11 May, 2011

6 best practises for a good kowledge researcher on internet

The century where we defined the meaning of 'www' and 'internet' were over. Now these technologies turned to be the best flavour tied up with our life. A child even before he stands up for the first time in his life comes in touch with the latest flavour of technology by watching tv and playing with the mobile phone. So the internet is being a big phenomenon.

Internet offers the best services that connect and educates people across the world. Majority of the internet users utilizes internet as a tool for social networking and chatting only. While internet remains the best knowledge pool, we must follow some good practises to utilize and extract the best from it. Worldwide acceptance of free software and the sharing concepts might have played the key role in fuelling the era of blogs and forums. 

I have always amazed at seeing the number of peple writing and contributing on free software platforms like ubuntu. Everyday how many tweets fly over the internet carrying links?? it might be millions..We have to break the rule that 'internet is nothing but a Goooooooogle search'. As the digital media is rapid and feature rich than the traditional and conventional printed media, we should follow a proper guideline for using it in better manner. My intention is nothing but introducing before you the best practises for online reading and keeping always in touch with the latest technology through this blog post.


1. Dont be the usual guy always :)

Find a little time for spending with the latest stuff in your favourite blogs and webpages other than facebook and myspace. Let's close the tabs of your favourite social networking sites while you read. Dont mix up the everything togeteher, instead find time for everything. You can make a better environment for learning, only if you have the gutz to do that...


2. Subscribe the best (its free of cost) 

Whenever you move over an interesting and 'followable' web page, don't forget to use the subscribe button to subscribe to the feeds from that blog. Feeds are the topics that are written in that blog or web page that will be available on your feed reader (such as google reader) and can be organized as you wish. If you are using an online feed reader service, the advantge is that you don't have visit your favourite blogs individually everytime, every stuff will be available on the feed reader's inbox. That makes all your faourite contents from many web pages under a single roof. Its better to use an online feed reader rather than bookmarking the stuffs with your browser. Bookmarks will be lost on a system crash unless otherwise it is not backed up properly, and it is better for websites rather than blogs.

I have been sticking on to the Google reader for a while since it provides better services to organize and manage my feeds. It have features like slideshow, collections and more to make reading attractive and easy.   


3. Inbox is not your waste box !


Many of the blogs and websites will allow you to subscribe contents through email also, along with the feed subscription. Think before you subscribe via email weather the contents are so important to sit on your inbox. Otherwise your inbox will flood with unimportant mails of blog subscriptions and that may be the reason for losing your job because of unnoticing the appointment order. It took almost one and half weeks for me to remove the unimportant subscriptions from my email inbox. I was forced to do it when my inbox crossed 4000 mails and lion's share of the subscriptions are 3-4 years old and are unread...


4. Comment on !! are you dead???


When you move over a blog post, just take a pause and comment if you have something to add up with the content described in the post. Most of the blogs allow the commenting feature to make discussions live. Remember your comments are always valuable to and useful for the next guy visiting the same post. I usually check for the comments area of the blogposts before reading the content of the post. My intention is nothing but to watch the feedback given by other readers. Soemtimes the trick given on that post might not work and may be the same is commented by someone. So a hawk eye view on comments section will let you decide weather to spend time on reading the post.


5. Share the spirit !!


Whenever you finds an interesting content don't forget to share that link to your friends also. Major social networking sites (twitter, facebook) and online bokmarking sites (delicious,digg) provides facilities to share the links. While sharing a link try to encourage your friends to read that post also. I think youtube videos are shared more than any other links in most of the social networking sites...


6. Watch it on your desktop


 You can use applications for reading the feeds in on your desktop. In a better way. Many feed reader application and widget are available. Google gears can be used to read contents offline from your blog. Some of the applications for Ubuntu distributions are Akregator, Yarssr, Liferea, Blam ...


Hope u like the post. Bye till the next one !!

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09 May, 2011

Install tweetdeck in Ubuntu 11.04

TweetDeck is an adobe air application that helps us to perform all the online social networking activities using a single platform. It comes as a personal real time browser for connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz and more... 


Installation

We need to install Adobe air installer prior to the installation of the tweetdeck. This is because the tweetdeck is built on adobe air framework. You can download the latest version of the adobe air installer linked here. Select .deb from the dropdown list asking for the version to download. 




Double click on the downloaded file (.deb) to install it using the Ubuntu Software center. 

Ignore the bad quality package error if it is shown by the package manager and continue installation...

You can access the Adobe air  installer later from Applications >> accessories for installing other applications based on air framework. 


Now download the tweetdeck.air file from this link. To install it first take the adobe air installer and browse for the tweetdeck.air file.



