Web 2.0 : 2 great sites for mobile users in India

MyToday.com and Vakow.com are 2 great sites for mobile users in India.

 MyToday is a Indian portal for mobile users. It has a great list of subcriptions like headlines, Cricket, Sensex, Movies, Business, Bollywood, Jokes, Kalnirnay, Quotes, Quiz, Word, Sun signs, Love, Bible, Gita, Tips for manager, beauty, career, health, travel, City updates for Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Banglore and many more keywords which you can check out here.

To start receiving updates on a topic,
sms START <keyword> <YourCity> to 09845398453
e.g. If you stay in Mumbai & want FREE CRI updates, sms START CRI  MUMBAI to 09845398453

You will be charged nothing except the operator charge for the START SMS.

To stop receiving updates on a keyword, simply SMS - STOP <keyword> to the same number.

You can also manage your subscriptions online by visiting the site.

 

Vakow! is a community for SMS blogging and sharing where you can

1. Start your SMS blog
2. "Follow" your friends (or tags you like) and receive their SMSes
3. Find cool SMSes to share with your friends on phone, email or various social networks.
4. Send personal SMSes to any phone in India

All for FREE!

you can follow a tag/user by sending                               follow username/tag to 99015 54321

you can even post your SMSes from mobile to this number.

All this can also be done on the great user friendly Web Interface @ http://www.vakow.com.

Vakow also supports Twitter using which Twitter users can Tweet by sending SMS to Vakow after linking their account @ Vakow.

There are many more options available which can be checked out @ their site.

I hope you use subscribe to these services and get productive.

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Tip : Use 'CTRL', 'SHIFT' & 'TAB' keys and save time

Many of us are aware of the "Alt + TAB" shortcut which changes the open windows & applications and if there are 10 applications and we use this shortcut to move to some other window, many a times we cross over the required one and move on to next and to get back to the required one we press "Alt+TAB" some more times, instead we can just use "SHIFT + ALT + TAB" to go in the reverse direction.

You can even use this TIP while filling up forms in WebPages etc.

And coming to "CTRL + TAB" which is one of the best shortcuts while using applications with multiple tabs like Firefox, IE7, Foxit Reader etc. Pressing "CTRL + TAB" rotates through the opened Tabs in those applications and similarly pressing "SHIFT + CTRL + TAB" rotates through the tabs in the reverse direction.

I hope you use these shortcuts and improve your productivity.

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Tip : SCHEDULE WINDOWS SHUTDOWN WITH NO SOFTWARE

Many a times we want to schedule a shutdown time during nights and there are many software available to do this. But Windows has built in commands for scheduling shutdown with many features.

These are CMD commands. So you have to go to Start > Run > Type "CMD"

and then

The basic command to schedule Shutdown in XP is

" shutdown -s -t xxx " where xxx stands for no. of seconds to wait before shutdown. For eg., if you want to shutdown your PC after 2 hours 3 mins, then the command is " shutdown -s -t 7389 " (without the quotes) ( 123 mins * 60  = 7380 secs )

For more options, you can type " shutdown ? " for help.

And for Vista, though the command is same as above, unfortunately, you can schedule the shutdown only for a maximum of 600 secs  (10 mins).

But no worries, because there is an excellent light weight freeware program  "WinOFF" which has many more features for scheduling shutdown and you can download it from here (726 KB).

And for music lovers, you can schedule shutdown using your audio player. Check it out here.

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Software : Aimp - an advanced audio player

AIMP2 is an advanced audio player with many useful features built in like AutoShutdown, Audio Grabber, Recorder, Audio editor and tag editor besides basic features like music library, equalizer, Internet radio, file search, playlists etc.

 

System requirements - Windows 2k or higher

Basic Features :

Music Library - you can organize whole of your music collection with AIMP2 which indexes files as fast as 1 Gb in 5 seconds. You can rank files from 0-5. You can add folders, web URLs, create playlists.

Equalizer - 18-sliders equalizer and build-in sound effects
Reverb, Flanger, Chorus, Pitch, Tempo, Echo, Speed.

Hotkeys - Customizable local and global hotkeys

Multilingual interface

Small Size

Bookmarks and Queues

32-bit sound processing for crystal clear sound

Advanced Features :

Audio Converter - Any supported audio file can be encoded to WAV, MP3, WMA or OGG format

Audio Grabber - Audio CD Track can be encoded to WAV, MP3, WMA or OGG format

Sound Recorder - Capture sound from any audio device in your system to mp3, ogg, wav or wma format

Advanced Tag Editor - Edit ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis, WMA tags. Grouping rename, group editing and sort files by one of templates.

Minimize to tray option, Plug-ins & Skins support.

Pros : Very Friendly user interface, many program options, all basic audio related features included, Hotkeys, Small size (less than 3 mb) , Freeware.

Cons : I found no bad feature except that its available only for Windows users and no Video is supported.

AIMP2 Site |  Download Page (2.88 mb)

I guess it's a Winamp killer.

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Link : Easy Railway booking

A new site Erail : http://erail.in/ for railway enquiry and booking. It extracts the information from the Govt. Railway site http://indianrail.gov.in .

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