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Aaah.. the first blog after joining Magnet. I think I never got the enough time to write a blogs, but about what I should write ? How other bloggers spare time for blogging?, and why not me can do the same? But after all, I got time and courage to write a blog once again.

Almost Three & Half months passed in Magnet. Our TL, Jaldip Sir, was planning, we should meet at some place with our spouse or fiance/fiancee if any. Everybody was ready and exited for that. We faced some delayed because of some sort of reasons. But after all we managed it.
So, it was planned after all, We had a get together on last Friday. We decided to meet at Exitebite restaurant on S G Highway. We met there after we left the workplace.
Almost half of the people were with their life parters. But I wasn't. Why? Simple thing yaar.. The answer is I'm not engaged. Ya but girlfriend was allowed, hm.. but again Bad Luck!
But it doesn't mean that I was alone & I cant enjoy. Yes I was enjoying.. with my friends (Singles of course), & also the food.
I see some guys were enjoying they never before. Specially a person who eats just a Vada-Pau a day & passes the whole day!
One of my friend was with her fiancee, I don't know, he was comfortable or not. It was like he wants to speak something, but something in his mind was not allowing him to speak anything, Silent all the time. He was sitting at the corner point of the table, was talking with her fiancee very very slowly. But he is the person who speaks a lot between us when he is in between us in office or anywhere else.
After seeing him, I was feeling comfortable, I don't have fiancee right now :). Otherwise I don't know what could be my condition on that day.
Every Singles were enjoying a lot, But some of the persons, were not singles were not enjoying up to the limit.
Why some married/engaged people feel hesitation while speaking, behave differ from their natural behavior, when it comes to meet those friends, whom they meet daily. What could be the reason? Ok, my English is not that much good, but I think you are getting my point!

Twinke is the girl, Me and Dhaval always harass her all the time when I got a chance n we enjoy that. Now this time, she was with her husband, Hardik. And the thing is, we were sitting in front of them. So no excuses this time. I was trying to keep my mouth shut against her, but she complained her husband, "Aa jiglo & dhavlyo mane bau herran kare chhe, dhavlyo to mane bau maare chhe". I was in tension what could be the first reaction of Hardik. But, Hardik wasn't responding at all, & me.. Bach Gaya.. :)

Jaldip Sir, I mean.. Jaldipbhai was enjoying up to the limit as always, with his wife & cute little daughter. The Jodi was sparkling at that night.

Once again we had a great fun that day, because I believe Magneteers always do that anytime. That was the first time we met outside the work place, with family members after joining Magnet.

If you are a movie geek and if you download movies from the torrent sites, its not possible that you haven't noticed the person 'aXXo'.

Downloading free movies from the Internet could be the most favorite stuff for the movie geeks, especially downloading movies using torrents. How one person can be a geek of movies by means of torrents, can be read in my previously written post, Boy, who never sleeps before the stroke of 2. But its because of lot of movies available freely on torrent sites. Thanks to those people who rip the DVDs into small chunks that can be fit on a single CD. Many DVD Rippers do this thing and make it available for downloading, but some persons are very famous for providing thousands of best quality movies in terms of sound & video.

aXXo is one of the best DVD Rippers, that is what I believe. In real life, aXXo is probably just an average person, but on the Internet he's a celebrity, with over a million people downloading his DVDrips every month. The search term “aXXo” is among the top searches on every torrent site, and even anti-piracy organizations use his name to trap people into downloading fake torrents.

torrentfreak.com conducted an Interview with aXXo.

Over to his Interview, aXXo, The Most Popular DVD Ripper on BitTorrent.

Torrents from aXXo can be found from these links.


Isohunt Mininova Superfundo The Pirate Bay

All about King of DVDRipp aXXo, So you can find aXXo all movies torrents link here with Covers, Subtitles and Other information regarding Movies.

Are you not able to signup for Google Adsense account for some reasons ?
Did Google kick you out of Adsense program because of some reasons ?
Are you not able to make an AdSense account after Google disabled your account ?

The following is the listing of programs, which can be used as an AdSence Alternative.
There are great alternatives for Google AdSense.


Adbrite
AllFeeds
Chitika
ExpoActive
Nixxie
AdEngage
BannerBoxes
ClicksAdsDirect
Fastclick
Quigo
Adgenta
BidClix
Clicksor
InfoGrabber
RevenuePilot
Adhearus
Bidvertiser
ContextWeb
Intellitxt
SearchFeed
AffiliateSensor
CBProSense
Enhance Interactive
Veoda
TargetPoint

If you have information about an adsense alternative or other advertising program that you would like included, please let me know by writing comments for this blog.


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Filehippo - It provides you with the simplest method of downloading the newest versions of the best software - without the usual excessive popups or spyware and without the low quality software.

TopTenREVIEWS - It helps you cut through the clutter to find the product that’s best for you, provides in-depth reviews, side-by-side product comparisons in various categories such as Softwares, Web Services, Hardwares, Movies, Music & Video Games.

IGN - IGN is the ultimate gaming and entertainment resource featuring award winning coverage of video games, cheats, movies, music, cars, sports, babes, comics and gear.

eSnips - eSnips is a web 2.0 interest-driven social sharing site that allows users to share content, promote and sell their creations and form social niche communities around their specific areas of interest. Members can upload and share content in any file type from one centralized profile, in folders representing their different areas of interest, and can determine the audience for each folder. Get 5 GB of free space to upload and share your files, photos, videos and music.

Digg - Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.

15 Common Adsense Mistakes - Avoid these errors that could get your AdSense account banned.

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - The biggest, best, most award-winning movie site on the planet.

