Rent Bollywood Movies Online at Youtube

By Shivam Vaid On April 26, 2010 Leave a Comment    151 views
Youtube Rentals

Youtube has started a new rental service which enables you to watch Bollywood movies online by paying a small rental fee ( eg $0.99 ).  This what you are required to do Visit the Youtube Bollywood Rental page. Select a movie out of the available set of movies For renting a movie, you need a valid Youtube account to sign-in Make the necessary payment using Google Checkout. ( The video pricing could vary across videos ). Once the payment is made, the movie playback would begin immediately on Youtube. The….. Read More

A Solution to Google Analytics “Tracking Unknown” problem

By Shivam Vaid On February 2, 2010 4 Comments    541 views
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I just registered Inficone with Google Analytics and was eager to see if I could get any kind of status information for the newly created account. The registration process required me to register the website with Google Analytics using a valid e-mail address and then copy a piece of javascript on the main page of my website. I completed the registration and put the javascript code on the main page. If I was doing a <View Source> on the browser now, I could see that the javascript code was present.….. Read More

Google Site Clinic – Let Google analyze and improve your site

By Shivam Vaid On January 19, 2010 Leave a Comment    28 views
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Google India is running a site clinic program from January 6 to January 20, 2010. This is an initiative by the Google search team to analyze sites and provide their feedback to the webmasters of those sites on how can they improve the websites enabling better visibility during Google searches. For registering for the program, you need to fill a form. Note that registering will not necessarily mean that your site would be shortlisted and selected for the analysis.  Only a few would be chosen and details/analysis pertaining to the….. Read More

Google Suggest – A reflection, A danger

By Shivam Vaid On January 18, 2010 Leave a Comment    5 views
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As you would be aware, Google Suggest auto-completes your search query in runtime enabling you to search more accurately and use the most common keywords related with that search. The suggest database eventually gets built over a period of time monitoring the usage and most commonly used search keywords. This way, the suggestions are also a reflection of what is being searched mostly on the net by a given set of users. In order to analyze this, I chose to enter a very basic set of query like how, why,….. Read More

Official Gmail Tips And Tricks

By Shivam Vaid On January 14, 2010 Leave a Comment    35 views
Gmail_Tips

Gmail is today one of the most popular email services on the internet. I myself use multiple gmail accounts and a very satisfied user of the same. Google continuously adds and updates various features in its popular email program. I am from an IT background and even for me it’s sometimes difficult to keep track of all goodies that gmail has to offer. I think even google realizes the same and hence has dedicated a separate section to ensure that all those tips and tricks are consolidated and available at….. Read More

The URL Shortening bandwagon

By Shivam Vaid On January 12, 2010 Leave a Comment    35 views
URL_Shortener

URL shortening service has been around for a few years now. The earliest I remember is that of seeing many links on certain websites starting with <tinyurl> and wondering what exactly does that mean. URL shortening essentially provides a web page with a URL much shorter than it’s native length. So for example http://www.inficone.com/abc/xyz/mmm/w/index/pages/x.html could just be represented by http://tinyurl.com/infi. But what is the real gain Easy to read and remember. In fact they look more professional. Information regarding many such URLs could be made concise instantly eg when posting….. Read More