So here are the list of websites. Even though the list might be more than 50 , you can use our Google GOD for the searching the particular website :

• Flickr,
• California Coastline,
• Delicious,
• Metafilter,
• popurls,
• Twitter,
• Skype,
• Boing Boing,
• Academic Earth,
• OpenTable,
• Google,
• YouTube,
• Wolfram|Alpha,
• Hulu,
• Vimeo,
• Fora TV
• Craiglook,
• Shop Goodwill,
• Amazon,
• Kayak,
• Netflix,
• Etsy,
• PropertyShark.com,
• Redfin,
• Wikipedia,
• Internet Archive,
• Kiva, ConsumerSearch,
• Metacritic,
• Pollster,
• Facebook,
• Pandora & Last.fm,
• Musicovery,
• Spotify,
• Supercook,
• Yelp,
• Visuwords,
• CouchSurfing,
• BabyNameWizard.com’s NameVoyager,
• Mint,
• TripIt,
• Aardvark,
• drop.io, Issuu,
• Photosynth,
• OMGPOP,
• WorldWideTelescope,
• Fonolo,
• Get High Now and Know Your Meme

While so many sound familiar, many are like which I have never heard. I think it would be pretty interesting checking out these sites ( perfect stuff to kill time and productivity ), just like top 40 websites for time wastage.

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However, sitting at the top has not prevented Google from innovating and constantly improving the search engine capabilities in terms of speed . These improvements could be minor and hardly noticeable. With the introduction of AJAX technology to its search page which, despite having been in testing for several months without any official update on its status, Google is sure to beat all the competition.

AJAX is actually a group of standard web technologies designed to allow pages to update data or certain segments of the page without having to be fully re-rendered or reloaded. Google has been using AJAX in a small-scale test since last year but has not extended it beyond its initial scope so far. While Google’s search results page is one of the fastest in the world and speed has always been one of the biggest concerns, with AJAX the company manages to make it even faster by rendering only the parts that need updating when conducting a new search. As such, only the results themselves and the ads get pulled from the servers and are redrawn for the user.

For the moment though Google is staying quiet but users who want to see the new AJAX-powered Google search page in action, can head over to the new Google Caffeine sandbox page where the feature is enabled for all searches.

Try out Google ajax search now on Sandbox page

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Google promised that these options will be extended to other Google services soon, and hence they have rolled the similar kind of option panel for Google Images too.

With the availability of option panel , you would be able to filter the images with the following options :

Filter the results based on size

However filtering by size was available before, but now include extra options to provide an Exact Size and Size larger than. Now you can search icons too

• Medim
• Large
• Icon
• Larger than..
• Exactly..

Filter the results based on Type

The options included are

• Face
• Photo
• Clip Art
• Line Drawing

Filter then results by Color

The options available are

• Full color
• Black and white
• Specific color

I highly rely on Google image search for my blog posts , and am sure with the inclusion of these options, this service is now become even better. No matter what Microsoft and Yahoo come up with, I am gonna stick to Google .

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For me , anything which distract your mind or take your eyes off road while driving , let it be Texting or talking over phone, eating , drinking or even listening loud music can be very very dangerous and specially on highways.

The study conducted is as follows :

The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute used cameras to continuously observe light vehicle drivers and truckers for more than 6 million miles. It found that when drivers of heavy trucks texted, their collision risk was 23 times greater than when not texting.

Dialing a cell phone and using or reaching for an electronic device increased risk of collision about 6 times in cars and trucks.

Finally , I hope with such studies and trying to prove already proven facts with numbers, people will take some extra care while driving. At this time, I can only request tecfre.com readers to be drive carefully and minimize the use of cellphone to the extent possible while driving. Happy Driving

via : yahoo

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So without delaying much further here are top 5 sites for time wastage , and jump to the link view the complete list :

1. Stripgenerator
2. FMyLife
3. LivePlasma
4. Cracked
5. BeFunky.com

View the complete list of 40 websites at Yahoo with description about every website. I am surprized, lifehacker is also in the list.

