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10. Get Local Time: Type in What time is it followed by any city to get the current time.

9. Track Flight Status: Enter the airline and flight number to find out the departure time and estimated arrival for any flight.

8. Convert Currency, Metrics, Bytes and More: Google has a built-in converter calculator. You can enter quarter cup in teaspoons, seconds in a year, 5 US dollars in Euros and countless others.

7. Search for Pages That are “Better Than,” “Similar to,” or “Reminds me of”: Enter “better than keyword” or “similar to keyword” to find Web pages you never knew existed.

6. Use Google as a Free Proxy: Enter cache:website.com to view a Web page that’s been blocked from the computer you’re using.

5. Remove Affiliate Links From Product Searches: To avoid seeing search results from certain sites, enter –site:website.com.

4. Find Related Items: Enter ~ before any search term to find related items as well.

3. Find Music and Comic Books: Enter -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Band or comic book name" to find music files and comic books.

2. See Images of People, Objects, Etc.: Type in a search term, and click on images to see photos of the results.

1. Search for Faces: If you’re looking for a photo of a person named Rose, and don’t want to see photos of the flower, add &imgtype=face to the end of your image search. It will show you only images of faces.

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PandaLabs, Panda Security's laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, has detected 2 new worms, Nuwar.OL and Valentin.E, which use the topic of St. Valentine's Day to spread.

"Year after year we see the appearance of several malware strains that use St Valentine's Day as bait to attract users", explains Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs. "This indicates that cyber-crooks are still reaping the benefits of this technique and many people still fall into the trap."
Nuwar.OL arrives on computers by email with subjects like "I Love You Soo Much", "Inside My Heart" or " You In My Dreams". The text of the email includes a link to a website that downloads the malicious code. The page is very simple and looks like a romantic greeting card, with a large pink heart.

Once it has infected a computer, the worm sends out a large amount of emails to the infected user's contacts, in order to spread. This also creates a heavy load on networks and slows down the computer.

Valentin.E is very similar to this. Like the Nuwar worm, it spreads by email in messages with subjects like "Searching for true Love" or "True Love" and an attached file called "friends4u". If the targeted user opens the file, a copy of the worm gets downloaded on the user's computer.

The malicious code installs on the computer as a file with the .scr extension. If the user runs it, Valentin.E shows a new desktop background to trick them, while it makes several copies of itself on the computer. Then, the worm sends out emails with copies of itself from the infected computer to spread and infect more users.

Providing tips to avoid falling victim to one of these malicious codes, PandaLabs suggests users not to open any emails or run attached files that come from unknown sources. They also advise not to click any links included in email messages, even though they may come from reliable sources. Instead, they recommend type out the link in the address bar.

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Bink and Smacker RAD video tools

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Rad_Video_Tools

Load > Click "Convert a file" > No > Output type > AVI > Convert

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Extract audio with FLV Extract

Download YouTube videos using http://keepvid.com


Use FLV Extract to extract AVI and MP3 files form downloaded YouTube .FLV videos.
FLV Extract is an excellent tool. It will easily extract both the video and audio (And timecode data if you need it) from an FLV file. If you extract the video, it will be stored in the AVI container and the audio will be stored as a regular VBR MP3 file.

The AVI extracted using FLV extract, is not compatible with Windows Movie Maker.

Use Pazera Free FLV to AVI Converter 1.1 to convert the extracted AVI file to a format understood by Windows Movie Maker. Use video codec "DivX low motion", and click check box "do not copy audio stream" to get a silent DivX.

Import DivX video, in Windows Movie Maker, import MP3 file, and create your own .wmv video which is suitable for uploading to YouTube.
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KakStearns:

Saved from a dramatic 500 point fall in the DOW by the 0.75% cut, man!


C, here is my current chart analysis: (Indian market):

Short term supports:

16527, 200 day moving average line. Trading downside of this, will put us in an intermediate bear market, within the long term bull market.

18581.6, 100 day moving average. Market must start to trade above this, for investors to enter.

Daily (Proprietory Intelligent Technical analysis indicator), indicates another 2 weeks before the first buy signal can appear. (Investors need to enter only on the third buy signal).

Daily Stochastic Oscillator indicates no buy signal yet from oversold regions.

On balance volume is still higher than that in Mid Sept. 2007

Daily Bollinger Bands. Have not shown any buy signal yet!


