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Here are the links, which i find useful and interesting. Collected over a period of many years , and will keep on adding them as i remember them more. If you have something of interest, please comment.

www.160by2.com

Can send 80 chars sms anywhere in India . Cant send more then 50 SMS/day. Cant send more then 10 sms to the same number/day. Service is Instant (may take some time on peak holidays)
Still, service is satisfacory

http://wordsmith.org/

A community named “A.W.A.D” consisting of 600,000 linguaphiles in at least 200 countries.Sends Theme based “Words” with their Etymology right in your Inbox.
Great way to increase your Vocabulary the “Novel” way.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

Similar to Doubletounge site above . The distinction lies in less polished meaning along with crude examples . The website says “Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions” .
Yups!!! You’ll find the definitions filled in by native speakers with some interesting facts and howto usages

Try:http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jhandu
OR
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bhains+ki+Taang

http://torrents.to/

Searches c.a more then 10 best torrent sites and gives result in nice ,unclutter order in ONE window.

http://www.xeeber.com/
Xeeber is a professional online service which can help u to recognize the status of all Yahoo users, to see who is online, offline or invisible mode easily.

http://www.wannalearn.com/
Over 350 categories of free, first-rate, family-safe online tutorials, guides and instructionally oriented Websites!

Check out!
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8669/abtraining.htm
..For abs training ,just like bruce lee.

OR
http://www.wannalearn.com/Personal_Enrichment/
..for Memory training or Speed reading.

http://www.smsgupshup.com/
This website gives an awesome service for sending free sms …thats not enough…
you can send 140 characters along with pictures or just TEXT messages. This website also gives freedom to form group so that u can send mass sms’s and receive them too.

http://www.mapmyindia.com/

This site is Eicher Map on NET. You can find any place in India , how to reach that place, kilometers it covers, turns and corners etc.. right from this place. It contains special sockets such as Directions/Locations as well as Business

http://www.smslife.in

Relatively new service. Instant delivery. Allows 100 text msgs and 10 voice msgs.
Requires Registration. Cool Interface.

http://invisible-scanner.com/
Want to know ,If your friend is being Invisible on Yahoo Messenger , then try this new websit.e

http://invisible-scanner.com/

Does just as the name suggests, finds those invisible folks and exposes them for who they really are! Worked on my tests.

http://www.lifehack.org/
This site dedicated to lifehacks. The phrase describes any hacks, tips and tricks that get things done quickly by automating, increase productivity and organizing. This site is built around this theme. This blog is endorsed by many major newspapers and publishers, and it is rated in the #100 most popular blog in the blogosphere by Technorati. It is a frequently updated blog, which provides news and articles which able you to get things done in a faster pace.

http://changingminds.org/

Welcome to ChangingMinds.org, the largest site in the world on all aspects of how we change what others think, believe, feel and do. There are already over 2500 pages here, with much more to come!

http://www.empressr.com/
Empressr is the first visual storytelling and presentation rich Internet application

Create, manage and share…It’s Free

MAKE Online Presentation.

http://www.bubblesnaps.com/
Add comments to your Photographs online. You just need a photo and a mass amount of Imagination.

http://www.mangolanguages.com/
Mango is designed to equip you with conversational abilities from the very start. Whether you’re learning how to order a pizza or ask when the game starts, Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in 12 different language courses.

http://www.flauntr.com/
Online image editing Website.

http://www.contactify.com/

Create your own personal contact form, with Just one link.

People click on it, they can send you a message. And YOU, never reveal your email address. Reduces spam. Guards your privacy. Keeps you contactable.

Its FREE

http://www.spypig.com/
Now you can find out when your email has been read by the recipient! No more guessing: “Has he or she read my email yet?”

SpyPig is a simple email tracking system that sends you a notification email as soon as the recipient opens and reads your message.

It works with virtually all modern email programs: Outlook, Eudora, Yahoo Email, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL Email and many others.

http://www.dontclick.it/
Ever wandered a site . where you dont have to click !!!!! even Once!!!

