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Jun 02 2009

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Nano, the big name of expectations!

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The word Nano means small and tiny, but the expectations from Tata’s latest invention are anything but Nano! The smaller its cost and size, the larger hype it is getting. Anywhere you look on to the net, newspapers and radio, Tata’s Nano is creating waves all around. This car has so much uniqueness about it that it has been the talk of the town since its launch announcement. And needless to say both the Tata Company and the prospective buyers have huge hopes from this tiny car.

The Tata is hoping large profits from this venture where as it is a common man’s dream to own the one lakh rupee car. Tata has always been the common man’s company and with its launch of the Tata Nano, it has taken yet another and probably the largest step ever to win the common man’s heart. Especially people who could not earlier afford cars have high hopes from Nano. And what a brain Tata must have got, that he has just hit the bull’s eye with Nano. Nano is basically based on the simple logic to woo the common by slashing the price and size of the product but at the same time giving the luxury of owning a car to the weaker sections of the society. For once, Nano could have been a risky business for Tata as it was really not known how would people react to it, but seeing the response it has got from media and people post its launch on 23rd march 2009, it seems Nano is going to create a sort of history in the Indian automobile industry.

People who earlier owned bikes are looking forward to own a Nano as it would provide them both the status and safety of owning a car. And it’s not that since Nano is small so it’s only a one man car. This machine is a family car and can hold up to a family of four to five. So people with families and less money to afford luxury cars-Nano is your pick.

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Mar 31 2009

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Five Ways through which web has changed our lives!

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Ever wondered what would life be if there was no internet in our life? You wouldn’t even have been reading this article if there was no web. Try to ask your parents how different their lives were without internet. You will definitely find some amazing stories there. So just to let you realize that how the web has changed your life and that you should be thankful for it, read on.

  1. Communication: There is no doubt that web has almost revolutionized the way we communicate. Now instead of postal addresses, E-mail IDs work and instead of post offices, internet cafes are crowded. Web has given us an enormous luxury in the way we communicate. Sitting right in our room we can communicate to a person sitting seven seas away, via net chatting and E-mails.
  2. Information: The web is one huge well of information. There is possibly information on every possible topic on the web. Just go to any search engine and type whatever you want to search about. So no longer you have to spend hours into the library to make that project. If you want the map of the hospital, address of the nearest saloon or latest diet, it’s all out there on web!
  3. Entertainment: With World Wide Web by your side, you don’t need a TV or radio for entertainment anymore. You can catch your favorite movies, serials and music on the internet. In fact you can even play the latest games on web. And web surfing these days is probably the best entertainment available. You can read the latest gossips, catch the international news or even date online these days!
  4. Self expression: web has certainly changed the way a common man’s expression of feelings. Earlier there was no place where a common man could share his thoughts. But with web, everyone can put forward their thoughts using internet blogs. If you want to share any thoughts with people, you can simply start your own blog and get the feedback of people. With web, even a common man can voice his/her opinion.
  5. Shopping: oh yes, web has been the most wonderful discovery of all time, especially for women who love to shop! Now you don’t even have to step out of your home for shopping. From groceries to dresses to gadgets, you can get all of it right at your doorstep with net shopping. There are many websites out there which lets you shop for your favorite items by making online payment.

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Mar 20 2009

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Alok Vats

Many People Uses Simple Passwords on Web!

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“123456” is the sequence of passwords mostly used by the people on the internet. A recent survey has claimed that many people uses simple passwords on the internet.

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A few days back I was discussing with few friends of mine, about the type of passwords used by people on the web. The outcome of our discussions confirmed that mostly people uses a few sequences which are too simple and really easy to break it down. It is true that mostly people prefer to use “password”, “123456”, or something like these terms as the passwords on the web.

The most interesting fact is that many people simply use their first name as the password while a few people prefer to use the name of their favorite movie star as the password. A few samples of some simple looking passwords used by people are batman, bond007, cocacola, 12345678, 1234, pussy, 12345, dragon, qwerty, football etc.

Some of the funniest looking simple passwords are xxxxxx, zzzzzz, sexy, 111111, hello, please, internet etc. These indications have a huge relief for the hackers that they will not have to work hard to break the passwords.

