Adblock Plus Extension Now Available for Internet Explorer

Adblock Plus is an extension or addon for web browsers to block advertisements completely while surfing internet.Adblock Plus helps to read the web easily without any advertisements. It can blocks banners, pop-up ads, text link ads, video ads and other any type of ads.

It is one of the popular extension and available for Firefox, Chrome and Android. It is first available only for firefox browser on desktop, recently they released the app for Android mobiles.Now they released the beta version of the Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer browser. It is available on all versions of Internet Explorer such as IE 7, IE 8, IE 9 and IE 10 and works on all versions of Windows.

You can install the addon by simply clicking the file. Then you can enable/disable the addon from the menu Settings->Manage Add-ons. Also you can customize the options by clicking the Adblock Plus icon on the status bar of the IE or you can bring that from View Toolbars-> View Status bar.

Download Adblock Plus for Internet Explorer

Gmail Supports 6 Indic Languages on Feature Phones

Gmail rolled out support for using Gmail in 6 Indic languages on basic feature phones. So basic model phone users can use the Gmail interface in 6 Indic languages is Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Bengali, Kannada and Gujarati. Generally the basic model mobiles show the interface in English only. Most users already using Gmail system in their own language but the feature phones does not support above languages previously.

Now you can communicate and use the Gmail in your own language from your handset browser without any tricks. Here is how you can change your language in Gmail in your basic model feature phones.

 • Click on a Gear icon in the top right and select Settings
• Go to Display Language and select your language in the drop down menu.
• Finally click on “Save Changes” button at the bottom.

Now your Gmail interface will be displayed in the selected language in your phone browser. Here is an important point, the display language of Gmail does not affect the language of your mails which are sent or received.

Here is a screenshot of my Gmail account in Tamil language on my feature phone

 Enjoy :-)

Goolge Play Movies Now Available in India – Buy or Rent Movies

Google extended their Google Play Movies service into two new countries, India and Mexico. Now Indian users can buy or rent the movies on Google Play available from today. It seems Google takes India a little seriously, after the launches of Google Play books and Nexus 7 tablet in India.

In Google Play, you have to rent or buy the movie to watch or download. To rent a movie in India Store, the pricing is Rs. 80 or Rs. 120. Otherwise if you want to buy a movie in standard definition is priced for Rs. 190 and Rs. 490 to buy a high definition version (HD movies)

Android mobile and tablet users can download the app “Google Play Movies & TV” for watching videos online. Also you can download the videos and watch later offline from your device.

Movies are now available on Google Play in the 13 countries are US, UK, India, Spain, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Korea, France, Australia, Russia and Spain.

Google Play Movies Web

Google Play Movies & TV App for Android

How to Enable Threaded Comments to your Facebook Page

The leading social networking site Facebook has rolled out a new threaded comments feature for Facebook pages. Now Facebook page owners and the readers can reply to comments individually on their pages. This new feature automatically available for Facebook profiles having more than 10,000 followers. Also all Facebook pages will get this threaded comments feature within July 10, 2013.

No wait, yes you can enable threaded comments feature to your Facebook page right now with simple tricks. Here are the steps to activate threaded comments feature.

How to Enable Threaded Comments?

• Sign in to your Facebook account and select your page and click on it. Now your Facebook page admin panel will be opened.
• Click on “Edit Page” tab on the top right side and go to “Manage Permissions”

• In the bottom of the Settings window, Tick the check box near the “Replies” option.

 • Click on Save Changes button. That’s it.

You are successfully turned on the threaded comments feature to your Facebook page. Now you can reply to any comments as Facebook Page. Enjoy :-)

What are Best Alternatives for Google Reader?

Google has recently announced that they will retire their popular Google Reader RSS service with some services from July 1, 2013. This will be the sad news for internet users because Google Reader is only the best to read the posts from our favorite sites. Let’s see some alternate ways or services for Google Reader.

Google Reader Alternatives for Web:

1. Feedly – This is good RSS news reader available for Web, Android and iOS devices. It is a responsive site, so you can read the blog list in any devices clearly. They are giving option for transferring your data from Google Reader to Feedly easily. You can sync and transfer your Google reader data until June 30th.

2. Strymr - It is web based reader with easy navigations and it has thumbnail user interface

3. Taptu – It is also good alternative to Google reader available for all platforms like web, Android and iOS

 Google Reader Alternatives for Mobiles:

1. NewsRob for Android - This app easily sync with your Google Reader account. It will show the unread contents, so you can easily get and read the new items.

