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"We apologize the site [Flickr.com] you are attempting to visit has been blocked due to its content being inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates."

That's the message you're likely to see when trying to access Flickr pictures from certain gulf countries like UAE and Iran because the administration has blocked the photo sharing site from citizens for various cultural and religious reasons.

Unblock Flickr website in Dubai, Tehran
[The government ban also applies to sites like Hi5, Friendster, Skype, etc.]

To unblock Flickr in UAE, Iran, China or any other country, you may try the standard proxy route but there's a much better option developed by an Iranian photographer who's an ardent Flickr fan himself.

Hamed Saber has released an Access Flickr extension for Firefox that will let you circumvent the internet filters of any country where the site is banned.

The Access Flickr extension for Firefox substitutes the HTTP header parameters before sending a request to Flickr and therefore fools the government filters. This extension is only for accessing Flickr.com, it won't work for other sites like YouTube or Orkut.

Download Access Flickr | Hamed Saber on Flickr

More articles on defeating Internet Censorship:

How to Access Blocked Websites
Access Bebo, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5 at School or Office
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SharedView - Microsoft Screen Sharing Tool Is Now Available

Tahiti, the screen sharing software from Microsoft, is now available for public download without requiring an invite. The software also has a new name - SharedView [not to be confused with SharedCopy]

Nothing much has changed since the Tahiti release though the latest version looks stable and sports a more polished interface.

With SharedView, a maximum of 15 users can hold a live meeting, share screen and collaborate real time. You will still have to wait for future ShareView releases to get audio support or chat function.

Screen sharing software
Only the host or the person who initiates a SharedView meeting requires a Windows Live ID, the participants or invitees to the session can join without signing up as long as they have the invitation password from the host.

Microsoft has added a strange clause that says "This Service may only be used within the United States of America." though it is technically possible to use the service anywhere since they are not checking the IP address of the host or guest computers yet.

Download Microsoft SharedView [~3 MB] | Help docs | Thanks Mary
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Google Adsense Ads in Email Messages - Screenshot

Google AdSense program policies do not allow publishers to place Google ads in a pop-up, pop-under, or in an email but this "No AdSense in Email" rule may be relaxed for Premium AdSense Publishers.

Rajesh, who is member of a Jobs related mailing list on Yahoo groups, received an email containing Google Ads from some headhunter company that also happens to be a premium AdSense publisher.

The Google Ads in the email are extremely content-targeted just like AdSense for webpages. [The email message was related to vacancies in an automobile company and ads are about Ford Motors, General Motors and Hyundai]

Here's a screen capture from that email:


The only difference is that instead of linking to Advertisers website, these AdSense ads take you to the publisher's AdSense for search page that is prepopulated with Google Ads related to the keywords mentioned in the email.

Not sure how Google delivers contextual advertising in email messages - it's definitely not real time like AdSense because the search keywords are hard coded inside the email messages.

If Google opens up the program for a larger set of publishers, AdSense email ads may well be a wonderful opportunity for newsletters like Internet Tourbus and Windows Secrets to monetize using AdSense even if their websites don't qualify for Premium membership.