Report a Yahoo Group if it is annoying you

Google groups has provided a very nice and clear system to report a Group but Yahoo sometime is annoying and it is difficult to find the Group abuse report page. Often it happens with me suddenly I start reciving tons of email in my inbox. When I inquire about the sender I came to know these email coming from various mailing groups, mostly Yahoo groups. I have a yahoo identity and I am part of few yahoo groups too, but when I visited my yahoo groups page I don't find myself as a member of group who is sending me bulk emails. This thing really irritating me. When I visit suspected group who is sending me un-necessary email I can't login to that. I have added my multiple ids in my yahoo groups setting so most of the time I transfer my regular group emails to gmail or hotmail becuase I can't bother login to all my mail boxes everyday. This confuses me more at Yahoo groups.

How to Report a Yahoo Group

To report abuse of a Yahoo group please visit the url below.
http://help.yahoo.com/abuse  or  abuse.yahoo.com

You will find a page like this. (click on the image for a larger version)

Select Group Abuse, you will be presented a form where you have to fill out, your contact details, group name, the email you found from group including full header.

After filling out all these details, just sit back and relax. Yahoo customer support team will soon take necessary actions on that and they probably contact you once or twice in case they need more information.

If you have something to ask, please drop me a comment and I'll response back soon. I hope this information will be useful for you.

iPhone 4 is now available in Saudi Arabia

I would like to let you know iPhone 4 is now available in Saudi Arabia with iPhone retailer Nasa Smart Devices. The retail shops of Nasa are located in Main Saudi cities like Riyadh, Jeddah, Khobar, Makkah and Madina. You can also buy from Nasa Smart Devices through their online shop. Their are few accessories are also available, like Leather case, Silicon case and Any Reflective screen protector. Nasa Smart Devices is retailer of smartphones in Saudi Arabia and Middle East.

iPhone 4

iPhone 4 Technical Specifications

Size and weight

Height:4.5 inches (115.2 mm)

Width:2.31 inches (58.6 mm)

Depth:0.37 inch (9.3 mm)

Weight:4.8 ounces (137 grams)

Cellular and wireless

• UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz)
• GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
• 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz only)
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless technology

Location Based features

• Assisted GPS
• Digital compass
• Wi-Fi
• Cellular

Power and battery

• Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery
• Charging via USB to computer system or power adapter
  Talk time:
  

  Up to 7 hours on 3G

  Up to 14 hours on 2G







• Standby time: Up to 300 hours
  Internet use:
  

  Up to 6 hours on 3G

  Up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi







• Video playback: Up to 10 hours






• Audio playback: Up to 40 hours

Windows system requirements

• PC with USB 2.0 port
• Windows 7; Windows Vista; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
• iTunes 9.2 or later (free download fromwww.itunes.com/download) 
• iTunes Store account
• Internet access

Display

• Retina display
• 3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
• 960-by-640-pixel resolution at 326 ppi
• 800:1 contrast ratio (typical)
• 500 cd/m2 max brightness (typical)
• Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating on front and back
• Support for display of multiple languages and characters simultaneously

Google Adsense help requires Macromedia Flash ???

I was just surprised to see name of Macromedia at Google ad-sense help page. They have put some training videos at Google Adsense help page and beside they wrote in brackets (Macromedia Flash required). I was a big fan of Macromedia Software company and I have started using their software back in 2001 at the time of Dreamweaver and Fireworks version 3. Later on probably after Dreamweaver 8 Macromedia has been sold to Adobe systems and its name vanished from everywhere, from the internet, from the Softwares itself and other media sources. I personally thing Macromedia was doing better job than Adobe systems, however still products like Dreamweaver and Fireworks are a great success even though Adobe are handling them.

For now just leave this story aside, my topic is why Google didn't update their help pages, instead of Macromedia, name of  Adobe Flash should be written there. Is Google team is that sleepy that they are not aware of Macromedia's ending or Is there some solid reason behind this to put Macromedia name there. Check the snapshot below. The page is located here.

How To Find An Seo Specialist

Content is King. Search engines love content, especially if it's unique. Build a quality website and become the authority on your niche. You will soon find the traffic flowing in and your servers will be bloating with bandwidth.