2. Feed Me for Android – It supports offline reading.

3. Slide Reader for iOS – It supports many number of feeds and has good user interface.

4. Reeder for iOS – It will also sync automatically with your Google account.

5. FlipBoard - You can read the news by flip, also videos Android | iOS

You can try all the readers and use it your favorite one. Let me know your liked Rss Reader service by posting comments below.

Download Avast 8.0 Latest version with New Features

Avast is one of the popular free antivirus company released a new version called Avast 8. There are 170 million peoples currently using this free antivirus in the world. The latest version comes with major improvements in features and interface also.

New Features in Avast 8.0

• New User Interface - The new metro style user interface gives you clear view of the program and you can easily access the features.

• Avast Software Updater – It’s a cool feature that informs out of date softwares in your PC and you can quick fix to update all other softwares in easy way.

• Browser Cleanup – Clean unwanted toolbars in your web browsers or you can disable them

• Data Shredder – It allows you to delete or erase your hard disk data completely. This is useful one when you cleaning your personal data that not to be recovered.

• Access Anywhere – This is to create remote administration service if you want to operate your computer from outside. You can access it from anywhere and it will be always online if your system has internet connectivity.

• Avast Ad blocker – This is a cool new add-on introduced in this version that blocks banners, advertisements and pop-ups in your web browsers. With this add-on, you can browse the web safely and freely.

Download new Avast 8.0 Free

A Creative Wedding Invitation like Google Website

Google is the popular online search engine liked by most of the internet peoples. Those peoples want to see the Google as the first page in their web browsers. Google is not only the search engine, it has the many more services to help and entertain on the internet.

In the modern internet period, there are many products created with inspiration of popular brands. You have already seen some internet brand names on the dresses like t-shirts and cards. Now I found one interesting wedding invitation on the internet that is inspired by the Google Search results page.

This attractive wedding invitation is an amazing concept by the marriage couples Krithika and Dinesh. They designed marriage invitation as a Google like website and all the menus are designed as Google page links such as Web, Images, Maps, Videos, About, Post your wishes and more.

If you hit the search button, you can see all the info about the marriage date, place and the above links. For instance If you click on images, you will see the images of the couples like as Google Image Search. This is a different method to invite their friends while this will be a smart invitation especially for their online contacts.

Website : http://krithikandinesh.in/index.php

What do you think about this invitation? Share your comments below.

Download Blogger and Google+ Data with Google Takeout

Google Takeout is an online service that helps to download or export data of various services of Google. Takeout service is maintained by Data Liberation Front, and now they added two popular services Blogger and Google Plus. Some of the services already connected in Google Takeout are Buzz, Contacts, Drive, Picasa, Reader and YouTube.

 How you can download your Blogger Data? 

You can export each of your blogs as an Atom Xml file in one place. Go to Google Takeout page and click on Choose Services and select Blogger. You will see number of your blogs and its estimated size. You can download all blogs or you can configure what blog to be exported. Then click on Create Achieve to download your data.

How to Download your Google+ Data?

Also you can download or export all of your Google Plus profile data such as Profile information, Google+ Stream, Circles, Pages and +1 detail. Your Google+ posts will be downloaded as Html files and your Circle details are as json files.

Go to Google Takeout

How to Submit your Blog to Technorati Directory?

Technorati is a leading blog / internet search engine and web directory which indexes more than a million blogs. There is listed all major sites and ranked by traffic. You can check top stories, opinions, photos and videos of all types and most popular on the blogosphere. You can also submit your site to technorati to get some traffic. This is a free web directory service and you will get a backlink from Technorati.

How to submit your Site to Technorati?

1. Go to Technorati website and sign up for new account. Login your account and you will see your Account Name on the top right panel.
2. Scroll down the page and search for “My Claimed Blogs” section.
3. Enter your site name in the text box and click on “Claim” button.

4. After that you have to give some information about your site such as Blog Title, Blog Description, Site URL, Site Feed address, Twitter profile, Facebook profile, Google plus profile, Site Category, Search Tags for your site.
5. Then click on “Proceed to next step” button.

Verify your Technorati Account:

Return back to your account profile page and then click on “Check Claim” button where your newly added website in the claimed sites list.

You will see one short verification code in a claim status section like "7MBGB55RG7CJ" and copy that code. When writing a new post in your site, add this code within your post and click on “Verify Claim Token” button. That’s it.

Generally your website will be approved and added to Technorati directory within a week. You will get a notification to your email when your website is approved by them.

