Add Your Link Here

[ This is not a post. This is the Guide to add your link to my blog ]

This is a mutual arrangement between you and me. To be eligible to add you link here you must have a website or blog of your own ( or has control over the same ). As I said this is a mutual arrangement. When I place your link here you must be ready to place a link to my blog on your website. But if you are hosting a website for some kind of charity purpose that reaches to the needy people of the world your link will be added here without any kind of mutual arrangement.

To place your link here you have to agree to the following conditions.
* Your website does not have any adult content ( of pornographic nature )
* Your website must be a legal website
* Your website must be atleast 30 days old and should contain atleast 30 good quality entries that reflect the nature of your website or Blog
* You agree to place a link to my blog on your homepage which reads ' Million Clues ' and points to my blog ( http://www.millionclues.blogspot.com/ ). You can also use ' milliOn cluEs ' or ' MilliOn CluEs ' instead of ' Million Clues '. ( A prefered code is given below )

It is to be noted that the final decision regarding the plcement of the link will be mine and I reserve the right to modify your link ( change in position with any change of layout of my website or change of color or likewise changes ) or even remove your link without any prior notice or reason.
Also please note that your link will be removed if I find the link to my website missing on your homepage or is unsatisfactorily placed ( In either case you will be informed via email )

Please note that when I name your link it will have the first letter capitals and will be shortened so as to contain itself in a single line on my homepage. It will be placed at a suitable location on the list so that the list looks great.
No issues regarding the link will be entertained. Complaints, if any will be seriously dealt at the earliest and necessay action will be taken at the earliest. Please note that the action can be either a modification of your link as requested or removal of the same and cannot go any further.

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I welcome your link to my website. Please send me your link. Include the name to be displayed, The website where my link is ( or will be ) displayed and your email address. You will be contacted via email at the earliest. My email address is arunbasillal@gmail.com. Feel free to write to me.
Thanking you in advance.

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Note : This Document is subject to change without prior notice.
First Compiled : 30 December 2006
Updated On : 06 January 2007

Terminology :
Me, Publisher - Arun Basil Lal
e-mail - arunbasillal@gmail.com
Blog - http://www.millionclues.blogspot.com/
b - Balal [ My Nickname ]
You - Anyone who reads the blog

Use Gmail with Keyboard Shortcuts

Gmail has got shortcuts in it like we have in yahoo. This feature often goes unnoticed because it is not enabled by default. ( I found it only last week ! So is my father ).

To enable shortcuts go to settings. In the general settings ( the very first page ) turn keyboard shortcuts on. Now save the settings. Back in the inbox you will find a ' > ' waiting before the last mail you read. This is the indication of which mail you are pointing to.

Here are the basic shortcuts :
While in the inbox or while reading a mail these will work. Remember while you are entering text shortcuts will be counted as text inputs.

c   - Compose
Shift + c   - Compose in a new window
j   - Older mail ( the arrow > moves down while you are in the inbox )
k   - Newer mail
enter or o   - Open mail
/   - To place the curser in the search box
u   - Back ( Like Back to Inbox or Back To Contacts )
r   - Reply
f   - Forward

gi ( g followed by i pressed in sequence )
   - Go to inbox
gd   - Go to drafts
gs   - Go to sent mail
gc   - Go to contacts

For the complete list of shortcuts see the learn more button just near the ' turn keyboard shortcut on ' option in gmail settings.

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10 Tips for Conserving Battery of your Mobile Phone

The more smart your mobile device is, the faster your battery gets exaused. Here are some tips to conserve battery so that you can keep connecting longer.

1. Use the device only when it is needed. Browsing through the phone without a purpose can be a waste of power.
2. Do not keep the bluetooth switched on always. Bluetooth drains the battery. Use it only when needed.
3. Try to use the phone in areas with good network coverage. When the network coverage is poor the phone maintains the connection by increasing the frequency of the waves which costs more battery.For eg. You can go the the attic of your home while making calls from home. Usually at considerable heights the coverage will be more.
4. Do not let kids play games on your mobile phones. Gaming keeps the backlight lit for long duration and drains battery
5. Ni-cad batteries perform better when discharged completely ( only once in a while ) before recharge. Refer to the manuel of your device.
6. Use the specified battery and the specified charger.
7. Do not discharge the battery by any means other than the mobile device
8. Use cables to connect the mobile devices to a computer, if you have one. Using bluetooth instead can be comfortable, but bluetooth drains battery.
9. Write the messages on a PC and upload it to a mobile. This functionality is available with most of the smart phones. Doing so can be really comfortable as you dont have to keep pressing keys to type the message. This saves battery.
10. Switch off the mobile phones in restricted areas ( like inside aircrafts ).

But remember that, conservation does not mean denial of use. Still these tips can come handy when you are running out of power and does not have the scope for a reacharge.

