The thing which I am going to share with you all can be very useful for you.  Yes you have read it right you can  receive mail alerts on your mobile phones for free. Through this you can get alerts about incoming e-mails in your mobile inbox at no cost. You can now receive mail alerts on your mobile phone from your gmail, yahoo, and other mail providers.  To activate this service you need to have follow simple steps.

1) Create an account at way2sms.com ( If you already have it then its fine, no need to create a new account )

2) Log in to your account receive mail alerts on your mobile for free

3) Click on the Mail Alerts tab

4) Copy your way2sms email ID

5) Make modifications if you want.

6) Go to your gmail account and login

7) click on settings & then click on ‘FORWARDING/POP/IMAP’ option

8 ) Select ‘Forward a copy of incoming mail to” option & Enter your Way2SMS Email ID

9) Gmail sends a verification code to your Way2SMS Email ID

10) Check your Gmail confirmation code from adjacent Inbox tab  Or You will receive gmail confirmation mail alert on your mobile with subject line containing confirmation code.

11) Copy and paste the verification code in Gmail verification box.Click On Verfy.

12) Finished. You will now receive alerts for every incoming mail that arrives in your gmail id( You can filter alerts by  choosing which emails you want to alert, and when you want to receive them ).

For more reference on this mail alerts through SMS service check out this video

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Have you heard about Arduino and wondered what is it?So here is a brief intro about the so powerful and cheap device which gives ample opportunities to the electronic enthusiasts and much more.

What is Arduino?

Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

What can we do with it?

Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing). Arduino projects can be stand-alone or they can communicate with software running on a computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP).

Where can we find projects, related to Arduino ?

There are so many project available over Google code.Check out here Arduino project on Google Code. Many interesting projects that utilizes Arduino board/kits ,are available over internet sites.Projects ranging from Alarm clock, Customized robots,various automation,musical instruments,lights, displays,games,mp3 player etc are available at www.instructables.com .It is worth to check out at here http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/channel-arduino/

Where can I buy Arduino from?

There is official store for arduino from where you can buy arduino boards,kits and other material.Lots of other sites and sellers offers  other arduino based kits,hardware,softwares etc.Because of its popularity,it is easily available in the market.

In India you can get it online through www.probots.co.in at reasonable price.

Since Arduino and its related hardware and kits are readily availabe in the market,Arduino comes out very handy for university level projects which can be very useful in real life too.Get innovative and use arduino to make some interesting projects.Don’t forget it to share with us . Believe it ,you can bring a change through Arduino.

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With the Tremendous growth and popularity of Android in mobile OS market,various application has flooded over the internet.The need arises to find out the most effective,useful and nicely performing application.So here are we ,with our pick of free android application available over the android market through google.

1.ColorNote

Ever thought of taking notes in the android phone,and ended up saving it as ‘draft’ in messages?So here is the application to make your task easier in the form of virtual notes ,just like sticky pad for your android phone.Sounds interesting ,isn’t it.This is small tool ,but useful enough when you don’t have notepad or pen.

Here is the excerpts from Android market for the application

“Color Note is a notepad app which give you a better note editing experience.Color Note is a simple notepad app. It give you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes, memo, email, message, shopping list and todo list. Color Note makes taking a note easier than any other notepad and memo apps”

 2.TubeMate

This application is for those who love watching videos over there android devices.This application gives you freedom to simply download the videos directly from youtube to your device memory.Just search your favourite video ,as you do in youtube,then it will give you a pop up option,either to watch or to save it with choice of resolution or as sound only.The description in android market says “The fastest and most famous YouTube Video downloader”.Yes ,during the tests,it provided superb experiences to our test engineers.

3.Zedge

Who don’t love to store beautiful wallpapers, latest ringtones in there cell phones?This apps directly provides wallpapers,ringtones from there site www.zedge.net .This gives you previews (Sounds too) option before downloading them. And apart from that,once you finish downloading,you can directly set it to either current wallpaper (If downloaded is wallpaper) or as your current ringtone.There is huge collection of ringtone and wallpapers from millions of users,that too at free of cost.

 4.ZDClock

This application is a simple and must have tool,withouth much glitters.Life comes easy with ZDclockZDclock=Evernote+Alarm clock, Gorgeous Conbination, Easy to use, All free with no ads .Wake up, Birthday, Anniversary, Credit, Rotating shifts, Medicine, Utilities, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly, Custom, etc. ZDclock is a ringing evernote. With it,you don’t have to remember what matters or check notes from time to time. ZDclock will remind you at the right time.

