Great looking 28 Google Chrome Themes Gallery

Many of us always prefer a stylish thing rather than a default one. If your an Chrome user or Chrome lover, then this is specially for you to add spice to your work. Google has launched theme gallery for Google Chrome which has 28 different kinds of themes.



Google Chrome's themes gallery is now available and you can select one of the 28 themes if you install Google Chrome 3.0 Beta, Google Chrome 3.0 Developer Preview or if you have a recent Chromium build. The themes are well working on both Windows and OS X, hope it should be working on Linux too. Now Take a look at the Google Chrome Themes Gallery -



Google Chrome Themes Gallery - Go Here.

How to install the theme ?

First visit the theme gallery, choose your desired theme click on Apply Theme. Save the .crx file and Chrome will automatically load that theme for you and also offers you an option to go to default theme. There is no option to preview the theme before installing.

How to uninstall the theme ?

If you want to uninstall a particular theme, in the address bar type chrome://extensions/ and hit Enter.

Chrome will show you all the installed extension and you can uninstall any theme you want by simply clicking the Uninstall button below the theme name.

If you have anymore doubts on Extensions - This is for you - A Full Guide on Google Chrome Extensions.

What you waiting for ? Just hit up the themes gallery and try them out yourself.

Some themes which i liked are below -

# Grass -



# Brushed -



# Vertical Stripe -



Leave your comments about the themes you loved and if you have any problem in installing the themes, feel free to use the comments section.

Free One Year License with Uniblue DiskRescue 2009 - Best Defragmenting Tool

To know something about Defragmentation you can go here. Why we need to Defrag the hard disk ? How does it improve performance of the system ? How does defragging increase disk space ? All are answered below. Don't forget to read.



Why we need to defrag the hard disk ?

To improve performance and recover lost disk space defragging is important for a pc. Its keeps all the data in easy readable format. if you don't defrag your hard disk it begans to lose performance and slowly reduce the capacity of data. You will be aware if your hard disk is running slowly then this will affect the performance of the system. especially in games when frame rate is important.

How does it improve performance ?

When you defrag your hard disk you re-arrange the order in which the data is stored on the drive. The obvious question here is why doesn't the PC store the data in the correct way in the first place? In an ideal situation (such as a blank disk) the PC would do these as a first option. However with the amount of data being deleted and wrote to the disk every second the PC is on, it is no wonder that the data cannot be stored together. Example : Say you write 3 files to a disk all 10 mb in size the data would all be in a line each 10mb after the other.But now lets say that you decide to delete the middle file as its no longer any use to you. You now have a gap inbetween your files. Lets say this time you write a file of 15mb in size. This file will be written in the first 10Mb of space and the remaining 5Mb added to the backend of the free space.As you can imagine with the millions of files being written to and deleted from the disk each day so defragging the disk helps to keep all the data in easy readable format.

Best software to use for Defragging - Uniblue DiskRescue 2009



It helps you to bring back your drive to full health be defragmenting the contents and Now its Free with One year Original License.

To get License for One year -

Go to Promotional page and enter the necessary information to receive Registration number in Email.
Download diskrescue.exe and install it.
Follow the instruction the email to get 12 months of Active Protection.

If you have any problem in signing up ? Feel free to use comments section.

Perfect Search Engine for Icons - Iconfinder

Icon Finder is a New Search Engine for finding your Favorite Icons on the web. Icon Finder provides high quality icons for web designers and developers in an easy and efficient way.



At Iconfinder you can find many good icons for your blog/website. You can browse all the Icon sets here - Click here to Browse Icon sets. You can also download preferred Icons in 2 formats - Png and Ico.

For example - Click here for User web2.0 Icon sets.



If your not satisfied with the Icons given there, you can also order your Custom designed icons which fits exactly your needs. You can now order custom designed icons directly from Iconfinder here - Click here to Order your Custom Designed Icons.

Some Features of Iconfinder are :

# Everybody can add tags for the icons. When new tags are submitted other users can vote. If new tags don't get enough positive votes, the changes will be reversed.

# Lots of new icon sets and a nice way to browse them all without searching.

#Setting limits to the sizes of the icons shown, changing the number of results per page and changing the background color is now possible with just a few clicks.

# You can also send your Designed Icons to their E-Mail id.

Iconfinder - Homepage

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Get Notified When your Website is Down

When your websites go down, shouldn't you be the first to know ?? Your users shouldn't be the ones letting you know your website is not working properly. Howsthe dot com is a website monitoring service which monitors your website and provides you with status notification when your website is down so that you can do something to remedy it.