Get Box 50 GB Free Cloud Space for Lifetime

Box.net, popular online cloud storage website that offers now free 50 GB online cloud space with lifetime validity. Generally Box provides 5 GB space for all users, but this promotion offer gives 50 GB to new sign-up users. Box available for all major devices and platforms and smartphones, so you can easily sync your files online and your device. This offer is sponsored by Dell Systems up to this month. Here is the steps to get your 50 GB free space.

 How to get Box.net 50 GB free cloud space?

1. Go to Box.net 50 GB offer page
2. Enter your Name, Email Id and Phone number
3. Click on “Continue” button and then you have to verify your email address
4. That’s all. Now you can see your account with 50 GB storage space.

There is a drawback in this offer, you can only upload files within the 250 MB limitation and the offer is only for new sign ups. Existing users cannot upgrade their account to this offer. Same time the main competitor of the Box is Dropbox that provides only 2 GB of free cloud storage.

3 Ways to Access Mobile WAP sites on your PC / Computer

WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) enabled sites are especially designed for Mobile oriented browsing that written with Wireless Markup Language (WML). Sometimes you want to see the mobile version of a site on your computer browser, but the browser can’t show that webpage. You may get confused and try to open the site once again. There will be no response, because computer browsers do not support WML and it will display an empty white page only for WAP sites. Here I tell you some ways to access mobile WAP websites on your PC.

1. Online WAP Emulators

Online Emulators emulate the mobile site to access in web and works like a mobile environment. Some of the popular online emulators are here.

a) DotMobi WAP Emulator 
b) WAPTiger Emulator 
c) TagTag Emulator

2. Firefox Add-ons

a) WML Browser Firefox Add-on

If you are using Firefox browser, you can install this extension to access WAP sites on Firefox. After the installation, you will see this add-on in Tools menu or Status bar. You can enable/disable the WAP browsing by on/off button in this tool. Get WML Browser

b) User Agent Switcher

This is also Firefox Add-on, which helps to change Firefox User Agent settings to other User Agents like IE, Opera Mini, iPhone and etc. After the installation, you will see this add-on in Tools Menu. If you change the setting to iPhone, your browser will works like a iPhone mobile browser. So you can easily access WAP sites. Get User Agent Switcher

Recommended Post : How to Access WAP Sites on Firefox with User Agent Switcher

3. Offline Emulators/ Browsers

a) Opera Web Browser – Opera is the only browser supports WAP functionality and you can browse through WML pages properly.

b) WinWap Emulator – This is an offline Emulator software designed for access WAP sites on your computer.

How to Use Social Media for Your Online Business Growth

You can promote your online business through your blog. If you do not have a blog yet, you can consider the idea of starting it. Many users concentrate on blogs rather than reading a newsletter or an email. To start a blog, a person must be aware of few things that are to be concentrated upon while writing and designing it. Your blog must be user friendly. It should contain information in a clear way. Optimizing the site in a proper way increases traffic to the website. Try to use facts in your content, rather than giving a story kind of information. A short and sweet article will have more viewers.

Some tips to use social media for online business growth :

You can share your blog links in fan pages in any networking site. Posting on social media improves traffic and advertisement for your blog. Interaction with the customers becomes easier.

You can interact with people through messages in comment box. Provide the same for posting the opinions or views of visitors to improve the quality of service. It also helps you to get suggestions from customers. Social media connects with people world-wide. Promoting your business in social networking sites will definitely lead to growth..

Create an account on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Skype etc. to promote your online business. You can share your business ideas and interact with people. Once your business gains reputation, there will be a number of visitors to your site.

Utilize different networks in different ways to endorse your service. For example, YouTube is meant especially for uploading and sharing videos. Upload a video about your business which can attract users. In Facebook, you may provide pictures of the products along with the descriptions. Whereas, Skype helps you to interact with people worldwide through calling. There are other means to make calls, but by using Skype you can make calls free of cost.

You can promote your business by posting ads, either free or paid. A free advertisement has its own advantages compared to a paid one, as free ads save your money. Pay per click comes under paid advertisements. You need to pay the website owners who advertise your ads on their site, based on the number of clicks. In case you do not have the required finances for it, you can go for a payday loan .

Social media helps online businesses to generate traffic. It provides you a platform to build a powerful network. Here, you get a chance to learn innovative ideas which you can apply in your business. You can also improve the search engine ranking through it. You can even make your presence known in the online marketing scenario and make it an advertising platform for business, thus aiding business growth.

