Red MOTORAZR V3i to Fight AIDS

Following Apple’s red iPod Nano, Motorola has released red Motorazr V3i’s to help raise funds to fight AIDS in Africa. Motorola will be donating £10 from each handset and 5% of the monthly phone bill.

Rarz’s features aren’t so attractive with Quad Band, 1.23 Megapixel camera and 10 MB of internal memory, but it looks so good that anybody will be tempted to buy it. Red V3i should effectively increase Motorola’s V3i sales as well as help raise funds charity. This handset is been made exclusively available at Carphonewarehouse.

via TechDigest

How to Watch Remote Live Cameras

Thesedays security Cameras are so cheap. Anybody can get one and connect it onto the net and start streaming it unprotected (without passwords). They do this so that they can keep an eye over their place from office, cafeteria or wherever, but they never know that Googlebot is spying over them

You can access these remote camera with a mere Google Search for “inurl:/view.index.shtml”. Some results might return a time out error and some might ask for a password, but keep trying.

The intention of this post is not to help you gain access to someone else’s camera, but to wake up those who have connected unprotected cameras to the net.

MySpace Worm Spread through QuickTime

Websense reports that a QuickTime is spreading worm through the insanely popular Social Networking Site, MySpace. The worm is associate with a QuickTime video which triggers a javascript when viewed on Internet Explorer. This worm will change links within the infected user’s profile and points towards phising sites. Viewing videos on these profiles will infect the other profiles also. Infected profiles can be easily detected as navigation menu has been modified from the standard one.

With lots of people addicted towards MySpace, lots of Malware developers are trying to target MySpace.

eBoy’s Pixilated Web 2.0 Poster for Sale

This cool poster illustrating the pixilated web 2.0 logos is created by eBoy. The full size (size: 841 x 1189 mm/23.3 x 33.1 inch) poster is available sale for a price 18.56 Euro (approx 24.6 USD, 1098 INR) PayPal is accepted.

A larger preview of the photo is available here

Why Stumblers are Active During Weekends ?

From the past couple of weeks, I’ve been closely monitoring my statistic. I have revealed that Stumblers are quite active during weekends. During weekdays I get around 150 - 300 hits from StumbleUpon’s referral, but it kicks upto 3500 - 4000 hits during weekends. Why makes them so active ?

My Theory: Most surfers use School, Office computers and obviously they won’t have StumbleUpon installed. At weekends, all school, office goers sit at home, they feel bored, so they use StumbleUpon to discover something new. StumbleUpon has always been my favorite timepass. When I have nothing to do, I keep stumbling randomly. I think everybody uses it the sameway. Don’t you ?

You can encourage all your readers to install StumbleUpon Extension (works with both IE and Firefox) or you can place a StumbleUpon badge below every post. Unlike Diggers, Stumblers read your blog, if the content is good and they keep coming back.

Million Dollar Homepage Comes Back as Pixelotto

Alex Tew, a million dollar man behind the insanely popular Million Dollar Homepage who generated million dollars in a few months by his new pixel advertising concept where pixels were sold for 1$ each. It was huge success and he sold his last 1000 pixels on eBay for 38,000 to wrap it up.

TechCrunch reports that he is coming back again with Pixelotto which is schedule to go live on December 5th, 2006. This time its $2 per pixel and he is running lottery where the winner who clicks on the right pixel ad gets one million dollar. Alex has sent emails to his previous customers to reserve their pixel ad before the rush begins.

With a chance to win million dollars, visitors would be randomly clicking on ads and make advertisers happy. Pixelotto will surely repeat his previous success. He has found the right lane to success, its just money, money, money…

Create Customized Headline Animator

You might have come across Feedburner’s Headline Animator as Email, Forum Signatures or on any webpage. It scrolls five of your latest post and helps you to promote your readership. Now you can customize headline animator by changing elements such as colors, width, font or even background image. You can drag title, date and headline to re-arrange on the canvas and build your desired Headline Animator. Here’s an sample:

This is awesome, you have complete control over its appearance. Remember that if you change your Headline Animator, it will be changed everywhere. However said they are working on multiple style for single feed.

Potential Vulnerabilities Found in Adobe Reader and Acrobat

In the latest Security Advisor, Adobe has warned its users about a potential vulnerability in Internet Explorer’s ActiveX Controls that could allows hackers to use Adobe Reader, Acrobat to hijack you PC and it may also cause applications to crash. Only Adobe Reader, Acrobat Standard and Professional 7.0.0 and 7.0.8 running on Windows Platform is said to be affected.
Solution:

1. Exit Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader.
2. Browse to :\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX.
Note: If you did not install Acrobat to the default location, browse to the location of your Acrobat 7.0 folder.
3. Select AcroPDF.dll and delete it.

I use Foxit PDF Reader for viewing all my PDF document, its free and fast.

via TechTites

Get Digg Widget For Your Blog

David has created a nifty little flash widget (see the preview below) which scrolls stories from Digg and helps you promote them in your blog / website.



You can use this widget to scrolling dugg, submitted, commented or promoted stories from you or your friends. This widget can be restricted to a particular category, so that it shows stories only from that category.

This widget is bit bulky and won’t fit in your sidebar, but can be place anywhere above or below your content region.

