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I checked some of the web cams and found working perfectly, but some other stops respond. Some of them are slow to update.It is a good resource for those who want to spend the time or they want to see how some parts or cities of the world are now.

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The contest is simple, just write a blog post on your blog about two and decide to vote for and say why (Complete guidelines here). You have a chance to win $100, if your name is drawn (total three $100 prizes)

Even though both blogs are similar in nature and found TyleCruz has little more feed reader than Gyutae, this time I decided to vote for Gyutae’s WinningTheWeb, because I already have subscription with his blog WinningTheWeb. At the same time TyleCuz.com is new to me.

So, if you decided to participate in the contest, just visit WinningTheWeb or TylerCruz.com for complete details

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Why do we use it?

The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text.

Following are a few contents from his site. And of course there is lot more.

GoogleDavo- A mini Google earth- where you can type in almost any city and country in the world and see a detailed road map or satellite photo of the city.

Gif animation- Over 15,000, absolutely free animations for your website.

Web graphics - A tad over 29,000 absolutely free graphics for your website.

Desktop wallpaper- A tad over 7,000 (1024x768) wallpapers in 52 categories that you can use to spice up your computer screen background

Font - Over 3,650 assorted true type fonts to help jazz up your DTP, web pages, graphics projects etc.

Play games- Bored with surf in'? Got time to kill? Here are 101 assorted games to play online, and they're all free.

Trivia and Jokes- over 12,000 assorted facts, jokes and trivia.

The list is not ending. Visit his site for a free stuff

There is lot of online newspapers available on the internet. For example in India around 35 online news papers available. It is bit difficult to find all of them by keyword searching.

If you are looking for relevant news around the world, jut takes a look at findnewspapers.com. You needn’t search any ware on the internet for online newspapers. Just enter the site and click on a country name and look at lists of online news papers from that country and select a paper.

This is a link site that opens up a list of information. The site covers daily news papers, news paper archives, article, and news magazine

>The specialty is that with the usual information such as date of birth, religion, birth place, etc you will also get information on their boy friend or girl friend, sexual orientation like that. That is it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious. A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been associating with.

>The site is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people, NNDB have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead and have profiles over 20000.

There is also another section called ‘Dr.Sputnik’s Society Pages’ which is a gossip column about famous personalities the world over.

Visit the site www.nndb.com

IF you own a relatively older DVD drive chances are that it is region protected. Most of us use DVD drives for playing media and writing. But many of us might not aware of DVD Region Protection code (RPC) a standard implemented to avoid DVD piracy, that allows you to change the RPC to 5 times only. The 5^th change will be permanent and the DVD will stay locked to that particular region allowing you only to play DVD movies disc that corresponds to that region. Newer DVD drives generally not region protected

The solution

>Flashing the firmware will convert your DVD drive to RPC-2- a standard of region free DVD drive. Flashing the firmware is complicated and should be done correctly and with precaution. Visit the manufactures site for latest firmware. It should be listed in the download section. Make sure the exact model number of your DVD drive and download the correct firmware. Detailed information about flashing the firmware is available with the manufactures.

The main advantage of upgrading firmware of your DVD drives is that it support for latest format of DVD discs and older drives only supports DVD-R format and in many cases flashing the firm wire also add support for DVD+R format disk.

QuickTime Virtual Reality is an interesting concept by apple that moves the photographic image from the flat 2D to 3D imagery. QTVR allows users to interact with images instead of just looking at them on the computer.

That is, for example, we can see a photograph of a mobile phone from its front, back, top, below, left, or right – just like rotating the phone-with the mouse – a useful tool for product manufactures to present their product.

Now we can see how it works? If You take photos of your mobile phone from its front, left, right, behind top and bottom – then the software puts them together and make a spherical 3D image that it display as a movie. We can see this MOV file in the quick Time player by keep the left mouse button pressed and moving the mouse.

When seen in a browser (streaming) the image are loaded in to the player one at a time and you can clearly see the 3D grid that is being used.

For those who like QTVR software click here

If you want see an example of QTVR click on the image to download a sample QTVR file (740kb)

(Quick time player should be installed)

The screenshot shown is a college for the key word SachinTendulker.

If you are on a network and tired of waiting for ages for all the network shares to load, these tips will help you faster network browsing. There are 4 basic things you need to do in order to speed up network access.

1. Remove all shortcuts in My Network Places. These are automatically generated, and if a few of them aren’t shared anymore. Windows will keep searching for them anyway. So just select them all and delete.

2. Stop windows from automatically adding these shortcuts to shared folders, otherwise you will just end up having to delete the short cut every time you open My Network places. This is a registry hack. First go to Start> run type regedit and press [enter].Navigate to HKEY_Curren_User\software\Microsoft\Windows\Currentversion\Policies\Explorer\. Here create two new DWORD values (if they already don’t exist) called “NoRecentDocsNetHood” and “UseDesktopIniCache”, and set them to “1”.

3. Have every one on your network increase the send buffer for network data. Tell every one who shares files or folders to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\. Create a DEWORD value called “SizReqBuf”, and assign its Hex value to “FFFF”.

4. Just stop using My Network places for folders you access on a regular basis and instead, map the drive by going to Tools>Map Network Drive in windows explorer.