Long term supports:

50 day moving average line at 16,090 was violated, and then there was bounce-back. Indicates continuation of bull run as of date.

100 day moving average is at 14125.6

200 day moving average is at 10075.

Technically, we would be in a long term bull market only of violation of 10,075, by which time all would be lost.

Bullish bearish indicator shows that we have touched bottom, or almost touched bottom, and if we are still in a bull run, then this is a BUY opportunity, of the kind last seen in Mid August 2007, and early March 2007, the only two times in 2007 which were BUY opportunities. Persons who bought at these levels and held, are not in loss, at worst, at par.

Long Term Intelligent Technical Indicator shows another three weeks or so, before a BUY signal, which means it would be a confirmation of the Daily Intelligent Technical indicator buy signal expected in two weeks time.

Long term Stochastics indicates that a long term buy signal will occur in 4 weeks time.

In summary:

1. We are still in an intermediate and long term bull market, with this being an intermediate correction, provided 16,500 is not violated.

2. A technical buy signal will be generated in two weeks time, but it's better to wait for confirmation for another two weeks.

3. For a month, DO NOTHING.

4. A new intermediate bull run will have new leaders.

5. Possible good value stocks are ( in my opinion), Unitech, Suzlon, Hindustan Lever, BPCL (BPCL at somewhat lower levels), and ITC. Confirmation of Bollinger Band buy signals awaited.

6. We are right on the long term upward trend line. It may violate due to excessive pessimism now, to a max. of 14,300 or so, but remain there for a very short time, to enable investors to capitulate. That would be the best buying opportunity, if it is to occur. Read more on this article...

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Here is something to digest in retrospect. On 2nd November 2007 I had written the trailing long mail, claiming that a top had been formed, and the reasons why:

It's 20th January 2008 today and an article dated 18th January 2008 now confirms that indeed the long term bull market topped out in October 2007. Of course, they have more data (from November 2007 to January 2008) to support their arguement, which I did'nt.

"Bottom Line: Probability is very high that the bull market top arrived in October 2007 and that we are now in a bear market that will continue for another year or more, possibly until mid-2010. Until we have evidence to the contrary, remember that bear market rules apply."

You can read the full article here; (which has some very alarming charts), showing indeed a bear market has started.

Quote:

"In China, the world’s fastest growing economy, the Central Bank is combating inflation with higher interest rates and other measures aimed at tightening credit. Furthermore all indications are that a major market top in China has already taken place - a variety of Chinese stocks climbing 200% in one day during the month of October was a sure sign of a major market blow off top.

While all eyes are focused on the U.S. markets and the looming recession, a stealth Bear market is taking place elsewhere. Above a two year chart of the heart of the emerging markets, Hong Kong’s HANG SENG Index. The index has lost 6000 points in the last three months, down from 32000 to 25800. A close below 25000 will hasten the move down to the 20000 level and will constitute a 30% retrenchment.

The evidence strongly suggests that the emerging market phenomenon witnessed over the last few years is over."

With the S&P at 1333 or so today, the four year cycle chart predicts a low of 750 by mid 2010.

Most Corporate CEOs in the USA now agree that the USA is indeed in a recession. All hopes of recovery etc. are over now. The bear must play out.

Rumours abound at such times, due to fear. In fact, one may expect a rally before the flames die out. Some are claiming a crash on 28th Feb 2008.

So did I make any money out of my convictions? No. But I indeed saved a lot of market losses, by investing in other avenues available. It's virtually impossible for retail player in cash to make money in a bear market.


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On Nov 2, 2007 3:08 AM, kaks wrote:

KaksStearns FREE MARKET DIGEST
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I know I may be putting my foot in my mouth, by going against the "experts", but I do think that a top has been formed and we are in for a violent fall.

The Dow cracked 360 points tonight. Citibank is down 6% with a lot of guys being sacked. (when Citibak breaks $30, runs for the hills. It was $ 41 yesterday, and today a 6% fall).

All this, just two days after a drop in interest rates by 0.25%. compare that with the euphoria last time when interest rates were dropped 50 basis points.

