If you have a collection of DVD’s on one of your partitions and you have to move these files to a new location, its a nightmare on windows it will take a huge chunk of time and during which all the resource of your computer will focused on that move and of course there is a huge percentage of chance that it might get stuck.

So here is a quick tool that can help resolve this problem, download fastCopy a software that claims to be the worlds fastest Copy/Delete software in Windows build by Japanese. Its free light weight and can copy/delete unicode and over MAX_PATH files. Unlike windows it does not ask questions or reports so while copying files make sure the destination directory is empty or it will overwrite the files there without asking any question of making a prompt. It can also be used on a local area network to copy / delete / move big files from one location to another all you got to do is install it in two PC’s mutually and copy the log files.

Download FastCopy for free from here
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Ever wondered where actually a website is hosted, what if there are bunch of guys living next door and have tons of equipment could they be your web host. Well thanks to Server IP location now you can locate physical location of your web host or physical location of any website on a Google map and find out where actually is there web server.

This cool tool is made by 81solutions an SEO / Hosting & commerce company. The IP Tool location asks you to enter a website address and the Google map on the page will show you the exact location of where you data center is. So in one way you can find out exactly where it is, you can cross check if the sales guys are lying about there locations or you can just have few minutes of fun and find out most of the web hosting is done in California.

But the real purpose according to the inventors

For SEO purposes it maybe useful to locate servers in the country you wish to serve. For example, if you are targeting the UK market, thus UK search engines then it maybe advantageous to your websites position on the search engine results pages to host your website in the UK. Hosting in your target country may also increase customer satisfaction as webpages will load quicker and have faster response times.

Check it out Server IP Location

Steve Jobs at WWDC 2008 announced the new iPhone 3G, combined with all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking, built-in GPS, and iPhone 2.0 software that supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs hundreds of third party applications built with the iPhone SDK.
iPhone 3G comes in two models:

• 8GB costing $199
• 16GB costing $299

So whats new with the iPhone 3G, well iPhone 3G the next version from Apple have worked out on improving a bunch of stuff, its more thinner, solid metal buttons, gorgeious display, camera, flush headphone jacks and improved audio. The Battery life has been improved to 300 hours of standby with a 2G talk-time of 10 hours (prviously it was 5hr). (more…)

CEO OF Microsoft Corporation “Steve Ballmer”, while addressing a University where one student lost control and started throwing eggs at him for selling Microsoft products for billions of dollars and cursing him for stealing that money from the people. The worst part he missed…

Ever wondered how to fix your corrupt zip files? Well it usually happens when you transfer zipped files, download them or sometime leave them for a long time to return to see that “Ops they have gone corrupt”.What really happens is that some portion of the files do go corrupt while some portion is recoverable though you cannot recover or open it as when you try, it simply displays a message the file has gone corrupt.

So today we have zip repair, a free ware software that will repair you corrupted zipped files. The edge is if it cannot repair it, it will extract what it can. Usually what happens is zip tools check archives for integrity & If the CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) values of the original files of an archive don’t match the extracted ones, the standard tools won’t extract them. So at that point Zip Repair gets handy it tries to repair corrupt zip file. All you have to do is provide it the location and the zip Repair will show a list of files from you zip archive that can be repaired and extracted.

Its a real life saver in terms of data when you don’t want to loose all of it and still can get some of it. The software is a free ware so you can easily download from here and for further information you can take a look at there website.

Download Zip Repair

Thought orkut have not opened this channel of customized theme but people have found a way around of changing the themes of the orkut pages. But this change hardly makes any difference, firstly you can change the theme to the one you like but that theme will only be viewable to you only and not your friends.

Still if you want you can change the theme and a get a new look you would need:

1. Mozilla Firefox ( a free web browser)
2. GreaseMonkey or Stylish (firefox plugins)

If you don’t want to use Mozilla Firefox you can change the orkut theme with Internet Explorer as well just install

1. Internet Explorer 7
2. Trixie Plugin for IE

Once you have installed the plugins restart you browser, and then either go to [orkutplus] or go to userscripts install the scripts and start enjoying the themes. Though previously orkut experimented by releasing a theme for Holi an Indian holiday for Indian users only so very soon orkut will be officially launching the ability to chose your own theme.

Adobe Labs have released beta version of there upcoming Adobe Dreamweaver, Fireworks & soundbooth. The beta releases are available for download from the adobe labs page.

So whats new & what we can expect from the upcoming releases

Upcoming Adobe Dreamweaver
The new release of Dreamweaver comes with many exciting surprises some of which my most favorite are :

• Live View which included integration of the famous webkit enhancing dreamweaver with a new rendering engine that will help you view your web pages under real-world browser conditions.
• The Related Files feature displays all the documents associated with your current page, whether CSS, JavaScript, PHP, or XML, in a bar along the top of your document thus adding more flexibility to your work environment.
• A Code Navigator pop-up window has been added which will displays CSS rules, server-side includes, external JavaScript functions. Seems like Adobe understands the MVC and interlinked code structures and have enhanced more support to it.
• Code hinting for Ajax and JavaScript frameworks means support for popular JavaScript frameworks including jQuery, Prototype, and Spry.
• Photoshop Integration Drag and drop an Adobe Photoshop® PSD file into a Dreamweaver page to create an image Smart Object.
• Subversion in Dreamweaver: integrates Subversion software for a more robust check-in/check-out experience with file versioning, rollback, and more
• Adobe® AIR™ authoring support Create multiplatform desktop applications from your Dreamweaver HTML and JavaScript sites with new Adobe AIR™ authoring support.

