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Be Careful Before You ‘Like’ This on Facebook

July 14th, 2010

facebook_logoWarning: If you receive news feed carrying any of the following links ‘Liked’ by any of your Facebook friends, don’t click on the link to check it out. It’s a clickjacking worm attack spreading through the ‘Like’ option and has affected hundreds of thousands of users.

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Client for Google Translate

November 9th, 2009

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Google Translate and Yahoo! Babel Fish are the most widely used translation services. Translating a Webpage or a piece of text can be tiresome, as you have to open the translation site,  paste the text there, select the language… takes a lot of time. Here’s a simple solution. Install Client for Google Translate it can translate text in every Windows application such as Outlook, MS Word, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.

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Bharti Airtel and Twitter tie-up to allow SMS Tweets in India

October 16th, 2009

airtel-logoTwitter the most famous social networking and micro-blogging service has announced a partnership with India’s Largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel. The companies have signed a four-week exclusive agreement, whereby Airtel subscribers can send 140-characters "tweets" at the rates of regular SMS messages and receive them for free.

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Google Video Increases upload limit to 16GB

October 4th, 2009

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Google has increased the file size limit of uploads to Google Videos from 1GB to whooping 16GB. The change only affects Google Video, not Google’s other video site. YouTube uploads are still limited to 2GB. To take the advantage of the increased space users need to use Google Gears (available for Google Apps premier and education edition account).

Also, Google-owned YouTube has quietly launched a new feature that lets users easily share private videos. The user can generate a special URL that can be sent up to 25 people who, when logged into YouTube, can click to view.

Watch Two YouTube Videos side-by-side

September 8th, 2009

YouTube Doubler

As shown in in the above picture, www.YouTubeDoubler.com allows you to play 2 videos at a time. This can be helpful if you want to compare two videos. You only have to enter the YouTube URL of the videos and press the “Double up!” button. The site is still in beta, but works fine.

Note: Since Two videos will be played at once it will eat up lot of system resources, slowing down  you PC if you on a old machine.

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