Error in mshtml.dll for IE8 and Yahoo Messenger

Few days back in my computer yahoo messenger started to crash. I'm using the latest version that is of cause version 10 for yahoo messenger. I have reinstalled the program, but it didn't fix the problem. So, I have check the event viewer on the computer for more details about this problem. This is what I found on the log.

New Facebook Share Button

Sharing stuff on Facebook is nothing new to you. According to Facebook developers blog, Each week users share more than 2 billion pieces of content on Facebook. In order to do this most of the time users click share on Facebook button which found on many of the current websites. One of my old blog post explained why these sharing buttons are important to placed on your blog. Now speaking about share on Facebook buttons Facebook has just released a new Facebook Share Button which includes a live counter that tells you how many times an item has been shared.

Can't see Google ads on blog or website

There are many possibilities which cause this problem. First of all you need to check that you have latest Java and flash player installed on your computer.

Download latest Java from here

Download latest flash player from here

Most of the time this will fix your problem. If this doesn't fix it there are few more things that you can try.

Google Redesigned

Gmail introduced themes back in November 2008. If you still didn't use themes for Gmail please read this article about how to use Gmail themes. Google Redesigned is a CSS style which redesign Gmail interface. This will also dress up Google Calender and Google Reader. Google Redesigned is built for Mozilla based browsers (Firefox) and other browsers are not supported.

To install this on your computer First install Mozilla Firefox web browser if you don't have it already on your computer. Then click here to start installing it. You can also install it from Firefox add-on page.

Facebook and Games

People spent more than 6 billion minutes on Facebook each day. From 300 million+ active users, approximately 150 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day. (Source Facebook Statistics) Apart from basic Facebook activities like comments, photo upload, video sharing the best thing to keep you occupied on Facebook is Facebook Apps. Especially Facebook games. Multiplayer games like Farmville, Mafia Wars, Texas HoldEm Poker are on the top of the list.



In my country farming games like Farmville, Farm Town, Barn Buddy and Farm Pals are more popular and Facebook users spend most of their time on them. Normally girls don't like to play computer games but on Facebook it's a different story. There are lot of girls playing these online games.

Personally I'm not interested in Facebook games even I'm a PC gamer for long time. But for the people who love it here is the Facebook game page which contains all the Facebook games.

How To Add Share On Facebook Button In To Your Blog

As I explained you on my previous post Facebook is the number one sharing site on this year. There is a big chance that your website or blog visitors want to share your website content or blog posts with their friends. Adding a Share On Facebook Button In To Your Blog or web site might be a good idea during this time. Most of the websites and blog templates comes with social networking tools now. But for those who don't have this buttons, here is a way to add Share On Facebook Button to your web site or blog.

How To Use Facebook To Increase Your Blog Traffic

With 250 million active users Facebook is the most popular site for sharing content for this year. Yes that's true. According to a blog post in Digital Inspiration Technology blog 29.4% of users used Facebook to share their content. Traditional emails are in the second place with 13.8% and twitter is in third place with 11.1% Today I'm going to explain how to post your blog posts automatically to your Facebook Profile. From that you'll have more readers coming to your blog across Facebook.

Facebook Lite is Launched

Facebook lite is officially launched in US and India for testing. If you don't know what Facebook lite is it's the new simplified Facebook interface. Facebook lite offers you basic functionality such as making comments, accepting friend requests, writing on Walls, and viewing photos. This Lite version of Facebook will be super fast comapring to the current Facebook. (Read my old post about Facebook lite) I have tested it yesterday and I was able to log in using my existing facebook log in information. Click here to log in to Facebook Lite.

Monopoly City Streets Game Play

To day I have checked the Monopoly City Streets Game site and it was working. So, to take a look at it I have registered on the website. This game is based on Google maps and you can purchase streets where ever you want and you can build buildings on your streets. Remember, not all streets and countries included in to the game play but most of the countries exist. You'll start the game with 3,000,000 monopoly dollars. You will receive chance cards during the game play. You will earn from the rent you received from your properties and every day when you log in to Monopoly City Streets you'll get free 1 million monopoly dollars.

Google Wave Arrives This Month

On September 30th Google will start sending 100,000 invites for the early test of Google Wave. So, there is chance for more people to experience this personal communication and collaboration tool which was announced at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It can import Twitter, provide real-time chat, play back past conversations, and even allows for drag-and-drop file uploads. I'm so excited about Google Wave and hoping to use it soon.




This is how it's explained in Wikipedia.

"It is a web based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, robust spelling/grammar checking, automated translation between 40 languages, and numerous other extensions."

In this small Video Google wave is explained very well.

Which Twitter Applications Are You Using ?

