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I have tried indialinks.com for domain name registration. Here is a quick short review of IndiaLinks.com

NB: This is not a review of the web hosting service provided by IndiaLinks.com.

Pricing : As far as i know, indiaLinks provide the cheapest rates for domain name registration in India

Checking domains : Searching for domains is very easy. To buy a domain, visit www.indialinks.com/domains

Support : Good

Alerts : Good. They sent emails and sms for renewing your domain names.

Control Panel : Very easy to use.

Drawbacks : Does not provide whois information of already registered domains. Cannot change the company name through control panel.

The following services can be safely disabled in Windows XP.

Warning : Do this at your own risk. If anything is not working for you, revert back to the previous state.

Click on Start Menu and Run. Type services.msc and click ok to open the service manager.

Unwanted Services in Windows XP

1. Alerter
2. Clipbook
3. Error Reporting Service
4. Help and Support. (if you do not need help)
5. Indexing Service
6. Net.Tcp Port Sharing Service
7. NetMeeting Remote Desktop Sharing ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
8. Telnet ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
9. Terminal Services ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
10. Remote Desktop Help Session Manager ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
11. Remote Registry ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
12. Routing and Remote Access ( If you are not using Remote Desktop )
13. Performance Logs and Alerts
14. Print Spooler ( if you do not have a printer)
15. SSDP Discovery Service
16. System Restore Service (if you do not use system restore)
17. Themes (if you do not use Themes)
18. Wireless Zero Configuration (if you do not have a wireless connection)

Warning : This may not be suitable for all. Follow these steps if you want your system to be lightning fast.

Disclaimer : The list is not complete. I came up with this list from the experience i got from working with my 5 year old machine with 512 MB Ram and partially working motherboard.

1. Disable Visual Effects
   Right click on My Computer, select Properties, go to Advanced -> select Settings under Performance -> Select Adjust for best performance.
2. Set virtual memory to double of your RAM. Keep the Initial and Maximum size same.
3. Keep the size of your C: drive (drive where you install Windows) at 10 GB
4. Install all programs in D:\Program Files\
5. Disable sounds (control panel)
6. Disable system restore
7. Disable Error Reporting
8. Disable Remote Assistance and Remote Desktop if you do not use them
9. Remove Desktop background
10. Remove all unwanted startup programs
11. Disable all unwanted services.
12. Uninstall all unwanted programs.
13. Defragment all disks
14. Disable Desktop Cleanup Wizard
15. Uncheck “Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching” after right clicking each drive.
16. Run CheckDisc once in a while
17. Unshare all useless shared folders and files.
18. Uncheck hide inactive icons.
19. Run diskcleanup once in a while
20. Delete system restore files
21. Remove Windows Messenger
22. Use classic start menu
23. Disable hibernation if you are not using that.  NB: Hibernation is a better method than sleep for saving time.

Hear that? Google has just unveiled the latest addition to Google Labs, and it’s sure to crowd-pleaser for Android users. Dubbed Google Listen, the new project is an Android application that lets you quickly search through web audio content, which you can then directly download or stream to your …

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Warning : This may not be suitable for all. Follow these steps if you want your IE8 to be lightning fast.

Before starting this tuning, you can try “Reset Internet Explorer’s Settings to their default condition”.  Then restart the browser and finish off the “Set up Windows Internet Explorer 8″ wizard.

1. Make your home page about:blank
2. Make your new Tab page about:blank
3. Uninstall all useless Toolbars and Addons
4. Disable script debugging
5. Disable script error notification
6. Disable useless addons if you cannot uninstall them
7. Disable useless Downloaded Controls.
8. Disable Suggested Sites
9. Enable Popup blocker
10. Hide Favourite’s Bar
11. Remove useless Accelerators
12. Remove useless Search Providers
13. Turn off  SmartScreen Filter
14. Uncheck “Warn me when closing multiple tabs”
15. Select “Always open pop-ups in a new tab”
16. Open links from other programs in “A new tab in the current window”
17. If you do not use Accelerators, uncheck “Display Accelerator button on selection”

If  you have some more suggestions or if you differ in opinion, add a comment.

Xenocode Browser Sandbox is a great tool to test web pages in different browsers. You need not use 3 different machines to test websites in IE6,IE7 and IE8.  You can run any number of browsers from your machine.

All you have to do is go to www.xenocode.com/Browsers , click on the browser’s icon which you have to run. They will prompt you to install a plugin (spoon plugin). After installing the plugin, restart your browser and click on the browser’s icon again and the browser will be started.

You can run IE6, IE7 and IE8 simultaneously.

Plus Points : Great tool. Saves a lot of time. You can start the browsers from Firefox also.

Drawbacks : They frequently update the plugin. So you will have to install the latest plugin frequently. And the plugin exe will be run every time you start Windows. You will have to manually remove that from msconfig. And some text boxes in IE6 wont work properly when run through Xenocode. I have seen IE6 crashes also.

Here is a very short review of Ozone Media Ad Network which is based in India.

For Publishers : If you are trying to replace Google Adsense with some other high paying Ad Networks, then do not go for Ozone Media. Their CPC and CPM rates are too low to mention.

This is my personal opinion. May be for a website with huge traffic, the rates will be different.

There are some problems with the banner ad placements also. Sometimes the banner wont be positioned correctly in the page. I noticed that the text banner ads were shifted towards left side. And some 728×90 banner ads were shifted downwards.

As expected, MySpace has confirmed that it bought iLike. It is not disclosing financial terms, but our information is that it was around $20 million.

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Over and out for the MVNO model?

Qwest has this morning announced that it will be shutting down its Wireless service on Oct. 31, 2009. Formerly in bed with Sprint, Qwest started offering the wireless service in collaboration with Verizon just over a year ago. Under the agreement, Verizon Wireless …

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Smooth scrolling of name tags (anchor, <a>) in HTML using jQuery

Got this from some blog.  I don’t remember the link.

$(function(){
 $('a[href*=#]').click(function() {
 if (location.pathname.replace(/^\//,'') == this.pathname.replace(/^\//,'')
 && location.hostname == this.hostname) {
 var $target = $(this.hash);
 $target = $target.length && $target
 || $('[name=' + this.hash.slice(1) +']');
 if ($target.length) {
 var targetOffset = $target.offset().top;
 $('html,body')
 .animate({scrollTop: targetOffset}, 1000);
 return false;
 }
 }
 });
});