Most Widely Read Indian Bloggers

Computer Hope - The location for free online computer support and computer related information. Computer Hope has been designed to assist all types of computer users with any of their computer related questions as well as a great location to learn more about your computer and its hardware and software.


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Ajax Images - Images can be used while JavaScript remote server requests are waiting to be processed and returned.

Planet Ajaxian - Its a nice place to get yourself updated in Ajax, PHP, .Net, Web 2.0 and lot more. Regularly updated with many posts daily.

W3Schools - At W3Schools you will find all the Web-building tutorials you need, from basic HTML and XHTML to advanced XML, SQL, Database, Multimedia and WAP. W3Schools provides materials for training in various Web Technologies.

Hot Scripts - Hot Scripts is the net's largest PHP, CGI, Perl, JavaScript and ASP script collection and resource web portal.

Dynamic Drive - Its the #1 place on the net to obtain free, original DHTML & Javascripts to enhance your web site!

This guide will help you to get rid out of viruses spread by USB Pen drives, Flash drives or Memory cards.
Most of the viruses are spread by pen-drives or its kind of devices because of built-in feature of Windows to autorun the file in pen-drives.

Problem:

When you connect the removable drive to your PC's USB port, Windows automatically try to dictate the 'autorun.inf' file if it resides on removable drive, which commands the file to be executed when autorun event occurs, but if autorun file execute the file which can be viruses than you should be worried about it.
As soon as you connect the drive, virus makes a copy of itself into your computer. It's done, virus enters into your computer.

Autorun file basically resides on the drive alone, not in any folders.
File name : autorun.inf
Properties: hidden with two level hiding attributes. May be read-only also.
Contents: i.e.
[AutoRun]
OPEN=abc.exe
This will execute the file 'abc.exe', which could be a virus.

Basically here, the file "abc.exe" will also be hidden with two level hiding attributes, such that you cannot see it directly on your drive, so you wont even know that it resides on your removable drive.

Diagnosis
:

To know that if "autorun.inf" resides on the drive including your hard drives, CD/DVD drives and other removable drives, follow this steps.

One simple way is,
-Right-click the drive, find 'Auto' or 'Autorun' option on the menu, if it is there, then there will be a "autorun.inf" file in your drive.

Another way is,
-In Windows Explorer, follow the path: Tools > Folder Options, click on it.

-In the folder option, in the 'View' tab, find the item, "Hidden files and folders", it will have two options, select the option "Show hidden files and folders".

-Remove the check sign from the item "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)".

Now go to your drive, you will be able to see all the hidden files & folders onto your drive including "autorun.inf", if it is there. But if your computer has the after-effects of the virus named 'sal.xls.exe', than you wont be able to see the files, because it just resets the changes you have made in above step.

Solution:

You take care of your computer a lot, you update the virus definitions of your anti virus software. But some latest viruses cant be caught with it.

If you can see the file, 'autorun.inf ' on your drives, it may meant for spreading the viruses. So it is my recommendation that you must delete it immediately.

To stop spreading viruses by USB pen drives, flash drives or memory cards, the best way is to disable the autorun feature of windows.

You can do it by some registry tweaks, but the easiest way is here:

You will be required to install 'Tweak UI' Powertoys utility on your computer, which can be downloaded from here.

Download from any of the servers.
Server 1 : TweakUiPowertoySetup.zip, Size: 133 KB, Download Now
Server 2 : TweakUi.exe, Size: 147 KB, Download Now

Install it, If you are using Windows Xp, follow the path in Start menu:
"All Program" > "Powertoys for Windows XP" > "Tweak UI".

In window, which appears, select the items this way from the left tree.
"My Computer" > "Autoplay" > "Drives".

On the right side, all the drives appears with check boxes.

Remove the check marks for the drives, you want to disable autorun. My recommendation is that remove the check marks for all the drives including your CD/DVD drives.
Press OK. Thats it.


This is the another solution if your computer is affected by virus included in 'sal.xls.exe'.

Following are some after-effects of it.

-In Folder option, when you select the option, "Show hidden files and folders", and when you press OK, you cant see the hidden files or folders, even those resides on your computer.

Here is the solution for it, you have to do some registry tweaks.

-Go to Start > Run and type in 'regedit', press OK.

-Go to the following registry key:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\Folder\Hidden\SHOWALL

-Delete the value CheckedValue. ( Its type should be REG_SZ and data should be 2 ).

-Create a new DWORD value called CheckedValue ( same as above, except that the type is REG_DWORD ). Modify the value data to 1 (0x00000001).

This should let you change the "Hidden Files and Folders" option.


Change the default Windows XP fonts to match the Mac OS X Fonts.
You will need to install Mac Fonts, which you can download from here.

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To install these Fonts, go to the folder "Fonts", located in the WINDOWS folder. Once you are in the "Fonts" folder, click the File tab and select "Install new Font...", locate the fonts in this pack and install them.

In these steps, you are going to be able to make your Windows XP fonts to look like Mac OS X fonts.

Step 1: Right-Click on your desktop, select "Properties" and then "Apperance".

Step 2: You must have ClearType on, or else it wont look as good. Click on "Effects". and tick the box that says "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts". Then in the drop down box below, select "ClearType".
Press OK, then Apply. And then next, select Advanced from the Apperance section.

Step 3: In the drop down box (it says Desktop), select Icon.

Step 4: In the drop down box, select any Mac OS X font and then select B for bold. Press OK and then Apply. And there you go!
Here are the fonts included in this package.

