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The Day When Gmail Was Caught Nude In Public

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Oh yes, there’s proof!

It all happened when Firefox was on it’s way to display my Gmail Inbox, but instead of displaying the usual Gmail inbox page, the browser landed in Gmail’s FTP directory. I found it interesting to peep in a little bit, because not only is this unusual, it was also fascinating enough to give me an adrenaline rush!

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What’s surprising is that Gmail was in this state for a long 10 – 12 minutes and generally, this could happen due to a couple of technical reasons. Oh and did you see the third screen shot? I wonder what were those for.

Receiving Emails And Feeds On SMS For Free

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Nokia 1110i is super cool when it comes to speed and simplicity. Being a Nokia 1110i.user, i’ve always enjoyed the browsing speed and the comfortable keypad. For me, It’s basically a fixed version of Nokia 1100. Even though this black and white phone is stripped to only calling, messaging and with a better version of Snake for entertainment, it doesn’t stop me from receiving my mails and recent feeds on my mobile. The trick is for all who.use a simple phone with no GPRS access and is also.useful for mobiles with GPRS.

SMS Notification

There are two services that I am considering, one being only for phone numbers in India and the other one for USA and Canada.

I will start of with the service for phone numbers in India.

For receiving new mails on SMS, you need to free your Gmail feed from the usual authentication (yes, you have a feed for your email account too).

For regular feeds, apart from Freeing your feed, all the steps to be followed are the same.

Google SMS Channels (Currently for India only)

I have tested this trick only on Gmail accounts and works as smooth as whiskey. It should work for other Webmail services too. Though the updates are not in real time, it usually takes 5-10 minutes to arrive as SMS.

Generic Gmail feed link – https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom

The feeds for other webmail services can be found with Google search.

  • Get started:
  1. Go to https://freemyfeed.com
  2. Enter https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom as the input url, followed by your.user id and password. (Is it safe? Of course it is. But still, you should read the privacy policy on the website). Save the output URL.
  3. Log into Google SMS channels,
  4. Settings,
  5. Enter your mobile number and set the other options as per your preferences,
  6. Create a new channel,
  7. Enter the regular details in the form,
  8. In the ‘Source’ section, select RSS/Atom feed and enter the new feed generated from http://freemyfeed.com
  9. ‘Allow publishing by’: Only me
  10. ‘Who can subscribe’: By invitation only
  11. Click on Create Channel,
  12. And you’re done.

ZapTXT (USA and Canada only):

Register and enter the necessary details and the new feed generated from http://freemyfeed.com

Follow the easy step by step guide, and you’re done!

How To Grab and Download Embedded Multimedia Quickly?

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The number of of multimedia streaming websites like YouTube, Google Videos, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, Tudou, VideoCure, AOL videos is increasing rapidly and has made it easy for all to get a sneak peek of any video or  music track we are interested in. Websites like Keepvid.com are super cool for grabbing multimedia content online but, for now, has a limitation up to grabbing links from the famous websites only.

A wide variety of link grabbing tools are also available and stereotypically, most being bundled with spywares and badly coded toolbars. They suck indeed.

Url Snooper is one of the best and cleanest freeware that grabs and lists all HTTP links that your network is conntected to and also the links that are being read by the browser. This tool makes it easy to understand the source of the embedded multimedia content from any public website.

Click here to visit the download page.

Getting started

  • Visit the concerned website and hit the play button,
  • Run Url Snooper >> General Options >> Auto Determine Network Adapter Now
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You can manually choose the adapter if you know the right one,

Click on Sniff Network, Select Multimedia URLs if so, or choose the option as per your requirement.

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This app is a freeware, handy, only 3MB in size, and can be used for a lot of things.