Tips & Tricks

GTalk2VOIP has been written about on this blog earlier as an radio, VOIP and SMS service provider via Gtalk and other popular IM networks, now GTalk2VOIP in collaboration with Talkster is offering simple, fast and free international calls to more then 30 countries worldover.

Unlike most of the other free voip service providers Gtalk2Voip requires no registration or login, using the service is very simple as it integrates into your existing instant messenger service allowing you to make call from anywhere with ease. This ad-supported service offers unlimited free calls to any phone, landline or mobile in more then 30+ major countries.

Firefox 3 is released but most of the extensions are still not compatible with the new browser, here is a little hack to get your must have extensions work with the new browser, but before proceeding do keep in mind that this can be risky and may render your browser insecure, so proceed on your own risk, I tried it myself and everything works fine, All of my favorite addons like - Linkify, Rapidshare Link Finder, Remove Cookies etc. are working perfectly.

PDF authors often restrict their files using PDF security features preventing users from copying, editing or printing the contents, and like every other protection this can also be easily bypassed, there exist several methods to crack or unlock PDF files, but if you are looking for a simple and fast way to just bypass the copying & printing restrictions of the PDF file Ensode online PDF Unlock Utility will be the best option, You just need to upload the file and the unlocked version of the PDF without printing or copying/pasting restrictions will be displayed in a new browser window in your default PDF application, Similarly you can use "Ensode Free Excel Spreadsheet Unlock Online Utility" to unlock Microsoft Excel spreadsheet passwords.

One the most useful feature of Opera is Speed Dial, in earlier versions of Opera it was not possible to add additional speed dial slots but with the latest version this is achievable using a simple hack, just follow the instructions below to implement the hack.

Earlier when YouTube was testing high resolution videos, we posted a hack to view YouTube videos in high quality by simply appending a parameter to the existing url, but there is no need for such hack now as YouTube provides option to view the high quality version of the video, However, YouTube still does not provide any method to let users embed high quality version of the video on there blog or website, but using the hack below you will be able to embed high resolution Youtube videos.

For the hack to work you will need to append &ap=%2526fmt%3D18 to the end of video clip’s URL's specified in “param” and “embed” tags in the default embed code provided by YouTube. For Example:

Netload.in is one of the top (Alexa site rank : 330) free file-hosting service provider offering decent download speeds, but is very annoying to use because of the popunders and waiting times, but here is an easy to use solution for the problem - simply install this Greasemonkey script (You will need Firefox with Greasemonkey installed) and get rid of those popups and wait times.

At times you may need to get hold of full email headers of an email, usually most email services provide easy methods to view them but Gmail is a bit tricky and finding the right option is not very intuitive, to view full email headers use the method described below:

1. Open the email from your Gmail account.
2. Use the reply drop-down menu to access "Show Original" as shown below.
   
   
3. A new window with full email headers will launch.

File-sharing service Rapidshare today unveiled there new logo and website design with new features, the new site is more appealing to the eyes and provides a much better experience in terms of usability, from now on "Rapidshare Premium Users" will be able to download 50 GB in five days instead of the earlier 25 GB limit, "Rapidshare Folders" is now "Rapidshare Link List" and has a new seprate administration for Free Users, "Rapidshare Direct Download" is now "TrafficShare", Rapidshare is also expectd to release new features in the upcoming days, a rapidshare search feature would be really helpful.

New Rapidshare Premium Zone

"Sean Carving" is one of the coolest digital imaging trick you would have ever seen, the new content aware image-resizing method is used to resize images non-uniformly, removing only less important pixels. Developed by two Israeli professors, Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir the algorithm makes it possible to select important areas of an image that needs to be preserved and change the aspect ratio of an image without effecting the main content look. It's better to see the video presentation below to see what exactly this method can achieve.

IntuImage - is one of its kind free software to make use of this amazing technique on your desktop, this easy to use tool utilizes “seam carving” or “liquid rescaling” allowing significant change in image size and proportion while leaving the important image elements intact.