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             Dial62 – When You Are Lost! 

                                                                         If your road sense sucks! Or if you never seem to know the way to go to reach a certain place no matter if you have been there before? Well I emphathize with you. Im one of those who depend on Google maps to reach anywhere they want. Its accurate 60-70% of the times. But people like me would definitely love a service where I could just call and ask for directions! Wouldn’t you? I mean with all the new malls, roads, and buildings coming up the last thing we all have time for is to find new places.

MapmyIndia is looking to solve this exact same issue and has launched a service calledDial62.com. dial62 is a live operator-assisted phone service where you can call to find local business listings,  driving directions and city specific info.  Currently available ALL India for driving directions Delhi NCR I believe this service has potential across all major metros. Though challenges will be in terms of landmarks and updation of the data. One can also benefit immensely as the operator can offer offers around that areas. Just the other day I was at a location near Andheri, Mumbai searching for a coffee shop for a client meeting that got scheduled in a hurry. This service would be amazingly useful for such information. Globally services like Fourwhere.com have been launched which do this through an application. But given the dismal usage of GPRS in India I believe voice will surely have the last mile effect for this service.

PS: I havent used this service but believe that it has huge potential if executed well 

                         The Girl Who Played with Fire

                

            Write Your Name in Different Styles & Languages

                                      

Looking to write your name in different styles? Here’re some online tools to help you do just that:

1. Google Transliterate – India is a land of many languages and this online tool from Google will help you write your name in almost all prominent languages of the country including Hindi, Urdu, Tamil and Bengali.

2. Google Translate – If you want to write your name in a language like Chinese, Japanese or even Greek, you really need to get hold of a person who can speak that language. If you can’t find one, Google Translate is the next best option.

3. Elvish Language – This is something for Lord of the Rings fans. The page describes how you can easily represent your English name using the Tengwar script. The writing looks mysterious and it’s not very hard.

4. Braille Generator – The tool will convert your name into Braille, a popular writing system that enables blind people to read and write through touch. They just run their fingers across these tiny dots to read them.

5. Hobbit Runes – The runes were in use during the 1st century AD and were later replaced by the Latin alphabet. The tool will help you write you name using the ancient runic alphabets.

6. Babylon Tablets – Use this tool to write your name in the cuneiform script, the earliest known writing system in the world of the Babylonian era. The script was written on clay tablets and was then baked hard in a kiln.

7. Morse Code – Write your name in Morse Code, a system that was invented in the 19th century to transmit information using telegraph lines. The most popular Morse code phrase is SOS which is represented by “…—…” or 3 dots followed by 3 dashes followed by 3 dots.

8. Ancient Egyptian – The writing system of ancient Egyptians, known as Hieroglyphs, used symbols instead of characters. The tool take the first 16 characters of your name and converts them into the same hieroglyphs symbols that were used by Ancient Egyptians.

9. FДКЗ CУЯILLIC – Remember how they wrote "BORДT" on the movie posters of “Borat” – that’s was fake Russian and this tool can help you convert just about any English text into the same style.

[*] The above postcard was printed on Google’s Internet Bus.

Alice in Wonderland

        

       On Screen Keyboard – XP Users

                                                                 

             Ever faced a situation when you have to complete some important assignment and your keyboard dies off?

Today, my keyboard suddenly started malfunctioning and I was left in the middle-of-nowhere since I had to send some important documents to my boss.

While I wait for service guys to figure out what has happened to my keyboard (or buy a replacement) , here is a great way to use XP’s default On-Screen keyboard.

(I never knew that XP comes with one! Did you?)

                                    To use the On-Screen-keyboard:

Click on “Start” Menu, select “Run” and type “OSK” (without double quotes) and hit Ok!

You will be presented with the on-screen keyboard, which can be used with the help of a mouse.

                       Norton Antivirus 2010 [DOWNLOAD]

How fast is your broadband? Test it out

    

                 While hosting a web-based application, one of the major painpoint is to decide on your hosting server location.

