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Google gives you cricket score

ddrulz — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:24:00 +0000

Google has simplified the search for cricket score. Just type cricket in google search box and you’ll get a brief score of all the current cricket matches going on around the globe. If you want a detailed score card just click on the link.

Google even made it simpler, suppose the score of team australia or india you are looking for, jus type cricket india or cricket australia in google search box to get the team specific scores.

And now suppose you are a complete cricket buff and you know about against which your team is playing/played google even narrowed your search to that level also. So looking for india vs australia match jus type cricket score India Australia

You will get the score like this

via Google Blog

Error Report taken way too seriously

ddrulz — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:09:00 +0000

This one is pretty funny, i found on digg. Apparently some guy got a error while working on safari browser, in the error report it was mentioned to send some info to apple about Describing what you did before you saw this message along with the error. So what was his reply to this check out below.

First the error report :

Now his reply:

Description: Woke up to the alarm at 6:30 am. Got my son out of his crib, handed him to my wife. OJ + medication + forgot to take my multivitamin. Checked my email, Twitter, etc. Did a couple posts. Showered but didn’t shave. Took care of my son while my wife went to the gym. He played on the floor a bit, we laughed and giggled together a lot. Good times. Then he got hungry so I fed him while watching Honey I Shrunk the Kids on cable. When my wife got home around 10am, I put him down for a nap, packed up my bag, and left for work. N train to Canal then a 5 minute walk to the office. Worked on some PHP for a couple of hours, making less progress than I would have liked. Caught a baby mouse in a drinking glass at the office. Went to get lunch with the gang. First and second choices no good, but ended up at an Italian bakery/deli on Mott. Turkey and provolone on a roll with mayo and lettuce, Pepsi, and potato chips (sour cream and onion). Gave leftover sandwich to the baby mouse, AKA “Feedy”. Sat back down at my desk. Selected “iToner” from bookmarks list and waited. Error number NSURLErrorDomain:-1005.

Now that’s called some detail error reporting, hope it helps apple to fix the bug

via kottke digg

Kineticel-Human Battery Charger

ddrulz — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:29:00 +0000

Search for unconventional sources of power generation continues. Efforts are being made everyday to add more productivity to the day to day things we do in home. Keeping these thoughts in Kineticel was featured in the Metropolis Magazine. Its concept submitted by Yael Miller describing it as Kinetic Energy harnessing battery charger.

Looks like a comfortable concept to me. I will love to spend some time on this , listening to some enchanting music. Ending up fresh, relaxed and more importantly with charged up batteries at my disposal.

Will be my 2cents for fighting global warming.

via Gizmodo

Cool your laptop on docking station

ddrulz — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:16:00 +0000

This Refrigerated Docking Station was created through a joint effort between Embraco and Intel. It uses the smallest miniature compressor available to cool air before it flows into the bottom of the laptop. The cooler can reduce the temperature of a laptop by 41%.

This will be a boon for people who want to do overclocking in their laptops and wants to take out maximum performance from their CPU without frying it.

via Slashgear and Engadget

Firefox Campus Edition

ddrulz — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:27:00 +0000

Firefox Campus Edition, is a special edition of Firefox designed specifically for students. The Campus Edition bundles the latest version of Firefox with three great add-ons: FoxyTunes, Zotero, and StumbleUpon.

More info about addons:

FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more right from your favorite browser.

StumbleUpon lets you channel surf the Internet to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests.

Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work – in Firefox itself.

via : Firefox Blog

New features on Photobucket

ddrulz — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:45:00 +0000

Lots of new feature were launched to play with on Photobucket a Photo and video uploading service . The new features werer mainly requests made by photobucket users.

Features :

Public / Private Settings in Albums

You can now specify which photo and video albums in your account to make publicly available, and which to remain password protected; You can give others access to private albums using a “guest” password that you select.

Photobucket albums can contain thousands of images and hours of video for free. A simple “link” to any piece of media in an album lets you share your photos and videos without sending huge files over email.
Note from Photobucket : Only Pro users only get to see the new public/private settings.

Bulk Photo Uploader

Lets you upload up to 100 images at a time to your album. That’s it! What could be better? Click here for a detailed tutorial.

via : Photobucket Blog and Mashable

Emoticon 25 years old

ddrulz — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:18:00 +0000

Emoticon 25 anniversary was celebrated on 19 Sept 07, it was used for the first time in 1982 by Scott Fahlman a Carnegie Mellon professor on a school bulliten board system.
Along with emoticon anniversary came a surprise that smiley just didn’t happen accidently it was actually proposed by Scott Fahlman to display emotions in comments.

