AdAge reports MS is going to spend $80-100 million over advertising their Bing Search Engine to reduce market share of Google. They always have accused Apple for their high cost to establish Microsoft monopoly and Apple has always released their PC v Mac Ads to kick MS from their market. In this case, MS cannot shout at Google because Goog has been the best from ages and it maintains its No.1 ranking among all internet users. We need to wait and see what is going to happen in coming short future.

Are you aware about piracy at Microsoft?

Here are all Mac V PC ads if you have time to enjoy. This video has got more than a million page views .

Sources: ReadWriteWeb, AdAge

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The goal of this engine is to make the expert level knowledge accessible to anyone, anywhere and at anytime. This works on the basis that it computes the results and provides the direct answer, but not that it will fetch a huge database of search index and give us list of web results where we can find related information. The working of this is carried by searching into licensed or public databases and live feeds which will help it to digg out the live and latest information for few real time examples like stock details etc. Here is a video demo of the tool.

You can key in any question for which you require an answer. You can enter any  kind of calculations/ general knowledge questions/ technical terms/ stocks / dates / forumulas etc. Here are few examples how it provides the answers. You can find out more here.

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Today, I shall introduce you to different color scheme generators which you can make use for free and create great color schemes. Some colour schemes like we see on Windows XP, Google etc are simple and really wonderful. A very good color scheme will impress a web reader and make him return to your website. Here are free color scheme creators.

Kuler – Adobe Color Scheme Generator

Do I need to say anything about Adobe’s products? That’s it! Adobe rocks in everything. Kuler has nearly 200,000 preset color palettes which you can make use for free. Even the design of this page is pretty awesome and the user interface will keep you stuck into the page. You can also browse the schemes based on their popularity etc.

Color Scheme Designer – Play with colors

Generate very good and related color schemes by clicking on mouse. Generating color schemes is a fun and instant job with very good results for your web design colours. Note that you have options like mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic and accented analogic so that you can choose matching, opposite colors and much more to suit your needs.

Colour Lovers – Designer Community of Colors

This is a community website of thousands of users who love colors. Users rate the schemes available and you as a visitor will get an option to sort them out based on ratings. You will get clear idea of which color is liked by most people. Of course, websites are made for visitors, not the owners . Great set of color pallettes to look for. You can also find good color patterns here.

Color Combos – Search / Steal Competitor Color Schemes

Here you can search color schemes based on your search queries like blue, yellow, aqua, gray etc, but most important thing is that, you can extract all colors used by your competitors. This really is useful when you simply want your site with color combination like some other site with more ease.

Color Schemer Gallery – Ready schemes + Desktop Tools

Numerous color themes to browse, and sort them based on ratings and downloads. Here you can find Windows XP color scheme as top downloaded with nearly 25k downloads.

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280 slides editor is a really cool web application to make free powerpoint presentations online. The tool almost replicates the desktop presentation software Microsoft Power Point. The options available with this tool are really good and will help you create colorful and creative presentations with decent backgrounds and sizzling effects on slide transitions.

You can also include pictures, movies, text and others like you do in case of desktop presentation softwares. If you sign up for this and log in into the system, you can also save your presentations online. Without signing up to the system, you can download the slideshow presentations made online.

This applications supports download of formats like pptx (Power Point 2007), ppt (Power Point 97-2004), odp(Open Document), pdf(Portable Data Format). This tools also loads fast on a normal broadband connection and is really recommended if you are interested to make free online presentations online without need of powerpoint software on your system.

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Omegle: Talk to strangers

With the tag line Talk to strangers! it serves the same purpose. The time I tested was night in US, even at such off peak time, I found around 1500 users who are interested to chat with strangers. And at any point of time, you will be connected with only one person, so there is no chance of having a conference or getting disturbed. If you don’t feel the person interesting, you can simply disconnect from him and you will be redirected to some other stranger. You can also use this on AIM.

22talk : Talk to Random People

This, I guess is a brand new service looking at its alexa stats. For such time wasters, its very easy to climb in traffic. The speciality of this is that it supports many languages and you can change your nickname. Apart from these special features, both have cool interface with speedy connectivity. Also here, you can switch to another random stranger to chat. I really liked this service and may be KillerStartUps would be interested in reviewing the same if they find it worth.

Now, if you want to waste time talking to strangers online, you can use these services. Please share if you have any other.

You can also take advantage of this to sell your or affiliate product or promote websites etc. Disadvantages with these service is that there would be no control over spam as both of them do not need any sign ups or so.

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Many Internet Serivice Providers (ISPs) tend to provide you a slow connection than what they exactly charge you for. If you are using a 256kbps connection, some ISPs may give you the actual connection speed of around 150-200kbps which is very poor service. To check the exact speed at which you connect the internet can be measured using different tools which include both desktop tools and / or web 2.0 applications. These days many of you love to use web 2.0 services rather than desktop softwares and hence here are few such internet connection speed testing tools which you may use.

