Sunday, December 9, 2007
1.open your rapid share link
2.then click on free.
3.As soon as timer start type this in address bar and click enter
javascript:alert(c=0)
4.a pop up message will come click ok your counter is zero and just download .
1.Delete the cookies in your browser internet explorer or Firefox or opera or whatever u use).
2.Press start->run,type cmd.
3.In the command prompt,type ipconfig/flushdns press enter.Then type ipconfig/release,then ipconfig/renew .Now type exit.
4.Now try downloading, for many people this may work if their ISP provides a dynamic ip.
Hope you found this post useful!
Saturday, December 8, 2007
It has been long since I posted a game.
So here I go with the traditional game,Chess.
I won't call it as the best chess game available in net.
But it is worth a try.
Enjoy playing it!
Friday, December 7, 2007
This is a seldom used Windows XP feature that is sure to come in handy (probably when you least suspect it). I’m referring to Mousekeys, which when activated allows you to navigate the mouse cursor using the arrow keys on your keyboard. This type of knowledge can definitely help you out if you are ever in a situation where the mouse is inoperable.
Here's wat is to be done....
On your Keyboard Press the following Keys at the same time:
Left SHIFT + ALT + NUM LOCK 
Click ok, the Mousekeys will. Once the Mousekeys is running simply use the arrow keys located on your numeric keypad (8 is up, 2 is down, 4 is left, and 6 is right).
To move the cursor simply tap on the arrows in the numeric keypad (if you hold down one of the arrows, it will move the cursor faster).
You will probably notice that the cursor moves incredibly slow, so one other thing I do is, when I open Mousekeys, I go into the Settings and adjust the speed all the way up. You can find it in the control panel.
Here is what you need to know to navigate with Mousekeys:
- To move up, tap or hold down the 8 key on your numeric keypad
- To move down, tap or hold down the 2 key on your numeric keypad
- To move right, tap or hold down the 6 key on your numeric keypad
- To move left, tap or hold down the 4 key on your numeric keypad
- To Click on something, Hit the 5 key on your numeric keypad
- To double-click, press the plus sign (+) on your numeric keypad
- To right-click, press the minus sign (-) on your numeric keypad
- To drag something, move the cursor to the item you want to drag then press the Insert key. Then to release the item hit the Delete key.
I think you would have found this post very useful.
Article idea:http://system-hacks.blogspot.com/2007/11/use-your-keyboard-as-mouse.html
My ISP is NIB(Natioanl Internet Backbone).
When I switch on the modem the modem contacts the nearest exchange to my home.Then the signal is redirected to another exchange,which is the primary exchange nearest to my city.
Are you wondering what NIB is?
I found this post in another site.
Assembler Chicken: First it builds the road …
COBOL Chicken: 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSING. IF NO-MORE-VEHICLES THEN PERFORM 0010-CROSS-THE-ROAD VARYING STEPS FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL ON-THE-OTHER-SIDE ELSE GO TO 0001-CHICKEN-CROSSINGc
Delphi Chicken: The chicken is dragged across the road and dropped on the other side.
G3 300 mH Chicken: It crosses twice as fast as any Pentium chicken
Gopher Chicken: Tried to run, but got flattened by the Web chicken.
Intel Pentium Chicken: The chicken crossed 4.9999978 times.
Iomega Chicken: The chicken should have backed up before crossing.
Java Chicken: If your road needs to be crossed by a chicken, the server will download one to the other side. (Of course, those are chicklets.)
Lotus Chicken: Don’t you *dare* try to cross the road the same way we do!
Mac Chicken: No reasonable chicken owner would want a chicken to cross the road, so there’s no way to tell it to.
Microsoft Chicken (TM): It’s already on both sides of the road. And it just bought the road.
Newton Chicken: Can’t cluck, can’t fly, and can’t lay eggs, but you can carry it across the road in your pocket!
NT Chicken: Will cross the road in June. No, August. September for sure.
OOP Chicken: It doesn’t need to cross the road, it just sends a message.
OS/2 Chicken: It crossed the road in style years ago, but it was so quiet that nobody noticed.
OS/ 8.1 HFS+ Chicken: It had much more free space to cross.
