The Cameras would have very important, personal photos which cannot be recovered because there is no way someone can go back to the past using a Time Machine and again celebrate their engagement or visit the honeymoon destinations. Hence its better to pay any decent amount of money to the person who would be helping you in getting back your important valuable photographs. The same case happens with your Laptops, which in case gets lost would also make you loose all your Important Passwords, projects, logins to your bank accounts, financial services, content in the form of text, images, videos etc all of which would be valued at thousands of dollars or more which is very very high when compared to the original cost of your device.

Hence, am sure its very important to better go for a system where in professionals would help you in recovering your lost devices at a price which is lot less than the value of your digital stuff stored within them. This service is being offered by a company called StuffBak which deals completely into protecting your Mobile assets ie all the products which can movable and can be lost easily.

The service at StuffBak is simple. Initially you need to activate a Label which is linked to your account and would specify the Label ID for each device. Next the Label can be stuck on the device and when its lost the person who has found the product would read the message on the device which says ‘Reward for Return’ along with the contact number for the same. Anyone who has not stolen the device and has honestly found the device would obviously be happy to get a reward in return of the old gadget.

Since the contact number is a Toll-Free Number anyone would be interested in atleast contacting once and getting more information on what kind of reward they would get. Lets say if you lost a Apple iPhone 3GS which is quite used and you would still offer a 200-300$ reward for returning it because of the important data stored in it, don’t you think the person who found your mobile would be more interested in returning it for a reward and getting a Good Karma instead of using a second hand device.

The service offers you with 4 different plans ranging from free Basic, Extended, Gold to Platinum with Labels available for upto 100 Items. Under the minimum Basic plan you would be able to cover 1 Item and when its lost StuffBack would charge you 49$ for recovering the item while in case of upgraded packages there is a higher feed but no charge in recovering each of your products. The lowest price for the Labels pack would cost you $19.95 for 6 polyester labels which you can stick at different locations on your device or else replace once they get used.

StuffBak labels, tags and cases are available to protect your portable electronics, sports gear, iPods, keys, luggage, clothing, medical equipment and more. A $8 investment can help you avoid insurance hassles, replacement costs and productivity loss. With pay-for-results recovery fee, you can’t afford not to protect all of your gear today. Overall a excellent service offered which may sound costly initially but is worth the money if the items can be recovered back in the original condition.

Google now allows you to Add Signature Links in Gmail with limited features because the service only allows you to link to external URL, add images, text etc but if you are looking to add the latest blog post or else the latest tweet you have made at the end of these messages then its not quite possible atleast for now. While other email services like Live Hotmail, Yahoo, Aol do not offer any of these options which is the reason its better to try out a browser add-on powered by Wise Stamp which is not only very simple to setup but also quite powerful along with a clean look as shown below.

To get started you just need to download the browser add-on which is currently compatible with Firefox, Google Chrome, Flock, Thunderbird etc. Once installed you will find a small icon on the browser’s status bar or else click on the settings tab under the add-ons section. Then you will find a new window under the same ‘WiseStamp Preferences’ which is the place where you need to create a new customized email signature which normally works at many more locations than just the above listed emails. By default you will be given with 4 different social websites profile options which you can fill in by just entering the username profile link. In order to find them you can login to facebook and then click on the profile link to get the correct link. Try to get the Custom Fancy URL for most of your social networking site profiles because they look good and also professional rather than the lengthy default URL’s.

Once you have entered the bio information or some message like ‘Thanks & Regards’ you can click on Apply which will enable all the settings and you will be ready to automatically enter the signature from your email compose section or else whenever you reply or forward any email. You can also click on the ‘Preview’ button to get a live preview on how your email footer would look like in real.

Overall a excellent Online Web Tool which is recommended for everyone who wants to have a customized email signature automatically attached to all the emails they send.

