Yahoo Mash

After Facebook and Orkut now it is Yahoo coming up with its own social networking site.
Its called Yahoo Mash


Right now access is only on invitation basis.It is kind of like a Wiki.So even your friends can edit your profile (you can turn this feature off too).

I feel it is better than orkut as it allows custom styling (you can make your profile look the way you want) and like Myspace it allows widgets too.And just like the orkut scrapbook mash has something called guestbook.

On the whole its better than orkut.

The new generation IPod

Here are some cool pics of the new generation IPod.It is smaller than than the usual IPod but it looks like a fatty.

Live messenger introductary video

Microsoft released the introductory video Windows Live messenger.The interface is way ahead compared to other IM clients.



This is a great way of marketing.Now you can know it before tying it out yourself.It is also much better that boring instruction manuals.


Click here to watch the video

The GPhone is coming

Here's a piece about Google's own to-be-released Gphone

I dont feel like putting the whole thing here as its just concept and the real thing can be way different but reading it I feel that it may come pretty close.


Anyway I dont think Gphone can stand upto Iphone given Apple's lead over OS design and they are masters of making great interfaces.But I think it will be much lower priced and it'll have 3g capabilities which will be helpful.

Enjoy paysites for free

Ever wondered why Google returned search results that lead to sites that require a registration? How did Google index the site without a registration? Many sites want their site indexed in Google to receive more hits, so they allow Googlebots in. Because of this reason we can take advantage of this. All we have to do is disguise ourself as a Googlebot and many sites will let us in without registration.

To do this we have to change the User Agent. The user agent defines the browser and what version you are using. For example if you go to this site it will tell you what browser you are using, and it finds this info out by the user agent.

Changing the user agent is easy, to do this in Opera you have to uses these settings:

User Agent: Googlebot/2.1 Compatible: http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html

Firefox users can use this extension and import this file (right click and save) that has a huge list of user agent settings including Googlebot/2.1 and many other spiders/bots.

Internet Explorer users you will need to change the registry entries, to do this open notepad and copy this into it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings5.0User Agent] @="Googlebot/2.1" "Compatible"="+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html"

Then save it as ua.reg and double click on it.

To revert the changes back, you will need to do the same but this time copy this in:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings5.0User Agent] @="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

Save as oua.reg and double click.

To see if it has worked go here and your browser should now be Googlebot v2.1

Enjoy!

From:http://pinguy.infogami.com/blog/w8se

Google Phone released

Not long after the release of Iphone,Google has released its Google Phone.

LG's KU-580 handset, which incorporates Google Search, Google Mail and Google Maps and it has come to Europe.



It has the sleak LG-Chocolate colour scheme and a 2-inch wide screen LCD.

• Integrated FM Radio and MP3 Player
• Bluetooth Stereo and 3D Sound Enhancement
• 2 Megapixel Clear Shot Camera
• Built-in Google Services

The Google phone is now available in Italy and France, LG indicated, with Germany and other European countries to follow shortly.

courtesy:RegHardware

Google complaints against MS Vista

Google lodged a complaint against windows Vista saying it is impossible to turn off Vista's built in search and that it is affecting the performance of other desktop search programs like Google Desktop Search.

The Google spokespersion says

The search boxes built throughout Vista are hard-wired to Microsoft's own desktop search product, with no way for users to choose an alternate provider

It was tricky on the part of MS but I dont think it will affect Google much and I dont understand what's the whole fuzz about something so small.