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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Free browser game that pays you real cash

Free browser game
First social game in which you can change virtual currency into real money. 
Setting up an account takes 2 minutes. 
You can be a company owner, politician or a military mastermind, fight for your country and dominate the world
There are over 20 kinds of companies from restaurants to banks and lotteries 
You can make money with your magazine regardless of the topics you approach 
You can buy and sell everything, including other players. 
Invite your friends and earn taxes for life from them 
It takes about one hour to manage your business. Its easy

Free browser game

Monday, April 25, 2011

Apple iPod touch 32 GB 4th Generation NEWEST MODEL


See friends while you talk to them with FaceTime. Shoot, edit, and share stunning HD video. Play games against friends, or unknown foes, with the new Game Center. And do it all on the Retina display–the highest-resolution screen on any mobile device. It makes graphics and text look even more amazing. The new iPod touch. It’s state-of-the-art fun.

Pioneering technology built into iPod touch is how you’re able to flick, tap, and pinch. It’s what makes a racing game feel so real. It’s why you’re able to see a friend crack up at your jokes from across the globe. And it’s the reason iPod touch 32 GB is the most incredible iPod you’ll ever own.
Looks can be amazing.
iPod touch has an all-new design that makes it the thinnest, lightest, most amazing iPod touch ever. Holding one is all the proof you need. With its curved design, iPod touch is now a mere 7.2 millimeters thin. Its engineered-glass front and stainless steel back feel sleek and smooth in your hand. Turn it on, and you’re instantly blown away by the brilliant Retina display. iPod touch is the perfect combination of stunning design and revolutionary technology–brilliant from the outside in.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Tatkal Waiting List ('CKWL')


What is Tatkal Waiting List ('CKWL') in Railway's?

CKWL means that it is a waiting list under TATKAL. The difference between normal waiting list and CKWL is that when the normal waiting list moves up it goes to RAC category whereas CKWL means when the waiting list moves up you can expect confirmed berth.Hence the difference
Tatkal reservations come out of a Tatkal Quota (code 'CK', with waiting list 'CKWL')
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Request Waiting List ('RQWL')


What is Request Waiting List ('RQWL') in Railway's?

In some cases if a ticket is to be booked from an intermediate station to another intermediate station, and is not covered by the general quota nor by the remote location quotas or pooled quota, the request for the ticket may go into a "Request Waiting List" ('RQWL'). A ticket on this list is usually confirmed only when there is a confirmed ticket for a passenger travelling from the originating station to that intermediate station, although in the case of some Rajdhani routes and other long-distance trains specific quotas may be earmarked for use by passengers on the RQWL, for some intermediate stations. Tickets for travel from an intermediate point to the terminating station are also handled in the same way if there is no Remote Location Quota defined for that intermediate point.

Running Line Waiting List ('RLWL')


What is Running Line Waiting List ('RLWL') in Railway's?

A "Running Line Waiting List" ('RLWL'), also known as Remote Location Waiting List or Road-Side Location Waiting List applies to the quotas of specific intermediate ticketing stations on a route, known as the Remote Location Quota. E.g., Solapur has a quota with a corresponding wait list on the Mumbai - Chennai mail). The intermediate stations are usually the more important towns or cities on the route. The RL quota takes care of passengers travelling from these intermediate stations up to or short of the terminating station. RL quota tickets are never available from the originating station of the route. When the RL quota is exhausted, RAC (Reservation against Cancellation) begins, and it is then followed by ticketing on the RL Waiting List; in some cases when the RL Quota is small, the RL Waiting List is active immediately. There can be more than one Remote Location Quota for some long distance trains, corresponding to different stations en route. Passengers in the Remote Location Quota Waiting List are cleared against the vacancies in the earmarked Pooled Quota only, or against General Quota vacancies available at the time of charting.

Pooled Quota Waiting List ('PQWL')


What is Pooled Quota Waiting List ('PQWL') in Railway's?

