Face Book's boosting activities!

I came across the following activities of the Face book in my account! You could view and read about them here.

To promote my Face Book page it demands money so that the page can reach more people!

On reaching thirty 'Likes' of my Face Book page, Face Book offers to view the statistics of the people who like the page!

To protect my account Face Book wants me to add my phone number and also quotes that my friends have added a phone number to their accounts!

Recently, Face Book offered me an easy way to enter into my account without using password!

Face Book advises me to click on my picture to log in next time!

Yahoo mail account security issue!

Recently I got on to the Yahoo web page and started to sign into my Yahoo email account.There was a display that there is an 'Account security issue'!

Worried I proceeded further to sign in. But the mail inbox was obscured with a display in front of it. It required me to read about the issue and secure my account.

On clicking on the OK button, I was lead to the 'Yahoo Security Notice' page. It said that there was security issue with the accounts of certain Yahoo user accounts, and then had given FAQs on the issue and the steps to be taken by the user to protect account; that was followed by the information on the data security issue given by the company.

Next on clicking the 'What happened?' FAQ, I read that data of more than one billion user accounts had been stolen!

I wanted to know also the company's statement on the issue, dated 22 September 2016. It intimated that some third party intruder had forged cookies and accessed users accounts without a password!

After reading all these I hurried to protect my account with new password as instructed by the Yahoo Help Page. Then I received the following display.

OK. Do you have a yahoo mail account? First check your secondary mail inbox for any mail from Yahoo relating to your Yahoo account security. And then proceed immediately to protect your Yahoo account.

Donation support for Wikipedia!

Now, if  any Wikipedia page is opened, a display also appears along with the web page. It asks its readers donation support for its sustaining through the Internet.

For this non-profit Wikipedia that is on the list of top ten most visited websites, anybody around the world shall render help on reading this!

Work, type & play with Google Input Tools!

Previously, it was tedious to type mail contents or offline Word file contents in local languages other than English. Now you can choose either English or your local language at your will, and type with either one of these only or with both intermixed! Yes, Google now provides everyone its free Google Input Tools to be installed in computer and type in their language of choice.

Now to install this Google Input Tools, first choose your local language on this webpage, agree and click on Download in it: Google Input Tools for Windows. You shall get a setup file; save it; open this saved file from Downloads page of your computer. Input Tools shall be installed in your computer in a few minutes. Then setup (configure) your computer to display the Language Bar  on your desktop itself for your easy access of it, as instructed here under this link: Configuration for Language Bar display. Now open your computer application such as a Word file offline or select a webpage space allotted for writing on; choose your language from Language bar and begin your typing or playing!

You can also try typing on a Google's notepad-like Cloud by typing on it and transfer all your work by selecting, copying and pasting on an offline file! Get this Google's notepad here --> Cloud.

MEGA after Megaupload - a news!

I had seen in the past an advertisement about a website constantly appearing in all the web pages I viewed. Suddenly that advertisement disappeared and is not seen for the past one year. It is the Megaupload.com advertisement. Now there is news that the founder of that website, Mr. Kim Dotcom has started a new file-sharing website under the name, MEGA. 

 

The Megaupload.com which was also a file-sharing website, was then closed one year back due to an online piracy case filed on it. MEGA is started after one year correct to the date of Megaupload's closure in the previous year - on 20th January 2013. 

This new website is said to be legal now and for online privacy. And offering cloud storage with encryption, so that its users only can know what they are uploading.

VeRO programme of eBay

EBay now protects the rights of Sellers in it. It has created 'Verified Rights Owner' programme (VeRO). If the owner of a property finds 'Selling lists' in eBay contain his property, infringing his intellectual property rights (such as trademark and copyright), he can easily report about it in this programme, VeRO. EBay guides these owners in reporting such infringements; read about it --> here. It also advises its Sellers to avoid creating 'Selling lists' that may infringe on intellectual property rights of other Sellers - by its guidelines. It also advises to read the VeRO programme participants' policies on protecting their rights, and not to use another Seller's picture or description. It is a good move in the interest of eBay itself also, to ensure that infringing items are removed from its site! Read down here its communication about VeRO:

Gmail-SMS to all the Contacts!

News: Google has added new SMSing facility to its Gmail account holders living in the most of the world countries. The Contacts in their accounts can be SMSed using their phone numbers.
What I did? I tried all my might to add the phone numbers of my three mail contacts and sent SMSes to them and tested as per this --> Gmail helping procedure. But two of them except one were not sent SMS with the following display in the Chat Box:

Could this be the reason? - Only part of the cellular phone operators of India are supported by this SMSing facility as per this --> news.
But note here that there was no response from the Contact to whom my SMS message was sent, and reported back as sent by Gmail. I called this Contact by voice call and confirmed that he didn't receive the sent SMS! Could all this be the Google's experimenting on Gmail users? Or could you explain this seemingly useless feature? Share your experience in this with us.