Upcoming Adobe Fireworks

Fireworks used for rapidly prototype websites, application interfaces, and other interactive designs. Create, edit, and optimize web graphics more accurately and faster than ever with the enhanced toolset. Demo your design live for your client, or e-mail an interactive PDF file. This version comes with

• New user interface > similar to photo shop / illustrator and easy switch between them
• CSS and Images Export > one click export of design into css
• PDF export >> finally pdf support arrives
• Adobe type engine >> Adobe True Type font support yaiii

For More [http://labs.adobe.com/]

A web designer is always off to look for quality web2.0 icons, and thanks to so many nice people a huge vault of free icons libraries are easily available to download but of course finding them on Google is quite tough as you have to sort a huge list of unwanted results so here we are going to list you top 5 locations to find quality, stylish, web2.0 and of course sexy icons to make your websites look more sexy.

1- IconsFinder
This one is on my top list reason being its easy, not cluttered with ads and offers good quality open source icons to download. Previously iconfinder was known as iconfinder.com but they guy forgot to renew his domain and some one stole it from him so now its( updated - its always iconfinder.net ) iconfinder.net a great resource to find quality free icons.
http://www.iconfinder.net

2- IconLook
IconLook is a sort of clone of Iconfinder but yet another great resource for finding individual icons files, though as compared to iconfinder the iconlook has more libraries of icons thus adding more variety but in some cases the design of the icons are not that exciting as they should be. But still they got a huge library and you can easily find icons that you need using there tagged search engine.
http://www.iconlook.com

3- Iconspedia
As they say “Your source of free icons”, Iconspedia is a huge collection / catalog of free icons to download, they have a well organized collection of icons placed in categories to choose from, you can even download there icons in the form of packs. The icons are new and more of a web2.0, iconspedia has collected icons from the community and submitting icons is quite easy does not require any kind of registration.

The sizes are good and the file format they provide is PNG and ico. All the icons have there licenses listed are are mostly free to download.
http://www.iconspedia.com

4- Icon Archive
IconArchive is a categorized collection of more then 18 000 icons in 656 sets from 155 icon artists. There files are for windows / linux / osx in PNG and .ico file formats. Take care of the used license. You’ll find this information on each icon set page. If you want to use icons commercially, ask the author of the icons you want to use.
http://www.iconarchive.com/

5- FreeIconsWeb
Over 15,000 high quality Free Icons for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems. (Desktop Icons,Windows Icons,Windows XP and Vista Icons,Mac OS X Icons, Linux, PNG Transparent Icons,Gif Icons,Pixels Icons) Some are free and some belong to the company still great libraries of free icons.
http://www.freeiconsweb.com/

Previously
wikipedia of free web2.O icons

After a while i received a notification email from orkut, though thinking the orkut community is dead so the email did get my attention as it stated that a friend of mine poked me! For a moment i though “WHAT” this kind of emails are suppose to come from facebook but to my reconfirmation it was from orkut and it did say that a friend of mine poked me.

So i logged on to orkut to see what really happened and how could some one from orkut poke me! Once i entered the orkut word allot had changed and made me immediately comfortable as there was allot of similarity of what the new orkut had offered with an application that i had been using before. So i decided to write a review on how the orkut has improved and brought in BRAND new services to its social networking site.

1- Support for Applications >
Add applications and customize your profile with music, games, and more! a new feature by Orkut. Facebook allows its users to ad and customize applications along with privacy settings for the applications.

2- Notifications >
Facebook sends notifications when ever actions are taken …… Orkut sends you notifications via eMail, message ….

3- News Feed - Updates from Friends
Now orkut offers updates from friends see which of your friends added new applications, updated there image gallery and with facebook you get all the notices in the form of mini feeds on your landing page.

4- Privacy Features >
Orkut has now introduced privacy settings,that allows you to be as public or private with your information as you wish. With facebook’s privacy you Control who can see your profile and related information.

A new service by Microsoft “search via Microsoft Search engine Live and Microsoft will pay you for it”. Okai its not like that they haven’t gone that desperate yet but Microsoft has launched a new service called Live Search Cash back.

The Microsoft cash back offers users to search products using only Microsoft live to look for cash back deals. Each product will list its price along with the cash back offer on that product. Once you purchase that product Microsoft will add the cash back to you account & once it goes above $5 you can get your money back.

Cash Back deals is common in US stores but i guess Microsoft seems to be the first to bring it along to the web. Microsoft is working hard to put a dominant role on the web where so far Google is the king and this step might help out store owners and users to develop a new stream of business.

[http://search.live.com/cashback]