Howsthe dot com is will monitor your websites or web services using the HTTP protocol and provides you with notifications when your website is down. For eg : Say you have started a website to inform people something important, In any case you dont want your site which you worked hard to be unreachable. Best Example is e-commerce store, because every minute the site is down they are losing sales.



Services like this one will better equip you and let you take the necessary measures at any given time. All you need to do is sign up for free and start monitoring your website!



Some of the features include :
# Notification to multiple locations via your preferred method (e-mail and SMS are fully supported)
# You can check your website every 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 minutes depending on your plan.



# It can also search the page content for keywords and notify you if they're not found.
# You can set a wait period till the next notification, this way you are not overwhelmed with notifications that your website is not running properly.
# It allows you to monitor many websites and web services, this is limited depending on which plan are signed up for.

If you want to have a try go to the homepage here

Howsthe dot com - Homepage



There are thousands of sites notifying when your websites are down. In the row, here is another one which i found to be useful. so sharing it

- Are my sites up ? - Homepage

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Sign up with Microsoft's New Social Networking site: Windows Live Planet

This may be old news for some people who uses MSN regularly, I'm not sure that how many are aware of Microsoft's New Social Networking site - Windows Live Planet. It's an online Network that helps you to connect with your friends, make new friends and chat with them online.



Windows Live Planet is similar to other Social Networking sites but with new design and fast user interface.

Features :

1. It has integration of Windows Live Messenger with the Windows Live Planet service. You can chat with your MSN friends at bottom left side corner of the window.

2. It has something called Scribble pad (remembers me the Scrapbook feature of Orkut), you can scribble your friends up to 150 characters in length.

3. Good looking Design and User Interface.



4. It can tell you how much you "Match" with your friends, which any other social networking site doesn't tell you!

5. Most of the controls and features are fast and I'm loving it!

6. The website uses Windows Live Hotmail account to login, so no need to create an account.

7. You can invite all your friends from other social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace , LinkedIn or you can invite them using email contacts.

All you need to do is complete your profile and Windows Live Planet will open up a whole new world!

Windows Live planet - Homepage.

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Foller.me and Sub DiggerPlus - Bookmarks for 11th July

Today with this two websites you can surely develop your presence on social media networks. One is twitter and another is Digg. With the title of the post itself you can guess something! Yeah you're right, foller.me is about twitter and Sub Diggerplus is all about Digg. Now let's see how they are helpful to us.



1. How to find Whether the Tweeter is worth Following ?

Foller.me is a Twitter service which provide you with the most detailed information about a specific Twitter user in the least amount of time! It scans the user based on their latest 200 tweets and It builds up three tag clouds: topics, #hashtags and @mentions, all based on the user’s recent activity, and excluding all stop words!



All we need to do is, just type the username of the twitter and hit ENTER. Wait for few seconds and you ll be provided with Quality informations about the tweeter. Do visit this site and experience it! Comments are always welcomed (-:

foller.me - Homepage

2. Quickly Access your Digg Friend's Submission :

Digg is a social news website made for people to share whatever they like. Each and every second there is a new content to read in digg. so it may be a tough task to catchup the post which your friend's digg out. To make it easy here comes the Sub Diggerplus.



Sub DiggerPlus acts as a tool empowering you to see what your friends have been posting recently and it also filters the post and arranges according to the topic and column title. Your friend's submission are presented in real time and it has an option to label stories as Read and Unread. Its is compatible with Firefox, IE and Chrome. All you need to do is, Just enter your Digg's username and your friend's submission will be listed out.

Sub DiggerPlus - Homepage

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Follow and Communicate with your Favourite Celebrities on Twitter

Celebrifeed allows you to follow and interact with your favorite celebrities via twitter. The list of tweets come from Verified celebrity Twitter accounts. You can interact with them on the homepage or through their dedicated page below.



Celebrifeed requires No special login, you can login with your existing twitter account if you want to interact with a celebrity or update your status. Now for example see the screenshot of Pairs Hilton tweets coming in.



You can also the check Verified celebrity accounts from the Right side of the page.



Now below you can see some tweets of Britney Spears, you can also send a direct message, reply to your celebrities tweet or Retweet it!





Celebrifeed - Homepage

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Check my Colors and TwoQuick - Bookmarks for 10th July

Today you got two useful sites to be Bookmarked!! One is about websites' contrast colors and another is about search engines :-) Let's see now -



1. Check the color combinations for your Blog/Website :

Let's imagine a case : If a user reads your blog/website and finds it tough because of the color combinations used foreground and background, He/she hates to come back to your blog. So this site is an interesting solution for you to check foreground and background color combinations.



This site also includes some test based on the algorithms suggested by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). That is why it seems to be a highly reliable tool for you to make an accurate colors' management.