Sifymail upgrades by Google Apps!

As I opened my Sifymail account, I was surprised to see a webpage titled as Google accounts welcoming to my new account! It contained Google Terms of Service. Why does Google enters into another email provider's page? Google started to provide its Google Apps on 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) mode in 2006. Sify Technologies Ltd. that ranks in the top of 30 Indian websites as per Alexa, started to use Google Apps' SaaS software delivery in 2008 under an agreement with Google Inc. Thus Sifymail was powered by Google Apps platform. It offers its services under its own brand name, leaving all the hard work of management to Google! Now, why there has been the need for accepting the Terms of Service here, I wondered. The reason is that the Google is now offering many 'Additional Services' in using the Sifymail account.

After clicking on the 'Accept' button, my Inbox opened, greeting with a mail from Sify announcing its upgrading with additional services of Google such as Bloggers, Google Groups, Google Maps, Google+ and others!

Google Document is now Google Drive!

The other day when I opened my Google Document, an option was presented before me to retain the Google Docs or to shift to the new Google Drive. I opted to the Google Drive. Many features have been driven away and the Google Docs has been made simpler now into Google Drive.

Google Drive

Google Drive can be accessed from any device. From mobile, access to it is made possible by a mobile apps. You can now work with more file types. The access to it is also faster. 

Read more here about it --> Google Drive!

Blogger's new blogging interface!

Blogger has recently changed its blogging interface suddenly. While retaining most of its old interface features, but in a modern format, it has added new features too - like post selection by page numbers in drop down list, view count and comment count for each post, etc. The preference of retaining the old interface is gone; all are commonly presented with only the new Post Editor interface for blog posting. Uploading of images to the Post Editor has been made easier now. Read more about this here --> Moving to the New Blogger Interface. 
 

Entrecard lost from the Web World

Then, I decided to get an Entrecard for my blogs after seeing it to increase the visitors' traffic to the blog of another Blogger. It was also said to be a social network 2.0. I got it and used it; found it to be useful. In the last week of September this year, 2012, I was stunned to see a triangle with an exclamation displayed inside it in the place of my Entrecard widget. The Entrecard had stopped its service without any prior intimation about it. I examined the widget html. It showed a word as '...recard'. In the word, 'entrecard' 'ent' was missing! Yes, Entrecard has quit the Web World.

Entrecard, a source for visiting many blogs, is now missing. Read here a report about this missing Entrecard that has been presented by one of its most popular blog-by-ranking --> Seek No More - Earn While Snoring!

WhozOnTop discontinues free tracking

While I was starting to make a post for this blog a display constantly appeared again and again on my every hit on the keyboard preventing me to do anything but to do what it displayed! I wondered whether it could be a virus that has crept into my blogging site! I found that it also contained the name of a web directory, WhozOnTop; my blog was having its widget. I didn't do anything but checked my e-mail inbox; it told me everything.


A mail from 'Whzon.com' had sent 'Change of Tracking Service Notification' that informed about discontinuing of its free tracking service and asked to remove its tracking code from the blog! On clicking on the tab, 'Upgrade To Invisible Service' found on the mail, I got the following webpage with details of money to upgrade:

I decided to remove the code and clicked on the tab, 'End Tracking And Remove Tracking Code'. I was given all the instructions that before-said 'viral' display had shown!


I removed the widget from the blog and was then felt freed, as I was then able to continue my blogging:). You could see here how the free service was removed compulsorily with all such tactics.
Now I could see that the old URL whozontop.com of WhozOnTop has now changed to whzon.com. With the change in policy URL also changes!

Here read about PayPal HERE!

PayPal has released a tiny credit card reader for smart phones. It is the PayPal Here. With it and its applications, mobile payments can be done. It is triangular in shape with a fold down wing and plugs into phone. After signing in PayPal is done, it encrypts credit card data and transmits it into the phone for effecting online payments. It can track your past payments and issue invoices too. It is a versatile competitor for the other one, the 'Square'!

Commercialized website!

When a website is started for the first time, it is solicited by it to use its services in the blogs. Later when it is well established and became famous it doesn't need your usage and support anymore: it needs only revenue as it has now become commercialized. This is the matter experienced by my blogs with Wowzio: all went well with its Live Activity widgets on my blogs until one day recently, when my blogs were found without these visitors' activity widgets. They have been removed without any prior intimation, forgetting the past.
Note also this present scenario with Wowzio: for a new blog's use, a request was sent by email to it; but permission was not given and there was no response at all.
Commercialization has become the targeted plan now for all the websites. Thus it is also a factor for losing interest in blogging. Service to blogging is tapering.