Here is the picture which shows the proposition and first use of smiley

Messgage by smiley inventor : History of smiley

Orkut doubles photo space

ddrulz — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:29:00 +0000

Social networking site recently doubled the number of available photos you can upload . This came few weeks after orkut revamping was done. Earlier the number of pics that can be uploaded were 12, now as said this being doubled means more experience sharing through pics. This brings a happy surprise with orkut users who always wanted some more space to display pearls from their huge piles of pics.

via : Orkut blog

Strata – The Data Browser

ddrulz — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:17:00 +0000

Kirix Strata is a new specialty browser for accessing and manipulating data from the web. View and work with data from web tables, CSV files and RSS feeds, integrate information from web services to create personal “desktop mashups,” browse and work with MySQL, Oracle and other databases.

What Can You Do with a Data Browser?

Access Data From Anywhere

Open CSV files, HTML tables and RSS feeds directly from the web into structured tables. You can also easily grab local data files from your desktop or connect to database systems like MySQL Enterprise and Oracle.

Integrate Data From Across the Web

Strata incorporates the Mozilla Foundation’s Gecko layout engine, so you can find data on the web and see it in context. With Strata’s built-in database functionality, you can go beyond browsing to reformat and integrate data from RSS feeds, websites and web services.

Manipulate Data Quickly

Store and manipulate as much data as you like. Strata is built for speed and can handle just about any amount of data you give it (up to 60 billion records per table). Create dynamic calculations instantly across a full data set and work with a suite of useful tools that make data interaction enjoyable.

Create Reports Easily

Develop reports from web data, local files or database systems with ease. Quickly flip between page and template views for a pleasant design experience. Creating a report is as simple as using a spreadsheet.

Customize and Extend

Strata comes with a data-enabled version of ECMAScript (e.g., JavaScript) with built-in support for SQL and other functions for data manipulation. You can create extensions or plug in community-built ones or just use Strata’s GUI toolkit to create your own hybrid desktop/web applications and mashups.

Snapshots :

(via Strata & Mashable)

Search Tech Get Porn

ddrulz — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:18:00 +0000

Recently while searching tech in technorati i was in surprise to see the first entry giving me free porn mpeg’s instead.

Pic (click for big preview)

Ghost – Global Hosted Opertaing System

ddrulz — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:56:00 +0000

G.ho.st provides every person in the world with a free Virtual Computer (VC). Like a Windows PC, or Mac, the VC is a personal computing environment which includes your desktop, your personal settings, your data and your choice of software applications. But unlike a PC, your VC is not installed on one physical computer – instead it is stored in a highly professional data center across the Internet, and it may be accessed from any Internet browser in the world. From any browser you can open G.ho.st, enter your username and password, and continue using your VC from exactly the state you had left it in.

Here are some key ways in which your G.ho.st VC is different to a PC :

Available from any browser in the world instead of being installed on one machine .
The operating system and the first 3GB of data storage are free .
Software (namely Web-based software) can be run without installation .
The computer is always up-to-date, secure and backed up with no action or cost on your part .
Because it is online, the G.ho.st VC provides new possibilities for fun and collaboration, beyond what is available on a PC.

Key Features :

A “hosted” environment

Your desktop, data, applications and settings are accessible from any Internet browser.
Software is run without the need to install.
The Operating System and software is updated with no action on your part.

Mature desktop

Everything you would expect – Go (Start) Menu, task bar, system tray, icons.
All the operations – Context (right-click) menus, mouseover data, drag-and-drop

G.ho.st Storage

Professional hosted and backed-up disk space
3GB free and more for a modest fee
Manage from your G.ho.st desktop or directly from Windows!
Upload/download
Launch files directly in G.ho.st desktop

My Items

G.ho.st gives you smart shortcuts to your Web resources – bookmarks/favorites, files, photos, videos, music, products, and other resources which are public or which are kept for you by other Web service providers (such as Flickr, YouTube, Amazon and others) .

Inherently secure

Runs in the “sand box” of your browser – G.ho.st has no access to your hard disk or local network.
Your data is subject to the very highest standards of backup and security in a professional data center
Screen Shots

Dekstop

Google search

Image Library

Multimedia

iPod Touch

ddrulz — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:35:00 +0000

iPod Touch is here, so what it is , its a iPhone minus the phone part. Available in 8gb and 16gb versions, it gonna rock and brings a whole new meaning to the portable entertainment. Best thing that could happen is, releasing it world wide, so no more waiting, it will be available everywhere in few days.

