Saturday, January 24, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
20 Best Websites To Download Free EBooks
I understand that reading is the most simplest way for human to derive and constructing meaning in order to gain a particular knowledge from a source. This tendency has been digitized when books evolve into digital media equivalent – E-Books.
It would be nice if we’re able to download free e-book and take it with us. That’s why we’ve again crawled deep into the Internet to compile this list of 20 places to download free e-books for your use. Full list after jump.
- FreeBookSpot
FreeBookSpot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 FREE E-BOOKS in 96 categories which up to 71,97 GB. You can search and download free books in categories like scientific, engineering, programming, fiction and many other books. No registration is required to download free e-books. - 4eBooks
4eBooks has a huge collection of computer programming ebooks. Each downloadable ebook has a short review with a description. You can find over thousand of free ebooks in every computer programming field like .Net, Actionscript, Ajax, Apache and etc. - Free-eBooks
Free-eBooks is an online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors. Besides free ebooks, you also download free magazines or submit your own ebook.
You need to become a Free-EBooks.Net member to access their library. Registration is free. - ManyBooks
ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook Reader. You can randomly browse for a ebook through the most popular titles, recommendations or recent reviews for visitors. There are 21,282 eBooks available here and they’re all free! - GetFreeEBooks
GetFreeEBooks is a free ebooks site where you can download free books totally free. All the ebooks within the site are legal downloadable free ebooks. - FreeComputerBooks
FreeComputerBooks consists of a huge collection of free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. It is very well categorized by topics, with 12 top level categories, and over 150 sub-categories. - FreeTechBooks
FreeTechBooks lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. Throughout FreeTechBooks, other terms are used to refer to a book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes. - Scribd
Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page. - Globusz
Globusz is a unique ePublishing house, specializing in free eBook downloads. They also provide an excellent Star Rating Showcase for new and evolving authors. - KnowFree
KnowFree is a web portal where users are able to exchange freely e-books, video training and other materials for educational purposes and self-practice. - OnlineFreeEBooks
OnlineFreeEBooks provides links to various ebooks (mostly in pdf) spanning in 9 big categories which are: Automotive Ebooks, Business Ebooks, Engineering Ebooks, Gadget Ebooks, Hardware Ebooks, Health & Medical Ebooks, Hobbies Ebooks, Programming & Technology Ebooks, Sport & Martial Art Ebooks. - MemoWare
MemoWare has a unique collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.) specially formatted to be easily added to your PalmOS device, Pocket PC, Windows CE, EPOC, Symbian or other handheld device. - BluePortal
- OnlineComputerBooks
OnlineComputerBooks contains details about free computer books, free ebooks, free online books and sample chapters related to Information Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Business, Marketing, Maths, Physics and Science which are provided by publishers or authors. - SnipFiles
SnipFiles offers you free ebooks and software legally by brought or attained PLR, resale or master rights to all the products on their page. - BookYards
BookYards is a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be freely to anyone who has an internet connection. - The Online Books Page
The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web. - AskSam Ebooks
AskSam Ebooks has a collection of free e-books like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts. - Baen Free Library
Baen Free Library is an online library of downloadable science fiction novels. - eBookLobby
Free ebooks in eBookLobby are divided into different categories. Categorys range from business, art, computing and education. Select the category appropriate to the e-book you’re looking for.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Learn Blogging from India’s Top Blogger
The so called top Indian blogger - Amit Agarwal who blogs at Digital Inspiration
has now come up with one of its kind initiative. Amit has organized to train blogging aspirants for creation of blogs and optimization & revenue generation to people who already own a blog. According to Amit, the exact details of the program is yet to be scheduled but its for sure that the program will be held sometime in the next week in Agra (U.P - India).
Also, it is said
that, the event is organized by Google and no fees will be charged for this training program. All you need to do is just pre-register
if you are planning to attend this training. If you are interested to know, what all topics will be covered in this training program, here
is the complete list.
Can you spot “Phishing” attack? Simple test to check your safety!