Then the tweetdeck installer will pop up and begin as shown in the following figures..



Thats all the information needed for installing tweetdeck in ubuntu 11.04. Tweetdeck will ask for authorizing your facebook, twitter etc... accounts in the first login itself... From my point of view tweetdeck is powerful and eyecandy since it provides better interface than any other desktop social networking applications does and it also integrates many social networking communities within a single interface. Lot of customizations are also possible...





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18 April, 2011

Social networking on mobile phone without internet connection

Hai friends, in this post we will discuss two ways for accessing the most common social networking websites anywhere within india through mobile phones without an internet connection. Usually these applications updates your status or brings your recent wall posts on social networking websites by sending and receiving Short Messaging Service (SMS dude !!!). These applications discussed below offers access to twitter, facebook, google mobile services etc...


smstweet   ::  for tweeting on the go via sms

shorthand browser  ::  its a j2me application that can run on your phones that support java  


# smstweet 

Smstweet is a web based application for posting twitter feeds only. You have to register your mobile phone number with the website. After successful registration it will connect your twitter account with the smstweet server. That's you need to do on the website. You can start posting your tweets and mentions by sending the message as formatted below to the number : 
09243000111 (Bangalore)

TWT <space > content of the tweet


# shorthand browser

Shorthand browser is an all-in-one mobile application  for accessing many social networking sites and it  is described as  "the internet on your  phone without a data plan".  Shorthand’s apps use SMS text-messages to send and receive information but look so good you’ll think they use data (they don’t!). “SMS Apps” for all your favorite web sites are bundled within one super simple mobile application, Shorthand. Using shorthand you can access the following websites. 

Orkut
Facebook
Google - maps, cricket, horoscope, news ...
Twitter
Wikipedia
Naukri
• SMS GupShup
• And more!
 
You can download the shorthand browser from the following links 


That's all about the social networking mechanism that does not requires a data plan on your mobile phone...
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29 September, 2010

I'm Feeling Lucky in Google

The I'm Feeling Lucky button seen on google's home page is a feature that leads directly to the top-ranked page corresponding to your search keyword. You can avoid the search results page in cases you know the top-rated pages corresponding to your search. For example, you may need to go twitter's home, you only need to do is: type twitter in google's search box and then press the I' feeling lucky button. Then google will automatically redirect to www.twitter.com instead of showing the search results.

Adventures with I'm Feeling Lucky button

Go to www.google.com and try the following keywords in your search box and click the I'm Feeling Lucky button to see the craziest and awesome things in the google... You will be stunned.....

  • Google Hacker 

  • Google Pacman

  • Google Gravity

  • Google Sphere

  • Epic Google

  • Rainbow Google

  • Google Mirror

  • Google Loco

  • Google Gothic

  • Google Easter Eggs

Among the above searches gravity, pacman and hacker are the most awesome 




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26 September, 2010

Orkut affected by Bom Sabado: next threat to social networkng

After the problems that hit the twitter last week, google's social networking website Orkut being hit hard by the “Bom Sabado” javascript worm, which infected users with scraps containing “Bom Sabado”. The word "Bom Sabado" means "Good Saturday" in Portuguese, which is also the official language of Brazil, one of the last remaining Orkut bastions in the world. The worm seems to be posting scraps with the text "Bom Sabado" and also adding affected users to new Orkut groups which is having explicit contents. Such XSS attacks have targeted Orkut in the past too. Please urgently perform the following steps to avoid the spread of bom sabado and to avoid becoming the victim of it. Its more than a day the virus attack being happened and the problem is not fixed within this time...

    1. DO NOT visit any profile on Orkut till this script is blocked. Better to avoid using orkut till the google fix the problem

    2. Clear your browser cookies and cache right away and change your password

    3. Use the Google Acconts link here to change the password 

    4. Avoid replying to the Bom Sabado scraps...


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03 June, 2010

How to add Twitter and Facebook gadgets to gmail inbox


This is simple technic lets you to add both the facebook and twitter gadget to the left side of your gmail inbox. You can see the tweets, direct messages and perform all the twitter activities from within your gmail account. The case is same for the facebook also...





Follow the steps to setup this feature in your gmail inbox.

1. Login  to your gmail account and take the google labs from the more --> even more button.





2. You will be redirected back to your inbox, with settings tab opened. Enable the Add any gadget by URL option and save the changes.



3. Then click on the Gadgets tab and add the URL of the twitter and facebook gadgets by copying the following lines onto the text box given there



4. Thats all for now.  You can write your tweets in the widget box in the left side and see everything in twitter by clicking on the expand button




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