I'm using twitter for some time and it is a great tool to gather new information. I'm not usually tweet personal things on to my twitter account but many do. I'm using twitter to spread the news about my technology blog to fellow twitter users. The Basic idea is to send all my new posts which I put on my blog to twitter. For some twitter is a great tool to get visitors to their sites. Normally Twitter is web based tool that you can type 140 characters. But using few web base applications we can do many things with twitter. Here are few twitter applications that I'm using. How many of them are you using ?

PC To Phone Free Internet Phone Calls

With the growing use of the internet, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)is heavily used for voice communication. If you don't know what VoIP is I bet you know about Skype. Skype uses VoIP technology to provide PC to PC free calls and cheaper calls to land lines and cell phones. There are lot of software that will allow you to make PC to PC free calls. For example you can use Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk or Windows Live Messenger. But on this post I'm going to explain how to make free phone calls to regular land phone lines using your internet enable PC.

OpenID

What is an OpenID ?

Open ID is an open standard which can be use to log in to different services on the web using a single digital identity. With this technology you don’t have to memorize each and every user name and password you used to log in to your favorite online services. This may reduce the frustration on users caused by forgotten usernames and passwords and it may simplify the overall web experience. It is estimated that there are over one billion OpenID enabled user accounts with over 40,000 websites supporting OpenID for sign in.

Spyware, Malware and adware removing solutions

Spyware, Malware or Adware infections are very common in these days. Especially if you are browsing internet, visiting porn and illegal software websites. Spyware infections are very common with nowise users and internet beginners that used to click every thing and anything that they see on the screen. Removing these infections are little bit difficult sometimes. Earlier I have posted a article about best spyware removal software. You can try one of those if you have spayware, Malware or Adware problem in your computer. To day I'm not going to talk about spyware removing tools. This article is about a website that provide you information about how to remove these infections from your computer.




This web site is called remove-malware.net and it contains hundreds of instructions to remove Spyware, Malware and Adware. I'm using this site more often to get help to remove infections off from my customers computers and I honestly think this will help you to resolve many of your problems. Some times you have to have some sort of advanced knowledge to perform the instructions given on this website. But, you can safely do that if you read them carefully and follow the instructions step by step. For most users I'm recommending to use a some sort of a spyware removing tool to clean their computers. If you are a advanced computer user this might be the best site if your on to spyware, Malware or Adware problems.

Facebook User Names

Facebook is about to allow their users to have their names as a part of the URL which contains their profiles or pages. So it will replace the weird numbers and letters that are on your current facebook profile or facebook page URL. The whole idea of this is to have a easy to remember way to find you on facebook. You will be able to use this facebook usernames even on popular search engines to find your friends easily.




Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you'll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer. You'll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.

Your Facebook username must meet these criteria

• You can only choose a single username for your profile and for each of the Pages that you administer.
  
• Your username must be at least five characters in length and only include alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), or a period or full stop (".")

Once it's been selected, you won't be able to change or transfer it. So be carefull.

Click here to set your Facebook vanity URL (Your new facebook profile URL)

Google Chrome 2

If you are tired with your current web browsers, Try newly released Google Chrome version 2. It's been a beta test for this since March and now they have released the final version of it. It's super fast and stable also they have fixed lot of problems that came with the first release. From the speed it's only one step behind on Apple Safari web browser. That means it has beaten the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

So, How to install it on your computer ? Probably you are having a older version of Chrome running on your computer. If you have it open the browser and go to tools button on the browser then press About Google Chrome option. It will open up a window and in there down at the bottom you'll find a update now button. If you are new to Google Chrome please go to this website and download it to your computer. Follow this video if you have difficulties following my steps.

Real time SinGlish to Sinhala unicode converter

If you are not familiar with sinhala typing like me, here is a interesting website that you can convert your English words (Not exactly English it's called Singlish, Sinhala words typed in English) to Sinhala in real time. This website was developed by University of Colombo School of Computing.

Terminate your self

This is a cool web site that allows you to change your picture in to a Terminator. As you all know by now, newest Terminator Film "Terminator Salvation" is going to come in to theaters in 21st of May. This site has two methods uploading your photos to it. You can simply browse and select your photo or you can use your web cam to take a photo on that time.

Facebook Via SMS

You can text Facebook to update your status or send a poke on the go. You can also choose to receive texts with messages, pokes, and wall posts from your friends right when they happen. You can also upload photos and video's directly from your mobile phone. You can use this service if you are in Canada, US, UK, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Maldives.

Lets see how you can activate this service.

Log in to your facebook account. Go to Settings -> Account settings

Under My account select Mobile.



If you are in Sri Lanka, Mobitel and Dialog offering you to use this facility on your mobile phone.

If you are a Mobitel customer, please visit this page to configure your phone.

If you are a Dialog customer, please visit this page to configure your phone.

Wufoo - Easy form Builder

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