How to Download if Torrent Blocked at College / Office

Now you know how to download torrent at office, but what if torrent content is blocked at office or college. Is there any way to unblock torrent at office? Unblocking or blocking any protocol is the job of administrator and you will not be network admin when you use internet at your workplace. In these cases, you need to be little more intelligent to bypass their restrictions and still download torrent overcoming the torrent blocked.

You will use a third party service here to avoid the torrent client and still download the torrent from various trackers. The third party service I am talking about is BitLet. BitLet is such a service where you provide the url of the torrent file or upload the local torrent file and make it to download the data. The service is very cool and easy to use interface will help you get the work done fast.

The limitation with this is that you will not be able to control the download of torrent – you can’t pause the downloading torrent. Hence, this is not recommended for huge data like movies, games and large softwares. This would be better if you want to download small apps and e books.

Facebook, mobile carriers offer free access to site

Enlarge Photo A Facebook page is displayed on a computer screen in Brussels April 21, 2010. Facebook...

Facebook has teamed up with 50 wireless operators to offer cellphone users a stripped-down version of the social networking site that can be accessed without incurring data charges.

The new site, dubbed 0.facebook.com, is a text-only version of Facebook's flagship Internet site and is specially designed for mobile phones with limited bandwidth Internet connections.

The new site will be available beginning on Tuesday in 40 different countries, including Brazil, India, Indonesia and Turkey from a variety of carriers.

The new site comes as the world's largest Internet social network continues to grow its base and looks for ways to increase the amount of time Web surfers spend using its service.

At the company's annual developer's conference last month, Facebook introduced new technology that allows third-party Web sites to integrate Facebook features directly.

Roughly one quarter of Facebook's 400 million users access the site on mobile devices, according to the company.

But Facebook wants to make the service more accessible to cell phone users who do not own high-end smartphones such as Apple Inc's iPhone, or phones based on Google Inc's Android software.

"We are targeting people whose major barrier is they have little experience on the mobile Internet. They want to try it, they want something super simple, super fast. And they are potentially afraid of browsing costs," said Henri Moissinac, who heads Facebook's mobile business. "If you take an iPhone user in San Francisco, that's not his problem."

Among the carriers partnering with Facebook are Reliance and Videocon in India (with Tata Docomo coming soon), T-Mobile in Hungary and Vodafone in Greece.

Customers of the participating wireless operators will be able to access the new Facebook site without paying any wireless data charges, Facebook said.

The 0.facebook site offers the same capabilities as Facebook's standard website, allowing members to view their news feed, comment on posts and send messages.

But 0.facebook will not feature any photos or videos -- Web surfers can link to view photos and videos, although they will be charged standard wireless data fees by their carriers at that point.

Facebook is not paying the wireless operators any money to reimburse them for the free usage they provide and there are no financial terms to the partnerships, said Moissinac.

In addition to many so-called emerging economies in which 0.facebook will be offered, the site will be available in the United Kingdom, Finland and Hong Kong, among other places.

While the United States is not among the countries in which Facebook has operator deals, Moissinac said he hoped the site would eventually be available there as well.

Its Blackle!

How is Blackle saving energy?

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

How can you help?

We encourage you to set Blackle as your home page. This way every time you load your Internet browser you will save a little bit of energy. Remember every bit counts! You will also be reminded about the need to save energy each time you see the Blackle page load.

Help us spread the word about Blackle by telling your friends and family to set it as their home page. If you have a blog then give us a mention. Or put the following text in your email signature: "Blackle.com - Saving energy one search at a time".

Have a look at our energy saving tips page for ideas on steps you can take to save energy or you can follow Blackle on Twitter and we will keep you updated with simple energy saving tips.

There are a lot of great web sites about saving energy and being more environmentally friendly. They are full of great tips covering the little things that we can all do to make a difference today. Try Blackling "energy saving tips" or visit one of the many great blogs dedicated to environmental awareness.

Invisible Mode on Facebook

Wondering how to get the invisible mode on facebook? Here's the solution:

Set your chat status of facebook as Offline. Then type Online Now in the search bar.

Open the application and Bingo!

You can see all your friends who are online at that time. But there is a major drawback. You cannot chat with people till you set your chat status as online again.