Swine flu has transformed Pune into an operation theater or an amphitheater where people with surgical masks are ready to operate. In this case the patients are they themselves. When I trot down my bus-stop, it seems that am a walking radio-active material. Every cautious nose wrapped behind an N95 Mask or detolled washed Handkerchief becomes hyper-sensitive to detect my every sneeze or cough (just because a water droplet decided to take a de-tour towards wind-pipe instead of food-pipe) i make.

Swine has indeed farted, and did it hard. People wearing masks around me, remind me of “Bhopal Gas Kaand”. And yes, this is spreading inter-/ intra-City/State.

. But people are deterent, and life goes on (even if someone passes a handful of breeze :p ) Tamiflu are being stacked, WHO is determined to find its cure within next 6 months.

Gmail Mobile Alert Service (GMAS) is in Beta stage and is available exclusively for Indian mobile phones.
Here are the steps to active service on your mobile phone

1. Send email to with command in Subject Field “galert” [without quotes] followed by space and then 10 digit mobile phone number . The email body should be left blank.

   

2. After few minutes (depending on server load and service provider) an sms will be received containing mobile activation code , which is 8 character alpha-numeric code.
3. Goto http://galert.vivekmisra.com and type in the Code along with your mobile phone.

   

4. After successful authentication log again into your Gmail account , goto Settings, goto Forwarding and POP/IMAP and select Forwarding a copy in incoming mail to. Type in and select Keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox. Click Save Changes.

   

5. Send you Suggestions/Improvements/Feedbacks at
   

Some Parents are perfect killing machines for their children. 

 

I was born as a common noun and hope to die proper. 

if am dead , whats alive in me. what is it ..that i cant see. why we hope that dead ones come alive again, or why we just name in memory some tree.

Well, not long ago a lot of services were free online. Ranging from Free Magazines,email accounts,hosting services and even domain names !! . Every online user just like US i.e YOU and ME wants to have a lil bit more .. after all whats harm in little competition .Well! one such service is www.Gmail.com (www.googlemail.com) . Google.com has a long history of satisfying customers and hey! free service has no competitors right!! . Not to forget one more such service which is called www.160by2.com it allows people to send free 80 chars msgs anywhere in India.(rest 80 chars reserved for advt.)

 I have been a loyal user of www.Gmail.com from past few years , apart from latest developments & added features the one and only one eagerly awaited feature which is yet to launched is Gmail Mobile Alerts for India . Google has made no such official anouncement , but fortunately they will be going to offer this service soon.

Hence,My attempt here in this article is to combine two services i.e Gmail and 160by2 , so that what we have is a technical hoch-poch which ,guess wat, serves us and gives us a Customized Gtalk Mobile Alert Xclusive for India .. that too absolutely GRATIS!!

Disclaimer:Following code is not written by me from scratch . Following code belong to their respective authors which are taken from various sources such as PHP.net or other Forum(s). I do to intend to take the credit for the following code nor propose some one else ,for whom this code may be usefull, to do the same. I have just made few modification so that it serves the purpose . It does not intends to exploit the service offered by either Gmail or 160by2.

So here we go!

Requirement : Two hands (to Programm :p) , A php hosting (I use www.Freehost.ag) , knowledge of CronJob and some <?php?>

1. Attempt: To fetch the number of unread mails from Gmail account . After repeating attempts I am not able to access gmail using Imap enabled in Setting section (I suppose my hosting provider does not supports some ports to access) . Hence the only alternative is to have access thru gmail atom feed which serves us well .

Class gmailCount{

function msgCount(){
$username = “Username”;
$password = “Password”;

// Initialise cURL
$c = curl_init(‘https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom’);

$headers = array(
    “Host: gmail.google.com”,
    “Authorization: Basic “.base64_encode($username.’:’.$password),
    “User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4″,
    “Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5″,
    “Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5″,
    “Accept-Encoding: text”,
    “Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7″,
    “Date: “.date(DATE_RFC822)
);

curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, true);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH, 1);
curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 1);

$str = curl_exec($c);

preg_match(‘#<fullcount>(.*)</fullcount>#’, $str, $array); // Use a regex to get what’s between <fullcount>(.*)</fullcount>

return strip_tags($array[0]); //stripts all HTML Tag from the given string

curl_close($c);
}
}

Above Code uses Curl , I believe it is one of the most over-used functionality in PHP. So! basically Class gmailCount{} fetches the number of new mails from username@gmail.com and returns the number when msgCount() function is invoked from its object .

