e-FreeTips

Mail disclosure, reveal email sender from Gmail

2010-11-15T20:36:00.000-08:00

When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender.

Note that this will not work if the sender uses anonymous proxy servers.

Also, note that if you receive an email sent from a Gmail account through the web browser, you may not be able to find the real IP address because Google hides the real IP address of the sender. However, if someone sends you a mail from his/her Gmail account using a client like Thunderbird, Outlook or Apple Mail, you can find the originating IP address.

Lets begin this. First of all, the IP address is generally found in the headers enclosed beween square brackets, for instance, [129.130.1.1]

1. Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
2. Open the mail.
3. To display the email headers,

* Click on the inverted triangle beside Reply. Select Show Orginal.

4. Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ].

Find out your hidden files

2010-04-01T19:49:00.000-07:00

people sometime get mad just because they couldn't find where their files. there's a possibility that your files being hidden. How we can see files or folders that are hidden. So here is a quick tip on to show those windows hidden files.

By default, windows hides important files to keep them from deleted or modified. Remember not to remove or modify files you don’t understand to prevent your computer from being brought to Intensive Care Unit.

Follow the below steps to show hidden files.

* Open Control Panel then on click Folder Options

or

* Open Windows Explorer, My Computer or any Windows

* Click on tools then Folder Options
* Under the View tab, select “Show hidden files and folders” then click OK

You should be able to see your windows hidden folders.

Optimizing search engine

2009-04-08T23:26:00.000-07:00

Make search engine works at it's optimized result for you is simple. Search engine could be tuned to fit your search parameters using various operators available:

Use the plus sign (+) to force a search for an overly common word. Use the minus sign (-) to exclude a term from a search. No space follows these signs.
To search for a phrase, supply the phrase surrounded by double quotes (" ").
A period (.) serves as a single-character wildcard.
An asterisk (*) represents any word—not the completion of a word, as is traditionally used.

Google advanced operators help refine searches. Advanced operators use a syntax such as the following:

operator:search_term

Notice that there's no space between the operator, the colon, and the search term.

The site: operator instructs Google to restrict a search to a specific web site or domain. The web site to search must be supplied after the colon.
The filetype: operator instructs Google to search only within the text of a particular type of file. The file type to search must be supplied after the colon. Don't include a period before the file extension.
The link: operator instructs Google to search within hyperlinks for a search term.
The cache: operator displays the version of a web page as it appeared when Google crawled the site. The URL of the site must be supplied after the colon.
The intitle: operator instructs Google to search for a term within the title of a document.
The inurl: operator instructs Google to search only within the URL (web address) of a document. The search term must follow the colon.

Get Top Rank on search engine

2009-04-04T01:01:00.000-07:00

As researchers reported : one in five searches are image searches

Images are essentials to keep user of the web page keep coming and increase new visitors. one thing for sure that some element of image like alt tags and file name optimization are key for the image to show up on search engines.

Other tips to get you ranked in search engine :

- Add images to your Google Local Business profile

- Enable Google Image Labeler in your Google Webmaster Tools account.

- Add images to local business citation sources.

- Add images to blog posts or news articles for syndication in Google news.

Facebook Security issues

2009-03-28T19:02:00.000-07:00

Beware of a group invitation received on Facebook. The invitation read: “Facebook MessengerTM NEW Facebook Messenger Available Now For News Facebook.”

People reporting something was wrong with the site. It was clearly not a Facebook-endorsed application or download site and was also obviously not created as part of the Facebook Developer Network. How to know this? Well, the URL to the download site and lots of weird characters, namely. There were a bevy of different languages strewn throughout the page. And there was this message:

“Note: You have to Invite your all Friends and tell Them to Download it so you can chat with your friends on FB Messenger and Its Truste Download so Dont Worry about the program.”

Also the download site to see what was there (Not recommended — never click on suspicious links. Do as I say, not as I do) and was met with a really ugly download site for a really ugly tool bar

You won't find anything especially malicious — and the toolbar itself did appear to be safe and legitimate — but he did find some questionable links. A bevy of “free SMS” sites included — so perhaps this is a model for adware if not malware? Or potential click fraud?

“In this day of the ad-supported Internet, page views can be more valuable and cost-effective than malware that will only infect 1 percent of potential victims,” Cortesi said. “It’s really odd. Some sites are completely legit while others are just derivatives of the shady-ness.”

Does it really matter if nothing bad was found? It just as easily could have been malicious. This is group developed on Facebook, claiming to be an official Facebook tool, linking off of the site to a questionable downloadable application. You say, “Well, will Facebook delete it?” They did, but only after I alerted them to the issue on Monday night. And not before the group had more than 1 million users. And it didn’t appear, that installing the application forced people to join the group. It appeared that people willingly joined this suspect group.

Facebook commented :
“Our user operations team investigated this group and removed it as well as another similar one. Facebook’s policy is to remove intentionally deceptive groups when they’re reported to us,” they said.

Record scratch. “Reported to us.” This is dangerous. More than 1 million of Facebook’s users could’ve been in danger of downloading malware or landing on some sort of phishing scam. The onus is somewhat on Facebook to take more proactive measures when it comes to monitoring these groups and posted links (or maybe incorporating some “you are leaving Facebook warning system” as they do with email messages). Unfortunately at this point in time there is little else Facebook can do.

