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Get Free Experts-Exchange solutions

Got stuck in your technical problems....looking for some solutions...and just when you thought you found one you got to know that the site is paid.....O GAWD!!!!!!..yeah i am talking about Experts-Exchange where you can find solution to almost any kind of technical problem.....

Now you can try its solutions for free...Open fuqEE (called Fuq EE - For obvious Reasons) and paste the link of the experts-exchange page on which you think you might get a solution and hit the button GET Solution..... Check your solution at the bottom of the page...

Free Online any Format File Converter

Cometdocs has rolled out its free online file conversion utility. It wont ask you to download any software and has around 40+ supported file types.

To start just select a file, choose a new file type, enter your maild id and click send. In few minutes you should receive an email with a download link to the converted file. The best part of this site is its ease of use. Just so you know it also converts iTunes XML libraries to M3U playlists for use with other players.

Update your Blackberry with latest Firmware

Its time to update your Blackberry device with latest firmware. I just updated mine and so here are the steps to follow

1. Go to Blackberry's official site and choose your country.
2. Click on the Software Tab and select a link on the page that says "Learn more about Blackberry Device Software"
3. Select Update tab and then click on update button on the page (Note that it works only in IE)
4. You will be prompted to run a software. Keep following the instruction and once the update has been installed in your machine its gonna ask you to connect your device and select it in the Application uploader.
5. Let it do its job and you go n grab a coffee as its gonna take around 50-60 minutes.

Enjoy your device now with all new features in it.
Some added features in this update are:

• Video recording
• Enhanced Email UI
• Docs To Go - to download edit and send Word, Excel and Powerpoint files
• Media Player improvements and much more.....

Recall sent messages in Gmail

If you are one of those impatient people who compose a mail and send it without reviewing, wishing "Oh GAWD!!! Why did i do that" then its time to rejoice. Google Labs recently rolled out a feature in Gmail by which you can "Undo" a sent mail.

Go in to Settings->Labs and locate Undo Send. Enable this setting.

Now whenever you feel you shouldn't have sent what you just send then click Undo that appears beside the message "Your message has been sent".




Once you Undo a message the message will be recalled.
* Mind you the Undo links stays for few seconds only.

Customize Gmail Themes

Now Gmail has an option to customize its default theme. You can change colors according to your likes and dislikes.

Just go to Settings->Themes and click "Choose your own colors" and select your favorite colors for Gmail's background, links, text messages, navigation links and more.
Once you are done coloring your Gmail click save and your choice is save and applied automatically.

In case you dont like your theme you can easily Reset the theme or choose from several pre-defined (not so good) themes.

One Charger for all Mobile Phones

GSM Association announced today, at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, to have one charger for all kind of mobile phones.

The GSMA is looking to have the majority of cell phones produced by the year 2012 equipped with ports compatible with the new charger interface. The GSMA looks to save considerable energy with a 50% reduction in standby energy consumption, as well as the potential elimination of over 50,000 tons of "duplicate chargers."

The idea is that a universal charger will make life much simpler for the consumer, who will be able to use the same charger for future handsets, as well as being able to charge their mobile phone anywhere from any available charger. These chargers will also include a 4-star or higher efficiency rating, which is up to three times more energy-efficient than an unrated charger. Furthermore, with potentially 50 per cent less chargers4 being manufactured each year, the industry can expect to reduce greenhouse gases in manufacturing and "transporting replacement chargers by 13.6 to 21.8 million tonnes a year".

The phone companies that agreed on this proposal are 3 Group, AT&T, KTF, LG, mobilkom austria, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, Telenor, Telstra, T-Mobile and Vodafone.

LG's new Watch Phone

LG recently announced a James Bonds style product - new LG Watch Phone.
It has a touch-screen user interface, three side-mounted buttons, Bluetooth, a speakerphone, and even a full-blown music player. It's water resistant, and it'll feature 3G HSDPA.


The other features include tempered glass, a high-quality metal casing, and is around 13.9mm thick. The touch screen is 1.43 inches diagonally, and features LG's Flash interface. The watch also has voice recognition, Text to Speech so it can read out text messages, and stereo Bluetooth.

This watch phone may be available during the second half of 2009.

Microsoft's New Advertisement

I couldn't help but post this microsoft's new "I am a PC" ad that I noticed today on TV. This is latest ad in Microsoft's $300 million ad campaign. It features 4 and a half year old girl Kylie showing the viewers how to use Windows Live Photo Gallery by sending a picture of her fish to her parents. Watch it yourself.

New Features in IE8

What's been cooking at microsoft lately?
New Features for Internet Explorer. Here are some of those new feature:

Accelerators

Accelerators let you map directions, translate words, email your friends, and more in just a few mouse clicks. Learn more.

Common accelerator showing driving directions

InPrivate Browsing

Browse the web without saving your history with Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate Browsing. Now you can shop for that special gift with confidence knowing your family won't accidentally find out or use a shared computer without leaving a trace. Learn More.

The InPrivate button on the Address Bar

Web Slices

Keep up with changes to the sites you care about most. Add a Web Slice and you won't have to go back to the same website again and again for updates on news, stock quotes, online auctions, weather, or even sports scores. Learn more.

