There are many 3rd party systems available that provide Live chat support system with the administrator. You can also import those to your blog and work but they look a bit spammy to me. Administrators also have to be online on them exclusively. Personally, if I see those chat systems anywhere I immediately leave the page.

So, what is the alternative!!

Alternative is Google Talk Badge. Majority of us majorly use GTalk service and we remain online on GTalk most of the time, then why not use GTalk chat system on your blog. Your users won’t have to login too but just click and chat. You are already on GTalk so they can see your status too (online, away, offline, busy etc).

1. Visit www.google.com/talk/service/badge/New
2. Login with your Google credentials.
3. Create / Edit badge
4. Copy, paste the code on your blog and all set.
5. The best part is that you can create multiple badges for your different blogs with different title etc with same Google credentials i.e. online on multiple portal with different names at the same time.

After setting it up, it works as you can also see in the footer of this blog (www.nkjlive.com)

Chat badge is displayed something like this:

When your reader clicks on it, he will see a new chat window popping:

You will also see a new chat window appearing in your gmail box:

You can opt to not join the conversation as well. It works well when you are logged in on GTalk windows app too.

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The tool was existing for some time as plugins for different browsers but continuing the Google trend, they launched it as full fledged separate tool for easy use for web developers and owners.

As they say:

“Page Speed Online analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster. Reducing page load times can reduce bounce rates and increase conversion rates.“

Using this tool, one can analyze the performance of their website / blogs. It gives a detailed report about your website including problems and methods to speed up your website. It also suggests a page speed score of the website in question out of 100. So does higher score means a popular and speedy site?? we’ll analyze it below!!

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It also suggests improvements in the mobile version of your website which is again the best part of the tool.

The performance of any website is said to be directly related to the popularity and organic traffic. Before writing this post NKJLive got a score of 78, I did few modifications as suggested and I managed to move up to 82 but does it really matter??

Let’s see how some popular sites are performing:

• www.labnol.org [90/100]
• twitter.com [81/100]
• www.gigaom.com [80/100]
• www.thenextweb.com [76/100]
• www.techcrunch.com [65/100]
• www.mashable.com [65/100]
• www.irctc.co.in [45/100]

In my analysis, I did see relatively good score for Labnol and Gigaom but for the most popular tech sites like Mashable and TechCrunch the scores were too less although they have a very good Google page ranks (8 and 8 respectively) and Alexa ranks (286 and 374 respectively).

For the non technical site www.irctc.co.in, which is the most popular site in India (online India railway ticket booking system), also got a very low score although it has a page rank of 4 and alexa rank 597.

So, does this page speed score really matters? I am not sure how it does. May be you have ideas??

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Logically, it looks nice to have all our chats, messages, emails at once place along with the social updates from our circle but practically speaking I didn’t like the concept of having everything at one place. It definitely increases the chances of frequent spams in your inbox, even though Facebook says that we won’t even get to see spams as they are filtered well before they reach our inbox.

So, nevertheless, I got my Facebook email activated after requesting for Facebook email account a month ago.

So the question is how would you get to know when your account gets activated?

And the answer is as soon as you login to you Facebook account, you will see a prompt asking you to upgrade to New Messages. (After all, Facebook is trying to rebuild their messaging technology to include our chats, messages and mails). If you get this prompt that means your email is active.

Clicking on “See What’s New” will take you to another page to upgrade your messages.

The benefits of upgrading as explained is all types of conversation are in one stream, social inbox will filter messages down to the people you care about the most and conversations can be kept forever.

You are given the option to upgrade your messaging system. You can ignore it too. But when you select to upgrade it, you are given an email-id same as your Facebook user name. So, if your FB profile address is www.facebook.com/abcd then your email id will be abcd@facebook.com

I selected to upgrade it and was given and Email id on @Facebook domain. Now when I go to the Messages folder, all my facebook conversations, messages and emails are shown together on the same page. Worst thing is, I cannot differentiate between them. May be that’s the reason Facebook call these “Messages”.

I can then select to create a new message and either send it to any of my friends in FB friends list or any other email address (outside Facebook domain too)

Here I can attach files and images.

