T-Mobile – A giant U.S. mobile operator produced almost a real world clone of the best mobile game of the year – Angry Birds, for their commercial which is being aired on most television channels. The video has already gone viral over the Internet and Youtube.

The birds were created as soft toys which were shot away on the plastic boards which resembled the protecting home for the pigs. The targeting and shooting of birds were controlled with a special mechanism built by T-Mobile team for this commercial was being controlled from a mobile phone making the game actually work in real world. Some lucky people got a chance to play the real world angry birds game and you can see their excitement in the video! We don’t have more words for this, have a look at the video which is self-explanatory!

So what are your views on this super natural game? Share in comments!

Whenever you click on “Get verified” button, PayPal asks you to enter you credit card information. It is likely that not all everyone has credit cards as they are not so easy to obtain in India at this particular time. Or some users will not feel comfortable entering raw credit card numbers over the internet.

• To confirm a PayPal account an alternative way which usually go un-noticed is linking any Indian bank account.
• Simply login to your PayPal account click on “Add/Edit Bank Account” and fill in the bank details it requires. If you are unsure about any of the fields specified there, give a call to your Bank Branch and get it from them.
• When you are done with it, PayPal will soon transfer two very small amounts via NEFT to your account in next 2 working days.
• Next step is to enter the exact amount PayPal transferred to your Bank Account. Make sure you enter them exactly as they appear in your Bank Statement.
• And you’re done.

This not only verifies your Bank Account with PayPal but even your accounts limits get lifted as your PayPal account also gets verified without entering your credit card information. The good thing is if you have enabled for Internet Banking facility for your Bank Account. You can check the statements and verify instantly as the transfer is made.

A day comes when your Facebook friends count reaches in hundreds and you scrub your head watching the ever growing chat list and friends activity stream with useless updates. We don’t have to chat with those hundred friends but we have to add them just to keep in touch with them sometime in future. While adding Facebook contacts if you have been organizing your friends, its great but if not start doing it right now.

I have nearly ~200 friends in my Facebook account and sometimes chat list show up to 50 persons online at the same time. This creates a big trouble to search for the person you really want to chat with. Now all you have to do organize this clutter is to categorize you friends in lists. I prefer organizing it separately for Photo Sharing, Chat and Updates Stream so I have created three lists in Facebook for each. As there might be cases where you have to share photos with someone while chat with the other.

Chat with Selective Friends, Appear Offline to the Rest

Now when you are done with the lists just add your friends to the lists as per your need. After the friends have been added all you have to is click on “Friends List” in chat window, it will show you all the lists over there. Untick all of the other lists except the “Chat” one. And you’re done. You will only be able to chat with the people you want and for rest of the Facebook friends you will appear offline always. You can anytime make changes to the list to add or remove friends. This gets the power in your hand to chose which friends should appear where on Facebook.

Share Photos only with your close Friend

Same is the case with Photo Sharing. Creating a separate list and putting in your those buddies in it with whom you want to share your personal pictures. This again helps you a lot in maintaining your privacy over the social network.

Hide Useless Applications, Clear the clutter from your Stream

Most of our buddies enjoy farming, planting and so many useless apps like FarmVille, MafiaWars, etc. These applications pushes lots of updates in the user’s stream which is basically useless to others. You can hide updates from a particular application or a particular friend. All you have to do whenever you see a useless update from an application hit the “HIDE” button. Facebook then asks you to either hide all updates from your friend or hide all the updates from particular option.

Cool! We knew all this, tell something better…

You may say these are some basic things which everyone knows. Let me remind you once every one is a beginner to everything and this post is completely meant for Facebook first-timers. And most of the people are unaware of these simple ways on how you can organise your social life on Facebook. So basically if you have been facing lots of clutter at Facebook get organized or if you are new to it, its better to start organizing from day one.

According to Mr. K. Srinivas, Joint President-Telemedia Services, Bharti Airtel:

We are massifying the broadband experience by enabling users to access higher speeds at affordable rates. Our data shows that more and more customers want higher speeds. Average usage per customer has also increased by 40 per cent.

Therefore, we are redefining broadband speeds in India by upgrading all our subscribers to 512 Kbps even as the telecom regulator defines broadband as 256 Kbps.

Airtel has also launched new 4Mbps unlimited plans ranging from 899 to 1799. The complete details of the new plans are given  in the table below:

Over the past six months, telecom players have got engaged in a battle for speed. Recently a Mumbai-based Internet Service Provider –Tikona launched a 2Mbps speed connection priced between Rs 299 and Rs 1,249 depending on the download usage. Tata Teleservices Maharashtra had introduced a 100 Mbps line in Mumbai, while State-owned BSNL is offering 24Mbps connection for Rs 9,999.

