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OverNight Essay for students

2007-11-20T08:40:00.001+05:30

Student life is fun. But that period is tough also. I still remember my school days when there was always a rush to meet the deadlines for the submission of my assignments and term papers. Students used to rush from here to there and there was a last minute panic fro submission.

Thanks, these are not the case anymore. There are many custom writing service available today, which do custom writing for you. They also write College Essay as per your needs.

LinkChecker | Find broken links with this firefox extension

2007-10-30T18:30:00.000+05:30

Broken links or missing links are not liked by the Search Engines and the websites having missing links are severly penalized by the Search Engines. So, it is very important that the webmasters constantly search their websites and webpages for the missing links. If your w

ebsite is smaller,

then this task can be easily accomplished by LinkChecker, which is firefox addon, and will ensure you to quickly find the broken or dead links on a webpage.

The link status on the webpage is expressed in different colors as shown below.

red - broken links
yellow - forwarded, forbidden links
green - good links
gray - skipped links*

Kevin A. Freitas, the creator of this popular firefox extension has also created a test page here for you to see its usability.

Nice useful web tool for SEO and web development.

www. dontclick.it | Makes your mouse redundant

2007-10-29T19:55:00.000+05:30

I have just come across a very novel website based on an idea, which has the potential of completely changing the way we use the Internet.

Welcome to www.dontclick.it. It is a website, just like any other website with lots of pages and navigation links, but with a totally different approach. You are not required to click anywhere. That's the way the name of this website has been devised.

Go, check it out. It is really a nice experience.

How to rename multiple files in windows

2007-10-28T23:25:00.000+05:30

Recently I had to upload about 100 photos of my daughter's birthday from my digital camera to the PC. These digital cameras generally give these uploaded pictures an unrecognizable name like DCMZ123 and so on. I wanted to change these to Birthday (1), Birthday (2) and so on.

It semes like it had to be done manually one by one.

But when I searched for an easy method, I came to know this.

Just select all the files at one one go, who are to be renamed, right click and selecet rename. In the dialog box, enter birthday and lo...you are through. All the files are renamed exactly as you have desired.

It is lot more convenient.

Webtools is now PR 4

2007-10-28T15:47:00.000+05:30

Today I am a happy lot.

After a wait of six months, Google has finally given this blog a PR rating of 4.

I have expected to get at least 2 or 3, but I must say, I myself was not expecting PR4.

But it is here, and I am happy.

FireFTP | Firefox add-on for FTP

2007-10-24T08:00:00.000+05:30

File Transfer Protocol, FTP, is the protocol through which a client and a server communicate for the transfer of a file. But the term is loosely used for the software programs which use FTP to transfer the files.

One of the the most popular FTP program today is FileZilla. However it is standalone program, and you have to run it separately. If you wish to have an FTP functionality right within your firefox browser window, than FireFTP is for you. It is firefox add-on and very light weight, just like any other firefox extension, and performs the task quite efficiently, just like your favorite FTP program.

Verify email address

2007-10-24T05:46:00.000+05:30

If some unknown person gives you his / her email address and you want to verify whether it is genuine or not before actually sending an email, then what can you do.

One method is to send an actual email to him and wait for the response. If it gets bounced then it is fake, otherwise genuine.

But that is not a fool-proof method.

Better is that you head for this cool webtool to verify the email address here.

Caution: But I will not advice you to use this service, because the credentials of the company are not yet verified, and there may be chances that they are collecting the email addresses and may spam them in some way or the other at a later date.

Save office files as pdf documents

2007-10-22T21:51:00.000+05:30

PDF has been a very popular method of distribution of documents so as not to allow the recipient from editing and changing the document. There are many stand alone programs available, which can covert an office document into a pdf document.

Earlier, there used to be a built in feature in MS Office 2007, which allowed users to save the document in pdf format. But due to dispute with Adobe, the creator of the pdf concept, Microsoft had removed that feature from Office suite.

But now, Microsoft has again started to bundle the same feature in the form of a add-on utility, which you can download from the Office 2007 download center, but you have to have a genuine copy of Office because the download checks it before any installation.

Secured email messaging through Lockbin

2007-10-18T23:18:00.000+05:30

Many email services today use SSL, the secured Service language to protect the privacy of your messages. But your emails are still not safe. There are lots of freely available programs on the Internet, which can sniff your message easily, specially at the Hi Fi spots.

Lockbin, is a special and free online web tool, which encrypts your message with a code words supplied by you and sends an email to the recipient along with a link to retrieve the message. However, the recipient can read the message only if he enters the code word, with which you had encrypted the message. Now it is upto you how you send the code word to the recipient, it can be through IN, chat, email or phone.

Simple service, but still useful.

11 great Firefox add-on free games to waste (use) your time

2007-10-12T23:30:00.000+05:30

Firefox today is the first choice of the informed web surfers. Firefox is fastly racing ahead IE in the browser race. It is true that with the introduction of IE 7 and Safari, its pace has slowed down, but it is still the popular browser of people who use Internet more than average persons.

