Dot be scared from the title its not a scam. Microsoft Corporation has launched a campaign called “SearchPerks” where you start earning tickets towards exciting prizes whenever you search the Web, oh did i mentione that the lines “whenever you search the web” actually means “whenever you search the web using Microsoft Live Search, on a Microsoft Windows using a Microsoft IE6 or above”.

So whats the fuss about, well SearchPerks is a short lived campaign by Microsoft where they are making an effort to study how the users use the search engine to search the web, sort of lab rat experiment that’s what i get out of it so far. (more…)

Google today announced a new feature of integrating your AdSense account with a new or existing Analytics account. Thus giving the publishers reports on how and where to optimize there site not only to generate good traffic but a good revenue as well. The feature is so far invite only and a very few bunch of publishers will be invited but as the feature gets pass its testing phase hopefully we all will be invited to it.

The integration is no doubt a positive step in terms of publishers, we know where the traffic comes from but where we make the most revenue is not yet clear and with this new feature rolling out i am sure its going to help us in improving not only our site traffic but its revenue stream as well. According to Google : (more…)

This seems like a fun application for people involved with web. Well do you really want to know where exactly your web server is located physically, if yes is the answer then log on to 81solutions.com.

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BBsnap a very simple and a free web application dedicated to create or get some really cool wallpapers for a blackberry phone.

The one thing i like about it is its simplicity and cleaness, if you try to Google for wallpapers you will definitely end up on a huge chunk of web that claims to provide wallpapers for your phone but of course over crowded with ads, pop ups and most of the collection of wallpapers having bikini girls all around.

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The never ending list of passwords, in today’s era is an element of concern, where ever you go around the internet there is a password to get along, facebook, ftp, emails, IM’s all have passwords and our list of passwords keeps on growing. We can’t keep a single password to all application’s neither did OpenId added any benefit to it so now its time to get hold of password managers. A password manager that takes one last password to manage all passwords, lets introduce LastPass.

As the name says “LastPass” a great application to manage your passwords. Every place we go we are expected to log in and with the passing time managing passwords itself is getting a hectic problem it’s difficult to remember passwords from all around the net.

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If you are a web designer or a web developer, the word cross browser testing always come up and the cross browser testing in IE always pop up as IE have multiple versions and according to W3schools in August 2008

• 26% users use Internet Explorer7
• 24% users use Internet Explorer 6
• 0.1% user use Internet Explorer 5
• 43% users use Firefox

For firefox we don’t have much issues cause the browser updates automatically and usually the users are using the new version but for IE the different version is a problem as the those using IE are usually using Windows where browser is the core functionality of the operating system.

How to install different versions of Internet Explorer.

A very handy tool called Internet Explorer Collection offers you the ability to install and use different versions of Internet explorer at the same time.  The package is freeware with a size of 42.4 MB, 44.561.338 bytes, just download the package and you can select the versions of standalone Internet explorer you would like to install, so far they are providing the following versions of Internet Explorer. (more…)

Ever wondered how to send confidential information over the internet, or information that you just want to be read once and that’s it. Well for such 007 activity you can try out Private Note a service that allows you to send confidential information anonymously to your friends or family over the internet by forwarding them a link.

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According to a blog post on Yahoo’s Corp Blog, Yahoo is planning to make changes to its home page yes another redesign again. This seems to be quite a quick decision as Yahoo has a history of not changing its main page for years.

We’re working on a new homepage that will help you get more out of the Internet, make more of your precious time, and make sense of all the things going on in your world. After lots of ongoing research (i.e., focus groups, usability experiments, etc.), today we’ve begun testing an all-new, more streamlined Yahoo.com that will bring the things that matter most to you –- no matter where they “live” on the Web.

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Ever wondered how to design your own business car, well ‘Automatic Business Cards‘ is the solution if you want to design your own business cards as quickly as possible without any knowledge of heavy design tools. It can be a great service for quickly setting up a business card for printing.

All you have to do is fill a bunch of forums with the information you want on the business card along with the logo and ‘Automatic Business Cards’ will create the necessary files that you need to deliver to the printer for the printing. (more…)

Google today announced another additions there labs, “Google Audio search“. Google audio search is a bi product of a previously launched Google Elections Video Search gadget on iGoogle, a tool that transcribes and indexes the spoken content on YouTube’s Politicians channels.

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