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A look into the most popular sites:
Twitter.com: The site that started the microblogging phenomenon was founded in San Francisco in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. The site works by sending a text message to one of four numbers located in the US, Canada, India, or the United Kingdom. Those messages appear on Twitter.com and can be viewed by anyone. Followers of the blog can choose to receive SMS updates every time a new update is posted. Number of monthly visitors: 7,935,441.
Flickr: Flickr used to be a site that was all about photography. Photos are still a big part of what the site offer. Flickr allows users to upload, touch-up and share their pictures online. You can organise your photos for family and friends, and just use Flickr as a place to store your digital files. You can even tag your photos to a map to show where they were clicked. Flickr was developed by Vancouver-based Ludicorp. It launched Flickr in February 2004. In March 2005 both the site and parent company were acquired by Yahoo. Number of monthly visitors: 23,769,885.
Zannel.com: A relatively new site that adds Multimedia Service (MMS) as a way to let people update blogs. That means that instead of sending a text message, Zannel users can update their blogs from their phones with text and images by sending them to a personalised email address. Zannel won a Webby for Best Mobile Social Network in 2008. The site was launched in 2007. Number of monthly visitors: 38,159.
FriendFeed: FriendFeed, launched in October 2007, is an aggregator, similar to Digg and Reddit, that consolidates the updates from a large number of sites. The founders of Friendfeed are all former Google employees. Number of monthly visitors: 876,616.
Hulu.com: A joint-venture of US networks NBC and Fox, this site allows you to watch the latest episodes of your favourite television shows, even in High-Definition (HD) format. The Hulu venture was announced in April 2007 and launched publicly in March last year. Number of monthly visitors: 7,352,849
Digg.com: This is the place to visit if you want to talk about the day's news. Users post links to stories they find on other sites, which are then read by others and commented on. And there is a lot of commenting. Readers also have the choice of giving any story the thumbs-up (you 'Digg it') or the thumbs-down ('Bury it'). The more 'Diggs' a story gets, the wider its circulation among the site's readers. Digg was founded in 2004 by Kevin Rose, Owen Byrne, Ron Gorodetzky, and Jay Adelson. Number of monthly visitors: 33,433,760
Imeem.com: This is a social networking site that includes blogs, photos, audio and video. The company was founded by Dalton Caldwell and Jan Jannink, a former employee of Napster, a file sharing site that was shut down in 2001 for violating copyright laws. Imeem was launched in October 2004. Number of monthly visitors: 9,694,353
Who invented the cell phone?
Option 1: Martin Cooper
Option 2: Richard Frenkiel
Option 3: Joel Engel
The winner's blog will be reviewed by BLoG4InFo experts and also advertised for 1 week.
Dear friends you have read many interesting tips from my site and I think you have gained more knowledge from them. Now I have a more interesting tip to increase your Laptop's battery life. There is no matter, laptop manufactures gives you the guarantee about the battery that how long it works. The battery of laptop always stops working very early at some stage in essential research, just like when you are watching a DVD movie. Follow the few steps to increase the laptop battery's life: Lower the backlighting on your screen. The screen of your Laptop takes up significant amount of power and you do not require its maximum brightness. You should have to check your system and decrease the screen brightness it to a comfortable point. Stop your wireless signal when you are not using. After turning off your Laptop can save max. 20 minutes of your laptop's battery time because WiFi can use a considerable quantity of power. By right clicking you can stop your WiFi signal when you are not using. Manage the correct power scheme in XP Windows XP contain a number of predetermined power plans, which control settings like how rapidly your laptop turns off and when your screen saver boots in. You can change your laptop power scheme by choosing Control Panel > Power Options. For max. Battery life from the "Power scheme" chooses the option "Max. Battery" and decline the list. There are good choices for you just like "Low Power Mode" and Portable /Laptop. They don't conserve as much power as Max Battery. After selecting a power scheme you click Ok button to finish the process.
If your are using same switches frequently in Command prompt then open your system command prompt using open Run option
Click Start and open Run option then type cmd to open command prompt, here type
set dircmd=/w/o/p
then press Enter, now every time thereafter that you type
dir
the /w/o/p switches will be automatically applied and now need to type every time. If your are interested to use single switch like /w you can use it
set dircmd=/w
and press Enter.
and same if you wants to undo these switches then you can very easily by typing
dir /-switch
For example, if you wanted to do a directory with only the /w switch, you could enter
dir /-p/-o
When you exit the Command prompt window, however, the Dircmd setting returns to its default settings.