Recommended,
Use 'Lucida Grande' fonts for Icon and Menu.

Fonts
- AppleGaramond
- Aquabase
- Lithogrl
- Lucida Grande
- Lucon
- Lucida Mac
- MacGrand


Before I'm going to explain the real story of this boy, I wanna explain some facts.

In world of telephony and internet, it was the time, when there were no other players in the market to compete with BSNL, It was ruling the whole telephony market. The phrase 'Customer Satisfaction' wasn't there those days, but afterwards when other players jumped into the market, BSNL has to revamp the services.
The babus of BSNL had to think, how they can compete with other biggies in terms of services to stay on the top place in the market. Internet was one of the services provided by bsnl, but no broadband was there. Services other than 'dial-up internet' was not affordable for a middle-class people. But when other companies start to provide better Internet services, bsnl had to take step further and launched the 'Dataone Broadband'.

Dataone Broadband, today is the best Internet Service available in terms of speed and cost.
Other companies are there, which can provide fast internet connections, but the skims of them are not better than Dataone.
Plus point for dataone was the existing phone line, which customers were using just for phone calls and dial-up internet connections in those days.
Dataone uses existing phone lines for broadband internet connection, So initial cost of dataone is far less than the others, for a common man it was a boon.

Initially when launched, cost was much higher, although was succeed in urban areas but not much as of today.
To be online for whole the day, for youngsters was very costly, because it was eating bandwidth like two-day hungry man eats burgers. But as time passed, broadband rate slashed down and has been made affordable for everyone.

Now most of the Home PCs in urban areas which have internet, have broadband connections, having Dataone plans. People are ready to go online without worrying about limited bandwidth.

Most of the people are using 1 GB bandwidth limited plan, but if you are using 2.5 GB bandwidth limited plan with night unlimited bandwidth, the world would be in your home in just few clicks. 1 GB plan was good enough for the people who chat all the day, check emails, visit social networking sites, but there are some limitations which make this plan not much better for some other geeks,
You can chat whole the day, but when it comes to webcam chat, you have to bother about limited bandwidth. You can visit people's profiles on the site, but when it comes to watching his/her pictures, videos you have to think again about limited bandwidth.

But if you are ready to spend more on broadband, other plans are just awesome for you.
Unlimited plan for Rs. 900 per month for a collegian was a litter bit far, Although he/she can spend money for it by earning cash by doing other works.

So, a 2.5 GB limited bandwidth plan with night unlimited from 2 am to 8 am is the perfect one for the people who want to use internet without bother about the bandwidth, also want to download free stuffs like movies, songs.



Here is the real story of a boy, Vimal, one of my friends, owns a 2.5 GB limited bandwidth plan, and how broadband becomes a part of his life.

Most of my friends were equipped with 1 GB limited bandwidth Dataone plan including me, only one of us had a 2.5 GB plan.
Me and my friends are just crazy about Hollywood movies, no. of movies we have I will tell you later on.

So the guy, with 2.5 GB plan was like an angel for us, only if he download movies for us.
A single movie is about 700-900 MB in size. If this buddy download it in the day, the 700-900 MB would be slashed from 2.5 GB.
So it was awful to download movies in the day. So we had to think about the time period 2 am to 8 pm, which allowed us to download a single movie in one night without worrying about the bandwidth.
But my friend wasn't ready to wakeup in the night at 2 am. The thing was very simple, he just has to start download after 2 am, after that he can sleep up to 8 am in the morning. But he disappointed us a lot. He was not ready to download a single movie in whole month, I think this was due to his laziness for that.

But afterwards, Vimal buy a 2.5 GB plan. Now we don't have to request him for downloading movies, because now we got a real angel for movies.
This guy was ready to wakeup till 2 am just for his love of movies.
But how it can be possible for him to wakeup till 2 am? specially on daily basis?
Here is the answer, he just start to watch movie after 12:00 am daily, don't worry about ending of a movie, he watches movie just for time pass and wait for the stroke of 2 am by the clock.

For normal people, day changed at midnight, but for this buddy, it takes two more hours.
He manages to start download after 2 am.
Now-a-days, It doesn't take a whole night to download a single movie due to higher download speed, so he start to download 3-4 movies simultaneously, as a result, 7-8 movies can be downloaded in just 3 nights.

Now, can you imagine how much he download in the nights in a whole month? It is damn more than 75 GB.
So the fact is, a person who has just 2.5 GB limit for uploading/downloading contents, is downloading the data 30 times the given limit. He really sucks the BSNL. One more shocking thing is that, Vimal has downloaded more than 35o movies including 20 or something Hindi movies also.

Now we have a very large collection of movies on DVDs and HDs, which have been downloaded from the Internet.
In my friend circle, everyone has more than 30 downloaded movies in the Hard-disk at a time.
We all don't require to download, we just have to request this buddy for it, on the next day our requested movies will be there on our hard-disks, on our PCs.

For sharing movies we don't have a LAN implementation, because we live far from each-other.
We don't burn CDs/DVDs to share movies with friends.
We just copy the movies direct to the hard-disks.
All of my friend are now master in that stuff. But before this era, some of the guys were not ready for opening the cabinet and removing the hard-disk from it. But the hunger of watching movies motivated them to do the same.

It was a time when we hardly have a single movie on CDs to be watched once in a week. We have to rent or to buy CDs from the market.
But afterwards, we have a large collection of Xvid/Divx formatted movies with DVD quality of video and sound.
Now this buddy download more than 100 movies per month.
After downloading 20-25 movies, he invite us to copy the downloaded movies, we hardly watch 5-6 movies from our collection of more than 30 movies on our HDs. We have to delete all other movies without watching, because new movie stock is always ready with more than 20 movies every week.

