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Google has recently come up with a revolutionary idea in the form of Google Gears. Google Gears is a simple 700K plug-in for Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6+ that just extend your browser capability to work with web applications in the offline mode.

Well Google Gears can be downloaded from this link and it will work with your browser in three parts:

1. One part of it, deals with the creation and maintenance of the objects that are required to store Web applications for offline usage.
2. The second part is an SQL database that keeps all the information regarding the web site.
3. The last part is an asynchronous Javascript that allows you to synchronize your offline sessions with the online contents of the site.

The best part of Google Gears is that it is open to all developers so that they can use it with their web applications. So, this will lead to a number of web applications coming up in a very short time and will not just depend on Google to come up with applications supporting it. Google has made Google Reader compatible with Google Gears. That means you can now use Google Reader even it you are offline. Here are the steps on how to use Google Gears.

1. First of all you will have to install the Google Gear plug-in your computer. For this, you will have to visit the Google Gear page and click on the Download plug-in. Download the file and run it, it will start downloading the install files that are around 700KB and will install it.
2. Next, go to your Google Reader account page.
3. Once the Google Reader homepage gets loaded up into your browser, it will ask you for the permissions for Offline Sessions. Just click the "Yes" button there.
4. Now, go to your Google Reader account page and find a "Green Colored Arrow" on the top right side of the page just as shown.
5. Click on it and it will download the last 2000 messages in your account to your computer so that you can use Google Reader even when you are not online.

Currently, synchronization between offline and online sessions has to be done manually but once the idea gets more popular it is for sure that Google will come up with new ways so that synchronizing can be done automatically. Now those days are not far away when you don't have to connect to the internet in order to search for a keyword or to surf forums and post messages there or for using any other social networking sites.

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Shopping has always been fun and Internet has completely redefined the way we shop. Well, as like normal shops in the market online shops are also perfect in one or the other good but you need to find the one which is the best. If you are looking for shop over the Internet that sells quality Medical Uniforms than we have a good one for you. Uniformcountry.com is one of the best place over the world wide web where you can find cute and great medical uniforms, medical scrub uniforms,  Barco medical scrubs and nurses scrubs in a number of colors, styles, patterns and in almost every size. It is so easy to shop there as they have categorized medical uniforms for Men and Women. Besides this you can also purchase medical accessories such as Stethoscopes, Scissors, Otoscope etc. You can also shop for Lab Coats, Barco, Cherokee etc. at uniformcountry.com. Moreover, if your order is more than $85 than you can have free shipping of your products, isn't that great. So what are you waiting for just buy a medical uniform for yourself at uniformcountry.com.

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All of you have been tagging your blog posts for the keywords but now you can even tag your videos. Veotag is a service that allows you to upload your videos and tag them.

Veotag requires you to be a registered member there in order to use their service but don't worry its completely free. So, just register there and get started. The next step is to upload the video from your PC into the veotag server. Once you do that you are all set to Tag your videos. The most important and interesting part of Veotag that you can tag any part of your video or audio and clicking on the respective tag takes you to the specified time of the video. This facilitates in the jumping from one part to another part of the video.

Veotag makes your videos more search engine friendly so that they can be found with the help of search engines easily by others. However, the only thing it lacks is that it does not allow you to integrate your Veotag videos with your blog or website. But overall, Veotag is a great tool to make you videos more search engine friendly and makes it more informative as Tags allows the viewers to have the idea what they can expect in a particular part of the video.

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Now a days, when people go out for shopping they prefer to pay for their purchase with the help of credit card. So it is a must for the shopkeepers to give their customers the facility of credit card processing at their shops so that they can retain their existing customers and attract new customers. Merchant Consulting Group is one of the leading credit card processing service provider. Besides credit card processing, they also offer you check processing by which your checks gets deposited automatically without the need for you to go to your bank. For credit card processing, they have a low rate of just 1.32% of the transaction. Moreover, with Merchant Consulting Group you can use your existing credit card processing machine and they will update your credit card processing machine software absolutely for free. Moving on to check processing , an important feature they have is that your checks once approved will be encashed even if it bounces. Currently, they offer you four types of programs for check processing:

1. Silver Program
2. Gold Program
3. Paper Check Program
4. Small Ticket Program

I will strongly prefer the Gold Program as it is cheap with only $12 per month as monthly charges and $0.22 as transaction fees. Moreover, Gold program has features such as automated check deposition, guaranteed deposit even if the check bounces.

If you are looking for credit card processing or check processing then Merchant Consulting Group is the best choice available out there.