Quantum Logic Chicken: The chicken is distributed probabilistically on all sides of the road until you observe it on the side of your choice.
VB Chicken: USHighways! (aChicken)
Web Chicken: Jumps out onto the road, turns right, and just keeps on running.
Windows 95 Chicken: You see different coloured feathers while it crosses, but cook it and it still tastes like … chicken.
Windows 98 Chicken: It should have expected to cause a crash while crossing.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
After blogging and collecting informations for my story,I felt very bored.It has been quite a while since I programmed.So I did a c program(my favorite language) to group numbers based on the sum of digits(finally truncated to a single digit).I learnt hashing last year.But never really tried it out.In my sem I had a similar program where I had to group numbers based on the number of digits that repeat in that number.So I did this program as a time pass.
int digitsum(int num)
{
void display()
int main()
case 1:
case 2:
case 3:
exit(0);
}while(1);
Newton's Method of Fluxions was formally published posthumously, but following Leibniz's publication of the calculus a bitter rivalry erupted between the two mathematicians over who had developed the calculus first and so Newton no longer hid his knowledge of fluxions.
2.Create a new DWORD called MaxConnectionsPerServer
3.Set the value for DWORD = 000000a
4.Create another new DWORD called MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server
5.Also set the value of this DWORD = 0000000a
Note 2: Hex 0000000a = Decimal 10
2.Should you add a value, or modify an existing setting?
Answer: Create a new dword set the value = 0000000a
3.Is MaxConnectionsPerServer a String Value or a DWORD?
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
I hope it will help me as much as entrecard helped me in increasing my blog traffic.
With Whispernet, you can be anywhere, think of a book, and get it in one minute. Similarly, your content automatically comes to you, wherever you are. Newspaper subscriptions are delivered wirelessly each morning. Most magazines arrive before they hit newsstands. Haven’t read the book for tomorrow night’s book club? Get it in a minute. Finished your book in the airport? Download the sequel while you board the plane. Whether you’re in the mood for something serious or hilarious, lighthearted or studious, Kindle delivers your spontaneous reading choices on demand.
And because they knew that you can’t judge a book by its cover, Kindle lets you download and read the beginning of books for free. This way, you can try it out—if you like it, simply buy and download with 1-Click, right from your Kindle, and continue reading. Want to try a newspaper as well? All newspaper subscriptions start with a risk-free two-week trial.Kindle’s paperback size and expandable memory let you travel light with your library. With the freedom to download what you want, when you want, I hope you’ll never again find yourself stuck without a great read.
The only problem with the device is it's cost:$399.
Thatz quite expensive...
I came across this widget while I was viewing someone else's blog,to be specific it was angelika's 88%
blog.I agree with this stat because it says that I am 88% addicted to my blog.Infact it should be more.Anyway it is almost correct :-).
Thursday, November 29, 2007
The name of my story is THE INFINITE LOOP.You would agree with the title once you have finished reading the story.I would regard this as my best post till date.
"Hmmm…. Hmmm…" I heard a voice so familiar to me.
"Hello......."I started.
But I was rudely interrupted by the lady who made that sound. I had seen her somewhere. But I was unable to recall.
"Listen I don't have time. Nor, you have. All you have to do now is read this letter. It would be useful for you in your future, if you have a future."
This statement confused me.
"What do you mean by this?",I asked.
"You are caught in a time wrap Deepak, Just like my brother. You read this!", she insisted.
"I should leave this place soon or else I would enter into trouble. Read it", she again insisted and left in a flash.
I took a firm breath of air, opened the letter and started reading the letter.
Hi Deepak! My name is Deepak too. I knew that you are caught in a time wrap. The same incidents are repeating in your life again and again. I know this because I am suffering from the same problem too.
I stopped reading.
It's more than a coincidence. First, the person's name is same as mine. Now he has same problem as me. I had no other go except reading that letter. So, I continued reading.
You don't have much time. Why do you stop reading?
I was taken by surprise. Is he reading my mind? I continued reading.
I am not mind reading, friend. You will understand it once you completely read what I have written in this letter.