A "Pooled Quota Waiting List" ('PQWL') is shared by several small stations in a particular region. E.g., Tiruppur, Salem, etc., share in the quota and wait list for some trains originating from Trivandrum or Mangalore. As another example, the 2723 Andhra Pradesh Exp. has three quotas, for Secunderabad - New Delhi, Secunderabad - nagpur, and Secunderabad - Bhopal. There is also a pooled quota for passengers travelling from Secunderabad to stations beyond Bhopal but short of Jhansi. If this quota is exhausted, a passenger is placed in the pooled quota waiting list. Pooled Quotas normally operate only from the originating station of a route, and there is only one Pooled Quota for the entire run. The Pooled Quota is intended to be utilized by passengers travelling from the originating station to a station short of the terminating station, or from an intermediate station to the terminating station, or between two intermediate stations. Such remote location quotas are also provided when there is a very strong demand for the train in question, because of which, without such additional quotas, all seats or berths might be fully consumed by passengers from the originating station leaving nothing available for those wishing to travel from intermediate points. Vacant Pooled Quota berths are automatically tapped by the PRS for booking end-to-end passengers. Passengers in the Pooled Quota Waiting List are cleared against the vacancies in the earmarked Pooled Quota only, or against General Quota vacancies available at the time of charting.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Google is Now Shipping Chrome OS Notebooks Outside the U.S.

Google Chrome OS, not to be confused with the Google Chrome browser, is a new Linux based operating system from Google that is designed with work with applications that run on the cloud and not on your computer. This video will walk you through the advantages and other unique features of such an OS.


Google Chrome Pilot Program


In December last year, Google launched a massive pilot program shipping thousands of Cr-48 Chrome notebooks to early adopters, journalists, students and everyone else giving them an opportunity to experience how it is like to work on a computer that has no desktop software.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Turn your Windows laptop or Android Smartphone into a secure Wi-Fi hotspot

Connectify Your Personal Wi-Fi Hotspot

WI-FI HOTSPOT FOR WINDOWS


With Connectify you can share expensive airport Wi-Fi with co-workers, create a wireless hotspot in your ethernet-only hotel or dorm room, even extend the range of your home router. Download Connectify Today from CNET's Download.com!

Overview and Features

Connectify is an easy to use software router for laptops and smart phones. With Connectify, users can wirelessly share any Internet connection: a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network. Other Wi-Fi enabled devices can see and join your Connectify hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point and are kept safe and secure by password-protected WPA2 Encryption.
  • Take any Internet connection and share it wirelessly with no additional hardware, wires, plugs, or chargers
  • Easily connect any number of Wi-Fi enabled devices to your network including desktop computers, laptops, phones, gaming systems, and more
  • Don't break the bank paying for multiple Wi-Fi connections on the road, Connectify is ad-supported and free to download and use.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Get Free Registry Cleaner Ashampoo Full Version

Windows registry is one of the most important component of the OS and when you edit or change the registry you need to be careful and always taking a backup of registry is required. Ashampoo Registry Cleaner is a tool for cleaning up your registry of unwanted entries mainly of uninstalled software. With the Ashampoo Registry Cleaner you will easily and safely delete redundant or damaged registry entries. The product is priced at $14.95, but you can get a full free license of the tool.



Features;

  • Simple, intuitive user interface
  • Optimized search algorithms
  • Fully-automatic removal of redundant entries
  • Repair of faulty links and damaged entries
  • Search for registry entries that might invade the user’s privacy
  • Real-time backup

How to Get the Full Version:

1. Head over to the promo page and enter your email address.

2. Download the application from here.

3. You will receive an email from Ashampoo on how to get the full version license.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Download WinRAR with decompression rate up to 30% faster

Rarlabs has released the new version of its popular compression tool WinRAR 4.0. WinRAR is one of the popular file compression tool and it gives pretty good results with compression. The new version has better speed and depending on data type, decompression can be up to 30% faster than in previous versions. The general RAR algorithm and most of special RAR multimedia methods benefit from this improvement.



Another feature of the new version is that it brings a password manager that allows you to better handle the most used countersigns. So when you need a password for a regular compression job all you have to do is pick one from the stored list. When unpacking multiple archives you can now set WinRAR to use the same password for extracting them.

There are also changes regarding the way data is extracted as the latest version of the program features the possibility to extract relative paths instead of full ones.