Feedblitz For Webmasters - Let Your readers read Your own newsletter

All people connected to the internet do these things. 1. Send emails 2. Search the internet. Its only after these things pople go to read websites for informative contents in general.Most of the people first check their inbox, once they connect to the internet.

Webmasters or publishers will expect people to visit their websites. But only very few people will be really intrested in doing that daily. If one has a dial-up connection or some other narrow band connections, it will be a hard task for the readers to check your website daily for updates. Instead readers will be intrested in recieving the updated content directly delivred to them in their inbox. If you are a webpublisher or a blogger, feedblitz comes for your help.

Feedblitz ( at feedblitz.com ) is basically a free service that enables a user to subsribe to a website with a rss feed functionality or a atom feed functionality. Usually every blog or website has one or both of these. Webmasters can sign up for a free account and syndicate their website or blog. Feedblitz will give you the html code for a subscribtion applet ( like one found here ! ) which you can place on your website. Now your readers can subscribe to your website and recieve the updates to their inbox..

Feedblitz scans your rss or atom feed ( which is automatically updated as you update your website ) once a day ( for free sign-ups ) and tracks changes. The new content is sent to the readers automatically without any effort from the publisher so that the publisher can keep working on more content !
With feedblitz you can decide how much content must be delivered. I have set it to full feed so that my readers will get the full content in their inbox. You can reduce this to any number of characters if you expect your readers to come to your webite to read.

Feedblitz also offers premium services which requires you to pay a fee. With that you can customize the e-mails sent to your readers. Thanks to such quality service
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Note : Feedblitz is a trademark owned by it rightful owner.

Guidelines For the Safe Use of Mobile Phones

It is said that the extensive use of mobile phones can cause health realted problems. Even if it has no experimental proof or evidence, its always safe to prevent than to cure. Studies have shown negative effects on rats but it will take time to know what will be the effect on human beings. This is because it takes atleast 10 years to show some effect. Mobile phones have become so popular only in the recent days and only a few people have been using it over 5 years.

Here are some tips which when followed keeps all the negative effects to the minimum ( if it has any !)

1. Use Headsets like bluetooth headsets or handsfree headsets. Bluetooth headsets are expensive but handsfree is cheap. If you have one you can keep your mobile phone away from your body and stay protected.
2. Do not speak continuously for more than a hour even while you use headset. While you are speaking over the phone the voice is heard directly to the ears. This is not good for the ears. Take breaks between conversations. You can use the loudspeaker for long talks.
3. Its assumed that the readiation depends on the mobile phone you are using. If your phone is creating a burning sensation on your ears, try using a different mobile.
4. People with pacemakers are strictly adviced to stay away from mobile phones. Life is much important than a mobile. You can always find a landline wherever you go. If you have one do not place it in near your heart.
5. Kids Below 5 years of age must not be allowed to use mobile phones. Its believed that the readiation from mobile phones destroy the cells of the brain. For kids those cells are in the undeveloped state. So the effect will be more for kids than a grown up.
6. Do not talk with the phone when the phone is plugged in for a recharge.
7. Do not press the phone closely to your ears.
8. Do not use your mobile phone if the network coverage is too low. When the network coverage is low the phone maintains the connection by increasing the frequency of the waves.
9. Do not place the mobile phone close to your head while you sleep. Keep it at a safe distance ( in case you have an alarm ) or at a distance.
10. If you feel irritated or feel like vomitting out of use of mobile phones, seek medical advice.
11. Experts advice to use your left ear while using a mobile phone. Its said that the cells in the right part of the brain are more prone to damage than those on the left part.

If you use your mobile for less than 2 hours a day and do not carry it in your pockets or close to your body for too long, you are believed to be in the safe-zone.

Wish You a Merry Christmas

Its christmas eve.. Wish you and your family a merry Christmas. Have a nice day.

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[ Dear email readers, I have a e-card for you. If it is not visible in your inbox go to www.millionclues.blogspot.com to see it. Thank you. ]

Minimise all your active programs in One go

Usage tip for Nokia Smartphones:

Here is another hack for your nokia smartphones. To minimise all your active programs and go to the telephone mode in one click you can use this tip. Just press the 'end call' button, the same button which you use to end active calls and you will find yourself in the telephone mode ( standby mode ).

Bonus tips :
1. You can do this by double clicking the menu button.
To read more see :
http://millionclues.blogspot.com/2006/11/nokia-shortcut-switching-to-telephone.html

2. For windows users you can minimise all programs and go to desktop by pressing ctrl+D

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Refresh Internet Explorer Windows In a Flash

To refresh a page of displayed on the Internet Explorer quickly, this tip can come handy. Move to the top left corner of the screen. This can be done quite easily if the window is in the maximised position. Just push the mouse in that direction and the pointer will be above it automatically. This is because the mouse pointer cannot go out of the window. Now drag the icon into the window ( the space where web pages are displayed ).
You will get the page refreshed.