Checkmycolors - Homepage

2. Search Google and Twitter side-by-side :

Yeah! Now you can using this Twoquick for searching Google and Twitter side-by-side. Twoquick can be described as a very simple and useful tool that was designed with the purpose to give you the chance to find anything you need on Google and Twitter at the same time. The only thing what you need to do is, simply put your search keywords in the textbox and click on "search". It divides the page into two and shows the result of Twitter on right side and Search results of Google on left side of the page.



The results will provide users with all the attractive benefits of the real-time and social dimension of Twitter mixed with the high effectiveness provided by Google Search. In this way you have the opportunity to search for information on Google and be informed about what people are saying on Twitter. Must take a look at this site -

TwoQuick - Homepage

Don't forget to read How to extract the color codes from Blogs/Websites.

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Bookmarks for the day - 8th July

We daily come across thousands of Websites and we Bookmark it ! I'm also one among them. so, I thought why shouldn't i share my bookmarks which i do daily, to my valuable readers :) Henceforth ill be sharing 2 bookmarks a day :-) so excluding these bookmarks ill be daily blogging about general tech news, internet guides, social media informations, some new apps and etc..



Here is the Bookmarks for the day - 8th July

1. Make your Own Twitter Logo in 3 seconds :



Yeah! Here is the "Twitter logo Generator". Its an interesting way to create your own logo. simply enter your name and press 'Make' and download your logo. The logo generated is of same font and color of the twitter logo. It also provides advanced options like changing the text color, outline color, font size.





Twitter logo Generator - Homepage

2. Chat with a Stranger !! - Omegle



What is Omegle? Its a chat room that pairs you with anyone who is logged into Omegle
and it is identified only as a Stranger. You can chat about anything you like until he/she frustrates and disconnect from the conversation. You can start another converstation immediately. It’s free-for-all. The Chats are completely anonymous.

Omegle - Homepage

I have added a New Label/Category called " Bookmarks " on this blog's sidebar. so You can click that and view all my Bookmarks.

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Quick Tools for Google Apps

Quick Tools for Google Apps is a software that integrates some of Google applications (Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar) and resides in the taskbar to notify you when new mail or a new event has arrived.

With Quick Tools for Google Apps, you can quickly perform tasks such as adding appointments to your calendar, transfer files and folders to Google Docs or check new messages on your Gmail account.



It supports :

1. Google Mail Integration :
* Automatically retrieves new emails and Notifies you with a popup window when new email arrives.



* You can always view a list of new and recent email even when you are offline.

2. Google Docs Integration :
* Uploading documents to Google Docs can be a bit of a nightmare, especially if you need to upload multiple documents or even whole folders.





* Drag and drop files and folders to the Quick Tools upload window to upload documents.



3. Google Calendar Integration :
* Automatically retrieves calendar events from all your Google accounts.



* You can always list todays or tomorrows appointments even when you are offline.



* You can quickly add a new appointment to your calendar without having to first open a browser and navigate to your calendar.



4. Options & Multiple Accounts :
* You select one account as the default account, but new mail and calendar reminders are still popping up for all accounts.



* You always upload documents and add new appointments to your selected default account.



* You can set a range of different options for each of your added accounts, and you can choose which Google applications are relevant for each of your accounts.

Quick Tools for Google Apps requires Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 to run.

Quick Tools for Google Apps - Download

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Share Files directly from your PC using Gmail Account

With Gmail, the maximum size of attachments you can send and receive is only up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size. g2Peer is a program that can be helpful to share files with anyone you want through Gmail. If you use a web-based file sharing service for sharing files with your friends, its a time consuming process.



g2Peer is a freeware that simplifies sharing of file by allowing you to share files directly from your computer using Gmail account. g2Peer treats each Gmail address as an IP address for all computers that have installed g2Peer.



To work with g2Peer, it should be installed on both PC and configured to work with an unique Gmail address through Gmail POP3 or IMAP. (or) If you use command line [ ?_list and ?_download ] it is not necessary to install g2Peer on both the PC.

For more detailed Tutorial with Screenshots Go here - Link

g2Peer runs under Windows 2000/XP/Vista operation systems. No special hardware requirements. Copy/download the installation file in a temporary directory and run it. The installation wizard will do the rest.

Once the installation program has completed, you may run the program from the Start menu: Start->Programs->g2Peer->g2Peer 1.0.

Download g2Peer - Link

Don't Forget to Read - My Home Web server Opera Unite.

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Speed up the Web using Google Tools

What would be possible if browsing the web was as fast as turning the pages of a magazine? yeah! Google publicly share tools that would help to improve your site's performance. By offering tutorials, tips and performance tools via the new site, Google wants to help make the Web faster by assembling a community of developers interested in online speed and performance. Apart from tutorials and downloadable tools, the site will allow developers to submit ideas, suggestions and questions via a discussion forum and by using Google’s Moderator tool.