A common Web Slice

Search suggestions

Search smarter with detailed suggestions from your favorite search providers and browsing history. See visual previews and get suggested content topics while you type in the enhanced Instant Search Box. Learn more.

A search showing visual content

SmartScreen Filter

New security features help to protect you against deceptive and malicious websites which can compromise your data, privacy and identity. Learn more.

[Taken from Microsoft blog]

Yahoo gives IM to its Classic Mail

The millions of users of Yahoo Mail's "Classic" edition will get some of the features that made it into the Web portal's more advanced free e-mail service more than a year ago.

Yahoo has announced that it has begun rolling out integrated instant messaging (IM) and SMS text messaging features to Mail Classic users worldwide. The features had previously been available in the current (new) version of Yahoo Mail, which differs from Classic in that it offers a more dynamic, tab-based user interface.

But soon, users hanging onto "Classic Mail" version may get a nice surprise.

The features will take a few months to roll out to all of Mail Classic's users, which Yahoo described as numbering in the millions -- indicating that it still has a chunk of Yahoo's user base, even though the portal has been pushing its more advanced Mail version for more than a year. There are over 280 million users of market leader Yahoo's e-mail services worldwide, according to comScore.

Access Gmail Offline

This is a new feature rolled out by Google in Gmail Labs that allow Gmail users to access their mail even when internet connection is down. Once you turn on this feature Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache on your machine. As long as you're connected to the inernet, that cache is synchronized with Gmail's servers. When the connection is lost, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer's hard drive instead of the information sent across the network.

You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you're used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection.

This is still in beta phase so dont be surprised if you dont find it in your Gmail Labs. To check this feature first you will have to install Gears. Then go to Settings->Labs->Offline and enable it. All set!!!!!

Google G2 by May 2009

Rumors of next-generation T-Mobile G2 phone have started to pop up on the Web. T-Mobile currently offers G1, based on the Android operating system.

The G2 will be thinner and not include the pull out keyboard of the original G1, according to Gizmodo, which published what it said were "spy photos" of the alleged, slick-looking device. Gizmodo also quoted an unnamed source as saying the device is due for release this May. The T-Mobile G2 will also sport a 3.2 megapixel camera and maintains an interface similar to the current G1.

The news comes at a time of red hot competition in the smart phone market led by Apple's hot-selling iPhone and unprecedented download of applications for the device. Apple said there have been over 500 million downloads at its App Store for the iPhone.

IBM to buy Chinese e-mail company

Computing giant IBM has announced its intention to acquire a Chinese e-mail and messaging company.

Hong Kong-based firm Outblaze sells hosted multilingual e-mail and messaging services for other service providers, telecommunications companies, and corporations to operate under their own brands.

Outblaze will become part of IBM Lotus' Bluehouse project, IBM's online-business and social-networking and collaboration service, IBM announced on Thursday. Bluehouse is currently in open beta testing.

"The acquisition of these Outblaze assets further demonstrates Lotus' commitment to delivering secure, scalable online solutions, and will help accelerate delivery of collaborative services, with little to no IT involvement," Bob Picciano, the general manager of IBM Lotus Software, said in a statement.

Monitor your internet connection with Bitmeter

BitMeter 2 is a bandwidth meter, it allows you to visually monitor your Internet connection by displaying a scrolling graph that shows your upload and download speed over time.

For many users, the killer feature is the ISP Restrictions screen. There, you can tell BitMeter your ISP's monthly limit and request an alert when you approach it. An included calculator helps you determine how long a download will take. Both of these features will help you budget your online time more efficiently.





Other BitMeter features:

• Audio notification at regular (configurable) time intervals - different tones are played according to your current upload or download speed (tone boundaries are also configurable)
• Audio notification each time a certain amount of data is transferred (uploaded, downloaded or both)
• Animated System Tray icon shows upload and download speeds
• Check for new version (with auto-check option and proxy support)
• Select any combination of network cards to monitor or ignore
• Configurable graph scale - set to any value, or set to auto-adjust according to your speed
• Connection Speed Helper
• Option to display current graph maximum on screen
• Change units used in readout (Kb,KB,Mb,MB)
• Change graph type (bar or line graph)
• Interval bars with adjustable time period
• Adjustable scroll interval (anywhere between 1 and 60 seconds)
• Save favorite color combination for later use, or use one of the pre-configured color-schemes.
• Configure System Tray tooltip information (including speeds and days totals)
• Show or hide readout area, or adjust its font-size.
• Auto-start option for current user, or all users
• Manual and automatic backup options of configuration and traffic history information.

Browser Statistics Month by Month

If you are wondering about the market share of different browsers by 2008 then here is the statistics (courtesy w3schools).

