Advertising, from the past, and even till now has been a very demanding job. Everyday an advertiser has to think of creative and appealing ways to promote any product. The Hindustan Unilever company has launched a new facebook app to promote its product – Vaseline for Men

This app takes your current profile picture and brightens the face in the picture. It automatically provides an option for you to make this new picture as your profile picture.

The Unilever is also promoting this app using Google ad network with tags like “Vaseline Mens Anti spot whitening Face Cream. Transform your face!”, “have a fairer, spotless profile pic on Facebook” and so on.

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So, don’t you feel that’s some good creative thinking? Comment here.

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The Footbal season is on, and people are going mad! Now, there is a Facebook app just to create jerseys of your favorite team with your name on it. Recently, we had also written about how to add FIFA 2010 WC themes to Google Chrome. You can even check that out if you are using Google Chrome!

The app is simple to use. Just allow the app to use your account. After you grant access, fill the blank spaces with your name and the number you want on the jersey, and your customized jersey will be posted on the Facebook wall.

Go ahead and try this little app. Don’t forget to share your comments!

Thanks Abhishek!

Developed by Hank Eskin, Where’s George? is a unique and interesting website. The website as the name suggests tracks George wherever he goes. In other words, Where’s George? is a fun website that helps you to track your US currencies wherever it goes. Inspired by this idea, there were many other sites started by people from different countries. Like, Where’s Willy? was started for Canada, and Track Gandhi was started for India. You can see the complete list here and find out if your country is there.

Where’s George? – Track USD Bills

So, coming back to the point, “how does Where’s George? track your money?” is the question. If you already clicked the above link and glanced through the website, you might have got an idea of how it works.

The core idea is simple. You enter the zip code of your state and the serial number of the note/bill you have. This is registered in their database. When someone else registers the note/bill with same serial number, then a “hit” has happened. The user who registers enters a some information regarding where he got and the status of the bill (whether new, old or wrinkled etc.) and the place is tracked through the Zip code. Thus, you can keep track of the bills you registered.

Bills of all denominations like 2, 5, 10, 50 and 100 USD can be tracked using this service. The website is pretty active and gets real time hits every second or two. You would have a fun time tracking your bills. You need to register with this website before you start registering the bills.  Go ahead and try this service, if you are a US resident! You can also check out this Wikipedia article on Where’s George? for more information.

Track Gandhi – Track Indian Currency Notes

This is completely similar to the Where’s George? concept. You need to enter the location and the serial number of the note you have. Then, wait for the hit. Compared to the Where’s George?, the Indian version is pretty lame and not so active. The hits, according to the map is mostly near Karnataka (3056) and other South Indian areas (I wonder how?!). The next popular place where hits have been registered is near the Indian capital New Delhi (1974).

Come on, lets make the Indian version popular too. Go ahead and register. Share it with your friends too.

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!

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!

Tip: 5 Tools That Help You To Tweet From Gtalk

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 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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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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Windows 7 is yet to get popular, but there is already curiosity increasing among people about how Windows 8 would look! However, there has been no news from Microsoft about Windows 8 looks/ requirements.

Today, I found a very nice video on Youtube that will explain you how Windows 8 would look. I would like to remind you that this is just a concept and is in no way related to the real Windows 8 that would be released.

Source: roxgod666

Tweaking browser configuration increases its efficiency and further enhances one’s browsing experience. There are lots of tricks that you can do with browsers using its about:config editor. Here is a set of tricks and tweaks which  I am sure most of you don’t know.

A general note: To perform the below tricks, you need to login to the preference editor of your browser. To do this, in the address bar, type “about:config” without quotes. Firefox will show you a warning message. Ignore it and click on “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button. Now, you are in the preference editor. Follow the instructions to perform each trick.

1) Remove Favicons From Tabs

You might have seen small icons on the tabs and the address bar in Firefox. These are known as Favicons. They were first introduced in IE 5, which was soon adopted by Firefox. They usually represent a site’s logo.

These favicons, even though small, consumes memory sometimes. Here is a tweak that can help you to disable those favicons in your browser. In the “Filter” option, enter the keyword “favicons”. You will get a list of preferences. Among those, search for this: browser.chrome.favicons. Double-click on it to change the value from “true” to “false”. Restart Firefox.

Now, instead of seeing the site’s favicon you will see the “document” icon on the tabs and address bar.

2) Remove Or Tweak The Position Of Close Button In Firefox

Firefox 2.0 had many new features added to it. Among them, one was “Close” button on every tab. As you have seen there is a close button on tab that you select. You can tweak the behaviour of this tab button using the following tweak. In the “Filter” option enter the keyword “tabs”. Select browser.tabs.closeButtons from the list of preferences.

Now, this preference is a boolean and has many values. The default is set to 0. Here are the valid values and their functions.

• 0 – This is the default. The Close Button will be on the active  tab.
• 1 – This value places the close button on all the tabs.
• 2 – Hides the close button from all the tabs.
• 3 – Displays the close button at the end of the tab strip.

3) AutoCopy To ClipBoard

If you are a linux user, then you might be knowing that selecting the text simply, copies the text into the clipboard. Here is a Firefox tweak to make it work like that. In the “Filter”option type “clipboard” without quotes. You will see a preference saying clipboard.autocopy. Double-click on it to change it to “true”. Now select any text and paste it somewhere. You can paste the text without using the “copy” command!

Also Read: Opera 10 Tips and Tricks

4) Change Your Toolbar Style To Make It More “RAM-Friendly”

This is a very good tweak, if you are low on memory but still want to use Firefox. It tweaks the toolbar. It is also a boolean and ahs many values. The valid values and its functions are given below:

• 0 – Displays toolbar buttons with icons only.
• 1 – Displays toolbar buttons with text only, no icons.
• 2 – Displays toolbar buttons with both icons and text. [Default]

This will help you to lessen the memory consumption by choosing alternate styles.

Also Read: Change The Tab Size In Firefox

5) Get Another Firefox Window Inside A Tab!

Well, this sounds amazing, right? Yes, you can get another usable firefox window inside a tab. To make this possible, enter the following URL in the address bar: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul. [See the pic below.]

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