As I was saying, I am suffering from the same problem with which you are suffering. It all started when I met that girl. I had seen her when she was a kid (I was a kid too).Her name is Anandhi. She had come back to her grand parents' home (she used to live there when she was a kid).I desperately wanted to meet her. She knew me already (we used to play monopoly when we were kids). We were close friends. But there was some problem between my parents and her parents. And she had left to Australia along with her parents before ten years. I was waiting for a chance to speak with her.
One day, I received a message in my cell.
The message read:
I am Anandhi. I would be waiting in the ice-cream parlor in the next street at 6:00PM.PS: I would be waiting for you. Don’t reply to this message.
I was taken by surprise.
But I replied: Who is this?
There was no reply at all.
I wanted to give it a try. So I went to the Ice-cream parlor at 5:30 PM itself.
She was already present there.
I went inside the parlor and ordered for a chocolate milkshake with ice-cream and sat in the table exactly opposite to her.
She stared at me. And my cell vibrated.
I never saw her message me. But it was from the same number in which she had sent a message to me. It read:
Why did you come early?
After reading the message, I went to her table.
"I wanted to welcome you", I said. She said, "You are still the same naughty boy Deepak".
"And you are still the same silly little girl Anandhi", I said.
And we were chatting about my past, present, future. Then her past, present and future. We continued to chat till it was 9:00 PM. The parlor would be closed by 9:00 PM. So we had to leave.
This made me very happy. Chatting with her after 10 long years made me very happy.
Then, we started to meet regularly meet in the ice-cream parlor.
It was our favorite place to meet. An ideal place, I would call.
Anandhi has a brother. I had never seen him. He used to live with his parents, while Anandhi was living with her grand parents.
Anandhi said that he would come to her grand parents' home the next day. And she would be glad to introduce him to me.
I was waiting to meet him. I even had a haircut, to look smarter. But strangely, to my surprise he never turned up.
When I asked Anandhi, she said that he was a research mathematician working on 8-dimensional maths and he had some problems in his reasearch. She further added that her brother had sent a very big letter addressed to me.
"Why me?",I asked.
"I will bring the letter today evening. Wait in the parlor Deepu. I think only you can help my brother."
I was waiting in the ice-cream parlor, our usual meeting spot.
But I was caught in a time wrap, as I was waiting.
"Hmmm…. Hmmm…" I heard a voice so familiar to me.
………………………………………………………………………………
Read the story again to get the complete meaning.
Do you agree with the title "THE INFINITE LOOP"?
The End
This is a complex story for a first attempt.
Waiting eagerly for your comments.
If you want to disable the ability to use the F3 key from either the Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer
1.Start Regedit
2.Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions
3.Create a Dword value called NoFindFiles
4.Give it a value of 1
5.Reboot
Though I would not suggest you doing this...
I posted it because it is long time since i posted on registry hacking....
And to show that you can explore the registry to find more hacks....
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
You may have seen this quiz before.
If not, test if you have a gift for evaluating people.
This a nice quiz,worth a try....
My score was 7/10....
Post idea from:http://shonzilla.tumblr.com/
Monday, November 26, 2007
Solutions:
Read the solutions only after making a genuine attempt in solving the above puzzles.
1.This puzzle is a classic one which has no solution in 2D. However, if you place the items on a doughnut shape in 3D you can solve it. In the picture below, E is linked to 3 by going over the top and re-entering through the hole in the middle.
2.We have to be careful what we are adding together. Originally, they paid £30, they each received back £1, thus they now have only paid £27. Of this £27, £25 went to the manager for the room and £2 went to the bellboy.(This puzzle was used in a tamil film Rassaiyah for a comedy scene involving vadivel!!!)
3.25,201 eggs.
This puzzle has a few different methods for finding the solution, one of which is:
Find a number X into which all of the numbers from 2 to 10 divide evenly. You can do this by simply using 2*3*4*5*6*7*8*9*10, but you can find a smaller number by finding the prime factors, a subset of which can be used to form any number from 2 to 10. 2*2*2*3*3*5*7 will do. This comes out to be 2520, and is the lowest number into which all the numbers 2-10 divide evenly.
We can add 1 to this number to satisfy the first 9 constraints of the puzzle (the remainder of 2521/2, 2521/3 ... 2521/10 is one), but this does not satisfy the last constraint, divisibility by 11.