“Not unless they have a bank of virtual hosts in place that scrape all of their links, automatically browse them and check for malware infections,” Cortesi said. “While measures to prevent malware are in place on Google and within popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, validating every link in the world’s largest social network is a challenge that does not currently justify the investment. Such is the challenge of any organization balancing the inherent risk of doing business on the Internet with the overwhelming rewards.”

While Facebook figures this no-win situation out, users need to start paying more attention to the types of groups they join and the third-party downloads they install on their machines.

Finally we had to take care ourself, never follow untrustworthy links!! keep it clean and save..happy facebook..

Try Brand New IE8

2009-03-28T17:15:00.000-07:00

Upgrade to IE8 to benefit from these security improvements.
IE8 got launched and that there’s been quite a lot of talks about the so-called privacy button that allows you to browse the net with an invisibility cloak.

Internet Explorer 8 is three times faster than Firefox and slightly faster than Chrome. The company made the claim that IE8 is the fastest browser around in a 14-page report (pdf link) titled ‘Measuring Browser Performance: Understanding issues in benchmarking and performance analysis’.

Microsoft tested the three browsers side-by-side using the top 25 sites according to comScore. The sites tested range from Google.com to Ask.com and even include Microsoft and Mozilla’s own domains. IE8 supposedly loaded 12 sites faster than the other two, Chrome nine, and Firefox only four.

To be straight, just kick it to start.. Download IE.8 Now

Surf internet Anonymously

2009-03-25T22:58:00.000-07:00

Identity Cloaker is a technologically advanced "Internet Privacy and Anonymity Protection Service", designed to be easy to use even for a complete computer newbie, yet offering a very high level of protection and versatility demanded by power-users.

Download
Identity Cloaker protects the user's privacy and anonymity on the Internet by encrypting all transmitted data and disguising the user's IP address, employing a network of private anonymous proxy servers, SSH tunneling and the OpenVPN Virtual Private Networking technology combined with virtually unbreakable 256-bit AES military class encryption. Identity Cloaker is not yet another proxy switcher. However, it can be thought of as a much more advanced replacement for one. Identity Cloaker also supports portable installation - it can be launched directly from a USB Flash Drive or memory card, without the need to install anything on the PC and it does not need a Windows account with administrative rights.

Your online secretary

2009-03-22T04:28:00.000-07:00

Oddcast is a social media and viral marketing company specializing in online technologies that open up new possibilities for audience personalization and engagement. We partner with agencies and brands to execute user-driven campaigns that leverage social networks to drive viral propagation, lead generation, and brand exposure.

Powering the World's Biggest Online Hits
Since 1999, top brands and advertising agencies have turned to Oddcast to develop interactive, user-driven experiences that engage audiences in ways that cannot be achieved with typical online marketing. Oddcast has powered many of the web's biggest hits, including Ford's Theme Song-a-tron, Careerbuilder's Monk- e-Mail, Tide's Talking Stain, and Volkswagen's Babymaker. We have received multiple Webby awards for Viral Marketing Campaigns, an Addy Award, and our campaigns have been featured on CNN, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, AdAge, Creativity, TheFWA.com, and many more. Our work has been experienced by hundreds of millions of users - a testament to our founding belief that increasing user participation results in a deeper, more engaging brand experience.
Where Creative Vision Meets Creative Technology

Oddcast's technology innovations have opened up new opportunities for audience participation and entertainment. We pioneered the use of personalized talking avatars. Our 3D PhotoFace technology creates realistic 3D likenesses from a single uploaded image, and 3D VideoStar lets users mash themselves into existing film footage. We have also invented technologies that let audiences participate in virtual karaoke competitions, type lyrics that are sung out loud, participate in multi-user 3D environments, and even communicate in real time voice using animated flash characters.

Top 10 FREE TWEAKING SOFTWARE

2009-03-05T19:16:00.000-08:00

System Explorer 1.5

System Explorer 1.5 This full-featured system analyzing tool lets you take a sneak peek at everything that's going on in your system.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

Recuva 1.23.389

Restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your Windows computer.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

Disk Investigator 1.31

Scan the hidden or unreadable contents of your hard drive.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

ZipItFree 1.9

ZipItFree 1.9 ZipItFree was designed to be better than WinZip and WinRar combined. Save disk space and e-mail transmission time.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

Easeus Partition Manager 3.0

Configure and manage partitions of hard drive without destroying data.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

Identity Finder Free Edition 3.5.4
Find and secure personal information stored on your PC.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

Lightscreen 0.3

Lightscreen 0.3 Customizable screenshot program. You can choose to capture your entire desktop, only the active window or a selected area.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

ThreatFire AntiVirus Free Edition 4.0

Protect your PC against viruses, rootkits, buffer overflows, and malware.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

MP3DirectCut 2.10

Perform frame-based editing of MP3 files - remove parts, change the volume (on MP3 only), split files and more.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

Recover Files 2

Recover Files 2 Recover permanently deleted files from hard disks and removable media with this small, fast, useful, practical and powerful tool.
License: Free
Platform: Windows

Free Online Photo Editor

2009-03-04T03:05:00.000-08:00

Price is one big issue for picture hobbies and professional photographer, Photo editing software are roughly priced from $200 to even $800. Lately web services develop online photo editor, These Web-based applications let you upload your image, perform most of the common photo-editing tasks you need right in your Web browser, and then save your work, without requiring you to download or install any software. And best of all, most of them are free.

