FaceSaerch is new image search engine where you can search face-pictures by name of the person, place, etc. Search results are powered by Googles image search.
The results are organized is iPhone like slide-show format which makes navigation simple. Below is sample search result when for Rahul Bansal…
For Facebook Users…
For facebook users they have a unique service to track friends update. Just login to facesearch update facebook application and you will see a page like below…
Here are some cool features…
Friend-list can be scrolled easily. Clicking on their picture will take you to their facebook profile.
List will be automatically scrolled in real-time, whenever any friend update her status. Also the status update is shown at the top of his facebook display pic.
You can poke and message your friends from same page.
You can update your own facebook status from same page.
I wonder if they are planning to extend a service like this to Orkut/MySpace users. Thanks Tejas for tip.
Google Alert is a service which let you subscribe to email notifications for any keyword on the web. On similar lines, using TweetBeep you can subscribe to any keyword on twitters public timeline.
This is useful if you are interested in knowing who is tweeting about you, your company, your domain or anything of your interest.
Creating account is very simple and once its done you can add unlimited alerts for any keywords or domains. Domain link alerts works even if they are shortened by a service like TinyUrl.
You can automatically ignore alerts from your own twitter account. Also replies to your twitter username (ex. @rahul286) can be ignored while subscribing to alerts of your own username.
One more thing… you can also monitor tweets of a particular twitter user for any keywords!
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TeaShark, a mobile browser like Opera Mini, allow you to access Airtel GPRS for FREE. Shockingly it has nothing to do with modifying any Airtel settings or any kind of hack. I am clueless about how its working! I tested it personally throughout the week but I haven’t been charged a single penny.
Open it from your mobile and select AirTel Live as access point.
That’s it! Open any site from TeaShark and you won’t be charged anything.
Note for the first time, when TeaShark starts, it may take more than one minute to initialize. Also this one time initialization may fail many times. But don’t loose your heart! 🙂
As a first post at Devils Workshop, I wrote about free Airtel GPRS two years ago. This is much different that earlier trick. As of now, this trick is limited to handsets only. The earlier one used to work even from PC.
The whole thing seems a fortunate coincidence for mobile users and unfortunate one for network operators. This trick cannot be termed illegal as you are not cracking any software or modifying any configuration. For the same reason, I think this will take longer to get rectified.
Please keep in mind that AirTel may charge you all of a sudden in future of this free ride. So please use it at your own risk! 😉
FAQ:
Q. Error: “Subscribe to Packet Data First”
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Ans: This means you need to activate AirTel Live service which is free. Contact customer care to get it activated. Also select only AirTel Live as access point when prompted by TeaShark.
Q. TeaShark stuck at blank screen.
Ans: New version of TeaShark has some problems. Please download one using link given below.
Q. Will this work on my mobile?
Ans: Most probably YES, as this is java java applications and most good handsets supports java applications.
Q. Its not working…
Ans: Sorry. We can’t do anything then for you. I have personally seen this hack working in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi while it didn’t work for me in Rajasthan.
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Have you ever been watching a funny video on YouTube and decided halfway through that you must share it with your orkut friends? Previously, you had to go to your orkut "favorite videos" page and copy-and-paste the video URL to post these clips. Now…
3. You will be taken to orkut favorite video page. Favorite video page will open with YouTube video URL in place, just click on add video button. Thats it!
I often receive phishing emails, mostly claiming to be from PayPal, ICICI or similar sites where money involved. Yesterday, I received an email claiming to be from PayPal. Of course, I didn’t fall for it, but it looked so genuine that I thought about sharing few simple rules which I follow for my own safety.
Rule 0: Be Skeptical
Please remember, your credit-card and other banking information such as login ID, passwords, ATM PIN, etc are very sensitive data. So always be skeptical when someone ask them to enter it.
Don’t look at why they are asking your data, just care about what data they are asking!
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Rule 1: Always Look at Link URL before Clicking
Thanks to HTML, any text can point to any website. Ex: Britney Spears Naked. Don’t shout me if you led to Vatican Site… 😉
Ok now how to look at the link URL before clicking it?
Most standard browsers show actual link URL in status bar when you point your mouse to the linked text.
As shown below, if you just point your mouse to Get Verified text, you can see a link not pointing to paypal.com.
Make this URL checking part of your habit as this will save you from lots of troubles in future.
One more example I would like to share is: http://www.yahoo.com. If you noticed it, its pointing to Microsoft’s website. Yes, text which looks like URL itself, can point to any other URL in background!
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Rule 2: Check Email Headers for Actual Sender
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Most people don’t know that FROM field in emails can be changed by sender. I can send you email from bill@microsoft.com. The technique is called email forging and is used in almost all phishing emails.
So how to check if email you received is not forged? Most trusted method is to check email headers. But email headers are quite long and complex, so checking them manually is pain. Also technique differs slightly for each email service providers.
I use Gmail and on Gmail things are always easy. So whenever you receive a mail on Gmail, look for show details option.
When you click on it, first line will be expanded and you will see a mailed-by line as shown below…
Now this is quite different compare to paypal.com. Moreover a signed-by line is completely missing! Emails by large organizations also have a signed-by line which protect them against misuse of their domain name. Now have a look at a genuine email from PayPal…
If you are on Gmail, use can use this show details option to verify sender of email. I don’t know about its counterpart on Yahoo or Hotmail, but if you know it, please share.
