IM Bots at Work and Play

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10 Superb IM Bots

Still using your IM just to chat with friends?You can add various bots as buddies and double up IM as a notepad,translator,twitter application and a lot more.
Here is a list of some must have bots:

1.Ping.fm
IM:- pingdotfm@gmail.com
This bot lets you update your status at over 20 sites simultaneously  you may have subscribed including twitter,facebook,blogger,wp etc.

2.Google Translator
IM:- en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com
A very useful utility meant to translate multiple languages.May prove to be very handy when you have friends speaking different languages.Available for many languages.

3.Digg
IM:-  digg@bot.im
Get all the top stories from digg’s home page in a very organized manner having all the categories

4.gtalkbots
IM:-  bots@gtalkbots.com
Its a cool bot which saves and shares your status messages and also helps u in maintaining a cool notepad.

5. joketeller
IM:-  joketeller@bot.im
Just ping this bot with any word whenever you feel like  and get a nice joke to share.

6.iNezha
IM:-  inezhabot@gmail.com
A simple RSS reader.All you need to do is to type in the name of the website whose updates are required and within no time it sends the updates.

7.MayaFile
IM:- talk@mayafile.com
Can be used to store and retrieve short notes.

8.Games on gtalk
IM:- games@gtalkbots.com
Some simple games to play with the rest of the world.Make sure you type fast!

9.IM feeds
IM:- imfeeds@gmail.com
Can be used to get feeds of various web pages.

10.timer
IM:- twitter@twitter.com
Just add timer to your Twitter friend’s list and then add twitter@twitter.com to your buddy list in Gtalk. If you want to get a reminder after 30 minutes, send a direct message to twitter and a reminder will pop up in your Google Talk after 30 minutes!

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VBox Part III :Seamless mode

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VirtualBox Seamless mode

VirtualBox Seamless mode

Virtual Box Provies an exciting feature called the seamless mode.In this mode the guest and the host operating systems work symultaniously with applications being opend in such a way that it looks like a single OS.The taskbar of the guest is displayed above that of the host.In this image,windows is the guest and OpenSuse 11.1 is the host and the filemanegers and control pannels of both the OS are open symultaniously.

Note: Guest additions are required for seamless mode

For More please read:

VBox Tutorial part I: Setup and installation

V Box tutorial part II: Guest Additions

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