Computers and Internet

Gmail chat or gtalk has the facility to remain invisible from others when required. Gtalk is a very popular software used now a days to chat with friends and family members online. But many times, we don't want to chat with certain people. In that case, google has given us a facility to remain invisible to others. Others will think that you are offline.
But there is a trick to find out whther a person is really offline or is invisible. You can also find out whether you have been blocked by a user or not. Because if you have been blocked by a user, then you will never see him/her online in you list. That is you will not be able to chat with him/her any more.

How to check an invisible user in gtalk:-

1. Click on the user whom you want to check.
2. Click on options and then on " Go off the record". (This will not save the chat from now onwards in the chat history.)
3. In gmail chat, you and the user both will be shown a message that the future chats with this particular contact will not be saved.
4. Now type in the message.
5. Press enter.
6. If the user is offline, then a mesage will be shown in red that " did not receive your chat" otherwise no message will be displayed to you which means that the user is invisible.

Many people think that writing about the Alexa rank can increase the rank of the website. Even having a widget on the blog can help a bit in this case. But this theory is not proved by anyone yet.
Alexa is a website that assigns traffic rank to websites according to the daily page views and many other factors.

To add an Alexa Widget to your blog:

1. Go to http://www.alexa.com/siteowners/widgets.
2. Choose the widget for your blog.
3. Enter your blog address in the space provided for that widget and click on build widget.
4. Select and copy the html code for the specific format that you want.
5. Open your blog's layout tab.
6. Click on Add gadget->HTML/Javascript and paste the code.
7. Save the changes and you are done.

To create a folder without name, follow the steps below:

1. Create a new folder.
2. Now click on that folder.
3. Press F2 from the keyboard.
4. Now press and hold Alt key and press 9 eight times from the numeric keypad.
5. Press enter.

A folder is created without name.

Note: Do not press the number 9 from keyboard that is above the alphabets.

Bsnl broadband has many plans. 500C has free usage time from 2 a.m to 8 a.m. 750 plan has unlimited usage free. The problem is for 250 plan users. They do not get the usage free for any time of the day. So, it becomes very essential for them to reduce the extra usage as much as possible.

1. Disable automatic windows update: Windows updates frequently to increase the security of the system. But it is always not so necesary. We can easily turn off the automatic update option. For this

a) Go to Start-> Control Panel-> Windows Update.
b) From the sidebar click on Change Settings.
c) In the new window that showa up click on "Never check for updates" ->OK.

2. Disable automatic browser update: Internet browsers specilayy Mozilla Firefox updates very frequently. It comsumes much usage. Its better to turn it off.

a) Go to Tools->Options-> Advanced.
b) Under "When updates of firefox are found" section, check the "Ask me what I want to do" option and click on OK.

3. Extensions for Firefox: Install the following extension of firefox to reduce broadband usage:

a) FlashBlock Extension: It blocks the pop up ads which open up in sites like rediff.com etc.
b) Imglikeopera Extension: It load the images from cache instead of downloading it everytime. It helps very much in sites like orkut, facebook etc.