Vijay For Victory

Talking to a call centre person had become a part of our life. Most of the times we struggle to spell our personal information like Name, Address etc., This may be because of the poor signal, or influence of native slang.

In such cases the call centre person are trained to use “NATO Phonetic alphabet”. It is also known as spelling alphabet.

What is this NATO Phonetic alphabet?

According to Wiki,

NATO alphabet assigns code words to the letters of the English alphabet acrophonically so that critical combinations of letters (and numbers) can be pronounced and understood by those who transmit and receive voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of their native language, especially when the safety of navigation or persons is essential.

Knowing this NATO Phonetic alphabet would make our life easier; especially when we talk to a call centre person.

Here is the list of NATO Phonetic Alphabets. This set is being used world wide.

A – Alpha
B – Bravo
C -Charlie
D – Delta
E – Echo
F – Foxtrot
G – Golf
H – Hotel
I – India
J – Juliet
K – Kilo
L – Lima
M – Mike
N – November
O – Oscar
P – Papa
Q – Quebec
R – Romeo
S – Sierra
T – Tango
U – Uniform
V – Victor
W – Whiskey
X – X-ray
Y – Yankee
Z – Zulu

Conference talk is one of most often used feature in internet. Users wish to have conference talk with their friends and family online. Now a days most of us are using GTalk. One of the limitations in GTalk is, we can’t do conference talk in GTalk. This always force the users to use Yahoo. I still wonder why don’t Gtalk support conference talk?

There is a way to do a conference in GTalk. This can be achieved by launching multiple instances of GTalk. GTalk allows us to launch multiple GTalk instances (this is not being supported by yahoo). Do the following to get multiple instances.

Way 1: To edit existing Google Talk shortcut

1. Right click on the Google Talk shortcut.
2. On the contextual menu, click on Properties.
3. Go to Shortcut tab on Properties window.
4. On the Target textbox, add in the /nomutex to the end of the line so that it looks like the following. “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex or you can simply copy and paste the above syntax and replace the original.
5. Click on OK.

Way 2: To create a new shortcut for Google Talk

1. Right-click on the desktop or anywhere you want to place the GTalk shortcut.
2. Select New on the right click context menu.
3. Then select Shortcut.
4. Copy and paste the following line to the text box when prompted to type the location of the item: “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex
5. Click on Next.
6. Give the shortcut a proper name (e.g. Google Talk or Google Talk Multiple)
7. Click OK until you are done.

Now you can launch multiple instances of GTalk by clicking your newly created/modified GTalk icon.

How to have a conference talk in GTalk?

Let us say Person A, B and C want to have conference through GTALK. Then each one have to launch two instances of GTalk (say A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1, C2)

If they call each other in the following fashion then they are in conference call in Gtalk.

GTalk Conference

A1 - B1, A2 - C1 and B2 - C2

This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas.

Click Here to download Google Cheet Sheet

Save the above image and open this. This will open as an image by default. But if you open with winrar you will get a hidden file.

How to do this?

1. Select any image. (Find.jpg)
2. Place all your files in a folder. (Here I am creating a folder VijayForVictory)
3. Add this to archive (zip/rar). (VijayForVictory.zip)
4. Place your image and the zip file under a folder.
5. Open Windows console (Start > Run > cmd)
6. Go to the folder where we placed the image and the zip file.
7. Type the following

copy /b Find.jpg + VijayForVictory.zip VijayForVictory_Hidden.jpg

So many times we would want to send mails to our friends in Tamil. There are a lot of ways to send mails in Tamil; sometimes it may be required that the font to be installed in the other end. This gives us the problem. What if find a way to send mails in Tamil without any such dependencies? This one is the easiest way to send mails in Tamil. The fonts generated by this can be viewed in Internet Explorer 6 (and above) without installing anything new. You can also use this in your websites, blogs, Orkut profiles, etc.

This is an opensource. Currently this supports the following languages.

Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarathi.

Click here to download the source code.

You can use this link to Write in Tamil

1. link: – Show’s you some/most of the links google counts to your page. Handy to find out who is linking to you, or whose linking to the competition
2. related: – find sites google deems related to any given site
3. site: – search the pages of a specific site
4. allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url
5. inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
6. allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
7. intitle: kind of like allintitle, but only for the next word. “intitle:webmasterworld google” finds only pages with webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
8. cache: gives you googles cashed (what google has on record) of a site
9. info: will give you some info about a given site
10. spell: – does a spellcheck (you don’t have to do this, google will spellcheck any words searched)
11. stocks: does a search for stocks
12. filetype: does a search for a specific file type, or, if you put a – in front of it, it won’t list any results with that filetype
13. daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.
14. maps: shortcut to do a google maps search
15. phone: searches for anything that looks like a phonenumber
16. allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title
17. allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title

For example, if you want to get a pdf file from www.sun.com, you can search as follows.

Java site:www.sun.com filetype:pdf

I have been searching for a free online file audio/video conversion utility.

Recently I posted about vixi.net under the same context.

I found a new website which provides Free Online File Conversion.

www.zamzar.com

Zamzar supports conversion between wide varieties of different file formats.

The best part is, Zamzar supports a huge set of file formats (document/image/audio/video).

File conversion is a simple 4 step process.

Versatile online file converter

Once the conversion is done, an email will be sent with the URL where we can find the converted file. Also the converted file will be stored for 24 hours from the time the email is sent.

The limitation is, you can can convert a file of size upto 100 MB. But still I feel that this is reasonable.

You can also directly convert any Youtube/Google Video files from this Free Online utility.

Click here for more information regarding online video conversion.