As this might be a new method for you, it may prove to be less useful in the beginning. But with due practice ( as I do ! ) it can prove to be more faster than the conventional method of clicking the refresh button.

Good luck !
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Close Windows In a Flash

Here is a quite useful hack on using Windows. To close an open window quickly you can use the following methods.

Approach 1:
Move the mouse to the top right corner of the window so that the mouse is over the 'X' button. You need not click at the centre of the button. You can just push your mouse in that direction. As the mouse pointer cannot move out of the window it will automatically come over the 'X' button. Then just click and the window will close.
Using this method you can close the window without even looking to the 'X' button.

Approch 2:
Move the mouse to the lop left corner, over the image of the Folder or the application. You can do this by just pushing the mouse in that direction. As the mouse pointer cannot go out of the window it will reside over this icon automatically. Then double click and the window will close.

Both these methods work with maximised windows only. If windows are in the restored position you cannot do this without moving over to the button. Then use Alt+F4 to close the window !

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Get Good quality mobile software from www.getjar.com

Visit www.getjar.com if you need some good quality mobile goodies. From themes to games this site has got a lot of sofwares for all kind of mobiles. Most of the softwares are freewarez. You can also find some shareware programs.

It has organised the softwares by catogory like productivity tools, security tools, entertainment, games, browsers and so on.

Try visiting www.getjar.com

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Convert to Windows Media Audio ( wma ) Format From any format using Windows Movie Maker

Here ia a hack. Use this to convert you .rm or.mp3 files to wma format in case you are making a wma disc . This can come handy if you dont have a wma convertor.
All you need is the Windows Mavie Maker ( coming with Windows XP ), and a player capable of playing the source file. i.e if you got a audio file in .rm format you will need real player or any player that supports .rm formats. In other words your computer must have all the resources( or software ) to play your source file.

Open the source file in the associated player ( like .rm in real player )
Open windows movie maker. Goto Tools >> Narrate Timeline...
In the Narrate Timeline region click show more options ( if you have all the options displayed then it wills how as ' Show fewer Options '.
Select audio input source as Sterio Mix.
Now Play the source file and set the input level such a way that you can see the graph moving. The graph must not be full always.
Now stop the source file. Set it to the starting position.
In movie maker press ' Start Narration '. Just after that without losing any time start playing the source file. Now Movie Maker is recording from the output of your computer and not via the microhpone.
Once the source audio ends press ' Stop Narration '
A save window comes so that you can save in any desired location as wma format.

Disclaimer : Do no use this with copyrighted work or to record something that is illegal. No liabilities lie on me. Use this at your own risk.

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Inbuilt KeyGuard For Nokia 7610

Usage Tip

Nokia 7610 is fully loaded. But they have forgotton to include a very simple accesory. It is the automatic keyguard function.

But it has got a automatic lock function. To turn on the automatic lock go to Setings >> Security >> Phone and Sim >> Autolock Period. Set the time in minutes and you are done. But the difference from auto keygaurd and autolock is that in autolock you have to enter the lock code every time you unlock the phone. Its like a vault.

This must work fine for related models like Nokia 6600.

Good luck!
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Set Multiple home pages in FireFox with Tabbed Browsing

Award winning Mozilla FireFox give you the tabbed browsing functionality so that you need not switch windows to visit more that one site. All you have to do is place a new tab ( ctrl + T ).

But the coolest part of FireFox is that you can set a different homepage for each tab. To do this...Open FireFox >> Enter the address of first homepage in the address bar ( Location Bar ) >> Press Ctrl+T to open a new tab ( or File -> New Tab ) >> Enter the second homepage in the address bar of the second tab. Repeat this for each of you homepages. i.e. Google.com and Gmail.com should go in two different tabs, if you wish to set them as your home pages Now Goto Tools >> Options >> Press the general tab in the dialog window >> In the Homepage section wou will see a button which reads ' Use Current Pages' Press that and Press 'ok'.

Note that this button shows ' Use current Pages ' only when more than one tab is open. Otherwise it shows ' Use current Page '.


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Browse using Mouse gestures in Opera

Opera enables us to browse the web only using the mouse. You dont need to go the the tool bar and fine the back button. All you have to do is to have a little knowledge of using the mouse with opera.

To get started perform a mouse gesture. An example of a mouse gesture.. Move the mouse in right angle with the right click key pressed. A window will pop-up telling that ' you have used mouse gestures for the first time. Do you wish to enable mouse gestures ? ' Press help and you will get the list of all mouse operations.

