Archive for April 2009

Yahoo Answers like site - Amazon AskVille

If you are looking for Yahoo Answers like website where you can ask questions and there is a big community involved, you can look at Amazon AskVille

Unlike like yahoo answers which is huge with millions of questions and answers, askville is not that big but still has strong community and I have really good answers made by users, thanks to incentives and reward systems. Also the maturity level of users of Amazon AskVille is probably more then that of yahoo answers as well as the ways of answering question, many of them in depth and details with little usage of internet lingo.

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AWSurveys Spam on the Internet

In case you are not aware AWSurvey is a scam company with many dissatisfied customers which are never paid. In case you are not aware of the modus operandi of it, they pay you money to Complete Surveys, say about $2 to $5 and pays $1.25 for every referral. Now the trick is, initially you will get 5-6 surveys to fill but after that you won’t get anything and the minimum payout is $75 so you have to get about 40 referrals to get the money which leads to AWSurvey Spam on the net.

Internet forums and blogs are full with such comments as below (I have removed the affiliate link) where people are given incentives to register to AWSurvey. This blog itself gets like 20 such comments monthly. Continue Reading “AWSurveys Spam on the Internet” »

Use Gmail Faster with Shortcut Keys

Do you know you can operate the entire GMail without a single click of mouse? Yes, GMail provides unique SHIFT based shortcut keys to let you access everything lightening fast. In the previous article, I had talked about how you can use Google Search effectively, now in this post I will be talking about how you can use gmail faster, better and effectively with these shortcut keys.

But before going to tell you about all shortcut keys in details, first of all you need to activate shortcut key option simply just by going to the setting section of GMail. Under setting option, just click the radio button “Keyboard Shortcuts On”. Continue Reading “Use Gmail Faster with Shortcut Keys” »

AWSurveys is a Scam and Fraud

AWSurveys.com is a website which supposedly pays money to fill surveys. Now the problem is, if you go through its reviews on various forums and blogs and on google’s first page, you will find its very much a ponzi pyramid scheme which is built on current members find new members.

Here is How AWSurveys works -

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Rapidshare sharing File Uploader Information

Torrentfreak is reporting that Rapidshare has shared the information of a file uploader to the german authorities which are not good signs for the coming days.

Someone in Germany had uploaded latest Metallica album Death Magnetic on Rapidshare and later on his house got raided and police arrested him. Now today it has come to know that it was rapidshare which handled the info of the person to german police.

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Best 16 Not so Popular Plugins for Wordpress

In the past 1 month, I have covered over 40 wordpress plugin reviews along with lot of tips and tricks on how to make wordpress even better. Now most of the plugins which I had selected were not very common (and that is why I had chosen them so others can also know about them). So out of those, here is a list of 16 Not so Popular Plugins for wordpress which you should look at and install them to make your blog better, more functional and feature rich.

1. Create PDA, iPhone version of your Blog

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Rename Files in Bulk Without Any Software

Sometime, we get bulk of files say, images, text files or any other files, and need to rename those accordingly and by serial. Yes, with 3rd party software we can achieve this, but why to use those when we can do it simply in Windows? Yes, you can do this without installing any additional software and just by 2/3 clicks it can be done. Follow the steps mention bellow and you are done …

[1] First of all collect all files in a single folder

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Best Free Image Editing Software

IrfanView is full featured and very light weight image viewing and casual editing software. This tiny freeware supports a huge list of file formats, which is highest, compared to any other related tools. Not only that, IrfanView can even opens text files and lets you to save it as image. You can acquire images directly from scanner.

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Knowledge Miner 6: AI Tool for Collate Your Data

Believe it or not but we all at most times need to derive something or the other out of a given data in our day to day work or studies. Some people think that this is a very complex procedure and as a matter of fact this is very true. It is a very complex procedure which our minds usually develop without our realizing it.

Sometimes we need to arrange our data in a manner to give us results but due to its complexity or large number of fields it becomes very difficult for us to derive anything useful out of it. This is where artificial intelligence or commonly known AI comes into play.Large companies and research centers mainly depend on such tools which help them in understanding interactions and dependencies of each variable while pin pointing the most important variables and the less relevant in the data.

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Changing PC Upgradation Trends

Not very long ago people preferred to get desk top PCs for the sake of up gradation. They would keep changing components as the technology advanced. Slimmer casings were not very popular for the reason that they did not offer much space for installing additional components like a TV card or a graphic card for enhancing gaming capabilities. In a matter of five to seven years the technology would change to a point where a complete replacement would be warranted to stay up to date with the trends and technology.

Today the concept of upgrading a PC has changed comparatively from the past. Now what we see is a constant need for increasing speed and space, which is upgrading your RAM and hard drive. For other components and ad-on features nobody removes the cover anymore as most of them are now external which has a constant cry for more and more USB ports to plug in the devices.

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