How To Bring Your Google Buzz Entries to Twitter

To share items from Buzz to Twitter:

1. Go to http://reader2twitter.appspot.com/buzz
2. Connect it to your Twitter account using OAuth
• (Of note, you need to go to http://reader2twitter.appspot.com/buzz after this, as the OAuth returns you to the URL without the Buzz directory)
3. Add your Google Profile Number ID (find it here at the bottom of the page by clicking "See other options")
4. Make sure "Sync" is On and hit Submit

Now, native updates you make from Buzz, and not those pulled in by 3rd party services, will be sent in near real-time, powered by Pubsubhubbub, to Twitter. Thus far, the vast majority of activity I have with Buzz is shared from other services, primarily Reader. But the two native posts I made to Buzz, once I synched with Reader2Twitter, made it to the @lgstream account. Example: Buzz item | Twitter item. I have been using Reader2Twitter for about five months now, and it is practically seamless. So long as the hub from Google is working, it's good to go. You can get started here: http://reader2twitter.appspot.com/buzz.

Check If Someone is Invisible, Offline Or Blocked You On GTalk

GTalk is one of the most used messaging services on internet. People love GTalk because it’s easy to use and light. GTalk does not use much resources of your system. It’s fast and easy to get installed. And above all, it can integrate all your Gmail and Orkutcontacts in one place and that’s why GTalk is getting more popular day by day. After all it’s a Google product, hence it should be also.

Initially Gtalk was not having any invisible option in it. Which means you will get noticed by all your friends once you log in. But later, after a lots of requests from it’s users, GTalk decided to start this invisible feature. But, they started this invisible feature for those who uses GTalk from GMail or Orkut. If you are using GTalk from your desktop, you may not get this facility.

In this post I will guide you with three things that you might find interesting. You can consider these as GTalk tricks. And the three things are:

1. How to know if someone is invisible on GTalk.
2. How to know if someone is offline or not.
3. How to know if someone has blocked you on Gtalk or not.

Lets get started step by step. I am sure, you will have fun reading these Gtalk tricks.

How To Know if Someone is Invisible or Offline on GTalk :

People activate this invisible feature for many reasons. They might be busy or do not want anyone to disturb them. They want to chat with few people they want or they want to stay hidden and contact the persons they wish. I always stay invisible on Gtalk, so that I can talk with the persons I want

Now if you want to fool the people and know about their online status even when they have logged in with invisible feature activated, then this is possible. Poor Gtalk! There are two ways to do this.

• You need to have a GPRS enabled mobile handset.
• Download a free software called gotalkmobile on your handset and install it.
• After the installation, log on to your GTalk account with your login details.
• Now, this will show you the entire online friends list. It does not matter if they are online or invisible.
• In this way you can catch your offline friends as well. The persons who are being shown as offline, are not present on GTalk.
• And you are done above. You will notice those online (visible + invisible) as well as the offline friends.

And the second method discovered by me:

• Set the chat as off the record with target user. This can be done only when the other user is online.
  
• Now try sending chat to that user when he is invisible or offline.
• If he is invisible, then he will receive chat.
• But if he Is offline, then you will receive error “ did not receive your chat”.

How to Know if Someone Has Blocked You on Gtalk :

Now this is worth exciting. Few times we notice friends not contacting us for a long time. Even though we send them messages, they never reply us back. It can happen because of three reasons.

1. He/She is avoiding you. (Are you that much notorious?)
2. He/She is offline since a long! (This is a busy world, really!)
3. He/she blocked you on GTalk! (He/she did not find a friend in you!)

Whatever the reson may be, it’s nice to find the reason yourself. Let’s find out the exact reason of not getting a reply back. But for this you need to have PIDGIN and configure it properly. Pidgin is a third party tool, available for free. You can use all your messenger accounts at once using this software. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, Zephyr etc. Read the below steps properly.

How to configure PIDGIN for GTalk : (Via Rakshit)

• Download Pidgin.
• Go To Accounts –> Manage –> Add.
• It will open a new window Add Accounts.
• From the drop down box choose XMPP as the Protocol.
• In case of Screen name enter your Gmail Id (e.g. – solid.blogger).
• Type gmail.com as the Domain/Server.
• In Resource Field enter Home.
• Type your Gmail Password in the Password Field.
• Choose any Nickname (e.g. – Bapun) as Local alias.

And you are done with Pidgin settings. Now lets play with Pidgin to find those GTalk contacts who has blocked you. For this follow the below mentioned steps.

1. sign in to GTalk on PIDGIN with your details

2. Go to Buddies –> Show Offline Buddies (The person who has blocked you is being shown as offline to you. So, in this way you can catch him.)

3. Now all available contacts will be visible to you. Select any one contact from that list.

4. Right click on that selected contact, and click on Get Info.

5. Now here is the twist. Clicking on Get Info will show the brief profile of the person. But now if the person has blocked you on Google Talk, you won’t be able to see his/her full profile. You can’t even see his/her profile name.

This is the best way to know if someone has blocked you on google talk or not. If he has blocked you, then he will appear to you forever. I guess this the best way to findthe person who is either offline or invisible or has blocked you on google talk. Also read How To Use Gtalk In Firefox Sidebar.