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DEEPS: Hi all the marketers out there, have you heard of Blinklink? It helps you build a link that self-destructs after certain number of views.

RANDOM MARKETING GUY : So, what? I have seen such services from the day I was born.

DEEPS : Let me finish please!!

Is Google going bad or are we spoiling it?

For me, Google is the god. He knows everything. But lately, I have a feeling that Google is not the same God that used to exist 5 or 6 years back. The pure God that existed in those days is spoiled by money minded human beings I assume.

"Let us start in the A/L class" - Preventing plagiarism at the university level

Who use ICT in Sri Lanka and why? - part 2

You can read the part one of this post here

Social Status and the Digital Divide

By the word social status, I mean the social class and the income level of the people.

How to add a Google Plus One button to the ShareThis Widget

Google Plus One Button, the new way of recommending web content hit the internet few weeks back. By now, most of the websites and blogs have Plus One buttons. I had been using the famous share button widget from "ShareThis" and when the Plus mania hit the blogsphere, I wanted to update it.

What exactly I wanted to have was a Plus One button in my share bar like this.

Why just colour, we need the size too!!

Im keeping myself out from the Facebook fun these days. The only reason for that is my increasing love for twitter as a social network. Its simple, fun and useful in many ways than facebook. For example, if i have a problem in ubuntu, twitter status update is the best way to get the problem solved. If you want to check out a film before you actually watch it, a simple twitter search would allow you to know how the people all over the world from diffrent walks of life think about it.

Analyze the anatomy of your enemy's web site

This is about a site which can analyze any website that you want to. Just enter the web site you want to analyze and hit enter. If you entered my blog address, you might end up with something like this.

I think the tool is quite useful for people who are interested in web designing.

And on the other hand, if people start to use the site's technology for unethical purposes, it would be a curse for the whole world too!!

If you feel like interested, click here to visit the site.

Google search finds missing child

i thought it worth while to share this. this time, it was used for a good purpose. but who knows what will happen this Google tracking technology goes into the hands of terrorists and so forth?







A nine-year-old girl, allegedly kidnapped by her grandmother, has been found using a mobile phone signal and Google Street View.

A police officer and a firefighter in Athol, Massachusetts, joined forces after authorities were alerted that Natalie Maltais had been taken.

Officers used GPS in the girl's mobile phone to find her approximate location.

They fed the co-ordinates into Google Street View, pinpointing a hotel where the child was subsequently found.

The alarm was raised after grandmother Rose Maltais picked up Natalie from the child's legal guardians for what was supposed to be a weekend away.

She "said that she wasn't going to return Natalie and then left the state", Athol police chief Timothy Anderson told the BBC.

The police contacted Ms Maltais, but after she didn't return Natalie as promised, they decided to track them down using Natalie's mobile phone.

Since 2005, US law says that mobile phone providers must be able to locate 67% of callers within 100 metres and 95% of callers within 300 meters.

This requirement has led to GPS capability in most new mobile phones in the US.

"This is very useful, although we can only use it in emergency situations such as when a person is missing or lost, or a life is in danger," said chief Anderson.

Knowing this, police officer Todd Neale contacted the mobile phone provider, AT&T, which gave him GPS coordinates every time the phone was activated. Police must submit a compliance form to the phone provider to request location information.

Source :: BBC

Modem hunting in Senkadagala

I think I don't have to explain what is a modem. Any way, if even one of you dont knw what is a modem and what does it do, click here to find out.

So now all of you know what is a modem and how important it is. Let the hunting begin......arm yourselves with bows and arrows and off we go modem hunting in Kandy city

I was looking for a adsl modem because I have applied for a adsl connection from SLT . Teleshop people said that they also sell a modem.since I don't believe them much, had to look around the city.

Kandy shops basically have only one brand : US robotics. but this US thing doesn't have a router as the shop dealers said. So I opted for a Linksys AM300 one (available only in Neat Technologies in D.S. Senanayake Vidiya). It was expensive than the US Robotics and apparently it was powerful as the specifications showed. Lynksis also had a link with Cisco. so i was sure the modem would be of great quality as Cicso is listed as the leading supplier of networking equipment and network management for the Internet.

now, the modem is at home and no body knew how to set up the modem cz it had some advanced set of blanks to fill in the set up page. Had to call SLT several times to get the settings and finally I caught an engineer guy from the techno dept to solve the problem.

Set up done, I let some torrents download. Guys it was a real mystery. The modem would restart after each 30 minutes. And guess what if you spill a drop of water into the modem at the point it restarts it would would vaporize in seconds. My genius bro found a solution for that.

This is the solution:

Step 1: take a cooling fan off the system unit

step 2: keep it on the Modem for absorbing the extra heat

you think it is enough?? nope

here we go the step3. You should keep the modem on a stand like this to make sure that the air passes through the space between the bottom surface of the modem and the computer table. Earlier my modem was proudly standing on two pens laid parrel to two opposite edges of the modem but it proved to be dangerous. so guys this is the best and the safest option.

The heating problem thus solved with the help of a fan taken out from the system unit, I thought it was all and let U torrent do some downloading.

mmm i was wrong again...when the number of connections go high, the modem would stop all the connections. Believe me, it is terrible when you have to look into the monitor whetre the network is ok or not. and above all,this nices modem knows so many tricks that it wont re estblish the connection even after restarting the modem. It is so adamannt than you can imagine.

I have to turn off the computer, turn off the UPS and let some time pass before pushing the power button again to start the connection...mmmm terrible for a modem ha??

now I regert for choosing the best.. I should have bought Us Robotics or either the one offered by the SLT it self.

Above all Kandy sucks with regard to computer shops