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GWIGLE : Learn Googles Secret While Playing!

Gwigle

Gwigle is an online puzzle game that actually teaches you Google search tricks as you play. Each screen shows a few search results along with the search string at the top. One word is replaced with question marks; it’s your job to fill it in. It’s hands-on education that feels more like you’re playing a game than learning useful knowledge.

Glancing at the search results gives you clues as to what the mystery search term is. If you’re stuck, you can always hit up Google for some clues. Simply copy some of the text from Gwigle and search away.

Some of the puzzles are a little tricky and it can be difficult to find the answers, even with thorough Google research. Most of them are fairly easy, however, and won’t take you too long to complete. You can always bookmark the puzzle you’re on and come back to it later.

Gwigle is a great puzzle game for anyone, not just power Googlers-to-be. Give it a try and see if you accidentally learn something useful. U can always mail Wang as he answered to my queries fast beyond my imagination!

The game contains 16 + 7 levels (at least when I played)!

Thanks to Wang for Gwigle!

Links: Play Gwigle

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AutoJoin Communities on Orkut!

Just an hour ago, an idea was populated in my friend Sumit Kalra’s mind to automate joining communities so as to avoid confirmation when u press “join” button on a community!

Heres comes a GreaseMonkey script for this! It adds “[J]” button to every community link pressing which will open that community page after joining that community!!!

This script saves ur time by clicking join button automatically even when u go to a community and press join button manually!

Installation Procedure:
Again this is for firefox & GreaseMonkey Only! So…

  1. Download firefox if u don’t have it!
  2. Install greasemonkey extension for firefox.
  3. Close all firefox windows and restart firefox.
  4. Click here and click “Install”  when a pop-up window will appear!
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Orkut: HiNew Scrap 1.0 – Know who is online & scrapping u!

This is latest GreaseMonkey Script for Orkut users n biggest also!
When u install this u will receive notification

  • when someone scraps u!
  • when any of your friend comes online!

Also u can choose to be notified in three way-

  • small pop-up balloon in right-bottom corner as shown in above screen-shot. (this can not be turned off)
  • a sound alert!
  • a funny alert will Shake ur screen!
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Wats good about balloon notification is that it shows scraps content when somebody scraps u! It also shows name n pic of friend who is coming online!

Another Layout option is there for changing color of balloon notification n configuration panel!

All this can be configurable, which is really rare in GreaseMonkey Scripts! It adds three more links besides “Home | Friends | Message | …. ” links on top of every orkut page! One is for opening ur scrapbook and another is for configuration wizard to change the behavior of this script!

Installation Procedure:
Again this is for firefox & GreaseMonkey Only! So…

  1. Download firefox if u don’t have it!
  2. Install greasemonkey extension for firefox.
  3. Close all firefox windows and restart firefox.
  4. Click here  and select “Install” option on next screen!

Script Link:
http://portalnews.freehostia.com/Orkut_Scripts/hinewscrap.user.js

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Orkut: Latest Fan Flooder!

Important Update: This script stopped working since 10th December 2006. You may subscribe to my RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates regarding this and other hacks in future!


Here comes Orkut Fan Flooder Script!
This is for those orkuttian who wants to increase their Fan Count!
As per my commitment to Open source this is also for Firefox. This is actually another GreaseMonkey Script so install firefox and GreaseMonkey if you don’t have them!

Before Going Ahead:
Please note that on orkut, you can not add yourself to your friend-list! So that mean you can not be your fan!
So in order to increase your fan count you have to either create another profile so you can increase your fan count yourself!
OR just ask your friend to do that favor for you 🙂

Installing Script:

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  1. Download firefox if you don’t have it!
  2. Install GreaseMonkey extension for firefox.
  3. Close all firefox windows and restart firefox.
  4. Now you are ready to install any GreaseMonkey Script you like!
  5. Right-Click here to open a context menu!
  6. Click on "Install User Script" option from context menu!

Usage Instructions:

  1. After Installing Script, Go to "Friends" page of your orkut account!
  2. You will see a [FanFlood] link above every star image! (as shown in red rectangle in following screenshot)
  3. Now Click on the [FanFlood] link to start increasing that persons fan count!
  4. To stop Flooding close that tab/window!

