Bypass Orkut Right Click on Photos

Google’s Social Networking Application - Orkut recently added a small update by disabling people from right clicking on photos inside albums so as to stop them from saving or copying the files.

No clue why this was implemented - to protect privacy or to save their bandwidth (!!) or disbale hot-linking of images? Never mind, with few simple steps you could actually save these photos or get the link to share with friends..!

You don’t have to View the Source code and move around finding the url, instead our very own click n drag in most of the browse helps to bypass these settings. Firefox and Internet Explorer both support these features while the right click disable doesn’t seem to work with Opera (luck you Opera fans!). (more…)

Diagnose SEO Issues with Live Search Webmaster Tools

Presentation by Webmaster Team - Live Search at SES San Jose 2008

Does Google Support Paid Links? Find out!

The most discussed or should I rather use the term ‘debated’ topic on Search Engine Optimisation / Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Link Building would be “Does Google Support Paid Links?” Find out what Google’s opinion about this at their Webmaster Support Center.

1. Why should I report paid links to Google?
2. SEO Guidelines from Google

Its evident that Google is against Paid Links / Un-Natural Link Building Strategies, most of their guidelines at help center do provide you solutions to avoid paid links, which could end up penalizing your domain name. Google also has a place where you could report paid links (beware!), you never know.. your competitor could be sypying on your to repot Google!

Now, here is more on to the topic.. i was surprised to see an interesting or should I say a Spammy ad via Google AdSense at Digital Point Forums. While browsing a thread on Automatic URL Submitter, I happened to see the ad below from Google AdSense:

Two Questions:

1. Where is the Website URL on the Advertisement ?
   
2. Where is Ad by Google?

Aren’t these basic policy of Google AdSense to display the url of site and ads by google on every advertisement displayed through Google AdSense to classify that what viewers see is an ad?

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Shake Yourself with Virtual Identity at FaceYourManga.com

I remember the days when I used search over Google & Yahoo! to find a perfect Avatar (Virtual Identity) for placing at Discussion Forums & Instant Messengers. Later I found having my personal picture was more pleasing to myself and friends, but I happened to check Face Your Managa and spent few minutes playing around it to create a true virtual identity of myself and the result was fabulous! (check the picture at right side)

FaceYourManga.com isn’t the first company to come up with a service of this sort, as Yahoo! Avatars and few other companies have been around for a while!

Yahoo! had a way tot much of customization options which sometimes use to bore a hell out of me and I never did actually spend time trying out others. I happened to check @Mashable’s tweet yesterday which interested me to try the service and after few minutes I had my new virtual avatar ready! Believe me or not, I instantly changed my Twitter display picture with the one I generated from FaceYourManag.com!

Not only does it look cool but it does resemble a lot in me (I did spend some time tweaking the avatar to bring a look-alike of me) and I simply liked it !

Your identity on the Web

Create your Avatar with Face Your Manga! Express yourself through your image and share it whoever you want. Enjoy yourself by discovering unlimited combinations to realize your virtual alter ego.

At the time of composing this blog post, 379434 people have created their virtual identity at FaceYourManga.com and the rise is yet bombard! Mashable has some details about the popularity of customization mash-ups and their increase among twitter users.

FaceYourManga.com let’s you save your picture (low resolution) for free but you have to spend few pounds to download higher resolution picture to print / save on your PC. For $3 (approx.) its worth customizing one for yourself and downloading a higher resolution! You could use this high resolution for customizing blog theme as well and having a unique creation for yourself!

Print Size: 15×15cm
Format: Digital
Price: €1.50

Buy and download your image immediately in digital file. Print it directly at home or in a printing service.

Most of the places I frequent - Forums, Blogs (Gravatar), IM’s have been updated with my new Virtual Avatar and I am excited about it! Try to create yours and Shake Yourself Baby! Do link me to your new virtual avatar in comment section below.

Be part of this customization / virtual identity revolution! Keep rockinng!

My First Experience with Nikon D40 DSLR

Originally uploaded by Vinay

Yah! Getting started with Professional Photography with my New Nikon D40 DLSR which I purchased from Amazon UK. D40 is terrific.. you should soon see my Flickr gallery polluted with photos taken from it.

Stay glued! Oh ya.. the lady on the pic. named her Ms.Smoke! View couple of others photos that I shot with Nikon D40.

Btw, today is India’s 61st Independence Day.. so Happy Independence Day to all !

Cheers,
Vinay

Keyword Research Optimisation Tool from Google

The success to any Online Marketing or PPC Campaigns requires Advertisers and Marketers to research on user’s search behaviour. Not only are the advertisers and marketers benefited from it, if you care about optimising your site well for organic search you might want to think about doing a keyword research.

Understanding what search term or keyword a user query could be a tough job unless you spend time researching on them. There are tons of tools and softwares that help you to do the keyword research but they don’t come to you for free!

If you want to benefit yourself from free keyword research tool that Google rolled out recently named Insights for Search, this guide will certainly help you do that!  Google Insights for Search is another extension from its most popular Google Trends which helps users to compare the world’s interest on any topic.

The important feature of the tool is that it shows how frequently the topics or search terms have appeared in Google News Stories and in which Geographical Regions people have searched the most.
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Its 08.08.08 AM on 08.08.2008 !!

An interesting moment on an interesting day of 2008. Its 08.08.2008 today and the time this blog post appears is 08.08 AM (08.08.08 - HH.MM.SS). Whats more interesting is - Olympics 2008 at Beijing kicks of today!

Picture Credits: Daniel Larsson Design

Picture Credits: Neelabela / Tribe.net

Picture Credits: Google on 08.08.2008

A special occasion! Enjoy the time with friends or family with a Drink - Cheers ! Happy 08.08.08 !! See you soon on 09.09.09 !!