       

                 And the most significant decision factors are no. of users from the particular geography.

       

                  So, for e.g. if your application is used by majority of Britishers, you would prefer to host your server in UK.

                  But before deciding this, one really needs to test out the connection speed with the server and the related network diagnostics.

                                                                                   

                                                             Introducing speedtest.net (from the house of Ookla).

                                                            Apart from the creative and sexy UI, speedtest provides very exhaustive network diagnostic details like connection speed, latency testing, server jitter, client location and distance to server calculations etc.

A must try if your applications have global users.

Filed Under: speedtest ookla network

                        

  

Keep Your Passwords Safe on a Piece of Paper

If you use the same password on multiple websites, your may be in for some trouble.

Say your password for website badwebsite.com is the same as the password for goodwebsite.com. Now if the website badwebsite.com gets compromised (or the owner is malign to start with), they’ll know your password. Chances are that your username is the same (email address) for both websites so the badwebsite.com people can can easily log in to your goodwebsite.com account and impersonate you.

                         Yeah, there are quite a few reliable Password Managers that serve as a strong room for your complex passwords but that they require you to install specific software on the computer. What do you do when you want to check your web email on a different computer where you do not have your security tools installed and you do not remember your secure, random, email password?

                         In addition, I doubt you can memorize all your passwords for each and every website, if they are secure from brute-forcing and unique, that is.

              Write your passwords down on a paper

                         What I am trying to solve is to give users a simple way of generating strong passwords unique to every website they visit using just a piece of paper, credit card-sized, that you can carry in your wallet.

                         What you need is just a piece that has a unique (per card) combination of secret letters to help you create a unique password for each website. You may use the RAND() function in an Excel spreadsheet to generate unique password cards.

                           To create a password, take each letter of the website you want to create a password for and then take the corresponding code from the table. For example, if you want to create a password for www.amazon.com, it would be:

1st letter is a –> a (Column 2, Row 1)

2nd letter is m –> jv (Column 7, Row 2)

3rd letter is a -> AN6

4th letter is z -> xs7

5th letter is o –> enb

 So the password for your Amazon website becomes ajvAN6xs7enb.

                              You can optionally (make sure you do this with all your passwords) intertwine the generated password with a memorized password – it could the city name where you were born, your childhood hero, name of your favorite author or anything memorable.

                               For instance, if you were born in Philadelphia, the password for Amazon.com would be ajvAN6xs7enb intertwined with Philadelphia: PahjviAN6lxs7aenbdelphia. This would ensure that your identity consists of something you know (Philadelphia) and something you have (the paper password card).

                                  Even if a malicious administrator of website badwebsite.com retrieves your password for that website, they  cannot impersonate you on say PayPal or Amazon because you aren’t reusing passwords anymore.

                                    It is a bit cumbersome to use if you had to use it to type in passwords each time, but when used inconjunction with your everyday “remember password” feature found in every browser, you get extra security at the cost of just tiny real state in your wallet.

                                      Security involves trade-offs, in this case is between usability, portability and robustness against collusion or more sophisticated attacks. Arguably though, for a vast majority of people, this is more realistic than carrying an electronic password generator.

                                     The writer, Andres Torrubia, is the co-founder and CEO of Fixr, an eBay like online marketplace for homeowners and contractors.

                         Heir to the Throne [Game Download]

     Organize your Desktop with a Simple Wallpaper

This may not be the most beautiful desktop wallpaper out there but it surely is innovative and different. All it has is an empty bookshelf and a computer desk inside a room – you can creatively fill it up with icons of your frequently used programs, folder shortcuts, control panel icons, etc.

To get started, open this template, right-click and set it as your desktop background. Then drag some icons from the Start Menu on to your desktop and arrange them on the bookshelves and the table (here’s mine).

If the icons don’t line up properly on the shelf, just right-click on your desktop and turn off the “align icons to grid” setting. And if your are using a netbook with a small screen, use this template instead.

                  Found via Herman Miller – Thanks Barb Hernandez.


                                     Rise of Prussia [Game Download]