Fortunately, we can multiply X (=2520) by any integer and add 1 and we will still satisfy constraints 1-9. So what Y do we multiply X by so that (X*Y) + 1 is divisible by 11. 2520/11 has a remainder of 1. Thus two 2520s divided by eleven would have a remainder of 1+1 = 2, and so forth...so ten 2520s divided by 11 would have a remainder of 10. This number plus one would divide eleven evenly, as well as also satisfy the first 9 constraints - thus 25201 is the answer.
Hope you liked these puzzles...
Puzzles were taken from:http://www.brainbashers.com/
Sunday, November 25, 2007
My little rose
My little rose ,
you look so happy....
You have been stolen,
From my garden.
My little rose
Yet,you look so happy!
Your thorns failed,
In saving you.
My little rose,
Yet,you look so happy!
You miss your friends,
You miss your mother,
My little rose,
Yet,you look so happy!
You are lying on my grave.
My little rose,
Is that why
you look so happy?
You look so happy....
This is my first poem.
This did not turn out as bad as I expected.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
This is the coolest watch from microsoft. As it looks funny,it's function is just more than a watch.You can add your daily programs into this and it also reminds you by the alarm!I think it is useful to our busy life. The three switches remind us about our computer which also looks funny.
I am not sure about the price of the watch.
I am waiting for a watch from apple company.
It might be just ideal for James Bond(lol..).
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Do you believe in ghosts??
If so read the post...
If not then you will start believing in ghosts.....after reading the post and seeing the video...
CHECK THIS VIDEO.......BUT BEFORE DOING SO..... PAUSE THE VIDEO AND LET IT LOAD.......IN THE MEANTIME READ THE DESCRIPTION AND THEN SEE THE VIDEO.....
A Googlebot is a search bot used by Google. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Google search engine.
If a webmaster wishes to restrict the information on their site available to a Googlebot, or another well-behaved spider, they can do so with the appropriate directives in a robots.txt file.and by adding a metatag with meta name as Googlebot and meta content as no follow.Googlebot requests to Web servers are discernible from their user-agent string 'Googlebot'.
GOOGLEBOT
Googlebot has two versions, deepbot and freshbot. Deepbot, the deep crawler, tries to follow every link on the web and download as many pages as it can to the Google indexers. It completes this process about once a month. Freshbot crawls the web looking for fresh content. It visits websites that change frequently, according to how frequently they change. Currently Googlebot only follows HREF links and SRC links.
Googlebot discovers pages by harvesting all of the links on every page it finds. It then follows these links to other web pages. New web pages must be linked to from another known page on the web in order to be crawled and indexed.
A problem which webmasters have often noted with the Googlebot is that it takes up an enormous amount of bandwidth. This can cause websites to exceed their bandwidth limit and be taken down temporarily. This is especially troublesome for mirror sites which host many gigabytes of data. Google provides "Webmaster Tools" that allow website owners to throttle the crawl rate.
Article idea:Wikipedia
Copy scape is a cool website...
I found this accidentally in someone else's blog...
I dont remember whoz blog it was....
If someone has copied content from your website or if
you have copied conetent from someone else's website
It would display the site with that content...
It is just like search engine...
But you search the sites that have same content as yours...
I tested it with my own blog...
It showed the content which i took from another site....
RESULT OF COPYSCAPE SEARCH FOR MY BLOG
It is cool website to prevent plagiarism...But I am unable to find the principle behind it's working...
But the sad part of the tale is that you can check a website only 10 times a month for a free account.You have to have a premium account for unlimited checking.And he is charging lot of money for that.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
I found these 2 very useful codes......
It helped me to discover how dynamic ip allocation works...
It shows your IP only...
I am collecting some information in regard to this...
I will soon post how the IP allocation of my ISP works....
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Capture 262,000 keystrokes (over 160 pages)!
This is a device that can be connected to a keyboard to record all keystrokes. It has a changeable password, keyword search, enable/disable option, and stores URLs. Records 262,000 keystrokes and does not require any software. Monitor unauthorized access to your computer or your network. Use it to troubleshoot or make fixes by tracing back through a users command sequence.