Feel free to choose, compare and pick the best service for your need.

Service	Flash/ HTML	Max. size	Max. res	Best feature
Flauntr	Flash	10 MB	2850 x 1599	Part of a larger suite of editing products. You can take your file to another tool without losing changes.
Fotoflexer	Flash	No Limit	4500 x 4500	Handles multiple layers with grace. Includes advanced features like curve tweaks and intelligent lassoing for free.
Lunapic	HTML	4 MB	1330 x 1330	Can run on machines without Flash installed. Really inventive special effects--especially reflective water that ripples.
Phixr	HTML	No Limit	1440 x 1080	Can run on machines without Flash installed. Does not save your photos on its servers for very long, so you can edit sensitive images and nobody will see them.
Phoenix	Flash	No Limit	2800 x 2800	Great layer masking, community support, and tutorials. Work from Phoenix can be sent to another editing tool in the Aviary Web suite.
Photoshop.com	Flash	10 MB	6000 x 6000	Editing features get previewed in real time. Also runs on Adobe's latest and greatest Flash technology.
Picnik free	Flash	16 MB	4000 x 4000	Default photo editor for Flickr, very slick interface.
Picture2Life	HTML	5 MB	1600 x 1600	Can run on machines without Flash installed. Floating windows workspace, similar to desktop apps.
Pixenate	HTML	10 MB	1600 x 1200	Can run on machines without Flash installed. Tooth whitening tool perfects yellow smiles with two clicks.
Pixer.us	Flash	10 MB	6000 x 6000	Remembers the last photo you were working on and has a wide range of filters and effects.

Have a Happy Photo editing !!

Best ideas to start a good blogs

2009-02-23T10:06:00.001-08:00

What to keep your blog favourable and rich of topic, 3 times post per week to your blog are recomended. However, that would overwhelming for many. Even though you may be an expert in a topic.

Blog posts don't have to be complicated. You're not writing a complete article. Sometime a blog post is only a paragraph or two contain your thoughts about something rather than composing a 1000-word post.
Following are ideas to help you create a blog post when you're stuck for one:

1. Frequently asked questions.
Write a series of blog posts that answer your friends or collague most frequently asked questions. If you've been in business for awhile, you know the questions that clients and prospective clients ask you to answer over and over again.

2. Interview an expert.
Contact people that are from most intersted topic recently. Make an interesting topic to discuss, and then share your discussion with your readers.

3. Current events.
See what's happening around the world, your country, or even your city. Give your opinion about the event, critics, most people said and a solution about that event.

4. Trends in your Bussiness.
More people constantly and subscribe to specific publications. When you blog about the trend, put your unique perspective on it, or write a rebuttal post, disagreeing with the relevance of the trend.

5. Share your personal experience.
Tell a story about what's happening in your life or in your Jobs or anything that might be useful or instructive for your readers.

6. Top 10.
The easiest topic to blog about are top ten of everything, from personal issue to a major politics scandals

7. Help people solve a problem.
Create a post that talks about the problem and the solution you provided (either with your client's permission, or by making it generic enough to hide the client's identity) that becomes a learning experience for your readers.

8. Review something.
Read a good book, watch a movie, talk about product you just bought. Blog about your own review highlighting both the high points and low points of everything you had, and whether you would recommend that others use or purchase it.

9. Ask and answer questions.
Ask your ezine subscribers or blog readers to ask you their most pressing question related to what you do, it helps you stay in touch with the needs of readers.

10. Make your mind journal.
Sometimes a blogging idea or concept will strike you when you don't need to blog. List your future interest on your recent blog to keep track what you had started.

11. A memory of a day.
Bring people back several years ago, when an important event take a place. An invention, technology breaktrough, a born leader, a team winning, a unique discovery, etc.

12. How to ?
There's always something you can tell your reader how to do almost anything. a good and thorough tutorial of the process might interest people to bookmark your site as manual book.

13. Read and comments blogs.
Add and follow others blog and give comments. Invite others to visit your blog too, express your clear opinion about what people's write.

14. Rewrite your journey.
You travel a lot? yes, you could share your travel experience to anyone. People love to know places before they go, your blog could be the hot reference for them.

15. Join a dynamic community.

A dynamic community would give you an enormous idea of what people thought, want or even angry about. You won't stop blogging if you had all topic in your mind everyday.

Flagfox - Firefox add on, Avoid SCAM

2009-02-14T12:08:00.000-08:00

When you decide to start your internet business, trust should be your first priority. It should be the first thing to do when you want to start join or affiliate to a site, that's why knowing the site is exactly correct to site server location will give you trust to site's service.