Add your biggest time waster website in comments, and let me know about it

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After logging in , to send a SMS just enter the mobile number and the country code and then type in an 80-character message and send it to the designated mobile. The remaining 80 characters space in the message will be used by 160by2 to feed in an advertisement , which serve as an income source for 160by2 and help keeping the service free.

Download the mobile application

Previously 160by2 had mobile verison of the website to access the service on a mobile, but now they have launched mobile application which can be installed over your mobile for sending free sms with ease. Using the mobile application, gives you an advantage of sending sms upto 145 character compared to 80 character while using website. Here are the couple of screenshots posted on the blog

DOWNLOAD APP NOW: Visit http://m.160by2.com/app from your mobile phone to start using the application.

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1. Analyze the programs on which you spent the most of your time.
2. Measure your Active and Idle time
3. Generate a time line based on user created time tags.

So dare yourself and go ahead and download this software as your first activity towards being productive. Uninstall the programs you think you are wasting a lot of time on , and manage your time in a much productive manner.

Download ManicTime for Free .

Via technoworld

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Nokia today has reached another landmark in providing rich mobile experience to its customers. Nokia’s highly anticipated and much awaited Ovi Store has gone live today.

Ovi (which in Finnish language means door ) , the door to Nokia’s internet services was first announced in aug 29,2007 . However, it was expanded to include an online store for  mobile applications, wallpapers, widgets, games etc and hence dubbed as Ovi store.

Download Ovi Store on your Nokia phone

You can download the Ovi Store mobile app by simply selecting the Ovi Store icon in the Download folder on your device. Or you can get to the Ovi Store by simply visiting store.ovi.com on your phone.

Here’s what Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President, Nokia Services, had to say about Ovi Store going live today:

“Ovi Store is open for business and we’ve stocked the shelves with both local and global content for a broad range of Nokia devices. Ovi Store makes shopping for content and applications easy and fun for feature phone and smartphone owners alike.”

Mountain of content

As stated earlier by Nokia,  that OVI store might launch with around 25k+ items which may comprise of widgets, wallpapers, ringtones, games, applications etc. The initial launch itself seems overloaded with content.

I was surprised after visiting OVI online store, as under “Recommendations for your phone” ( Nokia N95 8GB) , there were nearly 900 items.

So guys, what are you waiting for ?? Checkout the OVI store and get your Nokia handset loaded with loads of content.

via : nokia conversations

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Now, after Giz revealed the real reason why the sms are of 160 character , I found it real hard to digest as according to them

Apparently, it’s because some German dude thought 160 was "perfectly sufficient."

Friedham Hillebrand was a communications researcher who was working with a group on developing a standard for cellphones to send and receive text messages. So he sat down on his typewriter and banged out a bunch of random sentences and questions, counted up the number of characters it took, and decided 160 was the magic number.

I am not sure , whether this is the real reason , but it made me Google a bit, and I found the answer at Mattcopp’s blog. He explained it quite clearly

The issue is that it is a limitation of the GSM system. GSM is the name for the way in which almost all mobile phones communicate. The actual length of a text message is 256 characters or letters (the term characters are more exact because numbers are not letters and neither is % or #).
Now an SMS needs to have contained within itself who sent the message, when it was sent and who it is going too, these are called overheads and take up exactly 96 characters, which is why you end up with 160 characters left. (256-96=160).

On a side note, each character is sent as an 8bit binary number — you know those 1s and 0s everyone is talking about — meaning you have a maximum of 256 types of characters. This gives you just enough room for all upper and lower case letters (2 * 26), numbers (0-9), a range of symbols ({}[]-+£$%) and some control characters (space, return, null). This is an internationally recognized standard specified as the ASCII standard.

Check out his post for more info on why SMS are actually 160 characters , and also some info on MMS size also.

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