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Google has introduced new facilities in its free email service. Recently it has activated voice and video channels for users in Gmail chat. To avail these facilities ,user needs microphone or webcam and is required to install a plugin.Download here

After installing the plugin, to start video chat, just click on the "Video & more" menu at the bottom of your Gmail chat window, and choose "Start video chat." Then you'll see and hear your friend live, right inside Gmail. You can click the "pop-out" icon to make the video larger, or click the fullscreen icon in the upper left-hand corner.

Chikka Asia, Inc. is world's first instant messenger with integrated SMS feature with more than 38 million registered users.

Chikka creates an unified account with this mobile number . As per Chikka's policies, after 3 SMS are delivered recipient has to reply else further SMS will not be delivered. Though I have not tried, remove and re-add recipient's mobile number and check whether SMS are delivered or not. Recipient can reply either through SMS (paid) or logging into Chikka messenger (free).

To send SMS through Gtalk
Add CountryCodeMobileNumber@chikkatalk.com to your Gtalk contacts and send message.

e.g. For India add 91xxxxxxxxxx@chikkatalk.com in Gtalk


Keep in touch with your friends by sending free SMS wherever they are.

Tired of working in Photoshop????
No knowledge about morphing???

Here is a site that allow you to apply funny effects on your images with a couple clicks and with no need to know any basic of the image editing. Isn't it amazing ??
It is an online image editing tool that gives users a fun filled experience by creating realistic photos. Some of the effects work on face detection technology. It allows you to save the final image to be downloaded to your PC or uploaded to an image host Imageshack.

www.photofunia.com

What is RSS? Every time I spent time on web I used to see RSS in almost every page on internet. But I never gave importance to it because I did not know what it was. It was just 4 days back I researched on this topic and explored a bit about it. It’s really a very fantastic technology used by millions of web users. So I thought it would be very nice to share with you all about this.
It helps us to keep track of updates of our frequently visited websites or blogs. With this technology we don’t need to visit a website every time to check if any new content is added or not.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication / Rich Site Summary. Basically it’s a format used to provide users with frequently updated content. It is also called a ‘feed’.

How to use RSS? To get RSS content from a website we need a software(also called aggregator or feed reader or RSS reader).Some of well known softwares used for this are Feed Reader(desktop based), Feed Demon(desktop based) ,Google reader(web based),etc. These days popular browsers come with inbuilt RSS readers.
For desktop based feed readers, what you need is to copy and paste the feed link into it. Here is the image of commonly used RSS icons on web.

Same thing in case of Google reader too. Its really fun exploring with feeds. Try it.
In case of Firefox, whenever you visit a website you get a RSS icon in the address bar. Just click it to subscribe. If you don’t get it, then click on ‘Subscribe to ..’ on that current webpage- this leads you to the feeds. A sample of my blogsite RSS is shown below.

Then you get an option to save in bookmark. Simply create a new folder for Feeds in it and save in it. You can try this in any website. It is useful in getting news all over the world through feeds.So experiment it in CNN,TOI, IMDB websites.

Hope you liked this post. Incase you face any problems in using RSS then contact me.I am there for you.

Sometimes we want to insert current data and time, whenever we open the file in the notepad. It can be done in two ways.

First way=>> Just press F5 whenever you open a notepad.
Geek way=>>Just add a .LOG in the first line of your text file and close it. Next time you open the file it will insert the current date and time at the end of the file. You can start entering your text after that.

How did you like the tweak???