You can also use Tools >> Preferences >> Mouse and Keyboard to enable this.
In the Mouse and keyboard option you have the option to enble mouse gestures

Good luck!.
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Create Shortcuts to WebPages Directly from your Browser

If you did like to place a shortcut to a WebPage on your desktop here are some quick and easy methods.

Approach 1:
RightClick some where on the page and choose "Create Shortcut" in Internet Explorer. FireFox and Opera do not have a similar option.

Approach 2:
In the address bar of your browser you can see a small icon of a webpage. In Internet Explorer this is a page with the 'e' on it. Drag and drop this to your desktop of to the required folder. This works for Firefox as well as for Opera.
This can be done for normal folders in the Wndows Explorer too.
( Look for the small icon just before the address begins in the address bar. For eg. If you are in http://millionclues.blogspot.com/ you will find this small icon just behind http... )

Good Luck
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Firefox Has Got a Cool Buit-in Html Editor

Firefox has got a pretty cool tool for the webmasters who design their on pages for the web. Firefox has got a really cool html editor.

To access this editor all you need to do is press Ctrl+U
Instead you can right click a page and select "View Page Source"

What is really good about this editor is the various colours used so that a designer can easily identify a comment from a link .
Comments appear in green, Values or texts within quotes come in blue color , Html keywords come in pink and mere texts appear in black.

If you are a lot confused using Notepad to edit your codes, you must give it a try.

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Use Google™ search as your dictionary

Google™ search can work as a dictionary as well. To make it work so you need to add " define: " before the word.

For eg: Typing in define:culture give you some definitions for culture found on the web. You can also fine some Related phrases that include your keyword.
Google also offers to give you the definitions in a lot more languages.

To try it out go to : www.google.com

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I'm Feeling Lucky™ search service From Google™ search

Google's homepage , one of the smallest pages on the internet , gives you a text field to input your query and adjacent to that you will see 2 buttons. One button is to search for the query. The second button is named "I'm Feeling Lucky" This is a special service from Google.

Clicking on the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button takes you directly to the webpage that comes first in the search results. The page that comes first on the list will be that page with the maximun PageRank™ in the search results.

This button might prove useful when you need the results in fewer clicks. To try using it go to : www.google.com

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Make sure that you have loged out of your google account while using multiple google services

Google offers its users a lot of facilities like a fantastic search engine, an even better Gmail, Google Talk, Online community - Orkut and lot more. To have a synchronisation with all these services Google uses a single user account for all Google services for a user. i.e with the gmail account infromation you can sing up with orkut, or talk in Google Talk or log in to the personalised home page of Google search.
In other words signing in to one account means all the other open automaitcally. For example after logging on the Google Talk you can read mails directly without logging in again by clicking the new mail indicator to the bottom of the window. This also means that signing out of Gmail does to essentially close your Google account. You have to sign out completely.

This is very important when you are accesing the interntet from a public place like an internet cafe. An open account can be operated by anyone and can cause anything. So you have to make sure that before you leave, you have logged out of all the individual services.
To ensure this just go to the homepage of the services you have used. For eg. If you used Gmail, then try going to Gmail.com. If the page asks you the username and password, then you have logged out. If you havent logged out you will be direcly taken to your inbox.

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The Google Toolbar

An integral part of the Google pack and a must have for interntet users. The google toolbar has got a whole lot of Google services budled on to a small horizontal strip. As google always is, this too is aimed to DO NO EVIL, the award winning policy of Google.

The google tool bar has got..
* The google search box to serach for online content. You can also do ' I am feeling Lucky ' search, so that you can go directly to the first site that appears in the google search.
It also offers search site, Search froggle , Image search, news search and Google groups search.
* The google toolbar displays the page rank of the current page. So you can always see how the google search pods rank the current page.
* It has got pop-up blocker which plays a sound when a pop-up is blocked and also displays the number of blocked pop-ups.
* It can translate the current page using its transalator.
* It can check for spelling and grammar errors on the page using its spell and Grammar check.
* You can blog pages directly using the ' blog this ' button on the toolbar. You will need to sign up with blogger to do that.
* The toolbar has got the normal naviagation buttons of a browser and offers to remember search history. There is a whole lot of options waiting for the user.
* And most importantly The Google toolbar has got a auto fill feature which can fill forms on the web page. You have to once give the details and when relevent forms are found on the webpage the autofill highlights the fields in yellow and on clicking autofill the feilds gets filled up, automatically.
* You have got a word transalator .
* You have a autolink function that links to the postal addresses on the web page to google maps directly.

This tool bar can be freely downloaded from the google website.
Go to google.com > click 'more>>' > choose google pack > and choose the google toolbar.
Google also offers this tool bar along with its serach results.

( Instead go dirctly to the google pack from the productivity center on the right sidebar )

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