Phishing is a type of fraud where bad person try to acquire your sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity such as your bank, your social network, etc. You can find more formal definition and technical information regarding phishing on wikipedia.
Test how safe you are from phishing attack…
More about phishing is posted below, but first take “fighting phishing” test by paypal
. Its free and you don’t need any paypal account to take the that test.
It just asks you 5 simple question and if you can answer all of them right then you don’t need to read further! Although most questions uses paypal in its name, they are equally true with all major social networks, banks and other portals. So go for test
without any hesitation!
Phishing Examples…
Now hopefully you are done with test, let me give you 2 simple examples of phishing via email…
- You get an email from your favorite social network with from email id like admin@facebook.com, saying we are deleting inactive users as part of our annual maintenance program. In case you want to retain you account, please verify your account by visiting http://www.facebook.com/verify
- You get an email from your bank with from email id admin@icicibank.com, alerting you about an attempt to hack your account. As money is involved, you get panic! On next line, they say something like verify your account, blah blah! Again they give a link like http://www.icicibank.com/verify.
In both cases, from email address and target of links are forged! You can click on above facebook or icici links and see where it takes you! 
while covering a recent phishing scam on Orkut.
By the way, do let us know your score and any doubts you have against this rapidly growing scam on internet! Just for info, I scored 5/5! 
Links: Phishing Test | What is Phishing?
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Monday, January 19, 2009
Politics in India goes Hi-tech; Advani Starts Blogging & Tweeting!
Recently the blogosphere was filled with stories about advertisement of political parties in Google Adsense. You must be aware that some eminent politicians even started blogging these days.
But blogging and getting advertised on adsense are not all those promotional works being carried out by political parties. Recently a twitter account was created named @lkadvani and there were rumors that, LK Advani personally reads all the tweets sent to him and many of his followers even say that, this twitter account is not created by LK Advani, rather some of his supporting group look after the account. Even Obama uses a twitter account - @BarackObama
so what I was wondering, is L K Advani getting inspiration from Barack Obama?
Advertising, Blogging & Tweeting are not the only ways in which Advani is campaigning, he is also using SMS and E-mail as a tool to attract more and more youths.
Looking this promotions by politicians in India, specially by LK Advani, all I can say is they are following footsteps of Barak Obama. What do you think?
Update: It seems some one created a fake twitter profile in the name of L K Advani. You can view its Google Cached Page here
.
Links: L K Advani – Blog | Twitter | Website
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Five Best Portable Applications
Whether you got a shiny new flash drive over the holidays or your old thumb drive is looking for a new lease on life, pack it full of goodness with these five killer portable applications.
Portable Firefox
IndyaOn readers love their Firefox, and with Portable Firefox, you can take your web browsing experience and all of the accompanying tweaks and extensions you've come to know and love with you wherever you go. All of your customizations—including extensions, bookmarks, and configuration file edits—can be applied to the portable version. Minor changes under the hood of Portable Firefox make it more suitable for flash drive usage, such as the default disabling of read/write intensive disk caching. It also respects its boundaries as a portable application, forgoing the usual check to make sure it is the default browser. After you download a copy of Firefox portable, make sure to enable Flash support, customize your portable Firefox, and learn how to sync your Firefox installations.
KeePass
Using the same tired password for everything is a big security risk and so last century. KeePass is an excellent password-management tool—in fact, it topped the list of the five best password managers—and is naturally portable, requiring no modifications to live on your thumb drive. Beyond its primary function of securely organizing and storing your passwords, it also has a host of handy features, like secure password generation—even HAL wouldn't guess the password for your Match.com account is $s2k230!nE$g^8GD@gNygh(hFod0*2E. KeePass also supports great plugins that do everything from automatically filling in password fields for you to importing your login information from other applications like Firefox.
