Raj Agrawal – Page 57

Retweet: Twitter Tells Users To Go Fu*k Themselves

June 23, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 4 Comments

Twitter spokesman, Mark Logan responds candidly to some of the common issues faced by users on Twitter.com

Twitter has been in news for crashing down recurrently. With too much weight of traffic, tweets and re-tweets, twitter.com seems to be tumbling down often. Some users are complaining about too much spam and claiming that twitter is ruining English language. Well, Twitter has heard all these complains and has responded with an answer.

Oookay… It’s not really a response by Twitter, but a hilarious video made by Comedy.com portraying how Twitter would have reacted (hypothetically) with those issues floating around their mind.

Watch it:

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How To Keep Your Inbox SPAM Free

June 21, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 2 Comments

4 steps every user must follow to fight against E-mail SPAM.

It has been a long time since I registered on Gmail and haven’t received a single SPAM mail. This is because I have cautiously used my E-mail IDs at every web portal I registered with. As a result, my Gmail Account has been clean with a “Zero Spam History”. By zero spam history I mean no SPAM in my inbox and not even in the SPAM folder! I am sure of one technique that Email-Spammers have been flowing since the online SPAM world came into existence. It’s what I call as “Steal and Exploit”.

stop spam here — (Image Credit: messagedefence.co.uk)

The main sources of Email SPAM are websites with Freebies, Porn related content and Get Paid To (GPT). Once a user registers on these websites, their Email ID is available for the spammers. How? May be these website owners “sell” the Email IDs to spammers. The bottom line is, you can’t stop them. The only trick is let them continue with what they are doing and keep your important Email accounts away from them.

Follow these steps to effectively beat SPAM:

Use 3 Email Accounts. One only for your important contacts, second for social networking and third as a disposable email account especially for spammers.

If your accounts are only on Gmail, use a freeware application called GmailAssistant to check multiple email accounts at the same time for new emails to make it convenient. For other email services, you can use ePrompter (freeware) which supports AIM, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, Yahoo Beta, Gmail, POP3, Earthlink, Excite, Juno, Email.com, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, MSN, MyWay, Netscape, Rediffmail, SBC Yahoo and hundreds of other e-mail domains.

Disclose the disposable Email ID anywhere you want. Spammers will be able to attack this disposable account only.

You can get a quick and free disposable email from 10 Minute Mail, Guerrilla Mail and Mailinator.

Well, this is my way. Do you have your own way of dealing with email SPAM? If yes, then share your creative ideas to deal with this menace.

Nano Powered Apparels To Charge Our Portable Electronics

June 20, 2010 by Raj Agrawal 1 Comment

The clothes we wear can generate enough energy to charge our mobile phone batteries, when powered with technology.

Nanotechnology has a better answer to energy efficiency and conservation. Professor Li-Wei Lin at University of California, Berkley is working along with his team to enrich our clothing with more features, to be able to keep our portable gadgets like our mobile phone charged with energy generated by body movements. His idea is to intertwine electric generators into clothing fibre. Thus allowing the energy generated from our body to be utilized for a purpose rather than being wasted away.

Preview of an experiment where energy is generated by simple hand movements

Earlier, Sciencedaily reported about the Stanford Engineer Yi Cui, is working on a similar concept with a different approach. He is experimenting to code nano material into common cloth with nano infused ink. Thus building a battery that will be embedded into clothing which will act as a energy storing device.