Key Katcher plugs in between your keyboard and your computer. A microcontroller interprets the data, and stores information in the non-volatile memory (which retains the information even when there is a loss of power.) This means that the Key Katcher device can be unplugged, and the information will not be lost.
To access the recorded data, you simply type your password in a text editor and the Key Katcher comes to life. A menu is displayed with options to erase data, view data, search data for keywords, change password, or disable the device.
Available in the "Magnum" 4MB size, 256K, 128K or Mini size.
It is Portable - move it from computer to computer.
Installs in seconds - Just plug it in.
Uses no system resources. Truly runs in the background.
Works with all PC Operating Systems with PS/2 keyboards. USB version available here
Data is retained even during system lock-ups and power outages.
No Software to learn. Use in conjunction with programs you already know.
Monday, November 19, 2007
I found these cool photographs while surfing....
Hope you liked these wonderful photos
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Atlast I have made a post on my blog title. I have posted some interesting information humans!!!
This is weird but true!
- People with higher number of moles tend to live longer than people with lesser number of moles.
- When filming summer scenes in winter, actors suck on ice cubes just before the camera rolls - it cools their mouths so their breath doesn't condense in the cold air.
- Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s.
- Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.
- If left alone, 70% of birthmarks gradually fade away.
- Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger to men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women's perception.
- Women blink twice as many times as men do.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day.
- There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
- The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
- The life span of a taste bud is 10 days.
- The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
- The largest known kidney stone weighed 1.36 kilograms.
- Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
- Kidney stones come in any color--from yellow to brown.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
- Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
- The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
- If you ate too many carrots you would turn orange.
- The force of 1 billion people jumping at the same time is equal to 500 tons of TNT.
- A baby is born every seven seconds.
- You can tell if a skunk is about if you smell only .000000000000071 ounce of its spray.
- You breathe about 10 million times a year.
- The colder the room you sleep in, the better the chances are that you'll have a bad dream.
- The foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
- The most common time for a wake up call is 7 a.m.
- The typical person goes to the bathroom 6 times a day.
- The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger.
- The most sensitive finger on the human hand is the index finger.
- The human body weighs 40 times more than the brain.
- After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.
- A person swallows approx. 295 times while eating dinner.
- Your urine will turn bright yellow if you eat too much asparagus.
- There are more people alive today than have ever died.
- The human body is better suited to two four-hour sleep cycles than one eight-hour one.
- A man's beard contains between 7000 and 15,000 hairs.
- A beard grows an average of 140mm a year
- A hair is 70 per cent easier to cut when soaked in warm water for two minutes
- Women's hair is about half the diameter of men's hair
- During an average lifetime, a man will spend 3,350 hours removing 8.4 meters of stubble
- 4.5 million people have their health 'adversely affected' by air pollutants each year.
- 4 million children die each year from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires that burn wood and Dung
- 4 million people die annually from diarrhea infections, caused by poor sanitary conditions
- The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
Friday, November 16, 2007
I think I should explain what the button you see on my right is all about. 
I mean the button with a face covered with sticky notes and a capital E and the words, “drop yours” at the bottom. No I am not being naughty or saying something a good boy should not say like “up yours” or anything. This is a new toy for us bloggers to play with and it is called Entrecard.
Basically, Entrecard is like some sort of Ads exchange program. You sign up, upload your 125 x 125 image, grab the codes and insert it anywhere you like in your blog. When others who are in the Entrecard network sees your button and they want to Advertise in your blog they will click the “drop yours” meaning they want drop their button in your blog and nothing else. Once you approve of them “dropping theirs” (sorry, can’t help it) their button will appear for one day. If another comes along and want to “drop theirs” too, they will join the queue.
Bear in mind, this is NOT a money making opportunity. What you get when people “drop theirs” in your blog is points. Then you can use the accumulated points to “drop yours” in other participating blogs. So in the end everyone gets some free publicity. The thrill is you get to “drop yours” in humongously popular blogs like shoemoney.com, which I got to do for free upon being invited to join, without accumulating any points. My button should be appearing for one day in shoemoney dot com by tomorrow or the day after, I think. And you know what? Shoemoney might drop his in my blog! It may come live soon, so be a good sport and give him many clicks, else this blog will look very bad.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The 20 Biggest Online Time Wasters, and 6 Strategies for Beating Them......