Opening an individual message opens the trail mail / message / conversation with few actions available along with  an instant reply box.

So, that’s the first glance of Facebook Email or new messages system that did not attract me much, frankly speaking.

I noticed one more thing.

Although the email is created on the @facebook domain, when I tried to send an email to my emailid@facebook.com, I received an auto-reply from Facebook saying that @Facebook domain will no longer be used and instead suggested to use @fb.com domain. I sent an email to my emailid@fb.com and I successfully received it and replied it too.

Following is the auto-reply mail that I received:

Dear Sender:

Facebook has changed its corporate email address domain from @facebook.com to @fb.com.

Your message has been delivered to the intended recipient, but please update your contact details with <address>@fb.com for future correspondence. You will not receive this message again if you utilize <address>@fb.com. We will not be forwarding any email sent to @facebook.com corporate email addresses past January 5th, 2011.

Regards,

Facebook

Proof

Don’t really know how was that possible as later came to know that @fb.com is reserved for the Facebook employees.

Wonder Wonder!!

Anyways, have you got Facebook email invitation too?? If yes, did you like it? If not yet, do you think it would be worth using by looking at the above screens?

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• First of all we have created a dedicated Twitter account @nkjlive for NKJ Live readers so that stuff only related to NKJ Live is posted and you get a dedicated source of worthy info.

• We have also moved some widgets up and down and removed few so that you get nkjlive.com loaded extremely fast in your browser.

• We have added couple of Facebook integration widgets to enhance our social presence with our Facebook page facebook.com/nkjlive

• Added a Forum integration with ForumVorum.org to help our users to join a conversation they are interested in.

• Also implemented a plug-in WordPress PDA & iPhone to allow users of NKJ Live to view the site in their mobile phones. Mobile version of nkjlive.com is extremely quick with only content and no ads and widgets at all.

• Above all we have created a new logo for NKJ Live to re-brand ourselves with a new identity.

Dear readers we are looking forward to your continual attachment and feedback.

We have always tried to post information to your needs and will always continue to do so. Feedback and your interests are always welcome.

We are  happy 2 help you.

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I will only share my story of how I jailbroke and unlocked my iPhone and what all hindrances I faced and how to overcome all those to finally have iOS 4.0 on your iPhone 3G.

It may save you $50+ as professional hackers are charging to do it.

I was happily using iPhone 3.1.2 before I tried upgrading to 3.1.3 and got my phone locked. Later I came to know that the baseband had also been upgraded and it was not possible to downgrade it or jailbreak/ unlock it. I had not option but to wait for iPhone OS 4.0.

The wait was quite long (1.5 months) but fruitful I must say.

Ever since iPhone OS 4.0 released, I was eagerly waiting for the iPhone Dev team to create the jailbreak and unlock tools for iOS 4.0 and as soon as the message came that redsn0w beta and ultrasn0w 0.93 has been released, I picked up my iPhone and started trying it.

(Forgot to mention that I also contacted a professional hacker who was charging 50$ for the unlock but I thought of trying myself at least once. And see I am successful on my first time )

I started Googling, the best thing I do, about iPhone’s unlock and jailbreak. I referred to www.blogsdna.com for majority of things.

I downloaded iOS 4.0 and Redsn0w 0.9.5 Beta 5.

My laptop had iTunes9.0 so I thought of using that one only and tried restoring iOS 4.0 but it failed with an error “iPhone can’t be restored, unkonown error (13)“. I tried it number of times but in vain. Then I downloaded iTuens9.2 and installed it.

I then successfully restored iOS4.0 on my iPhone manually. (Reference article)

After it completed, I got “No SIM card installed. Insert a valid SIM with no PIN lock to activate iPhone” message, that means I was on right track till that moment.

I then ran redsn0w and jailbroke my iPhone 3G. (Reference article)

And the happiest moment came when I could see my iPhone starting up and I could see it working. I was the happiest man on earth at that particular moment.

I immediately inserted my SIM in the phone but it was not detecting the SIM so it had to be unlocked also. (Reference article)

I was only anticipating that it might work

To unlock it, I had to install Ultrasn0w 0.93 from the Cydia but the problem with me was I could not download it from the Cydia on my iPhone as I did not have access to either GPRS (obviously) or WiFi, so I started Googling again and fortunately found an article to do it using my laptop.