Using Flagfox as an extension for Mozilla Firefox will shows a flag icon indicating the current website's server location. It uses relatively little resources, and works by accessing an IP address location database contained within the extension rather than relying on top-level-domain roots like ".com" or ".uk". Clicking the icon loads Geotool, which provides a map of the location as well as more detailed information such as the ISP, city, and local time. The context menu also provides quick access to information about the country of origin, as well as the ability to lookup the domain's registrant via Whois.

Uses of Flagfox range from simply educating users about the global nature of the Internet to:
* SEO and web development research
* Indicating the native languages and legal jurisdictions for webservers
* Warning when sites that are not in the country the say they are
* Quickly viewing/copying server IP addresses for diagnostic and other uses

Flagfox can be used as a warning as to when a server isn't where it should be. If you end up at a site claiming to be an American bank, and it shows as Nigerian, then you may want to think twice. However, while this can be useful, Flagfox should not be relied on for this as a scam site can be in America just as easily as anywhere else.

Installation :

Download flagfox-3.3.8-fx+sm.xpi add on
Start Firefox
Open file
select flagfox-3.3.8-fx+sm.xpi
Install
Surf, Affiliate and Watch !!

Have difficultly find it ?, you could download it here..

SeoQuake, Increase your page rank free

2009-02-14T09:28:00.000-08:00

With SeoQuake installed, you will have complete descriptions about your site, blog or others site you visit instantly.

SeoQuake submits a query to search engine every time when it needs to obtain a value for a new parameter (that is not in a cache yet), defined by this search engine. Frequent use of big amount of the parameters may lead to the ban of user’s IP address from search engine. In this case, you will need to delete cookies or change proxy server.

Detail status reported :

Google PR (Google PageRank of current page)
Google Index (Number of indexed pages. Google version)
Google link (Number of links, pointed to the current page. Google version (Except links from concerned domain))
Yahoo link
Yahoo link domain
MSN Index
Alexa Rank
Webarchive age
Delicious index
Keyword density
Internal | External links
etc

With all information you just got from SeoQuake, you could be selective to comment and follow to any blog or website. This could be a free page rank up tool !!. Leave comments, trackback, personal blog, etc. just to site with high page rank displayed. This procedure will significantly increase your blog pagerank.

Installation :

Download seoquake-2.1.14-fx.xpi add on
Start Firefox
Open file
select seoquake-2.1.14-fx.xpi
Install
Happy commenting blogs !!

Have difficultly find it ?, you could download it here..

Nice clock gadget fr your site

2009-02-06T14:44:00.000-08:00

Add nice clock for your website or blog to give useful decoration matching to your blog themes.

Fashionable clocks that you can easily embed in your web page. A decent looks for your web page will let your page reader interested to stay longer at your page, all clocks are free to copy and paste html code.

All you need to do is simply paste the tag on your web page. The clock will display the city name of your choice if you choose. You can also choose a time zone for your clock so it will show the correct time. Decorate your website with our clocks!

Free Downloadable programs to enhance your browser

2009-01-31T15:10:00.000-08:00

Listed are important latest software & add-on/plugins essential to your browser. It's freely download-able, but you might cannot use it's real website address for download because your(office/company server) proxy sometimes blocked for site begin/end with ...download(as I had already experienced with that).
hope it helps..

install_flash_player_ax.exe(flash add-on)

aaaaaNeeded by browser(internet explorer) to play flash files on almost websites

install_flash_player.exe (flash add-on)

aaaaaNeeded by browser(Firefox) to play flash files on almost websites

jre-6u5-windows-i586-p-iftw.exe (Java Platform)

aaaaaNeeded java application to run in browser

jre-6u5-windows-i586-p-s.exe(Java Platform)

aaaaaJava application plugins

AdbeRdr70_enu_full.exe(acrobat reader)

aaaaaLatest version acrobat reader

SkypeSetup.exe(skype, free VOIP service)

For Blogger/webmaster, you could upload all files you need to share here, webspace provided with powerful admin features and best upload/download utility.

Important steps to make money from internet

2009-01-31T14:40:00.000-08:00

After you have joined an affiliate Internet marketing online program, there are several crucial steps you will need to take in order to succeed. Without taking the steps outline below, your chances of succeeding will be limited. By simply following these guidelines, you will be able to increase your affiliate commissions and make some money you can live on.

A lot of people fail with affiliate Internet marketing online program because they do not have the necessary affiliate Internet marketing online program information.

Generally, the best way of succeeding with affiliate Internet marketing online program in to choose a niche; create a useful and content-rich and keyword-rich website on the specific topic of your niche, and add in your affiliate links and AdSense ads.

So what is the critical affiliate Internet marketing online program information you will need to know, and the steps you need to take for you to succeed with your affiliate Internet marketing online program?

1. Set your objective of how much you want to make real money online. You will need a goal to work towards. How much do you want to make real money online per month? It also helps to visualize what you want to achieve with this goal. Pay off your car? A holiday? You must start with an achievable amount, and gradually increase this amount.

2. Find a niche that suits you and your interests. Your legitimate online home based business is a long term commitment, thus you will need to get involved with an affiliate Internet marketing online program in a niche that interests you. The internet is full of affiliate Internet marketing online program information; make an effort to do your research and find the best niche to suit your interests.