This was the story of my friend, a Boy, who never sleeps before the stroke of 2 am in the clock.

Apart from that, we have a large network in my city, movies are passing from one end of a city to the other end via our network.
No, there is no wired network, its a wireless network without transmitters, receivers and routers.
Its a network, which can handle more than 30 GB of data to be transmitted at a time by just one packet! Its a packet that contains hard-disk. Hard-disk is passed to one location to another location by us.

All movies from Hollywood are not released in India, we cannot watch other movies.
Movies we watch are those which are aspirants, comedies, about glory, are not released here.
Why? these movie are not released in India is the question, I think the answer is, most of the Indian love to watch movies that contain actions (done by Indian hero, not by a Hollywood star), love to watch love stories (he doesn't aware of other great love stories films made out of India). But why should I discuss this thing here. Its my own opinion.

We download some good Hindi movies also. But other movies cant be compare to Hollywood movies we watch in terms of directions, stories.

It's the power of Dataone broadband. You can buy other broadband connections, but you cannot find plan in other companies, which provides 2.5 GB upload/download limit with unlimited uploads/downloads in the nights with up to 2 Mbps of connecting speed and more than 90 Kbps of downloading speed.

Story I mentioned above is not of only a single person in India, there are lots of people in my city and in India who are sucking BSNL.

You can call us mad-men for movies, yes, we are.

Google AdSense is fast becoming the preferred way for people to earn an income online. Forget eBay and multiple affiliate programs - Whether you are a work-at-home mom trying to make a little extra cash or an Internet entrepreneur with hundreds of monetized websites, AdSense is truly the easiest way to earn money.

Simply sign up for a free account, grab your ad code and paste it in your site. But here's the amazing thing - no matter how much money AdSense is making for you right now, a few simple tweaks can increase that amount considerably. And I should know, after learning about these tricks, I more than doubled my AdSense commissions!

The self-proclaimed AdSense gurus and experts are sharing this insider knowledge, for a fee. You can learn all these secrets from them, as long as you buy their e-book, sign up for their seminar or purchase their newsletter. But I'm going to share all their AdSense tricks for free. Here they are:

1) Color code your ads to match your web site palette *exactly*. Don't use frames around your ads. Instead, in the AdSense code generation interface, make sure you choose the same color as your page background for the ad frame and the ad background.

When choosing the ad heading colors, match them to the *exact* color of your page headings. Use the exact same ad background shade as your page background. Use the exact same ad text font and color as the text on your pages. You can see an example of this color-matching on my search engine advice blog - notice the 4 link ad unit and skyscraper text ad unit on the left hand side under the headings Ads by Google as you scroll down the page? The link and text colors are identical to the color palette used throughout the rest of the page.

Near enough is NOT good enough. If you can't quite get the color matching right, use Google's built in color palette together with the RGB to HEX or vice versa color converter on this page. That handy little tool was a life saver for me.

This is probably the one single tweak that made the most difference to my commission levels.

2) Try not to use the traditional horizontal banner style or leaderboard image ads because people are blind to them.

3) Use Google's own AdSense optimization tips and visual heat map to assist you in deciding where on your page to place your AdSense ad code.

4) Research competitive keywords using a keyword research tool such as Keyword Discovery or grab a list of the most popular keywords from various sources and use them in your web site pages where relevant. This article is a good source of frequently searched keywords. Targeting popular keywords should trigger AdSense ads on your pages that utilize those keywords. The more popular the keyword or phrase, the higher AdWords advertisers are generally willing to pay per click for it so the higher your commission on those clicks.

5) Incorporate the AdSense code into your page so that the ads look like a regular part of your site. You can see an example of this on the Internet Dating Stories site where link ads are incorporated within the regular left hand navigation of the site under the heading "Sponsor Links".

6) Use Google's new 4 and 5 link ad units wherever possible. They seem to have a much higher Click Through Rate (CTR) than regular ad styles. You can view all the AdSense ad formats here.

7) Place images next to your ads to attract the eyes. You can see this in place on the search engine article library page at the bottom where 3 images draw your attention to the bottom of the page. But be careful here - the use of arrows or symbols enticing viewers to click are NOT allowed by Google and publishers may NOT label the Google ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements".

8) Use the full allowance of multiple AdSense ads on each of your pages - 3 regular AdSense ads, plus 1 link unit. Use careful placement of these ads so they blend into your site and don't distract from your content. Clever use of this allowance can be seen on this page about bad Internet dating stories where you see:

- 1 horizontal 4 link ad unit towards the top of the page under the first paragraph
- 1 vertical skyscraper text ad unit about halfway down the left hand side under "Sponsor Links"
- 1 vertical skyscraper image ad unit down the left hand side under "Sponsor Links"
- 1 horizontal text banner unit at the bottom of the page with images above each ad.

You can also include 1 AdSense referral button in addition to the 3 other units.

9) Tailor your page content to a particular niche or focus. Page content that is tailored towards a specific theme is more likely to trigger AdWords ads that closely match the content and are therefore more likely to interest your visitors and inspire them to click. Do not create pages merely for the sake of placing AdSense ads. Visitors (and search engines) can see through this ruse in an instant.

10) Use custom Ad Channels for each of your ad placements, for example, "Top 5 Link Unit Blue Palette" or "Left Side Navigation Image Skyscraper" etc. Tweak, track and measure the success of each of these custom channels so you know what gives you the highest CTR. Some ad formats and colors will work better than others, but you won't know which until you test, test and test some more!