VLC Portable
VLC is an open-source and cross-platform media player packed with features. Even if you never used it for anything more than enjoying some media saved on your flash drive, you'd be quite pleased. Beyond basic media playback, VLC can play ripped DVDs, stream media, and fix desynchronized video and audio. If you're curious whether or not VLC will playback the media you throw at it, check out the sizable list of compatible formats it supports; you'll be hard pressed to find something you can't watch with VLC.
TrueCrypt
Although hindered by the pesky need for administrative privilege or a prior installation on the computer in question—TrueCrypt has to load a device driver for it's on-the-fly encryption and decryption—TrueCrypt remains a reader favorite for thumb drives. In areas where you control the computers or have a friendly local administrator, it's tough to beat the privacy benefits of TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt creates encrypted file containers that function as independent disk volumes. You could easily create a 2GB container on your 4GB flash drive and stash all your private data in it so that—in the event that you lost your thumb drive—no one could access your personal data. Programs and media can all be loaded from the container—once you supply the password and mount it of course—just like they can be from the unencrypted portion of the flash drive. For a more thorough overview of how TrueCrypt works and how to use it, check out Gina's previous guide to encrypting your data with TrueCrypt.
Portable Thunderbird
While many users get their email fix through of a combination of Firefox Portable and a web-based email service, many of you put in a passionate vote for Thunderbird as a portable email solution. Portable Thunderbird has all the features you'd expect from a standalone email client. It supports IMAP and POP3 servers, has tabbed message browsing, advanced folder management, and the kind of extensibility that everyone has come to love in its sibling Firefox. Short of having to comply with the whims of some mad corporate-IT-manager, most users will have a hard time finding reasons not to use Portable Thunderbird for their stand alone mail-application needs.
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Top Anti-Virus 2009
Anti-virus is must have tool for every one!
A Computer without an Anti-Virus is always like, a Ship with a hole in it.
So using a good Antivirus is highly recommended.
According to a survey in almost 80% of home users have malware installed in their system just because of in appropriate use of antivirus and spyware.
But choosing the best antivirus is always pain.
Because if one antivirus is good and the best killer but it might cost you in terms of Memory.
Here is the List of Top Anti-Virus As of Dec 2008
# BitDefender
# ESET Nod32: (Download Full version Nod 32 here)
# Norman
These Ant viruses are rated on the basis of:
# Ease to use: If an Anti-Virus is too difficult to operate , a normal home user won’t be able to use it.
# Reporting of each n every activity: reporting of system is very important , specially when you are not sitting in front of your system most of the time.
# installation and set up : The interface for installation and set up should be as easy and clean as possible
# Beat all the viruses and Clean infected virus: Do i really need to describe this one too 
# How Effective in Identifying viruses: This is very important That an Antivirus should be able to Identify all known and unknown viruses by regularly updating its database.
Hope Now you will not face any problem regarding Choosing the best anti-Virus for you..!!
Meanwhile I forget to ask you which one is your favorite Anti-Virus?
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Test Effectiveness of Your Antivirus using EICAR String
We have seen many posts on the anti virus and people always give there opinion about there choice of the best anti virus. Though I have not seen anyone talking about method to check the effectiveness of your anti virus.
The best way to check the effectiveness is by getting some file from some infected PC into your system but the question is are you willing to take that risk? of course I will never take that risk.
Here is the simple code ( TEST string) copy and paste it on a notepad file and save it. If your anti virus detect it as a virus or threat that will confirm you about the effectiveness of the anti virus.
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
This is how my antivirus detected the notepad file as virus.
Antivirus test
This is one of the best way to check the effectiveness of your anti virus as you don’t have to risk the security of your system. This is EICAR TEST string.
Do let us know how effective your anti virus is?
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Orkut >> Scarpboy Messenger is here!!!
Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, mIRC, Google Talk, Rediff. gush so many messenger already there and still I’m writing about a new messenger What a fool I am!!!
Don’t think that way pals cause scrapboy - the messenger I’m talking about is for orkut.
The messenger adds the missin realtime interaction in orkut scrappin and makes its chatting!!!
Scrapboy enables you to send and receive instant scraps in the ORKUT website without a web browser.