Screenshot:

Important Note:
This is not permanent FanFlooder! The effect may end in a day or two & you will get your real fan count on your profile back!

FAQ:
Q.
How to uninstall this script?
Ans:
Refer GreaseMonkey Manual!

Q. I can’t see [FanFlood] link?
Ans:
Read all above instructions carefully!

Q: Still I can’t see [FanFlood] link?
Ans:
Post a comment regarding this issue here or on devils workshop’s orkut community with as much details as possible!

Q: I still have questions?
Ans:
What are you waiting for! Ask it!

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Orkut: Collection of hacks to be kool Orkuttian!

Listing in this post some orkut hacks, tricks which you can use to be kool orkuttian!

ALT+0173 Tricks

1. Ever seen someone without First name and/or Last Name! If yes, you might have tried to do the sane but while editing your profile came 2 know that first name n last name can not be left blank! So how did others did that?

While editing name just put ALT+0173 i.e. press ALT & while it is pressed type 0173 in any field u want to left blank! You wont see any output! (In Opera u may see ‘-‘ character but surely nothing will be displayed in Firefox n IE)

2. You can also use this special character if you want to escape orkut’s default formatting which is applied to your text while posting on communities and writing scrap!

e.g. [r­ed]Hi[/­red] wont look Hi

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if u use [r(ALT+0173)ed]Hi[/r(ALT+0173)ed]!

Just insert ALT+0173 anywhere!
U can also insert in Url’s to escape image verification while posting links but they wont be clickable 🙁

3. You can just write ALT+0173 while posting on communities n scrapbook to post blank scrap n posts!

For More ALT+0173 Tricks n demos click here!

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Hompage Field…

The best link to setup as your homepage is https://www.orkut.com/GLogin.aspx?cmd=logout
When someone click on this the person will be logged out from his/her orkut session 😀

This made many people fool (including me) as we often don’t read actual content of homepage field while checking someone’s profile!


Do u think logging into Orkut is slow n login box disappears???

Bookmark the following link and use it to login into orkut!

https://www.google.com/…………www.orkut.com%2FGLogin.aspx

The above link directly opens orkut login box! So it is faster than normal orkut login!

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Firefox: Google has more to offer than just Google Toolbar!

This post really make you smile if you are Firefox & Google Addict rather than just a user!
This time I discover that Google has more to offer than just Google Toolbar for Firefox Users!

Listing here few extensions from Google Lab exclusively for Firefox Users!

  1. Google Browser Sync – Synchronize your browser settings across computers. Restore tabs and windows from your previous session.
  2. Google Notebook – Add text clippings, images and links to your Google Notebook and share them with friends.
  3. Blogger Web Comments –See what bloggers are saying about the web page you’re visiting, and add a post to your own blog.
  4. Google Send to Phone – Send text messages of web page content to your mobile phone (U.S. numbers only).

To Download above extension(s) visit:
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/index.html

Click here to download firefox!

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Tecchnorati: Organise Blogs Posts With Tags Into Sidebar!

This is for all bloggers from all domains having technorati account!

One problem old blogger felt that there was no way to categorize post according to tag! Mostly after each post we used to add technorati tags! Then came blogger in beta with this option right into blogger itself! Still instead of tagging all the posts again, you can use technorati API’s to take care of this! (For live example scroll down to see "TOP 10 TAGS" in this blogs sidebar itself!)

Don’t worry if you don’t know how to use technorati API’s (Even I don’t know 😉 ! Vijay Bhaskar already done some great work regarding this! So just listing here what you need to do!

1. Copy Following javascript code!

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2. Now Replace Following Fields:

  • <Your Technorati Username>
  • <Your Blog URL>
  • <Number of Tags>

After Modifying your code will look like…

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Just Paste modified code into your blog! That’s it!

Notes:

  1. You must have Technorati Account For this!
  2. You must have tagged your posts beforehand!
  3. Number of Tags can be set to 100 at the max!

 

I have switched already to blogger in beta! Still I like technorati tags over blogger’s label because when somebody clicks on technorati tags, it shows partial content of all the post tagged under that particular tag, while blogger shows full posts!
I feel technorati’s way is better as some of tags have large no. of posts tagged under them which make loading of those pages time-consuming!

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ORKUT: Some Misconception, Some Facts!