Article by Kalena Jordan, one of the first search engine optimization experts in Australia, who is well known and respected in the industry, particularly in the U.S. As well as running her own SEO business, Kalena manages Search Engine College, an online training institution offering instructor-led short courses and downloadable self-study courses in Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing subjects.

Years ago, when people were communicating by the medium of Plain Text, and today when people are communicating by the medium of Digital Text, think about how Plain Text is linking people when it takes the form of Digital Text.

Because,
Text is no longer just linking information,
Digital Text is no longer just linking information,
Digital Text is linking people,
Web is linking people,
Web 2.0 is linking people...

And if you don't want to think, here is the video, which will take you on the journey from Plain Text to Web 2.0,
which is viewed more than 30,00,000 times on the Internet.





Video is created by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.

Web 2.0 is not the destination! It gets more interesting all along our way into the future of Internet.

We always hear that Google has a sophisticated system to detect the invalid clicks, and result in termination of the cheaters' account.
But, how can Google do that?

In this post, I summarize those ways that Google depends on to detect whether the clicks on your site are invalid or not.
Google will not first ban your account immediately. Rather, they will first flag your account and Google will keep a closer eye to your account.
In some occasion, they may send you a warning letter to notify your situation; but sometimes not.

IP Address

It is the easist and must be recognized by everyone. If those clicks on your ads are originated from the same IP Address as the one used for accessing your AdSense account, your account is flagged.

Click Through Rate (CTR)

Normally, Click thru Rate should not excees 10%. Otherwise, Google will flag your account. For your information, normal CTR should ranges from 0.5% - 10%.

Physical Location

Google has good tracing software and technology.They can trace traffics origin down to the small town. So, using different computers with different IP address does not secure anything. So, don't try to click your ads in various internet cafes. That will kill you.

Cookies

Most home users do not use static IP Address for Internet connection. In most cases just disconnect and reconnect will give you a new IP Address. But don't forget, Google has set cookies on your computer. They can trace these cookies and see whether they originate from the same computer.

Click Pattern 1

It is also suspicious when people click on their clicks and then run away immediately (hit-and-run). But normally, people will surf for a while inside your pages and then click on the ads they want.

Click Pattern 2

why this computer / IP address / person is so trigger-click-happy on this particular website but never click on the ads on other sites?

Click Pattern 3

And why is it that people accessing these sites direct (type-in URL or from bookmark) tend to be very active ad-clickers compared with those referred from search engine or other sites?

Other Google Services

Apart from Google Adsense, Google also provide a series of services to us. Don't just think that it is safe if you do not log in your adsense account and click on your ads. What other Google services do they provide to us? Here are some: Gmail (most poeple are using it), Google Earth, Google Calendar, Google Search, Google Toolbar, Google Talk, Google Sitemap, Google Desktop, Blogger, or even Youtube (coz Google has just recently acquired it).

Search Engine Ranking

Your website is not indexed on any search engine, not linked by any prominent website, but get consistently high traffic? How come people can access your website and click your ads? That will make Google to smell a rat.

Webpage design

How about the "Please click a link below" or "donate us by clicking the ads"? These kinds of encouragement is not in line with Google's TOS. Google can use their winning search engine, or even human eyes to check your sites from time to time.

Advertisers conversion rate

Ad click is one thing. But does it bring value to the advertisers? If none of the clicks on your site translate to conversion to the advertiser, you are in trouble. First the Smart-Pricing hits, then your AdSense account disabled.


How to Cheat Google AdSense (and get your AdSense account disabled)

Face it. You come to this article probably thinking to find some ways to cheat Google, or to confirm whether some method you have on mind will work. Well, if you want to know how to cheat AdSense, here are the ways, focusing on the AdSense click-frauds. These covers from basic AdSense cheating techniques to the advanced class. But before you proceed, you might need to know why you shouldn’t cheat Google (answer: you will get caught).

Basic clicker cheat

This is a noob. This guy knows almost nothing about web technology or network architecture. He clicks on his ads every time he has chance. It can be a few clicks to hundreds of clicks daily. Most likely he doesn’t even read the AdSense Program Policies and Terms and Conditions.

Proxy clicker cheat

She knows a thing or two about cookies and IP address. Or she doesn’t know, but somehow guessed that if she use the things called anonymizer, Google will not be able to trace her, because her identity is hidden. She may use anonymizer / proxy websites or specialized anonymous software like tor (The Onion Router).

Multiple computer clicker cheat

He knows that somehow Google will detect if the clicks are originated from his own computer. So he will try to even out origin of the clicks. He will recruit his friends, family members, relatives, neighbors, his cats, and his dogs on single mission: to click on the ads. He will also click on the AdSense ads when he is using the library computers, or his office workstation.

Software clicker cheat

Graduate to the next step is buyers of clickbots / click-bots. These are specialized robot software to click on AdSense ads. It will browse around your websites, clicking on the ads every few minutes. The more advanced ones will cloak the IP address too, so the website seems to be very popular worldwide. To cover the track, this clickbots will browse around the advertisers sites too while continuing its “click quest”.

Paid-clickers cheat

If you don’t like automated things, there is always other option for you. Just pay $50 dollars a month to the professional AdSense clickers. These are groups of highly specialized Internet surfers with office in the dark rooms in street corners of India, Pakistan, and China, helping AdSense account owner to earn good amounts of money ? before the AdSense account is disabled, that is. They will browse around your websites, clicking on the ads every few minutes. Because they use human eyes, they know which ads worth more. And to be more convincing they can click a link or two, or sign up free offers / newsletters on the advertiser sites.