Links:

The Hindu Business Line, Theitechblog.

Google Buzz packs in features like sharing of Video’s, Pictures, etc. It can also be integrated with your current Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Youtube and more Streams. It gives you control to share with your content with whole world or just selected friends. Your current Gmail buddies or frequently contacted Gmail Clients are automatically added to the Buzz stream.

Google Buzz is also available for Mobile Phone’s. Another great feature of Google Buzz is geo-tagging capability. You can tag your location using the maps and even see the location of your friends in their buzzes.

Isn’t It Another Facebook / Google Wave?

Yes a lot of features matches the one already we see in Facebook. Though this is a more streamlined service by Google and some features are unique, such as integration with Maps for geo-tagging, etc. On the other hand Google Wave can be call as a future of the “Social Working”. By Social Working, I mean it is more directed towards collaborative working, rather than the usual Social networking which includes sharing updates from different services. Google Wave could be integrated as a sharing service in Google Buzz on a later stage but as of now these service are totally different from each other.

Introductory Video (by Google):

Here is a quick introduction video, which explains about the available feature’s in Google Buzz:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi50KlsCBio

Reaction from Yahoo:

Here is a tweet from Yahoo within an hour of launch of Google Buzz:

Two years after #Yahoo! launched #Buzz, Google follows suit. Check out the original: http://buzz.yahoo.com/

P.S. Google is in a process of rolling our Buzz to all users. You will soon find the "Buzz" tab in Gmail.

Using Google Web Search:

Google provides a search filter known as “link”. It is basically designed to show the sites in google index that link to your site. A example link query is shown below:

Query: link:www.lifebaker.com

Sample Link: http://www.google.com/search?q=link:www.lifebaker.com

You can even create a Google Alert so that you get informed every time a new update is added to Google’s index.

But this method yields very few results, so I gave other queries a try and found the following one to work quite good for detecting latest in-links to your blog. It shows the latest links being indexed by Google which have back-links to your site.

Query: http://lifebaker.com/* -site:lifebaker.com

Sample Link: http://www.google.co.in/search?q=http://www.lifebaker.com/*%20-site:lifebaker.com&tbs=rltm:1

Using Google Blog Search:

This is a very common method in use by many blogger but its accuracy has reduced over time. The in-links you find in WordPress panel are also found using Blog Search RSS feed.

Query: link:http://lifebaker.com

Sample Link: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=link:http://lifebaker.com

Feed Link: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?q=link:http://lifebaker.com&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss

Using Yahoo:

Yahoo’s Site Explorer is another goog method for tracking in-links to your blog.

Query: link:http://lifebaker.com

Sample Link: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.lifebaker.com&bwm=i

Using Bing:

We can use the same query as we used above for Google to search inlinks using Bing. Bing even provides a rss feed for your queries if you add &format=rss at the end of the query.

Query: http://lifebaker.com/* -site:lifebaker.com

Sample Link: http://www.bing.com/search?q=http://www.lifebaker.com/*+-site:lifebaker.com

Feed Link – http://www.bing.com/search?q=http://www.lifebaker.com/*+-site:lifebaker.com&format=rss

Using Technorati:

Technorati is one of the oldest service to provide in-links but its accuracy has decreased over time. You can find in-links to your blog from other blogs indexed by Technorati.

Conclusion:

There are a bunch of more services which offer the same. But mainly I prefer using Google Blog Search, Google Latest Web Search and Bing to track the links. Note: LifeBaker is a new blog. We have limited posts as of now, thus above link might not yield much results. Try it on some popular blogs and you will be able to note the difference. Image via Flickr.

However this limitation can be easily by-passed using a simple hack, well it cannot be called a hack even. All you have to do is un-install the current Local Version of Yahoo Messenger from your system and download the US version of Yahoo! Messenger. When you visit the Yahoo Messenger’s site, it automatically selects the local version to your country by scanning your IP address.

To bypass it you have to directly download the US version from Yahoo Server. We have provided the Direct Download link below. The step-by-step instructions for windows users are as follows:

1. Goto Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs.
2. Select the Yahoo Messenger from the list.
3. Click on Un-Install button.
4. Goto My Computer -> C: (or the drive in which windows is installed) - >Program Files.
5. Delete the Yahoo Folder if it still exist.
6. Now download the US version by the links provided below.
7. Install the downloaded file.
8. Run the newly installed Yahoo Messenger.
9. If you are still unable to see the Voice option, you must restart the system and then login again.
10. Enjoy.