I still remember the early days, when I was new in the field of web, I use to use the term “qwerty” as the password for most of my accounts. Even today I prefer using some simple passwords for some specific sites, but now I as I am aware that a few websites has some urgent data so I am now using a bit tough password.

Once one of my website was hacked by one person, and from then I am using a bit complicated passwords for almost all of my sites, but for some simple looking task I still prefer the simple looking passwords.

I mostly check the strength of the passwords with the help of Microsoft by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx or with the help of The Password Meter.

Complex passwords are always required to protect the valuable data, as many people are looking to hack the information from your accounts so that they can use them. Although a complex password is not a guarantee that you’re valuable data is safe, but it helps a bit to save them from a few wrong hands.

A few tips through which you can generate complex passwords for your self:

  • Don’t contain any characters from the user name.
  • Try to build passwords of at least 8 characters.
  • Try to use the combination of alphabets and numeric characters along with a few special characters.
  • Try to mix the use of Uppercase and Lowercase letters.

I hope the above tips will help you to generate complex passwords for you. Try to use different passwords for different sites; it will make the task difficult for the hackers. Never write down your passwords on any page or save on any website, otherwise it might fell to some wrong hands. Also try to change the passwords after a gap of around 15 days or 30 days or so.

So friends enjoy the web with the help of some complex passwords generated by your self.

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Feb 24 2009

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Alok Vats

The Ultimate Bathrooms – A fishy site like Digg!

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I have heard in the past about a few fishy sites, but I saw one of them today. Today I was checking the analytics of my website I News India and I found that there is one visitor from The Ultimate Bathrooms (theultimatebathrooms.com), who visited my site a few days back and stayed on my site for around 10 minutes.

When I opened the site (theultimatebathrooms.com), I became surprised to see that this is the replica of the famous social bookmarking website Digg (digg.com). There was no difference between the Digg and Theultimatebathrooms, only difference was the domain name. Check this image:

If you want to see the bigger image of theultimatebathrooms and digg (the images of both the sites are taken at the same time), then click here and here. You can see that there is no difference in both the websites.

As far as my knowledge is concerned, these types of websites are built by people to hack the user detail of the users of this social bookmarking website. Digg is the most popular social bookmarking websites of US and people are almost addicted to them. If a submission can reach to the first page of digg (also known as fp), then that website can easily get more than 20K unique visitors, and for getting these visitors many people do some black hat things too.

When I checked the whois of this website (theultimatebathrooms.com) in http://whois.domaintools.com/ I found this data:

Registrant:
The Ultimate Bathrooms
1312 SE Marine Dr
Vancouver, British Columbia V5X4K4
Canada

Domain Name: THEULTIMATEBATHROOMS.COM
Created on: 06-Sep-06
Expires on: 06-Sep-09
Last Updated on: 01-Nov-07

Administrative Contact:
T.U.B., Admin
1312 SE Marine Dr
Vancouver, British Columbia V5X4K4
Canada
6047275407

The worst part which surprised me is that Website Title, Title Relevancy, Meta Description, Description Relevancy, SEO Score, Terms, Images, and Links of both the site are almost same. Only thing which was different is for digg there were a few related sites like reddit, Slashdot, flickr etc. while for theultimatebathrooms there were no related sites.

I did not click on the login of this website as I feared to lose my user details. Please share your views on this topic in the form of your valuable comments.

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Feb 16 2009

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Alok Vats

Virtual Dating!

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You don’t go for a date on this Valentine Day? Don’t worry, with the growing technology you can now enjoy the company of sweat girls on a virtual date, in which you can easily represent yourself virtually and can even enjoy the lovely kiss, favorite music and many more.

During last week I found lots of articles on dating tips. After all it was Valentine Week, but I know there are so many people who don’t have the girl friend with whom they can go for a date. One of my friends, Florence, who resides in LA, did not go for date just because she doesn’t have any one with whom she can go out.

This is not the problem of Florence only, not every one is as lucky as I am. I went out for a date with my Valentine on Valentine day and enjoyed the whole day with her. Don’t worry mate, there are so many websites which provides the virtual date facility to its users and these days they are getting more and more visitors.

