP3 will update any unpatched, partially patched or completely updated system (it includes all previously released patches and updates). XP SP3 fixes the security holes so you won’t get attacked.




Microsoft periodically combines updates, fixes, and other improvements into a single package - Service Pack. Microsoft develops updates, fixes, and other improvements that address issues reported by the company’s customers and partners. To make it easier for customers to get these updates and enhancements, Microsoft periodically combines them into a single package, and makes that package available for all Windows customers.

These packages are called service packs”, Microsoft revealed in the introduction of the Overview of Windows XP Service Pack 3. With the Release Candidates of Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 heading to increased testing pools the past week, and with Microsoft cooking the first public build of the first refresh for its latest Windows client, the official overview for XP SP3 is the only crumb from the service pack fiesta over at the Redmond company. The Release Candidate of XP SP3 in a pre-final stage has already shipped to MSDN and TechNet subscribers.

As of March 25, 2008, Windows XP users are able to grab their very own XP SP3 RC2 Refresh Build 5508. The latest development milestone of the third and final service pack for XP is available for download exclusively via Windows Update, the update infrastructure Microsoft has built for its operating systems. Unlike the previous XP SP3 Release Candidate 2, Build 5508 does not come as a standalone package.
"The purpose of RC2 Refresh is to validate improvements to the Windows Update experience with Service Pack 3. Therefore, this beta release will be available only on Windows Update, in English, German and Japanese. Beyond fixes for common Windows Update issues and the inclusion of support for HD Audio, there are no substantial differences between this beta release (build 5508) and XP SP3 RC2 (build 3311)", revealed the Release Manager for Windows Serviceability.

Build 5508 is offered as an update to Windows XP SP2. This release does not support build to build upgrades, and this is why Microsoft is advising all XP SP3 testers to uninstall the RC2 Build 3311 version before applying Build 5508. At the same time Microsoft warned end users that despite the public availability of XP SP3 RC2 Refresh, the release is still a beta build and should only be deployed in testing environments.

XP SP3 RC2 Refresh includes all previously released updates for the operating system, similar to earlier service packs. It also includes previously released updates to the latest versions of some system components, as well as functionality that make it easier for enterprises to co-manage both Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista PCs within same corporate environment", added the Release Manager for Windows Serviceability.

What Microsoft is essentially offering with the download for Build 5508 is a script designed to tweak the registry of Windows XP SP2 systems in order to help them identify XP SP3 RC2 Refresh over the Windows Update servers. Without the registry tweak XP SP2 machines will not detect RC2 Refresh.

"The application to enable download of XP SP3 RC2 Refresh is the same application as was used to distribute XP SP3 RC2. This is an application that can be found at the Microsoft Download Center. Running this application on a machine with Windows XP Service Pack 2 will enable Windows Update to offer XP SP3 RC2 Refresh to that machine", concluded the Release Manager for Windows Serviceability.

You can download this new release of SP3 directly at Here.

I am sure all of us will be aware of the Windows shortcut Alt+Tab. It is an application switching shortcut that means every window of opened applications can be switched easily by pressing the combination of buttons Alt+Tab.

What about if this feature is also accessible through your Mouse? I am sure it will be a lot easier and less troublesome. Isn’t it?


Thanks to CyberNet News, I just got an application that is standalone i.e. no installation needed and when you press and hold the left mouse button, and then press the right mouse button, the Alt+Tab application switcher will appear on the screen until you click on one of the icons of the windows that you want to switch to. Don’t forget to release the mouse buttons as soon as you select the window that you want to toggle.

It can also be easily set to start with Windows by placing it in your Startup folder (see picture below) located in the Start Menu. You’ll know this is running when you see the Vista-like orb in the System Tray.



For Windows XP, download here.

For Vista, download here.

Thanks to rakshitk.com

What’s your take on this? Don’t you think this Alt+Tab feature is more helpful through mouse? or If you know any other similar application, do share that with me.

Eyestrain is defined as an eye discomfort that can occur when the eyes tire after a prolonged visual task. Eyestrain can be manifested by headache or discomfort around the eyes.