About the Author:

The guest post was contributed by Sophie, financial guest blogger from Manchester, UK. Find out more about her finance related blogs @financeport.

Download MediaFire App for Android with 50 GB Free Cloud Storage

MediaFire is one of the popular file sharing website, launched an app for Android mobile devices. It provides 50 GB free cloud storage space for everyone using Android. With this MediaFire app, you can upload all kinds of files such as documents, pictures, videos within your device directly. And then you can access your uploaded files from anywhere. Let’s see what other features.

Features:

• You can view documents, excel spreadsheets, presentations, videos
• Listen to Audio files
• Take pictures and videos and then upload it directly from the App.

• Create and manage folders easily
• You can move, delete, rename, copy files
• You can share files via Email, SMS and even through other Android apps.
• Quick search of files and foldes

All of your files will be stored safe and securely in your MediaFire account you can access the files through the MediaFire.com website. MediaFire App currently does not support batch uploading functionality, so you will have to upload the files one by one manually.

Download MediaFire App from Google Play

How to Access WAP Sites on Firefox with User Agent Switcher

WAP is the Wireless Application Protocol technology in Networks that is used to provide mobile contents in mobile browsers. Generally we can’t see the mobile WAP sites on Computer browsers because they can’t understand the Wireless Markup Language. I have met this problem on my Firefox browser when I want to download a movie for my mobile in a WAP site. Here I show you a simple trick to how to access WAP sites on Firefox with User Agent Switcher add-on.


What is User Agent? 

User Agent is a software agent that is working on behalf of a user for some works like browsing, mail reading on the network. For example, we use Outlook for reading emails is the Mail User Agent. We use Firefox for browsing is the Web User Agent. Generally browsers send requests to network with HTTP headers that contains User Agent string. So changing the Firefox User Agent to other mobile browser agent will work as the mobile browser.

 Install User Agent Switcher on Firefox 

Go to User Agent add-on website and click on Add to Firefox. After installing, restart your browser once. Then go to Tools menu -> Default User Agent

You will see the list of some browsers like IE, Search Robots and iPhone 3.0. If you want see the WAP content only, simply select the iPhone Agent. Then refresh the page once again, you will get the WAP site instantly on your firefox. If you want to browse the web pages in normal method, select the Default User Agent menu to revert back the settings.

You can switch through any user agents on anytime and you can add various types of user agents like Opera Mini, Skyfire, Bolt, Nokia s60. Click on Edit User Agents on the menu -> "New" button to add your favorite user agents. For this you have to get User Agent Strings of various browsers.

To get user agent strings for all browsers, crawlers, Email clients, consoles, Offline browsers, Feed readers and link checkers here. 

How to Find Free Flickr Photos on Yahoo Image Search

Yahoo Search Engine has improved their image search support to find public Flickr photos also. Flickr is an online picture uploading and sharing site you know already, that has contains tens of millions of photos. Using Yahoo! Image search you can easily find photos from Flickr that are available for re-use or reposting under creative common license. Yahoo makes it easier than before to search photos and share on the web and mobile devices.

Using images on the website has a problem of copyright. A lot of photos found online have some copyright issues for their images. Without a proper permission, we do not post one’s images on our site. So we have to use our original images or free licensed photos provided by some websites. Flickr is such a useful website to find free licensed photos to reusing in our sites. With this integration of Flickr Photo search on Yahoo will be the good news to picture finders.

Steps to find free licensed Flickr Photos on Yahoo Search

1. Go to Yahoo! Image Search on the web or any other devices.
2. Search the images with any keyword and then all types of images listed in the search results.
3. If you want to get only free licensed photos that you can reuse, click on the link “Labeled for Reuse” filter on the left rail tab.

4. To know more about an Image: Just hover over the thumbnail to see the details about the photo, including the photographer’s name.

You can click the thumbnail to full view and attribution link shows about the creative common license. If you want to see that particular photographer’s album, just click on "i"  button in the full image view.

This feature available on Yahoo! Image Search across the web, tablets and mobile device.

Take Videos with Youtube Capture App for iPhone/iPod

Google has released a new app called YouTube Capture app, that is especially for iPhone and iPod touch devices. YouTube Capture app helps us to recording the video quickly and uploading the video to YouTube directly. More over you can share the videos to other social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ instantly within the app.

You can record the videos from your iPhone quickly even before with the fewer clicks and less lag time. It is designed for speed to take the videos faster.

