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How to search effectively in the Internet

So, you’re still getting those 1,670,000+ responses to your search queries on the Web, and you’re still too busy to do anything about it, like reading the lengthy, and sometimes confusing, “help” screens to find out how to improve your searching techniques.
Look no further! Real help is here, links from various world-famous Universities like Berkeley

Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
BARE BONES 101: A Web Search Tutorial
Web Search Tutorial by Pandia
Web Search from About.com
Search Watch
Search Showdown
Best Search Tools Chart
Graduated Search Strategy
How to Choose where to Search
Tips for Effective Internet Searching
Evaluating Web Resources

June 30, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | Internet, Search, Web | | No Comments Yet

Internet Tools Summary/List

Here is a compact table summarizing sources of information for Internet-based FREE tools for information retrieval, interaction, and computer-mediated communication:

INFORMATION
Utilities:

June 30, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | Clients, Communication, Information, Internet, Net, Networking, Tools, Video, WWW, Web | | No Comments Yet

Internet Speedometer: How fast is your internet connection

Now you can find out how fast or slow your Internet connection is with our Internet Connection Speedometer, without the need of any download!

You could be using your network connection at work, or at home using a dial-up modem, ISDN connection, a cable modem, or a digital subscriber line (DSL). Whatever the device or technology you’re using to surf the Web, the speed of your Internet connection can be easily calculated by this simple tool provided by Mcafee.

To calculate the speed, just click here.

Upon clicking this link, you’ll get a “File Size” and the “Time Elapsed”. Just divide the “File Size” by the “Time Elapsed”, and voyla!!

June 30, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | Cable Modem, Connection, DSL, Dial-up Modem, Free, ISDN, Internet, Mcafee, No download needed, Speedometer, Web | | No Comments Yet

VOIP using Skype: Make ISD calls Free

Make FREE INTERNATIONAL/ NATIONAL VOIP calls from your computer for free, to other people on Skype, cheap to phones and mobiles across the world. And the sound quality is great, too – keep it running all day, and it’s like you’re in the same room as the person on the other end.
Download free Skype here.

June 30, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | Free ISD, Free call, Restricted IM, Skype, VOIP | | No Comments Yet

Meebo Online Chat: Simple, Secure (and of course FREE)

One login, all your IM accounts, no download required!

Meebo makes instant messaging easy for everyone….
Connect with all your friends, no matter where they do their instant messaging. Meebo lets you access your buddies on all the major networks (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber) in a single buddylist, right from your browser. Include everyone and chat the warm fuzzy way!
IM in a web page .
No software to download/install—chat from any computer with an internet connection.

Play games, video conference, transfer files, and so much more, all from your Web browser. Meebo gives you oodles of fun, exciting ways to interact live with your friends….

June 30, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | AIM, AOL, Free, GTalk, Google, Google Talk, ICQ, Internet, Jabber, MSN, Meebo, No download needed, Yahoo | | No Comments Yet

How to download online streaming video

In today’s Internet World , many of us like to use the Bandwidth to download Movies from the net . Here is a simple mean to do so, through one of the excellent features offered by Real Player…

# First Download the latest Real Player here
(You may download either the BASIC PLAYER or the FULL FEATURED one, both have our desired feature of downloading streaming online video)

# Next Run the RealPlayer11GOLD.exe file , make sure you are connected to the Internet.

# While installing click the Download and Recording check box ( enable Browser download )


# Next Go to the video link from where you can see the movie Online. On the right hand corner Download This Video Button would appear , click and save the vedio to your Disk.

Hope this info help you download movies online for FREE!

June 30, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | Download, Free, Internet, Movies, Real Player, Video | | No Comments Yet

Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

June 28, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | Uncategorized | | 1 Comment

Online Entertainment

Oh boy, I’m pretty convinced that once you go through these links, you should never regret sitting long idle hours in office, or even at home! You don’t need to install anything, just click the links given below, wait a few seconds, and the streaming starts.
And the best part is that it doesn’t take much bandwidth: be it live radio FM channels, TV channels, cricket highlights, online video or dance videos!

Well, here you go…

Online Radio FM Channels:

City 1016 FM

Radio Nimbooda FM

Bollywood Music Radio FM

Radio S-FM

Shyam Radio, Chennai FM

Radio Khushi, Tamil FM

Lotus FM, Johannesburg

Online TV Channels:

Star Ananda, Bengali

Star Vijay

Yo Music

IBN 7

CNBC TV

IBN English

Doordarshan

Raj TV

Online Movie Video Songs:

Latest Bollywood Movie Songs

Indian Pop Video Songs

English Pop Video Songs

Pakistani Album Video Songs

Dance Videos:

Hollywood Dance Videos

Bollywood Dance Videos

Desi Dance Videos

Mujra Dance Videos

Punjabi Dance Videos

Arabic Dance Videos

Salsa Dance Videos

Water Dance Videos

Sports Dance Videos

Animal Dance Videos

Baby Dance Videos

Funny Dance Videos

Weird Dance Videos

Videos Archive:

Animal Videos

Animation Videos

Auto Videos

Celebrity Videos

Entertainment Videos

Funny Videos

Horror Videos

How-to Videos

Illusion Videos

Military Videos

Movie Trailers

News Videos

Sports Videos

TV VIdeos

Video Games Videos

Cricket Highlights:

You can watch/download some thrilling cricket innings highlights here.

Bengali Songs Download:

A huge number of all-time favorite Bengali songs can be downloaded here, although I’ve not verified all of them. But I think most of the links here are working. Please let me know otherwise.

Phew, enough for now! More later…

June 27, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | Bengali Songs, Bengali TV, Bollywood Movie Songs, Cricket Highlights, English Video Songs, Online FM, Online TV, Pop Album Songs, Video Archive | | No Comments Yet

TXTcollector – Free Text File Merging Tool


Well, this tool can come in handy if you want to combine daily and weekly reports, or merge network server backup logs. I use TXTcollector myself to grab a CD full of readme’s to enable me read them all in one go.
TXTcollector grabs all .txt files from the directory of your choice and combines them into a new (larger) text file.

Options/Features

  • Grabs all .txt files from a directory and combines them
  • Puts directory-, file name and separator between each text file
  • Possibility to add your own extensions and separators
  • Popup list with files ready to be merged
  • Able to recursively search directories
  • Drag and Drop enabled
  • Runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/2003/XP/Vista

Free Download

This tool can be downloaded here. You will be prompted to choose a location on your computer to save the file to. Should you experience download problems, click here to try at another location.

Some More Free Resources

Do checkout the Recommended Links page at BlueFive software. Have a look, because you will find some pretty decent info there, ranging from networking, security to graphics and games.

June 27, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | Software, Tools | | No Comments Yet

Video courses by IITs & IISc

I saw this amazing site some days back. The IITs & IISc have posted useful courses on all popular Engineering subjects (E&C, CS, Electrical, Mech etc).
The best part is some of the courses are posted as video files and have been uploaded in youtube.
The courses can be downloaded here. Hope this is helpful to you guys.

June 27, 2008 Posted by kaushikbar | Education, Engineering | | No Comments Yet