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Its yet another surprise from Gmail, last week they introduced the video and audio chat in gmail and now gmail themes are out where you can choose from a hand full of themes for your mail. Following the footsteps of Google’s personalized homepage, Gmail added themes. Once the new option is enabled in your account (as usually, Gmail’s new features are slowly rolled out), 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.

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Winamp is one of the best music players i have ever used which has loads of features, unlike Windows Media Player. In Google Talk there is this option to show the currently playing music track as status message. This was working in the older versions of Winamp, but when i upgraded my winamp to Winamp 5.5 and tried to show the the currently playing music track as status in Gtalk, Gtalk freezes and stops responding. Winamp was working fine so i tried out it with Windows Media Player, then Gtalk was able to show the status perfectly and it was working fine. But come on, i don’t want to use win media player, really i don’t, neither do i want  to use older version of Winamp cos winamp 5.5 is freaking cool. So i found out this solution in Gtalk Help, finally they have solved it Phew. Cos, i have been searching for a solution for quite some time.

Step 1: Go to the root directory of Winamp which is usually in C:\Program Files\Winamp\

Step 2: Select Tools->Folder Options->View (Tab) and uncheck the hide extensions for known file types and click Ok.

Step 3: Now create an empty file (Right click the mouse -> New -> Text document), so the default file would be like “New Text Document.txt”.

Step4: Rename the above file to “winamp.m3u” and save.

Step5: Close Winamp and Google Talk. Now open again and Your Show Current music track status should work.

Cheers

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Fun Photo Creator is a tools helps you to blend your portraits with well known artwork to create comical images. By following just 4 simple steps your comical image will be ready in a minute, if not in some seconds.

There are a hand full of templates to choose from,From Mona lisa to the American president and other comical template. You can even develop your own customized template quite easily.

The simple steps involved are

* Choose the template.
* Choose the picture you want to insert in the template.
* Adjust the color,brightness and contrast, or rotate the image according to your preference.
* Finally save the image.

Now your comical Masterpiece is ready.
The user interface is very simple and anyone can do it with ease.
Check what i have done with this tool.

The setup is just 6 mb, try it out!!

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I went to Burma bazaar a few days ago along with Arun and Jerome for buying some accessories for Jerome’s mob and found out that, lots of stores here are selling Korean mobiles only. Only few shops here have the normal Nokia or Ericsson mobiles and all other mobile stores are full of Korean mobiles and i found a lot of crowd in these stores. People don’t hesitate to buy these mobile phones which has no warranty, but the dealers promise us that there are lots of service centers now in Richie street and other parts of the city for these cell phones. And yesterday Arun sold his W800i and brought a korean variant of the iphone for just RS 2200/- which comes with 2 batteries,1.3 mp cam, great audio effect and most importantly looks like a iphone.

Why do people go for these ?

Well the answer is quite simple
* These phones are really cheap
* Most of the phones come with a dual SIM option and 2 batteries.
* These mobiles have incredible audio effect.
* Funky looks.

Do you people think this will affect the sales of other cell phones which are meant to be sold in India.

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Are you tired of waiting so long for your torrent files to get downloaded. Even if you have a good,stable internet connection the speed at which the files are downloaded are simply annoying. You could always improve it by following the following

1. Set proper upload and download speed
You will 1st have to find out your maximum upload and download speed. You could check it over here

Make a note of your upload and download speed
Note: If the test results shows the speeds in kB/s,you could take the value directly but if the speed is shown as kb/s,you will have to convert it to kB/s by dividing the value by 8.

Set the upload speed to 80% of your maximum upload speed you have found out &
Set the download speed to 95% of the max speed.

2.check seeds and peer
Check whether there is a good seed per peer ratio.

3.Port Forwarding
The Default IP will limit the connections offered to the port through the Bit torrent is connecting. Creating a static IP for this would do. You can learn about this here

4. Last but not least, Please turn off your windows firewall. Windows firewall doesn’t like P2P and its not going to be of any help turned ON in your computer. So try to get a good firewall like zone alarm.

I will stop it right there. There are a few other things to improve the speed too. But, think this will do.
Thats it ! Enjoy!!

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Yesterday i came across a wired pop up window while browsing which tell something like this “scan your computer online…..” Even before i finish reading the whole thing it started to show another window which creates a view like a anti-virus scanning process is going on and with in a minute it shows a result like some 50 threats detected. So i downloaded it and installed it,i feel ashame to have fell for it Then suddenly my wisdom told me that i am acting very noob like I uninstalled the application and rebooted the system but it was still there running the fake scan again. So i cleared all the registry entries of it, which helps it to contact to its server. Thus the problem was fixed

XP Antivirus 2008 is a malware usually comes up after you installed a video codec that come with Trojan, malware and virus.It generates fake and misleading system popup error messages so the poor user will be tricked into purchase XP Antivirus 2008. Another thing is that it brings your computer, all kind of malware and trojans bundled along with it, which includes zlob.trojan, trojan.vundo and Trojan.Downloader . The major problem caused by this malware is it may popup tons of ads that are difficult to close. Eventually,will lead you to throw your computer to trash

So its is very important that you remove all the component of it from your system.

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Days are gone where automated bots bug us while using yahoo messenger. These bots mostly give links to pornography related sites. Finally, YAHOO has come out with a solution to prevent bots in yahoo messenger chat rooms.Now if u want to get in to a chat room,there will be a link in which you will have to type the text in a box, which is shown in a image, popularly called as a captcha. This has been successful in preventing automated bots. Atleast now Yahoo has has one thing not to be annoyed of.

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