One of the reason of its popularity is its open source nature. That is, add-on applications developed by third party can easily be integrated with it to customize it as per your needs and requirements. This blog has previous written posts on various firefox add-ons like ScreenGrab, Hyperwords, Sparky, SiteAdvisor and many others.

Here we are going to let you know about 11great firefox add-on games, which you can play within your browser. No need to download heavy flash files, no need to spend big bucks purchasing them and absolutely no risks of adware, spyware and other sorts of malicious scripts generally associated with various games.

But let it be clear, that these are not very hi profile games. These are simple, light weight desktop games, but surely have the potential to keep you involved for hours.

So here goes the list. It is in no definite order.

Xoom: A simple racing game, which offers two tracks - beginner and advanced. The controls aren’t very much like steering.

Clines: A clone of the colored lines game you’ve seen here and there. The goal is draw a line of five balls of the same color, which then disappear and give you points.

Mozteroids: Nice graphics. It is like a modern version of the old “Asteroids” game. You drive a spaceship, which can spin, thrust, stop, and shoot. The target is to blow up the approaching asteroids before they collide with you.

Cards: A collection of card games like Solitaire. It also includes games like Aces Up, Double Klondike, Double Solitaire, and many more. This is a very complete solitaire implementation, with your choice of about 29 different solitaire card games. Also has a full feature set; undo, hints, scoring, automatic “smart” card moving, and more

Froggr: It will bring memories of the classic arcade game, Frogger. But here, the movements are a bit smoother and game is slightly more challenging.

Mines - Another classic game - Minesweeper - in your browser window.

Pag-Man: Remember the famous addiction of nineties. This new avatar comes with a two-player mode also.
PingPong - For those people who find playing Pong against other people too difficult, you can just play against the computer.

PONG! Multiplayer: Play a game of the classic game Pong while chatting with people online.

Snake - A clone of the popular game Snake and Worm.

Xultris - Bringing the love of the colored block game Tetris to your browser.

5 great Gmail web tools for doing things other than email

2007-10-10T19:31:00.000+05:30

Gmail is a wonderful email service. The secure and robust email service from Google is probably using one of the most powerful spam blocking techniques and the ever increasing storage capacity, which is more than 2.6 GB at present, and still counting, gives you something more than you can wish for.

But there are lots of other application, which can over ride on Gmail and give you a unique experience.

One such application, which allows you to use the spare storage capacity of your Gmail account virtually as your hard disk, was mentioned elsewhere on this blog.

Here are some other applications, which you can use with Gmail.

Gmail Music: Allows you to store MP3 files in your Gmail account and play them on any computer using a web-based GUI. This application has been developed by SourceForge.net project.

GTDInBox: This is a firefox browser add-on, which allows you to be more organized. It incorporates a Getting Things Done tool with Gmail. It was once ranked #12 in the 'Top 50 Firefox Extensions' article in .NET Magazine. Gmail Todo is yet another tool from the stable of SourceForge.net project, which also allows you to do the same thing.

Gspace: Just like GmailDrive, this tool also lets you turn your Gmail account in to a virtual web drive that you can upload files to and store them. It is a firefox add-on makes your Gmail account look like a FTP host.

gTalk Sidebar: This great firefox add-on Google Talk into the Firefox sidebar for easy chatting on the same browser window you are browsing. This tool can also be used to send off mails quickly.

These are great web tools. Try them, they are free.

GmailDrive | A useful web tool for using Gmail as your hard disk

2007-10-07T07:56:00.000+05:30

Most of us use Gmail, the robust, secure mail service from the big 'G' Google.. which gives us more than 2.5 GM worth of space. But most of this space is remain unutilized as emails generally consume very little space unless heavy files are attached to them.

Have you ever thought of utilizing this space for some productive use.

Gmail Drive, is a useful web tool, which allows you to use this space virtually as if it was available on your hard disk. You can save files, add folders, rename files, search files and delete them through Windows Explorer just like any other file on your computer. And the best part is that, these files are available to you from any other computer, which is connected to the Internet.

GMail Drive actually creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account.It actually creates a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder.

Caution: But GMail Drive is still an experimental tool and is developed by third party.

Take notes online with TwitterNotes

2007-10-05T08:33:00.000+05:30

Remember the old school days...when we used to remember the things by taking notes. Wasn't that the best way to do / remember things.

The same flexibility is now available with TwitterNotes. With TwitterNotes, you can twit your note, tag it and it will get added to your note list, that all while your are online. The web tool is closely linked to Twitter but they only scan your timeline for notes and copy them into TwitterNote service. There will not be any change to the messages in your Twitter account.

To create a note using Twitter, you just have to write a message and prefix it with a plus sign, like this: + I will write today a post about web tools on taking notes.. And the note will be saved into your account.If you want, you can also tag your notes as per your convenience for better organization.

I like it, a nice web tool.

Learn foreign language online with Mango

2007-10-04T05:49:00.000+05:30

Learning a foreign language is often a tedious and time consuming job and generally requires special tutors.

But Mango is a new online web tool, which makes learning foreign languages a whole lot easier. It is currently in Beta and is FEE at present. Signup process is easy, no email required, no passwords.