Sitting several hours in front of your computers can be eye-straining. If you work at a computer for more then three hours a day you are likely to have symptoms of eye strain. This can be prevented however with these tips provided by Health 24:

1. Ensure that any close-up work or computer screen is not too close to your eyes. As a general rule, view material from as great a distance as possible, provided it can still be read easily.

2. Take frequent vision breaks (at least every hour) to relax your eye muscles. Try closing your eyes and relaxing for one minute. Other useful exercises may include rolling or blinking your eyes, or closing them tightly for a few seconds.

3. Changing focus is another way to relieve the eye muscles. Every 15 to 30 minutes, look across the room or out of the window at an object at least 6 m away, for at least 20 seconds.

4. You can tire your eyes if you have to look frequently between two objects placed at different focus distances. If more than one close-up focus area is needed (when you are using printed reference material and a computer screen simultaneously), keep the viewed objects at the same distance and as close to each other as possible. This helps to reduce focusing changes.

5. Workstations and lighting should be arranged to avoid direct and reflected glare anywhere in your field of vision. Place the computer or TV screen where there is no glare from windows or lights and keep screens clean and dust-free. Use a glare filter on the screen if lighting cannot be modified.

6. Position the top of your computer monitor or TV screen at (or slightly below) eye level so you look downwards at it. This can help with dry eyes. More of the eye surface is covered by the eyelid when you look down, with the result that your eyes blink more and produce more lubrication.

7. Wear sunglasses that reduce glare and provide 100% protection from ultraviolet rays while you are driving or working outside, especially on bright or hazy days. Sunglasses also prevent squinting that may strain eye and facial muscles. If you’re going on a long car trip, stop every few hours to rest your eyes and stretch your muscles.

8. When reading, knitting or drawing, hold your material about 30 to 40 cm away from your eyes. Ensure you have adequate soft light (a 60 to 100-watt bulb) behind you.

9. When using a computer or similar equipment, room lighting should not be as bright as the screen. To reduce troublesome contrast, find a way to darken the area around the screen. Keep your computer monitor in proper focus.

10. While you are watching TV, the room lighting should be about 50% dimmer than the screen. Don’t watch in darkness because this makes the contrast in light too great. Avoid viewing from an angle and sit at a reasonable distance from the TV (about four or five times the width of the screen). In other words, for a 50-cm screen, sit about 2 to 2.5 m away. People with poorer sight may need to sit closer. Children with uncorrected shortsightedness often sit close to the screen in order to see more clearly. An ophthalmologist (eye specialist) can diagnose this condition and prescribe corrective glasses.

11. If your eyes feel particularly dry after any visual activity, try an over-the-counter teardrop product containing polyvinyl alcohol (a wetting agent) or methylcellulose.

Microsoft has been working on a new product known as “StartKey” — that will allow users to carry their Windows and Windows settings with them. StartKey isn’t just for USB sticks; it also will work on other flash-storage devices, like SD memory cards.

StartKey has its roots in an agreement Microsoft made with SanDisk in May 2007. Microsoft announced it would be providing software to replace the U3 Smart Technology that was included on SanDisk flash devices.

Microsoft's plan is to provide a complete suite of tools for consumers and developers to help push the portable computing paradigm into the mainstream. In addition to USB flash drives, StartKey technology could work on other flash memory types like SD cards, or any other new storage format of the week. An SDK will be provided to developers so they can enable their own applications to plug into the platform and go portable.

A Microsoft research presentation from a couple years ago titled Your Desktop on Your Keychain offers a glimpse into Microsoft's ideas behind StartKey. Advantages such as saving and resuming from standby are touted, and the technology behind an early VirtualPC-over-network concept is explained. Pitfalls are also mentioned, such as the loss of the network while using StartKey and the obvious security concerns of placing both sensitive data and other settings on something as steal-able as a flash drive.

Thanks to blogulate.com. Original article from zdnet.com

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I always keep on wondering, where my disk space is consuming.Though I take extreme precaution installing new software's but I have no idea where my 80 Gb is garbled.
I wish there must be some sort of software which keep tracks of non-utilized and unrelated data.