With the growing affect of technology, lots of new websites are coming ahead, in which you can easily create your profile, set up your image, or virtual avatar, and then choose your partner from the long lasting list and then you can go for a virtual date along with your lovely partner. On the date you can also play your favorite music, and even you can virtually kiss her.

It is a fact that if you don’t know much about any one, then you will become more interested to know about him or her. This is the main reason behind the success of all these online dating websites. They provide the satisfaction to the visitors and this is what they are actually looking for.

So the growing technology is making life more enjoyable and romantic. You don’t need to feel lonely, just because you don’t have some one with whom you can spent the evening. You can choose from different profiles and go for a date every day. Best thing is that if you are going for a date then no one is going to able to know about your date. No one has the right to access your personal data.

So I think online dating is the best way to go out and enjoy your date. These days tendency of living a virtual life is increasing, a few days back I read one report about the same in a daily newspaper.

The only problem which I consider with virtual dating is you will never became sure about the real gender of the person with whom you are going on a date. I have seen many guys who create the profiles of girls in different sites and they enjoy making fun of other guys. I personally don’t like this attitude and probably this is the only reason why I avoid using any online dating service.

We know that there are pros and cons of everything; similarly virtual dating too has the same, now it is on you to choose the good part or the bad part. Happy Dating to you all.

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Feb 05 2009

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Alok Vats

Cheap Laptops!

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Get equipped with one good laptop is one of my top desire. I always try to purchase one notebook for myself but never get the chance to purchase any; the primary reason behind this is the prices of the laptops. Although the price of the laptop has decreased too much these days, but still it is a luxurious item in our country.

Cheap Laptops & Notebook

I have surfed about cheap laptops in all the major search engines for around thousand times and found so many good websites too. I always became confused with these websites. I always get the feeling of whether I should believe them or not?

The main problem which I consider is that all the website which deals with cheap laptops claims that they are the best. That’s why it became hard to believe on them.

One of my friends lives in London and I was discussing with him yesterday about the same, he referred me a website on cheap laptops which is actually preferred by him. Best Price Computers which is a UK based company, are actually the manufacturer of quality and cheap personal computers and laptops. They not only deal with notebook and PC but along with these they also deal with Data Recovery, VOIP, CRM, and many more fields. After getting the reference from a friend I can believe them, so I thought to share them with my visitors. I hope you too will get some best deal from them.

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Jan 31 2009

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Google is not safe for your computer!

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“What are you saying?” “Are you mad??” “Don’t joke with me…” I am sure you must complement me these things or something else from these, if I am going to say you that “Google is not safe for your computer” or “Google can harm your computer”.

Let me tell you clearly, it is not me who is saying this, but this is the suggestion of Google about Google. One of my friends just asked me to search Google in Google. I hope you all are aware from the Google, Google is the world’s number one search engine and I think millions of people use Google daily for lots of searches.

So when my friend asked me to search Google in Google then I found some thing interesting. Let’s see these images:

These are the snaps of the Google search for Google in which they are saying that “This site might harm your computer”. Is Google’s data is hacked? Or there is something serious behind all these? What are your views on this? Do update us with the comments on this.

Check the same image in bigger size:

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Jan 23 2009

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Alok Vats

240 diggs and 63 comments but still missing the fp of dig!

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It was the coincidence that I found one news on digg yesterday, which was about one full page ad in NY Times, which got around 337 diggs within 24 hours but did not reached to the first page, the same type of things happened with my news too. Last day I blogged about this on my site at this place: http://www.inewsindia.com/2009/01/22/337-diggs-and-97-comments-but-still-missing-the-fp-of-digg/ and when I submitted this news on digg then it too got around 200 diggs after the 10 hours of submission. Till that time it was at the top of the hot news, but then suddenly it went off.

It was once again the art of a few people who are popularly known as the Bury Brigade in dig. There are a group of few people who do these types of work regularly and in my honest opinion they are harming the image of the world’s number one social bookmarking site dig.

When I last checked the status of my news at digg, it got 240 diggs that too in between 18 hours after the submission. Also it got around 63 comments, but it was not there either at the first page or at the hot section.