Please Note: Un-installing Yahoo! Messenger will delete all your chat history. Also the local rooms and audibles of your country won’t be accessible in the US Version.

If it still not works for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, you may also have to delete the following paths before installing the US version.

C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Local\Yahoo

C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\LocalLow\Yahoo

C:\Users\<User Name>\AppData\Roaming\Yahoo

Download Link for US Version of Yahoo Messenger

You can directly download 10.0.0.1102 US version by clicking here, or you may get the latest version from FileHippo.

This release is stable and fully compatible with Windows 7 and also includes a bunch of security fixes. You can download the final version directly from the official Yahoo Messenger site by using their installer but the problem with it is it does not support resuming. The people with slower connection or limited bandwidth can opt for the country-wise direct download links for Windows from the Yahoo servers only.

US English: ymsgr1000_1102_us.exe

America
Argentina: ymsgr1000_1102_ar.exe
Brazil: ymsgr1000_1102_br.exe
Chile: ymsgr1000_1102_cl.exe
Columbia: ymsgr1000_1102_co.exe
Mexico: ymsgr1000_1102_mx.exe
Peru: ymsgr1000_1102_pe.exe
Venezuela: ymsgr1000_1102_ve.exe
Yahoo! Telemundo (Latin America Spanish): ymsgr1000_1102_e1.exe

Europe
France: ymsgr1000_1102_fr.exe
Germany: ymsgr1000_1102_de.exe
Italy: ymsgr1000_1102_it.exe
Spain: ymsgr1000_1102_es.exe
UK & Ireland: ymsgr1000_1102_uk.exe

Oceanic
Australia & New Zealand: ymsgr1000_1102_au.exe

Asia

India (English): ymsgr1000_1102_in.exe
Indonesia: ymsgr1000_1102_id.exe
Hong Kong (Chinese): ymsgr1000_1102_hk.exe
Korea: ymsgr1000_1102_kr.exe
Malaysia: ymsgr1000_1102_my.exe
Philippines: ymsgr1000_1102_ph.exe
Singapore: ymsgr1000_1102_sg.exe
Taiwan (Traditional Chinese): ymsgr1000_1102_tw.exe
Thailand: ymsgr1000_1102_th.exe
Vietnam: ymsgr1000_1102_vn.exe

Here are few pictures of the kit which arrived in yesterday noon. The kit contains:

• Ten Tote Bags.
• Two Windows 7 Ultimate Signature Edition (32-bit & 64-bit) with one genuine license.
• A puzzle.
• Bunch of Napkins.
• A huge poster.
• A hanging banner.
• 2 Papers with party idea’s and instructions.

Windows 7 is no doubt, a true winner. We have been using RC edition for months now and it just make us felt “This is My PC”. Almost all of our old software’s ran without any glitches. Stunning graphics, ubercool features, and the most important thing “Stability” is what we have found in Windows 7.

A service known as Chi.mp, allows you to create you personal profile or online identity at your own top level .mp domain. I will not be going into details of the whole chimp service as you can read their FAQ here. The interesting point is that they set-up a top level .mp domain for every user that registers at chimp. Chimp also offers one free email address at the domain you choose while registering and puts up as e-mail forwarder to your existing e-mail address.

Getting Ready

If you are new to email firstly please setup an account at Gmail and then follow the step further. In order to setup, first register at Chi.mp and setup your account be careful while choosing the domain as once created it cannot be changed. I used duseja.mp domain so that I was able to have the mail address as ankit [at] duseja.mp

Directing Mails from new address to your existing one

After your account is ready, login at your domain you just created using chi.mp credentials and then go to Settings –> Email Forwarding. Enter any desired mail address and your current mail address. Finally click on Save Changes button. Good you have completed the first part of the process. now you can give out that address to your friends, family or anyone.

Sending Mails with your brand new address

It depends on your mail provider whether it allows sending mail from another address or not. Gmail users are lucky enough so that they can tightly integrate the new address in there current account and send mail from the newly created one using you old Gmail panel. Here’s how to do it in Gmail:

• Login to your Gmail account or Google Apps for domain account.
• Go to Settings –> Accounts & Imports.
• Click on Send Mail from another address.
• Enter you new email address here and verify (the verification will directly reach you current inbox as you have already forwarded all mails from your new address to gmail one).

You are done. To send an email from your new top level domain address just click on compose in Gmail and select your new address in from field. Both your new chimp address and old gmail one can be accessed under one place. Life’s good! ;)