Well then, TreeSize can tell you where precious space has gone to. TreeSize can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style and you will see the size of every subfolder. Scanning is done in a thread, so you can already see results while TreeSize is working. The space, which is wasted by the file system, can be displayed and the results can be printed in a report.

TreeSize is a handy little program that tells you where all your disk space has gone. This is great if you are running out of disk space or planning a format and want to know where all your data is on your hard drive.Results can be sorted according to size or name and sizes can be listed by percentage or space-used (in KB, MB or GB). Folders can be expanded in the results view just like in Windows Explorer, so you get a full view of which folders are really taking up all that space.

This is the free version of TreeSize (the paid version includes extra features such as 3D graphs, last access dates and owners of files as well as scanning network drives) and works on Windows 9x/2000/XP/Vista. Using TreeSize is a great way to do some spring cleaning on your PC

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Its time to change your old yahoo messenger. Yahoo! will officially retire older versions 5.5 and 5.6 of the popular IM software. This means that users of these outdated versions will not be able to login into Yahoo Messenger after April 2, 2008.

This is good idea by Yahoo! to force Instant messaging users to upgrade. The latest Yahoo! Messenger versions are essential since they have enhanced security and better protection from spam. New versions are definitely more fun with a bigger collection of emoticons and of course the popular built-in voice feature with very low call rates, and the enhanced ability to chat with Windows Live Messenger users. You can also share and chat about photos, and browse your Address Book right in the Messenger window!

So go ahead and download the latest version for free. Not only does it have more features to enjoy chatting online, but is safer too - protecting your privacy and blocking spam.

If downloading software is not your style, you can access Yahoo! Messenger for the Web and chat with this popular IM tool from any browser, anywhere in the world without needing any software.

You may also like :
Hidden Emotions Of Yahoo Messenger
Run Multiple Instances Of Yahoo Messenger And Google Gtalk

Thanks to Quickonlintips.com

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I have discovered a beautiful flash that describes google working process.[To view click here]

Here are some interesting Google facts :

1. The name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’.

2. Gmail was used internally for nearly 2 years prior to launch to the public. They discovered there was approximately 6 types of email users, and Gmail has been designed to accommodate these 6.

3. They listen to feedback actively. Emailing Google isn’t emailing a blackhole.

4. Employees are encouraged to use 20% of their time working on their own projects. Google News, Orkut are both examples of projects that grew from this working model.

5. The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.


6. Due to the sparseness of the homepage, in early user tests they noted people just sitting looking at the screen. After a minute of nothingness, the tester intervened and asked ‘Whats up?’ to which they replied “We are waiting for the rest of it”. To solve that particular problem the Google Copyright message was inserted to act as a crude end of page marker.

7. One of the biggest leap in search usage came about when they introduced their much improved spell checker giving birth to the “Did you mean…” feature. This instantly doubled their traffic, but they had some interesting discussions on how best to place that information, as most people simply tuned that out. But they discovered the placement at the bottom of the results was the most effective area.

8. The infamous “I feel lucky” is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.

9. Orkut is very popular in Brazil. Orkut was the brainchild of a very intelligent Google engineer who was pretty much given free reign to run with it, without having to go through the normal Google UI procedures, hence the reason it doesn’t look or feel like a Google application. They are looking at improving Orkut to cope with the loads it places on the system.

10. Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren’t told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.

11. Google has the largest network of translators in the world

12. They use the 20% / 5% rules. If at least 20% of people use a feature, then it will be included. At least 5% of people need to use a particular search preference before it will make it into the ‘Advanced Preferences’.

13. They have found in user testing, that a small number of people are very typical of the larger user base. They run labs continually and always monitoring how people use a page of results.

14. This wasn’t a technical talk so no information regarding any infrastructure was presented however they did note that they have a mantra of aiming to give back each page with in 500ms, rendered.

15. Quote: Give Users What They Want When They Want It

16. Quote: Integrate Sensibly

By the way, here is link for official google fun facts.
Thanks to hongkiat.com for providing this topic.

I personally like 5th and 6th, What about you? Comment and tell me.

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Now this question can be easily answered in 5000 words. Books have been written on this subject. But the point is who wants to know in deep? All that matters is some interesting facts to impress your friends.