When you click to open this YouTube app, it always ready to capture videos. After finishing the recording video, you can give a proper caption and share to social networking sites. You can minimize the app when uploading the videos that will be in background mode.

Finally it has some video enhancement options like Color correction, Stabilization, Trimming and adding Music Tracks to improve your video better in quality. With this enhancement functions, you can modify your existing videos on your device also.

Download for iPhone / iPod

YouTube Capture App official page

Download all your Tweets as archive from Twitter

Twitter introduced a new feature that you can download all of your tweets in Twitter website. If you think to save your twitter tweets to your local drive for some reasons, here is the good news to you. You can download all tweets and also retweets as archive. This will be useful when you want to see your past tweets. Here is the steps to download your tweets.

1.Login to your Twitter account.
2.Click on the Gear button that shown at the top right side. Then click on Settings menu.

3.In the Settings page, scroll down your mouse to the last section "Your Twitter Archive"
4.Click on the button "Request your Archive"

All done. Your request will be sent to the Twitter team and you have to wait some time. When your download archive is ready, they will send a email with your download link.

MacX iPhone 5 DVD Ripper & Video Converter Giveaway

Digiarty MacXDvd is one of the popular company for providing Mac OS softwares,iPhone Dvd rippers, Video converters and lot more. Now they launched a time-limited giveaway of two softwares are MacX iPhone DVD Ripper for Mac users as well as Video Converter tool for Windows users currently. And these two programs have been upgraded to fully support Apple iPhone 5 so you can download free and enjoy with latest features worth $80.

How to Add Cover Photo to Twitter Profile?

Twitter released some new features including cover image for twitter profiles same as Facebook cover photos. Twitter adds this personality feature that called as Twitter Header Photo. So we can easily know people through their header photos.

This header image looks like a background image of your profiles, while your profile photo appears at center of the header image. When you send a tweet to others, header image will be appears inline. This can be viewed from any devices like iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

Personalize your Twitter Header

1. Sign in to your Twitter profile and click Gear button at top upper side.

 2. Click on Settings->Design

 3. Scroll down to “Customize your Own” and click on “Change Header”

 4. Now you can upload your image. You can zoom in/out your image to appropriate position and finally click to save changes. That’s it.

 Note:

 • Minimum width and height for image - 1252 x 626
 • Maximum Image file size – 5 MB

Facebook Keyboard Shortcut Keys

Facebook is the most using social networking site by worldwide users. If you are a Facebook user, keyboard shortcuts may help you to use Facebook quickly. And these Keyboard shortcut keys for Facebook saves your time and work without mouse.

Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows OS)

Function	Chrome/Opera/Safari	Firefox	IE
Search	Alt+?	Alt+Shift+?	Alt+?+Enter
New Message	Alt+M	Alt+Shift+M	Not Working
Go to Home	Alt+1	Alt+Shift+1	Alt+1+Enter
Go to Profile	Alt+2	Alt+Shift+2	Alt+2+Enter
Friend Requests	Alt+3	Alt+Shift+3	Alt+3+Enter
Open Messages	Alt+4	Alt+Shift+4	Alt+4+Enter
Notifications	Alt+5	Alt+Shift+5	Alt+5+Enter
My Account Page	Alt+6	Alt+Shift+6	Not Working
Privacy Settings	Alt+7	Alt+Shift+7	Not Working
Facebook page	Alt+8	Alt+Shift+8	Alt+8+Enter
Terms & Conditions	Alt+9	Alt+Shift+9	Alt+9+Enter
Facebook Help	Alt+0	Alt+Shift+0	Alt+0+Enter

Facebook Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac OS)

Function	Firefox	Other Browsers
Search	Function+Ctrl+?	Ctrl+Option+?
New Message	Function+Ctrl+M	Ctrl+Option+M
Go to Home	Function+Ctrl+1	Ctrl+Option+1
Go to Profile	Function+Ctrl+2	Ctrl+Option+2
Friend Requests	Function+Ctrl+3	Ctrl+Option+3
Open Messages	Function+Ctrl+4	Ctrl+Option+4
Notifications	Function+Ctrl+5	Ctrl+Option+5
My Account Page	Function+Ctrl+6	Ctrl+Option+6
Privacy Settings	Function+Ctrl+7	Ctrl+Option+7
Facebook page	Function+Ctrl+8	Ctrl+Option+8
Terms & Conditions	Function+Ctrl+9	Ctrl+Option+9
Facebook Help	Function+Ctrl+0	Ctrl+Option+0