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I Just figured it out!!!

Although it was launched 2 months back but I always thought it is based on invitation basis and only for selected silicon valley’s Geeks, but today I figured out that everybody can use it, the only catch is that for the time being it is bundled with Google product only (Google Chrome/Feedburner/Google Toolbar)

I don’t use Google toolbar as it is only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox. So for me best way to use Google URL Shortener is to use it with Chrome.

For that you need Google Chrome and Chrome Extensions, Once you install Chrome extension for Google URL Shortener, you can create Goo.gl short URLs with a simple click.

[Update : 20.02.2010] : Use Google’s URL Shortener in any Browser

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One of my Facebook friend sent me a link of most amazing video I’ve ever seen, which I wanted to share with my other non facebook user friends, now the problem with facebook videos is that you can not share it with non facebook users. So I tried to find video in youtube with same title but tough luck.

Later I decided to download it from facebook and upload it on youtube.
In the course i found a very good site (downfacebook) with the help of that I can download videos from facebook.

• All you need to do is to copy the link of Facebook Video from address bar.
• Paste that link on space provided at downfacebook.com and then click download video.
• At right side you’ll find - Right-click this link and select “Save as…”
• Now you can upload it on youtube and share with your friends.
• Enjoy

Paste video link/url.

Last night my friend called me and asked how to delete a Gmail Account, I said why you needed to delete an account if somebody is bothering you then just block him or redirect his mails to trash, but she said Nooo…. I want to delete my account So I said fine here it is how to delete a Gmail account -

Six Steps to Delete Gmail Account -

1. Login to your Gmail account which want to deactivate
2. Goto Settings (at the top right bar)
3. then click Accounts and Import
4. at the bottom click Google Account settings
5. click edit at My products
6. Then click Remove Gmail permanently

Your Gmail account will be closed in 2 business days

Similaryly you can choose to deactivate following services

• Remove Gmail permanently
• Remove Browser Sync permanently
• Remove Google Translator Toolkit permanently
• Remove Web History permanently
• Remove orkut permanently
• Remove Google Book Search permanently
• Remove Google Video permanently

If you want to delete your Google account then click

Close account and delete all services and info associated with it

Note: If you are logged in your Google account then please do not click any of link above or else you’ll deactivate any of your services.

Today my friend asked me

“ how to delete FB acount permanenetly?”

I said “goto settings-account settings- Deactivate Account”

then she said “that only does the de-activation, becomes active when again clicked… wanna remove permanenetly”

Then I find following link to delete your Facebook account permanently

Go to this page:

http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account

Click “Submit” and follow the instructions.

Your account will be deactivated for two weeks, and if you don’t log in during that period, your account is permanently deleted.

This method is official and should be complete, i.e. no need to delete individual photos, comments, messages or items from your profile or anywhere else on Facebook!
Source: How to permanently delete your facebook account.

ENJOY

Today I was trying to capture screen shots of whole Webpage……

I knew that it can be done but not sure how

so i tired to find out

I find out following two good  method to capture screenshots of whole long webpage

1) For firefox – there is a addon

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8290

once u install it, u need to right click on page to take shots of whole screen or you can also select specific portion of any webpage. but one problem quality aint that good.

2) Another one  for all browsers, kind of small application software 1 MB size

website screenshots

quality is too good, only problem is that u can screenshots of public URLs only like I can not take screen shots of my private Facebook homepage.

I was googling about ways to publish RSS feed into my blog, I was trying to accumulate snippets of all my favorite blogs in a single blog page to read them instead of any external feed readers.

I got following tricks  which is yet to be fully experimented by me -

1. 5 Free Tools to Publish RSS to HTML
2. Publish RSS feeds on your WordPress site without plugins
3. Publishing External RSS Headlines to Your Wordpress Site
4. Import RSS feeds into your WordPress blog

Some useful plugins that will publish your RSS feeds into your blog pages

1. Publish RSS Feeds On A WordPress Page
2. Easy Blog Networking for WordPress Blogs

Today Ive created my Facebook username www.facebook.com/rajesh.rana, at first I intended to make rajeshrana, but it was showing unavailable later I found that facebook does not read “.” (dots).

like if you open http://www.facebook.com/raj.esh.ra.na then you’ll be lead to same page of my above profile

first I felt there is some bug cause I’ve got two user names for similar profile but later I found that facebook just can’t read dots in between the usernames.