Link: Digg Toolbar

Yahoo to Launch Branded Portals

Yahoo has launched a Wii Portal for fans which aggregates Flickr Photos, Avatars with Wii Gear, Links from Del.icio.us and MyWeb, Games, all Wii related stuff from Yahoo Answers and ofcource links to buy the console and games from Yahoo’s Shopping Site. Wii Portal is just a first example of branded portals, there are 100 more brand portals in the pipeline for 2007.

Some of the future portals might include “American Idol” and “Lord of the Rings”. Yahoo isn’t seeking any affiliation or approval from these brands (Yahoo is just providing free promotion, why would they object ?). Yahoo was born as a portal and its good to see them get back to their original business.

Firefox with 101 Extensions

This how your browser might look if you install 101 extensions:

The above image is just a snapshot of the bigger version. With these may extensions, it looks somewhat like a Web Editor. His browser might take ages to start up !!

Installing lots of extensions makes your browser terrible slow and unstable, so take my words and restrict yourself to under 15 or 20 extensions.

via Digg

Random Flickr Image Clock

Flickr Time is a cool flash app which randomly fetches images from Flickr and generates a dynamic digital clock out of it. Random images flies all over and renders into a neat clock with analog ticking clock at the background, A larger version of the image can been by hovering your mouse over these tiny images.

You can enter tags if you want to get relevant images. However It takes a lot of time to load these images, so might come handy for killing time rather than conserving it

Vizu Answers - Make Money With Polls

Imaging, How good it would be if you could make money without placing any adblocks, text links or referral banners?. Now you can make money by placing niche targeted polls on your blog too. This impressive new concept was coined by Vizu Answers. The payout is CPM based (cost per million) and you get paid for every click on the poll.

The process is simple, You need to start a Vizu Zone and set your own CPM rates (remember Vizu will charge 50% commission out of your revenue). Place the given ad code on your blog, preferable somewhere around the top of your sidebar. You can your poll widget by changing elements such as height, width and colors to suite your taste.

The polls are well targeted to your blog’s niche, so it encourages more user participation. While there are no polls to show, it simply hides itself and leaves no space. Payout will made either check or paypal once you’ve accumulated over 50$ in your account.

For Advertisers, Vizu Answers allows direct interaction with users of a particular taste and trend. These polls might even help publishers to know more about their readers. Overall, I’m impressed

via Digital Inspiration

Google is Secretly Impression Based Ad Network

John Chow points out that Google is secretly testing an impression based Ad Network called Google Display Advertising. This is something similar to Feedburner’s FAN, Tribal Fusion, Double Click or Casale Media and plans to capture advertisers who are planning build a brand name rather than sell products.

Google doesn’t like talking about this new Ad Network at the moment, Infact they won’t even acknowledge its existence. If this story is true, then its surely Google’s big leap towards hardcore advertising. The success of this new ad networks depends upon how the advertisers react, its surely not meant for small advertisers. According to John Chow, Google is hand picking publishers to test this new ad network and he is lucky to be one among them.

Such Impression based ad networks always face a hard time finding advertisers. Hence not all impressions are filled by Ads. I’m not against the idea of impression based advertising, it works great for me, but it’ll surely kill your return visitors as they get annoyed by these kind of ads. Let’s just wait and see if this actually comes out of secret testing phase.

via Problogger

Get Ashampoo Burning Studio 2007 for Free

Computeractive is giving away Ashampoo Burning Studio 2007 for free without any limitations, its a fully featured CD, DVD, Bluray burning application (similar to Nero). Once you download it, you need to register online and obtain a serial, but no technical support is available (Who needs one ?)

While installing, check the Get fullversion key option. Once the install process is over, a new browser instance will open and take you to this page, fill your email address and click on send to obtain the key. Now start the program and fill the key, you’ll have a fully licenced version of Ashampoo Burning Studio 2007. Remember, registration automatically signs you up for their newsletter.

Nero has dominated the CD, DVD burning software segment by bundling it with CD, DVD burners, so Ashampoo is trying to break this monopoly and gain some popularity through word of mouth. Earlier, we saw Microsoft do the same by giving away Windows Vista Ultimate and Microsoft Office 2007 for free.

via TechTites

Get Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and Windows Vista Ultimate for Free

Microsoft is giving away fully licensed DVDs of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and Windows Vista Ultimate for free as a part of their Power Together campaign. That is 399$ + 499$ = 898$ worth of software for free. All you have to do is participate in three Webcasts and/or virtual lab sessions within 30 days of registration.

Here goes the fine print, You need to be atleast 18 and a US resident (I don’t qualify both ). The deadline is February 28, 2007 and is restricted to one gift per person. Go try your luck and let me know.

Via Digital Inspiration

Day Light Map

Day Light Map is a visual representation of Day and Night region of Earth. It allows you to set any date and time. You can bookmark upto ten locations on the map to see at a glance whether it’s daytime there, you can show their local time, sunrise and and sunset times, and length of day. These bookmarked locations will be saved for future visits.

This website is powered by Google Maps API and Google Ads helps them to maintain their site. So next ime you intiate a chat with someone, make sure he isn’t sleeping at the other end of the world

via Google System