 5.Google Maps

Download the latest release of Google Maps, and never carry a paper map again.Get Google Maps with Navigation (Beta), Places, and Latitude *Navigation: Free, voice-guided GPS navigation system*Places: Find, rate, and get recommendations for places *Latitude: See friends on the map and check in at places

Top 5 free Android Applications. is a post from: Tech2mgr

AVG antivirus was really a great software when they launched its service as a free antivirus. The updates are really easy to download and very consistent.After new interface ,it is very impressive and very consistent.Since the software is very famous since few years, it has got many users who trust the software. The AVG Free Antivirus is really very very simple to install and use. All you have to do is to download the software and install it. AVG Free Antivirus also a upgraded version which acts similar to the Free AVG Antivirus Software. So its not that necessary to buy it. You can visit there official page for more info 

1. Free Anti Virus (12.70 MB)
2. My Free Antivirus ( 21.70MB)
3. Kingsoft Free Antivirus (18.23MB)
4. Gen Federico Free Anti Virus (12.70MB)
5. Xyvos Free Antivirus (2.2MB)
6. Rising Antivirus Free Edition (89.02MB)
7. eScan Anti Virus & Spyware Toolkit Utility (120 MB)
8. ClamWin Free Antivirus (36.17 MB)
9. Comodo Firewall + Antivirus (75.33MB)
10. GetGo Download Manager (5.06 MB)

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Photoscape

This is amazing software which gives advanced photo editing tools,like adding a watermark,filters,color correction,frames and various photo settings to improve it.Also it has got batch editor,which can be used to modify more than one photo in batch without doing same thing again and again.Photoscape is an all-in-one photo editing software. It can be used for editing all types of photos, and turning them into fun things, including collage, animated gifs, and combining photos.This is nice piece of software and is a must for the photographers who don’t want to spend too much on photo editing software(though it has limits but sure it will fulfill basic needs)

Picasa

This is one of the famous tools people generally install in there PC for either viewing there albums or for basic editing.Using picasa ,one can create album,create collage and upload to there account directly.Basic editing,collage making with various easy to use options can be done easily.This is user friendly software and thus no need for any advanced knowledge of photography jargons.This is also a photo organizer through which you can manage your albums and directly push to your web album (Picasa online account).You can directly link your Picasa web album to Google+ ,blogs etc.Create links and share your album through it.It provides geo-tagging and face tagging options.

Gimp

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. It was originally developed for Unix but after it gained so much popularity for Linux, a Windows version was soon released.

Gimp

There are so many other tools available for editing ,but these three are most sought softwares in the freeware category for photo editing and are famous among the beginner to advanced free software user communities.

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(SSH client) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It is intended to replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel.

Login session and remote execution

When the user’s identity has been accepted by the server, the server either executes the given command, or logs into the machine and gives the user a normal shell on the remote machine. All communication with the remote command or shell will be automatically encrypted.

How to set up SSH to login from one server to another?

Let’s begin

First, install OpenSSH on two UNIX machines, Let us name them as Argon and Boron .

On each machine type ssh workingmachine.com(example) and make a connection with your regular password. This will create a .ssh dir in your home directory  with the proper perms.
On your primary machine where you want your secret keys to live (let’s say Argon), type
ssh-keygen -t dsa
This will prompt you for a secret passphrase. If this is your primary identity key, make sure to use a good passphrase. If this works right you will get two files called id_dsa and id_dsa.pub in your .ssh dir. Note: it is possible to just press the enter key when prompted for a passphrase, which will
make a key with no passphrase. This is a Bad Idea for an identity key, so try to avoid! See below for uses of keys without passphrases.

scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub boron:.ssh/authorized_keys2
Copy the id_dsa.pub file to the other host’s .ssh dir with the name authorized_keys2.
Now boron is ready to accept your ssh key. How to tell it which keys to use? The ssh-add command will do it. For a test, type
ssh-agent sh -c ‘ssh-add < /dev/null && bash’
This will start the ssh-agent, add your default identity(prompting you for your passphrase), and spawn a bash shell. From this new shell you should be
able to:
ssh boron
This should let you in without typing a password or passphrase. Yuppie! You can ssh and scp all you want from this bash shell and not have to type any password or passphrase.