The unique plus point of Mango is that it uses both audio and visual technique for learning. You go through different slides; the quality of learning material and quality of audio is great, there’s a lot of the materials, and it’s free!

Why don't get it NOW.

Fluther | Yet another place to find answers to any questions

2007-10-03T08:36:00.000+05:30

After the success of Yahoo Answers, there are now many sites on the web, which provide answers to your questions. After the launch of websites like Microsoft's QnA and Ask Metafilter, now you can find your answers at Fluther.

The exact meaning of the word Fluther is a group of jellyfish. Fluther community of users, who ask questions and other answer that. It tracks your activities and let you monitor questions you've asked or answered in real time. They also promise to send your questions to so-called experts, who are considered experts because they have successfully answered questions on related topics in the past.

The Big 'G' Google is also present in this market, but on a more serious note. Google Answers, relies on paid experts to generate answers, and therefore, it costs you to get your answers through them..

Fluther is hand-tailored for you. The more you participate, the more Fluther gets personalized for you. Fluther also a large tag cloud, which displays the topics of questions asked in a easily comprehendible tag cloud format.

Fluther has installed a ranking system also, where you get points for good and bad answers. People rate you based upon the quality of your activity on Fluther. And based upon your ratings, you are given access to advanced features.

In all such website, one thing I really wish. If these services could start a feature, where the person can also be able to discuss the answer in real time, it will be really interesting.

You can find many other services also on this question / answer these. With the presence of Wondir, Oyugi and Yedda, this space seems to be getting over-crowded.

del.icio.us tags: fluther, answers, questions, google answers, QnA, Wondir, Yedda, Oyugi, yahoo answers, ask metafilter

A complete guide to what is social bookmarking (Part II)

2007-10-02T10:39:00.000+05:30

In the first post of this series, we had detailed about the concept of what is social bookmarking and mentioned the advantages and disadvantages of using them as search engines. No we present here a list of some of the popular bookmarking sites. This list is in no particular order and contains some lesser known sites as well.

AllMyFavorites: Here you can create your own page, store bookmarks, share them with your friends and family and access them from anywhere.

Backflip: Gives list of most popular links on the homepage, Easily customizable to give webpages of your interest easily.

BibSonomy: Provides a tag cloud, suggests related tags. Detects duplicate content before submission. Easy navigation , clean site.

BlinkPro.com - for advanced users / researchers, a subscription-based service, and therefore doesn't bombard you with advertising or annoying email marketing

Bluedot.us: Uses tabs for organizing your page, you can import contacts from mail services like GMail and Yahoo.

Connectbeam.com Uses the concept of social bookmarking to enhance the productivity of a corporate entity.

Connotea.org - Allows you to export your library of resources into other programs (like EndNote) or subscribe to an RSS feed of your own or another user's library.

Diigo.com Very convenient to use, just select the portion of the webpage, write on it like you would a piece of paper, share and share it.

Ma.gnolia.com - Contains a discussion facility, where you can share and discuss bookmarks in groups.

Netvouz.com - Facility of password protection, Hotpicks for your most used bookmarks, import/export capabilities, RSS feeds, clean user interface, no advertising. Also available in Swedish!

SocialBookmarking.org - Separate tag clouds for the user and global, blog, avatars etc.

StumbleUpon.com helps you discover great websites. With a single click you can find and share interesting sites recommended by friends and like-mindedpeople. You can feel like channel surfing.

Yahoo! My Web A huge platform, duplication detection system

These social bookmarking sites allow you to add clippings also.

BlinkList.com - allows you to rapidly bookmark, label and comment on any web page. You can even send your saved pages to your blog for wider sharing.

Clipmarks.com - Single up-to-date bookmark set, Complete Privacy, Coolest Management Tools

del.icio.us - One of the biggest social bookmarking platform.

Furl.net - Suggests you the best pages which may interest you. You can save the archives also and can export your bookmarked page as a ZIP file.

RawSugar.com - member-designated tags to refine your search, It can cluster your tags for you based on recommendations by other users.

Simpy.com - It can even detect the links that have changed, distributes your bookmarks via your blog’s RSS.

Spurl.net - You can check out their hot lists, recommends you the suggested links.

Digg.com - The mother of all social bookmarking sites. Most popular. Has the rating system in the form of number of times a link has been dug.

Netscape.com - Now known as Propeller. Earlier was considered a better browser than Internet Explorer, but now is a news aggregator.

Newsvine.com - Allows you to write articles on news events, save links vote, comment and chat on article pages.

Reddit.com - A neat voting system to move your story up or down.

Shoutwire.com Instead of digging a story, here you shout it.

Technorati- the recognized authority on what's going on in the world of weblogs.We help people search for, surface, and organize bloggers and their daily posts

Thoof.com A unique feature is that others can improve your story by editing it or fixing the URL.

Besides these, there are many others, not so popular but good websites.