3. Select a lucrative niche. You will need to have affiliate Internet marketing online program information about how profitable any opportunity you are interested in will do. Your goal is to make real money online, and you need to establish how profitable your legitimate online home based business will be. The internet has information about profitable niches, and you will need to know these before you decide the best opportunity for you..

Excerpted from http://www.likno.com/

Hitstats, more detailed stat of your readers

2009-01-17T11:23:00.000-08:00

Features :

Free Service
Real time online user statistics
Hourly, daily and monthly stats - with forecast and comparison charts to help you understand visitor trends
Referrer stats archived by day and month. We never clear your referrer stats, nor do we limit your log file size.
Clear Graphical interface report about web traffic
Stats. for every page, and group of pages on your site! You can track stats of your photo section or the article section. Such statistics enable you concentrate development to the most visited pages on your site!
Stats linger time in every page
Detailed information about visitors (language, Operating Systen, screen size, internet provider,DSL speed, etc.)
Detailed information about visitors location (city, region, country)
Fully detailed statistics of the last 20,000 visits! With referrer, complete page URLs and IP geolocation info. Your visitor data is aggregated into a downloadable APACHE-type log on a remotely hosted system. Our best competitor offers a log of 500 visits (others usually have just 20/100/200 )
Click counter service! You can count how many people downloaded files from your website. You may also use this information for your link exchanges!
Search engine trends
Advanced functions like ROI and visitors conversion
Visitor path tracking
Hidden tracker available for free! Competitors usually require a logo on your site. We have no such requirements; Histats can be hidden, doing it's work silently!)
Histats.com counters work everywhere! We have different counter code formats; and can track users with either embedded flash code or javascript
Free forum for online support, and access to a community of other Histats members.

Mybloglog, giving a good overview to your blog

2009-01-17T10:50:00.000-08:00

Feature :
- Track your blog newest post
- Track where user coming from
- List what user read
- Track what user clicks
- Also give daily clicks number on your web
- Featured member
- New neighbour activity

Membership Fees:
- Free for standard user(with 1 day delayed report details)
- PRO,(with real time report details)
monthly subscription fee ($3/month) through PayPal and an annual fee ($25/year) by PayPal or Credit Card. The monthly fee will continue until you cancel the service. The annual fee must be renewed by you each year.

MyBlogLog enables you to track that last little bit of information about your website. You probably already know where your users are coming from and you probably already know what pages they're looking at while they're there. However, if you have a blog or any other site where you frequently post new content on the main page, you don't have a good way of tracking what people find interesting. One way is to track when people click on the links you provide. Up until now, outbound link tracking has been a pain in the butt, requiring CGIs and managed links. MyBlogLog makes this process easy.

MyBlogLog is all about tracking "the missing links" - what makes your readers click to leave your site. (i.e. What really interests them.) Existing stats packages are great for telling you how people found your site and what they looked at while they were there. MyBlogLog tracks where your readers go when they leave your site in a non-obtrusive way. We do not alter link URLs or send the browser through a tracker webpage.

Bookmark button for easy sharing

2009-01-12T05:16:00.000-08:00

Your blog reader need bookmark and share button handy, it gives quick access and would increase your blog popularity boost quickly. The most easy place to find this button is at the bottom of each every post you made. to do this just simply do this every step carefully :

" before you do this step, you better save/download your template first. If you think it's make your template become wierd you can undo your change later"

1. Go to customize
2. Select layout
3. Select Template > Edit HTML
4. Check the Expand Widget Templates checkbox
5. Copy and paste the code snippet below into the template, right after the
< class="post-footer"> tag

How many members have bookmarked you?

2009-01-08T23:48:00.000-08:00

You might want to know how may people have bookmarked your website on several social bookmark site like del.icio.us, digg, furl, reddit, etc...and how many people had digg your story, furled or saved on Yahoo MyWeb ?

Using SocialMeter Web 2.0 app will helps you measure the popularity of your blog.

There not much to tell but you might try for your self, whether your blog have been listed by someone..somewhere and start know where your blog interest people more than another

Choosing right social networking for you (part 2)

2008-12-02T19:09:00.001-08:00

People like social networking that all of their friends are using. Freaks, geeks and queers all invaded Friendster in the early days and they made certain that all of their friends were there. They did so organically in clusters. This was very successful, until they felt alienated from the site. There is a tipping point to get on and a tipping point to get off. Once mass departure began with a few pissed-off folks, it spiraled quickly. While the early adopters left storm-like, canceling their accounts, most users simply stopped logging in frequently because it was no longer the place where their friends were.

Friendster was beginning to get mainstream American 20/30-somethings when it got bogged down by dreadfully slow servers. Mainstreams would (and did) irritate the early adopters, but not enough to make them leave. Yet, both mainstream-ification and slowness played a role in the departure of early adopters. Mainstream-ification played a greater factor in early adopters' lack of interest in returning once the site was fixed.

The slow servers made it very difficult (if not impossible) for mainstream users to engage. Frustrated, many lost interest before they really engaged. It should be noted that slow connections are more common in foreign countries and so this did not serve as the same kind of barrier elsewhere - growth continued during the slow period in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia. Because of this (and a few other factors), Friendster survived the server disaster in these regions and continued to grow into the mainstream there. And into the youth.