Wanna find out full list of changes click here
WinRAR benefits
  • Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.
  • WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.
  • WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
  • When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it's all included.
  • WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special "Wizard" mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use.
  • WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.
  • WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.
  • WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives.
  • Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives.
  • WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack.
Download WinRAR and RAR 4.0


Software nameSize   
WinRAR x86 (32 bit) 4.001414 KB
WinRAR x64 (64 bit) 4.001537 KB
RAR 4.00 for Linux839 KB
RAR 4.00 for Linux x64873 KB
RAR 4.00 for FreeBSD832 KB
RAR 4.00 for Mac OS X643 KB
Localized WinRAR versions
LanguageSize   
Arabic (32 bit)1462 KB
Arabic (64 bit)1583 KB
Armenian (32 bit)1444 KB
Armenian (64 bit)1566 KB
Bulgarian (32 bit)1471 KB
Bulgarian (64 bit)1633 KB
Chinese Traditional (32 bit)1636 KB
Chinese Traditional (64 bit)1759 KB
Croatian (32 bit)1448 KB
Croatian (64 bit)1569 KB
Dutch (32 bit)1718 KB
Dutch (64 bit)2031 KB
English (32 bit)1414 KB
English (64 bit)1537 KB
Finnish (32 bit)1445 KB
Finnish (64 bit)1567 KB
French (32 bit)1486 KB
French (64 bit)1608 KB
German (32 bit)1494 KB
German (64 bit)1624 KB
Hebrew (32 bit)1439 KB
Hebrew (64 bit)1562 KB
Hungarian (32 bit)1447 KB
Hungarian (64 bit)1568 KB
Indonesian (32 bit)1457 KB
Indonesian (64 bit)1595 KB
Macedonian (32 bit)1439 KB
Macedonian (64 bit)1561 KB
Norwegian (32 bit)1444 KB
Norwegian (64 bit)1566 KB
Persian (32 bit)1442 KB
Persian (64 bit)1564 KB
Portuguese Brazilian (32 bit)2896 KB
Portuguese Brazilian (64 bit)3018 KB
Romanian (32 bit)1472 KB
Romanian (64 bit)1595 KB
Russian (32 bit)1534 KB
Russian (64 bit)1653 KB
Serbian Cyrillic (32 bit)1444 KB
Serbian Cyrillic (64 bit)1554 KB
Serbian Latin (32 bit)1460 KB
Serbian Latin (64 bit)1581 KB
Slovak (32 bit)1587 KB
Slovak (64 bit)1708 KB
Slovenian (32 bit)1442 KB
Slovenian (64 bit)1565 KB
Swedish (32 bit)1442 KB
Swedish (64 bit)1566 KB
Thai (32 bit)1449 KB
Thai (64 bit)1639 KB
Ukrainian (32 bit)1498 KB
Ukrainian (64 bit)1627 KB
Vietnamese (32 bit)1444 KB
Vietnamese (64 bit)1615 KB


Convert PDF to JPG, GIF, TIF, BMP, PNG

PDF is one of the most commonly used formats while sharing documents and although there are many free PDF viewers available, not all PCs will have a PDF reader installed. In such cases it is always good that you sent the files in JPG format as this format is read default by Windows using the image viewer.PDF To JPG is a nice freeware tool to convert PDF documents to image formats like JPG, TIF, BMP, PNG and GIF. The tool is easy to use and you can select the image format you want to convert to.



After selecting the format, select or add PDF files into the tool. You can either select files one by one or add a folder instead.



During the test, the conversions were really fast and multiple PDF files were converted within seconds. The app creates a folder for each of the PDF file and then stores the images in the folder. Users are able to customize DPI and Page Range in conversion setting. Also, PDF To JPG supports Batch Mode that converts hundreds of PDF documents into images at a time.

Download PDF to JPG

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Opera 11.10 Barracuda adds infinite Speed Dial



If you guessed the unnamed-but-very-popular feature Opera was planning to overhaul in Opera 11.10 was the Speed Dial, buy yourself a beer! The browser's trademark new tab page has indeed been retooled. In the latest Opera 11.10 snapshot build, there's no limit to the number of Speed Dial entires you can add. Gone are the blank placeholder boxes from previous Opera versions, replaced with only active Speed Dial entries and an add button.