A complete guide to what is social bookmarking (Part I)

2007-10-01T06:50:00.000+05:30

The concept of Social bookmarking is probably the fastest growing idea in today's cyber world. social Bookmarking allows Internet users to store, organize, share and search for the webpages of their choice. Users save links of pages they want to remember, at a convenient location. No need to remember them or clutter your browser's window.

These bookmarks may be private or public, which can also be seen by others. The users can browse through them chronologically, by category or tags, via a search engine, or even randomly. The biggest reason for the popularity of these bookmarking sites is that they are now being used to drive traffic towards your own site or blogs.

Social Bookarking as search tools

At the time of bookmarking, you can tag the web pages with appropriate words, which can later be searched by you as well as other. Today's Social Bookarking has started replacing the traditional methods of searching through search engines like Google and Yahoo.

Advantages

This system is human based, as against the automated systems of search engines. So, the system is more perfect.

They virtually provide a rating system to the web pages. Bette pages are bookmarked by more people. So, larger no. of bookmarks usually can be associated with better content.

Drawbacks

However, this system doesn't have standard set of tags. Also there are spelling mistakes while tagging, no discrimination when words mean more than one thing.

Furthermore, thismethod is susceptible to corruption and collusion. A webpage of a popular blog, with just about average quality of content, is likely to be bookmarked by more people than a page, with excellent content, but hosted on a not so popular website. Spammers also use lots of tags to bookmark their pages, just to gain more visibility.

With this background, we will present here a list of some of social bookmarking site in the coming two post of this series.

WebHuddle | A nice open source application for web conferencing

2007-09-29T20:18:00.000+05:30

With the increasing competition in every marketplace, cost cutting is the only option for the companies for increasing their profitability. For this purpose, they employ different approaches and carefully scan every hole, which drains their revenue.

One of the important head of expense in today's organizations is the traveling costs of their employees, which can easily be reduced considerably by employing modern tools of voice and video communication.

WebHuddle is one such application, which just requires a web enabled PC to start your web conferencing session. It overcomes many of the hiccups like high-price to entry, compromised network security, large client downloads, and unreliability, which are usually associated with such online conferencing tools.

The best part is that it is an open source application. It offers you desktop sharing and voice-over-IP which may be useful for larger meetings, where a facilitator has control over the virtual microphone. You can easily record the proceedings of the meeting for record and play them back as per your convenience.

It is currently in beta testing and during this period it is free.

14 great web tools for taking screenshots (Part II)

2007-09-28T18:46:00.000+05:30

[This is the second part of this series. You can find part I here.]

In the earlier post, we had introduced, eight web tools for taking screenshots. Here we take a look at six more tools, which you can use for capturing screen images to be used in your blogs or online articles.

Browser Add-ons

Snissa: Simplicity is the key here. Ideal for taking screenshots of the entire webpage.

Screengrab: Creates an icon in your status bar, simple to use. You can select an area on your screen or an entire window for screenshot.

Standalone programs

PrintKey: A sophisticated version for your printscreen function. Resides in your system tray and gets activated with the press of PrintScreen key. Then you can save the image and edit it as well.

I4X Screencatcher: Allows you to take screenshots of the active window, your whole screen, an area you select or a selector box.

InstantShot: An advanced screenshot tool for OS X, supports JPG/TIF/PNG selection and timer functionality. Options include capturing a region, hotkeys, several output formats, image scaling and many others.

Web based

Thumbalizr: Just enter the target-URL and press the "thumb it"-button. Wait a moment and a screenshot of the desired page will be taken.

14 great web tools for taking screenshots (Part I)

2007-09-26T20:03:00.000+05:30

If you are a blogger or a journalist, you would understand the need of a good and handy web tool for taking screenshots of a website. There are many of them, some are web based, some are standalone executable programs and some are just browser add-ons. Still more, some are free and some require you to purchase them. My personal favourite being SnagIt.

In this two part series, we take a closer look at some of the most common screenshot web tools.

Browser Add-on's

Save as image: A neat firefox add-on. Takes screenshot of all of the contents of your current page, even if it above or below what you currently are seeing. After takinga capture, it prompts you to save avoiding hassles of opening your image editor and pasting the image there. You can also crop the image before pasting.

Pearl Crescent Page Saver: Another Mozilla Firefox add-on. It also gives you an option to capture the entire page or just the visible portion. Lets you save the image either in pNG or JPG. Also allows you to save the image either in full size or scaled down. The pro version, costing around $15, gives some more features.

Picnik for Firefox: Very easy interface, nice tools, and you can add text caption to your images. Launching a new premium subscription service today. At a price of $24.95 a year, you get of access to host of advanced effects and fonts.

Standalone programs

SnagIt: The king of all screenshot capturing programs. It is a powerful image, text, video, and Web image capture program with many features and options. Here is nice guide for using SnagIt. It costs you $ 39.95, and there is also a trial version for free. Torrent version is available here.

FastStone Capture : A powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It also has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier, screen ruler and many more.

WebShot: Freeware and allows you to take screenshots of a web pages or the entire websites. The main advantage is its powerful command line utility which enables you to automate the process of taking screenshots.

Paparazzi!: For Mac OS X, allows you to take screenshot of the entire webpage in contrast to the built in feature of Mac, which allows you to capture only the visible portion.