Awesome battery life as it supports Up to 22 hours of music playback and 5 hours of video playback. A Gorgeous 3.5-inch widescreen displayt touch your music in Cover Flow and watch video on a stunning, widescreen display.
Also equipped with Wi-Fi web browsing so now you can browse the web with Safari and watch You Tube videos on the first-ever Wi-Fi iPod.

Technical Specifications
Size and weight

Height: 4.3 inches (110 mm)
Width: 2.4 inches (61.8 mm)
Depth: 0.31 inch (8 mm)
Weight: 4.2 ounces (120 grams)

Capacity

8GB or 16GB flash drive1
Holds up to 1,750 or 3,500 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format2
Holds up to 10,000 or 20,000 iPod-viewable photos3
Holds up to 10 hours or 20 hours of video4
Stores data via USB flash drive

Display

3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen multi-touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 pixels per inch

(via Apple)

Easy feed grazing and sharing

ddrulz — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:30:00 +0000

RSS feeds are great, but the subscription model used by aggregators is slow and clumsy. After a while, it gets to be too much trouble to subscribe to more feeds. That’s why grazing feeds is becoming so popular. Grazr lets you view as many feeds as you want without the hassle of subscribing. Grazr users can freely jump from feed to feed. It’s like surfing on a river of feeds.

The Grazr Widget is a free publishing tool for feeds. It lets you quickly and easily display RSS, RDF, Atom, and OPML files on a Web page so they can be viewed by any visitor to the site.
The Grazr Widget is written in Javascript, so no software download or installation is necessary for someone to view it in a browser. As long as Javascript is enabled, it can be used in any modern Web browser.

RSSify any website!

ddrulz — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:13:00 +0000

DapperFox is a Firefox extention that sits next to the RSS icon in your browser.Whenever you visit a website DapperFox will show you RSS feeds that other people have created, as well as allow you to create a new feed to share with the community. This is perfect when a site does not have its own RSS feed, or when its feed doesn’t meet your needs.

What can you do with DapperFox?

Create an RSS feed for your wall at Facebook
Create an RSS feed for any search at YouTube
Create an RSS feed for town’s newspaper
…and more

Free Blog Hosts

ddrulz — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:57:00 +0000

Going through Mashable came across a very nice article which gave about 40+ options to choose your blog host (free that is).
Here is list of the blog hosts.

Danga Software Powered

GreatestJournal.com – Based on the same software as LiveJournal, offers free voice posts, 1GB of photo hosting, and space for up to 2,000 user icons.
InsaneJournal.com – Another site based on the Danga software that runs LiveJournal, offers free and paid accounts, paid benefits are only enhancements.
JorunalFen.net – Runs on the Danga platform, very much directed towards various “fandoms” (i.e. Harry Potter, various Television shows) and is meant for users 18 and older.
LiveJournal.com – One of the most well known of the blogging hosts. Offers multiple account types such as ad-supported and paid. The center of a few controversies recently.

Themed Blog Sites

Blogabond.com – A site dedicated to travel blogs with map integration and more.
BlogCheese.com – A video blogging website.
BusyThumbs.com – A blog site specifically for your text messages and camera phone images.
Freevlog – Designed for video blogging and completely free.
Trippert.com – Create and share blogs of your travels.
Ufem.com – Blogging site specifically geared towards women. Offers multiple themes and plugins.
Word Count Journal.com – A new blogging format that is also part challenge. Write one word on the first day, two words on the second day and so on, at the end of the year you’ll have written 66,795 words.
Xanco.com – Another moblogging site for you to share all your mobile communications with friends and family.

WordPress Powered

Blogetery.com – Offers multiple templates, anti-spam, free sub-domain and more.
BlogRox.com – Runs on WordPress and offers 50MB of free online space.
Blogsome.com – Based out of Ireland, this site uses the WordPress MU platform, large choice of themes.
Edublogs.com – WordPress powered blogging for educators.
WordPress.com – Not only can you install WordPress on your own sites, you can use the same software on their site and save yourself all of the technical work.