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MySpace has announced the acquisition of Photobucket for $250 million. Photobucket which has around 41 million registered users can prove to be a major jump in the hot social networking industry now a days. Although the deal will give MySpacemillions of new users and make the current users more happy with the new Photobucket widget adding to the MySpace list but it seems that MySpace is loosing the war to Facebook which recently opened itself for developers. Facebook's opening to developers has virtually made Facebook the winner with thousands of Facebook based third party applications coming up shortly. Moreover, Facebook have allowed the developers to insert their own ads to the applications develop which MySpace seems to never allow. By far, although MySpace acquired Photobucket but it will be just like adding a single new facility to MySpace as compared to the tons of new applications getting ready for the FaceBook. So, the big question now is that Will MySpace will open it to developers leaving behind its current attitude? The time will only tell the answer but the fact is sure that if MySpace doesn't do something now than I fear that there will be any time for them in the future.

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Google has been busy acquiring companies and expanding its sphere of hold. After acquiring Feedburner recently, it now acquired GreenBorder, a company that creates security software. This can be treated as a step from Google to enter into the field of antivirus. Antivirus is one of the areas that Google has not touched since its foundation but with GreenBorder it is clear that the Google is planning to bring its own Google Antivirus.

GreenBorder works on an interesting idea to provide internet users security from viruses, spywares and trojans. GreenBorder actually creates a virtual web session whenever you open up a website in your browser. The name GreenBorder comes from the fact that it creates a Green coloured border around your browser that indicates that your PC is protected from viruses, spywares and trojans by GreenBorder software. GreenBorder creates virtual session and whenever your session ends it wipes out all the temporary and cached files from the PC, thus protecting you from viruses and spywares. One important feature of GreenBorder is that it does not require any virus updates as it works on the concept of virtual sessions.

GreenBorder is currently priced at $29.95 until now but with Google acquiring GreenBorder, it is expected that sooner or later Google will make it available for free or might integrate with their Google Desktop Toolbar. This might present a tough competition to the other antivirus biggies which charges a lot from the users.

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Credit Cards have made our lives much more easier and enjoyable. If you are looking for a credit card online than you must go to creditnet.com which provides you the best credit card offers from providers such as Discover, Chase, Citi, American Express etc. You can find every type of card such as Bad credit, 0% APR interest credit cards, No annual fee, Prepaid cards, Smart Cards, Reward Cards, student credit card , UK cards and Canadian Cards. They also hav a credit help center which can help you in understanding your mistakes and the strategies you should opt for. You can also discuss about credit cards in their Credit Talk Forum and ask others answers to your questions. Another major feature that creditnet has is its Credit Card Search Engine which allows you to search for a credit card that you are looking for easily. They also have Insurances sucha as Car Insurance, Home Insurance, Travel Insurance, Life Insurance etc. from major insurance providers such as Esurance, Privilege, Elephant etc. So, if you are looking for credit cards than you must visit creditnet.com now.

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Your computer might be full of images but most of them might not be good. However, those images can be converted into good ones by some small changes to them but this requires expert knowledge of Adobe Photoshop which all of us don't have. But in this Web 2.0 world, internet is making everything easy and professional knowledge is not just must. Picnik.com is an image editing web 2.0 application that can be used to edit your images.

Picnik.com has a very simple flash based interface. You just need to sign up there and upload your picture or if you want to test it you can choose it from the demo images. Once your images get loaded, you can crop, rotate, resize, change colour balance etc. But the most important tool of Picnik.com is there latest addition of "Creative Tools" that allow you to add some great effects to your images such as Boost, Soften, Matte, Rounded Edges, Border etc. Finally, you will just have to "Save your image" and after which it will be downloaded to your computer which you can use as your avatar or profile pic or take a print out and paste it in your house or anything.

Picnik seems to be a complete image editing tool but I need som more Creative Tools as they still are limited. The Creative Tools can become more advanced if they allow some type of 3D transformation of images which can really take the creativity to the extreme level. Recently, they added support for Facebook after Facebook opening itself for third party applications so that you can edit all the images in your Facebook account.

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Loans, credit cards, mortgages, banking and insurances are essential part of modern life. They not only make our life easily but also helps us in raising our social standards in a way we can afford, making us free from the fear of losses and damages etc.

Nations Finance is the one of the best place to find loans, credit cards, mortgage quote , banking and insurances as they provide you with advice from experts and the best deals from the major UK financial institutions. They also provides you with great articles about credit cards, loans, mortgages, insurance and banking that can really guide you so that you can find the best available out there.