The navigation in wikipedia is quite easy, and this tool offers a small set of options on any Wikipedia pages when its enabled, giving you simple ways to add pages to your new book. Once you have added all the pages, you can customize them by moving them to front or back and then once you have finalized you can ship it to your location. The shipping costs are not much which ranges between 2-5$ for most locations all over the world.

In order to create your Book using Wikipedia Book Creator, you need to first access this link on which you will find a button called ‘Start Book Creator’. Once you select this you will be redirected to the Homepage of Wikipedia along with a small frame on the top as shown below.

Next you need to visit the pages which you would like to be a part of your Printed Book. I went ahead searching for information related to Yoga & Health Tips because that could be a ultimate pocket guide with the best information available. While you mouse over different links when the ‘Book Creator’ option is activated, you will find a small link which will allow you to instantly add pages to your book as shown below.

Another advantage of using this tool is that, you can Save Wikipedia content in the form of a PDF file, which can also be printed from your own printer at home.

The Suggest Pages option in the Book Creator menu would give you a list of Suggested Pages for your book based on your current selections, which you may have missed or which can be useful for the guide you are printing. Next you need to Manage your book by giving a Title and Subtitle which can either be the name of the book you are getting printed or else your own name. Click on Preview with PediaPress following which all the pages are analyzed and the book is compiled.

The price quote is based on the number of pages you select for your book following which you can customize the front page with the Image options and also the background color. Click on the Preview for getting a lightbox type window for the price estimation. The book would be printed within 2 business days and shipped to your home.

Do check out the following video which can show you a live demo on how to get this stuff done easily

Next you will have to click on the link available on the top right section of the software which says – ‘Sign In to Web Albums’ following which you will be asked to login to your Google Account. Picasa would ask you to Register the service with your Google Account and accept the TOS. Once this is done, the website will direct you to the Picasa Web Albums using which you can upload Images in your Account and share them. If this is not done, you won’t be able to Login to your Picasa from the Desktop because a error would display saying ‘Your Account is Not Registered’.

Picasa does not directly upload all the Photos which are displayed on the software automatically because this would use a lot of space in your account and your Internet bandwidth too. Hence, beside every album or folder in the software you would find a option to sync. Click on the small button available on the right side of each folder – ‘Sync to Web’. Which will display a options window to select.

Once the Synchronization is completed, a new album is displayed in your account with the folder name saved as the Album Name along with the date when the photos were spanned and the total number of photos stored in it.

That’s it now all your personal photos would be stored securely with Google which you can access from any location and even share the same. You can also create a personalized URL like this – http://picasaweb.google.co.in/amitbhawani

When you normally view a Facebook video page which has a URL like this – http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1452273824071 you will find a few options next to the video screenshot as shown below.

Next you need to download a Firefox Add-on which is a actually a Facebook Video Greasemonkey Script and install it on your Browser for adding a few extra options to your Facebook video page as shown below.

The different options displayed below the default ‘Report Video’ link are really useful as discussed in detail below.

1. Embed this Video – This option will allow you to Embed the FaceBook videos, in the similar way like you can Embed Youtube Videos on your Blogs. A Extremely useful option for bloggers when they want to post some useful videos which are normally only available in Facebook and not elsewhere.

2. Customize Code – This option will allow you to change the size of the displayed video for embedding and also playing on the same video page. You can easily change the size to the maximum site of your theme’s posting area and post videos.

3. Download Video – This is the option for which you would be reading this article. By default they would be downloaded in .MP4 format. You need to just right click on the specific link and select the ‘Save Link As’ option to download the video directly to your computer at any desired location.

4. Convert Video – This is another useful option because using this you can overide the default .mp4 extention of the videos and use the online file converting service by zamzar. Once you click on that link, it will automatically note the video URL and allow you to save the FaceBook video in any of the following formats like 3gp, 3g2, aac, ac3, avi, flac, flv, gif, iphone, ipod, mov, mp3, mpg, ogg, wav & wmv. The service will ask you to enter your email address where the converted file will be sent.