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Headline features

1. 18 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor
2. DIGIC 4 processor with ISO 100-6400 (Expansion to 12800)
3. Continuous shooting at 3.7fps
4. Full HD movie recording with manual control and selectable frame rates
5. 7.7cm (3.0”) 3:2 Clear View LCD with 1,040k dots
6. iFCL metering System with 63-zone Dual-layer Metering Sensor
7. Quick Control screen to change shooting settings
8. Exposure compensation +/-5 stops (although viewfinder scale is still +/-2 stops)
9. Select maximum value for Auto ISO
10. External Microphone socket
11. Movie crop function
12. Eye-Fi connected functions compatibility

Canon 550D brief review is a post from: Tech2mgr

field,then it is a jargon for you.
But this is one of the basics for website creation and get a wonderful results for your running websites.Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit ‘enter’ you get a list of web results that contain that searched term.Users normally tend to visit websites that are at the top of this list as they think, those to be more appropriate to the search.If you have ever wondered why some of these websites rank better than the others then you must know that it is because of a powerful web marketing technique called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

SEO is a technique which helps search engines find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites in response to a search query. SEO thus helps you get traffic from search engines.The first basic truth you need to know to learn SEO is that search engines are not humans. While this might be obvious for everybody, the differences between how humans and search engines view web pages aren’t. Unlike humans, search engines are text-driven. Although technology advances rapidly, search engines are far from intelligent creatures that can feel the beauty of a cool design or enjoy the sounds and movement in movies. Instead, search engines crawl the Web, looking at particular site items (mainly text) to get an

idea what a site is about. This brief explanation is not the most precise because as we will see next, search engines perform several activities in order to deliver search results – crawling, indexing, processing, calculating relevancy, and retrieving.

First, search engines crawl the Web to see what is there. This task is performed by a piece of software, called a crawler or a spider (or Googlebot, as is the case with Google). Spiders follow links from one page to another and index everything they find on their way. Having in mind the number of pages on the Web (over 20 billion), it is impossible for a spider to visit a site daily just to see if a new page has appeared or if an existing page has been modified, sometimes crawlers may not end up visiting your site for a month or two.

What you can do is to check what a crawler sees from your site. As already mentioned, crawlers are not humans and they do not see images, Flash movies, JavaScript, frames, password-protected pages and directories, so if you have tons of these on your site, you’d better run the Spider Simulator below to see if these goodies are viewable by the spider. If they are not viewable, they will not be spidered, not indexed, not processed, etc. – in a word they will be non-existent for search engines.

Benefits of Search Engine Optimization :

With the help of Search Engine Optimization technique, a website can be ranked in top search results of appropriate keywords. It’s a well known fact that the visitors that are highly qualified internet savvy leads are more likely to buy your goods and services. SEO operation can help you locate the best search terms which will not only attract more visitors to your web site, but ensure that those visitors are more likely to be strong probable customers for your goods and services. SEO helps you to build up your company image, increase sales and get many business opportunities. It provides cost effective internet advertising with a potential high rate of return, giving you an excellent return on investment. The site that is visited the most appears at the top of the search results. Search Engine Optimization helps millions of customers successfully find products and services online faster with less effort.

Some of the benefits of Search Engine Optimization are:

Saves time and Money:  Search Engine Optimization saves valuable time and money by utilizing free search engine services to advertise the products and services. The search engine ranking becomes higher with the increase in popularity of a website. Once your web site is optimized and submitted it will continue to be visited and filed by search engines and is maintained with minimal effort.

Improve your Competitive Edge: Once a customer starts liking your website he will find all his meaningful information online. This means they are less likely to find your competitors. Your online market share can also be increased with the use of SEO technology.

Enhance sales: Researches have proved that a customer is 10 times more likely to purchase your products and services after finding your website through a Search Engine rather than online advertising. Higher site ranking means an increase in customer visits and sales targets. This in turn leads to an increase in sales opportunities. Search engine optimization results into highest conversion rates, turning your website visitors into clients.

Expand Customer Base and target Audience: Search Engine Optimization exposes your products and services to motivated and interested customers. This expands your customer base and makes your site easier to find and locate on the internet. It improves your ranking, increasing traffic and chances of making sales.

Increases return on investment: Success and growth of a business depends on its profitability and returns on investments. A business is said to be profitable when there is an increase in sales, thereby providing good returns. This is only possible with the optimum utilization of search engines.

Website owners dream of having a higher search ranking for their website. There need not be any swapping between both search engines and people. With this much overlap between the two areas, one should quickly and efficiently be able to have a website that web users can find in through search engine optimization. The bottom line is – an increase in motivated and interested customers’ leads to increased sales for your small business, club, school or association.

What is Search Engine Optimization is a post from: Tech2mgr

This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

1. How To Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

   If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

   

2. How To Download Facebook Photo Albums

   FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.

   

3. How To Share Flickr Photos To Facebook

   Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.

   

4. How To Update Facebook Without Using Facebook

   hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.

   

5. How To Schedule Facebook Messages

   Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.

   

6. How To “Friend” Someone On Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

   A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.

   

7. How To Create A Photo Collage Using Pictures Of Your Facebook Friends

   Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From “Choose an option” dropdown, choose any of the dashes “—” . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.

   

8. How To Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete Or Block You

   This service has been discontinued. X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.

   That’s all as of now Hope you liked this post. :)

   Happy Socializing.. :P

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