There's a beautiful flash that describes google working process.[To view click here]

The flash gives a summery of the whole book in 2 minutes audio-visual entity.Really interesting to see.

If you aren’t interested in learning how Google creates the index and the database of documents that it accesses when processing a query, skip this description.


Google runs on a distributed network of thousands of low-cost computers and can therefore carry out fast parallel processing. Parallel processing is a method of computation in which many calculations can be performed simultaneously, significantly speeding up data processing. Google has three distinct parts:

1. Googlebot, a web crawler that finds and fetches web pages.

2. The indexer that sorts every word on every page and stores the resulting index of words in a huge database.

3. The query processor, which compares your search query to the index and recommends the documents that it considers most relevant.
Let’s take a closer look at each part.



1. Googlebot, Google’s Web Crawler

Googlebot is Google’s web crawling robot, which finds and retrieves pages on the web and hands them off to the Google indexer. It’s easy to imagine Googlebot as a little spider scurrying across the strands of cyberspace, but in reality Googlebot doesn’t traverse the web at all. It functions much like your web browser, by sending a request to a web server for a web page, downloading the entire page, then handing it off to Google’s indexer.
Googlebot consists of many computers requesting and fetching pages much more quickly than you can with your web browser. In fact, Googlebot can request thousands of different pages simultaneously. To avoid overwhelming web servers, or crowding out requests from human users, Googlebot deliberately makes requests of each individual web server more slowly than it’s capable of doing.

Googlebot finds pages in two ways: through an add URL form, www.google.com/addurl.html, and through finding links by crawling the web.


Unfortunately, spammers figured out how to create automated bots that bombarded the add URL form with millions of URLs pointing to commercial propaganda. Google rejects those URLs submitted through its Add URL form that it suspects are trying to deceive users by employing tactics such as including hidden text or links on a page, stuffing a page with irrelevant words, cloaking (aka bait and switch), using sneaky redirects, creating doorways, domains, or sub-domains with substantially similar content, sending automated queries to Google, and linking to bad neighbors. So now the Add URL form also has a test: it displays some squiggly letters designed to fool automated “letter-guessers”; it asks you to enter the letters you see — something like an eye-chart test to stop spambots.

When Googlebot fetches a page, it culls all the links appearing on the page and adds them to a queue for subsequent crawling. Googlebot tends to encounter little spam because most web authors link only to what they believe are high-quality pages. By harvesting links from every page it encounters, Googlebot can quickly build a list of links that can cover broad reaches of the web. This technique, known as deep crawling, also allows Googlebot to probe deep within individual sites. Because of their massive scale, deep crawls can reach almost every page in the web. Because the web is vast, this can take some time, so some pages may be crawled only once a month.

Although its function is simple, Googlebot must be programmed to handle several challenges. First, since Googlebot sends out simultaneous requests for thousands of pages, the queue of “visit soon” URLs must be constantly examined and compared with URLs already in Google’s index. Duplicates in the queue must be eliminated to prevent Googlebot from fetching the same page again. Googlebot must determine how often to revisit a page. On the one hand, it’s a waste of resources to re-index an unchanged page. On the other hand, Google wants to re-index changed pages to deliver up-to-date results.

To keep the index current, Google continuously recrawls popular frequently changing web pages at a rate roughly proportional to how often the pages change. Such crawls keep an index current and are known as fresh crawls. Newspaper pages are downloaded daily, pages with stock quotes are downloaded much more frequently. Of course, fresh crawls return fewer pages than the deep crawl. The combination of the two types of crawls allows Google to both make efficient use of its resources and keep its index reasonably current.

2. Google’s Indexer

Googlebot gives the indexer the full text of the pages it finds. These pages are stored in Google’s index database. This index is sorted alphabetically by search term, with each index entry storing a list of documents in which the term appears and the location within the text where it occurs. This data structure allows rapid access to documents that contain user query terms.
To improve search performance, Google ignores (doesn’t index) common words called stop words (such as the, is, on, or, of, how, why, as well as certain single digits and single letters). Stop words are so common that they do little to narrow a search, and therefore they can safely be discarded. The indexer also ignores some punctuation and multiple spaces, as well as converting all letters to lowercase, to improve Google’s performance.

