You might seen in the Hollywood Movie Mission Impossible, that the message Ethan Hunt gets self destructs.Similarly you can send messages online to your friends which will self-destruct on viewing it once.

You can either generate a link or send the link directly to your friends inbox.You can select the amount time before the message gets self-destructed.This ensures your message is read by no one but the reader and all evidence of the message is erased immediately after the message is read for the first time.Messages are also anonymous unless you add any identifiable information to your message.Messages must be viewed within 90 days before the message gets deleted.

How to Create A Self-Destrcting Message.

1. Head to DestructingMessage
2. Select your Method of delivery ie., Generate Link / Email ( recipients email id needs to be entered after creating the message )
3. Time until the message self-destructs ( 15 seconds to 5 minutes)
4. Enter your Message, and click Create message. 

If you chose Email as Delivery method you will asked for the email id ( or ) if you chose to to Generate

Link, the generated link is displayed for sharing.Open the link in your browser for testing, be careful because  once you view it you cannot share it anymore with anyone as it will self destruct.

The service can be more efficient if the message cannot be copy-pasted which is possible now.

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If your blog is accessible in different languages, even reader of different countries can access your blog in their languages which can improve your pageviews and revenue scope.

Here’s a javascript code compiled by Amit of Labnol, which uses javascript to translate your website/blog from English to 9 languages,ie., French, German, Italian,Portugese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Arabic.

<form action="http://www.google.com/translate" >
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
document.write ("<input name=u value="+location.href+" type=hidden>")
// -->
</script>
<input name="hl" value="en" type="hidden">
<input name="ie" value="UTF8" type="hidden">
<input name="langpair" value="" type="hidden">
<input name="langpair" value="en|fr" title="French" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539949_e76af75976.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">
<input name="langpair" value="en|de" title="German" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539933_041ca1eda2.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">
<input name="langpair" value="en|it" title="Italian" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539953_0384ccecf9.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">
<input name="langpair" value="en|pt" title="Portuguese" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539966_0d09b410b5.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">
<input name="langpair" value="en|es" title="Spanish" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539946_2fabed0dbf.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">
<input name="langpair" value="en|ja" title="Japanese" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539955_925e6683c8.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">
<input name="langpair" value="en|ko" title="Korean" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/13539958_3c3b482c95.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">
<input name="langpair" value="en|zh-CN" title="Chinese Simplified" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/img/43/1633/320/14324441_5ca5ce3423.jpg" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30">
<input name="langpair2" value="en|ar" title="Arabic" src= "http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3709/485/1600/arabic-flag.gif" onclick="this.form.langpair.value=this.value" height="20" type="image" width="30" />
</form>

Note:If you copy-paste the code, and you get any errors try to retype the quotes in the JavaScript Code.Also if you want to use the try uploading the flags to your server.

If you are Wordpress you can try out the Global Translator plugin which can automatically translate your blog in the following different languages: English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Czech, Croat, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Rumanian and Swedish.

Features :

1. Four different Translation Engines to choose from : Google Translation Engine, Babel Fish, Promt, FreeTranslations.com
2. Search Engine Optimized: Uses this prmalink structure www.domain.com/en/mycategory/mypost
3. Built-in cache to reduce the online connections to the translation engines.
4. Easily customizable.

And is also compatible upto WP 2.5.*

Global Translator : HomePage | Download v 0.9 Release Date May 10 2008

Linking to internal posts is good for SEO but can be at times really a pain if you don’t know the permalink of the post, you will have to search through the published posts list to find out the permalink of the post.RB Internal Links can really ease the way you link to old posts from newer posts.

RB Internal Links is a wordpress plugin lets you easily link to posts and pages within their wordpress blog without having to enter the full URL , It uses wiki style tags to define a link to the post or page.The wiki code can be inserted manually or by using the wysiwyg plugin.

