Need to send fax immediately ? Just do that from your iPhone! Send and receive fax directly on your iphone using these applications.

Sending fax from iphone is very simple nowadays. Just take a photograph of the document using iphone camera and use these free online fax services to send it straight from your phone itself.

If you find these steps complicated, then use this ready made iphone app for sending fax directly from your phone.

finarXFax- This iphone fax application has an integrated image processing feature which corrects the image and if needed converts into a faxable black and white document. You can fax text documents, photographs, pdf files, and other documents formats like MS Word or excel or even a new photo from iphone cam.

 

For using this application, you need to have an account with interfax or sipgate. To get a free test account contact interfax and just mention “finarX fax promotion”, desired username and your email address. You will receive an email with the password for your new account.

Checkout finarXfax or go directly to appstore

 

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One of my friends recently emailed me asking how to view the list of blocked contacts in his Gmail chat account. He had blocked almost all of his senior co-workers so as to hide from them whenever he’s online in gtalk chat at work time.

Blocking a contact in gmail chat is pretty easy. All you need is to hover mouse over the contact name and click ‘Block’. But to find the list of all contacts that where blocked in chat is not possible in Gmail. You’ll have to go through every contact you think is blocked and then unblock them.

But there is a small trick to find all the blocked contacts in gmail and then unblock all of them in seconds.

Install & Run Google Talk.

Go to the settings and click on “Blocked” menu from left.

You’ll be able to see the list all the contacts who were blocked Gmail chat.

Click on the contact name and hit unblock. Done :)

With this trick, you could easily view which gmail contacts are blocked and then unblock them easily. I wonder why Google has not yet added this feature directly into the Gmail.

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VLC Media player puts up a red Christmas hat icon as an Easter egg in this festive season! If you are a VLC addict then you will have noticed this change as of Midnight 18 December.It seems as the developers from VLC decided to included this Easter egg on their later version 0.9+.

Checkout this screenshot.

 

Happy Christmas VLC!!

 

Updated: 12/18/2009

Update 2:

Many people are complaining that vlc silently updates in background without user permission. But that’s not the case. VLC already stores this hat icon in the normal VLC package and doesn’t do any kind of update in the background.

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Twitter, the most famous micro blogging has been hacked today and the homepage was defaced with the message below.

“Name of God
As an Iranian response to this intervention sly server command in the internal affairs of my country and American authorities)
This site is a warning Hk”

Twitter.com is now completely taken down and even status.twitter.com looks down from here.

The Twitter homepage now looks similar to http://www.mowjcamp.org/ 

 

The Google cache still shows the defaced page of twitter which confirms that the site has been compromised.

Check the Google cache here

The message shown in the cache is

بنام خدا
به عنوان یک ایرانی در پاسخ به دخالت های شیطنت آمیز این سرویس دهنده به دستور مقامات آمریکایی در امور داخلی کشورم ) 
این سایت به عنوان هشدار هک می شود

Translating this text shows

“Name of God
As an Iranian response to this intervention sly server command in the internal affairs of my country and American authorities)
This site is a warning Hk”

Looks like some sort of server-side DNS cache poisoning where the nameservers of twitter is redirected to the defaced page. Lets hope twitter team recovers from this attack ASAP.

UPDATE: Twitter is back!!!

UPDATE2: As assumed, it was a clear case of DNS disruption. Checkout the Twitter blog for knowing more on this issue.

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Yes, you heard it right! Now you can make free international calls using Google voice with a small trick. This free call trick could be used to call almost all countries and is not limited to United States. Checkout rest of the post to know how it’s done.

Google voice has now become one of the best service to make free international calls anywhere in the world. The only problem is to get an invite to the “semi-closed” Google voice service. I managed to get an invite during the early phase by requesting an invite from the official site itself. It takes around a week to get an invite from them, but if are in hurry then drop me a mail [3 invites left in my account :) ].

How to Make Free International Call from PC to mobile using Google voice

So, if you managed to get an invite to Google voice the next step would be the so called activation procedure. This is a big problem for ones living outside US, since it refuses to activate from outside USA throwing the error below. If you have already activated Google voice, then go to the bottom of this post to know how to make unlimited free calls outside USA, else read below.

Follow these instructions for activating Google voice outside USA and make free international calls from your computer.

1) The first step is to get a free incoming US number using SIPgate and for that you need a US IP address.

