Pictcha might be the next generation form spam control solution and replacement of Captcha. Pictcha is an experiment by Yahoo! in which you have to write down two words describing an image. You will have to observe the image and extract two words from it. On correct mentioning these will take you to the success page. This test can be more tough then the Captcha as I have found it.
Download Windows 7
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After Windows Vista; Microsoft has launched Windows 7 which is faster, more reliable, and makes it easier to do what you want. Both the everyday things and the killer "is that really possible?" things. Windows 7 beta is available for download. Windows 7 is full of great new features and enhancements (they say).
Some New Features
- Improved Taskbar and full-screen previews
- Jump List for Recent Documents
- Pin document to Taskbar for Easier Access
- See through to the desktop with Invisible Windows
- Internet Explorer 8
- Built-in Dictionary and Maps
- Better Device Manager
- Better Movie Maker, Image Editor
- Touch Screen Feature
- BranchCache
- BitLocker
- AppLocker
- Better Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Management tools
- Extended battery life with Power Saving Feature
- Themes Packages - Built your own style from clean look
Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their in-boxes for a while, but up till now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. They wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes they launching some days ago, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox (my GOD!!! Have you witnessed such luxurious effects with any mailing service?), and fun characters to keep you in good company (wow). There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers -- it's not exactly practical, but it's great for testing out your geek cred. Gmail's default look is now crisper and cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.
Mint is the best way to manage your money online. Personal finance online solution that works for you. Mint downloads, categorizes, and graphs all of your finances automatically every day, so you don’t have to. Know where you’re spending, without spending any effort.
- Mint has got easy setup.
- Its free.
- Always up-to-date.
- Bank data-level security.
- See where you spend.
- Accessible anywhere.
- Compare spending.
- Visual helpful charts of comparison for month-wise spending.
- Easy budgeting.
- Set realistic goals.
- Easy budget tracking.
- Find ways to save.
- Timely alerts.
- Track your investments.
Are you tired of creating a new account on every website you use? Do you avoid new websites because they come with yet another username and password? Do you paste stickies with password hints all over your computer monitor?
OpenID is an open technology standard that solves all of these problems.
How do I get an OpenID?
Surprise! You may already have one. If you use any of the following services, you already have your own OpenID:
- AOL
- Blogger
- Flickr
- LiveDoor
- LiveJournal
- Orange (France Telecom)
- SmugMug
- Technorati
- Vox
- Yahoo
- WordPress.com
Yahoo and OpenID
The OpenID technology will allow you to use your Yahoo! account to sign in to hundreds of websites! Once you enable your Yahoo! account for OpenID access, you can simply tell any OpenID enabled website that you are a Yahoo! user. You will be sent to Yahoo! to verify your Yahoo! ID and password and then signed in to the website. Its that easy!
LiquidID is an OpenID provider like no other with built in spam protection.
Reserve yourname.liquidid.net now and logon to SourceForge, WikiTravel, Springnote, Magnolia or any other OpenID enabled site. This service definitely saves you from having different user name and password for every website that uses OpenID.
OpenID allows you to have a single username and password to signin to any site that accept OpenID's. liquidID is an OpenID provider that distributes aliased information to OpenID enabled sites instead of your actual information. Get Your liquidID now.
Mobile feeds distribution for all. Your content, your device, anywhere. BUZmob is a great way to read RSS on your mobile devices. Fast, sleek and useful river of news RSS aggregator. Reach All Mobile Users, Anywhere, Anytime. BUZmob is a mobile feed publishing service for user, media and corporate content publishers. It mobile-enables your content without forcing you to change it, and puts you in control of mobile feed distribution. BUZmob emphasizes ease of use and universal access. It taps the vast majority of mobile users, on any device or network. Mobile visitors to your site can read posts, submit comments and forms, view images and access videos (soon), irrespective of device type, mobile carrier, location or language.
Research shows that many mobile users express an interest in accessing web-based content on their mobile device, once it is pointed out to them that there is an easy way to do so. This is what makes BUZmob a unique approach to mobile feed distribution.
Mobile users are not required to download any software to their phone. Moreover, they are not required to subscribe to a service or even to type URLs in their phone’s mobile browser. A combination of automatic bookmark generation and text messaging ensures that access to content is immediate and pain-free. Once end-users access a content feed, they can visit any off-feed links, which are adapted in real time to their specific mobile device.
