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Weight Mirror is an interesting web based tool I noticed across NET which I thought might be useful to friends and ppl who wanna see themselves instantly slim & sleek in their pictures...they advertise very high about themselves in satisfying the needs of slimming down the pictures.

**Personally I haven't tried this service anytime so don't blame me if it doesn't work to serve your desires, Use your un-used mail id while registering for the service.
Try it if you wanna have some fun and comment if you get turned slim with the tool.

Here are few fun tools I noticed from few tech blogs and websites...

Type Alyzer - This is fun stuff just type in your blog address and see what it says about your personality, etc. Though it might not match your features exactly but it is some fun analyzing ur personal or friends blog details.

URL Rate - Type in your website address and know your value.
This actually evaluates the value of your website based on several factors shown in the website like Links, Traffic (Alexa), age of the domain, site category, domain keyword popularity, and overall occurrences of the domain name on the web.

EarthQuake Text - Try typing any text and see the text effect can download it and save it in any of your personal sites.

A nice video about the revelations of some fantastic surveyed proven data...

Google today launched the UK version of its Street View service, allowing people in the main British cities to view pictures of their homes and neighbourhoods online via the search engine's maps.

Look at this

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Read More From Original Source: Telegraph

IBM's research scientists in India have developed a technology that will offer users the ability to talk to the Web and create 'voice' sites using mobile phones according to a news article in the Economic Times today...

Read more from the Source : Economic Times

Google has released the priview of its latest and yet another feature that will make transcripts of voice-mail messages and make them searchable.
For now, Google will only offer voice-mail transcription to existing customers of GrandCentral Communications, a telecommunications service provider that it bought in July 2007, it said in a posting on the Official Google Blog.



Little trivia abt GrandCentral
GrandCentral offers customers a single number through which they can forward calls to their work, home or mobile phone, filter calls before answering them, record conversations and access an archive of recordings and voice mail via the Web. Just like Google's promise that with its Gmail e-mail service, you'll never need to delete another message, GrandCentral promises to archive voicemail "for life."

Source: CIO

Tech experts believe Wolfram Alpha could prove as significant to next-generation search as Google has been to the first-generation web.

The search engine is due to launch in May, and aims to understand people’s questions and answer them directly. These ‘natural search’ capabilities mean that web users can ask questions online in much the same way as they ask them in real life. The artificial intelligence of the computer answering the query will be sufficiently well evolved to determine the nuances of the inquiry and provide the appropriate responses.

Read from original source: Telegraph.co.uk

Would you agree me if I said you don't need any extensive training or certifications to understand & perform automated testing for your websites? Yes. Across the Net there are many free web tools which are built and being campaigned to help and simplify your complex testing process of any e-commerce websites.
Consider me I'd love to do the functionality testing first which usually cover's the business logic of the system and later go on testing with the regular QA standards of the website. Those are scenarios which require lot of man effort & patience in performing regression after regressing to test broken links, spell checks, browser compatibility, mobile resolution compatibility and load testing with various variations, etc.....uhhhh

After going through lot of tech blogs and web posts I have come across these few tools which are really useful for performing such time taking boring tasks in a short span & efficiently. And I'd like to share these info with all my viewers & fellow software QA engineers.

Browsershots - Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is extremely popular and you may therefore have to wait a few minutes for this service to render screenshots of your website.

Load Impact - Load Impact is an online load testing service that lets you load- and stress test your website over the Internet.

IE NetRenderer - Allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5, as seen from a high speed data center located in Germany. Just type in a URL in the field above and try it out!!

BrowserCam - Test your web design on any browser on any operating system. Check javascripts, DHTML, forms and other dynamic functionality on any platform. Not just yours. Use our bank of testing machines remotely to test your website

Opera Simulator - To see how your website appears on the small screens of mobile phones

Pingdom - It test's complete page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser and records the timing to load each object.

Firebug - You could use it in Firefox to detect elements on your web page that are increasing the load time of your web pages.

html2txt - This ensure's that screen readers can interpret your website. This is an online Lynx simulator (text-only browser) and will also help you understand how your website appears to Google spiders and other search engine bots.

Also finally validate your web pages against online HTML validation and clean-up service like the W3C HTML Validator and HTML Tidy.

Just really thrilled to receive this award which is a good kick start & lot of strength for making my blog presence much bigger and keep going strong ahead.
Thanks alot Bill

*Blog of the Day Awards are been awarding the “Best Blog of the Day Award” on a regular basis to weblogs of various topics. The award’s judges look at dozens of sites each day and decide which are the best on the basis of key factors, such as content, quality, design, clarity and creativity. The best sites are then announced on the award’s homepage.

Upload your photo and see yourself travel back through the evolutionary timeline... it's not an exact science but it is a lot of fun!
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Sounds very techie rite.....Yea it is true EU, a town in the North France its authorities are looking out to change the name of town to have a better ranking in the Google searches as it is being missed out due lot of other things associated to the letters EU such as European Union or Eurpoean Domain names and even scientific chemical symbol for Europium.

Read it here for more on this...