Music track not showing up in Google Talk status?

Google Talk installs a plug-in in Windows Media Player which sends the current music track to Gtalk. Now if, for any reason, WMP detects some problem with a plug-in, it disables it. This was the problem in my case. So here is what I did to enable my Google Talk plug-in:

1. 

1. In Windows Media Player, press Alt+T to access the tools menu
2. Press ‘Options’
   
3. Click on the ‘Plug-ins’ tab
4. On the left hand ‘Category’ pane, click on the ‘Background’ item
5. On the right hand ‘Background’ pane, click on the Google Talk plugin to check and enable it
6. Save changes and change the status in Google Talk to “Show current music track”

Orkut invisible name 100% working

This is one of many methods to make your orkut name invisible

Its Simple Just Copy and Paste the character in textbox

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Orkut and Facebook

It was easy for all orkut lovers to switch to facebook, and why not, facebook is easy, amazing, with more features and simply a new internet. I can find all my orkut friends on facebook these days. With the immense potential facebook is showing with its open-ness, Google is forced to do something which can put breaks on the facebook hype. Not only because they want to maintain their monopoly in the webosphere, but also because they have realized that they need to take their social graph to the next level.

Orkut Applications with Open Orkut APIs ?

Rumors have it that Google is set to bring forward some cool APIs that will allow third parties to build application over their products. With orkut being the best social graph aggregator for google, it’s needless to say that they are planning to launch Orkut API too. So what does an open API means? It does mean a lot. WIth such kind of openness we can expect a large volume of innovative and entertaining applications built on orkut platform within a little time. Web savvy people will then take orkut seriously and will try to get on the ‘open’ train.

Orkut Vs Facebook

Orkut will then become an interesting place like facebook where we will see new applications everyday. It will be good not only for the users but also for the google. As more as more people will join orkut, better will be their data mining and better they will serve their “contextually geo targetted personalized ads”. Orkut is hugely popular in south asia and is still growing. But except asia only brazil and latin american people have shown some interest in orkut. Google will try everything to make sure that orkut provides them enough data from through out the world, so that they can build up a giant social graph.

If sources are to be believed, Google will launch the new open API on 5th of november. These API will let you buil applications in the form of embedded widgets and web services. Lets see what what Google has for all the orkut lovers.

Cool Tricks for Searching in google

Google search has been a blessing for developers, ummm not only devlopers, bloggers, surfers and i guess everyone who is using the immense power of internet. They are the best in the business with their superb algorithms. Google search has some hidden easter eggs through which one can utilise the power of Google in a fun rather tricky way.
So here we go with a bunch of amazing tricks:
EBooks,EMusic,EMovies with Google:

Do you wanna download any pdf file, word document or mp3 file? Google can be the first place to look forward to, isn’t it? You must be wondering what could be the trick in that, well an enormous amount of free downloadable files can be easily accessed at Open Web Directories. Its like turning Google into Napster of 2000, isn’t it VOW !!

So here is the tricky url syntax:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(your choice) “name”

“your choice” can be either of the following file types:
-> wma|mp3 for Music
-> pdf|doc for Ebooks
-> mpg|wmv for Videos

and “name” can be any specific music file, movie or book, you are looking for.

For example:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Shakira”

This is a Google search string for searching open web directories containing downloadable Shakira music files.

Ofcourse, you can always bookmark the search result for future use. Don’t worry, just enjoy !!
Lots of free downloadable stuff with Google:

Haven’t you fed up with searching for free wallpapers, stock images or social sites and getting nothing out of the search results??? Have your ever thought, why this happen when you have made right search queries, The only possible answer to this can be the most popular and most likable word “free”, it attracts spams. Anyways, don’t be upset, we do have a trick for that also. All you have to do is to direct Google to numerous available social media sites which have an active community of users who have already reviewed and ranked various “free” items that may interst you.

So here are some tricky queries:
-> site:del.icio.us free “stock images”
-> site:netscape.com free “ringtones”
-> site:digg.com free “desktop wallpaper”
-> site:reddit.com free “wordpress templates”
-> site:stumbleupon.com free icons

Have fun with your favourite free stuff!!
Free Anonymous Web Proxies with Google:

All you have to do is look through the search results returned by the queries below, find a proxy that works, and enter in the URL of the site you want to browse anonymously.

Use the following query and enjoy:

-> inurl:”nph-proxy.cgi” “start using cgiproxy”
-> inurl:”nph-proxy.cgi” “Start browsing through this CGI-based proxy”
Search only Faces with Google Image Search:

You can use this trick on Google Image search to filter the search results so that they include only images of people. This search can be performed just by appending the string &imgtype=face at the end of the URL address after you perform a standard Google Image search.

Scrap All

This is very Simple and best scrap all I have seen with very small ad.

http://www.scrapall.info/

Go to this site And Enjoy Scrapping........

Thanks: Sanjit

Basics of orkut+Funny

Fun Facts: About the orkut name

orkut.com is a social networking service named after the Google engineer who developed it, Orkut Buyukkokten. (Orkut is easier to spell and pronounce than Buyukkokten.) It was created as an independent project to help people around the world connect.

Source: http://www.google.com/support/orkut/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=11558

Fun Facts: Pronouncing 'orkut'

orkut is easy and quick to pronounce. The emphasis is on the or. The kut is short, like cut it out! or cut to the chase!

Source: http://www.google.com/support/orkut/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=11551

Fun Facts: Personal and professional life

The orkut.com community is designed to help you stimulate the romantic and professional areas of your life, in addition to helping you stay connected with your friends. To use orkut to find romance, you'll need to complete the personal section of your profile:

1. Visit your homepage and click edit profile under your photo.
2. Click the personal tab on the top of the page.
3. Fill in as much information as you'd like.
4. Click update to save changes.

When potential love interests visit this section of your profile, they'll be able to add you to their hot-list, crush-list or send you a teaser.

To use orkut for business networking, fill out the professional section of your profile:

1. Visit your homepage and click edit profile under your photo.
2. Click the professional tab on the top of the page.
3. Enter the information you wish to share with potential business contacts.
4. Click update to save changes.

Source: http://www.google.com/support/orkut/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=11813

Orkut's money making

This is the mastermind behind Orkut social networking community.
Some facts about Orkut:
1) Orkut Buyukkokten(the creator of Orkut) gets $12 when every person registers to this website.
2) He also gets $10 when you add somebody as a friend.
3) He gets $8 when your friend’s friend adds you as a friend & gets $6 if anybody adds you as a friend in the resulting chain.
4) He gets $5 when you scrap somebody & $4 when somebody scraps you.
5) He also gets $200 for each photograph you upload on Orkut.
6) He gets $2.5 when you add your friend in the crush-list or in the hot-list.
7) He gets $2 when you become somebody’s fan.
8) He gets $1.5 when somebody else becomes your fan.
9) He even gets $1 every time you logout of Orkut.
10) He gets $0.5 every time you just change your profile-photograph.
11) He also gets $0.5 every time you read your friend’s scrap-book & $0.5
every time you view your friend’s friend-list.
12) Many Global Financial Consultants think this person might become the
richest-person in the world by the end of 2009.(I don't think so)
13) Finally, this is the best fact. This person has 13 assistants to monitor his scrapbook & 8 assistants to monitor his friends-list. He gets around 20,000 friend-requests a day & about 85,000 scraps a day.
14) A company named Affinity Engines that builds social networking products for universities (that just so happens to have been founded by Orkut Buyukkokten - the creator of orkut.com - quite interesting) is now suing Google for stealing their code