SEO Specialist

Search engine directory submissions would rather be a smart decision to make for your marketing business. They are different from the search engine submissions directly. It is effective to have your website registered at Google or any other directory. Keep in mind to question your SEO specialist if they are adding your website to the search engines or the directories.

While one can never be sure about the exact ranking a website will get, there is a certain minimum level that must be ensured by any consultant worth his salt. So, this is our first important question, and if the consultant hesitates in giving a firm answer, you can be sure that you are dealing with someone who doesn't know his business inside out.

An SEO specialist should have a reputation or a good amount of experience in handling optimization of web sites successfully. The specialist should have a record of dealing with different types of design features as well as development languages. Always make it a point to ask for client references and check their portfolio.

You should also inquire the local SEO service providers of what keywords they are going to use for the research. If he or she is specific about the keyword listings regarding your business, look for someone who provides and uses miscellaneous combination of keywords and researching techniques.

A company that is involved in the online world needs to draw more traffic. If this does not happen, then the company is bound to lose money each passing day. But how can this actually be achieved? The services of an SEO specialist must be hired in order to improve the search engine ranking of the company's site. It is also through the help of the SEO specialist that the company can boost the chances of attracting traffic from the search engine going to the site in a natural manner.

Now for writing an advertisement, it is a little different. If you are dealing with Google Adwords, you will already have a set number of keywords that will go into the advertisement. A good SEO specialist will be able to not only format but also write the ad with the correct amount of keywords in it while making it easy to read as well as well as attention grabbing.

When dealing with a professional SEO specialist, you need to make sure that they have done the work they say they have done. Ask your professional SEO consultants if they can show you a report that shows rankings through many search engines for six months. Make sure the report that is shown to you is in a format that you can easily understand. Professional SEO services are not cheap and finances will have to figure into the equation.

If you get your search query report going in your account with Google, then you can really get a feel for what sort of words people are finding a site for in the early phase. Then you can build out the site according to what the market's telling you are high conversion type keywords. Everything I do is focused around buying keywords and going for the conversion.

With these identified an SEO specialist can make suggestions on how to improve your own site optimisation by finding elements that your competitors are doing well with and what they may have missed. This is very important information for your website. They can also recommend amendments to be made to your website such as new content, blogs, change of navigation and also identify what isn't working and how to correct it, this could mean in some cases a site change or update which sounds like a tall order but normally isn't and can dramatically help your traffic increase.

Saudi Arabia Gold Shops

Saudi Arabia has a huge gold market, you will find big gold jewelry shops in different areas. These shops has all the variety of jewelry from bangles to rings, necklace to ear rings. This gold is coming from Saudi Arabian gold mines. As Allah has granted enough resources to the land of arab and Saudi Arabian gold is one of them. Here are few pictures of jewelry shops.

Gold Jewelry Shops in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia gold

gold jewelry

Saudi Gold shop

Expatriate health insurance in Saudi Arabia

Health Care in Saudi Arabia

When living and/or working in Saudi Arabia, people may not have the same level of access to the health care system as to the local population. Consequently, it is crucial to have some professional advice on how to choose the right expatriate health insurance in Saudi Arabia specially Jeddah city. Knowing that the chosen insurance provider will have the expertise to ensure the best treatment in the best facilities in Jeddah is priceless. Expat-blog.com is offering a free advice to Expatriates to make better health care in Saudi Arabia.

Please visit this page for getting advice, you will find a form like below.

10 Minute Opt-In Success - The Truth About This Email Marketing Course

The 10 Minute Opt-In Success Domain was registered on July 6th 2007 by Michael Savoie. Michael is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and the creator of this course. The purpose if this program is to enable you to start building your email marketing list a lot faster than you are doing right now by using just 10 minutes of work per day. He believes having targeted opt-in subscribers is the golden key to succeeding in internet marketing, and if you don't build a list you're just begging to fail.