3. Google’s Query Processor

The query processor has several parts, including the user interface (search box), the “engine” that evaluates queries and matches them to relevant documents, and the results formatter.
PageRank is Google’s system for ranking web pages. A page with a higher PageRank is deemed more important and is more likely to be listed above a page with a lower PageRank.
Google considers over a hundred factors in computing a PageRank and determining which documents are most relevant to a query, including the popularity of the page, the position and size of the search terms within the page, and the proximity of the search terms to one another on the page.
Google also applies machine-learning techniques to improve its performance automatically by learning relationships and associations within the stored data. For example, the spelling-correcting system uses such techniques to figure out likely alternative spellings. Google closely guards the formulas it uses to calculate relevance; they’re tweaked to improve quality and performance, and to outwit the latest devious techniques used by spammers.
Indexing the full text of the web allows Google to go beyond simply matching single search terms. Google gives more priority to pages that have search terms near each other and in the same order as the query. Google can also match multi-word phrases and sentences. Since Google indexes HTML code in addition to the text on the page, users can restrict searches on the basis of where query words appear, e.g., in the title, in the URL, in the body, and in links to the page, options offered by Google’s Advanced Search Form and Using Search Operators (Advanced Operators).

Let’s see how Google processes a query.

Isn't it Interesting ? BTW the name ‘Google’ was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for ‘Googol’

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If you have Windows XP, try this. Everyone that has tried it says it works, tell us if it works too. You should be logged as Administrator (not even accounts with administrator privileges).

1. Start - Run - type gpedit.msc.

2. Expand the Local Computer Policy / Administrative Templates / Network Branch.

3. Highlight the QoS Packet Scheduler in left panel.

4. In right panel double click the Limit reservable bandwidth setting.

5. On setting tab check the Enabled item.

6. Where it says Bandwidth limit % change it to read 0.

The problem is, XP seems to want to reserve 20% of the bandwidth for itself. Even with QoS disabled, even when this item is disabled. So why not use it to your advantage.

To demonstrate the problem with this on stand alone machines start up a big download from a server with an FTP client. Try to find a server that doesn’t max out your bandwidth. In this case you want a slow to medium speed server to demonstrate this. Let it run for a couple of minutes to get stable. The start up another download from the same server with another instance of your FTP client. You will notice that the available bandwidth is now being fought over and one of the clients download will be very slow or both will slow down when they should both be using the available bandwidth. Using this “tweak” both clients will have a fair share of the bandwidth and will not fight over the bandwidth. Try it and tell us if this works.

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Do you maintain multiple Google Accounts? Solve that headache of logging in and out different accounts in Firefox by this trick. I feel life can get complicated if you operate more than one Google Account and have associated different Google services with different accounts.

For example I have two Gmail ID's . One coolaery[at]gmail for my blog work and another mandloi.abhishek[at]gmail for personal use.I am a big fan of Firefox and each time I need to read mails,I am annoyed of logging in and out for different id's.

Well this trick has done wonders for me, Hope it works for you to.

step 0 :
- Download Firefox for more efficiency(optional).

Step 1:
- Open system "properties"(by right clicking my computer).
- Choose tab "advanced", click to "environment variables" button.
- In "system variables" section, click "new".
- Type this information to each textbox.


Step 2:
variable name: moz_no_remote (should be all small letter).
variable value: 1

Step 3:
- Open firefox icon’s properties(from desktop and quick launch).
- Add extension -p to command line(like “c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe” -p).
- Press ok.

When you will open firefox it will prompt for profile selection create a profile,open firefox login to orkut open once more use another profile login.

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I use to get my favorite movie DVD's on rent but storing them on computer is real trouble,if you consider hard-disk space as hindrance. It takes 2-3 Gb to store just a single movie.

What if you could save disk space by converting each movie into MP4 or AVI format i.e. just 700 Mb for a movie.

Here are few free converters that I love to use :

1. Handbrake

Features :

Handbrake is a very quick DVD ripping application.

Is supports ripping from any DVD-like source, including a VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted), and some VOB and TS files.

