Showing posts with label Tech-Tutorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tech-Tutorials. Show all posts

Friday, 24 February 2012

How to See When Someone Unfriends You on Facebook


Would you like to know when someone “unfriends” you on Facebook? There’s not a native way to see this information, and unless you keep a very close eye on your friend list, it’s likely when your friend count goes down, you aren’t sure who went missing.
We have found a simple script that works with Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer that notifies you when someone on Facebook unfriends you, alerts you when someone you’re friends with deactivates their profile, and helps keep track of your friend requests.
If you’re interested in adding this functionality to your Facebook account, then take a look through the gallery for more information. We’ve tried and tested it for Chrome and Firefox and recommend giving it a go.

So here is a link : http://www.unfriendfinder.com/download









Sunday, 16 October 2011

How to Enable Facebook Timeline On Your Profile

facebook timeline
Facebook has announced a number of new features at F8 conference in San Francisco. The most important new feature it has introduced is the ‘Facebook Timeline‘ which is basically a scrapbook of a user. The Facebook Timeline allows the user to check out everything that has ever happened in his/her entire Facebook lifespan.
Remember that this new feature is not yet public and is only available to developers. The feature will go live on September 29, 2011 on its own.
If curiosity is killing you and you are an impatient person then here are the few necessary steps that will allow you to enable this awesome new feature right now:
Step 1:
Log into your Facebook account and click on this developer link.
Step 2:
Allow if a pop up appears then create a new app (don’t worry at all it will not be visible to anyone) and give it any name you like and enter any namespace. Tick the check box and click continue.
fb timeline
Step 3:
A new window will appear. Look on the left hand side and click on “Open Graph” then click on “Get Started with Open Graph”. Fill in the tabs whatever you want then click on get started.

Step 4:
Next you will be redirected to some setting pages (shown below), do nothing except scrolling down and clicking on ”Save Changes and Next”.
fb timeline
Step 5:
Soon after the above mentioned step an invite to try Timeline would appear at the top of your homescreen (shown below):
fb timeline
Step 6:
Bravo you have enabled your Facebook Timeline. Edit it as the way you want it to be.
fb timeline
Enjoy!

How To Find Who Unfriended You on Facebook


You often log into Facebook and notice that you are missing a friend from your list and its really annoying when you had 1000 friends previously. One person can make you go into 3 figures from 4 figures. The most annoying part is you don’t even know who removed you from the friends list or unfriended you as its called on Facebook. Facebook has now introduced a feature by which you can see who unfriended you on Facebook. Yes, it is really possible now. Folks at buzzfeed have recently unveiled this technique.
Our simple tutorial will guide you how to find who unfriended you on Facebook. At this point we assume you are already using the Facebook Timeline Feature, if

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

RBI Vs. PayPal - A Few Million Indian Casualties


Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and PayPal has been up to arms for some time now- multiple times, multiple attempts, multiple regulations and the only casualties have been Indian freelancers and small Indian IT start ups that have been using PayPal for their payment processing.

I received the most recent PayPal email on this yesterday that says..
  1. Payments from PayPal needs to be withdrawn to bank account within 7 days

    This is most likely because if they hold money for more than 7 days RBI would want them to be treated like a bank(also pay interest) and they would come under RBI regulations. RBI doesn’t seem to understand the “online wallet” concept yet and PayPal don’t want to have RBI as the big boss either. So, the burden is now on users to move their money out within 7 days.
  2. Export related payments may not exceed $500/transaction

    We are still stuck with the FEMA rules that were framed pre-internet/ecommerce revolution and PayPal would need to report any transactions above $500 to RBI – which they want to avoid and so they have put the burden on their users.

Now let’s try to understand what this means for India as a country:
  1. The whole process of accepting payments from International clients becomes a lot more hazardous and restricted resulting in client’s getting irritated about working with Indian freelancers. Think if a client needs to pay you $600 – he will have to make two separate payments – isn’t it an additional hazard? Why would they take this trouble when they have other people to do the work? ( India isn’t the only country that is good for outsourcing )
  2. As a consequence of the above, some of the clients would move out – especially because they have tons of freelancers in countries like Philippines and Vietnam waiting to do similar work at an even lesser cost.
  3. At least a few millions Indians earn their bread as freelancers and some more employed with really small IT setups that are currently using PayPal. As this problem takes a toll on the number of clients who outsource work to India, many of these people would be effected – lose their clients, resulting in lesser income or going jobless ( as if we don’t have enough of them already )
  4. Lesser work coming to India with same number ( rather increasing) number of freelancers would mean a higher competition, resulting in even cheaper rates and lower quality of work offered by freelancers, earning Indian freelancers an even worse reputation.