Other options would include downloading the video from any browser like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari by accessing their Temporary Files Folder or Cache folder and finding the temporary video file and downloading it. But for this option you need to play the video atleast once so that its data is cached and saved to your PC. This is the very reason we would prefer the Greasemonkey script as listed above.

Flickr does not offer you with any software using which you can directly download bulk photos at a time, but there are a few 3rd party applications which can be helpful to you in order to complete this task. We had previously written a useful article on how to Upload Multiple Images to your flickr account from your desktop which can also be useful to you. There was a software called FlickrDown which would allow you to download upto 200 different Original Photos from any user’s account but its currently disabled by Flickr because it allowed anyone download Copyright Images.

A better solution is using the Bulkr Application which can allow you to directly backup your complete Flickr Photos without the need for logging into your account. You can select all the sets or specific sets from any Flickr Account and download them to your computer in different sizes ranging from the Original Size to thumbnail Mode. Along with this Bulkr can download a detailed file for every photo which is downloaded which has Photo Metadata along with Photographer Name, Photo URL, License on the Image, Total Views on the Photo, Title of the Image, Description if added, Tags etc.

Bulkr Features :

• Backup your entire Flickr photostream
• Download your sets (select few or all of them)
• Download photos in 6 different sizes
• Download photo metadata (title, tags etc)
• Preview images before download
• Resume download if connection breaks
• Download upto 200 photos in batches from:
  – Your photostream
  – Your favorites
  – Explored photos
  – Flickr search
  – Any user’s photostream

Once you install the Application on your computer which is powered by Adobe AIR application, you will find a option to Backup your Flickr Profile as shown below.

The next option allows you to Download Photos along with the size you would like to save the Pictures. Select the Folder option to save the location where all the downloaded pics would be saved as shown below.

All the Pictures would be downloaded one by one automatically to your computer as shown below once you click on Select All, and select Download All option.

You can also search for pictures database or tags by writing the keyword in the Search Box and then clicking on the Search Button as shown below.

Once the search is complete, the whole window is filled with small thumbnails of all the searched results. When you select any of these you will get options to directly download the Image or view its full version on Flickr.

USPS offers mainly 4 different types of services for people who are looking to send something as listed below :

• Express Mail
• Priority Mail
• First-Class Mail
• International Shipping

Each of this above listed services offer different features at different rates along with different delivery times. Now lets have a look at the prices.

USPS Prices

• The Express Mail Service offers a Average Delivery Time of Overnight, most locations with a starting Price From $13.65.
• The Priority Mail Service offers a Average Delivery Time of 1 – 3 days with a starting Price From $4.90.
• The First-Class Mail offers a Average Delivery Time of 1 – 3 days with a starting Price From $0.44.
• The Parcel Post offers a Average Delivery Time of 2 – 8 days with a starting Price From $4.90.
• The Media Mail Service offers a Average Delivery Time of 2 – 8 days with a starting Price From $2.38.
• The Library Mail Service offers a Average Delivery Time of 2 – 8 days with a starting Price From $2.26.
• The Global Express Guaranteed Service offers a Average Delivery Time of 1-3 days with a starting Price From $33.95.
• The Express Mail International Service offers a Average Delivery Time of 3 – 5 days with a starting Price From $26.95.
• The Priority Mail International Service offers a Average Delivery Time of 6-10 days with a starting Price From $11.45.
• The First-Class Mail International Service comes at a starting Price From $0.75.

How to Track USPS Parcel

In order to track the delivery or arrival or your package you have sent to someone through the USPS you need to check out the official website. Once your mail is shipped through the USPS office, it takes somewhere around 24-48 Business Hours for them to update the tracking system initially. The initial update has the Mail Class, Services opted along with the package like Insurance & the current status of the shipment as shown below.