The 10 Minute Opt-In Success program teaches you that if you have a product but no list, what's the point of moving forward. Michael Savoie is also the creator of the product in one weekend newsletter, where he shows the people on his list how to churn out product after product at very fast speeds. He combines this teaching skill with some of the most renowed names of Internet Marketing. Some of the people he interviewed and methods he teaches in his newsletter has allowed people to work from home verses their job.

One of the things 10 Minute Opt-In Success will teach you is how to find people that need your help and how to gear your autoresponder follow-ups to find these people. It will also show you how to make yourself sound serious to your subscribers so they'll keep buying your stuff. He will show you how to make sure your newsletter is a real money making tool and not just a hobby tool. You will have templates and scripts available so you don't have to go out and pay for these yourself.

There's a lot of regurgitated information out in Internet Marketing Land these days, but a lot of these ideas while very simple, make logical sense and can help someone new that doesn't know all the ropes of building a responsive email list. If you want a copy of this you don't have to worry about the price since it's under $8.00, at least it was at the time of this writing. He also goes over Web 2.0 methods to building your list.

Having a list is important these days, but believe me you don't need one to make money on the internet. But if you are in the Internet Marketing or Network Marketing Niche especially or any niche you are passionate about, you should learn all the tips you can so you can start building a responsive email list at the same time you are ramping up traffic to your websites. At least cost isn't an issue with this course, but if you feel you already know the stuff he talks about you might not need it, and if you are new you should learn it.

Just speak it: introducing Voice Actions for Android

(cross-posted with the Official Google Blog)

Our mobile phones have become modern-day Swiss Army knives. An Android phone is a handheld computer, a music player, a notepad, a GPS navigation unit and more, all rolled into one sleek device that fits in your pocket. Today’s phones do so many things for us that sometimes we don’t even think about how we do them.

Even though our phones do all these new things, the most natural way of interacting with a phone remains what it always has been: speaking. And to that end, we’re pleased to introduce Voice Actions for Android. Voice Actions are a series of spoken commands that let you control your phone using your voice. Call businesses and contacts, send texts and email, listen to music, browse the web, and complete common tasks, all just by speaking into your phone.

To use Voice Actions, tap the microphone button on the Google search box on your home screen, or press down for a few seconds on the physical search button on your phone to activate the “Speak Now” screen. Let Mike LeBeau, the lead engineer for Voice Actions, show you in this video.

(from the Google Mobile YouTube Channel)

Speak any of these commands to perform a Voice Action on your phone:

• send text to [contact] [message]
• listen to [artist/song/album]
• call [business]
• call [contact]
• send email to [contact] [message]
• go to [website]
• note to self [note]
• navigate to [location/business name]
• directions to [location/business name]
• map of [location]

And of course, you can still conduct a Google search using your voice.

While we’re at it, we’re also releasing an updated version of the Google search widget for Android. When you type a local search query, like [italian restaurants] you’ll see suggested restaurants with addresses and ratings. Also, as you type queries, you can refine them further by tapping the pencil icon that appears to the right of search suggestions.

Both Voice Actions and the new Google search widget require Android 2.2 (Froyo), and will be pre-installed with the new Droid 2 phone from Motorola and Verizon. Voice Actions are currently available for U.S. English speakers.

If you have another phone with Android 2.2 (like the Nexus One, HTC Evo or the original Droid), you’ll need to download several app updates from Android Market to get all the latest goodness:

• Voice Search (this app includes Voice Actions)
• Google Search widget
• music apps (e.g. Pandora, Last.fm, Rdio, mSpot)

To get started fast, scan the QR codes for these apps below.

We think Voice Actions help you get things done on your phone faster and easier. Give it a try, and let us know what you think!

Posted by Hugo Barra, Product Management Director, and Dave Burke, Engineering Manager

Update (1:23 PM PST): we previously had not made the below downloads available outside the US, but they are now available. Voice Actions only work with US English speakers right now.

Voice Search

Search widget

Instantly zap links, maps and phone numbers to your Android phone with Chrome to Phone!

(Cross-posted from the Google Chrome blog.)

Ever wanted a way to quickly and easily send links and other information from your desktop or laptop to your phone to view on the go? The new Chrome to Phone extension adds a button to your Google Chrome browser that instantly sends the current web page, map, YouTube video, or selected phone number or text to your Android device running Froyo (or Android 2.2).