Click-rings cheat

Network is power. So says many business gurus. Instead of taking things to their own hand, this people realize that they can join hands with those with similar goals and distribute AdSense clicks among themselves, the so called AdSense click-rings. Joining this click-ring network means that your website address will be made known to members, who will regularly browse the website and click on your AdSense ads. In exchange, you will also browse other members’ sites and click on their AdSense ads. The medium used varies. Some click-ring groups use mail-list for communications. Some are using bulletin boards/forum, Yahoo groups, or Usenet. IRC is another popular way. Slightly more complicated is specialized AdSense exchange software for collecting members website address and displaying others’ websites for clicking.

Other medium cheat

I have tens of thousands email address on my newsletter subscriber list. If I include AdSense ads on my newsletters, with 5% CTR, I can get a thousand clicks per one email. Not bad. Or I can pay someone to write some useful/nice/funny/cute toolbars or firefox extensions or screensavers that people can download and use for free, and display my AdSense ads there.

Visitor cheat

Simply putting “Visit out sponsors” or “Check out the ads above” on your website is cheating. This might not be very clear-cut cheat to some. But Google AdSense program policies has stated clearly, the only text allowed are “Advertisements” or “Sponsored List”

Spam cheat

This is the highest level all click-frauds, the Maestro of Fraudsters. She spams millions of emails regularly, offering to “satisfy your inner needs if you can help me check on the links on my website”. Of course, email is not the only way. What IRC and instant messaging (IM) are for, after all. She will look for unsuspecting victims, offering something too-good-to-be-true “if only they will visit the website and click on the links”.

Click-through-rate cheat

Whichever method(s) above used, there is one limiting condition: the CTR(click-though-rate). Any CTR that exceeds certain percentage (probably around 10%) will raise red flag in Google AdSense back room. To lower the CTR, the professional cheaters will create some pages on the same domain that attracts very high traffic. Some interesting freebies will sure do the tricks. AdSense code is pasted there, thus creating a very high page impressions. Whether or not the the ads are clicked does not matter anyway, because they are targeting low paying keyword that does not have much competition. The fake clicks are, of course, on where the big money is, the low traffic pages stuffed with high-paying keywords.

I received an email with subject 'Urgent Opening for PHP Experts in Ahmedabad' on 2nd August.
I got lots of email with this kind of title also before, but mostly I neglected.
I always wanted a job in PHP Technology.
Lot of companies are here in my city, which can give me a job as a PHP Developer, but most of them are not kind of which I wanted.
Although there are 2-3 biggies with good reputation are here, they also are nice place to work, I was just planning for an interview for those companies after some days.
As I was kind of a five point someone guy, I was never allowed for campus interviews in college from IT Giants of India.
So It was the time I had to prove myself by doing some hard work, that I can show to others.

In between I got the email which I mentioned above.
It was from the Magnet Technologies, Mumbai.
They were going to open another dev. center in Ahmedabad.
The recruitment drive was organized for the Ahmedabad Center.
The day after I asked one of my friend having a job in a well known firm in Mumbai through Yahoo IM about the company.
He replied positively, also mentioned that its having very good reputation in Mumbai.
I thought I should appear for an interview.
After that I found the community of this company on Orkut, I asked 3-4 people about the company, all of them replied +vely.
But one guy mailed me to know his thoughts about Magnet:

Its a GR8 company for me and a dream company of mine in India. Its founder and current CEO is Mr. Nirav Mehta. He's genious. Check out http://www.mehtanirav.com/ his blog.
If you understand FREEDOM in software i.e. you like and support OSS and like ethical hacking. Then its BEST to go to Magnet, where you're not an employer, you're a Magneteer. You're innovations and hacks are always appreciated.
I suggest that if your purely dedicated to OSS. And one more thing you can check before deciding for going to Magnet.
How do you coin the word COMPUTER PROFESSIONAL? A] A well dressed person in formals with tight tie. B] a person in coolt-shirt with lots of brains.
If its A search another company if B, Magnet is best for you.

Although I do not have any aaukad to describe Magnet Tech. But still telling you. I'm sure you'll let me know what you decide.

After reading that, I decided. I must to go there and be selected in Magnet.
I have seen Nirav Mehta's interview before on CNBC TV18 in the program 'Young Turks'. He's a very intelligent man, he's Genius.

Interview was on the 5th August in Ahmedabad.
I reached there in the morning. I was the first person to reach there.
I came into the building. A guard guided me to the room, where the candidates should go.
I was just on the way to the room, passing outside of other rooms, suddenly a person called me from my backside and guided me for that room, I saw his face, he was none other than Nirav Mehta, I thought he might here for taking interviews or might be just for presentation.

I was just sitting in the room alone. After 1-2 minutes, other persons also arrived as the time passed. I also notice some aged persons having much experiences in PHP. Most of the people I think were for the post of Sr. PHP Developer.
I realized very less no. people were there like me having no Industrial Experience in PHP.
The fact is: Here in Ahmedabad most of the people are just mad for making career in .net ( sorry, The .Net ). But why?
Why they want be the monopolist in future? .Net having very good demand in IT Industry. But why all the people are running for it? Even just passed out freshers having big zero in technical knowledge choose .Net and never think about other Open Source Technologies. Ok fine, just leave this fact here.