Mainstream American users came on because of mass media, not because of organic cluster effects. When they joined, they couldn't see anything or anyone. It was also not where all of their friends were and often they got bored before their friends arrived; there was never enough of a tipping point for many mainstream clusters.

MySpace stayed out of the media for the first two years. Their growth was completely organic, allowing for significant cluster effects. Additionally, those who heard about it but didn't have many friends there could join and still participate, still see what people were doing. They got a friend - Tom - and could wander around looking at all of the profiles. For cluster influencers, this was critical, and looking around would often motivate them to drag in their friends.

When clusters of friends are all on a social site, watercooler effects emerge. The limited amount of things people could share made this difficult on Friendster; people mostly shared profiles as cultural currency and testimonials did allow for some marking of turf and social hierarchy. Yet, on MySpace, there are a bazillion things to find deep in the nooks, allowing lots and lots to be shared. Allowing media in comments and the ability to share video/pictures via profiles enhanced this.

Testimonials on Friendster took the form of singular acknowledgments of others' existence. Fakesters started turning it into a communication space, but that practice died with the Fakesters; very few users took that on. The comments section on MySpace took the form of a performative guestbook. Whenever someone thinks of someone else, whenever they stop by, they leave a comment... They let both the owner and the owners' visitors take note of their presence. They're writing presence into being in addition to writing themselves into being. This is a very important turn and it really solidifies people's engagement in the site.

Choosing right social networking for you

2008-12-02T19:06:00.000-08:00

When Friendster launched, it was quickly inhabited by populations who had good reasons to connect with each other. By and large, the early adopters were living in a region different from their hometown (or living in their hometown post-college and cranky about it). Finding "lost" friends was a fun game - people wanted to connect. Of course, connecting is not enough and it was bound not to last, but it was fun.

Connecting is also the initial activity of newcomers on MySpace, but they move beyond that quickly. Of course, it never completely goes away, especially since MySpace acknowledges that not all "friends" are friends and no one bats an eye if someone collects hundreds of people. It's more like a process of namaste - i acknowledge your soul and you acknowledge mine. MySpace did not try to force people's connecting practices into pre-existing ideas of what should be. They let the practice evolve as users saw fit, without criticism, without restriction. As it evolved, people did new things with it. They used it to flirt, to advertise bands and activities, to offer cultural kudos.

Friendster's early adopters were 20-somethings. While many did not come to Friendster to get laid (just as they say they don't go to bars to get laid), places where large numbers of hott singles hang out are bound to attract other singles, regardless of whether or not they want to admit that they're looking for sex. Friendster was a free site where people could meet other interesting people; at the same time, rejection was OK because no one was actually _looking_ to meet someone. Sex is still the reason why people use the site, particularly gay men. This was a big gain for Friendster and, also a gain for MySpace. Given its singular focus, Friendster was much more successful at supporting this than MySpace, making certain that search worked and was meaningful and that relationships meant something. Of course, that also curtailed its growth tremendously.

Friendster launched at a time when the economy was slow and many web-minded 20-somethings were slacking at menial jobs that they didn't care about (particularly in the SF region where people were only coming out of post-bust depression); many web-minded folks were happy to spend hours futzing online. Economic factors have changed and many web-minded have found interesting jobs. This is only a small cause of Friendster's loss of this group, but one that should be acknowledged.

Friendster was a new thing, full of interesting content that motivated people to surf and surf and surf. Surfing motivated people to post more interesting things. Games emerged. Games were squashed by the company. Surfing got super duper slow. Friendster became less novel and more restrictive and, thus, more lame.

MySpace launched at a time when some of the game-minded were still enthusiastic and the enthusiastic surfers wanted to find more kitsch crap. They jumped on MySpace, created all sorts of culture and profiles complete with massive amounts of media, and helped figure out how to hack the system to make the profiles more expressive. MySpace didn't stop them. As a result, the cultural enthusiasm was nurtured and it grew and grew and grew...

MySpace realized that people were promoting events on Friendster. They contacted promoters and got them to engage with the "cool" people on the site by promoting LA-based events. From this, there was the emergence of band profiles, giving musicians an opportunity to create identity and have a place to point fans to. Music is cultural currency. 20-somethings want to know how to get on the list. Young people follow music and celebrities. Other young people follow the young people that follow music. Music played a critical role in increasing its popularity, simply by giving it cultural currency amongst celebrities and by marking MySpace as "cool." (Even teens who don't care about music recognize that music differentiates people and is part of the "cool" narrative.)

Both Friendster and MySpace saw a drop in ages. Friendster squelched this fast because they saw themselves as a dating site. MySpace supported it with different features and a drop in age limit as they realized there was more to sites like this than dating.

Youth and alienated populations are inclined to spend more time going through identity development processes because they are trying to "figure out who they are." Blogs and profiles are particularly supportive of this. Of course, blogs require having something to say while profiles let you write yourself into being via collage. People do grow out of ongoing identity production, but not for quite some time. (Hell, i still haven't.) Friendster tried to stop this, wanting people to be serious and fit into pre-defined checkboxes - to know who they are. MySpace let these groups run wild and these are the two populations who dominate MySpace - youth (14-24) and 20/30-somethings who participate actively in cultural development (from performance artists to clubgoers to sex divas to wannabee celebrities). These sites are ideal for these populations, even if they make no sense to parents and professionals.

