Infotix -- A Technology notepad

Now you can add comments in your friend's photo album like in Facebook or LinkedIn.

If you are fed up with the error reporting messages every time any program crashes then here are the few steps that will deactivate this error reporting service completely from your system. See snapshots of the process below.

FlashPhone launches a free service that enables to make international/local calls directly from the Internet on your computer.
This service is currently in Beta stage therefore it can be accessed to limited number of countries(Complete list).

To make these calls you need only Adobe flash player(Ver.9 or above) and a headset.
To begin you must register with the site, filling out some general information. Then you are ready to go and can make your free international calls. When you want to make a call you are directed to a screen with which looks like a calling pad with all of the numbers two bottoms with images of phones, green to call red to hang up. From there you make your call remembering all of the country codes.

Temporarily, the call duration is limited to 3 minutes and 3 calls per day which can be easily extended by opening more accounts.Though this can't be used in Apple Iphone as it doesn't support Adobe Flash Player yet.Anyways, it's still a very cool and useful application that must be looked on.

It's possible to send email to anyone from anyone's mail id without hacking it's password.Technically,this is called as email spoofing.If you carefully notice your spam box I am sure you will get around 2-3 messages having id stevejobs@apple.com or gates@microsoft.com.At the end of this post you will find a widget from where you can send these types of spam mails.

According to Wikepedia Email Spoofing can be defined as " A term used to describe fraudulent email activity in which the sender address and other parts of the email header are altered to appear as though the email originated from a different source. E-mail spoofing is a technique commonly used for spam e-mail and phishing to hide the origin of an e-mail message."

These types of Spam messages are still can't be filtered out by using GMail filters. Therefore I am still searching to find out there filtering method.While googling about this topic I stumbled upon Funmaza.com which have a software that can send these spam messages.Just try their software to send spam mails.

According to Wikipedia , world wide web (www) is now 17 years old.

The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of web standards (such as the markup languages in which web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web.In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal, which referenced ENQUIRE and described a more elaborate information management system. With help from Robert Cailliau, he published a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web on November 12, 1990.

Good news for Paypal's Indian users, now you can withdraw funds directly to Indian bank account.
Earlier there was option of withdrawing to credit card or issuing a cheque which takes quite a lot of time.Moreover, there is quite possibility of postal delays.But now money can be transfered directly into the bank account.If you are unverified member then there is monthly limit of $500 and maximum limit of $3000 for withdrawing and for the time sake this is possible in few major banks.

The list of Participating Banks :

1. State Bank of India
2. Bank of India
3. Canara Bank
4. Union Bank of India
5. HDFC Bank
6. ICICI Bank
7. ING VYSYA Bank
8. UTI Bank
9. Standard Chartered Bank
10. HSBC
11. Citibank

Process of Adding a Bank Account in India to your PayPal Account:

1. Select ‘Add/Edit Bank Accounts’ from the ‘Profile’ Tab.

2. Select the Bank name and then fill in the details of your account. Then click ‘Continue’

3. Next the confirmation page will be shown. Review the details and click ‘Add Bank Account’.

In between you have to type 11 digit IFSCode of your bank branch which can be easily found in Excel spreadsheets provided by RBI or ICICI bank.




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Blogger.com added a new comment follow feature which enables mailing of all the follow-up comment if you subscribe to it. Though this was already introduced in Wordpress.com long time back but Blogspot has introduced it few days ago.

IE7 released by Microsoft doesn’t require Windows Genuine Advantage validation. According to Microsoft, Internet Explorer 7 is the most secure version of Internet Explorer to date and now it’s easier to install.The latest version can be downloaded here.Some of the features IE7 has are

• Tabbed browsing
• Instant Search box
• RSS feeds
• Quick Tabs
• Tab Groups
• Streamlined interface
• Advanced printing
• Instant Search box
• Favorites Center
• Page Zoom

Finally, Snapfish which happens to be HP’s web photo service has been launched in India. Snapfish has around 40 million members in 15 countries.Snapfish offers affordable, professionally developed digital camera photo prints, free online sharing and unlimited photo storage, as well as free photo editing utilities.Prices for the prints starts as low as 2.95rs for a 4×6 print.

Rush to www.snapfish.co.in and get your free 20 prints on registrations.

A GPS vehicle tracker is a piece of equipment that is installed in an automobile. Many times, a GPS vehicle tracker is installed on the dashboard of a car or truck, but sometimes one can be hidden. Once a GPS vehicle tracker has been activated, that tracker can track the whereabouts of the vehicle in question. To do this however, you must do business with a GPS tracking company, which will enable the installed GPS vehicle tracker to be activated. Many GPS tracking companies keep records of all GPS vehicle trackers for some time, like at least a few months.

If you would like to have a GPS vehicle tracker installed in your vehicle, you will need to find a GPS tracking company to do business with. If you have yet to purchase your GPS vehicle tracker, it may be a good idea to find a company first, as many GPS tracking companies have a preference as to which type of GPS vehicle trackers are used. Once you have found a GPS tracking company to do business with and purchased the necessary equipment, you should be good to go; the whereabouts of your personal vehicles or work vehicles can be tracked.