Web based

WebShotsPro: Now downloads, no purchasing, no installation. Just visit this website adn enter the URL of the page for which screenshot is to be taken. But you may have to wait a bit, because there is a queue.

[Part II of this series coming soon.]

Yuuguu | Share your screen with this great remote desktop sharing web tool

2007-09-25T08:11:00.000+05:30

Yuuguu is the latest cross platform collaboration tool, which everyone to share their computer screens with each other. This latest remote desktop sharing utility requires a small software on both (all) the computers and invitation are sent from one computer to the other. One screens are shared, you can use chat feature to explore the collaborative possibilities. Voice chat is also available for your convenience, but at a small cost.

Yuuguu is different from other such services as it combines the IM features with remote desktop sharing. Here you can make a buddy list, invite them to share your screen when they are online, show them what you are looking at on your computer, let them move your mouse and use your keyboard as though they were sat right next to you, and easily start a conference call together.

Yuuguu, derives its name from a Japanese word , which means fusion. It supports any device with browsing capabilities, meaning that you can also use it through mobile phones.

Yuuguu is similar in use to utilities like GoToMeeting but I find it much simpler to control and use.

It's founder Anish Kapoor says, "Yuuguu takes Web collaboration to a new level by integrating community, messaging and collaboration in a whole new and natural way."

I wish, if they had incorporated some sort of video interaction between the participants, it would have been a complete package. But still, a great utility.

del.icio.us tags: Yuuguu, Desktop sharing, Desktop, remote sharing, screen sharing, collaboration

HideLinks | Protect your visited links and surf secretly

2007-09-24T14:16:00.000+05:30

If you work on a shared computer and are concerned about someone knowing your visited links, then HideLinks is an ideal solution for you. You just have to copy the link you want to hide and paste it on hidelink. It will give you an encrypted link, which is a lot shorter than your original link and which nobody knows except you.

So, what's new about it. There are tons of such services. But the best part here is that you can password protect it also. The HideLink will retrieve the original link only if the correct password is entered.

YouConvertIt | A free online conversion tool for converting anything to anything

2007-09-19T21:54:00.000+05:30

There are a lot of online conversion tools available, like zamzar, which convert documents, images, audio files and video files from one format to the other. But most of them are restricted to be able to handle only a few formats.

YouConvertIt is a great online conversion tool, which handles virtually any format and thus gives you total freedom, and that too at one place. With this tool, you can covert virtually anything into anything. The best part is that it is free. Even further, a conversion tool for units is also available on the same website.

To use it, you have to upload the file, select the desired format from a drop down menu and enter your email address. They will send you an email after the conversion and you can then download the converted file. It is just like zamzar. But there is no limit on the size of your file and also, at present, this service is free from any ads.

Save energy and environment with LocalCooling

2007-09-19T08:44:00.000+05:30

I just didn't know that more than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted because many of us simply forget to shut down our computers when we're not using them. Ooh, that's a huge figure.

But this happen, just because you forget to implement the various power saving options available to you. Now there is an automatic solution to this problem. You can download a 100% Free power management tool from Uniblue Labs, which allows users to optimize their energy savings in minutes and as a result reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions.

What does it do

It ...

Cuts your power bills by saving energy
Thus it reduces the emitted CO2 resulting in reduction in Greenhouse effect.
Provides you total control on your power settings.
Shows you in detail how much you have saved since installing the software.

del.icio.us tags: power saving, energy conservation, environment, greenhouse, CO2 emission

Viigo | The RSS feed reader for your cellphone

2007-09-18T06:33:00.000+05:30

With each passing day, more and more people have been using cellphones for accessing Internet. With this there is a growing need for a reliable, convenient and convenient RSS feed reader for cellphones. Viigo fills this requirement in an effective way.

Viigo gives an instant access to Breaking News, Sports, Entertainment, Weather, Markets, Blogs, or any RSS Feed you want. There is also a huge list of several channels and blogs, which you can choose to start from. It also lest you updated about the local events, local weather, news and sports. You can even track your courier packages from the world's most popular mail and package carriers.

Try it, the price is really impressive. It is $0.00.

P.S.: You can find a review of BuzzMe, another RSS feed reader here.

del.icio.us tags: RSS, feed reader, Viigo, Mobile, cellphone

TrustedPlaces | A new community website

2007-09-17T23:48:00.001+05:30

Today Internet is being fed with the daily dose of upcoming social websites, where you can meet different people of your taste and choice and share all sort of information.

Trustedplaces is one such website, where you can meet real people like you and me, and share your information and opinion about different places you know. Since the information comes from the actual persons, in most of the cases who have visited the place in question, the information is quite reliable and trustworthy.

The best part of the service is that it is totally free. The revenue comes from the advertiser, who understand the value of the word of mouth publicity and as such, advertise on this website.

So, next time you need a reliable information on London or great London restaurants, come straight to TrustedPlaces.com.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

Hyperwords | A great firefox add-on

2007-09-17T23:17:00.000+05:30

I like Firefox, and I love firefox add-ons. This blog has posted several posts about various firefox add-ons in the past. Some of them are mentioned below.