For many teens, MySpace is the first asynchronous messaging system that they use regularly. Sure, they have emails but those are to communicate with parents/teachers/companies, not with friends. People check in daily to see what messages they get. This was starting to happen on Friendster, but server slowness killed this practice. This will make it quite tricky for teens to fully leave MySpace while their friends are still using it.

Identity development requires taking ownership of your presentation of self and really being able to personalize it, morph it to be "you" (even if you is copied from a site that tells you how to be you). Templates are not personalization. MySpace allowed users to really make the site their own, asking one favor: don't overwrite the advertising. Out of respect, most users complied. Think about that: Out. Of. Respect.

Basically, MySpace evolved with its users, building a trusting relationship, figuring out how to meet their needs and cultural desires, providing them with features and really trying to give them what they were looking for. Friendster did not - it fought its users hand and foot, telling them how to behave.

Wana make yours yours blog post popular ??

2008-11-17T03:17:00.000-08:00

You just got the right place to do it, add socialbookmarking buttons in yours blog, this will really give a professional look to yours blogger webpage and Attracts yours Readers. Copy & paste links beside image to add bookmark to your blog.

There are many social networking services operated like Orkut.com, MySpace, Facebook, etc. Orkut.com is being operated by Google. MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. These are popular sites especially among youths. Here people come into contact with each other and build up relations whether personal or business. There is a provision of creating a private community on MySpace and share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends. We can judge the popularity of these sites by seeing their ranking in Alexa. Orkut has been steadily rising on the Alexa charts but MySpace is still significantly bigger than Orkut.com.
Social networking services giving advantages for :
1) Friends who want to talk Online
2) Single people who want to meet other Singles
3) Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other friends
4) Families who want to keep in touch--map your Family Tree
5) Business people and co-workers interested in networking
6) Classmates and study partners

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How Google search engine works ?

2008-11-15T08:25:00.000-08:00

Did you ever worder that google crawls and consider more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms in every search and return your search result in less than half a second

" From the beginning, our developers recognized that providing the fastest, most accurate results required a new kind of server setup. Whereas most search engines ran off a handful of large servers that often slowed under peak loads, ours employed linked PCs to quickly find each query's answer. The innovation paid off in faster response times, greater scalability and lower costs. It's an idea that others have since copied, while we have continued to refine our back-end technology to make it even more efficient ".

The software behind our search technology conducts a series of simultaneous calculations requiring only a fraction of a second. Traditional search engines rely heavily on how often a word appears on a web page. We use more than 200 signals, including our patented PageRank™ algorithm, to examine the entire link structure of the web and determine which pages are most important. We then conduct hypertext-matching analysis to determine which pages are relevant to the specific search being conducted. By combining overall importance and query-specific relevance, we're able to put the most relevant and reliable results first.

PageRank Technology: PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. Pages that we believe are important pages receive a higher PageRank and are more likely to appear at the top of the search results.

PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value. We have always taken a pragmatic approach to help improve search quality and create useful products, and our technology uses the collective intelligence of the web to determine a page's importance.
Hypertext-Matching Analysis: Our search engine also analyzes page content. However, instead of simply scanning for page-based text (which can be manipulated by site publishers through meta-tags), our technology analyzes the full content of a page and factors in fonts, subdivisions and the precise location of each word. We also analyze the content of neighboring web pages to ensure the results returned are the most relevant to a user's query.

Our innovations don't stop at the desktop. To give people access to the information they need, whenever and wherever they need it, we continue to develop new mobile applications and services that are more accessible and customizable. And we're partnering with industry-leading carriers and device manufacturers to deliver these innovative services globally. We're working with many of these industry leaders through the Open Handset Alliance to develop Android, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform, which will offer people a less expensive and better mobile experience.

Uninstall program manually

2008-09-15T07:06:00.000-07:00

We used to install and uninstall programs. Install used and needed programs and uninstall unused programs to save space and to speed up the computer.
Actually sometimes we just lost or erased its uninstall link from the start menu that make uninstall goes complicated, but there are several tips to handle this:

Point to control panel from your start menu

and then point to add remove point to add remove programs

Find the program you want to uninstall, select to uninstall.
Your program are uninstalled.
If you can't find your program in the add remove programs list, you can still uninstall program manually from the registry.
Manually delete the program from your harddisk.
To clear the registry, point to start menu, then click run.
type : regedit, then press enter
You running the registry editor
Then you could find the program name using find
You can delete the found string for the program you want to uninstall

Shared files, downloads error tips

2008-09-15T06:16:00.000-07:00

Some files are freely shared on internet like :

free Programs/games by their programmer for free review or test
free music by the records ie for promo, etc
free picture by the picture owner or creator to share their profile (ie. to boost friendster profile)
Shared music/video through well known P2P network like limewire, bearshare etc.

While all those files are free to download, some of them not supported resume function like all major download manager provide(ie. Internet download manager). So make sure you prepare your download program that support this resume download.