Suppose you're reading an interesting article on your favorite news website and need to leave for an urgent appointment. Simply click the extension icon in your browser to send the link to your phone and the device's browser will automatically open the link, ready for you to view on the go. Chrome to Phone also works seamlessly with Google Maps. Say you’ve looked up an address or driving directions on your desktop. Clicking the extension icon in your browser will push the information to the Google Maps app on your phone. YouTube videos work the same way with the extension. You can also select a phone number on a web page and send it to the dialer on your phone. Selected text can also be automatically copied from your browser and sent to your Android clipboard for later viewing.



The Chrome to Phone extension is available in English for now, but we hope to expand to other languages soon. Check out the help center if you have further questions. To get Chrome to Phone, install the extension in your Google Chrome browser and the Android application on your phone from Android Market, and you’re ready to go.

Posted by Dave Burke, Engineering Manager

Flipping for Gesture Search

You may already be familiar with Gesture Search, our Android app from Google Labs that lets you search by writing out characters on the touchscreen of your device. Today we’re happy to announce a new version, Gesture Search 1.2, which includes a new motion gesture. By doing a “double flip”, or flipping your phone away and then back, you can start Gesture Search at any time. This eliminates the need to activate Gesture Search from a home screen shortcut. You can turn the feature on or adjust its sensitivity in Settings. We’ve also fixed some bugs and improved usability by adding accessibility support. Gesture Search is still in its early stages (as with all things in Google Labs) but we’d love to hear your feedback in the comments below. It is available for Android-powered devices running Android 1.6 and above, and can be downloaded in Android Market.

Update 8/11/10: If you're on an Android-powered device, click here to download Gesture Search. If you're on a computer, go here.

Update 8/19/10: An updated version of Gesture Search has been posted to Android Market, which contains some bug fixes. You can learn more about the double flip update here.

Posted by Yang Li, Research Scientist, Gesture Search team

Black Hat Vs. White Hat Types

Black Hat SEO- These are aggressive tactics used to gain high search engines rankings that do not comply with the philosophy of the search engines. Sites produced with black hat SEO techniques are considered unethical spam by most web surfers because they provide no real content or user experience. They basically look like pages of another search engine or paragraphs of jargon containing keywords instead of real content.

The black hats, on the other hand, simply thinks of "How do I get links to the site?" They pay no consideration to whether the links provide value to the visitors and readers. The eventual strategy that emerges usually turns out to be schemes like link farms and reciprocal link schemes.

Black Hat SEO are all about getting fast results. The method they use to optimize their websites will often get the website to the top of the search engines very rapidly, but when the search engines catch-on, the website will very often crash or get banned.

For a while now, there is a battle going on within the Internet among marketers that use SEO. Black Hat SEO is to use optimizing practices to fool the search engines and the use of other traffic generating techniques that are questionable or unethical.

White Hat Optimization- If you're thinking of using an SEO consultancy to help your website get listed well on search engines then ask them a few questions about bad techniques that you've heard of. This will probably be enough for the unethical website optimization company to take the bait whereas a good, ethical SEO consultancy will try to talk you out of it and steer you in the right direction

White Hat SEO remains more time-consuming, but it yields better long-term results and has a more positive impact. People prefer to use web sites they haven't been deceived into visiting, and search engines don't like to list sites which have manipulated their way to a high ranking. Sites using white hatted techniques usually don't have to worry about being removed from search engine results.

The use of keyphrases can also be considered white or black hat as white hat SEO'rs will use keyphases in the natural context of a body of text, if you write your web copy for your visitors and not the search engines you will achieve better results.

White Hat SEO evolves writing good quality content. Don't try to use spammy tricks. Deliver great content to your visitors and the search engines. Don't hide text, or stuff Meta tags with keywords that shouldn't be there. Make sure your title tag and other Meta tags reflect your page.

The Importance of Email Marketing

Why email marketing is critical to online success.

Most of the people who visit your site will never buy. In fact, if your website produces a 1% conversion rate your website is considered successful.In most cases, that means that 99 out of every 100 people who visit your site will leave and never come back… ever.