 2. Attempt : Following Code tried to establish connection with www.160by2.com

Class sendSms{

   function sendMsg($nuOfMsg){
  $username = “Username”;
  $password = “Password”;

  // INIT CURL
  $ch = curl_init();

  // SET URL FOR THE POST FORM LOGIN
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ‘http://www.160by2.com/LoginCheck.aspx’);

  // ENABLE HTTP POST
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

  // SET POST PARAMETERS : FORM VALUES FOR EACH FIELD
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, ‘htxt_UserName=’ . $username . ‘&txt_Passwd=’ . $password);

  // IMITATE CLASSIC BROWSER’S BEHAVIOUR : HANDLE COOKIES
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, ‘cookie.txt’);

  # Setting CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER variable to 1 will force cURL
  # not to print out the results of its query.
  # Instead, it will return the results as a string return value
  # from curl_exec() instead of the usual true/false.
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  
  // EXECUTE 1st REQUEST (FORM LOGIN)
  $store = curl_exec ($ch);
  
  // SET PAGE TO SMS COMPOSE
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ‘http://www.160by2.com/postview.aspx’);
  

  // EXECUTE 2nd REQUEST
  $store = curl_exec ($ch);
  
  /* SET POST PARAMETERS : FORM VALUES FOR EACH FIELD. Replace ’MobileNumber. with your number with no preceding zeroes or 91.It shud be strictly 10 digit number . The Second ‘MobileNumber’ should also follow the same i.e write only 10 digit mobile number. */
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, ‘txt_mobileno=MobileNumber&txt_msg=Total NEW Mails in Username@gmail is:’ . $nuOfMsg . ‘&act_mnos=91MobileNumber’);
  
  // EXECUTE 2nd REQUEST
    curl_exec ($ch);
 
  // CLOSE CURL
  curl_close ($ch);

}
}

Logs into www.160by2.com , stores the cookie so that it gives an illusion of a real browser and function sendMsg() receives the number of New mails as an argument and broadcasts it as content of the SMS . Remember , if u change the content it should NOT be more then 80 Chars as rest will be truncated.

3.Attempt : Objects are created from both the classes and a Text file is created to store the number of new mail which was fetched from the last request , the next subsequent requests deducts this number from the data stored in this file and passes this to sendMsg()

//CREATE THE NECESSARY OBJECT(S) FROM THE CLASSES
$obj=new gmailCount();
$obj2=new sendSms();

$myFile = “msgCount.txt”;
$stringData = $obj->msgCount();
if(!file_exists($myFile)){
$fh = fopen($myFile, ‘w’) or die(“can’t open file”);
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$obj2->sendMsg($stringData – $stringData);
}
else {
$fh = fopen($myFile, ‘r’) or die(“can’t open file”);
$theData = fread($fh, filesize($myFile));
fclose($fh);

$fh = fopen($myFile, ‘w+’) or die(“can’t open file”);
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
if (($stringData – $theData) != 0) $obj2->sendMsg($stringData – $theData);
fclose($fh);

Voila! There you have it , your own customized Gmail Mobile Alert!

4. Attempt : Setup a CronJob so that this script runs after specified minutes/hours/days/weekdays/months.

You can download the working Code from Here , or see it in action Here

If you have suggestions or Questions , feel free to drop your comments.

.Dasein of Vivek Misra 

My Landing was no slow on this earth . If my parents are to be believed , i  was born exactly One day before what the doctors predicted. And I (Believe me !) don’t have a cinch of idea .. Why I did it  or why it happened .

Mathematically I was born in 1981 (MCMLXXXI) , which was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar on 164th day Remaining just 201 days . Surprisingly on the same day and year a teenager ,,Marcus Sarjeant” at the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

I share my birthday with Chris Evans, American actor (Played Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four) and Shanna Ferrigno, American reality television star.

I sprouted on the soil of ,,Jodhpur” which is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, also known as ,,Marwar”.It is also referred as the ,,Blue city”, due to the indigo tinge of the whitewashed houses around the ,,Mehrangarh Fort”. For all Bollywood Buff , in Jodhpur itself famous actor Salman Khan was remanded under Chikara murder case.