Failed to support this function cause error when you open your downloaded files. this download error primarily caused by :

The download doesn't finish yet, just make sure your download finish first
Wrong file extension, some multimedia files have several different extension. make sure your downloaded files opened with appropriate programs.
Download bandwith excedeed the your server capability caused your computer closed the download connections and assume the download has finished but actually it's not.
Fake downloaded files, some P2P file member share fake files like XXX videos, porn, or event viruses(act as trojans). be careful of this kind of files, usually the files would inappropriately sized like(ie. Mp3 song files less than 1 mb, etc). so you had to find the right files.

Internet & LAN connection troubleshoot

2008-08-23T15:52:00.000-07:00

Local area Network(LAN) and internet connection setup already made so easy for user, especially with the connection wizards from the OS. There were common simple problem that may interfere the LAN/internet connection on connected system. ie :
1. Disconnected lan cable, this could happed because :
- Loosen LAN terminal lock(broken plastic snap). check the LAN terminal
- Untight, broken cable. check the LAN cable\

2. Disconnected modem. If you use external modem make sure the modem and the power for
the modem are connected properly.

3. Disconnected Hub power. If you use hub to split the line for several PC, make sure the Hub
main line from server and power connected properly.

4. Disconnected Wifi Router. If you use wifi router to connect to LAN or internet, make sure yor
LAN router connected to the line and power.

5. If above action doesn't solve the problem, Reinstall the the modem from the start.
6. Make sure you make restore points when you already set the failure.

Functionality on your keyboard

2008-08-23T15:17:00.000-07:00

Latest keyboard manufactured according to the custom and most need of computer user. ie:
- internet connection hotkey
- e-mail hotkey
- Volume toggle up/down
- screen contrast toggle
- Activate video out to projector
- etc.
Actually laptops take advantages on this function because it doesn't have as much room as PC, Using this keys will increase your speed to work with computer/laptop.

Where this Fn key located?
It depends to the computer/laptop manufacturer, Fn key used to be in the left corner keyboard layout and the function keys are F1 to F12 or numeric keys marked(generally blue) with appropriate symbols.

How to use it?
Just press the Fn key simultaneously with the hotkey for the function you need.

Blogging, A new writing habit in internet era

2008-07-13T04:18:00.000-07:00

Sharing information is become more and more important in the time where internet are basic need for human life. To make your page addresses more visible and memorable for others, here are several tips :

1.) Make your web/blog addresses, etc Easy to remember

Easy to remember is a must for your domain name, yet quick to recall when you want to use it. If we made our address simpler, people easily start to bookmark our site in their mind, without concerning browser advantage of bookmarking.

Making simpler address mean to Avoid complexity and it goes straight forward to your web main idea. ie : you had a traditional clothing and accessories business so you'll make your web address like www.Traditionalclothing.blogxxxx.com rather than www.Traditionalclothingaccessories.blogxxxx.com.

2.) Choose your right domain extensions

There are some blog/web domain extensions available such as .com, .org, .net, .tv, .info, .gov , etc. pick the best describe your web addresses. eg. People prefer to click on .org extension when they search for non profit organization.

3.) Short name your web address

The shorter your web address the better people to remember. It is the main reason why yahoo and google being is the top search engine at the moment, rather than other long name search engine.

4.) Make your domain names Spelled easy

Difficulties to spell domain name could make your subscriber end up at others website or even a competitor’s website.

5.) Give a clear description

A good domain should give a descriptive outline out of their name, the main idea of you web name is good.

6.) Don't give a symbols, unless you mean it.

People not actually pay attention to the symbols, this could lead them to someone else’s website. in Other hand, if you really mean to use the symbol.. pick the memorable one.

Enjoyable browsing tips

2008-07-07T03:13:00.000-07:00

If you feel uneasy internet browsing for some times, these are several tips to make your Internet browsing easier yet faster and efficient :

Bookmark web addresses you most visited.: Some adresses we visited more often everyday, keep them in your bookmark will save more time. You can even make them as your browser start page so they will open everytime you start your browser; Opera : Tools -> Preferences -> General ,type homepage; IE : Tools -> Internet options -> General -> Homepage, type several homepage; Firefox : Tools-> Option -> Main , type homepage

Save password for your account.: Checking emails and other account need you to enter your password, if you had more than one account(ie. email account, forum account, works account, etc) some time its frustrating. Do this tips only if you are the one who use the computer, otherwise anyone can use your account. To do this, click yes if your browser offer to remember your pasword

Find TEXT in a Page.: Long HTML pages can be scanned for keywords by pressing the Ctrl+'F' Keys and entering the text you look for. This is a real time saver when researching specific topics or looking for place or business names.

Reading TEXT clearly.: Reading text on a long pages might make your eyes exhausted and unfocus. To keep you stay focus on a part of page you can click and hold the text, so the text will be highlited and you will find a contrast text easy to read

Quick type url address.

Typing www. ......... .com is not efficient in time, you can just type the address and press ctrl+enter. then the www. ... .com will appear appropriately

Fast Navigations.

Did you know that within any browser, by clicking on mouse's RIGHT button, you will be noticed with "back", "forward", "reload", and "stop"?

This quick tip will save mouse from becoming very exhausted going up to top left hand corner back and forth all the time!