Back to the main thiing, It was a 30 minutes written test of about 18-20 questions, all of them was from PHP, only one was related to CSS.
It was not an easy test, kind of I had thought, same paper was given to freshers as well as the experienced people. I attempted most of the questions, left 3-4 questions.
Just after completing the test, candidates were sitting in chairs nearby. I was just talking with other guys, suddenly Nirav Mehta came with phrase 'Who is Jignesh Patel ?'. He asked me to follow him for an Interview.
Nirav Mehta, the Chairman of Magnet was supposed to be my interviewer, I never expect this kind of situation to be happened. The first interview of the life with personality like him! Also it was a first interview for the candidates on that day, and god choose me for the first one.
I mean, I was just planning like asking to other people who might have completed their interviews before me like 'Hey kya pochha?, Kitni der lagaate hai?, only php hi puchhte hai?, database me se kya puchhte hai?'. But it was the god's selection for me to be appear the first for an interview.

Interview started, I explained about my self, also explained about my site. He wrote the URL of the website. I was thinking, he must watch my work in it, should not consider my five point someone aggregate.
He asked me few questions related to PHP as well as from database, but most of the question was on the concept you think.
One of them was "How will you make a clone of Google Search Engine ? not technically, but think conceptually", I explained the concept very well as I can.
Other question was "There are lots of PHP companies in ahmedabad, then why you choose Magnet over them?". I explained the reply from my friend as well as from that guy who mailed me about Magnet.
One silly question from database confused me also.
He also asked me about my area of interest in Web Technologies, I replied that "I'm interested in Rich Web Applications", also explained the general concept of the same. I knew that company is very good at that.

In the last, he allowed me to ask questions to company.
I said "I have no questions for company, but have a question for you", he allowed me.
I asked him, "I have seen your interview on TV, I noticed that you have done B.Com. means you have a non IT background, then what motivated you to came into the IT field ?"
He replied, "After meeting Bill Gates, at the age of 17, I decided to start my own firm".

All over, The Interview was good (not much good), from my point of view.
After that, I attended the presentation by Ashok Karania, I was impressed. I also like Mac, also have a dream of buying a Mac Book one day.

I came outside the building, there was a surprise for me, I met one my best friends, working on PHP in some other company, also came there for an interview. He was my project partner once in the academic projects.
I reached home at about 12:30 pm. It was a Sunday, I was in tension for that silly database question, but the day passed on.
On the Tuesday evening, I was doing taking the fresh air with my friends on the terrace of my apartment.
I got the call from my friend, (who had an interview in other well known company before a month, not yet got the confirmation from that) he said "mali gai", I said, "su mali gai?". He replied, "job mali gai", That means he got the job, just before calling me he had a call from the HR of his company. It was about 7:00 pm.
I congratulated him for that, was happy about him, but with tension about myself.

I reached home about 7:30 pm, opened my mail account at about 7:45 pm, and noticed, I got new email with subject 'Interview Status'. It was a confirmation that I selected for Magnet Technologies. The confirmation email was arrived on 6:46 pm, just before the call from my friend.

I called back to my friend and said, "mali gai".
It was the co-incident that I got the email from HR of Magnet at 6:46 pm, my friend got the call from HR of his company at 6:52 pm. The day was just so nice for both of us.
Now me and all of my friends have nice jobs, no more struggle, life is just perfect now-a-days for all of us.

So, it was the first job interview of my life, and I got selected in the firm, kind of I was looking for !

Thanks to timesjobs.com through which I got the call for an interview. It was the keyword 'php' which I have put in my profile at timesjobs.com, done all this.

Mac OS X, made by Apple, is one of the most technologically advanced operating systems out there, and easily the most visually pleasing.

The use of soft edges, translucent colors, and mild pinstripes helps bring color and texture to the desktop, and enjoyment to the user experience–something Windows is sorely lacking in.
This is the reason why so many Windows users desire to emulate OS X–in fact, there’s an entire community dedicated to this purpose, called the Aqua community.


FlyakiteOS X is basically a transformation pack. It will transform the look of an ordinary Windows XP system to resemble the look of Mac OS X. The installer simply automates the process of replacing critical system files, setting registry tweaks, and installing extras such as cursors, sounds, visual styles, etc.

To change your entire windows system with a single mouse click, download Flyakite OSX 2.0 now.

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In case you are not happy with the results of FlyakiteOSX, everything is completely removable. Just run the uninstaller from the Start Menu or from Add/Remove Programs.

Aside from containing all the previous mods from older versions as well as bug fixes, FlyakiteOSX v2.0 also comes with a Settings Utility, which allows the user to change several per-user settings, including theme, icon size, and startup programs.

INSTALLER FEATURES
- Universal. Works on all languages and OS versions XP+ (64 bit NOT supported!)
- Option to create System Restore Point
- Windows File Protection is completely bypassed
- Installation directories for programs like WinRAR are detected
- Custom MSN skin selection page including live skin previews
- Everything is completely uninstallable through the uninstaller

SYSTEM FILES
- Universal UXTheme Patcher
- DLL Files - 68
- EXE Files - 36
- CPL Files - 20
- 3rd Party CPL Files - 15
- Office 2003 Files - 7
- Outlook Express Files - 8

EXTRAS
- Boot Screen
- Logon Screen
- Flurry ScreenSaver © Matt Ginzton
- Wallpaper
- Cursors
- Iceman’s Sound Scheme

