You all know about Flickr one of the online photo sharing site which i use to upload all my family photos occasionally. Due to its very low upload limit of 20 mb per month i have to resize my pics in Picasa and have to upload it.

Lastweek i scanned new sets of our Goa tour photos and tried to upload all of them but unforunately i could only upload 3/4 of them. The upload limit is over and it requests me to upgrade for a pro account. Still 7 photos are remaining and i never thought that my uploading limit would complete this quick. So for an alternative back-up i uploaded all my photos in Picasa web Album which does not have a transfer limit but a storage limit of 250 mb.

After reading Ionut’s post regarding upload pictures from Picasa to Flickr, i got an inspiration and thought for a while that uploading photos from picasa to flickr via mail would make my work easier. So to try out that method, i just selected a photo and clicked the email button then by entering my flickr email address i successfully sent the mail. Now i navigated to my flickr photos list and i could see the photo which i sent by mail.

Ok that method works cool but wonder why i am posting about it ? Yeah see the title “Upload photos to flickr even after upload limit” hmmm see, i told you my upload limit is over but i could still able to upload my pics via email to flickr. i sent 7 pics after my upload limit got over and still able to send pics to flickr.

Is that Interesting ? Why dont you try and tell me if it works for you ?

This is a simple step by editing a host file. Although many of them know this trick yet its not popular among public. Ok Lets come to the main part, you can ask me how do one block a website without any software.

The mappings of IP address is contained in Host file. Generally Host file is located in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in windows xp where %Systemroot% is the default root directy that will usually be c: etc. To know more about host file and its location visit Wikepedia. Ok lets talk about how it works .

You can use a host file not only to block website but also to block unwanted ads, banners,etc. Generally a host file contains like this

127.0.0.1 localhost

To block a site just enter the webaddress name after the localserver in the host file located in windows/system 32/drivers/etc, see example below

127.0.0.1 localhost

127.0.0.1 badwebsite1.com

127.0.0.1 badwebsite2.com

Make sure you type the above code without living any line after localhost. Before editing the host file make a backup of it.

It was since one week that Orkut has changed its interface and i discovered a new bug. Although the interface is optimized, which covers the room space perfectly but still Orkut have some bugs in it. Over the last few days my inbox in orkut is following with messages. Generally i get more than 20 mails in orkut a day but now i was unable to delete all the messages.

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The delete selected message(s) function is not working properly, currently one has to select each mail individually and the batch process seems to have some bug and functions void, so mails are just overflowing… Even the From check box doesnt work at all. Hope Orkut will soon fix it or i have no other option but to close orkut account.

[update sep 22 '06] Atlast Orkut updated the message box and finally i could delete all my messages in inbox…

Sometimes things gonna mess up in our computer, generally everyone backs up important files as CD / DVD or even store them in Computer, but i dont believe in this tatics. My only backup is Internet and i regurarly backup all my files in internet. You can ask me whats the benefit in doing so .. yes some of the benefits in online file storage are

• Retrive it whenever you want
• No loss or maintainence of Data
• Recover it wherever you want
• Share the data with others

The above are some of the resons why i store my data online, ok now come to the part you can ask me where you can store your data and i assure you that i will help you to allocate a maximum of 1Gb Space for storing your Valuable Data. Yeah and they are free. Some of the sites which i recommend gives you 1Gb Free Storage to save your valuable files, photos, movies, videos etc.

MOZY:

Mozy is a free remote backup utility that will automatically backsup all the files you represent and allows you to store upto 2GB of files. You need to install a tool from thier site which will occasionally backsup your computer and if your computer messes up it recovers your important files from their server.

BOX:

Box is a free online storage site by which you can access important files in any computer, share photos and big files, Sync and Backup folders. They give you 1Gb Free space to store your files.

E-snips:

E-snips also gives a storage limit of 1Gb and lets you upload and share anything you want. You can even control who shares it and how they use it.