Two articles from Nations Finance that I liked the most and which I think must be read by all of you are here as follows:

1. Available Types Of Credit Cards : This is a complete guide for those who are looking for the all the types of credit cards. It gives you a deep understanding on all credit card types such as Reward Cards, Cashback Cards, Balance Transfer Cards, Store Cards, Pre-paid Cards, Gold and Platinum Cards.
2. What Is A Mortgage? : This is another good article that I think which every person looking for a mortgage must read. It explains mortgages in the most simple language that every one can understand and not just the professionals. It says that mortgages are money that you borrow from lenders to purchase a house and that house is collateral against any defaults in your debt each month.

So, what are you waiting for, just visit Nations Finance now and either get loans, credit cards, insurance etc. for yourself or just read those great articles there and boost your knowledge.

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Web 2.0 has changed the internet completely. Newer and newer creative tools have been coming up online. My Cool Button allows you to make a cool web 2.0 button in not more than 4 steps. The buttons are so good looking that I can't resist to have one for me.

My Cool Button allows you to change almost every attribute of your buttons.

1. First of all, you can specify the size of the button with the help of a simple slider. The button can have a maximum size of 200px.
2. Next you can set what colour you will like to have for your button. There are three types of sets of colours: Neutrals, Bold and Muted. Besides this you can also define your own custom colour.
3. The third step is to setup your icon. It also has some predifined icons for RSS, YouTube, Feedburner etc. but you can also upload your icon to it. Next, you can specify what must be the size of the icon on the button and what should be its alignment.
4. Finally, you have to set your button for the text that is to be displayed on it. My Cool Button allows you to write your text in 15 fonts and you can set your text size upto 20. Besides this, you can also change the colour of the font that is being used on the button.

I have attached a My Cool Button with this post. You just need to download your button and once you do it, you are all set to use it anyway you like.

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Loans have been an important way of raising money for those things which in normal way would require us month to collect money for them. CEMLending.com is the right place where you can find some great commercial hard money lender programs and commercial bridge loan that are structured for each client's unique set of loan circumstances. The important thing about CEM is that the term sheet is produced on same day which is quite fast and they have only 1-2 week turn around. Moreover, applying for loan at CEM is quite simple. You just have to fill out a 3 step application and then click submit. A hard money lender specialist will contact you directly at the time you specified in the form and with answers to all your questions. Moreover, he will tell you details of all the feasible options for your circumstances and then you must just have to tell him for which plan to go and leave the rest to CEM specialists. So, what are you waiting for, get a hard money loan for yourself at CEM now.

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Mobile users have been crying for the disturbance that is caused by unwanted advertising SMS that have been coming up in their mobile phones but this situation is soon to change with a new development in this field. mGinger has come up with a great plan in which you can get money for reading SMS on your mobile phone. So, spending time with your mobile phone is not just simple entertainment but also a source of making some quick money. You just have to sign up for the program and you are ready to start making money from your mobile phone.
Well lets study how does this works. mGinger will simply send you at a maximum of 10 SMS per day, you just got to read them and thats it. Here are the payments that will be made to you:

1. You will get 20 paisa for every SMS that you read.
2. You will get 10 paisa for every SMS that your referral read.
3. You will get 5 paisa for every SMS that your referral's referral read.

Isn't that simple. To sign up, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

Once you did that you just have to fill out a simple form and then you will be asked to activate your account . But mind it please provide your correct mobile number otherwise you will not be able to activate your account. As a SMS containing your activation code will be sent to the mobile number you provided. Next, you will have to activate your account by entering the number that came in the SMS and you are through. Set your preferences and areas of interest and wait for the SMS to arrive. Once they arrive read them and you are through with this money making program.

mGinger is still in Beta stage, so they will not e sending you any SMS until they get out of BETA. But I don't think so that the Full Launch day of mGinger is very far away as it has been praised for its working all over the country in CNN IBN and Dainik Bhaskar which has made it very popular and thousands of people are joining it every day.

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IBackup is a leading Online Backup service provider for small businesses. They recently announced their new offering of ORACLE Databases backup. Now, the users of IBackup can perform backup of Oracle Server Databases running on their computer with the help of IBackup for Windows application which is safe, secure and fast. The most important fact about this service is that it allows you to backup your ORACLE Databases without interrupting the currently running Oracle Server Databases. Backups that are performed with the IBackup are secured with 128-bit SSL encryption, the highest level of security out there. To use this service you will first have to register with them and then download the IBackup for Windows application. After installing it, you need to download the Advanced Backup Plug-in and install it and you are ready to go. However, it may be noted that the database must be in ARCHIEVELOG Mode for backup. So, start backing up your ORACLE databases now with the IBackup online backup services.

