Infotix -- A Technology notepad

If you are fed up with the error reporting messages every time any program crashes then here are the few steps that will deactivate this error reporting service completely from your system. See snapshots of the process below.

FlashPhone launches a free service that enables to make international/local calls directly from the Internet on your computer.
This service is currently in Beta stage therefore it can be accessed to limited number of countries(Complete list).

To make these calls you need only Adobe flash player(Ver.9 or above) and a headset.
To begin you must register with the site, filling out some general information. Then you are ready to go and can make your free international calls. When you want to make a call you are directed to a screen with which looks like a calling pad with all of the numbers two bottoms with images of phones, green to call red to hang up. From there you make your call remembering all of the country codes.

Temporarily, the call duration is limited to 3 minutes and 3 calls per day which can be easily extended by opening more accounts.Though this can't be used in Apple Iphone as it doesn't support Adobe Flash Player yet.Anyways, it's still a very cool and useful application that must be looked on.

It's possible to send email to anyone from anyone's mail id without hacking it's password.Technically,this is called as email spoofing.If you carefully notice your spam box I am sure you will get around 2-3 messages having id stevejobs@apple.com or gates@microsoft.com.At the end of this post you will find a widget from where you can send these types of spam mails.

According to Wikepedia Email Spoofing can be defined as " A term used to describe fraudulent email activity in which the sender address and other parts of the email header are altered to appear as though the email originated from a different source. E-mail spoofing is a technique commonly used for spam e-mail and phishing to hide the origin of an e-mail message."

These types of Spam messages are still can't be filtered out by using GMail filters. Therefore I am still searching to find out there filtering method.While googling about this topic I stumbled upon Funmaza.com which have a software that can send these spam messages.Just try their software to send spam mails.

For a long time I was wondering why GMail hasn't introduced Group chat feature but finally wait is over as Gmail added group chat feature which let you chat with many friends in a group.Though this type of feature was already embedded into Yahoo Messenger. But GTalk now has replaced YMessanger to some extent. The main reason for this trend is importing of all contacts of Orkut in GTalk and obviously good looks of GTalk interface.

To get started, follow these steps:

1. Start a chat with a single person in your Contacts list.
2. Once you've started the chat, click Options at the bottom left of your chat window and select Group Chat.
3. In the field labeled 'Add a person to this chat,' enter the name of the contact(s) you want to add to your group chat.

For more details visit GMail Support.

There is no doubt that IE7 has been so far a flop show in front of Firefox and Opera. Besides having some good features ie7 hasn't created any buzz and many users have reported the add-ons is still the factor that separate both of them. Last night I received a mail forwarded by one of my friend titled " Microsoft-Dont miss the chance" and I am sure many of you have already received this mail.
The content of the mail is as follows.

Dear Friends,

Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates is sharing his fortune. If you ignore this you will repent later. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test.
When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period.
For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $245.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $243.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $241.00. Within two week! s, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a cheque.

In addition to this there were few attachments carrying proof of the money




Looking at all these I think if this idea of promotion is forwarded by Microsoft then it sucks but I am sure that Microsoft like reputed company know better methods to promote their products. There is also most obvious possibility that this is mailed by rivals of ie7 who wants to defame their competitor. In either case IE7 is getting good promotion.

Since now Gmail account can be registered without any invitation I don't understand why there is still option of sending invitation at bottom left half of the main page in Gmail account.

Gom player is one of the finest media player that I have encountered. There are so many things that you can do in this player like playing broken video, repeating a section of movie ,screen capture etc. But today while watching a film I wasn't able to understand few dialogues which made me to search for subtitles option. And as usual Gom has this option also. For adding subtitles just search .srt files(in Kbs)of that particular movie on Google and download it.
Now,drag and drop this .srt file into the main screen of Gom when movie is loaded into the player and that's it you can watch the subtitles yourself.

See how to charge your iPod for for around 15-20 min using electrolytes and an onion. I always knew that an onion held fantastic amounts of untapped potential energy. Especially when it squirts death-ray juice in my eyes. This experiment is done by Household Hacker. Enjoy the video.

You have many times seen ads displayed on sidebar or top of result page while searching on Google.These ads are one of the major source of revenue for Google but some times these ads get too much irritating.
So,if you want to not display such ads then Google has also provided this option. Just type google.com/webhp?output=googleabout instead of normal Google.com and continue as usual.

If you are also fed up with hundreds of spam messages in your Gmail account then here is a tutorial to remove them permanently.And this method is pretty effective since my spam box is now empty for last 2-3 days.

First of all locate this "create a filter option" at top of your account page and click on it.

After this a screen will be prompted like shown below. Leave From,To,Subject spaces as it is and type "in:spam" (without quotes)in " Has the words". If by chance any important mail has get into this spam filter than you can distinguish this by entering any personal information like name,address,phone no. etc. in "Doesn't have".



And finally click on " Delete it" and create this filter.

