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Ultrasurf: Free Desktop Proxy Software to Unblock Any website
Trick to get free Yahoo POP Mail forwarding
Get notified of Google Wave through your email
Ghost Shuts Down Cloud Computing Against The Tide

Ultrasurf: Free Desktop Proxy Software to Unblock Any website

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:21 PM PST

I hate internet censorship and in my opinion blocking any website is more like stopping someone from acquiring knowledge. Most of education institutions doesn't allow surfing social networking websites like orkut, Facebook, Yahoo and so on. We have already covered few posts which will allow you to unblock any websites. If you missed it you can read about it here

Though one thing bad about proxies are they get banned very fast and we always need to look for working proxies. The alternate solution to such issue is VPN and desktop proxy software's. There are many working proxy software which helps you in unblocking and blocked websites and one of them is Ultrasurf.

Ultrasurf is a light weight desktop application which will let you browse through a different proxy server. Here is a screenshot of the working Ultrasurf software :

Download Ultra surf

Meanwhile do let us know which proxy software or VPN tool do you use to unblock websites?

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Trick to get free Yahoo POP Mail forwarding

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 08:24 AM PST

I was recently trying to check out if I can get my emails from a Yahoo Account into Outlook Express. On trying to setup various methods to enable pop forwarding with my Yahoo India account; I came up to the message which read as

“We’re still tweaking the Yahoo! Mail Beta Accounts option. Temporarily you’ll need to access it through the original Yahoo! Mail interface. But, rest assured, any changes made will take effect once you’ve reloaded the Yahoo! Mail Beta.“

That was obviously disappointing and but then after changing back to Yahoo Mail Classic interface, it still did not allow me to use POP forwarding. I did a little research on it and realized there were some tricks to changing account information and getting POP and Forwarding access available to the Yahoo mail.

Changing Account Information

The trick here it to change the account information from Yahoo India to Yahoo Asia.
When you are at your Yahoo mail page and signed-in, click on Mail Options. Here you will get to click a link which reads as Account Information. Click on it.
At account information you can change your default account status from Yahoo India to Yahoo Asia.
Then you need to sign-out and sign-in. Now after that you can go to Mail Options and click on Pop Forwarding. You will get the option of enabling POP settings.
Once done with thing you can use POP settings given below and download your Yahoo Mails into email clients like Outlook Express and Gmail fetcher.

What if changing account information does not help?

If you carry out the steps above you should be able to you POP mail with your Yahoo Mail. But there are some cases of a few account not getting to use POP and Forwarding options even after changing Yahoo Account information.

http://popfwd.mail.yahoo.com/pf/PopFwd?.done=http://in.f951.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Options&rand=1255761663

Here you can directly click on this link and it takes you directly to configure your POP and Forwarding settings. (see image below)

Yahoo POP server settings are usually as follows:

Incoming Mail Server (POP3): pop.mail.yahoo.com
Use SSL, port: 995

Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Use SSL, port: 465, use authentication

Hope this helps you get your emails down to a Email client like Outlook Express or Gmail fetcher from your Yahoo Mail account. If you know of any new tips or tricks for Yahoo Mail do let me know through your comments.

Caution: Changing account settings can start giving you changes to your main landing page. This means if you got India centric content on Yahoo.com you might be getting different content with Yahoo Asia.

Link: Picobit

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Get notified of Google Wave through your email

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:09 AM PST

A few weeks ago I had covered a Chrome extension and Firefox add-on which covered notification of Google Wave on your browser. This is quite useful for people using Wave either extensively or not much at all. I personally think that I if you are using Google Wave not that often you might want to be notified about it as through your email rather than with a browser add-on.

Google Wave Notifications in Gmail

You need to sign-in to your Google Wave account and under navigation with the Inbox you can see a drop down menu.
Here just select the time you need to be notified. If you are using it not that often a daily notification should be enough.
Finally click on ‘Save’ and you are set to get all Wave notifications on your Gmail address.
I tried to check if you can change the address for the notification and I could not. I guess that is a problem if you are not using that Gmail id as you main email address.

I don’t think that this is very important feature but I think this way Google Wave will be finding it’s way into Gmail and other Google services. Some have questions what purpose Google Wave serves but I think the technology which was used to create Wave will be making its way into other Google services to make them great collaborative tools.

Do let me know your view through your comments.

Link: Google Wave

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Ghost Shuts Down Cloud Computing Against The Tide

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 08:39 PM PST

One of the leading companies in cloud based computing, Ghost Inc better known as Global Hosted Operating SysTem has hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, making use of this free service to host their files online and access them using an online operating system that can be accessed from any browser, anywhere! We reviewed the website in our post- G.ho.st: A Free Web-based Virtual Computer for Everyone. Recently they moved to a simpler web address Ghost.cc which stands for Ghost Cloud Computing.

Early morning, I received an email from them stating that Ghost would be shutting down its free service. The news came as a shock for me as I have been using their service for more than a year now. They are the best web based OS providers and the hosting space has no limit since you can earn it by inviting friends to use this service. The contents of email are-

Dear Ghost User,

We hope you have been enjoying our free Ghost service. Regrettably changes in the marketplace mean that it is no longer economical for us to host the Ghost service and we will be closing down the service on or around March 15. We will instead be focusing on licensing or selling our technology to larger companies.

We advise you to migrate ALL important folders, files and emails to another secure place before March 15. You might like to consider Google Docs or Microsoft SkyDrive for files and services such as Gmail or Yahoo! Mail for email. Some instructions for migrating data are included below.

We are really sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you and are very grateful for the fantastic support we had from our community.

….

Here is a snapshot of the complete email-

Note that, Ghost is now focusing on licensing or selling their technology to larger companies. Ghost users are adviced to back up their data before 15th March. But since the shut down is scheduled around this date, so I will advice you to get a hold of your important data as soon as possible.

The decision to shutdown the service was very much annoying to many users who were using this service, including me. Specially those users who had invited other users to join ghost, just to get extra hosting space, have been slapped on face instead of rewarding them for their hard-work.

CONCLUSION-

The service could have been monetized easily. Providing Premium service without ads and with extra hosting space to users was an option. Putting up some ads within g.ho.st for free users, and on the file download pages that could have easily generated money for them. There were many other ways to earn money from such an awesome website that had gigabytes of data hosted on it.

It was an immature decision from a mature company. What do you think about it?
In case you are used to these online OS, then I recommend Glide OS .

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