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Tag: Internet

  • Dummies Guide at using Torrents.

    My friend Aman has written an excellent guide of how to download stuff using the latest in P2P i.e. torrents. Here are some of the important parts of the guide. The link to the article is at the end of the post. Basics: Firstly get a good client such as µtorrent or Azureus(Java), BitComet(C++) .Other…

  • Gmail Chat NOW in Opera (without masking)

    For the last few days, I was not getting through to Gmail in Standard mode, so decided to clear my cache and cookies. And walla, the standard view was back. But there was a difference, it had Google Chat in with it, and I had not masked it to identiy Opera as Firefox or Internet…

  • Offline Messages in Google Talk

    Yes folks it’s true. Google Talk now finally supports Offline Messaging (Official Blog Entry). Let’s just hope that the uber cool Google Chat emoticons are also ported into GTalk. If you send somebody an Offline Message via Google Talk, the message will be received when they sign into Google Talk/Gmail. In Google Talk it appears…

  • Get the Yahoo! Mail Beta

    Yesterday, something went in my mind. I have all Gmail, Windows Live Mail Beta, I didn’t have Yahoo! Mail Beta. So I wanted it by hook or by crook! And so the hunt began and I found this very neat trick. The whole things just worked perfectly for me, and I am in love with…

  • Google Talk turns One

    It’s a year old! Yes, Google Talk is celebrating its 1st Birthday today, and may I call it in some “Traditional Google” fashion. By that I mean a changed logo for the day, Google Talk is sporting a new Birthday Dress (logo). Happy Birthday Google Talk!!! To the Google Talk team (Hope they are reading…

  • Google Talk 1.0.0.96 RELEASED

    Finally the much awaited Google Talk version with file sharing, voicemail, and music status is out. You can check my review of it here. I am using this version full time now, hope you guys do use it too. And the best part about Google Talk is that it will update itself without any interferance,…

  • End of Teen Hungama

    Yes its true, Teen Hungama is no more. After giving it a very long hard thought I have finally decided to close it down. Over the last one year with Teen Hungama, I made quite a few friends, learnt a lot of things and had a great time. At one time we had some great…

  • Review Google Talk 1.0.0.95 (Unreleased Version)

    The guys at Google are at it again, and are testing a new version of Google Talk. Last time I called it a leaked version and everyone was on me for that, so this time I am calling it Google Talk 1.0.0.95 (Unreleased Version). You can download this version from here. This one sports quite…

  • BAN GOOGLE!!!

    July 7 2006, was one of the blackest day in the history Mumbai City and for the whole Nation. But we all stood together, and didn’t let the terrorists get away with their evil plans. On this fate full day everything seemed to fail except the Spirit of Mumbaikars and the bloggers. The Spirit of…

  • Configuring Multiple Home Pages in Firefox

    If there’s more than one site you always visit after starting up Firefox, you can set your homepage to open several tabs of different web sites at once automatically. From Firefox’s Tools menu, Options, General, enter the addresses of sites separated by a pipe | as shown above. Or, you can open up all the…