FasterFox is a Mozilla firefox add-on which is quite helpful to increase performance of firefox browser. Though it does not increase your Internet speed considerably but I found it quite useful while opening various tabs simultaneously
According to the official content of Mozilla which is stated below this add-on is more helful in sending and recieving DNS cache. While watching videos on youtube, this add-on certainly helps in improving the buffering of video content.

Fasterfox allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.

Dynamic speed increases can be obtained with the unique prefetching mechanism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you are browsing.

Download this add-on at FasterFox(size=116 Kb).

Last week one of my friend told me to read " 55 Ways to Have Fun with Google " by Philipp Lenssen . Since my end semester exams are approaching I completed this book last night after a span of almost 5 days.
Each chapter (some very short) in the book has a unique and interesting thing you can do with Google. And for most people, you will want to put the book down and go to your computer and try it after reading it. Some of those very interesting chapters include, "Googlebombing," "Googlepolls," "Growing a Google Word" and of course "EgoGoogling."This is an excellent read for both the geeky and the non geeky folks. I highly recommend to read these at least once.

Download links:
1) Rapidshare link
2) Direct pdf link
3) Zip folder

I dont know is this thing new to you or not but I came across while googling score of India v/s Pakistan Cricket match. I just typed " cricket" on google search bar and got the live update of all the matches taking place . By clicking on that first link you can get full match stats. Along with match stats over by over commentary is also displayed .

If you now sign up for a Hotmail account then you will get id as ______@live.com instead of @hotmail.com. Microsoft few months back announced to give live.com domain but due to some technical problems , it is relaunched. You can always keep the @hotmail.com address you have now, but if you are looking for a new address with a new domain, get one now.You can sign up new id at get.live.com

When I checked my mailbox 5 min back,I was shocked to see 243 spam messages. I checked my mails in morning that means 243 spam messages in just 8-9 hrs.

If you are using Firefox then you had already get the latest update of Firefox 2.0.0.9 last night.
I must say Firefox team is upgrading their well popular product at very fast pace. Few months back they introduces 2.0.0.8 version .But due to large number of problems reported by users regarding the sudden shutdown of tabs is definitely one of the reason to introduce new improved version. I am not sure about the stability of newer version but Firefox site claims to be more advanced then previous one.

Good news for Paypal's Indian users, now you can withdraw funds directly to Indian bank account.
Earlier there was option of withdrawing to credit card or issuing a cheque which takes quite a lot of time.Moreover, there is quite possibility of postal delays.But now money can be transfered directly into the bank account.If you are unverified member then there is monthly limit of $500 and maximum limit of $3000 for withdrawing and for the time sake this is possible in few major banks.

The list of Participating Banks :

1. State Bank of India
2. Bank of India
3. Canara Bank
4. Union Bank of India
5. HDFC Bank
6. ICICI Bank
7. ING VYSYA Bank
8. UTI Bank
9. Standard Chartered Bank
10. HSBC
11. Citibank

Process of Adding a Bank Account in India to your PayPal Account:

1. Select ‘Add/Edit Bank Accounts’ from the ‘Profile’ Tab.

2. Select the Bank name and then fill in the details of your account. Then click ‘Continue’

3. Next the confirmation page will be shown. Review the details and click ‘Add Bank Account’.

In between you have to type 11 digit IFSCode of your bank branch which can be easily found in Excel spreadsheets provided by RBI or ICICI bank.




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I came across a blog - No2Google where an ex-Google employee who is now at the MS camp or an MS employee trying to bring down Google. In his post "Life at Google - The Microsoftie Perspective" he says Microsoft is an amazingly transparent company,Google is not. Any peek is a good peek. Though it's not quite clear about the originality of his/her post but definitely that post has acquired almost 550 comments .

The WorldView-1 satellite was launched on Tuesday, September 18, 2007, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. WorldView-1 is the first of two new next-generation satellites DigitalGlobe, a leader in the global commercial Earth imagery and geospatial information market, plans to launch. Boeing Launch Services has been contracted to provide the end-to-end launch services for DigitalGlobe.The new satellite will also provide far more accurate data, including the ability to pinpoint objects on the Earth at three to 7.5 meters, or 10 to 25 feet.
DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google Inc's interactive mapping program Google Earth, said it's going to use a new high-resolution satellite - WorldView I - to boost the accuracy of images. Together with the company’s existing Quickbird satellite, it will offer half-meter resolution and will be able to collect over 600,000 square kilometers of imagery each day.

So,finally Apple introduces new iPod Touch, iphone similar gadget.By the look of it, it’s like iPhone, just slimmer. It’s basically an inheritance of iPhone except the phone/text function. It’s got all the touch flipping, images viewing we’ve seen in iPhone. Here’s more inside iPod Touch:

• Multi-touch user screen
• WiFi supported
• Safari Browser
• Google and Yahoo Search
• Direct songs download
• Youtube
• Calendar
• Clock

iPod Touch comes in 2 different prices, 8GB/$299 and 16GB/$399. Battery life last like 22 hours on music or 5 hours on videos. And unlike iPhone, it is shipping worldwide. Both will be shipping this month. If you are still waiting for the arrival of iPhone, this new iPod might just quench your thirst.You can catch all the details at Steve Job's site.