I have added a separate label, which you can find in Categories on by right sidebar. Recently I have found another one. Its Hyperwords.

With Hyperwords, you can easily search more information about any word or phrase on your screen. You can search for photos on Google Images or Flickr. You can also translate that into many languages. You can search Wiki entries, you can do search queries and much more. All this can be done form the same window. You don't have to open another website for that.

Its really convenient. Try it.

Anglian Home Improvements

2007-09-17T22:58:00.001+05:30

If you are on the look-out for an established, reliable and cost-effective search for the best products for home improvements, then I will suggest that you visit the website of Anglian Home Improvements.

Established for more than four decades now, it is one of the best known place in UK for their quality home improvement products. They help you to shape your dreams, when thinking of your home.

They have a wide array of products on offer, as given below.

windows and doors: A huge range to choose from
Conservatories: Choose from a range of high quality uPVC conservatories to suit every home and garden - and budget.
Rooftrim: Replacement for softwood fascias, soffits, bargeboards and cladding
Cleanaroof: Clean and restore your roof and gutters
Driveways: A choice of concrete, block paving, detailing and security options.
Garage Conversions: Turn your garage into a warm habitable room
Kitchens: A huge choice of cupboards, sinks, worktops and accessories

So next time you think of home improvement solutions, think of Anglian.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

Get your letters, while on the move

2007-09-16T13:21:00.001+05:30

If you are travelling frequently, and for long durations, you must be worried many times about the emails reaching your home / office in your absence. No, I am not talking about the e-mails, I am referring to the physical form. Many people take the services of a home-sitter, who collects them and sends them to your place, say, weekly.

But now, you can avail the service of Earth Class Mail, who will receive them on your behalf, open them ,scan the and e-mail them so that you can access them from your current location.

Don't get bothered about the privacy issue. They first scan the unopened mail, which you can see through Internet. And only after getting your approval, open it. If you wish so, they can send it to you unopened also.

It is really a nice idea.

Technorati tags: letters, mails

I am Back

2007-09-13T22:03:00.000+05:30

Ooh, I am back.

Visitors to this blog, off late, must be wondering where I had disappeared. In fact I had to change the city as my employer had given me another assignment. This had involved a lot of hassels but I had accepted it just because of better prospects and exposure.

Now, the things have started to settle and I hope to get back to blogging business gradually.

Thanks for the visitors of this blog for keeping visiting.

Speed up loading of Acrobat Reader witht his free webtool

2007-08-07T07:02:00.000+05:30

If you are one of those frustrated with the long long time taken by the Acrobat Reader to load, then use following trick.

Download Adobe Reader SpeedUp from Softpedia, install it and you are through.

It actually speeds up Adobe Reader's launch time by disabling the majority of plugins that are completely useless for most users. It's completely free from any malicious scripts.

Or, alternatively, if you don't want to use any third party program on your machine, follow these steps.

1. Go to the installation folder of acrobat reader (eg. C:\program files\adobe\acrobat\reader\.. ).
2. Move all the files and folders from the “plugins” directory to the “Optional” directory.

It will prevent Acrobat Reader to open the (mostly) useless plugins and load the Reader faster.

Use Migratr to move your photos among different image hosting sites

2007-08-04T17:02:00.000+05:30

On the Internet you can find several image hosting and sharing website like flickr, picasa, snapfish, webshot etc. and there are many occasions when a user want to shift from one of the service to another because of any reason but doesn't shift just to avoid the hassle of downloading the images from old service and uploading them on the new one.

But now, with Migratr, you can easily do it. This free webtool is developed by an independent developer Alexander Lucas and is able to work with Flickr, Picasa Web, 23HQ, SmugMug, and Zooomr at present.

The process is very simple and is completed with a simple click. It first authenticates your downloading site, then downloads the images, then stores them in a local directory, then authenticates your upload site and then finally uploads your images to this site. All the mata data associated with your image is also transferred.

The best part of this service is that out of the above steps, you can choose any step and skip other steps. For instance, if you just want to download the images, skip the last two steps. If you need to upload bulk images from your PC, then start from the fourth step and skip first three steps.

Pix2Phone | Simple way to upload images to cellphone from your PC

2007-07-22T10:08:00.000+05:30

Pix2Fone is a simple and free webtools which allows you to upload any image on your PC to your cellphone. You just have to choose an image on your PC, select the model and manufacturer of your cellphone and then you have two options to upload the image on your cellphone.

Download it to your cellphone via WAP: You are given an image code, note it. Go to wap.pix2fone.com in your phone's browser (Take note of the f in the 'fone' when entering the WAP site address) and enter the image code. The image of yoru choice is downloaded to your cellphone.
If your mobile service provider provides you email id linked to your mobile number (like phonenumber@mobilenetwork.com) then this website sends an SMS to your cellphone, which contains a download link. But here also WAP connection is required to download the image to your cellphone.

It really easy to use. Try it.