0 comments Posted by Deepak at 7:50 PMLike many people these days, I spend most of my working hours online. At least half of those hours, I'm doing actual work.
As millions have discovered, working at a computer with Internet access is a hazard to your productivity. There are so many cool sites, so many ways of connecting with others, so many things to do that are fun or intensely interesting, that it's hard to actually get anything done. The sites listed below are time drains, sucking up your precious hours by their amazingly cool attractions.
Should you never go on these sites? Are they completely useless? Of course not. The reason they're listed here is because they are great sites or activities, but because they are so great, they can become addictive. And while it's fine to use these sites for useful purposes, getting work done when you need to get work done and having fun when you can, it's the addiction that you need to watch closely.
Before we get into the list of time-wasters, let's take a look at 6 strategies to beat time-wasters and keep yourself on task.
1. Track time. You might not know exactly how bad your addiction is, because the time you spend on some of these sites just flies by. Try tracking your time, at least for a little while, to see where your problem areas are. Page Addict is one of a number of good utilities for this, and once you see your worst time-wasters, you can also use it for the next strategy.
2. Block them. Once you've identified your worst time wasters, it's possible to block them with one of several utilities. Stealth Kiwi and Leech Block are two of my favorites.
3. Unplug. Another strategy that actually works really well is to unplug from the Internet when you really need to get work done. When you finish you task, connect and have fun, then unplug again for some more serious work.
4.Go on a diet. This is a more drastic strategy, but sometimes it's necessary if your addiction has gotten really bad. Disconnect yourself from the Internet for at least a day, if not 2-3 days or even a week. The worse your addiction, the longer your diet should be. After the period of complete disconnection, follow Strategy 6 below by going on an extremely limited information diet.
5.Just let go. This strategy is for those of us who feel that if we don't answer all of our emails, or read all of our feeds, or check our blog stats, or see what's happening on our favorite social sites, then somehow the world will fall apart. Of course, we never put it that way in our head, but the urge is still there. But what happens if you just let go, and allow your email to pile up for a day, or don't check your stats or your favorite forum? The world will go on. This might seem obvious, but again, I think many of us have a subconscious idea that something bad will happen if we don't stay up to date. Try letting go for a day, and see what happens.
6.Limit time. This is actually the most sensible strategy, but of course it's not easy if you have an addiction. Therefore, I recommend you use it in conjunction with one of the above strategies. For this strategy, you decide how many minutes and how many times you are going to allow yourself to go on your worst time-wasting sites. If email is your addiction, for example, you might decide to check email only twice a day for 30 minutes a session. Decide on what time limit would work best for you, put it on a schedule (10 a.m. and 4 p.m., for example), and stick to it. If you have trouble sticking to it, try one of the other strategies.
1.Email. Whether it's Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Outlook, or some other favorite email client, email is the king of time-wasters. It's a very productive tool, of course, and a necessity for most of us these days. However, it is also an addiction, and we often put off our work by going to check our email. It's important that you turn off email notifications if you have work to do (and you know you do!), and limit your time spent checking and processing and responding to email.
2.Google Reader. Any RSS feed reader, including Bloglines or Thunderbird, is included in this item. If you have 100+ feeds to read every day, you'll spend a lot of time with your feed reader. And any time you feel like procrastinating, you can open up the feed reader and see what new posts have been published. Limit your feed reading to once a day, and cut your feeds down to a minimum.
3.AIM. Or any chat client (IRC, Googletalk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, Skype, what have you). If you've always got your chat client open, even if you put your status as "away" or "busy" or something like that, you will be constantly interrupted by new messages, new people coming online, new people trying to get your attention. Make your time yours by closing your chat client, and only opening it when you really need to chat.
4.Online solitaire. Or any similar online games, including chess, sudoku, Bejeweled, whatever. I know, it's addicting. Block these games.
5.World of Warcraft. Or any of the other popular MMORPGs. People can spend days, nights, weeks on these things, as they are amazingly addicting. In fact, they should be regulated like drugs.
