If you received an email saying “Your AdWords Account has stopped running today” or “One of your Google AdWords Customer’s account has stopped running this morning” and if it is not addressed to you directly using your name or email or customer account number, its 100% a phishing scam email.

These emails wont have your email address in the “to” field, they are sent to undisclosed recipients and the email also wont have your account number.

They might have content something like this:

Your Google Adwords Account has stopped running this morning.
Some of the ads have stopped running today (Thursday, 4 February 2010, 04:34:08). We had encountered a number of problems with some of our servers that crashed this morning and at this time we cannot check to see what customer accounts are now running 100%.

Being a Big Fan of Channels like Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, The Animal Planet and The Travel and Living, there is no day that I watch TV without seeing what’s running on these channels. Yesterday was just one of those days when I was watching NGC’s Most Amazing Moments and I soon realized I was watching one of the best wildlife video footage ever caught on tape.

Well, It was an 1hr30min episode on NGC. Normally any episode lasts for only 30 or 60min right? Well, this was special, very special. We are talking about a holiday video which was set to be one of the best wildlife video ever shot. It is now the most watched wild life video on YouTube. The video tops all other wildlife videos posted by BBC, NGC, Animal Planet that were shot by full time professional wildlife photographers.

The NGC’s documentary mentioned the video on YouTube, no of views it got and highlighted at least 2 dozen good comments among some 30K comments at the time of creation of the NGC documentary, I’m guessing that was in 2008. The video was shot in September 2004 according to Wikipedia.

Battle at Kruger is an eight-minute amateur wildlife video that depicts an unfolding confrontation between a herd of Cape Buffalo, a small pride of lions, and one or two crocodiles. The video was shot in September 2004 at the Transport Dam watering hole in Kruger National Park, South Africa, during a Safari guided by Frank Watts. It was filmed by videographer David Budzinski and photographer Jason Schlosberg.

The Video on YouTube now has close to a 50 million views and 60K comments. The video was all over the press, both News Papers and News Channels. Check out the press section on this site.

In one line, this is one such footage, that professional wildlife photographers with all those top quality equipment and by spending all their life in the wild will die to capture at least 1/4th of it. And when some guy on a holiday gets it just like that, you can only imagine how it feels for a Pro.

Dereck Joubert, a photographer and writer for National Geographic says in the NGC documentary:     "There is no doubt at all that the tourist who shot that scene was unbelievably lucky. I mean, we would’ve considered ourselves lucky to have had that whole scene happen in front of us."

Watch it and I am sure you will learn something and will never forget it.

Here is a beautiful case study of a taxi driver who is winning customers from a simple video on YouTube.

It was Devesh Mishra’s friend from Singapore who shot the video and uploaded it on YouTube. “I know a little bit of English as I am intermediate (10+2) educated. However, in the video, I was helped by my friend as he told me what exactly to speak in front of the camera,” the taxi driver reveals. Mishra further informs that eight foreign travellers have so far contacted him and five of them have turned out to be good business.

According to Mishra it was amazing to get such response and this made him understand the power of internet. “It was a wise decision as I eventually understood that I could not have reached those consumers if I had advertised on some other media. Internet helped me to reach out to foreign customers,” he said.

Internet has now become an important part of Mishra’s life. “I created my email id on Yahoo and now I religiously surf the internet at least twice a week. I get hundreds of emails every week. Most of the mails are from foreign travellers looking for my services. I also visit Yahoo and Google to be always updated about latest happenings,” he said.

Get the full story here.

See? Now that’s a good case study of how the Internet can be put into use.

But, well if you think what kind of accent this man has,.. He is an ordinary Local Taxi Driver, You are not looking at a pilot. Are you?

I Wish Good Luck and Success to this man who is for sure going to be a role model for several others.

These wallpapers should change your boring desktop to an interesting one filled with life!

Checkout more April 2009 wallpapers here and here.

Celebrate your Vinayaka Chavithi Vratham / Ganesh Chaturthi with the help of these MP3 and PDF downloads.

Photo courtesy: Flickr

Thought to share this on my blog so that it might be helpful for several others in the future as it was to me this year.

The archives contain the following files:
1. Puja in Telugu Document (end.Vinayaka_vratha_kalpam.pdf)
2. Sanskrit/Telugu Puja Audio (end.sri.vinayaka.chavithi.pooja.plus.katha.mp3)
3. Puja in English Document (vinayaka_english.pdf)
4. Puja in telugu document (vinayaka_telugu.pdf)
5. Puja in Telugu Audio (puja.mp3)
6. Kadha in Telugu Audio (katha.mp3)

Download the files here:
.Rar download: (3 parts for easy download – 29.5, 29.5, 27.3 MB files)
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

.Zip Download:
Single file download (87MB)

Download Firefox today and help the community set a new Guinness World Record. Get a cool certificate and show it off on your blog.

Get it here.

The World’s most loved browser and its fans are grearing up for a Guinness World Record. That’s right. A Browser is going to have a guinness world record for the number of downloads which happen on a single day (24hrs). I’m sure no other browser can beat this record and no other software can ever attempt this.

“After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we’re proud to announce that we’re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser, period.”

Get Ready!!!! IE community, watch out! Firefox Rocks!!!!!!

Flickr.com has been a hub for most of the new generation photographers. With unlimited storage and unlimited sets in the Flickr Pro Account type @ $24/year, it is the best in terms of space and photo archiving services.

Flickr has released all new version of its Uploadr:

Flickr Uploadr 3.0 is compatible with both Windows and Mac. Following are the direct download links:

For Windows: FlickrUploadr-3.0b2.exe
For Mac: FlickrUploadr-3.0b2.dmg

Discussion on Flickr Forums

Shown below is a monthly survey of traffic data for the top 25 largest web 2.0 sites ranked by a combination of Compete and Quantcast data. For each site, unique U.S. monthly visitor data as well as respective rank is showed. For entries where a wide range exists between the two data sets the highest numbers were used for ranking purposes. Although no traffic metrics are completely accurate you can believe the data below to be useful for gauging relative audience size.

This list features the most popular websites based on US Internet usage for May 2007, ranked by market share of visits.