So once you select an username for yourself you’ll automatically end up with two or more usernames apparently distinguish by dots.

Yesterday I installed Ubuntu Linux OS, everything went smooth, it hardly takes few minutes to install Ubuntu. Later I installed Wine to run Windows apps (Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix). First I tried to run UltraSurf cause without it I can’t even able to breathe coz our network pipeline is so much choked with firewalls and censorship I can’t even check my mails on Gmail.

So here is easy steps to run Ultrasurf in Ubuntu and Mac

Ultrasurf for Ubuntu Linux OS

1. Install Wine

http://www.winehq.org/

2. Download the necessary dll files
mfc42.dll
msvcp60.dll

Note: you can easily find them by Googling but when I downloaded from a site and used them it showed following error:

“The ordinal 6880 could not be located in the dynamic link library MFC42.DLL”

so my suggestions is to copy them from your windows operating system from file location ->C://windows/System

3. Copy the two dll files to
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system
~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32

Note: if you go to file system and type ~/.wine at location bar then your hidden wine folder will get open then you can find above folders for pasting your necessary dll files.

4. Now run latest Ultrasurf and make sure settings like following screen shots.

Note: Goto options-enable Do not use IE option, set your networks proxy setting and then exit

5. Goto system-preferences-Network Proxy, Change your system proxy address to 127.0.0.1 and port to 9666

6. Now run Ultrasurf once again and enjoy the freedom

Note: while running Ultrasurf in Ubuntu it takes sometime cause it process through wine, just have little patience if it ain’t run.

Ultrasurf for Mac OSx

Just install the wine for Mac version and follow the above steps.

Good news Ultrasurf is much faster in Ubuntu than windows.

Here you can download latest version of ultrasurf

Download : UltraSurf-9.92.zip (5337)

Related Posts:

• Ultra Surf – World’s best proxy Surfing technology
• 7 best tools to circumvent internet censorship
• Ultra Surf  - whether a Virus or Trojan software?
• Ultra Surf – Frequently Ask Questions

This is great:

“RT” or “retweeting” is simply taking a twitter post from someone else and forwarding (rebroadcasting) it to your followers. Here are a few common ways to retweet a message (all do the same thing):

RT @originalsender: original message
retweet @originalsender: original message
retweeting @originalsender: original message

Retweeting can be a great way to add followers, as it pushes your @username into foreign social graphs, which in turn results in clicks back to your profile. Make sure to track your retweets using retweetist.

RT @kevinrose: Retweeting (RT) explained: http://tinyurl.com/whatisrt

God! this happened second time with me first time when this happend I simply ran virus scan and it got fixed but this time it ain’t so I decided to write about it.

it’s like two edge knife at one edge it helps to protect your files and at other edge some michivious virus disable your “Show Hidden Files and Folders” options which you can’t able to enable no matter what you do and your protected files  remain protected even from yourself. 

Here is simple three solutions

1st Back Up Your Registry before editing, just in case….

Solution 1   - 

Click Start => Run type in Regedit press OK.

Click:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER
• Software
• Microsoft
• Windows
• CurrentVersion
• Explorer
• Advanced
• Hidden

In the right hand area, double click hidden and change the value to 1.

Exit Regedit

Now try changing Show hidden files and folders in Tools => Options.

Solution 2

Click Start => Run type in Regedit press OK.

Click:

• HKey_Local_Machine
• Software
• Microsoft
• Windows
• CurrentVersion
• Explorer
• Advanced
• Folder
• Hidden
• SHOWALL

Now right click on CheckedValue and click Delete.

Right click and hover over New then select Dword Value call it CheckedValue.

Right click on CheckedValue and choose Modify, under ‘Value Data’ type in 1.

Exit Regedit

Restart your computer.

Now try changing Show hidden files and folders in Tools => Options.

Solution 3

If nothing works then download Smart Virus Remover by Technize from here:

  Smart Virus Remover 

it’ll restore your Windows settings and your show hidden files and folders will be set to default.