Label/Receipt Number: EG04 3095 495U S
Class: Express Mail International®
Service(s): Insured
Status: Into Foreign Customs

The Tracking Code is the Receipt Number which is given to the consignee when the order is confirmed and you can directly search in Google with the 11 digit Alpha-Numeric Code and it will give you a link to the tracking code which will display you all the results directly as shown below.

Alternatively you can directly visit this tracking link at USPS.com, which can be used to find the current status of your shipment. On the very same page you will find a link to ‘Track & Confirm by email – Get current event information or updates for your item sent to you or others by email.’ Click on this link which will redirect to a new page where you will be asked to Enter your First Name, Last Name & your email address for Receiving Automatic email notification with details for item number.

PNR Status Enquiry at General Enquiry via Phone

This is the oldest and widely used method by all the India though many don’t like it and find it a worst services. Although this is worst services this would be continuing it success because its free from BSNL and MTNL landlines phones and mobile users are charged for it. For this you need to call the Indian Railways helpline at 139 or 1345 and follow their IVRS to know your PNR status. This number is also used for other purposes like train inquiry, arrival or departure information, etc.,.

PNR by SMS at Regular SMS Rates

I would prefer this than the above mentioned services because all the options mentioned above are chargeable accordingly, this also chargeable yet economical. You are charged at your regular SMS rates. This services are brought to customers by Indian Railways in collaboration with Google.

To know your PNR Status on your mobile instantaneously you need to send an SMS including the following content.
PNR Number to 9773300000
Example: 1234567890 to 9773300000

Once you enter a valid PNR number you will get an SMS reply sent by Google your current status along with other journey related details. And don’t forget that normal SMS rates are applied.

PNR Enquiry through your Airtel Mobile

You can even check the PNR status on your mobile through Airtel Live Homepage. You are charged Rs 3 per SMS PNR Enquiry done by you and you are also charged the normal Rs 0.30 for 15kb that you browse.

For this you need to visit Airtel Live Homepage > Open Airtel Services For You > then proceed to Book Tickets > PNR Inquiry and enter PNR number. You will soon get a reply from Airtel Server about your current status along with other journey related details.

Check PNR Through SMS

This services id officially provided by IRCTC and you are charged per SMS  PNR enquiry done. You need to SMS to their general enquiry number which is 139.

Send an SMS including the text
<PNR><PNR number> (without any spaces, or symbols) to 139.

Here is an example: PNR1234567890 to 139.
Alternatively you can also send your enquiry to 5676747 by following sample format

<PNR><space><PNR Number> send it to 567647.

Here is an example: PNR 1234567890 to 567647

Here also the premium SMS charges are applied.

Check PNR Status through GPRS

If you have an handset which supports GPRS, then you can browse through your mobile browser to www.indianrail.gov.in or, irctc.com or any other portal and put in your PNR number where exactly its require. No charges for this services but you are charged for amount of data that your browse accordingly as set by your mobile service provider.

You wont be able to save any of these web pages because this is a option which can just let you to edit any website pages which are shown on your browser and nothing else. In order to show you we just entered the following code on our address bar after loading the website TechCrunch.com on the browser.

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

The following screen-shot shows you a small demo of the stuff we are talking about.

Turn on “Message translation” from the Labs tab under Settings, and whenever you receive an email in a language other than your own, Gmail will automatically translate it into a language you can understand with just one click. Now all the messages you receive in Languages which you don’t understand would be auto translated to you and displayed in your Gmail Inbox.

Just visit the website printfriendly.com and access the web page URL for which you are looking to take a print out as shown in the below example.

Next the website will redirect you to a optimized page which has all the tweaks already implemented. In case of a blog you will find that everything ranging from the header logo, sidebar ads, footer content is totally removed and you are left with the Blog Post title, content & Images within it. Hence you are ready with the content which you really need to get it printed. Also while you mouse over different sections of the page you will find that the different areas are selected and printfriendly.com allows you to deleted any area you wish from the final copy as shown below.