Sparky | New Alexa Toolbar for Firefox

2007-07-21T11:09:00.000+05:30

Firefix is the browser of choice of millions of the savvy Internet users around the world. But one of the astonishing shortcoming of firefox has been the non-availability of the Alexa Toolbar, which helps to increase the traffic statistics of a website.

There have been a few webtools as a replacement of Alexa Toolbar. One of them being SerachStatus, a firefox add-on, already discussed on this blog here.

Now there a toolbar for firefox also, which has been announced officially by Alexa. It is more of a status bar than a tool bar, which shows traffic graphs in your status bar. You can download Sparky for firefox here at http://www.alexa.com/

InviteSahre.com | Send and Receive Invites to new services

2007-07-20T18:06:00.000+05:30

Community based sites are growing like never before. The biggest advantage of community based sites is that they are user driven. The promoters of the sites are not required to create content, they just have to put the systems in place and the content is created and shared by the users themselves. The revenue model of most of these sites is based upon Google Adsense, which generates enough revenue to run these sites.

Latest among them is InviteShare.com, which is basically a place which lets users share the invites for the new websites and services. Get registered there, find the service to which you want to get an invite and register your request. Some other user will send you an invite. The trick here is that, the more you send invite to others, the more are your chances to get the invite you desire.

Simple trick, but big potential.

blend two colors to get many other colors and their HEX / RGB codes

2007-07-19T16:19:00.000+05:30

There have been a few posts on this blog about picking color codes from a pixel on your screen, which you can find here, here, here and here.

Now I want to give a quick tip, which has helped me immensely in deciding the color themes of few other blogs.

Color Blender is a simple, yet effective webtool, where you can choose any two colors and this site blends them different proportions and provides you many options to choose from. The different output shades are as per the number chosen by you. If you choose to get 10 shades, then this tool provides you the 10 colours, alongwith their HEX / RGB codes, all equally distant from each other. You can you these colours wherever you wish.

See the example where I have obtained 10 equally spaced shades between color #FFFF00 (yellow) and #FF0000 (red).

GIMPShop | Work in GIMP like Photoshop

2007-07-19T15:28:00.000+05:30

When I started this blog, I was a total novice at Photoshop. I new that this is a powerful tool, but didn't know much about how to operate it. Besides this, I didn't have the license also and didn't want to spend hefty amount purchasing it.

So, I decided to try Gimp, the freeware, opensource solution, which practically does all the jobs of tweaking an image.

But those users, who are adept at using photoshop, find Gimp a bit difficult because of its different interface and different menu structure.

To solve this problem, Gimp has now introduced GimpShop, the cousin of Gimp, which has most of the menu structure and other features similar to Photoshop.

Let's see the next move of Photoshop.

Test your knowledge of Internet here

2007-07-18T12:47:00.000+05:30

A new website that tests your knowledge of technology and the internet has been launched.

How e are you? (www.howeru.com), is a simple and newly launched website, which tests your knowledge about Internet and tells you, where you are alacking and also lets you know the websites you ought to visit early so as to plug-in those holes in your knowledge.

It is a UK based site and is promoted by Online Consultancy Enhance Media.

"It will be intriguing to see the results. We all probably think we use the internet pretty well. But it's a fast moving medium and there's always going to be someone who's found something you don't know about, but that you could benefit from," said Elkington, the man behind the project.

PortableApps Suite | Now carry your PC applications and data with you

2007-07-18T12:10:00.000+05:30

Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and any other thing you like with you. There is absolutely no need to leave any of your personal data behind. All this is possible with PortabeApps Suite. The best part is that it is absolutely free, no trial versions, no spyware, don't require you to give your email address.

It is basically a suite of programs bundled into a single setup kip and can be run from a removable device like USB Disk.

The list of programs include:

Office tools (AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, Sumatra PDF, etc.)
Internet browsers and tools (FileZilla, Miranda IM, Mozilla firefox and Thunderbird, etc.)
games (sudoku portable)
Graphics tools (GIMP Portable)
Music&Video tools (Audacity portable, VLC Media Player Portable)
Mac-on-Stick operating system and some utilities (7-Zip, CalmWin Portable, etc.)
The platform is open source and more and more applications are going to be added.

You can download it here.

FastStone | Free webtool for easy and effective screen captures

2007-07-17T23:21:00.000+05:30

I love Snagit for taking the screenshots of different for this blog. It is probably the most versatile software, with lots of cool options to tweak the screenshot. But, most importantly, it is not a freeware. You have to purchase it to use it legally.

But, there is also a great freeware, which does most of the jobs Snagit can do. It is FastStone Capture.
It is lightweight (only 1340 kb) and offers the output in a variety of formats. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages.

Features:

A small floating draggable Capture Panel
Uses minimal memory space
Global hotkeys to activate the program's capture capabilities anytime, anywhere
Efficient tools to capture windows, objects, full screen, rectangle/freehand-selected regions and scrolling areas
Supports various browsers IE, FireFox and Opera
Option to specify destination (internal editor, clipboard, file or printer)
Text/Arrowed line/Highlight/Watermark annotation
Drop-shadow, torn-edge and fade-edge effects
Add caption
Resize, crop, zoom in/out
Undo/Redo
Support external editors, which allows you to add virtually unlimited editing capabilities to the program
Save as BMP, JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, GIF, TIFF, TGA and PDF
Send e-mails
Screen magnifier
Screen color picker
Support multiple monitors
Option to run when Windows starts
And many more ...