By offering something of high perceived value absolutely free to your website visitors, in exchange for their name and email address, you can capture a much larger number of people into your marketing system. Where a good conversion rate for a site that is selling something is around 1%, a good ‘opt-in rate’ (the number of people who take up your free offer) is around 20%, and can be as high as 50%! Instead of losing 99 out of 100 people who visit your site, you’re now only losing 50 to 80 people. Or in other words, you’re capturing 20 to 50 people out of every 100 people who visit your site, instead of just one.

Most of the people who visit your site have some interest in what you sell, but for any number of reasons they won’t buy on the spot… they might be researching to buy in the future; they might be looking to buy now but were distracted; or they might be at work and can’t take the required action to buy your product or service… it could be anything. But, if you capture their name and email address, you can send them regular emails with solid information which is of value to them, as well as promotional emails selling your services.

By doing that, you stay in the mind of your prospect, so when they do make the decision to buy, your business it he first they think of. Email marketing is critical in generating the maximum profits from your website visitors.
Author: Alex Cleanthous

Lock your Windows based PC with a mouse click

Some time you have to move here and there frequently and at that time you have to Lock your system to prevent from un-authorized access. If you find it difficult to press CTRL+ALT+DEL every time you want to lock your machine. I tell you an easy way to do this task.

Lock your system with a Single Mouse Click.

Try this and create the icon to lock the machine.

1. Right click an empty spot on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut.
2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, copy and paste the 'Type the location' text box:
   rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation
3. Click Next.
4. In "Type a name for this shortcut", type "Lock My PC" and Click Finish.
5. It will Create a shortcut on your desktop. Whenever you Double click on it, it will lock your system immediately.

Easy Submit your site to Ask.com

Mr. Garry Conn has written this easy way to submit a website to Ask.com. Unlike Google Search engine or Yahoo Search, Ask.com don't provide any webmaster tools or URL submission. There is only one way to submit your website or blog into ask.com.

That is, you must have an xml format sitemap for you blog, if You don't have, you can easily create one.

Lets see what Garry saying.

How Do I Submit My Site To Ask.com

Ask.com is making a come back and getting your site listed in their search engine is well worth the time and effort. Submitting your site into Ask.com is a great way to help you gain more traffic from sources other than Google. It is a good idea to invest time and create strategies on pulling in traffic from multiple sources. If you loose a source but have other sources to fall back on, your site will not suffer from a huge loss in traffic.

Submit Your Site To Ask.com

Before you can submit your site to Ask.com you need to have sitemap.xml.

• If you use WordPress, you can find information about adding sitemap.xml by visiting this page. If you use Blogger, you can find what you need by visiting this page.
• Once you have a sitemap.xml file in place you can then submit your sitemap into Ask.com This process is very simple
• When you have your sitemap.xml in place you can submit your site to Ask.com by opening up your web browser and typing the following address and ping it, you need to replace yousite.com with your URL.

http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.yoursite.com/yourmap.xml

You will find a message from Ask.com like this.

That’s it. There is nothing complicated to it. Create a sitemap and then point your web browser to the special address mention above. This automatically pings Ask.com and submits your sitemap into their database. Done!

iPhone 4 High Resolution Images for Designers

I needed iPhone 4 High resolution images for a design work. But I didn't find any ready made high resolution iPhone pictures on the internet, even at Apple website, So I google it and find few images from here, here and here, then I imported these images into Photoshop and did a little re-touch and completed my task. Then I thought these HR images might be usefull for other designers too, so I am presenting it here. These pictures are in PNG format with a transparent background and absolutely no watermark at all. Apple's latest logo is also provided.

Another source is also providing iPhone HR images in Vector format but it didn't helped me, may be it becomes useful for you. It is available here. If you like this work please comment below.

iPhone 4 - 1465 x 2160 pixels

iPhone 4 Side by Side - 1502 x 1908

iPhone 4 Front only - 1106 x 1930

You can get even more Higher Quality iPhone images from Apple's website.
http://www.apple.com/pr/products/iphone/iphone.html