It can output to a range for file formats and video types, including:

* MP4
* MK
* AVI
* OGM
* MPEG-4
* H.264

2. Alive YouTube Video Converter



Convert video to PSP, iPod/ iPhone, Zune, MP4, 3GP, 3G2.

Convert video to AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, ASF, AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG, WMV, MOV, ASF, AAC, AC3, M4A, MP3 format.

Convert video to MP3, AAC, AC3, M4A (MPEG-4 Audio) audio format.


Alive Video Converter is an all-in-one video converter software to convert video files from one format to another, and extract audio tracks from video. It allows you to convert all popular video formats including AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG, WMV, MOV, ASF, QuickTime, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, MOD, FLV, dvr-ms, VOB to iPod, PSP, Zune, mobile 3GP and 3G2, you can also convert the above video formats to AVI, DivX, XviD, DVD, SVCD, VCD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, ASF, VOB, MOV formats. With the very easy to use interface you can also extract audio tracks from video files to MP3, AC3, AAC, M4A audio formats.

Alive Video Converter includes functions of iPod Video Converter, PSP Video Converter, Zune Video Converter, MP4 Converter and 3GP Video Converter. This PSP, 3GP, Zune, iPod, MP4 video converter that lets you enjoy all your popular video files on Sony PSP, mobile phone, Zune Player, video iPod and other MP4 partable devices.

Alive Video Converter integrated with Windows Explorer is very simple and easy to use. Just right-click on video files in Windows Explorer, select Convert to AVI (or MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP4, 3GP, etc), and convert them using your predefined settings.

In addition, The intuitive interface makes Alive Video Converter the perfect tool for both new and experienced users. It gives advanced users the ability to finish the conversion with command line or schedule in batches, and supports drag-drop to load or add video files, conversion with bitrate adjusting and width*height adjusting, and full conversion options and more!


Screenshots of-Alive Video Converter





All-in-one video tool:

PSP Video Converter
Convert video to PSP for playing on Sony PSP.
iPod Video Converter
Convert video to iPod for enjoying your video on Apple iPod.
3GP Converter
Convert video to mobile 3GP and 3G2.
Zune Video Converter
Convert video to Zune which can be played on Microsoft Zune Player.
MP4 Converter
Convert video to MP4 format.
AVI/MPEG Converter
Convert various video to AVI, MPEG format, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VCD/SVCD/DVD format.
MOV Converter
This is a mov converter as well. It can convert your mov to DivX, XviD, AVI, MPEG, WMV format, or extract the audio from mov, and save as MP3 format.
WMV Converter
Convert WMV to other formats, such as MPEG, AVI, DivX, XviD, etc. You can also convert various video to WMV video format, or convert your wmv to MP3 format, which can be played on your MP3 player.
Video to MP3 Converter
Convert DivX, XviD, WMV, ASF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MOV, MOD, RM, RMVB, or AVI to MP3 audio format directly.
DivX/XviD Converter
Convert your video to DivX, XviD format. Alive Video Converter can convert xvid to wmv, mpeg or other video formats.
FLV Converter, Flash Converter
Convert .flv to avi, mpeg, mp4, wmv, divx, xvid, 3gp, ipod, psp, or other formats.


Key Features:

Convert video to iPod video, PSP video, Zune, 3GP and 3G2 for sharing your video on partable devices.
Convert video to VCD/DVD/SVCD compatible mpeg file;
Convert to AVI, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, ASF, MOV, VOB, MP4, FLV, dvr-ms files;
Extract audio tracks from video to MP3, AAC, AC3, M4A files;
Support all popular video formats;
Support H.264 MPEG-4 AVC video format for PSP;
Support DivX, XviD avi format;
Support MPEG1, MPEG2, MS MPEG4 video format;
Converting in batches with Alive Video Converter;
Support command line;
It is very simple and easy to use. Just right click on files in the Windows Explorer, select "Convert to AVI"(or MPEG, WMV, MP4, MP3, etc) and convert them using your predefined settings;
Schedule converting supported by Alive Video Converter;
Support drag-drop to load video files;
High converting speed, wonderful output quality.



You can get this software here.