So, install hotspot shield (or ultrasurf) to get an US IP address and then register at SIPgate to get a free incoming US number. Use fake Name Generator for filling out the registration details with a US identity. You’ll be provided with a free US number.

Then download SIPgate and install it. To receive calls on your PC on that number, go to sipgate settings page using your browser and setup a new VOIP phone.

After logging in from the SIPgate softphone from desktop, your status will be shown as online. Now you’ll receive all the calls made to that US number on your desktop softphone.

2)Next step is to activate the Google voice account using this US number. To do this, open the Google voice activation link in the browser. This time you’ll not get any error, since you’re behind a virtual US proxy address. Login with your Google account and go through these steps.

a)Choose your favorite number

b)Enter a 4 digit pin to access voice mail by phone.

c)When prompted for a USA phone number where you will receive the call to confirm your account,enter the US number which you got in step1.

d) Verify your phone by entering the digits though the sipgate phone.

e)After entering the digits, your Google voice account will be fully activated.

Now onwards, you could access your Google voice account without using U.S proxy. If you’ve already got a gizmo number, you can add it your GV account to receive calls in that number.

Making Free Calls outside USA with Google Voice

Now you’ve got a fully activated Google voice account and could be used to call any number in United States for Free. But what about international free calls ? How to call international number for free using google voice.

There are many online services like talkster and rebtel which allows free calls from US to other international numbers around the world.

Making Free calls using Rebtel

Signup with Rebtel using your GV number.

Go to the contacts page and add a new contact with international number.

You’ll be provided with a local US number for every contact you add. Call this number for free using google voice. That’s it. Similarly you can add as many contacts as you like and make international calls for free using rebtel and google voice.

Also you can use this similar process with talkster as well for making free calls from PC to mobile though GV.

Other method is to use international free call services like freecall2india which has got free US access numbers to which you can call for free using the Google voice service. [I’m currently testing one more great free call service which can be used with GV, will be posting on that soon in coming days. Wait for then and stay updated]

If you have any questions or doubts making free international calls using Google voice, post them in comments.

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Symantec has recently released the latest and final version of Norton Ghost 15.0, a backup and recovery software, which is now compatible with Windows 7 and provides support for blueray discs. Norton Ghost 15 includes advanced capabilities and backup/restore options for personal computers.Checkout our review and download Norton Ghost 15 free from the links provided.

What’s New in Norton Ghost v 15

With Norton Ghost, you can create an exact copy of hard drives and also transfer them to other external hard drives with ease. With the hot backup feature, the users doesn’t even need to shut down their computer while backing up.

Another great feature of Symantec Norton Ghost 15 is Cold Imaging technology, by which you could backup a ‘fresh pc’ without even installing the norton ghost product. This feature is very much helpful to restore a newly bought PC to the exactly same factory condition even after many months of usage. This imaging technique in Norton Ghost 15 is by booting the PC to the recovery state from Norton ghost 15.0 boot CD and then starting the backup.

The ability of Norton ghost 15 to create images from the Recovery CD is enough worth to upgrade from previous version Norton ghost 14. Also you can now create customized recovery CD’s. Download Norton Ghost 15 free from the official web site.

In the occurrence of system failure, Norton Ghost could be used to recover lost or damaged files even if the Operating system does not start. It works with most storage devices, both 25G and 50G Blu-ray Discs including external hard disks, networked drives, and record/rewritable CDs and DVDs. 

Main Features of Norton Ghost 15.0

Creates Full Backup including system and file backups.

Ability to restore the PC incase of system failures.

Secure offsite backups through FTP or networked storage devices.

Backup according to schedules and events

Cold Imaging to backup system without installing norton ghost.

Backup hard disks to blueray disks [25GB or 50GB]

Windows 7 support in Norton Ghost 15.0

Incremental and differential backup allows you to Backup only files that have changed.

Support for Bitlocker to enhance security by drive encryption and integrity checking have been included in latest Symantec Norton Ghost.

Norton Ghost v15 Minimum System Requirements

Operating System:

Windows 7 Starter / Home Basic / Home Premium / Professional / Enterprise / Ultimate
Windows Vista Home Basic / Home Premium / Business / Ultimate
Windows XP Home / Professional

300 MHz or faster processor,512 MB (1GB recommended) of RAM and 430 MB of available hard disk space for installing Norton Ghost v15.0

Download Norton Ghost 15.0 free

Free Norton Ghost 15 Direct Download Link [120MB]

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