Opera has temporarily disabled Speed Dial sync in this build, and there are a handful of other known issues listed on the official blog post.



As for this being the 'big secret' planned for the Opera 11.10 release -- Opera's Thomas Ford tells us 'That's not the only improvement we have lined up for Opera 11.10, though. Speed Dial is just the first to get an overhaul.'



Download Opera 11.10 build 2104 for Windows / Mac / Linux/FreeBSD

Monday, February 21, 2011

Lower your Amazon S3 Bill and also Improve Website Loading Time


This is a money-saving tip for web publishers who use Amazon S3 for hosting images and other static content like CSS, JavaScript files, etc.
Since Amazon S3 is a "pay as you use" storage service, your S3 bill is always directly proportional to the bandwidth that your sites consume.

How Browsers Interact with Amazon S3

When a visitor comes to your site the first time, the static images are downloaded from Amazon S3 servers and get saved inside his browser's cache.
Now if that same person visits your site again sometime in future, his browser will make another GET request to Amazon S3 asking for a fresh copy of the web images.
Since the images stored on Amazon S3 haven't changed since his last visit, Amazon servers will return a 304 Not Modified header response indicating that there's no need to download images again.
So far so good. That 304 response prevented the visitor's browser from downloading the same data again (thus saving you money) but there's another problem – Amazon S3 also charges you for every GET request so each time a browser asks Amazon if images have changed since last visit, that question itself adds to your bill even if the answer is "no".

How to Reduce Your Amazon S3 Bill

While the cost for GET requests is small (just 1¢ per 10,000 requests), they can quickly add-up if you have have a popular site or if your website design uses too many images. For instance, every page on http://atoz-networking.blogspot.com/ has about 25 static images served from S3.
To control this cost, you need a mechanism that will prevent browsers from sending the GET request if the file already exists in their cache. This can be easily done by setting appropriate Cache-Control and Expires headers at the time of uploading the files on to Amazon S3.
Cache-Control is like instructing the browser whether to make any requests to Amazon S3 or not before a given period. So if you set Cache-Control max-age=864000 for your S3 images, the web browsers will not request that file from S3 storage until the next 10 days (3600*24*10 sec).
Other than saving money, your site will also load relatively faster because the visitor's browser will reuse images, logos and other static files from the cache without making any new request to Amazon S3.
BitRhymes, developers of the popular Sketch Me app for MySpace, saw their Amazon S3 billdip by 40% after they implemented cached headers for images.

Implement Caching for Amazon S3 Files

To set the appropriate Cache-Control headers for files hosted on Amazon S3, you can either use the Bucket Explorer client (cost $50) or upload files manually via this PHP scriptwritten by Lalit Patel who is also the inspiration behind this article.
If you are worried about setting Cache headers for JavaScript and CSS files as they may change frequently (especially when you are in the midst of a site re-design), Lalit shares a very simple workaround – just append a version number after the file name like main.js?v=2&tag=labnol-20.
Before: <link href="http://files.labnol.org/main.css?v=2" ../>
After:  <link href="http://files.labnol.org/main.css?v=3" ../>
Change the version from 2 to 3 and visitors browser will make a fresh GET request to Amazon S3 for the latest version of the S3 file.

[Tutorial] Host Your Website on Amazon S3


Most web hosting companies charge you a fixed monthly fee and in return, they offer you a finite amount of storage space for hosting your web pages, images and other files.

It doesn’t really matter if you are hosting a simple website with 10 pages or a comprehensive product catalogue with thousands of pages – the amount you pay for hosting will be the same.

There’s also a limit on the amount of traffic (bandwidth quota) that your site can receive in a month. If you exceed that limit, the hosting provider is likely to suspend your site or you’ll be asked to upgrade to a different plan. On the other side, if your site receives only minimal traffic, you’ll still have to pay for the full bandwidth.