Now, the contrarian contrarian view. Conventional wisdom would say that money would rush to emerging markets if there is a drop in the DOW. Somehow I don't think that that is a rule. With oil at $96, fears abroad that the sub-prime mess is much larger, (an old story, but who listens :), a history of violent falls in emerging markets (not slow secular bear markets, the fact that a whole lot of fresh investors many of whom have not seen the crash of 2000 having entered the market, (I know this for a fact), the sheer sense of "happiness" on the rise of the sensex, (A girl at a bank smilingly cautioned me not to wish for a violent fall in the sensex since so many people had made money, i.e, read that as being long in futures, that .... she left that unsaid, and I completed it for her.), the feeling that because the Indian economy is doing so well then the market must obey fundamentals and rise, strangely the fact that markets do not always follow fundamentals is ignored!, the small red lines forming on the sensex, (they are always small at first), oil at $96, repeated, since the effect of that will be really bad and affect fundamentals, the very important fact that a huge amount of complacency has been built up that no matter what, every correction is to be treated as a rising bottom, the non-sale of real estate in India, the crash in real estate prices in Shezen district, China, where guys call out to you to buy property like pani puri wallahs on the road, the imminent danger of a collapse of China stocks, the rising rupee, which has created a Catch-22 situation for the Indian govt, and in fact for the rest of the world's currencies, with Europe about to, if not already in a recession because of this, the fact that the capitalisation of RPL at 280 is more that the total capitalisation of ALL Indian refinery comanies, BPCL, IOL, HPCL, etc (Businessline paper)!! I mean, what the...!!

Ok, there's more:

On the other side, what's there to temper all this? India is a growth story. Sure. With Larsen and Toubro at a PE of 75 (!!) take a guess where that could land up.

A small hiccup now, can prove to be bronchial pneumonia for the market now. A small hint of a slow down, and wham!, there blows the extreme optimism. Sigh. How many times does the world have to learn the same lesson again and again, that it is never different this time.

Let's see how things unfold!


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Launchy is the most efficient way to open files, folders, websites, and
programs on your computer. Nobody likes to hunt through the start menu to
find an application, just to find that the application is hidden under some
obscure folder named after a company you have never heard of! Instead,
Launchy is a smart search program which tries to guess which program or file
you are looking for and will launch it when you hit the enter key. It is only
visible when you hit the alt+space key combination; otherwise it hides in the
background. Once you have used it for a few days, it becomes an indispensable
You can also configure Launchy to index more than the programs in your start menu,
such as folders, mp3s, docs, pdfs, avis, etc.

Awarded SourceForge.net Community 2007 award.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132975&package_id=146049

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Update:

Seems that the newspaper have used a pic from the 1990 Belgium sighting. Here's the original Belgium "Dorito: sighting 17 years ago.









I'm not a UFO fan or anything like that, though the mystery that there may be other life on other planets does fascinate me. I confess I have a huge collection of SF novels collected over the years!

Some UFO sightings do draw a lot of attention, especially if the UFO has been photographed, and confirmed that it is not a fake. The UFO sighting filmed by the Italian astronomer was pretty amazing, and so I blogged about it.

There's news today of a flurry of sightings, of what's being called the "Dorito" UFO, and seems someone has actually filmed a 10 minute shot of the low-flying giant craft.

The still photo above is amazingly clear, and does not represent any known experimental craft, nor was any sound heard. I'm waiting for more news on this!

Read the original full story dated 1st December 2007 in the "ExpressStar" here.
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The experience with Shock4way freeware 3D mutiple desktop cube has been, well, a little dissapointing. When run in Mojopac, there is a possibility of a hang, probably due to some sort of memory clash. The search for a stable multiple desktop led to this gem: Virtual Desktop.

Virtual Desktop is open-source, free and stable. What's more, you can have any number of deskops and switch easily from one to another. As a bonus, you can literally drag an application from one desktop to another. It's stable, I virtually (heh) guarantee that!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtual-desktop/
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Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

If all you want is a quick image retouch, Photoshop is overkill. Paint.NET, on the other hand, is an open-source freeware editor with all the essentials, including tools to crop, rotate, resize images, adjust colors, and create collages.

Paint.NET supports common image formats--JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others--but not high-resolution RAW files. There are enough basic and intermediate effects and features to keep image-tweakers happy, though the red-eye removal tool is notably weak; those images may require manual attention.