Just select the ‘Remove Images’ option and the editor would remove all the Images from the web page and display you the ‘Only Content’ version of the same page. You have three different ways to store the final edited version :

• Email – This option allows you to send the edited webpage to anyone in the form as a Interesting Link through email.
• Print – This option when clicked would directly send the edited webpage to your default printer and get it ready for printing.
• PDF – The PDF option allows you to save the edited page in the form of a PDF which you can either send to someone through email or else print at the later stage.

The web service is also available to website owners and bloggers in the form of a Button which can be implemented on their blogs by adding the code or else downloading wordpress plugin which will enable them to show a small ‘Print’ & ‘PDF’ button useful for their readers.

Overall this service does look more simple to implement that the previously mentioned PrintWhatYouLike.com which allows you to remove ads & graphics from print out copies. Also the website allows you to save the optimized pages as PDF for a greener earth.

Features :
Advanced Voting System Added
AJAX Post Answer
AJAX Rate Question
AJAX Rate Answers
AJAX Report Question
AJAX Report Answers
Social Bookmarks
Best Answer
Top Experts

The best part is that the script comes with preinstalled categories and allows you to setup Search Engine Friendly pages. This means that when someone asks a new question, instantly there is a seo optimized page created under the respective category. Here are a few features of the script in detail. Check Demo at Answers Next

Ask Questions – You can find a small box on the top right side of the website using which any visitor can directly input a question and then signin and publish the question. This makes the visitor instantly start posting their questions through the website.

Categories – The script allows you to create two levels of Categories ie the Main Categories and Sub-Categories all of which would be displayed on the right sidebar of your website. You can easily manage each of these through the admin panel and the sub categories are displayed on the website only when someone is viewing a question related to it.

The admin panel is quite simple with very limited options but are much useful. The most useful ones are the advertisements section where in you have different ad slots already ready which with a click you can activate & deactivate. The ad slots are already installed on the answers site Frontend at different location like the top 468×60, sidebar 120×600, below question etc which are some prominent area to display advertisements and make money.

Using the admin panel you can easily manage the members, questions, answers, administrators, advertisements, categories & settings. The answerscript is available at 24$ by using the coupon code 75OFF, making it 75% discounted from the normal price of 99$.

Overview

These online research tools can be categorized as follows –

• Finding New Seeking
• Viewing information
• Subscribing to information
• Comparison of the popularity of topic
• Writing
• Information sharing
• Networking with peers

Some of the best ways to keep in touch with latest happenings are described below -

Google Alerts – E-mail Topic Alerts Service: Google is definitely one of the fastest ways to find the information online about a particular topic and any relevant information about a particular keyword. But, the actual effort to be done is here because as soon as some set of pages are retrieved, one feels to look into the links as they are. Using the available services of alerts is the best way that gives control. Snippets of relevant can be delivered to a person in his/her mailbox by Google alerts service, according to the preference of the respective users. Of course, Yahoo!, AOL, and many others are also currently providing a similar service.

With the help of Google Alerts service, one can enter a complex topic to research upon or a simple search query and get them delivered via email through Google Alerts web service.

Furthermore, the search results can be filtered with the frequency decided by the user.

Note: Google Alerts service can be used with mail address of any domain but the highly recommended is to have a Gmail account to get uninterrupted updates.

Firefox Web Browser: It is not possible to do a research online without the help of a browser, not even the online tests can be done without the browser. There are many differences between the browsers. Every person has his/her best pick amongst the browsers, and one amongst the most powerful browsers is the Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox is the choice of the majority of online researchers, as it provides many useful tools for research such as opening of multiple tabs to the sinkable interface and to the add-ons based on XUL to the numerous plug-ins.

The latest addition of Mozilla Firefox literally offers everything that you may require to surf the internet.

Note: Firefox also provides Bugzilla for the developers, which is not available on any other browser.

Website Subscription: Blog lines News Feed Aggregator: Thousands and millions of websites covers the same data even though the research is being done for the online courses and distance education. The perfect task is to keep the track of all the relevant information.