Rule 3: Use Google Toolbar or any other anti-phishing technique/filter
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Yes, Google Toolbar is not just for making your life easier while using Googles’ services. It comes with built-in anti-phishing filters which warns you whenever you open malicious sites.
Following is screenshot of Google Toolbar warning when I opened site pointed by Get Verified text as discussed in Rule 1.
Google Toolbar gave me almost 100% protection against phishing sites. Still if you just don’t like Google Toolbar, you can still use Google search to find a good anti-phishing filter for free! 🙂
Rule 4: Use a secure browser like Firefox
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All major services authenticate users over secure channels. Even services which uses unsecure channels normally, process login pages via secure channels. Some famous examples, Gmail, Facebook, Orkut, Yahoo. While banking sites are normally use secure channels through-out the session.
A small difference between secure and unsecure channels is, secure URL stats HTTPS while unsecure starts with HTTP. Note the missing ‘S’. (Read more on HTTPS)
Now when you encounter a genuine login page in browser like Firefox, you can note following changes…
Navigation bar background changes to yellow. Also a lock icon is shown indicating a secure site. Here you should also check domain name, which we often overlook.
Status bar also shows lock icon along with domain name for which digital certificate is issued.
These two things can not be forged so look at them whenever in doubt.
Rule 5: Report Phishing…
Great you saved your ass. Its time to save others’ now… 😉
Gmail users can simply use Report Phishing option as shown below.
This rule is important as anti-phishing filters uses sites user report as phishing. So more you contribute, better security we all get… 🙂
Remember, phishing is a serious crime and creating a phishing site can easily put you behind the bars. On the other hand, if you become victim of phishing somehow, you can not sue your bank or service provider for compensation. They have made it clear in their terms of service (ToS) which nobody reads!
Its your responsibility to fight for yourself. Others at the most can help you. Don’t expect more! 🙂
Clipmarks is available as extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer, which lets you capture the specific content on a web page, instead of linking to entire web pages. This is good way of sharing as very often we want to share a small part of a large web page.
There are lots of things you can do with your clips:
Save them on Clipmarks.com: Your clips can be saved publicly to share with others, or you can make them private. Either way you’ve got a fully searchable collection of great things you find on the web.
Post them directly to your blog: Clipmarks offers direct integration with wordpress, blogger, typepad, live journal and other blogging platforms, enabling you to post anything you clip from a web page directly to your blog. (View Demo)
Email them to friends: Straight from any web page you can clip and email something you want friends, family or co-workers to see. (View Demo)
Print them: Don’t waste paper or get annoyed trying to copy and paste to a Word document. Use clipmarks to easily print only the parts of the page you want.
How-To Clip:
Check out this short video tutorial on using clipmarks…
Page2RSS is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
Feed is the best way to tack changes to any web page as compare to bookmarks. We explained feeds in details here alongwith video.
Now coming back to page2RSS, just paste URL of any web page, update to which you want to track, and page2RSS will create a feed for it which you can subscribe into your favorite feed-reader like Google Reader.
An example of such feed is Google’s homepage. Ever wondered how it has been changed over the time? Here is answer in feed form provided by page2RSS.
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One more good thing with page2RSS is it cache pages over the time. So if you want to see how entire page looked after particular update, you can click on a link saying “View Entire Page”.
Also for easier subscribing, it gives you a bookmarklet option. About languages, it available in Russian apart from English as of now.
YouTube launched an Indian version of their site last week. Our reader Adi, wanted to read our review about YouTube-India.
First thing, I noticed, if you are opening YouTube from India, you get redirected to Indian version of site at http://in.youtube.com/. You can note Indian flag in top-right corner. Just in-case, if you wanted to go for global version, you can click on Site link. It will show all available YouTube versions.
Now about thing that gets changed…
Main difference, I noted in featured videos. As shown below Indian version of YouTube show more desi videos…
Rest Promoted Videos are not much different. And there are no extra or special feature in YouTube India.
In past, it was never a problem while searching a latest Indian content on YouTube. Be it latest bollywood movie songs or IPL cricket matches, YouTube always returned results. It looks more like a commercial decision taken by Google, the parent company behind YouTube.
Anyway in future, Google may consider making YouTube little more desi by adding support for Indian languages and giving higher priority to Indian videos when something search on YouTube India.
Google Reader is favorite feed reader for many, but some people are just not comfortable with any online reader. As most of them AJAX apps and consumes high amount of memory. But on the other hand, online readers offers you advantage of being available from anywhere!
Now a new app built on Adobe Air platform, ReadAir successfully brings Google Reader to your Windows/Mac/Linux desktop. Yes, as Adobe Air is available for all major operating systems, ReadAir automatically becomes available for all desktop users.
Below is screenshot of my ReadAir – Google Reader…
Also I have noticed YouTube videos are not showing-up in ReadAir. They smoothly run in online Google Reader. The project have few small open issues like support for custom keyboard shortcut but overall its really nice, specially if you are waiting for Google to launch a desktop feed reader! 🙂