By bringing together content publishers, who facilitate and drive content discovery, and universal access, BUZmob brings mobile Internet content to all mobile users, and bridges the chasm between early and mass market adoption.
Feature HighlightsContent publishers:
- Uses existing RSS/Atom content and regular web-based content.
- Simple integration - one line of HTML code.
- Mobilizes web content, images, forms.
- (optional) mobile optimization HTML tags for improved performance.
- Mobile analytics and statistics (soon).
- Mobile marketing and promotion tools (soon).
- Content monetization services (soon).
- The BUZmob directory, for promoting your website.
- Create and manage branded mobile feed portals in minutes (soon).
Mobile users:
- No download required.
- No service subscription required.
- Works on any data-enabled mobile phone.
- Works with any mobile carrier.
- Works in any language.
- Real-time optimization of feeds and web pages.
- Automatic bookmarks management - no need to type URLs
- Automatic content adaptation reduces bandwidth consumption and data costs.
Lately I have tried all popular messenger services i.e. MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, Eyeball Chat, ICQ, Pal Talk, Skype, Rediff and others. You know what if you ask me; these are all quite fun but lack something. Not a single one of these qualifies up to the level, we can call a complete messenger, more then just fun.
Here I came across another messenger service which is going to change the way you communicate. Its ooVoo Messenger.
First there was email. Then there was IM. Then the Internet phone. Although each of these technologies promised faster, better communication, the team at ooVoo has never been satisfied. The way they see it, online communication has always lacked human expression. Typing to someone online is not the same as watching a heartfelt smile.
I have experienced ooVoo and I suggest that you can try it too and find it for yourself that how much ahead this messenger is from the rest of chatter boxes.
Best Features:
- Video Conversation with more then two buddies same time.
- Record video messages and send to your buddy.
- Record FLV video and post it anywhere; lets say at blog or youtube.
- Give Recorded Vido special effects.
- Phone or landline free calls.
Other Features:
- Online Status, ooVoo card, Voice, Video, Buddy list and detailed histories of every activity you do; like other messengers.
- You can import contact lists from MSN, Yahoo, Gmail, Aol, Office Outlook and find friends and invite them to ooVoo.
- Free Phone Calls, PC to mobile or land line calls.
- Face to face video conference. More then two buddies can join the same video and audio conversation.
- You can adjust video and image quality.
- You can take snaps of buddies while talking.
- Record video and voice while talking.
- Send recorded video or audio messages into friend's email address.
- Send video messages to your friends via ooVoo video recorder.
- Apply video effects at video.
- Video, audio speed and quality is way too good from rest of messengers.
- Send and recieve files.
- Messenger sidebar view at desktop.
- ooVoo me link for MySpaces and blogs.
- FLV, AVI video formats are supportd with other regular formats.
- Generate FLV file and save it in your computer.
- Its free.
Better AdSense
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I might call this better AdSense. There is a lot of experimentation and testing going on at AdSense program. Recently I saw a modified AdSense unit at my Photo Pages which had back and next arrow controls with slide out and fade in effects between ads. There are also new Interactive AdSense units with pictures spotted according to Darren Rowse at problogger at UK Tech site. This is testing of new ad formats which is really very interesting. It seems like AdSense team is enhancing their program in an interesting way for publishers, advertisers and visitors to interact more with audience and its really cool.
Darren Rowse has mentioned also other new AdSense Ad units
Unusual AdSense ad unit (336×280 pixel)
AdSense Centered Text Ads
200 x 200 Ad unit (New Possibilities and flexibility in AdSense program)
Change to Ads About (More Ads selection and option)
Tagza.com is a social bookmarking web site for web users to save their favourite links. Tagza covers english web sites only. Big number of web masters using tagza are from India and Pakistan.
Tagza users submit stories to the site and other users decide by their voting power what gets to the front page. The amazing features about this website I liked are:
- You can promote a story
- demote/bury a story
- Even vote on comments
How Tagza Works
Tagza, is a free web application that allows you to submit an article that will be reviewed by others and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the front page. When a user submits a news article it will be placed in the "unpublished" area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the front page. It was influenced by the extremely popular website digg.com.
Nobody can deny the importance of Social Bookmarking websites. Enhance your experience about what this 'yet another great Social Bookmarking Website' Tagza offers you!!!
