Do you want to see your keyboard lights play disco? Yes, you heard that right! You can make your keyboard LEDs dance, with a simple Visual Basic script. Now, without much ado, let me give you the script.

Copy the following script into a notepad. Then save that file with an extension “.vbs”. Now click on the new file with a script like icon. You see the magic! I am sure you will enjoy seeing them. Here are the codes you need to paste:

This code makes the LEDs to dance randomly.

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"
loop

This code makes the LEDs to dance in a regular manner.

Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 200
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}"
wscript.sleep 50
wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"
loop

To end this disco, you need to end a process called “wscript.exe”. For best results, keep all the LEDs “Off” before starting the script.

Don’t forget to share this with your friends on Twitter and other sites!

Cricket is the most popular sport in India. There is a lot of excitement during this season as there will be lots of matches going on. To all the cricket fans, here is something that you will be definitely interested in. ESPN has launched a new official extension for the Google Chrome browser. It’s called Cricinfo.

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Cricinfo is a Google Chrome extension that gives you all the latest news, updates and live scores just with a click. This extension alerts you with a notification on the top right corner of your browser whenever there are any updates in the cricket world. A new feature has been added to this extension very recently which even alerts you about the wicket falls in the ongoing matches along with live scores.

Cricinfo is an excellent extension for working cricket freaks. Go ahead and install Cricinfo here!

Google Doodles are creative logos created by Google for special occasions such as Vancouver Olympics, Birthdays of scientists or for any other achievement in the history. Google Doodles are very creative and are a treat for our eyes. Want to get one of those superb, cute and fantastic Google Doodle on your homepage always? Favorite Doodle helps you do this.

Favorite Doodle is a Google Chrome extension that replaces the normal Google logo on the homepage with the Google Doodle you choose. This logo will stick to the Google homepage until and unless you change it or remove it.

Look at the top-left corner of the page

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How To Use Favorite Doodle?

To use this addon/extension, you need to install it here from the Extensions gallery. After this, you need to go to the doodle gallery page. There, you would find a button saying “Make This My Favorite Doodle”. Choose your favorite doodle and enjoy!

P.S. - Favorite Doodle addon doesn’t replace the new doodle’s that Google releases. At present, as Vancouver Olympics Doodle series is on, you can’t see the doodle you choose on the homepage. However, you can see at the top left corner of the search page.

Many blogs fill their post pages with lots of widgets such as Related posts, Popular posts and so on. Some blogs even place lots of flashing affiliate links on the sides of the posts. This is a complete distraction to the readers. Even though there is good content written on that blog, visitors can’t read it because of the clutter.

Readability is a tool that helps you to read any webpage clutter free. Whenever you want to read a webpage without any distraction, you just need to click on this bookmark and Voila! all clutter is cleared! You will be presented with pure content without any ads. Check the below two images to see how it works!

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Now, who would want to read that with Clinton and Bush?

Now, just click on the bookmarked button. Wow! Clutter-free! You have to click that “refresh” button (See below image) to get it back to normal mode again.

Bye Bush, Clinton: Ah! I can read that post easily and quickly now!

Add Readability bookmark to your browser and enjoy clutter free reading! (To add a bookmark to your browser, drag and drop the link to your browser bookmarks bar.)

As you all know Google celebrates many big events by changing its logo. Today, Google has changed its logo to a different one which has a diver in his diving suit. Save this logo onto your desktop if you liked it!

The new doodle for winter Olympics from Google

Google very recently launched real-time search which included Twitter tweets about the hot news that was going on. A research by Digital Beat on this new integration has revealed that there has been a increase of traffic for the social networking site, Twitter.

comScore: Graph analyses the traffic

The statistics from ComScore show that there has been a little increase in traffic than the normal traffic that the social networking site was getting usually. In January this year, Twitter got 21.79 million unique visitors which was pretty much higher than that of 21.25 million visitors (calculated on July 2009). There was a 3.1 percent increase in the traffic, in December when compared with the traffic in the previous month. So, the real time search which was introduced on December 7 has caused a great impact on Twitter’s traffic.