Let's make the Web Faster - YouTube video



The site currently covers tutorials on various optimization aspects such as:

CSS optimization
Gzip compression
HTTP caching
Improving performance with Page Speed
Minimizing browser reflow
Optimizing JavaScript code
Optimizing web graphics
PHP performance tips
Prefetching resources
Properly including stylesheets and scripts

For More detailed information Go here - Link

Tools and downloads from Google :

From Google:
Page Speed

From other developers:
AOL Page Test
Cuzillion
Fiddler 2
Firebug
Hammerhead
httperf
HttpWatch
IBM Page Detailer
JSLint
JSMin
Microsoft VRTA
mon.itor.us
OOCSS
Pylot
Smush It
Wbox
Yahoo! YSlow
YUI Compressor

You can Read and Download here - Link

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Aware of Twitter #Hashtags ?

As you start to use Twitter more and more, you may well notice the use of the #hashtag symbol appearing. A post on Twitter that includes a # before a group of letters or a word. A perfect example for #hashtag being used is #followfriday. Before getting into what is #followfriday, lets see what is the #hashtag used for ?



So What is the #hashtag used for ?
By placing the # symbol before a word, phrase, or abbreviation, it creates a mini-search engine phrase that can be looked up and followed on Twitter.

Now What is #followfriday ?
Every Friday on Twitter, you will see thousands of people sending out tweets that have the term #followfriday in the tweet. So what exactly is followfriday ? why should you join in ?



Followfriday was started by Micah Baldwin and It works on the idea that people on Twitter may not be sure who to follow. So what better way to find excellent people to follow on Twitter.

So every friday, the idea is that you think about who you are following on Twitter, that you would like to introduce to others. These may because they are providing excellent information, they are funny, interesting, amusing, or whatever you want..

So How Do I Join In?

It is very simple to join in.. All you need to do is to make sure that somewhere within the tweet that you send out, you add the term - #followfriday, and the name of the person that you are recommending.

So for example….. #followfriday: @dangerdiabolick because he provides good tech tips.

Now like #followfriday you can also create your unique #hashtag. There are no rules regarding #hashtags, but there is a common sense approach to take. Don’t tweet every message including a #hashtag symbol. Keep them for specific events, meetings, etc.. for eg: #F1,#facebook,#Iran Election etc. You then simply add that into your tweet.

Publicise everywhere you can, that you are using a certain #hashtag, and remind people to use it whenever appropriate when tweeting about the event, conference, meeting, topic etc…



If you’re new the best way to learn is to take action, so my suggestion is to jump right in. For eg, every Friday you’ll see people using the hashtag #followfriday. Observe them and start clicking the #hashtags you ll be redirected to Twitter search page where you’ll see every Tweet that also uses this hash tag. From there you can find out what the hashtag is being used for, who is using it, and in most cases links to where you can get more information.

This is for people who are using twitter as a main stream tool to be active on social media, they need to keep track of things in real-time.

If your not getting enough information on how to use them just watch this video made by Social networking expert Mari Smith.

Twitter Hashtags What Are They,How To Create Your Own - Link

In your twitter search you can find trending topics, what is that ?



when large volume of people are all tweeting about the same topic, whilst often utilising the #symbol for that event..

So Some Useful Resources :

1. Hashtags.org -
Hashtags.org has an excellent directory, of all the #hashtag symbols being used and they also provide graphs and hour-by-hour information on top hashtags.

2. What the Trend -
Find out what’s trending on Twitter and why. For each trend, they give you a quick explanation of WHY it’s trending.

What the trend - Link

3. Twitter search - Link

Follow me on twitter - @dangerdiabolick

Sources helpful - Mark shaw (Twitter expert & Consultant)

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Print your Fake Receipts

For all of you who want to scam your company's expense reimbursement system.



I've heard of sites where you give them a range of dates and a city, and they give you a full set of receipts for a trip to that city: airfare, hotel, meals, everything -- but I can't find a website.



FalseExpense will mail you an envelope full of fake receipts, suitable for submitting for reimbursement or deducting from your taxes, "FOR NOVELTY USE ONLY".



The process is simple:

* Email them the answers to a short questionnaire about the false receipt you want designed and printed.
* Within 24 hours, they will send you a draft scan by email of the fake store receipt.
* You give them feedback/changes you may require.
* They Print the fake register receipt with a real Point of Sale (POS) Thermal Printer and post 2 copies of the real receipt to your address.
* You can use them for whatever purpose you choose!!
* You need to pay a small fee- using your credit card.

Print Fake Receipts - Link

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