orkut introduce like feature

The Orkut blog just announced that they have added a new “like” button in Orkut that will help you quickly react to your friends’ stories through smileys.

Unlike Facebook where pressing the Like button mostly means that you have really liked the story, Orkut’s implementation of the Like feature is much more complex (and ugly) offering users a whole range of emotions.

What’s New With Blogger

Earlier in 2010 Blogger has added to many new features like new Template designer ( enables to create templates without any knowledge of HTML/CSS ), different fonts where added, stats option,comments filtering etc.

And now in 2011 blogger has previewed some of the features on http://buzz.blogger.com/that will be launched. Some of  these features which blogger has allowed its users to sneak peak are:-

1. New look of dashboard – See the screenshot of new blogger dashboard

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2. New post editor -

 

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See this video to have a better idea

Magic of VLC Player

Hello all the readers of Technowit wish you a  HAPPY HOLI. Today i am going to share a funny magic of vlc player hope u all guys enjoy this trick.

VLC media player has an amusing ability, to playback movies in ASCII art. so if you want to play videos in ASCII format just to do the following steps.

1.open vlc palyer

2.click on TOOLs

3.under tools section go to Preferences(Tools>Preferences)

4.Open the section “Video” section 

5.under “Output” select “Color ASCII art video output” from the drop down menu

Save it. Now play any video file to enjoy the ASCII art.

hope u all guys enjoy this trick.

also share it with your friends.

Disable Theater Effect of Facebook Photos on Any Browser

Recently, Facebook added Ajax based Theater Effect on photos to show them (photo viewer) in a new style. The style is similar to the Flickr slideshow but there are many people who still wants to browse photos in old style on Facebook. If you are one of them, then here are few ways to disable Facebook photo Theater Effect or Viewer.

Facebook Photo with Theater Effect i.e. on Theater Viewer

Facebook Photo on Old Viewer

How to disable Facebook Photos Theater Viewer

1. Remove &theater from URL – Once you click on a photo on Facebook, a new page will open where you can see &theater in the URL i.e. web address. Just remove that part from the URL and hit enter. You can now see the old Facebook photo viewer.

2. Hit F5 to Refresh the Facebook page – Very simple technique. Once the photo is opened in theater viewer, hit F5 on your keyboard. The page will load and will open the photo in old viewer.

3. Use Firefox Userscript – Mozilla Firefox users are having benefits of add-ons. InstallGreasemonkey add-on on the browser and then install this Userscript. You will not see the new theater viewer while opening photos / pictures on Facebook.

4. Google Chrome Extension – Google Chrome browser extension installation is very easy task. Install this extension on your Chrome browser to disable theater effect or viewer.

5. Another Chrome Extension – Chrome is having one more extension for this purpose. In case the above extension is not working, you can try this one.

First 2 tips will work on any browser as they are not browser dependent that means you can disable the theater effect on Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera etc. as well. Rest 3 are for Firefox and Google Chrome users.

If you are using any other technique to disable the effect or this new viewer on Facebook for pictures, then share that through comments.


source-:clickonf5

How to Create Gmail Data Backup

 it was reported by Google Gmail team that almost 1,50,000 users lost all their valuable data stored on Gmail due to an update bug. Surely they are trying their level best to restore all the user data. If you don’t want to take chance with your data and want to take the control in your hands you can use Backupify to create scheduled backup of your Gmail data on the clouds.

How to Create Gmail Backup

As always for any service you need to make an account first, therefore register yourself withBackupify.

Once you have logged in to your Backupify dashboard select the Gmail Backup service from the list. Its still in beta phase but rest assured, it works like charm.

In the next step authorize Backupify to access you Gmail data.

Now select the data you want to backup periodically like All Mails, Inbox, Sent Items etc. and save the settings.

1. Your first periodic Backup will start with in 48 hours. If any time you wish to restore the data you can do so through Backupify archive.

Please do note that you have got only 2GB disk space as a free user there fore I would suggest you to label all your important mails first and then backup the specific label only.

SOURCE-:blogsolute

Firefox 4 Final Release Date Confirmed – 22nd March

A week after Firefox 4 RC1 was released, the news has come out that the final version of Mozilla Firefox 4 is slated for release on March 22. If the developers do not encounter any significant bugs, this release schedule will hold true.

However, if a significant issue arises, this release date will be moved back and Release Candidate 2 (RC2) version will be released.

According to Mozilla’s Damon Sicore,

Firefox 4 RC1 has received a very warm welcome; it’s time to make a decision to ship.  As of now, there are no known issues that would stop us from shipping RC1 as final.

March 22nd is the day we would ship.

Source : Firefox 4

Fix Folder Options Missing in Windows Explorer

Are your Folder Options not visible under Tool menu in Windows Explorer? It is quite common to see this problem and if you are one of the unfortunate one, don’t panic! You can restore it back by following a few simple steps.

There are 2 solutions provided as below, you can choose either one of them to get this problem resolved:

Solution 1: Edit registry

1. Go to Run, type regedit then press enter.
2. Navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer].
3. At right panel, look for a value called NoFolderOptions. Right click on it then choose Delete.
4. Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer].
5. Repeat step 3 to delete NoFolderOptions entry.

Solution 2: Change setting in Group Policy

1. Go to Run, type gpedit.msc then press enter.
2. Navigate to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Explorer.
3. At the right panel, look for “Removes the Folder Options menu item from the Tools menu”, right click on it then choose Properties.
4. Change the setting from Enabled to Not Configured or Disabled.

Hope this simple workaround will help you save some time for other value added tasks.

find the location of your facebook friends

Facebook being the largest network of recent times, every thing that happens around Facebook gets going. So if you have some time to waste check out the Facebook apps that can create a friend map with your Facebook contacts.

My Friend Map is a Facebook app that lets you create a map which will show the the location of your Facebook friends a world map and will link to your location as well. You can see a nice graphic view of your connections across the globe. Hovering your mouse over the dots will show the names and images of your friends from that location.

Another much applauded Google Maps mashup to map your Facebook friends is Where My Friends Be. The tool creates anchors for all your Facebook friends on Google maps. Just like My Friend Map, you can see the names of your Facebook friends from that location.

Creating maps with your Facebook friends is quite a fun way to have a look at your Facebook influence. However, seeing a heat map will help you analyze areas across the world map with maximum density of Facebook friends. Quite a time waster, well in an interesting way. Density is one such app that could do the miracle for you. You also get to control the map settings by using the Heatmap Control Panel. Also there is an option you can use to watch the map full-screen.
Do you found this tool useful? Let us know via comments. Also, let us know if you know of any such Facebook friend map creating apps.