However, though new and interesting information is always welcome, nobody feels like checking the data on a daily basis. The easiest way of keeping track of many websites is to subscribe to those sites. So, one gets the alerts all the time any recent news was added, a notification will be given. Such the result is being called as the Really Simple Syndication (RSS). One among the online publishing protocol and also a file format is Atom.

When subscribed to any feed of the website, the best way to track the updates is to keep an eye on headlines of new updates sent from the subscribed websites. One more way to get the updates is to subscribe to bloglines.

To do so, when the subscription page of the website is opened, click on the Subscribe button.

Tagged themselves as ‘The World’s Easiest Free Online Photo Editor’, Pizap does mean it. Pizap is very easy photo editors that even a newbie can make photo editing of his desired output.

How to Start Photo Editing in Pizap
There are lot more things that you can do with your photo when you have uploaded your photo for editing. Upon opening the homepage, you would first see Highest rated, most viewed and top artists photo edited and you have a start button clearly visible to start your own photo editing, huh seems to be lot of Google Ads to make revenue. Remember that there is no registration required for editing the photos and there is no membership fees. When you click on Start button the application will take you to the next page when you have option of selecting your image source either from your computer or instant webcam taken. So, it means that you can upload images from famous social networking site like orkut, twitter, facebook etc., which all photo editing software have for ease upload of photos.

Features includes basic photo editing like cut, paste, split, flip, rotate, text & phrases insertion, stickers, face stickers, lot more in Effects & Filters, Paint.

Paint is just a insertion of our Ms Paint and not more than that, and under Effects & Filters you have option of Tint, nt, Hue & Saturation adjustments, Sharpen, Pixelate, Zoom Blur, Twirl, Fisheye. Adding the features mention above to the photo are done by drag and drop method and also as seen there are adsense ads slot one on both sides.

So with the features mention above you can easily come to know that this photo editing softwares is certainly not for photo editors who are looking for some advanced photo effects but still Pizap can be used for basic photo editing.

Web Resizer is a Online Photo Editing Tool which offers with multiple options to you, when you are planning to edit a Image. Recently i attended the Tedx HitechCity during which we snapped few excellent photos of the ISB Campus using my Canon G9 Camera & my brothers Nokia N96. I have attached a link to one of the Photos below which is hosted at flickr.

Original Photo – Link Size – (2592 x 1944) (1Mb File Size)

Next i tried using different tools like DropResize, FastStone Photo Resizer, FotoFlexer, Pixlr etc most of which were desktop versions and some did reduce the size but also the quality which is one of the most important factor.

Upload the photo on the Webresizer website and then check out the effects. The service allows you to upload photos of upto 5Mb of size maximum which is decent enough because most Photos taken using Digital Cameras are of size of around 5Mb.

Once the Photo is uploaded you will find the website offering you with two different versions of the Image, The Original Image & Optimized Image. By default the size is set at 400×400 pixels, but you can edit these using the options available at the end of the page.

You can find that the original image was automatically resized and by default the quality is set at 80% which can be changed to 100% for maintaining the original quality. Other features or excellent options available are :

• Sharpen Images : When you take snaps using a Digital Camera, most of these are Softened Images and you can use this option to increase the sharpness of the Images. Recommended setting is at 30-50 levels.
• Adding Borders : Web Resizer allows you with a option to add borders to the Images Easily. It looks good when the Picture has dull colors or light colors. You can select any of the Border style and the same is automatically applied when you upload the next Photo. You can remove all the borders by selecting the option of ‘No Borders’ or ‘Start over’.
• Rotating Images : You can select the options available and rotate your Images, left or right 90 degree or completely reverse it by selecting the 180 degrees option.
• Convert a Color Photo into Black & While Photo : This tool has a excellent option of easily converting your Color Photographs into Classical Black & White Photos by selecting the Monochrome box and clicking on ‘apply changes’.