I would recommend that you visit GpsInSight.com. GpsInSight.com is one of the outstanding companies that provide various types of GPS services. Their most prominent product is called GPS Insight vehicle tracking system, it has been selling like hot cakes ever since it was introduced. This tracking system has the features that will give you the exact real time location and calculates the total mileage of your vehicle. This will help to manage the financial side of your business efficiently. If you have a lot of vehicles driving around in your business, you will be able to track your fleet in just days. You also can choose between AT&T and T-Mobile to provide you with highly accurate vehicle locations every 2 minutes throughout the US and Canada. So far the target customers of GpsInSight.com are service and trucking companies, e.g. HVAC, roofing, plumbing, construction, sales forces, delivery vehicles, long haul trucking, and many more.
What makes GPS Insight vehicle tracking system on top over other companies is because of the following reasons: they provide a 30 day money back guarantee; offers free trials; no long contracts. Their tracking devices take only minutes to install, and ship the same day your order is received just like what was mentioned earlier. You will be tracking your fleet in days, not weeks or months.
Everything is handled by GPS Insight support and GPS Insight support wiki for customers provides total support throughout the year.

You can also visit Blog for GPS vehicle tracking for more information.
Besides you can also install one in your vehicle and not having to worry about it being stolen. With the amount of vehicles being stolen these days it is nice to know that GPS will keep your asset secure. GPS is now available in almost everything from cell phones to cars.

In effect, GPS Insight (http://www.gpsinsight.com/) has come up with a very affordable option of $1.50-2 per day per vehicle, and the benefits (no more labor paid when people aren't really working, fuel savings, routing efficiencies, etc. for businesses trying to reign in their transportation costs.

Mazda Taiki, the latest concept car form the Japanese producer, follows the path of Mazda’s “flow” design concept (latest example is what’s probably going to be the next Mazda RX-7) with elements of real-world technologies. The Taiki is equipped with a next-generation RENESIS rotary engine under the hood, and the rear-wheel-drive concept is a two-seater.
Read full article at Autounleashed.com

Today I saw the ad of CoolHotmail.com-a new website offering unique domain names for email id's.This means users signing up for hotmail from coolhotmail.com will have access to more personalised email id’s while still having the benefits of hotmail. You get all the features of Windows Live Mail, i.e. 5GB space, anti-spam protection etc.You can choose between more than 250 cool domains like @delhirocks.in, @clubaamir.com, iamcrazy.in and many more.
I guess it's targeted at Indian Youth who's becoming increasingly conscious about its unique identity and since most of us have fed up seeing regular Gmail login page,it will definitely add some spice to the online market.

Mimobots are a line of collectible Art Toy USB flash drives launched in 2005 and designed by contemporary character artists and produced in limited runs of usually between 500 to 3,500 units, mimobots merge the aesthetics of art toys with the function of USB flash drives. Their memory capacities range from 512MB to 4GB and each mimobot is preloaded with bonus original and removable content including animation, music, games, video, screensavers, or other surprises. Watch the video of mimobots.

Yahoo Inc., the world's second-largest supplier of instant-messaging, has begun offering a new version that works inside a Web browser rather than requiring users to download a separate piece of software.By dispensing with the need to install and run a separate IM program, Yahoo is looking to reach out to tens of millions of consumers around the world who use the Web in Internet cafes instead of on personal computers at work or at home.
Web-based IM is nothing new. Meebo.com grew popular among early technology adopters with a Web-based service that allows users to simultaneously sign on to AIM, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google IM programs. Rival Google Talk has been embedded inside Google's e-mail program, Gmail, for more than a year.But Yahoo brings the advantages of Web-based IM to a far larger market of tens of millions of active users.
One attraction of Yahoo's new Web-based IM service is an archive feature that allows a user to search back to find all previous conversations with any of their IM contacts. Another feature likely to impress heavy users is the ability to manage 10 or more simultaneous conversations in just one IM window.

Russia(as usual) created yet another devastating weapon that's almost four times as powerful as regular bomb used by US. Russia performed a test with this so called Vacuum bomb.After the explosion, the soil looks like the surface of the moon. According to the report, the main destruction is inflicted by an ultrasonic shock wave and an incredibly high temperature. All that is alive merely evaporates. No doubt Russia is always many steps ahead in the production and experimentaton of weopons in comparison with it's counterparts.And as usual US is always willing to pay any amount to get this deadly thing.

Well,looking at the pics above it looks both have same support or somebody has wisely used cut and paste option.I think second option is quite more realistic.

Here is the new logo of WINDOWS 7 .

Yahoo has started a new drive - Green. What it does actually, it asks the user to create a plan he/she can execute on a daily basis to help in keeping the CO2 level low on the earth. The plans are very easy to perform but in long run will definitely help in keeping the planet green. Some of them are like -

• Turn your heater thermostat down 2 degrees in winter and up 2 degrees in the summer.
• Drive less aggressively -- don't accelerate and brake rapidly.
• Drive the speed limit.
• Keep the tires on your car adequately inflated. Check them monthly.
• Unplug electronics when you're not using them.
• Turn out the light when you leave the room. so on and so forth...

There are lot many action plans one can plan for himself and can help save the earth.

"If you are fascinated by insects Japan’s electronics and toy maker Bandai (most famous for GUNDAM), has created a set of miniature insect robots that have six legs and move around just like real insects.

The Hex Bug series with names like Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta and Echo are tiny battery-operated robots that are smart enough to automatically avoid obstacles and will change direction when you clap your hands in their vicinity.

The Hex Bug will be available in September and comes in a myriad of colors and styles for about ¥1,999 each (about $16 USD.) Definitely not a gift for those who dislike cockroaches."

See this to know what may happen with your credit card if you are not very careful with it.