And for those who are touting PayPal alternatives, I can say from firsthand experience, none of these alternatives have half the credibility that PayPal has and so most international clients would think ten times before using them.
While I am not even close to being called knowledgeable about banking regulations or economic reforms, after being in the industry for almost 9 years now and being working with International client for more than 5 years I have some understanding of how business works. Unfortunately I don’t see any positive impact of these regulations on the Indian freelancer community and the innumerous small businesses that are cumulatively earning at least a few million dollars every year for the country.

Isn’t it time we look back at our rule books that are way outdated and rather than putting more and more restrictions try doing things that help these people grow their business, earn more money for themselves ( I believe that adds to the country’s economy also).

Frustrated !!!!

Mobile Roaming Charges may soon become Free – Draft Telecom Policy 2011

mobile roaming Mobile Roaming Charges may soon become Free   Draft Telecom Policy 2011The new Draft Telecom Policy 2011, which is set to replace the existing Telecom Policy has number of amendments that should make Indian consumers happy and at the same may create more anguish for Telecom Operators – who are already reeling under tremendous margin pressure to keep themselves afloat.
One of the proposals in the new Draft Telecom Policy is to abolish the Roaming charges completely. This will be a very big positive for Indian consumers

Monday, 10 October 2011

A Collection of Steve Jobs' Quotes on Life - Dedicated to Steve Jobs -(1955-2011)

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."


Saturday, 8 October 2011

Tricks and Tips (SEO) to Get Top Ranking in Yahoo Search Engine

VRSV6VTS8256 Tricks and Tips (SEO) to Get Top Ranking in Yahoo Search Engine. Getting ranked with Yahoo, and that’s ranked highly, takes a considerable amount of time, effort, and strategy, but if you know the proper steps to achieving a high rank, you can expect to stay at the top of the widely popular google search engine for years to come.

While a little sites may be able to get

How to Distribute Keywords in a Blog Post for Better SEO

All of us who have been in blogosphere are aware of the importance of keywords when it comes to the search engine optimization of the post. If you are using the main keyword at a minimal level, chances of your blog/site being displayed on page 1 on Google for that keyword is tiny. Again, if you are using the keyword too many times, Google will consider it as spam and spamming is not tolerated here. You stand to lose your readers as the text becomes quite artificial and intended for search engines.



How to Accept Credit Cards on Your Website or Blog




Every day, hundreds of new entrepreneurs start up a website with hopes of one day quitting their day job or making some extra income. They have the idea; hopefully some web knowhow, and are ready to get their hands dirty. For many web-based businesses, notably ecommerce or subscription-based services, this also requires accepting credit cards over the web. For the uninitiated this can seem like a daunting task.
There are many places to start your search when looking for a suitable payment gateway, such as Authorize.net or Chase Paymentech. But with an industry as competitive as merchant services, there are a number of alternatives to the big guys.


How to Get Maximize Money from Ads on your Blog

Are you looking for methods to get maximize money from online ads on your blog or website? There are many articles doing the rounds on the internet at the present time that ask us to buy a certain product or subscribe to a service and make a lot of money from it. Well, these are all false talk as all these things do not work and you lose a lot of money on these products. It takes a lot of time, patience and sincere hard work to take your site at a level where it starts earning well.

I hope to have got your attention by now, so, I am going to tell you from some personal experiences how you can make your blog successful over a period of time and make good money from it. It is a totally false notion that you can make instant and quick money from your blog.

Monday, 3 October 2011

Internet Marketing – How to Make it Work


Friday, 23 September 2011

BackTrack 5R1 released


After months of working, finally BackTrack 5R1 is now released to public. According to the announcement, this version uses Linux Kernel 2.6.39.4 and it has gained 30 new tools on this release along with regular 120 bug fixes and 70 tool updates.
There are several flavours available for you to download: Gnome and KDE ISO images for 32 and 64 bit, as well as a VMWare image of a 32 bit Gnome install, with VMWare Tools pre-installed.
You can start downloading the ISO and VMWare image on their download page,  now Torrents are available even HTTP mirrors are available . I’m in the process of downloading the ISO file of it.

Window 8 Features New Blue Screen Of Death


Looks like the new Windows OS has new blue screen of death. Windows 8 Blue Screen of Death replaces crash details with a sad face.
It is still blue in color but does not have lots of text details which you could see in other windows OS.In the photo below you can see the blue screen with sad face depicted in text characters followed by a message telling you your PC couldn’t handle a problem.