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Maybe the first app. that I will install in Mojopac 1.8.0.0. That would make my Mojopac install in Windows a portable operating system residing on my hard disk, where I could gather all the nice apps. I've been discovering and intend to use. Finally nuke Windows to have a fresh install, heh. How's that! Yeah, cool, but make sure that you install DOTNET 2.0 framework in Mojopac for those apps. that need them such as Tudomo and Windows Live Writer.

Tag your tasks, e.g. @Calls, @Home
Filter, on tag, heading, date, state or any combination!
Search-as-you-type
Use the heatmap, to identify stale actions
Undo/redo anything
Print
Change the state, Is your task an action? next action?, Waiting for?
USB-ready, - take it with you!
Auto-save, auto-update, focus on your work

http://download.tudumo.com/TudumoSetup.exe
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Vectorization (aka tracing) is the process of converting a raster image to a vector image.
Raster images are pixel-based, whereas vector images are represented by geometric shapes such as lines, circles and curves. Vector art is useful because it allows you to scale an image without making it blurry or pixelated. The site is currently tuned for tracing logos and photos.
Lots of possibilities, starting with your signature!

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
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For years we have been struggling with search engines which do not understand implicitly what we are trying to ask. Google merely throws up a set of links based on key words. All that is set to change now, thanks to True Knowledge, a search engine which supposedly throws up real answers to both human and machine questions.

An an example, check out the video for the answers to the question "Is Jennifer Lopez single?" in Google as well as True Knowledge. It's very interesting. This potentially opens up hours of play.

It's still in Beta and you need to register.

http://www.trueknowledge.com/
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Download updated 8th November 2007

The Desktop Cube effect for Linux is extremely popular because people love eye candy, but the choices for Windows are much less interesting. The latest utility to give this effect for Windows is surprisingly fast, and works on both XP and Vista.

I have 2 drawings, Excel, and Wincommander open in the cube, which gives me great flexibility!

Download Shock4Way3D exe

Download Shock4Way3D portable

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Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper?" at 16 billion pixels - 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera. Why?? heh. End of Post. Read more on this article...

Update: MojoPac 1.8.0.0 released. 10th Nov. 2007

1. Improved performance on flash drives
2. Running MojoPac on host with limited mode access
3 Ability to run MojoPac on the host computer without an external USB drive


Mojo Experience

Your experience using Mojopac is exactly as if you are using an ultra portable PC (your MojoPac device) and docking it to a computer (the Host PC you are plugged into).

Your MojoPac PC is running from your portable device, but it is borrowing the resources (screen, processor, CD/DVD drives, internet connection, printers, etc.) of the Host PC. In other words, MojoPac is your real PC (your applications, settings, data), and any computer it is connected to is being used as a utility to run MojoPac.

Creating a MojoPac PC: Creating a brand new MojoPac PC takes less than 3 minutes.

• Plug your portable storage device (such as an iPod or a USB Flash or Hard Drive) into any Windows XP PC. Download MojoPac from our website and install it onto the device.
• Once you have installed MojoPac, you can log into this MojoPac PC you created (which is running from your portable device), and bring up your newly created MojoPac desktop (MojoView). What you see is similar to a brand new Windows XP PC, and behaves exactly the same.
• You can now install your applications from MojoView. The applications installed in the MojoView will be available for you on any PC you would connect and run MojoPac.

Using a MojoPac PC: You can plug your MojoPac enabled device to any Windows XP computer (Host PC), and you will immediately be presented with your personal applications, files and environment - and it looks exactly like a standard PC experience. In your MojoPac PC view (MojoView), installing applications is similar to installing applications on any PC - simply load the application installer CD/DVD, or download the application installer from the web and proceed as you would on any normal PC. In fact, in your MojoView, your "C" drive represents your MojoPac device, NOT the Host PC. So applications install in the right place automatically, no extra steps required.

MojoPac lives side-by-side with the Host PC: When you bring up your MojoPac PC after plugging your device into a Host PC, the Host PC will keep running as it was before the connection. You don't need to change the Host PC's settings, install anything on it, or close any of the applications that were running on it. Even more importantly, you can go back and forth between your MojoPac PC view and your Host PC view - you can work on both PCs at the same time, and operate both environments simultaneously. Using your MojoPac toolbar (MojoBar) you can easily toggle back and forth between the host PC view and your MojoPac view. Each presents you with whatever personal preferences and environments you have chosen for that system and MojoPac will never alter the settings or status of the host PC.

Go to source >>

http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/hellomojo.jsp

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