How To Disable Google.com From Redirecting To Your Local Country Google Domain

You must have noticed that Google  redirects you to your country specific Google domain name even if you had typed Google.com.  i.e. google.com will redirect to google.co.in if you live in India. This results in displaying the country specific searches in the search result. So if you want to avoid this and use Google.com for your search query then just a simple url will do the trick.

 
The trick is to just type http://www.google.com/ncr instead of just typing http://www.google.com in the address bar, where ncr stands for “No Country Redirect”.

Next time you type Google.com it won’t get redirected to Google.co.in. If you need to go to Google.co.in then you can specifically type http://www.google.co.in in the address bar. Also if you need to reset it to original just delete all the cookies from your browser.

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Get email address @msn.com

Very few know that you can have email address @msn.com which can be accessed in same way as hotmail.com. If you are interested in getting one just click here & register yourself.

This is better than @hotmail.com as it is small and very easy to remember. To access your email @msn.com, just go to hotmail.com and enter your registered email and the password.

So what are you waiting for.. Grab your id before it is too late!!

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Cashing In On Michael Jackson’s Death

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, died on Thursday 26th June 2009. 

Jackson had been due to start a series of concerts in London on July 13. He had been rehearsing in the Los Angeles area for the past couple of  months. The shows for the 50 London concerts sold out within minutes of going on sale in March.

But now that he is no more, people are just trying to cash in on his death on the net.  What I mean is that while browsing through ebay for domain, I came across a user selling following domains.

 

 

www.MoonWalkToHeaven.org

www.MoonWalkToHeaven.net

www.MoonWalkToHeaven.mobi                          

www.MoonWalkToHeaven.us

www.MoonWalkToHeaven.info

with starting bid at USD 200,000 (Item number: 220442568161).

What a shame!! The user mentions “RIP MICHAEL JACKSON!!” at the end of advt. Will he be able to?

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Easy Disposable Email

Afraid that you might start getting junk mails by providing your email address at some site. Then YopMail is the site you should head for. All you need to do is provide some random name @ yopmail.com (e.g. sanzrao1000@yopmail.com)  while registering your email address at any site.  Then head to YopMail and just enter the same name that you provided in the email box.



No need to provide any password. Just click on “Check Inbox” box and you can find your mail there. Just remember to provide some unique name (with some numbers) so that it just doesn’t mix up with someone else’s mail box. Remember that anyone would be able to see your mails if they can guess your email name.

 

The site is great because you don’t have to register and don’t have to remember any unique URL. So next time some site asks for an email for some offer you know which address to provide.

You can also check your emails  through the RSS feed. Just click on “RSS” box on bottom right of your mail box to get the rss link. You can also directly add RSS feeds to netvibes, Google, Yahoo too.

Another good thing about this site is you also get an alias name to your email which adds to your privacy too. You won’t be able to check your mails using this alias name, it is just to keep your YopMail hidden. All the mails sent to your alias mail will be auto forwarded to your original YopMail email address.


 

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Free Optical Character Recognition Online Tool

 

Free-ocr is an online tool for OCR (optical character recognition). There are many other sites which provides this kind of service, but what makes this different is that this is free. This site currently supports PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG or TIFF formats to convert to text format.

You just need to provide the file and select the language of document to improve recognition of language specific letter variants & click on “Send File” button. Within seconds you will see the text in a box with the contents of the file uploaded.

The only restrictions are:

 

1) Images must not be larger than 2MB
2) No wider or higher than 5000 pixels
3) Limit of 10 image uploads per hour

The results are not 100% perfect, but proofreading your text is a lot faster & easier than to type the whole document.

Here is the image that I uploaded the result .. Not bad for a free service.

Source-Image
 

 

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Google Events & Holidays Logo

Google today changed its event logo to the findings and unveiling of the 47-million year old skeleton, which scientists claim may provide a missing link in human evolution. You must have noticed that Google always modifies its logo as per the events.

If you have missed previous Google Logo’s then you can visit http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html to find the logo’s.  The collections of logos listed here are not the complete list. If you want to find more logo’s which Google had displayed across all the countries then follow this step:

1) Go to Google Search
2) Search for “site:www.google.com/logos” without double quotes
3) The search result will show you all the links to the pages grouped either by events or month. Clicking on these links will not give you anything. The trick is in next step
4) Click on “Cached” link below each link. Eureka, you now have all the old Google Logo’s.

Please note you cannot use these logo’s for your sites. It is just for viewing only.

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Feedback & Survey

Everyone knows that Google Docs is a free online document, spreadsheet, presentation processor. But there is more to it than what meets the eye. You can also  use Google docs to create free online feedback and survey forms. With just few clicks you are ready to embed or email the feedback/survey forms to your user and collect the feedback/survey in a single place.

To begin with just visit Google docs & login using your Google  user id.
Click on New –> Form from the drop down Menu.
Add Form Name, description of the feedback/survey, Question & help if required.
Select Question type from the dropdowns available.
By default the second question is enabled it too, if you don’t require it, just move the mouse over the question and click on trash icon on the rightmost side of the screen.

Select a Theme by clicking on the “Theme” button on top.

 

That’s it your feedback/survey form is ready. Now you can either email this form or select “Embed” from “More actions” menu to get the code to be embedded in your site.

The feedback, survey filled by your user can be viewed through “See responses” tab.


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Add Visual Tags To Images On Your Site

Another useful widget I came across today known as Taggify.  Taggify is a web widget which allows bloggers and publishers enhance their sites by adding image tooltips linked to certain image's regions. You just have to move over the image and a inline popup will show additional image, description, link related can be displayed.

You can also use it to show the actual image of the thumbnail image. For an example on how this looks, just check the image below.

 

Move the mouse over my picture  & see the widget in action.

 

 

Installation is a 3 step process

- Customize widget’s appearance for your website
- Install widget HTML code on your website & add bookmark to your browser
- Add tooltips to your images using simple editor

You can find detailed instruction to install this widget at following link. Taggify widget compatible with most of the browsers.

The free version allows you maximum of 5000 page loads per month. If you need unlimited page loads then you need to purchase it for merely $22/year.

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Free Hosting And Domain For 1 Yr

Couple of months back we had posted about free apps invitation code from DreamhostApps. Now they have come up with another good offer. Go to Dreamhost and get a free domain and webhosting for 1 year for US Residents only.

The webhosting offer is with unlimited bandwidth and unlimited diskspace.  Choose a yearly plan in signup and choose a new domain name. Enter the required details as requested.

Now the important part. In the Promo enter code BARCAMPLA7, else you won’t be able to get this offer.

 

Just remember, this offer is only available for US Residents only.

As I am not from US, I have not verified this offer. But if you make use of this, please do comment here.

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Login To Multi Accounts Simultaneously In Same Site Using IE8

How many of you have multiple accounts for same site, say Yahoo or Orkut or some other email or networking site or forums, which you would like to browse simultaneously. One of the option available was to install different browsers and then log in into the same site using different ids. But with the new features of Internet Explorer 8 you can do this within IE8 itself.

To make use of this feature, instead of creating a new tab, select “New Session” from File menu. Thus each new session will have its own cookies which will allow you to browse same site with simultaneous multiple ids.

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