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Facebooks is one of the biggest and the fastest growing social networking site with about 3% growth every day, that means about 100,000 users adding up every day to the facebook community. Facebook is holding a developer event today where more than 750 people will be present. In this developer event a number of third party applications are expected to be announced from Microsoft, Amazon, Slide, Rockyou, box.net and many more. Facebook has opened up itself for third party developers so that they can build widgets based on Facebook photos. Users can simply choose the third party application to be installed in their account that will completely change the look of their Facebook photos. Moreover, if a user friends adds a certain third party application it will be shown on the users friends list as a new and the user can simply click on the link there to install that third party application into his/her account. This seems to be good strategy as it will allow Facebook to be used just beyond Facebook and into every other network. The third parties can display their own ads which is another plus point to this and is attracting more third parties to really develop Facebook applications.

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To be present online you need to have a website so as to show others that what you have and for what you are working on. But for making a small business web site design you need to have professional knowledge which everyone doesn't have. Websitepros.com is the place where you can hire professionals to build professional websites. They make custom websites so that they meet your specifications. Besides this, you can opt for All-in-One website package in which you will get your website designed with promotional services for just $79.95/month. If you want to build your website by yourself but didn't have the tools, then they have the solution for that too in the form of NetObjects Fusion 10 and NetObjects MatrixBuilder. Moreover,  they also have plans for website marketing in the form of small business advertising plan in which you can drive traffic to your website for just pennies a days. So what are you waiting for just order a website for yourself at Websitepros.com now.

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According to Google policies, you should not click on your own ads. But what if you click on your ads accidentally. Until now it was preferred that you should write to them each time you accidentaly click on your ad. But a recent article on Inside Adsense by Google Guys states that you really don't have to do that. According to them, they closely monitors the human behaviour and if you click on your ads by mistake or accidentaly they will simply discount you for that. The click will still appear on your account but your account will not be credited for that click. This is a big news making the adsense publishers feeling more safer and comfortable. But that doesn't mean that they ignore it completely. Instead of this, the alarm level is set and if repeated such activity is seen then beware, your account might cancel. So, friends next time you click on your ads by mistake just don't start worrying and start writing them. They have lots of other work. The best solution for this will be just try not to repeat it and you will be in the safe seat.

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Payperpost has always been rocking when it comes to making money from blogging as it provides bloggers a platform where they can get sponsored posts for their blog and hence make money. Recently, Payperpost staff has changed PPP a great way. They introduced the concept of Auto approved, changed the looks of PPP a bit, allowed advertisers to find blog publishers based on Alexa and Technorati ranking and many more. But the most important one is the recent introduction of PPP tools page. Although this page consists of the same old tools such as Disclosure Badge, PPP referrals, sign up form but now it has one major addition i.e. PPP Direct.
PPP Direct is a recent introduction of Payperpost by which publishers can decide how much minimum they should get from a blog post that is directly purchased from their blog. I know it got quite confusing but it will be all clear later. So, lets understand more deeply. One thing that Payperpost lacks till yesterday that it does not allow publishers to decide the posting rates for their blogs and here they come up with the solution of it in the form of PPP Direct. With PPP Direct, you can set the price for postings on your blog and put up a simple badge just like the green badge on the right hand sidebar of this page. The advertisers who are interested for posts specially on your blog can simply click on the badge and they will be taken to the advertisers form. This is the way it all works. Your PPP Direct opportunities will be displayed in the opportunity page of PPP members area. It must be noted that the minimum money that you set for the posts will be only for the posts that comes up through the PPP Direct badge placed on your blog and everything else will work as it had been working till now. One last thing that I forgot to tell you about is that with PPP direct only 10% will be charged for a PPP direct post out of which 5% will go to paypal and credit card processing.

PPP always rocks and PPP Direct can really refuel the ship and make PPP's engines more advanced so that it can provide the bloggers with more facilities and money making more opportunities. Thank you, Payperpost.