Dear friends,

I would just like to inform u people about some common misconceptions…

Misconception #1: ORKUT IS DELETING PROFILES

  • Orkut is NOT deleting profiles!
  • Orkut is run by google which is having a 300% growth in terms of revenue for this fiscal year!
  • They can handle any abysmal requirement of processing power or space!
  • They are NOT experiencing any information processing or storage problems as yet!

Misconception #2: YOU CAN GET PAID BY FORWARDING AN E-MAIL

  • Until Today, Sunday, 21st Sept 2006, there is no way to keep track of where a mail gets forwarded!
  • Microsoft will not know if I send a mail from google server to my friend (EVEN IF IT IS A FORWARDED MAIL) unless you explicitly execute some code or click some link!
  • However may I wish, I have no means to know whether my friend is forwarding the mail I sent to him or not. Nor does Microsoft, Google or any other corp. or inc.
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Misconception #3: WOMAN TAKING A ROHYPNOL PILL WILL NEVER CONCEIVE

  • Are all men and women undergoing a surgery for family planning DUMB?
  • Woman cannot be made incapable of conceiving by dropping a pill in her drink.
  • Rohypnol is used as a sedative and pre-anesthetic.
  • It is called “Rape Date Drug” because it is extremely potent, especially with alcohol.
  • It initially makes a person dizzy and disoriented and with time makes it difficult to speak or move before the person passes out.
  • Due to this effect, this drug is used by rapists to incapacitate their victims.
  • Such victims have no memories of what happened WHILE UNDER the drug’s influence. (They can perfectly remember what they were doing before getting sedated)
  • It is illegal (in the U.S but not in Europe and Canada)

No comments about emotional messages appealing a person to forward a mail because it will either…

  • suddenly make his love of life realize that she should call him/she should meet him/She should fall in love with him!
  • or increase life expectancy of himself or his father/mother/brother/sister/any other relatives!
  • or make something “GOOD”(?) happen in his life!
  • or earn him an unexpected fortune!
  • or because some poor/crippled/terminally infected/just infected/dying person will get money for every mail you forward!(I do not mean to disrespect the intentions but it is pointless as your forwards cannot be tracked)
  • or just because it is part of a world record attempt!
  • or because this e-mail is part of “chain” that many people have kept or going for no particular reason so you should also do the same!
AND THAT STUPID CRUSH THING DOES NOT POP UP IF YOU FORWARD THAT LOONEY MAIL……..

  • the only way of knowing your crush is if both the people add each other to their own crush list.
  • there is NO WAY of knowing anyone else’s crush’s or your own, if none of the above happens.

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Technorati support is really supportive!

To all bloggers from all domain, if you have not heard about technorati, then I can only say that you are quite unfortunate!

Technorati is dedicated site which have database about 54.7 million blogs. When I visited this site for the first time I already found my blog there. But there was a problem as my blog was not properly indexed and the information was quite old!

I have done everything from adding technorati tags to my blog post to validating my blogs HTML and after all went in vain I decided to finally contact technorati support to help me out!
As I was expecting I got a automated reply to my email and I thought this is another giant who does not have time for his customers lovers!
But within15 days I got reply to this with everything in proper place!

I am quite active in contacting support section of various services but for the first time I got real reply. So all I can say to my blogger friends, if you love technorati then don’t hesitate while contacting them. Sooner or later, they will come to you!

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Appending here first reply from them! (Actually they have answered my all queries 🙂


Hello Rahul, Please accept my sincerest apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We’ve been experiencing a backlog in support and are
working hard to address everyone. I’ve taken a look at the issue regarding picking up your pings for “rb286.blogspot.com“. After
making a small adjustment, I’ve sent our spiders to revisit your page and your blog has been indexed with your most recent posts.

http://technorati.com/blogs/rb286.blogspot.com/

Everything now appears to be working as it should, but please let us know if you experience any problems in the future. Do not
hesitate to contact us if you have any other questions. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for using Technorati!

Best Regards,
Janice Myint
Customer Support Specialist
Technorati


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Feast for downloaders by Cyber-Buff!

Cyber-buff a Indian blogger has amazing download collection! The good thing about this is its versatility and up to date information! Listing below are few links which I likes personally!
For more always visit his blog http://ad1987.blogspot.com!

Some Cool Links: