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Import Facebook, Gmail and Other Account Contacts to Yahoo

Shahab — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:38:56 +0000

If you are a Yahoo user then you will be really glad to know that now you can import all your contacts ( at other accounts like Facebook, Gmail, Orkut etc ) to Yahoo. Importing contacts from other accounts to yahoo is very easy and it will take just a few seconds.

To start this importing process sign in to your Yahoo account and you will see a announcement from Yahoo about this new feature. It looks like this.

Click on the Get Started link and select the account from where you want to import the contacts to Yahoo (See screenshot below). After a account is selected, you will be prompted to provide your account’s (from where you want to import the contacts) username and password, and it will take only few seconds to get your contacts imported to Yahoo.

Presently you can import your contacts from Facebook, Gmail, Orkut, MSN, Desktop Email Programs (like Outlook, AppleMail etc) and some others networks.

We hope you would like this new feature from Yahoo. In case you have something to say on this, drop in your comments we would be happy to hear from you.

Import Facebook, Gmail and Other Account Contacts to Yahoo
Originally Published at VirginTech

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9 WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Licenses Giveaway [Worth $29.95 Each]

Shahab — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:50:14 +0000

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is a great software to rip your DVD (even the encrypted ones) content to your Hard drive or to the portable devices like iPhone, iPod, Zue etc. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum supports Normal DVD, CSS protected DVD, region 1-6, Sony ArccOS, Commercial DVD.

We reviewed WinX DVD Ripper Platinum in our last article. In case you missed it check it out here: WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Review. We mentioned in that review that we will be giving away 9 WinX DVD Ripper Platinum licences [Worth $29.95] to VirginTech readers, so here we are with our WinX DVD Ripper licenses giveaway.

Here are the two things that you have to do to enter this Giveaway contest:

1: Tell us in comments why do you need this DVD Ripping program?. [While commenting make sure you enter your working email address as we will be sending you the license key on that email address. No entry will be accepted without an answer to this question.]

2: This one is not mandatory but you may Share this post on twitter (see the end of post for twitter share button) and mention your Tweet link in your comment along with the answer to the first question. [ Note: In case of any clash between the two entries we will give the preference to those who have shared this post ]

Nine users will be selected on the basis of best answer to the question in step 1. We will declare the results for this Giveaway contest on 11th of March. So there is sufficient time for everyone to get into this Giveaway. Best of luck everyone!

UPDATE: Well thank you all for participating. Here are the winners for our WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Licenses Giveaway. We will send you the license keys on your email with which you commented here.

1: Ted

2: Steves

3: James

4: David

5: Ben

6: Amit

7: Diego

8: Ian

9: Norris

We would like to thank Digiarty Software for arranging these licenses for VirginTech Readers.

9 WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Licenses Giveaway [Worth $29.95 Each]
Originally Published at VirginTech

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WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: Fast and Easy To Use DVD Ripping Solution

Shahab — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:31:10 +0000

You might want to rip a DVD on your hard drive or on any portable device (iPhone, Apple TV, iPod etc) may be because you simply want to have its backup or may be because you are not comfortable in dealing with DVD’s as there handling needs some extra care.

So for ripping DVD’s in a most efficient way, you simply need to have a good DVD ripping program like WinX DVD Ripper Platinum. It is a great DVD Ripping program from Digiarty Software that enables you to rip your DVD (even the encrypted ones) content to your Hard drive or to the portable devices like iPhone, iPod, Zue etc. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum supports Normal DVD, CSS protected DVD, region 1-6, Sony ArccOS, Commercial DVD

WinX DVD Ripper platinum is very simple to use. Just run the ripping program and click on the “Disc” button (see the screenshot below)

Select the DVD drive. Once you have selected a DVD Disc and title (see the screenshot below) you can either create a backup of it by selecting “Copy” option or you may rip it in various output formats like AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, 3GP. Also you can rip the DVD content to iPhone, iPod, Zune other portable devices etc.

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum Features:

There are many good features in WinX DVD ripper Platinum that makes it quite different from other DVD rippers. Some of its key features are mentioned below:

1] Simple and easy to use interface: WinX DVD Ripper Platinum has got a very simple and easy to use interface. You can easily navigate to number of different ripping options/settings as per your requirement.

2] Intelligent A/V Synchronizer: Sometimes there is not a good synchronization between the audio and video of the DVD. You may rectify this problem simply by checking the box in “Advanced settings” that says “Use Intelligent A/V synchroniser“.

3] Fast and Efficient Ripping: 1:1 DVD copy enables you to backup your DVD with original video, audio and subtitles within only 5 minutes. Please

4] Multi Core CPU Support: This feature enhances the speed of the conversion processes.

5] Advanced Ripping Funtions: WinX DVD Ripper Platinum can rip your DVD’s content to popular video formats like AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, 3GP, etc. In addition to this you can also rip your DVD content to popular portable devices so that you can access it whenever and wherever you want. The supported portable devices are Sony PSP, iPhone, iPod, iTouch, Apple TV, Microsot Zune, Mobile phone, etc.

6] Automatic Free Upgrades: Considering the above features its hard to expect this DVD Ripper to be a freeware. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum sells for $29.95 but once you buy it, all of its future upgrades would be free for you. (you can get this license for free, see the note at the end of this post)

7] Screenshot Capturing: It allows capturing DVD movie stills which you may save in JPG or in BMP.

For the complete list of features of this DVD ripping program you may headover to this link.

Operating System Requirement: Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista (32 & 64 bit), Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)

NOTE: Digiarty Software has given us few WinX DVD Ripper Platinum licences to give away among the VirginTech readers. So there will be a Giveaway contest soon on VirginTech with in 2-3 days from now. In that Giveaway we will be offering 10 copies of WinX DVD Ripper Platinum for free whose actual price is $29.95.

Subscribe to VirginTech via email or join our facebook fan page to make sure you don’t miss any update about our upcoming Giveaway contest.

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum

WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: Fast and Easy To Use DVD Ripping Solution
Originally Published at VirginTech

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Technorati Not Updating Authority, Recent Posts

Shahab — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:04:04 +0000

Technorati, a popular blog search engine that has got millions of blog indexed is really one of the best source to figure out what’s buzzing in the blogosphere. Technorati assigns authority to all the blogs in its index which in turn depicts the credibility and popularity of the blogs in its index.

Like many other blogs VirginTech is also present in the Technorati’s index, but a few weeks back I noticed that technorati is not updating Authority, Recent posts and other stats for VirginTech. At that time I thought that it would be momentary problem so I checked the stats again after a week or two, but to my surprise i found the same result again and there were no update in blog stats. I quickly googled about this problem and found that there are many other blogs also whose stats are not updating at all.

I reported this problem to technorati many times but it seems that they are least bothered about all this and they didn’t replied even once on this issue. I raised this issue in technorati forums too but got no response there too. Its been almost a month and the same problem still persists with VirginTech stats on technorati.

You can see in the screenshot below that Technorati is still showing up almost 20-25 days old post from VirginTech.

The problem presently with technorati is not only about the updating of stats, there is one more thing that many bloggers are reporting and its about the Technorati Blog claiming. Actually when a blog is submitted to technorati, it is first of all manually reviewed and if the blog meets their guidelines then it gets into the technorati index. Now the problem here is that this blog claiming process according to many bloggers is taking too much time as compared to what it usually takes.

Some of the reactions from the blogosphere about this Technorati problem are mentioned below:

Greg Ledger says “I claimed my blog two weeks ago, then again last week when it did not appear in the blog search. Still not appearing in the blog search, and my URL information is wiped from the profile”.

Patrick says “I post 2 or 3 times a day, but the last time you updated my info was 19 January. About 6 weeks ago my authority was in the high 500s, and from time to time there was a button showing that my blog was in the top 100 science blogs. Suddenly my authority is down to 1″

Chris says “Over 2 weeks ago I initiated a blog claim (it’s antivirustech.com), and absolutely nothing in response. Didn’t get any emails or any other instructions as to what to do next. How and WHEN can this get resolved?”

Technorati, we hope you will address these issues as soon as possible and also we expect (like other bloggers) a better support from you on these issues.

Update: Technorati has now started updating our stats correctly. We hope its working for others too. Thank you Technorati

Technorati Not Updating Authority, Recent Posts
Originally Published at VirginTech

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Filter/Disable Google Buzz Updates in Gmail

Shahab — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:07:58 +0000

Due to the privacy flaw in Google Buzz many users have decided to stay away from Google Buzz updates. I am also not much impressed with this new service so i have simply turned this feature off for now in my Gmail. If you are also looking to get rid of Google Buzz in your Gmail account then here are the two ways you can follow to keep it away from your Gmail.

1: Disable [Turn Off] Google Buzz completely:Doing this will completely switch off the Buzz service in Gmail but can enable it future whenever you want. To do this simply click on the “Turn off Buzz” link in Gmail footer portion. See the screenshot below to locate that link.

To enable the buzz in Gmail once you have disabled it, click on “Turn on Buzz”. You will find this link exactly at the same location in Gmail footer where you got the “Turn off Buzz” link.

2: Filter/Remove Google Buzz updates in Gmail: If you want to ignore/skip the updates from Google Buzz then Adam pash of lifehacker has a simple solution for this. Headover to this link for guide on how to filter the Buzz updates in Gmail.

Filter/Disable Google Buzz Updates in Gmail
Originally Published at VirginTech

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Google Buzz Privacy Flaw Makes Your Contacts Public

Shahab — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:20:04 +0000

A few months back Google Launched an online real time communication tool called Google wave but it didn’t get much success. Now Google has released another service called Google Buzz that integrates social networking in Gmail. But this service is not getting a good response from the users because of a big privacy flaw in it and some other reasons.

So what’s the Google Buzz Privacy Flaw?

An article published on businessinsider explains this privacy flaw in very simple words:

When you first go into Google Buzz, it automatically sets you up with followers and people to follow. These people are chosen based on whom the users emails and chats with most using Gmail.

That’s fine.

The problem is that — by default — the people you follow and the people that follow you are made public to anyone who looks at your profile.

In other words, before you change any settings in Google Buzz, someone could go into your profile and see the people you email and chat with most.

Well don’t panic, lifehacker has a solution to overcome this privacy flaw. Headover to this link for details.

Google Buzz Privacy Flaw Makes Your Contacts Public
Originally Published at VirginTech

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Google Buzz Brings Social Networking To Gmail

Shahab — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:20:22 +0000

Google has launched a new service called Google Buzz that integrates Social networking in Gmail itself. Google describes Google buzz as a new way to start conversations about the things you find interesting and share updates, photos, videos and more.

Though I haven’t played much with Google Buzz yet, here are some of the Google Buzz features that worths a mention here:

Google Buzz Key Features:

1: Inbox integration: Comments get sent right to your inbox so it’s easy to keep the conversation going.

2: Connect sites you already use: Google buzz allows you to import your stuff from popular sites like Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.

3: Public/Private content Sharing: You may share your content publicly or you may restricts its visibility to only people you select.

4: Self updated friend list: You’re already set up to follow the people you email and chat with the most.

5: No setup needed: Its in Gmail itself so you don’t have to leave Gmail interface to access Google buzz.

Here is a video to give you a quick description about Google buzz.

We would like to hear from you whether you liked Google buzz or not. So have your say in comments.

Google Buzz Brings Social Networking To Gmail
Originally Published at VirginTech

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Facebook Homepage Redesigned: Brings Easy Access to Facebook chat, Applications and Games

Shahab — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:19:15 +0000

Facebook has unveiled another homepage redesign. It has not been made public to all the facebook users yet, but soon it will be launched to all in the near future. The portion of facebook homepage that is almost untouched in this redesign is the right sidebar. You won’t observe any changes in the right sidebar, neither on facebook homepage nor on any other facebook pages.

Major Changes in Facebook Redesign:

The major changes in this redesign are in the left sidebar and bottom navigation. All in the links in the left portion of the bottom navigation has been shifted now to the left sidebar.

1: Icons next to facebook logo: There are icons just next to facebook logo for friend requests, notifications, and messages which will light up when there’s something new you won’t want to miss. A bigger search bar just next to icons is also present to help you find easily whatever you are looking for.

2: Facebook Applications & Games in Right sidebar: All your bookmarked facebook applications and games are now accessible from the right sidebar which were earlier accessible from the bottom left navigation.

3: Facebook Chat in left sidebar: New facebook homepage design allows you to access the facebook chat from the left sidebar.

This is really great as you don’t have to stare anymore at the bottom right navigation to track your online friends.

If you have got the Facebook new homepage design, then do let us know in comments how you feel about this redesign. Also please don’t forget to join our facebook fanpage to get more updates from us on this topic: VirginTech on Facebook

Facebook Homepage Redesigned: Brings Easy Access to Facebook chat, Applications and Games
Originally Published at VirginTech

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