Archive for April, 2008
Most of us click through Google to search for stuff we need. What about search for audio files and musical loops? Yes, Google can for sure dig them out. But, are there any specialized alternatives?
Yes, there are few online web services which specialize in searching the web for audio sounds and loops. You can search web using these services and download the sounds bites you need. Here are five web services that should help in your endeavour to search sounds.
1. SoundSnap -It allows you to find and share free sound effects and loops, legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users and not songs or sound FX found on commercial (more…)
Comments (0) Posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008
Usually to share links we tend to use a URL shortening service. There are many URL shortening - snipping services and here comes another one Zombie URL. Hang on, it not just another URL shortening service.

ZombieURL - The URL shortener for the un-dead, pack loads of Zombies ready to scare you out. As the URL you share using ZombieURL loads up, so does scary Zombies, sounds, worms and much more.
Here is how one Zombie appeared on Techno Life. (more…)
Comments (0) Posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008
Internet is getting crowded with newer websites, more videos, more files, more photos and lots more being added and transmitted every single second.
As per U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T - without investment, the Internet’s current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.
Now this should be a concern since year 2010 isn’t far. Here are interesting quotes of Jim Cicconi, VP legislative affairs AT&T speaking at Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 “…In three years’ time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today”
“…Eight hours of video is loaded onto YouTube (more…)
Comments (0) Posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008
Filed under Google, Tips, Tools
FreeMyFeed can free up any RSS feed from the clutches of a password. Usually password protected RSS feeds are not support in number of web based RSS readers like Google Reader. This site acts as a proxy between the original feed and your feed reader, while promising your credentials to be safe.

With this service you can also access unread gmail messages without any password. Just enter your gmail username (more…)
Comments (0) Posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008
Filed under Tips, Windows XP
Majority of us still use Windows XP (Why? - you would know that). Many us still drive mouse pointer crazy to do simple task in Windows XP (Why? - this is only way we know, probably). Here is the list of 10 Windows XP Keyboard shortcuts you may not know:

- CTRL + Shift while dragging the item - Creates it shortcut.
- CTRL while dragging - copies the selected item.
- ALT + Enter - Displays properties window of the selected file.
- SHFT+F10 - Displays the shortcut (more…)
Comments (1) Posted on Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Just published an article ‘MySpace Try to Find Space in India with…’ and lovely Google indexed it in just 2 minutes - now that’s cool. It seems Google is working overtime to index your content as quickly as possible.

No wonder, Google is planning to track stuff in forms and more. There were days when Google bot will take days to index content on a website. Now, it seems Google bot lives permanently on my blog (more…)
Comments (3) Posted on Friday, April 18th, 2008