This costs you a lot of bandwidth so I personally won’t recommend it for dial-up user, specially when you are doing hell lots of things at once! If you are just orkutting then its fine
so what are you waitng buddy just go and get scarpboy!!!
Link: http://www.scrapboy.com/en/
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Check Who is Invisible/Online on Yahoo Messenger!
One of my Yahoo friend asked me how to check if a person is online on yahoo messenger? I googled for sometime and here are my tested results…
First let me tell you coolest thing about hacks in this tutorial. They do not require targeted yahoo user to be on your friend list! Now..
To Check Online Status:
This will work only if user is online and NOT into invisible mode. Invisible part is covered later… 
First Official Way: Go to Yahoos profile directory and check target user profile. Say you want to check status of someone (where someone is Yahoo ID). Now suffix someone to URL http://profiles.yahoo.com/ so it will become http://profiles.yahoo.com/someone. Open final URL in browser and the profile will have status indicator!
Another Way: There are many simple sites which takes Yahoo ID and returns status of Yahoo user. I have tested http://www.blockstatus.com/yahoo/status-checker successfully!
This part is not a hack but official Yahoo feature documented here.
If you want PHP code to create a status-checker page of your own, this page may help you.
To Check Invisible Status:
I tested and used a third-party program named Buddy-Spy! Unlike above this requires a Yahoo account. I strongly discourage using your own Yahoo ID. You better create a new one! 
Following is a screenshot of my test result, which says everything.
Also point to note is that I was not in friend-list of Yahoo account used for testing! 
Buddy-Spy Links: Download | Homepage | User Guide
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Friday, January 16, 2009
Leaked: First Office 14 screenshots
It didn't take long this time, either. Earlier this week, testers received alpha builds of Office 14, the codename for the successor to Office 2007. A reader wrote in to tell us that a tester from Russian site wzor.net has now leaked the screenshots of the applications included in the productivity suite.
Microsoft Office 14 may not be scheduled for release until next year, but tech news site Neowin has already got their hands on leaked screenshots of the Office 14 alpha builds.
Above you can see the Office 14 About page, which sports an attractive little sidebar for opening, saving, or creating new documents.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Notepad++ 5.1.4
Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL Licence.
Based on a powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendlyness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
This project is mature. However, there may be still some bugs and missing features that are being worked on. If you have any questions or suggestions about this project, please post them in the forums. Also, if you wish to make a feature request, you can post it there as well. But there's no guarantee that I'll implement your request.
You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ into your native tongue if there's not already a translation present in the Download Section. And if you want, help translating Notepad++ official site into your native tongue would be greatly appreciated.
I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.
Notepad++ is a full-featured text editor with features like:
* Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (C, C++, HTML, ASP, Java, Pascal, CSS and more)
* User Defined Syntax Highlighting
* Auto-completion
* Multi-Document
* Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
* Full Drag ‘N' Drop supported
* Zoom in and zoom out
* Multi-Language environment supported
* Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
* Macro recording and playback
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5 Best Torrent Search Engines + Google Trick for Torrent Search!
There are many sites which host torrent on Internet but most of them are spam sites or porn sites. So finding a torrent is hard and Google is not just enough to do this job. So here comes the list of search engines specially meant for searching torrents! At the end I will be sharing a trick to use Google for searching torrents!
Torrentz: This is my favorite. Simple and fast. Key feature is same torrent from different sources is not duplicated while showing results. So you get comprehensive search results. After selecting a torrent from results you can see user comments, various trackers, mirror links, related torrents & most important authenticity of that torrent.
It also have a dedicated movies & TV shows section. All torrent in these sections are verified. Additionally you can limit your searches to these sections. There is RSS feed option for these sections sections as well as for all search queries. So feed addicts will find torrentz most interesting!
ScrapeTorent: This also search across various torrent indexes. Key features are option to limit searches to particular category, option to filter dead-torrents & duplicates from results. They also have a forum if you need help. I come to know about this recently via Anil, a geek & fellow blogger.
