Exif data is a specification in the photo used by Digital camera. Every information like Camera model, Manufacturer, Aperture, Shutter speed, ISO, etc. are stored in Exif in the photo. You can check basic information of Exif data in your photos in Windows XP and later version of Windows, of course Mac supports as well.

I wrote about how to check shutter count in your camera with Opanda before and it works great because it shows every information from Exif, but the problem is that it works on Windows only. But if you’re Mac user, you can try Simple EXIF Viewer. I stumbled upon a web site, Jeffrey’s Exif viewer that can easily check tons of Exif information in photo on the fly without installing any of those software. You just need to give the photo url from web or upload the photo.

Google rolled out a new experiment on Google labs known as Google Social Search that helps you find more relevant results from public content of your friends and contacts from your Google profiles. To enable this feature, you have to login with your Gmail account and go to Google experimental page and enable the Google Social Search. This video demonstrates how you can find relevant contents with Google social search and how Google social search works. Since Google introduced Google public profile page back in April 2009, I have added many social networking sites i am using, in my Google profile account. Now I can get the tweet or status updates or even photos result from Flickr or Picasa of my contacts and friends bottom of Google search page after enabling Google Social Search.

SimilarSites is a search engine helps you find web sites which are relevant to the URL you searched on Similarsites. It has Browser Add-ons for both Firefox and Internet Explorer to provide easy access to relevant web sites and content.

Google Adsense just added new options to choose the fonts for adsense units after they enabled Adsense for Domain feature for all adsense publishers. As of now, you can choose Arial, Times and Verdana. To change the font style for your existing adsense units, go to Manage Ads under Adsense Setup and look for Fonts section. I hope they will add an option to choose custom font name to match with our site’s default font style.

This is what happened when people search this keywords “I am extremely”.  via: Gizmodo. You can find more hilarious keywords at Google Proves Humanity Is Sick and Sad, Yet Absolutely Hilarious

StreamDrag is a Music search engine which let you find your musics and allows you to make playlist and listen on it. Sorry, There is no download link!

I received an email in last week, was telling me that I must change my Paypal login information or my account will be suspended. I was so surprised that I never got the email like this from Paypal before. So I logged to my paypal from my Firefox bookmarks and checked whether my account has been suspended or not. It seems normal and I can use my account in Paypal.

I ignored the instructions in that email and forward the email to the Paypal support team. They replied me that It is a phising email. Yep, the link they included in the email points to the following site not the paypal page.

<a href=”http://201.160.34.201.cable.dyn.cableonline.com.mx/logn.php”>http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_login-run</a>

I visited that link lately and Firefox alerted me that It is phising site. Scary!!!
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There have been another PageRank update from Google. I found many of my friends’ sites having dropped PR. Some still remains. I also found some changes in my site. I changed the link structure of my site in last month with the help of permalink migration plugin. All of my old posts rank was temporary dropped at that time. After this Pagerank update, each has its own pagerank back. Do you see any changes of site rank?

Saw this “Mingalaba Myo Kyaw Htun” greeting message while browsing my account in Flickr. Flickr always shows greeting message in different language randomly whenever you browse home page while you’re logged in. It is cool thing that we can learn how to greet people in different language. “Hoi” in Dutch , “Konnichiwa” in Japanese , “Namaste” in Hidi, “Salaam” in Arabic, “Mingalaba” in Burmese, etc. Now you know how to greet people in Burmese. Mingalaba

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The whole web is talking about Google Chrome (google.com/chrome), an open source browser based on it owns webkit and uses its Google Gears. An official comic book with 38 pages explained why they build Chrome. Sitepoint listed the features of Chrome based on comic. Is it another step to dominate the web?

• Images of Google Chrome (Techcrunch)
• Google Chrome Screenshots (Blogoscoped)
• Google Chrome (Blogoscoped)
• Google Working on Browser (Site Point)

What to know the information of the site you are looking for? Quarkbase might be useful for you. It is a mashup of over 30 data sources from internet including Delicious, Digg and Technorati and categorized into topics like traffic, social popularity, technical, etc. It is worth to check out!

Nowadays, many bloggers are trying to optimize their blogs in search engine as well as blogging. I myself also tried some of the techniques that I learned from internet to optimize my site too. Today, I just came across an interesting article about the basic of Search Engine Optimization explained that

Bold text <b>/<strong> is given more weight than ordinary text but not as much as H tags. As much as is reasonable, enclose the search term in bold tags when it appears on the page.

Another article explained that italic (<i>)/emphasic (<em>) tag is also important as well as bold tag.

When mentioning your keywords throughout the page, it’s helpful to put them into italics, bold, or emphasis (<em>) to make sure the search engines know that these words are important.

CSS <span> tags to format text, but search engines don’t have an easy way of determining either of these. Why make the search engines work harder than they need to? Use these basic HTML tags and help yourself (and the engines) out!

How much they will effect in SEO? It is hard to say that those are not really important but they are needed when optimizing the site.

Further reading

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – the basics
• Header & Bold
• The Easiest SEO Tip for Online Artists: Using Bold and Italic Keywords

There are many free file hosting services out there offer file hosting for every file formats but rarhost is free file hosting only designed for .rar files. you can upload an unlimited number of .rar (WinRAR) files and share with your friends. Limit is 150Mb per file with no upload limit. No signup required but FREE signing up will get the benefits to manage your files and check how many times a file has been downloaded.

Features

• host unlimited .rar files online and share with friends.
• 150mb size limit per .rar, split archives allowed with no upload limit.
• view the contents of the archive before you download, ensuring it contains the files you want.
• advanced password support, no more downloading a .rar just to find out you need a password!
• file management system; keep track of your uploads, edit, delete etc. (signup feature)
• check how many downloads your .rar has been downloaded. (signup feature)
• files will only be removed if they have not been downloaded in 2 months, opposed to 30 days. (signup feature)

I’ve covered Skreemr mp3 search engine before. Beemp3 is similar to Skreemr which is a music search engine that has huge list of mp3 files available on the internet. It also displays information for each mp3 files like bitrate, duration, size and frequency like Skreemr has.

Currently, It indexed more than 800,000 mp3 files and added 10,000 mp3 files daily as they mentioned. If you can’t find mp3 files in Skreemr, Beemp3 is an alternative way.

Related mp3 Search Engines

• Skreemr
• Downloads.nl/mp3.html

I did not use SMS free service from web before. I just came across from hongkiat blog posted about Chawt, a free SMS sending service from online that let you sent 80 characters message to any number. It requires signup and you need to activate your account with the activation code that they sent to your mobile number. Once you activate, you can sent SMS to any number over 160 countries. Message comes from your mobile number when you sent from Chawt so that they can reply to you back. Try Chawt!