INSTALLATION :

1. Download rb-internal-links plugin from here.
2. Upload the “rb-internal-links” folder to your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
3. Activate the plug-in
4. Browse to Options > RB Internal Links to take a look at preferences

Note : For this plugin to work you need the Rich Editing Enabled and wysiwyg enabled in your wordpress installation.

To manually link a page/post:
At the place you would like the link to appear write

<!`--{post id="post-slug/post-id" text="link text"--`>

removing the tick (`) if you copy pasting from here.

Using the tinymce wysiwyg editor:

• Make sure you’ve ticked “enable wysiwyg editor” on the plugin preferences page.
• Select the text for which you want to link.
• A new icon will appear on the wysiwyg toolbar, it looks like a page with a link over it Clicking on the icon will pop-up a toolbox. [ Image 1  ]
• Select the category the post you need is in or alternatively, choose pages for a list of pages
• Click on the post or page you wish to link to  [ Image 2 ]
• Fill in the optional properties for the link  [ Image 3 ]
• Click “Insert Link”

                                                 Image 1

                                             Image 2

                                              Image 3

WP 2.5.1 does not show the post id’s, so only the post-slugs can be used, which can also be a bit a bit hard to find.I feel the TinyMCE WYSIWUG Editor is the better way of using this plugin.

I think this plugin should be a part of Wordpress, I hope this makes it into the upcoming versions of Wordpress.

RB Internal Links  :  Homepage

Tool 1. Fast Stone Capture - This is a portable app that can do more than just sceenshot capturing which can capture images and saves then in 8 formats.

Features :

Slimline sidebar file browser provides full shell operations.Screenshot Captor : HomePageTool 3 : Snippy : Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of the screen that you want to copy.The cut-out image will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application.If you are cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard.

Snippy — HomePage | Size : 84 KB

Widows OS Option –

Method 1 : If you are using Windows OS then pressing “Print Screen Button” will copy the image of the full screen into to clipboard which can be pasted ( Ctrl + V ) in MS Paint.

Method 2 : If you want to take the screenshot of only the active window then select the Active Window and then press “Alt+ Print Screen Button “

FireFox Plugins For taking Screenshots :

1. ScreenGarb — Plugin for taking screenshots of web pages
2. FireShot

Do share with us which tool you use to take screenshots for your posts and suggest a new tool that you feel can be part of this list.

If you are using a wigitized wordpress theme that does not have the 125 x 125 Ad Spots in the sidebar, and you want to place Ads in that spot.It becomes difficult to manage ads if you are changing the ads frequently if you have to change the code.Then Show125 is the answer for you.

Show125 is a wordpress widget plugin that lets you add 125 x 125 Adspots to your wordpress sidebar.It also has a slide show effect to the adspots using MooTools Slideshow effect.

How to Use:

1. Download the plugin from here, and
2. Upload it to the plugins directory of your worpress installation, and then activate it in the Wordpress administration panel.
3. In Design » Widgets, you’ll be able to drag and drop the Show125 widget to your sidebar.
4. Once you filled the fields and saved your changes, you’ll see your ads in your sidebar.

Show125 Features :

ShowAds : HomePage | Download | Demo

Amit Agarwal of Labnol has found an easy way to the latest magazines like PC Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Popular Mechanics, MacWorld, Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest, etc without paying any subscription charges using Safari Browser for Windows.

Here’s how you can read them, in simple steps using firefox as shared by Gopinath M and remus.

1. Install User Agent FireFox Addon [ addon homepage ]
2. Add a new user agent,
   a. Navigate to Tools –> Addons –> Select User Agent Switcher and click Options –> Click User Agent and Press Add [ To add new user-agent ] .
   b. Enter the following details* Description: iPhone
   * User Agent: Mobile Safari 1.1.3 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
   * App Name: AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko)
   * App Version: Version/3.0
   * Platform: Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3

   

3. Change the User-Agent to iPhone and browse to zinio.com/iphone and start reading your favorite magazines for free.