Amazon S3 vs Regular Web Hosting


Unlike web hosting companies, Amazon S3 follows a ‘pay for what you use’ model where you only have to pay for the exact amount of storage and bandwidth that your website is consuming in a month.

There’s another advantage - the Amazon S3 SLA guarantees a monthly uptime of at least 99.9% which, I doubt, is offered by any of the traditional web hosting companies.

And thanks to some recent enhancementshosting your website on Amazon S3 is almost as easy as uploading your files to an FTP server. The only limitation is that Amazon S3 can only be used for hosting HTML websites and not dynamic sites like WordPress blogs.

How to host websites with Amazon S3


Step 1: Assuming that you already an Amazon.com account, log in to your Amazon S3 console. You may also use desktop-based S3 clients but to keep things simple, we’ll use the web client in this tutorial.

Step 2: Create a bucket here and give it a name which is the same as your website. For instance, if you are planning to host your website mybeautifulfamily.com with Amazon, create an S3 bucket with same name.

Step 3: Select the new bucket and click the Upload button to upload all the web pages, images, CSS and other static files from your desktop to your Amazon S3 bucket. Click ‘Set Permissions,’ select ‘Make Everything Public’ and start the upload process.

Step 4: Now that your files have been uploaded, right-click the bucket name and choose Properties. Switch to the Websites tab, enable the websites feature and set your index.html file as the index document. Save the changes.

That’s it. Here's a recap of all the above steps in the form of a video screencast:










Map Amazon S3 to your own Web Domain

There’s one last step. Your website is now hosted on Amazon S3 but it has a confusing web address (akaEndpoint) which looks something like this:

mybeautifulfamily.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com

Since we want people to find our site at mybeautifulfamily.com and not through the above address, we need to map the Amazon bucket address to our sweet web domain.

That’s also simple – log in to your domain hosting service and create a new CNAME Record for your domain. Set the value of this CNAME record as the Endpoint provided by Amazon S3 and save your changes. The DNS changes might take a while to propagate across the web and once that happens, your new site can be accessed from anywhere.

The Cost of Hosting Websites with Amazon S3

According to some rough calculations, if you have a 20-page website that takes about 10 MB of storage space and your site gets 200 visitors per day, the monthly hosting bill with Amazon S3 should be around $5 per month.

Not exactly cheap but the site’s uptime will be close to 100% and it won’t crash even if you make it to the front page of CNN.com.

Also see: "How to Lower your Amazon S3 Bill"

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Merge and Split multiple PDF files


GIOS Merge and Split PDF application is an advanced Windows software which allows you to merge and split pdf or any scanned documents  ( Images ) without any limitation.  This is an open source software which works flawlessly without any high memory footprint.

Features :
  • Split / Merge multiple PDF files.
  • Supports creation of projects which can be used again and again,
  • No limitations.
  • Control on how many pages in a pdf file you need or just give the page numbers.
  • Supports Page range.
  • Preview the output.
  • Create PDF file from scanned document.
  • Command line version available.

Free tool for Split & Merge files

There are times when you want to split large file to smaller parts, so that you can easily send them across via email, or maybe you have two 1Gb flash drives and you want to carry a file of 1.5Gb. so, for such scenarios here is a free tool, named as FileDivider. FileDivider doesn’t only split a large file into fragments (you can decide size of fragments or you can simply choose on number of parts to be generated), also you can merge them back to get the original file.

The working of FileDivider can be explained in following steps -
Split a File

  • Launch the application, and browse for the file to be divided.
  • Choose the splitting mode, i.e. either decide to create parts of any specific size, or simply select the number of parts to be generated.
  • Select the output folder, and click on the ‘Divide’ button.
Merge Parts to get original file – 


  • Now if you want to merge them back, choose the ‘Merge’ mode, and browse the first part of the file.
  • Select the output folder and click on merge.
There are couples of other features of this program, like you can merge files even if they are on different locations, there is also a Disk Space Compensation (DSC) feature which allows you to divide files or merge fragments even if you have no disk space available.
FileDivider works great, and definitely is a must have tool for handling large files.
Download FileDivider
Here is another application which can Split and Merge files, GIOS works great to Merge and Split multiple PDF files.

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