What is so special about Fring??

Fring,an Israeli startup, is a great P2P (peer-to-peer) VoIP based internet telephony network for mobile phones. Fring enables users to talk and chat using Skype, ICQ, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo Messenger and SIP providers.
What is the Technology behind it?
It uses native MoIP solution using a proprietary adaptive protocol which optimizes itself to network capabilities and characteristics. The thin client consumes minimum network requirements, battery and memory consumption.
How does it work?
All fring calls are routed to a VoIP gateway & PSTN termination server. Calls destined to GSM & PSTN networks pass through a circuit switch such as Skype or SIP. Calls to VoIP users continue through the VoIP gateway to their destinations.
I found out the following video which illustrates the capability of Fring,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPPrKUKkc8Q

Gmail blocked at work place??

How should you access Gmail, when it is blocked at school or work?

I found some ways to access it .The clue is that you can always use Glite, HTML version of Gmail. Note that it is not from Google. You should be careful when trying to access your Gmail account from those places.Some of the sites(not secure)to access Gmail using Glite are:
http://www.yeehart.com/
http://www.syscare.uni.cc/
http://glite.sayni.net/
http://www.yoyahoo.com/
http://nfriedly.com/gmail/
http://www.litemail.eu

Make Google Suggest your Homepage

I know most of us have Google as our homepage. Instead, why dont you make Google Suggest as your homepage? I know your next question. why? The answer is that it actually aids in rephrasing/refining your search.

Google Suggest is nothing but google search plus good real-time suggestions. As you type into the search box, google will offer suggestions based out of data collected from the overall popularity of various related searches. For e.g. if you wanna search for 'How to download books from google book search'. As you type 'How to download books' in the search box, google suggest offers related suggestions which also helps in saving your typing time.
Okay.http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en is the link. Go Ahead & get suggestions.

How to search blogs which contains your favorite topic?

Blogsearch

How to find out blogs available on the internet on your favorite topic?. Simple.Just land yourself on http://blogsearch.google.com/ and start searching.

Cool Features

1. You can search for blogs not only written in English but also in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Swedish, Malay, Polish, Thai & other languages as well.

2. Blog Search also supports some new operators of its own:

inblogtitle:
inposttitle:
inpostauthor:
blogurl:

Chat in your Favorite Instant Messenger without installing software in your machine

If you wanna chat in your favorite IM client such as AIM,Yahoo messenger, Google Talk or MSN without installing the software on your machine, then just visit this site, http://www.meebo.com/ . So next time if any IM client installation gives trouble, forget about reinstallation. Just logon to meebo and start chatting.

Get US Phone Number free of charge

I recented visited a site by name http://www.groovytel.com/ which gives you a free US number for 3 years from the registered date. This is really amazing. isn't it?

How does it work?
Sign up with groovytel providing details such as IM client (Google talk, MSN, SIP,FWD,TrupPhone,etc). After registration, you will receive a US number. From now on, if somebody tries to call you at this number,you will receive it as a call in Google talk (or other supported IM clients provided during registration).

Searching Streaming Videos made easy

How to search & download videos from popular streaming & sharing sites like youtube, google video, myspace, blip.tv, iFilm, Break.com?

Goto http://www.videospider.info/ .
Use the 'Search popular video sites for videos to download!' section to search for the video.
Once you've found the video that you like and want to download, copy the video's URL, and paste it into the download box in 'Enter the video URL' section and choose the site name from the drop down list. Then just click the download button and you will be prompted to save your video.

Call Landlines & Mobiles from Google Talk now

If you are signed in to google talk for 24 hours a day, then this post is for you.Now, you can call any landline or mobile from google talk. Yes.Its true. But it's not free ( i know you would be disappointed after hearing this).

All you need to do is, just goto http://www.gtalk2voip.com/& follow the steps mentioned below,
1) Once you go to the website, just subscribe by giving your gmail id and click on "Invite". Now, when you log into google talk, you will see service@gtalk2voip.com has added you as a contact. Just accept the invitation
2) Click on service@gtalk2voip.com chat window and type 'MYPAGE' & enter. You will receive a link. Just click on that.
3) From the page, you can see your current balance, your SIPBroker ID & some more information. The next question is how to buy credits. Here you go.
4) Once you get your page, click on the second tab, 'Buy Credits'. You can buy credits using the following options,
a) Buy credits using PayPal
b) Buy credits using WebMoney
I would suggest you to buy credits using PayPal.
5) If the payment is not enabled, just send an email to "team@gtalk2voip.com" to enable PayPal payment for your email address.
6) Thats it. you are all set. The next obvious question would be how to call a landline/mobile.
7) Click on service@gtalk2voip.com & open it up in a chat window . Now type the following 'CALL Countrycode-AreaCode-Number' in E.164 format. For eg. 91-452-2680450 and press enter. A call will be initiated. Accept the call and wait for some seconds. The call would then be routed to the destined number.

The voice quality is excellent since the provider uses an algorithm based on ASR (Answer Seizure Ratio). The lower cost for a given destination and the higher ASR, the more probability is given to route your call through a certain service provider. ASR is a percentage of well placed calls to total calls routed through a service provider, which is calculated using pinalty-based algorithm.

For more technical information, just click here .

Some other cool features are
1) You can make voice calls between Google Talk, MSN/Live Messenger & Yahoo!
2) You can call SIP phones & SIP services
3) Free toll-free calling to 1-800, 1-866, 1-877 and 1-888 numbers via SIP Broker

Which is the best compression format?

RAR or Zip or 7z

The famous compression format which we know is "ZIP".While the ZIP format predates the RAR format, the latter has advantages over ZIP compression.

1) RAR files compress more efficiently, resulting in smaller file size than zip files though it takes slightly longer to compress and decompress RAR files.

2) RAR files are easier to repair if it has been corrupted. Newer versions of the format also support Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and multi-threading.

3) Current versions of Windows operating systems incorporate native support for both RAR and ZIP files.

A popular, free and open source compression utility is 7-zip, which handles RAR, ZIP,etc.The main feature of 7-Zip is the High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression.

Features of 7zip:
1) Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
2) Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, CHM, MSI & some other formats
3) For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
4) Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats

Download Videos from Youtube.com with ease

If you wanna download a video from youtube, just follow the following steps. We know that any youtube URL would be as follows, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hoGaEsIHr0 . Just append the word kiss after "www." like the following, http://www.kissyoutube.com/watch?v=0hoGaEsIHr0 . Now, you would be able to download the file as FLV.