I downloaded an application Cyder on my laptop using which I installed Ultrasn0w on my iPhone. (Reference article)

As the article suggested, I had to restart my iPhone twice to make it working and it really worked for me. And I became the proud owner of iOS 4.0 on my iPhone 3G.

This is how I got my phone jailbroke and unlocked. Hope this is useful for everyone who are novice like me and would love to save money too.

Quick Reference

• Install iOS 4.0 on your iPhone 3G
• Jailbreak your iPhone 3G
• Unlock your iPhone 3G using WiFi
• Unlock your iPhone 3G without WiFi

And from here you can directly download all required files/applications to jailbreak and unlock iPhone 3G.

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-NKJ

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ANUGOONJ is an initiative for bloggers who write quality stuff but are not quite visible in the blogging world.

It is also for readers who are looking for some reliable news / information which can easly be lost in this money oriented world.

ANUGOONJ is actually a Hindi word, combination of two separate words “ANU” + “GOONJ“.

ANU in sanskrit means an atom or a molecule.

GOONJ means echo.

So, ANUGOONJ is for echoing the efforts of small but quality writers.

You can also become part of this revolution by becoming a member of Anugoonj, a social online network.

NKJ

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What?

Forum Vorum is not just another forum. It is your discussion desk where you can take general conversations to discussions to arguments to decisions. Yes Decisions for every big question and for every little question.

Aim?

The only aim of ForumVorum is to not let any thread die without being unanswered and unsatisfied persons at any cost. The aim is to conclude at some point where everyone in the thread can agree.

We request every member to not leave any stone unturned to make this a popular and successful forum.

Why?

We have seen many forums, thousands of threads and more than 50% still unanswered. Forum Vorum is different in a way that if none of our registered members can answer any particular query, then we ourselves will find out it and post in the thread.

How?

Public and their knowledge base will be the key to its success. You can start a thread by posting any query and it will be open for all to discuss and highlight issues. We have created many default categories and tried catering to everything you need varying from computer & technology, mobile & technology, news & views, entertainment etc but in case you think your query does not fall in any category, do let us know.

User Interface?

We have tried keeping the user interface of the forum as simple as possible. It is a very light forum too. It loads very quickly and is error free too. {If you come across any error by any chance, please let us know}

It is with you now. Enjoy foruming. Your suggestions are always welcome and will be appreciated. {Either post is in the forum itself in “About Forum Vorum” thread or by emailing to nitin@forumvorum.org

-Forum Vorum team

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See results here.

Check Female results here.

Shashi Tharoor is also featuring in the list. It is topped by Kuntals.

This Wall of Fame competition is being covered by media too.

-NKJ

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Occasion was the auspicious festival Rakshbandhan.

Actually the newspaper had asked for entries from the readers to share their relationship with their brother or sister along with the photographs. My sister called me up and compelled me to write something and send it to them.

I sent my memories with my sister to them along with a Rakhi snap. Fortunately it appeared in the newspaper with our photographs. I jumped in n out for couple of minutes after I saw it and immediately showed it my family and called up my sister to check the newspaper. She was happy too.

You too can see it here {Click on the image to view the larger image}

-NKJ

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The world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air France during a trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris.

Two shots were taken inside the plane moments before it actually crashed.

A B737 had a mid air collision with the Embraer Legacy while cruising at 35,000 feet over South America. The Embraer Legacy, though seriously damaged with the  winglet ripped off, managed to make a landing at a nearby airstrip in the midst of the Amazon jungle. The crew and passengers of the Embraer Legacy had no idea what they had hit. The B737 however crashed, killing all crew and passengers on board.

The two photos below were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the B737, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera’s memory stick. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.

These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto  Alegre. It can be imagined that he was standing during the impact with the Embraer Legacy and during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz.

Updated 11th June 2009

The above photographs that claimed to have been taken inside the plane just before crash are fake. They actually belong to a TV series The Lost. Look at the video down here and in the last you would see the same screens.

Internet is so fake these days.

-NKJ

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