6.Blogs. Many people read blog posts through feed readers (see Item #2), but many bookmark their favorite blogs and read them directly on the site, and find new blogs through the blogrolls of their favorite blogs, and spend a lot of time reading through archives and comments and also commenting on all these blogs. It can take up your whole day. Read 24x7interestingfacts and a few others, and be done!
7.Forums. Or newsgroups. A favorite social hangout for many people, there are thousands of forums out there, and many of them are quite useful. It can be a great thing to discover others who are going through the same things you are (such as the quit smoking forum I joined a couple of years ago), or who are interested in the same things you are. So I'm not knocking forums at all. But you should still set a time limit on how long you spend on forums, and maybe only do it once or twice a day.
8.News sites. News addicts out there, you know who you are. Some people are plugged into the news all day long. Personally, I've learned that the news doesn't benefit me at all, and I've disconnected from watching the news, reading newspapers and reading news websites. I still hear about the important stuff, but really, disconnecting from news hasn't hurt me a bit. I'm not saying you should go to this extreme, but you should still consider limiting your news consumption to a minimum.
9.YouTube. You can spend hours upon hours watching cool stuff on YouTube, as every video has a dozen other related ones to get you to stay on the site. And that really works. I've spent days on YouTube, to be truthful, before deciding never to do it again. Now, I watch a video and then immediately close the tab.
10.Facebook/MySpace. I'm not an addict of either of these sites, but I can see the appeal. My teen-age daughter is addicted, and I know many adults who are too. There's no shame in that, but you should realize that it's an addiction, combining the appeal of blogs, email and forums.
11.Digg. After spending an entire day reading the articles on Digg, and the comments, I cut myself off from Digg before a real addiction could form. But I know first-hand that this can be very addicting. There's a huge community on Digg, and there's always new stuff, and you could do nothing else but read through Digg. Get off it before it consumes your life.
12.Productivity tools. I'll admit, I'm a victim of this. New productivity tools are coming up all the time, from to-do list managers to contact managers to cool GTD tools to new utilities and plugins. But it's not productive to be constantly switching tools and twiddling with them.
13.Online shopping. Amazon, Ebay, and the hundreds of other popular shopping sites online. The worst thing about these sites is that you don't only spend a lot of time on them (there's so much stuff out there!) but you also end up spending a lot of money. This was one reason I cut up my credit card.
14.ESPN.com. I haven't been a sports addict for years, but I know there are many out there who can spend a lot of time each day checking on scores, fantasy football stats, watching the action, watching replays, reading commentaries, and chatting on sports forums. Sports fans, know that you just might have an addiction.
15.Humor sites. When I find a great humor site, I can spend a long, long time reading through the archives. If you haven't gone to any of these sites, don't do it unless you have a day to waste: Maddox, Pointless Waste of Time, The Onion, The Daily Show, Comics Curmudgeon.
16.Wikipedia. One of the most useful sites on the planet. Also very addicting, especially if you become involved in contributing to the articles. But even if you don't, one article leads to another, which leads to another ... and there's your whole day.
17.Flickr. People have got some great photos out there. And they put up such personal stuff that surfing through Flickr is a new form of voyeurism. An addicting form, that is.
18.IMDB. Want to look up an actor or a movie title? Sure, just open up the Internet Movie Database, one of the greatest things ever invented, and do a quick search. But hey, there's a link to another movie you're interested in, and wow, you forgot about that actor, and cool, there's trivia and goofs for that movie too. Hours down the drain.
19.Ask MeFi. MetaFilter has one of the best online communities around, but there's just so much stuff on there that you can never run out of reading material. My favorite is Ask MetaFilter, in which you can find great answers to just about any question you can think of. But what about this question, for all you Ask MeFi folks: "Where did my day go?"
20.Blog stats. If you are a blogger, there's a 99% chance that you check your blog stats, and your ad stats, more than once a day. And a very middling to good chance that you do it much more than that. I'm a victim of this, so I can't preach, but here's a realization I came up with (be prepared to be blown away): your stats and your ad revenues don't change much in 2 minutes. And 2 minutes later, not much has changed still. It took me way too long to realize this.
