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.

Very Useful Windows Notepad Trick

If you have edited a text file using windows notepad, you have no ways to find out when the editing has happened. Just follow the steps mentioned below to enable this facility in Notepad

1) Create a new text file with the following text, '.LOG' and save the file.

2) Now close the file and reopen the file and add some text. You will notice that the notepad adds the current date & time now.

Sharing & Finding eBooks

If you have a big collections of eBooks, just dont keep it in your machine. Share it to the world by uploading it to www.scribd.com . It is a nice site with unlimited storage.

In addition to that, you can use the site to find any book you want and download it quickly. Happy Reading !!!