I <3 Social Media!
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…)
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 
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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: €1.50Buy 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! 
What a great way to start a month with a confirmation on your Job Offer! Yeap, I am very glad to announce through my blog that I have been recruited as Search Engine Optimiser at Juretic Media.
Established in 2001, Juretic Media is an Internet Marketing Agency based in the centre of Brighton. It’s a great place to live and work, with the sea just a stone’s throw from the office. Brighton is the silicon beach of the UK and has attracted a whole host of amazing and successful media companies. It’s a great place to keep your finger on the pulse of the latest technologies and web trends.
It’s been a great and to be precise the best experience I had through my interview process, people following me over this blog would have known about my previous experience here, here and here. Juretic Media is par excellence in recruitment process and I had spent quality time from day 1 since when I met Mr. Neven Juretic (Director, Juretic Media).
To wrap things simpler, applied for this position after receiving an RSS Alert from Wired Sussex on July 20th 2008, to my surprise I got an response the very next day (which doesn’t happen or never happens with most other companies) with a kind response requesting my availability on Tuesday (23.08.2008) and as any enthusiastic candidate would do, I confirmed mine very soon after receiving the email.
The interesting twist here was, Juretic Media were looking out candidates with Commercial Experience, and my CV carried no information on my experience over SEO/M and the email I had received also explained me about it and the reason they were interested was because of my CV and Websites (URL’s in CV!) , which they reviewed (and found interesting) and invited me for an interview.
Yeap! Its true… a hug is really more refreshing and interesting than what Coke gives you. Take a look the video below which will give you the answer!
Credits to Deep & Amit Agarwal
Feel Refreshed ?? Now share this video with other friends of yours !
Got to know of this great site, www.merawindows.com where you can register and receive a Windows Vista DVD for FREE. the registration at the site is FREE as well. MeraWindows.com is a Microsoft Windows Community site for Indian users, not affiliated with Microsoft, but they have worked an agreement with the Windows team in Microsoft India to arrange for Vista Beta 2 DVDs for you.
The site aims to be the Community Site for Windows in India. I am already registered, are you?
Once your register at Mera Windows, just click the manage profile link and type in your postal address where the DVDs have to be shipped.
The Windows Vista installer is about 3.5 GB so instead of downloading this huge file, you can get a Windows Vista DVD shipped to your address in India for free. Just register at MeraWindows.com and you will receive 3 Windows Vista Beta 2 DVDs - one for you and the other two for your friends or relatives.
If you face any problem in getting this done, post a comment and I will offer a help if you hang up somewhere around. This is really a good intiative.
Vist and Order Windows Vista Beta2 DVD now: www.merawindows.com
via: Abhishek Kant? (Thanks Abshishek)
Select 1 year subscription and add it to your cart. Once it’s in your cart, use the code “freecs” to drop the price down to $0.00.
All they ask for is a mailing address and an email address (use a fake email address to avoid spam). No CC required / PayPal Account required, since during checkout it applies the Gift Certificate.
Yesterday, I posted about “Jesus re-visits the world through eBible.com.
eBible, a new Bible search engine, is currently in private beta. Search any of a number of versions of the Bible with eBible by keyword (and switch between Bible versions once you’ve selected text you are interested in)
This is an interesting application developed using Web 2.0, I was’nt that interested, but still due to its technology innovations, I subscribed myself for the BETA testing. And surprisenly, I got my invitation today to test that site which is still under BETA.
Brighton based SEO & Social Media Junkie. Passionate about Tech, Web 2.0 & iPhone.