SKINS
- Panther Visual Style © KoL
- Tiger Visual Style © KoL
- Tiger WindowBlinds skin © KoL
- Mac OS X Tiger WindowBlinds skin © Steve Grenier
- AquaX MSN 6 Skin © JabInc
- MacMSN MSN 7 Skin © theunknown
- Brushed MSN 6 Skin © theunknown
- Panther MSN 6 Skin © theunknown
- Kamaized MSN 7 Skin © mariuz
- QCD Player 4.x
- WinRar 3.x
- PowerDVD 4/5/6 iVid Skin © aquagrl
- WinDVD 6 iDVD Skin © Danimator
- PicasaOSX Skin © LiquidBrain & iStatic

REGISTRY TWEAKS
- Simultaneous Downloads
- Show ‘My Computer’ first on desktop
- Remove Shortcut Arrows
- Hide Drive Letters
- Remove ‘Recent Documents’ from Places
- Sort Start Menu Alphabetically
- Hide Recycle Bin

In one corner we have Internet Explorer 7. After 18 months of development and a shiny new set of tabs, Its in top shape and looking better than its predecessor ever did. That is, before it entered the ring with Firefox 2.0. Now its just a cripple with fancy RSS reading.

Microsoft leaves no doubt what their products are. If they made toilet paper it would be called Butt Wiper. Internet Explorer isn't a bad name, but it's not spectacular.

This battle wasn't pretty. Firefox runs on more versions of Windows than IE 7 does. And it was all downhill from there.

Latest Version of Firefox can be downloaded from here.


Check out the graph.

Interface

The overall interface of IE has also been cleaned up and simplified.
Unlike IE 7, which has reorganized its toolbar, Firefox 2 changes only the look and feel of its buttons.

Tabbed Browsing

Perhaps the biggest change within IE 7, aside from the overall interface redesign, is tabbed browsing.
Firefox 2's tab updates are generally a step ahead of IE's. For example, you can configure Firefox to always save your last session for future use; with IE 7 you have to click a box every time.

RSS

However, you have no way to quickly preview the feed's contents without opening the feed's rendered page in IE, which somewhat defeats the purpose
Firefox 2 makes the raw [RSS] feed understandable, and offers a range of new subscription options.

Add-ons

Another area where IE7 has serious shortcomings is with add-ons that give extra features to the browser, most of the add-ons you'll find aren't free.
Thousands of Firefox addons are available.

Performance

IE 7 still uses essentially the IE 4 Web engine. So in terms of page performance.
Mozilla Firefox 2.0, which updated its Web engine with Firefox 1.5, remains the much faster browser.

Conclusion

The new Internet Explorer is a solid upgrade, but it's disappointing that after five years, the best Microsoft could do was to mostly catch up to smaller competitors.
Of the two rivals, Firefox remains the better application.

content provided from gizmodo.com

Other useful resources regarding Browser War:

Firefox vs. Internet Explorer

Firefox vs. IE in O'Reilly Network Logs


When it comes to using the world's most famous alternative browser Mozilla FireFox, You should consider more when you use it.

Here are some essential Firefox extensions

1. Extended Statusbar

A Statusbar with Speed, Percentage, Loaded size of the webpage ( like in Opera )

Adds an Opera-like statusbar to Firefox that shows:
-number of loaded images
-bytes downloaded
-average download speed
-load time
-percentage of the page loaded

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2. Image Show-Hide

By clicking on icon on the toolbar (Or "Shift+Z" shortcut) you can simply turn on|off images on all web-pages and (optional) autoreload current page!

Recommended,
If you want to reduce time in loading the page.
To save your bandwidth on your limited internet broadband connection.

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3. Undo Closed Tabs Button

Tired of going to History->Recently Closed Tabs just to undo a closed tab? Then this extension is for you! This extension allows you to undo closed tabs via a toolbar button, right-click context menu or even a shortcut (Alt+Z).

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4. Web Developer

Web Developer is very usefull extension, if you are a web developer. ItAdds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

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5. Flashblock

Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla, Firefox, and Netscape browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.

Flashblock currently blocks the following content types:
-Macromedia Flash
-Macromedia Shockwave
-Macromedia Authorware

Recommended,
To save your bandwidth on your limited internet broadband connection.

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6. CustomizeGoogle

CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam). All features are optional and easily configured.

View a short introduction movie at http://www.customizegoogle.com

It shows number of results as soon as you typing your search phrase in the search box in Google.
It matches your search phrase with other most searched phrases (or phrases with large no. of results) and shows those phrases under search box.

Recommended,
To get relavant search phrases instantly matched with your search phrase.

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7. DataFox

DataFox is a bandwidth usage monitor for BSNL , DataOne and MTNL TriBand.
It is a cross platform extension written for Firefox.
DataFox works by obtaining usage information directly from the BSNL / MTNL usage site, it does not monitor your network in any way, so usage details probably won't change until you logout of DataOne / TriBand and log back in again.

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8. Fast Video Download

Fast Video Download can save embedded video files from following video-hosting servers:

Angry Alien, Anime Episodes, Anime Forever, Bad Jojo, Blip.TV, Bo-Funk, Bolt, Break.com, Bubblare.dk, CollegeHumor.com, Current.TV, Daily Motion, Danerd.com, eVideo Share, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Libero.IT Video, HI5 (VideoEgg), My Space, MetaCafe, News.NTV.ru, PornoTube, Put File, Streetfire, Totally Crap, You Tube, V-Social and Vidiac.

Recommended,
When yoy watch videos in youtube, you always think about saving them on your computer, This extension can help you there.
It saves the video which is currently you are viewing.
It saves the video from the Firefox cache, will not download the video from the server again.

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9. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

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10. YSlow

Speed up your webpages with YSlow.
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you:

-Performance report card
-HTTP/HTML summary
-List of components in the page
-Tools including JSLint

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