3. Tolal Video Converter - my favorite


Total Video Converter is a total solution for video conversion which supports reading, playing lots of video and audio formats and converting them to popular video formats. Total Video Converter includes a powerful media conversion engine internally so that you can convert media files with very fast speed.

Main Features of Total Video Converter:

* Convert all kinds of videos to mobile videos or audios (mp4, 3gp, xvid, divx mpeg4 avi, amr audio) which are used by cell-phone, PDA, PSP, iPod;
* Photos slide show combines multi-photos and musics with more than 300 photos fantasy transition effect;
* High compatibility and high efficiency for Importing RMVB or RM video/audio;
* Convert various videos to MPEG videos compatible with standard DVD/SVCD/VCD;
* Burn the converted videos to DVD/SVCD/VCD;
* Rip DVD to popular videos of all sorts;
* Extract audio from various of videos and convert which to all kinds of audios (mp3, ac3, ogg, wav, aac);
* RIP CD to audios of all sorts directly;
* Support using with command line;
* Combine several video and audio files to one video file;
* Demultiplex or extract video and audio;
* Multiplex video and audio to one file;
* Flv Nelly Mosser audio extract and decode.

Get this software here.

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Ever wondered,how people write in stylish fonts such as "шшш.¢ΘΘlαεгŷ.¢Θ.πг" or like "♪ thiš iš гεαllŷ ¢ΘΘl ♪"

Just run these javascripts :

1. тhι$ ιz d иєw cøøl ƒøит øи øяkuт ...

javascript:var txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/a/gi,"α");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/b/gi,"ß");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/N/gi,"и");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/t/gi,"т");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/E/gi,"є");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/f/gi,"ƒ");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/i/gi,"ι");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/s/gi,"$");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/o/gi,"ø");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/m/gi,"м");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/r/gi,"я");void(0);<br />

2. Rainbow Art

javascript:cor=new Array('b','blue','u','red','i','green','b');var z=1;txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/(.)/gi,"§$1");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\§ /gi," ");for(y=0;y<txt.value.length;y++){txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\â§/,'[/'+cor[z-1]+']'+'['+cor[z]+']');z++;if(z==cor.length){z=1}}void(0)


3. W®îtË în �î§ wÅy..

javascript:var txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/A/gi,"Å");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/B/gi,"ß");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/C/gi,"©");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/D/gi,"�");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/E/gi,"Ë");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/F/gi,"ƒ");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/i/gi,"î");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/s/gi,"§");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/o/gi,"ø");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/u/gi,"µ");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/r/gi,"®");void(0);


4. Different cool fonts
- Download firefox with google toolbar.
- Go to this website that automatically converts text.


5. like this

javascript:var txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0]; txt.value=txt.value.replace(/a/gi,"ą"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/b/gi,"Ъ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/c/gi,"⊂"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/d/gi,"Ժ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/e/gi,"ξ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/f/gi,"千"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/g/gi,"ǥ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/h/gi,"孔"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/i/gi,"Į"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/j/gi,"ໆ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/k/gi,"ҝ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/l/gi,"Ⅼ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/m/gi,"♏"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/n/gi,""); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/o/gi,"ø"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/p/gi,"ρ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/q/gi,"ℚ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/r/gi,"ř"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/s/gi,"૬"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/t/gi,"Ŧ"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/u/gi,"☋"); txt.value=txt.value.replace(/v/gi,"√"); txt.value=txt.value.re


6. Stylish Black Only

javascript:cor=new Array('u','b','i','u');var z=1;txt=document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0];txt.value=txt.value.replace(/(.)/gi,"§$1");txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\§ /gi," ");for(y=0;y<txt.value.length;y++){txt.value=txt.value.replace(/\â§/,'[/'+cor[z-1]+']'+'['+cor[z]+']');z++;if(z==cor.length){z=1}}void(0)


7. Orkut Words Generator - Orkut's little "people alphabet"

Though these are images,not fonts but its nice to have them.
[Click Here]



Note : Just write the text in the scrapbook or while replying in a community, before clicking on the submit button just copy and paste one of these javascripts in the address bar (were you type www.orkut.com) and press enter.