Many people complain about the manipulation of the results in digg, which in my views is not correct. It is the people who decide the fate of any story. If they will bury any story then there will be no chance for that story. Actually many people try to manipulate the digg algorithm, but the digg algorithm is not at all clear to any one. I think the owners of the digg should take a bit of care about these type of brigades.

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Jan 22 2009

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337 diggs and 97 comments but still missing the fp of digg!

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Guy’s this is really surprising to see a news with 337 diggs and 97 comments but still it was not there at the first page of the digg. The more surprising thing which I found was, it was no where in the Hot list too.

337 diggs was something which can be attained normally if your news hits the first page of the digg, but in the case of this story they got it without reaching to the first page. Also these many diggs are achieved after 23 hours and 44 mintues of the submission.

You can see this image for more detail:

This story was on a full page advertisement in NY Times, the ad was on peace. It was an open letter to the new US President Obama. It starts with a great quotation of Martin Luther King Jr. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”.

After this quotation the ad directly addresses the President Obama, and they congratulate him for his historical innaguration day. The letter then picks up a few points like:

End the longstanding blockade and allow humanitarian aid to reach Gaza.
Demand that Israel adhere to International Law.
Call for a lasting and enforceable ceasefire respected by all parties.
Reevaluate the $3 Billion of annual U.S. aid to Israel.

The letter was jointly written by the Muslim Public Affairs Councel - New York (www.mpac.org), United for Peace and Justice (www.unitedforpeace.org), Council on American-Islamic Relations - New York (www.cair.com), U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (www.endtheoccupation.org), American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (www.adc.org), and LA Jews For Peace (www.lajewforpeace.org).

It was surprising that it did not reached to the first page of Digg. Something wrong is looking behind the Digg’s algorithm. Sometimes a news reaches to the first page by just getting only 45 or 50 diggs, and some time I have seen that news reaches to first page after the 24 hours of its submission. So some thing is really behind all this which can always tell you that it is not the decision of the Public to choose any news for the fp.

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Jan 16 2009

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Want to Earn Money Online!

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I have seen many ads of these types: Earn Money from Home, Earn huge money by just doing some part time job, Earn Thousands of Dollars by just doing small paper works, etc. etc. All are rubbish in my opinion. I too have lost around $500 by just investing on them. It was either my bad luck or I would not reach to the proper person.

There was a time when I was working in an online company, but suddenly I resigned from that company due to some conflict with the management and staffs. Then I thought what to do next? I searched a lot and finally I decided to earn from websites or blogs. The idea really worked and these days I am happily enjoying my work, just because the websites which I created are giving me returns.

I am writing this article for those guys and girls who are searching for earning money online. I thought it is good to share my own experience from my own blog so that people will not be misguided by others. If you are really looking for some serious stuff to earn from, then you too can make a website or a web blog. Remember one thing; those who says that it is quite easy to generate huge money are the biggest fraud in my view.

It is never be easy to generate a single dollar from any work. It requires huge work, time and patience. So here lies the mantra for earning huge money, and that is “Hard Work”.

Once you have created website of your choice you need to optimize the site from the search engine point of view and then you need to continuously work for getting visitor to your website. Once you have developed your website fully you can be able to earn good money from some affiliate programs and from Google Adsense. Google Adsense is the world’s best website monetizing program, from which thousands of people are earning regularly.

If you people need any more help regarding creating your website and then earning from your website then you can any time give me a mail at my email address inews@inewsindia.com I will help you to establish your own website by taking a small charge from you.

Here are a few sites which I personally like to earn from Google Adsese:

Adsense Ready: Adsense Ready is a professional service provider which provides well built, Adsense websites. They provide 150 websites with lots of content pages at a nominal fee of only $99.95. You can purchase the website by clicking here!

Site Builder Elite: This is a website which also provide the same type of service the only difference is that it provide more emphasis on the content. Also they provide the monetize option from Google Adsense, Amazon, AdBrite, ModernClick, Kontera, and Chitika. They also provide the social bookmarking facility on your website. Click here to purchase the services at the rate of $147.

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