PizzaTorrent: I use this when torrentz fails. It shows real-time results from 15 best torrent hosts. It doesn’t club similar torrents in a single group so you may notice much higher number of results. But it does grouping by categories which saves you from downloading wrong torrent! However it produces too many useless results for multiword queries.
YouTorrent: It also shows real-time torrent results. By default it gathers results from 10 different torrent hosts. You can add/remove various torrent hosts for fine grained results. in left sidebar it shows related searches as well as top searches. This also produces few extra result which user may find useless. I think by default it looks search keywords in torrent description. This may be useful sometime but most of the time user is interested in torrent names only to get accurate search results.
PinkTorrent: NOTE: This is for adults only. So skip this if you are minor according to laws in your county.
This is best for searching free porn torrents. I do not have more details about this but its best according to many reliable sources. Use at your own risk! Only thing about safety I can say never share your personal information with porn sites specially your credit card info!
Google: Yep Google can be used smartly to search anything on the Web! Just add filetype:torrent as it is to your search query and you will get results restricted to torrents. I use this only when all above fails. Unfortunately due to high amount of spam in torrent world you will be disappointed most of the times!
BTJunkie - They have database of 1.5 million torrents which they claimed to be largest. Better search options and ability to browse torrent is plus point.
Toorgle - Power of Google Search used across 250+ torrent websites. Have index of more than 7 million torrents. A nice example of Googles custom search! :-)
Torrent-Finder - Optionwise this beats all other torrent search site. Really huge database, with fine-grain control over what you want to include in search! Results can be browse in tabs.
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Free Airtel GPRS Trick is Back!
In NUTSHELL you had to do only 3 things
- Enter your cell no. into USER NAME/NO. Field (If it is blank)
- Change access point / APN to airtelfun.com or airtelmms.com
- Configuring your application for following proxy setting…
- If u r using airtelfun.com
IP Addr : 100.1.200.99
Port no. 8080
- If u r using airtelmms.com
IP Addr : 100.1.201.172
Port No. 8799
That all about settings!
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
List of Blogs by Indian Bollywood Celebrities, Politicians, etc
Blogging fever is catching up with Indian Bollywood celebrities, politicians. etc. Here I am posting a list of all such famous celebrities blogs.
Salman Khan & Shekhar Kapur are only serious bloggers with almost a post everyday. Many celebrities are using surprisingly strange platforms managed by some companies who don’t know about feeds and other important blogging basics. Anyway here we go…
Indian Bollywood Celebrities
- Salman Khan
- Amir Khan
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Karan Johar
- Shahrukh Khan
- Shekhar Kapur
- Ram Gopal Varma
- Vikram Bhatt
- Bipasha basu
- Gul Panag
- Payal Rohatgi
- Nana Patekar (Last updated in 2005)
Indian Politicians
Of course above list is not complete but you can help by contributing to it. Specially I wanted to put some cricketers blog too, but failed to find one.
Please leave your own blog link while leaving links to celebrities blog. And please note that this is blog-list, so fancy, flash-based sites like of Shilpa Shetty will not be considered.
(Sources: Information Madness, Bombay Talkies)
Watch Bollywood Movies Online for Free!
Many internet users have a misconception that movies cannot be watched online and every time they need to waste bucks on original CDs and DVDs for viewing movies. But, let me clear, there are many ways by which you can view movies for free. Though sometimes its illegal, but you can view full length movies sitting behind your monitor screen even without wasting up a single penny.
For viewing movies on your home PC you may download via torrents as you can watch them as many times you want, saving a huge amount of internet bandwidth. But if you use internet from shared PCs or from Internet cafes then the second option, to view online, would be good for you. For online viewing, Life Rocks have listed 7 good websites that you can use to watch latest bollywood films. Right now I am trying to compile a list of few similar websites for other language films. If you know one, please do let us know.
Hope you have a happy movie viewing with the list of websites by Life Rocks.
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