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Recently Google announced that they are going to increase their attachment size from 10MB to 20MB whereas all the other email services provides you only with 10MB. But sometimes you need to send files greater than this limit to your friends, boss or to your clients. So, what shall you do in order to send files greater than this limit. Bollyball comes up with the best online solutions for sending large files and here are that

1. The first option for you is to opt for a premier email account. In premier accounts, you have larger attachment size but this costs you much and we don't prefer this to send large files.
2. Yousendit - Yousendit is the leading file sending service through which you can send files of upto 100MB to your friends or clients absolutely for free. The receipent of the file will receive an email containing a link to the file uploaded by you on the Yousendit server. The receipent has 7 days to download the file. However, if you choose a premier account which will cost you around $5 per month you can send files upto 2GB and the odd ads on the download page will be removed completely.
3. Megaupload - This is one of the biggest upload service that allows you to transfer files of about 500MB size. Megaupload works entirely the same way as Yousendit with an email sent to the receipent containing a link to the downloading page. In Megaupload, it is not compulsory to sign up for an account but if you sign up for the one you get unlimited file transfer with faster downloading speed and lesser advertising.

The above two following service have been the best known service for file transfer with Yousendit the most popular one and the Megaupload offering the most storage space than any other such sites.

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Online gaming has been increasing very rapidly. But finding a good online gaming site is a big challenge even greater than the games that are on them. So, we are here with the top 5 Gaming site:

1. Yahoo Games: Yahoo Games is the oldest and the most popular gaming portal where you can find hundreds of games ranging from the old tetris to the entertaining pool, strategic games to mission games and moreover you didn't need to sign up again if you have a yahoo mail ID.
2. Miniclip: Miniclip has the most advanced games on it. It has such a brilliant graphics that you can't resist playing them. Moreover, in multiplayer games you can compete for cash prizes with others. This can be very interesting but don't worry there are hundreds of other games that you can play for free without even signing up.
3. Zapak: Zapak is an excellent gaming portal and is themot promisin out ofall the gaming portals that are coming up. They have been building newer and newer games everyday and moreover they have just started their own email service so as to attract more and more users.
4. Games2win: Games2win is still a new site. It does have some of the conventional games but its most interesting part is that it has some very different and entertaining games such as Dabbawalla, my favourite Kiss-mat and many more. However, what I don't like about this site is the lack of controls they provide to the users for playing games.
5. Santabanta: Although this site has less games but they are good to play. They have the most famous Virtual Cricket with excellent controls.

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IDrive-E is the leader in online backup serice provider for industry consumer due to its extreme service to its consumers. IDrive-E provides free backup of upto 2GB with secure, encrypted and fast online backup. The backup process is encrypted with 256 bit AES. You can backup and save your MP3s, photos, videos, emails and financial documents with IDrive-E Online Backup so that you never loose your collection or important papers if something goes wrong with your computer. IDrive-E also added a recent enhancement to their system through which you can create and manage multiple accounts with the help of a simple web interface. Moreover, they also added another cool feature under the name IDrive-S by which a file or a folder can be shared through web. So, just sign up for IDrive-E now and backup your important files and collections upto 2 GB for free or if you need larger storage space you can just sign up for their paid program.

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Google Adsense has been the king of all the content targetted advertising networks. Google Adsense recently announced that they are going to launch "Streaming Video Ads" for online video contents. Google Adsense has been lately coming up with innovative ideas so as to provide publishers a way to monetize their video content. Currently, this program is open for only some publishers. With these streaming ads you can decide at what time they must be displayed to your viewers and you can even choose which videos should get those ads. This is a closed pilot and currently they are not offering this to additional publishers as they want to get experience with this. This means Google Adsense is making it more easy for web publishers to monetize your website.

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Insurances can make us really free from the worry of the financial woes that happens whenever some mishappening takes place. Well, to find an insurance for your motor, its most important to find the best company that deals with motor insurance out there in the market and here is one of them. CIS Motor Insurance offers you the most inexpensive, simple and trouble free motor insurance with wide range and competitive covering. Moreover, you can get two different discounts on your insurance:

1. No Claim Discount: You can get upto 67% No Claim Discount depending upon the fact that how many claim free years you have behind you.
2. Introductory Discount: You can get a discount of about 25% if you do not become eligible for the No Claim Discount.

Moreover, if you buy online you will get 10% discount straight away. Isn't that great. So, what are you waiting for just get a motor insurance at CIS Motor Insurance.

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Google's Gmail service has been one of the popular email service from the time it was lauched. Yahoo mail recently announced that they are going to increase the mail space offered to their users from 1GB to unlimited but Google is going to increase the Gmail's attachment size from 10MB to 20MB which means that you can now send more and larger files as att