Hi Friends,
Yes, my exams are over and Blog4InFo will be live now!!!!
There are many ways to prints a document, but you can print a document quickly if you put a shortcut to the printer on your desktop and drag a document icon to it, no need to open file for printing just drag a file to printer icon and get your print.
To do this, first click Start button, Settings, then Printers ( first make sure you installed your printer driver). When the Printers window opens, hold down Ctrl and drag the printer icon to your system desktop.
Now you can drag a document icon and drop it in printer icon on your desktop. Here you will get a print quickly and with out open a file.
'Sendto' menu modification
Open - X:\Documents and Settings\username\SendTo (it is hidden) where X is your drive letter and username is your username make and delete shortcuts to folders and devices at will
IP address of your connection
Here is how to find the IP of your connection. Always remember, BLoG4InFo is not responsible for any destruction.
>Go to start/run type 'cmd'
>then type 'ipconfig'
>Add the '/all' switch for more info.
How to remove Windows Messenger!!
Theoretically, you can get rid of it (as well as a few other things). Windows 2000 power users should already be familiar with this tweak.
Fire up the Windows Explorer and navigate your way to the %SYSTEMROOT% \ INF folder. What the heck is that thingy with the percentage signs? It's a variable. For most people, %SYSTEMROOT% is C:\Windows. For others, it may be E:\WinXP. Get it? Okay, on with the hack! In the INF folder, open sysoc.inf (but not before making a BACKUP copy first). Before your eyes glaze over, look for the line containing "msmsgs" in it. Near the end of that particular line, you'll notice that the word "hide" is not so hidden. Go ahead and delete "hide" (so that the flanking commas are left sitting next to one another). Save the file and close it. Now, open the Add and Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel. Click the Add / Remove Windows Components icon. You should see "Windows Messenger" in that list. Remove the checkmark from its box, and you should be set. NOTE: there are other hidden system components in that sysoc.inf file, too. Remove "hide" and the subsequent programs at your own risk.
Hi Readers,
Last few days I am not able to post any new posts. This is because our new blog is under construction. It will be open for the visitors by the end of this month. Till the other blog gets ready, please forgive me. Keep visiting.
BLoG4InFo
Admin- Mohammed
How to Rename the Recycle Bin
Hi,
We all know that the "Recycle Bin can never be renamed (in XP). Here is how to make that possible. Try this!
»Open Run from start menu
»Open regedit and goto
»HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID/{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
»and change the name "Recycle Bin" to whatever you want (don't type any quotes).
Thats it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks. Note that though the fix is originally intended for only those affected, Windows 2000 users will experience that the actual browsing speed of both the Internet & Windows Explorers improve significantly after applying it since it doesn't search for Scheduled Tasks anymore. Here's how :
Open up the Registry and go to :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Current Version/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace
Under that branch, select the key :
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}
and delete it.
This is key that instructs Windows to search for Scheduled Tasks. If you like you may want to export the exact branch so that you can restore the key if necessary.
To make your desktop icons transparent.
> Go to Control Panel
> System,
> Advanced
> Performance area
> Settings button Visual Effects tab "Use drop shadows for icon labels on the Desktop"
What are gadgets or gizmos?
A gadget is a small technological object (such as a device or an appliance) that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technology at the time of their invention. Gadgets are sometimes also referred to as gizmos.
The origins of the word "gadget" trace back to the 1800s. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is anecdotal evidence for the use of "gadget" as a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember since the 1850s; with Robert Brown's 1886 book Spunyarn and Spindrift, A sailor boy’s log of a voyage out and home in a China tea-clipper containing the earliest known usage in print. The etymology of the word is disputed. A widely circulated story holds that the word gadget was "invented" when Gaget, Gauthier & Cie, the company behind the repoussé construction of the Statue of Liberty (1886), made a small-scale version of the monument and named it after their firm; however this contradicts the evidence that the word was already used before in nautical circles, and the fact that it did not become popular until after World War I. Other sources cite a derivation from the French gâchette which has been applied to various pieces of a firing mechanism, or the French gagée, a small tool or accessory. The spring-clip used to hold the base of a vessel during glass-making is also known as a gadget. The first atomic bomb was nicknamed the gadget by the scientists of the Manhattan Project, tested at the Trinity site.
Different types of gadgets are:
> Mechanical Gadgets
> Electronic Gadgets
> Programmable Gadgets
> Application Gadgets
Well, I will explain each of them in my further posts.