Browser Statistics Month by Month

2008	IE7	IE6	Chrome	Fx	Moz	S	O
November	26.6%	20.0%	3.1%	44.2%	0.4%	2.7%	2.3%
October	26.9%	20.2%	3.0%	44.0%	0.4%	2.8%	2.2%
September	26.3%	22.3%	3.1%	42.6%	0.5%	2.7%	2.0%
2008	IE7	IE6	IE5	Fx	Moz	S	O
August	26.0%	24.5%	0.1%	43.7%	0.5%	2.6%	2.1%
July	26.4%	25.3%	0.3%	42.6%	0.5%	2.5%	1.9%
June	27.0%	26.5%	0.5%	41.0%	0.5%	2.6%	1.7%
May	26.5%	27.3%	0.7%	39.8%	0.7%	2.4%	1.5%
April	24.9%	28.9%	1.0%	39.1%	0.9%	2.2%	1.4%
March	23.3%	29.5%	1.1%	37.0%	1.1%	2.1%	1.4%
February	22.7%	30.7%	1.3%	36.5%	1.2%	2.0%	1.4%
January	21.2%	32.0%	1.5%	36.4%	1.3%	1.9%	1.4%
2007	IE7	IE6	IE5	Fx	Moz	S	O
December	21.0%	33.2%	1.7%	36.3%	1.4%	1.7%	1.4%
November	20.8%	33.6%	1.6%	36.3%	1.2%	1.8%	1.6%
October	20.7%	34.5%	1.5%	36.0%	1.3%	1.7%	1.6%
September	20.8%	34.9%	1.5%	35.4%	1.2%	1.6%	1.5%
August	20.5%	35.7%	1.5%	34.9%	1.3%	1.5%	1.7%
July	20.1%	36.9%	1.5%	34.5%	1.4%	1.5%	1.9%
June	19.7%	37.3%	1.5%	34.0%	1.4%	1.5%	1.8%
May	19.2%	38.1%	1.6%	33.7%	1.3%	1.5%	1.7%
April	19.1%	38.4%	1.7%	32.9%	1.3%	1.5%	1.6%
March	18.0%	38.7%	2.0%	31.8%	1.3%	1.6%	1.6%
February	16.4%	39.8%	2.5%	31.2%	1.4%	1.7%	1.5%
January	13.3%	42.3%	3.0%	31.0%	1.5%	1.7%	1.5%
2006	IE7	IE6	IE5	Fx	Moz	N7/8	O
November	7.1%	49.9%	3.6%	29.9%	2.5%	0.2%	1.5%
September	2.5%	55.6%	4.0%	27.3%	2.3%	0.4%	1.6%
July	1.9%	56.3%	4.2%	25.5%	2.3%	0.4%	1.4%
May	1.1%	57.4%	4.5%	25.7%	2.3%	0.3%	1.5%
March	0.6%	58.8%	5.3%	24.5%	2.4%	0.5%	1.5%
January	0.2%	60.3%	5.5%	25.0%	3.1%	0.5%	1.6%

IE	Internet Explorer
Fx	Firefox (identified as Mozilla before 2005)
Chrome	Google Chrome
Moz	The Mozilla Suite (Gecko, Netscape)
S	Safari (and Konqueror. Both identified as Mozilla before 2007)
O	Opera
N	Netscape (identified as Mozilla after 2006)
AOL	America Online (based on both Internet Explorer and Mozilla)

iPhone 3g Unlock Video

Are you looking for an Unlocked iPhone 3G? Even I had been searching for one that is not tied up with AT&T. Yellosn0w posted a video demonstrating unlocking of iPhone 3g and it claims that the trick/software would be available from the eve of Dec 31.

Check out the video here.

Free - Giveaway of the Day

Giveaway Of the Day is a convenient initiative allowing you to get the best commercial software titles - for free. The main object of the site is for the readers to sample the site’s sponsors’ offerings. You get free “pro” versions of software of Premium Booster, Advanced Windows Care and stuff. You’ll be given one copy of the software free everyday.

Although you get these licensed softwares for free, you cannot update the software and cannot claim tech support either. You must install and register the software on the same day. They also give away some small games like the “Brave Dwarves Pack” everyday. Besides there is a great forum where they have a list of freeware alternatives for essential software. There’s no registering on the site. Just open the site and start downloading.

During the last December days the site will repeat the best giveaways of the past year. These programs won the best ratings from users and gained the greater number of downloads and unique visitors on their giveaway day.

Listen to Britney Spear's Latest Album

If you are a Britney Spear fan then you must check out imeem. imeem is a social media service where users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all digital media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video.

Less than a week after the album leaked online, Spears has teamed with imeem.com to stream the entire CD online in advance of its December 2 release date. Check out Britney's latest album CIRCUS . The best part is that you can listen this album for FREE and of course, Spears' always vocal fans have weighed in on what they think of the 13-track album, leaving comments in the imeem page such as, "I luv ya Brit" "She's back," "Oh wow this is awesome," and "Sheez hot!!!!!!."

There are so many other songs that you can here in the music section of imeem.

Gmail's New Look - Themes

Check out the new Gmail themes that google is rolling out slowly(typical Google). Just like some other mail services Google's mail has stepped into a ne w stylish makeover.

You'll find a tab named "Themes" in the settings page and you'll be able to choose from 30 themes. "We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company," mentions Gmail's blog.


There are some themes that changes itself with the day.
You know what, you still have the choice of selecting Gmail's classic theme.