1. McAfee Internet Connection Speedometer

McAfee has launched a free tool to measure the bandwidth / speed. You can chect it for different connections varying from Dial Up connections to ISDN or DSL (digital subscriber line). You can check out the tool here.

2. SpeedTest.net

This tool has been popular and has been widely used by people. The special thing about this site is the easy to understand user interface in an easy presentation. And you can also choose the server which should be used in order to test your internet connection speed (both upload and download speed). Your nearest server is recommended by the service and you can use that instead of searching for your choice. Test connection speed here.

3. Speakeasy Speed Test

This also provides you the option to choose the server to use, but the servers are only US servers and you need to pick one among them. The web page is not well organized and its nice to ping to the nearby servers than some server far away. You can try this here.

4. Speed.io – Internet DSL Speedtest

A simple flash based internet access bandwidth measurement tool which presents the analysed results as if you are watching a vehicle speedometer. The display interface is really cool, but at the same time, site is little slow if you are using dial up connections. Access tool here.

5. Think Broadband – Broadband Speed Test

This tools tests your broadband connection in detail and provides you with all statisctcs it has observed. You can make use of this tool here.

If you think you are on a very slow connectivity, a simple advice is to try increase internet speed using various free DNS servers, this may increase your speed to some extent if your ISP DNS servers are not fast.

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This cool service is offered by Toktumi free call service, whose service was used once along with jajah to make free worldwide international calls. Now, what you need to do is go to Toktumi website and sign up for free 1 month trial. Here you will get option to pick either a free US local number of toll free number. Here you will choose toll free number and pick a 800 number [These numbers actually go like 1 888 and not 1 800, but 800 number is common term for tollfree] of your choice and continue with signup.

You will need to complete a sign up form with your mail id and complete the process. After the initial registration process, you will need to confirm your cell phone number. They will make a test call to your number so as to confirm.

Once everything is done properly, you will have your toll free number and you can start receiving unlimited incoming calls. Also you are not charged anything to make unlimited calls to US and Canada. This service works on a forwarding basis. If someone calls your this number, the call will be forwarded to your cell phone.

Note: This service is only for US, other place residents may try with US DID (SIP based) number and share your experience.

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1. Vmeste – Extract Audio from Video Files / Online Videos

Update: Link removed due to 404 on the site. You can try others.

This website has option to convert either internet video or any video file existing on your system locally. The speed at which it converts is also impressive and hence this would be a nice option. Here you can not just convert flash videos, but you can enter the url for any video which exists online. It supports all online videos available.

2. Listen to Youtube – Convert only Internet videos into MP3

This is very simple in interface and also the task is very minimal. You can convert only from videos and not from any other site, but the interface is cool and the speed is considerably high.

3. Vixy.net – Online video conversion service to download online videos into PC

This converts any online video into different formats for download. You can convert online videos like hulu etc. to AVI(DivX + MP3) for Windows, .MOV format for Mac (quicktime video format), MP4 for iPod, PSP (MPEG4+AAC format), or you may also convert to MP3 audio format.

4. FLV to MP3 – Extract any offline / online videos into MP3 format

This has already been reviewed here, its really an impressive service, it supports conversion of any online video on any site or you can upload your own local video into the site and get converted to mp3 audio format.

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You will use a third party service here to avoid the torrent client and still download the torrent from various trackers. The third party service I am talking about is BitLet. BitLet is such a service where you provide the url of the torrent file or upload the local torrent file and make it to download the data. The service is very cool and easy to use interface will help you get the work done fast.

The limitation with this is that you will not be able to control the download of torrent – you can’t pause the downloading torrent. Hence, this is not recommended for huge data like movies, games and large softwares. This would be better if you want to download small apps and e books.

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Lets move on to the procedure to obtain the required.

1. Goto CallCentric and signup for a free account. This is applicable for any geographic location and anyone can signup for free to get a SIP phone account. If you already have a SIP phone number, you can skip to step3.

2. With this, you will obtain yourself a SIP phone [Session Initiation Protocol] account. Login to CallCentric to find out your SIP phone number. You need not have to configure your softphone software to proceed to the next step.

3. Next sign up with IPKall to get a US phone number in Washington State – Area code: 206, 253, 425. Fill the details as below. If you use your SIP number other than callcentric, enter details accordingly. Observe the account details comparing with the above image.

The details will be verified and you will receive a mail containing your US incoming number. If you are going to leave it idle for 30 days, your account will be reset with ipKall. If someone calls to your this number, your softphone will get connected.

If you are having friends in US, the best way to communicate them is by using iCall to Call US free. And the main reason to publish this post is to help VoIP enthusiasts to find an easy way to tryout different services which require a US local number as mandatory for signup.

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