Experian Hitwise collects some data on this aspect. The graph above shows the increase in the traffic that is driven to Twitter through Google. There has been a 9% increase in the traffic that Twitter got from Google in the time period of December 5th to February 13th.

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Google Buzz has got varied responses from the public. While some people are busy comparing stats of Google Buzz with other leading other sites such as Facebook and Twitter, some other people are trying to list out ‘n’ number of factors which will result in failure of the product. After the release of Google Buzz, one thing that has been discussed a lot is about the lack of privacy it provides to the user. But finally, Google Buzz has taken a step forward in protecting the privacy of its users by implementing 3 good changes.

Auto-Follow Is Abandoned

This was one of the positive points for Google Buzz. People could easily get started with Google Buzz. When I started with Google Buzz, I was following about 35+ people.  But, for people who are getting Google Buzz feature now, will not have the auto-follow feature. Instead they will be asked to follow people whom they know. Like the following image. Now, that’s a good change!

Auto-Integration Of Picasa And Google Reader

Yes, even this is removed. When I joined the Buzz, two sites were already connected – Picasa and Google Reader. This surely invades the privacy of a person. Even this has been removed in order to protect the privacy of its users. This can also be seen in the above picture itself.

Also Read: How To Access Gmail In Google Wave

Buzz Settings Now Integrated In Gmail Settings

Didn’t like Google Buzz? You think it’s a disturbance in your account. You think it invades your privacy. No need to follow that long tutorial to hide Google Buzz. Google Buzz team has added this option in the Gmail settings to hide the label “Buzz” from your account!

Now, with these changes Google has certainly protected the privacy of its users to a certain extent. But what about this flaw? We have to wait and see what Google does about this!

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Rebuzz

Many workplaces say a big NO for social sites like Twitter, Orkut or Facebook. But, most of us are addicted so much to those sites that we cannot leave without them. Today, I am going to introduce you people to some tools that will help you to tweet from Gtalk!

TwiTalker

Twitalker is a nice and simple tool. You can send and recieve tweets from your friends through IM. You can even send direct messages and @ replies to your friends using this tool. You need to verify your account by pinging the access key to their bot. You will be guided through detailed steps to set up your account.

HelloTxt

This is a nice tool that helps you to update your messages not only on Twitter but also on Facebook and other sites simultaneously and instantaneously. To use this service, you have to register at hellotxt.com. After registering, add im@hellotxt.com to your chat buddies list.Verify your account with the code they give and you are ready to update! However, with this bot you cannot receive tweets through IM.

Excla.im

This is again a tool to integrate Gtalk with Twitter.All you need to do is just set up your account and start updating the statuses. However, even with this tool you cannot receive tweets from your buddies.

Twip.me

With this tool, you can not only integrate Twitter with Gtalk but also with your Jabber account or Yahoo! Messenger. However, you can only update tweets through this tool.

TweetSwitch

TweetSwitch is probably the most latest of all the other tools I mentioned above. This works like a charm. It sends and receives updates instantaneously. This has lots of features integrated in it. You can configuure your account to receive only DMs, mentions or tweets. More than that, you can set up multiple accounts so that if you are offline on one account, then you will be receiving it on other account.

My Recommendation

Personally, I recommend TweetSwitch. It has great features and looks like a nice stable service. I liked its features like redirecting tweets and also quickness in updating messages.

I have listed out a few tools that will help you to tweet through Gtalk. If you know any other tool, then pleas share with us through comments. Feel free to add suggestions to my post.

This picture was found in a London underground. This is clear contradiction to the Google’s speed theory.

The father of India, Mahatma Gandhi’s words, “There is more to life than increasing its Speed” definitely puts the chrome banner beside it, to shame.

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