Forwarding mail to mobile phone

November 1, 2009 by Karthikeyan

This method works for all types of networks(mobile service provider in India only) and all types of mobile phones.

Step 1: Goto www.way2sms.com and register your mobile number to create an account (Remember your password!)

step 2: After registering is over, goto mail tab in the page. Create an mail id in way2sms.com. Your mail id will be your@way2sms.com

step 3: Goto Gmail or Yahoo account tab in the page. Enter your gmail id or yahoo mail id and its password.
(Enable IMAP in your Gmail or Yahoo settings)
OR forward your all mails from your Gmail or yahoo to way2sms.com id that you have created(this is for the people who fear to give their password to other sites)

That’s all. Whenever there is a new mail in your Inbox, it will automatically send an sms with Subject of the mail to your mobile phone.
(This method works in INDIA only and COMPLETELY FREE )

Google Announced Chrome Operating System

July 12, 2009 by Karthikeyan

While the entertainment industry is still talking about Michael Jackson’s memorial, the tech world is rocked with the latest announcement made by Google:

“…today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.”

Google Chrome OS is aimed at people who spend most of their time on the web and will initially be targeted at netbooks. They said that it will be extremely lightweight and fast just like the Chrome web browser, and it will be very secure.

As expected, Google Chrome OS will utilize the Linux kernel with a new windowing system on top of it.

With Google’s plan to release Chrome OS as open source software, should we be happy or sad?

How about you our dear readers? Share with us your thoughts via comment. By the way, you can read the full release announcement HERE (googleblog)

4 Firefox tips

July 10, 2009 by Karthikeyan

1. Delete visited URL’s

When you drop down the box underneath the address bar, you can see your recent browsing history. But what if you want to remove one URL from that list? May be you’ve been looking at a naughty site and you don’t want your girfriend to know? Or may be you’ve been shopping for your loved one online and you want to keep it a secret? Just drop down the URL box, highlight the URL you want to zap then press the “delete” button on your keyboard. The URL will then be removed from the list.

2. Browse privately

Another solution for the above privacy is private browsing mode of firefox in which Firefox enters a temporary mode so that browsing information is not stored in your computer. To enter private browsing mode, press CTRL + SHIFT + P.

3.Navigate to browser tabs using the keyboard

Instead of using the mouse to click on a tab, why not use the keyboard instead? Pressing CTRL + TAB together will bounce you from tab to tab, starting from the one in the far left and working its way along. Or if you want to go to a specifc tab straight away, you can do that too. CTRL + 2 will take you directly to the second tab from the left. CTRL + 5 will take you to the fifth tab from the left.

4.Grab files off webpages, even protected webpages

Have you ever wanted a picture, file or video off a webpage but you can’t, because it’s been protected? Just right-click on the page, choose “View Page Info” then the “media” tab. Find the file you’re looking for from the list and click on “save”. (note : this doesn’t work for everything but It still works for most pages).

Download Free PDF eBooks at World eBook Fair

July 6, 2009 by Karthikeyan

The Fourth Annual World eBook Fair has started and you can download 2 million free PDF ebooks from July 4th to August 4th, 2009.

The goal of the World eBook Fair is to provide free access for a month to 2 Million eBooks from Project Gutenberg,The World Public Library, The Internet Archive, eBooks About Everything etc. Browse the huge book collections and find free ebooks to download.

During the rest of the year you can download  selection of  500,000 PDF eBooks by joining the World Public Library at an annual membership of $8.95 per year. So this is a good time to download ebooks for free.

World eBook Fair

Google updates some Apps functions

July 5, 2009 by Karthikeyan

Google has made a few updates to its various apps services including one that lets users within the organisation share templates with each other.

Google already had a template gallery for Google Docs where people can share templates such as presentation designs and spreadsheets. But now Premier and Education edition users can share templates privately only with other people in the domain. Co-workers can sort, use and rate the templates.

 Apps Gmail users have also gotten an improvement to the Contacts list search function. Now, when Apps users search in Contacts in Gmail, they’ll also receive results from their company’s entire global address list, in addition to people that they’ve added to the list and people they’ve previously e-mailed.

Google also released a user profile API (application programming interface) that lets administrators retrieve and update profile information for all users on the company domain. The tool is aimed at helping administrators maintain a detailed global address list in Google Apps. The API is only available to Google Apps Premier Edition users. 

Other updates to Gmail for business users include new ways to organise labels, which users place on messages to tag them. Users can now hide the labels that are not used frequently to “more ” link. They can do that that by just dragging and dropping to “more” link. Users can now drag the messages into labels and labels onto messages inorder to tag them. Label updates are available to all Gmail users.

Google updates Gmail labels. ( Drag and Drop )

July 5, 2009 by Karthikeyan

Now you can organise your messages in Gmail on fly. Google has updated Gmail to organise labels, which users place on messages to tag them.
Users can now hide the labels that are not used frequently to “more ” link rather than in the main list. They can do that that by just dragging and dropping the labels to “more” link. Users can now drag the messages into labels and labels onto messages inorder to tag them.

Sun Microsystems Unveils VirtualBox 3.0 With Powerful New Server Virtualization Features

July 4, 2009 by Karthikeyan

Sun microsystems .Inc has announced the new version of VirtualBox, its high performance and cross-platform visualisation software. VirtualBox 3.0 is capable of running multi-processor virtual machines that can handle heavy weight server-class workloads and deliver enhanced graphics support on desktop-class workloads.
VirtualBox 3.0 is FREE to download and use.
Download link
you can run as many as 32 virtual CPUs.

FotoGrafix – a portable photoshop equivalent software

June 26, 2009 by Karthikeyan

There are many photo editing softwares such as Photoshop, Gimp etc. But they are very large in sizes and have too many facilities that we do not frequently use.
Here is a 365 kb software FotoGrafix which has the frequently needed options of other image editing softwares. It is free. You can apply layers, brush strokes etc. You can even process many images at the same time and it also provides command line support.
Download link
FOTOGRAFIX

How to create bootable pendrive linux ?

June 20, 2009 by Karthikeyan

A Bootable Pendrive (Live USB drive) can be created using an opensource utility called UNetbootin . It is just 3.8 MB utility available for both windows and Linux.

Unetbootin screenshot

Unetbootin screenshot

UNetbootin provides a GUI to create Live USB drives from ISO files.To create a Live USB using UNetbootin, download an ISO file(of Linux Live CD), select it under UNetbootin’s “diskimage” option, and specify your target USB disk under “Drive:”.After pressing OK, wait as the ISO is extracted to your USB drive; once done, you will have a bootable Linux USB drive.Restart your computer and select boot device as USB device.
If you don’t have the ISO files instead of “Diskimage” option select the distribution and version from the first option. This will directly download the ISO files from internet.

Requirements
512 MB or larger one depending on the size of the ISO file formatted  as FAT32.
Some older BIOS software does not support USB boot device. Update your BIOS software.

Downloads
Home Page   [http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net]
Download Windows version
Download Linux version

More information is available at www.pendrivelinux.com

Anti spyware – spy the spy

June 14, 2009 by Karthikeyan

This software warns you whenever the files in certain important folders (system32, windows, etc) are modified. It has many other features too.
Download 500kb only

http://www.mediachance.com/files/sts_setup.exe