Various Platforms

Blog.com – Offers free blog hosting with unlimited bandwidth for their free package, more benefits for paid members.
Blog Ladder.com – All blog entries show up on the main ladder as well as inside your own blog.
Blogger.com – A great starting site to get a taste of blogging, very easy to use.
Blogr.com – Allows you to blog, host photos & videos, and podcasts.
BlogSpirit.com – European based blogging site, offers 30-day trial and subscription thereafter, but offers quite a bit of storage.
Blogster.com – Offers free image hosting in addition to free blogs.
BlogYx.com – Blogging site with extras such as chat boxes so you can interact with your readers.
Bloki.com – Lets you build a blog site and even open it up for collaboration.
Bravenet.com – Free blog hosting with RSS feeds and more.
ClearBlogs.com – Free blog hosting and offers templates, friends only posts, IP-Banning and more.
Etribes.com – Based in Europe, allows you to create all sorts of websites including a blog.
Multiply.com – Mixes blogging and social networking, with photo galleries and more.
Netcipia.com – Free blog and wiki for private or public display with 2GB of storage.
Open Diary.com – Offers unlimited storage and posts, low cost subscription rates for advanced features.
ShoutPost.com – A platform for creating blogs with a focus on generating traffic.
SoulCast.com – Have something you want to talk about, but want to say it anonymously? This may be the blogging site for you.
Squarespace.com – Lets you build your blog with numerous themes, also allows you to add other site features.
Terapad.com – Offers blogs as well as features such as an integrated store.
Tooum.com – Fully integrated blog and forum which allows for seamless discussion between the two.
Tumblr.com – A blog platform with a focus on allowing media-rich posts.
Weebly.com – Allows you to create a site and blog, free hosting and change designs on the fly.
Windows Live Spaces – Free blogging with your MSN account, only drawback is readers have to have an account also.
Vox.com – Part of the SixApart family of blogging sites, very much geared towards the personal journal types of blogs.
Xanga.com – Part social network, part blogging, all free.
Yahoo 360 – Part of your Yahoo account and features easy publishing.
Zoomshare.com – Free blog hosting with 250MB of free storage.

Via : Mashable 40+ free blog hosts

Search Radar – A unique tool to assist you in your web searches

ddrulz — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:40:00 +0000

Search Radar is a unique tool to assist you in your web searches. A typical search will return thousands of matching pages in the search results. Locating the right page that matches your query intent is a hit-or-miss process of figuring out the magic combination of keywords. Search Radar assists you in this process by providing you with a list of relevant keywords and phrases for your search query that you can use to refine your query. In addition to the list of relevant queries, Search Radar also provides you an excerpt that helps you know more about how the suggested phrase is related to your original query.

Give it a spin: harry potter, pink floyd lyrics, theory of relativity

A free website of your own

ddrulz — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:12:00 +0000

Spruz allows you to create a free website of your own. Be a part of a large interactive website community. Create your own free website for social networking, promoting your ideas, shopping! You decide the features you want to use!

Spurz

MyPlick Creates Interactive & Embeddable Slide Shows

ddrulz — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:50:00 +0000

MyPlick is a new site that lets you create slide shows and offer an interactive widget for viewers to navigate your slide show.

Images, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents and all sorts of files can be uploaded (at once) to create your slide show. Include audio along with your slide show to make a complete online presentation. You can also add notes for each slide, to provide additional information to viewers as the slide show plays. Viewers can also bookmark, download, or email the slide show, or select the part of your slide show they’d wish to skip to with the thumbnail tool along the player’s sidebar. Each slide show has two embed options for users: the slim version, which just shows the slide show content, and the full version, which includes the notes, etc. along the side for more viewer interaction. You get stats on how well your slide show is performing, indicating how long users spent on each slide, etc.

As far as the MyPlick community goes, you can search for other users and other Plicks, vote up the ones you like, leave comments, and request audio for those that come without the joy of sound. You can subscribe to users via RSS or through the site, and save individual Plick presentations to your Favorite folder.

More info on Mashable – MyPlick

Brix Modular Cell Phone Concept – For Wide Screen Viewing

ddrulz — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:02:00 +0000

Watching TV on a cell phone is about as fun as taking a drill to your eye — and that’s something concept designer Seokwon Hong hopes to alleviate with the Brix. The Brix is a modular concept for a cell phone that would allow you to create a bigger and bigger screen depending on how many Brix bezel-less modules you may have.

Brix is a phone. The entire surface is a touchscreen, even void of a receiver. There is no bezel at all so you really get 100% screen real estate on the front. You have all your personal multimedia functions just like any other phone but here’s where it gets interesting. By stringing together multiple Brix, you expand the screen real estate. Suddenly video is bigger. A temporary virtual shared folder is created to merge content between the devices until they’re disconnected or one device can be designated as the media hub and interface. The awesome thing is the ability to endlessly string together as many Brix as you want. You can easily go from a small media player to a big screen TV. Throw in an external audio jack, DVR functions, GPS and we have a wonder device – like for real.
From YankoDesign & Gizmodo

Google Phone Concepts

ddrulz — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:19:00 +0000

Searching through the net about the proposed or speculated Google Phone, I found out quite number of concept designs floating around. Here is sneak peak on all.