You can download it here at PCWorld or directly from the FastStone website.

Krutos 2 | A free webtool to encrypt and secure your data

2007-07-17T11:30:00.000+05:30

Kruptos is a robust 128 bit file encryption utility, which allows you to safeguard your important files on your hard disk or portable storage devices by utilizing its powerful file shredding capabilities and the ability to generate self decrypting files.

It runs on Windows 2000 or XP through MS .net framework. The best part is that it is free, simple to use and easy to install. No spyware, malware or malicious scripts. No method is deviced to break the password. If you loose your password, you loose your data. Simple, but effective. They claim it to be ideal for secure trasportation of files on potable storage devices, such portable hard drives, USB storage keys.

Another way to determine hex code of a color / pixel

2007-07-16T11:29:00.000+05:30

Many times webmasters and bloggers need to know the hex and RGB color codes of a particular shade of a color. There are many ways to do that. Some like ColorCop, ColorPicker and another tool have already been discussed in this blog.

Now we found yet another cool free webtool, which directly copies the hex color code of a pixel to your clipboard, from where you can paste it to anywhere. The task made more easy. You have to follow these steps.

1. Download (485kb) Instant EyeDropper and install it.
2. Run it.
3. Move your mouse pointer to its icon in the system tray.

4. Press and hold the left mouse button. Holding it, move your mouse pointer to the target pixel.

5. Release the mouse button.

That's it. The clipboard now contains the color code - in HTML format

SiteAdvisor | Get pre-warning about malicious sites with this firefox add-on

2007-07-15T07:56:00.000+05:30

Are you concern about the security of your systems. No we are not talking about the viruses, but the spywares and identity theft scripts.

Although there are many programs and scripts, which clean your systems, but most of them are post-facto. They operate, when you are infected.

One of the programs, which give you a pre-warning, i.e. warning before getting attacked by a malicious site, is SiteAdvisor. This plug-in performs a background check on the Web sites you visit and raises a flag, whenever you visit a dubious looking site. It also gives you a warning icon next to potentially dangerous results from popular search engines, along with an icon in your status bar that shows the risks and annoyances associated with the page you're viewing.

SiteAdvisor was founded in April 2005 by a group of MIT engineers who wanted to make the Web safer for their family and friends. The pro version of this McAfee service adds features such as e-mail and IM link checking for $20 per year.

The free version is available for download at PCWorld.

Yahoo follows Google to launch Search Suggest

2007-07-15T07:20:00.000+05:30

Seems like all Google innovations are likely to get replicated by Yahoo.

The latest being the search suggest.

The feature of Google suggesting the keywords for your search as you type your query is quite old now. But as per this blog post by the Yahoo's Kevin Lee, the search suggest facility is now also available in Yahoo.

Add web 2.0 like refelections to your images with javascript

2007-07-14T06:57:00.000+05:30

Do you always fancy those web 2.0 like reflections to the images, which fade into background. But what if you didn't know the use of photoshop or gimp, and didn't have enough time and pateience to learn that.

No issues. Follow this procedure to add reflections to any image on your web page.

1. Go to this cool website.

2. Download the zipped file "reflection".

3. Unzip it and recover the reflection.js file.

4. Load it to your template. For it, you have to upload it to a free file hosting site, and note its URL there.

5. Paste the following code to the template. Before pasting remember to replace the src value with the URL noted in step 4 above.

6. Now you are ready to add reflections to the images. For it, just add a class="reflect" to the image.

7. You can easily change the height and opacity of the refelction if you so desire.

PacMan comes to Firefox | Be game with this addictive firefox add-on

2007-07-13T16:35:00.000+05:30

Most of us, who had seen the era of PC286 and 386, will remember the favourite timepass PC-Man. I should aptly say it a time-destroyer, instead of a time-pass, because I myself had spent hours before the screen just to surpass my previous highest score.

Now, there is firefox, extension available for this rivetting yet simple game. You can download this firefox add-on from mozilla site.

Mozbackup | Backup your history, passwords, settings with this free webtool

2007-07-13T16:17:00.000+05:30

Few of the most annoying thing for a computer geek during re-installation of OS or setting up a new computer is the backing up of bookmarks, transfer of emails and transfer of passwords.

But, if you are using firefox, there is an easy solution. Now, you can backup your history, passwords, downloaded file lists, setting etc. using MozBackup. The interface is easy to use and lightweight.

MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles. It allows you to backup and restore bookmarks, mail, contacts, history, extensions, cache etc. It’s easy way to do Firefox backup, Thunderbird backup …This program is freeware and works on Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003. It’s developed in Czech republic.

Send automatic reminders with Monkeys on your back

2007-07-13T00:59:00.000+05:30

If you are planning to throw a party, or just want to send periodic reminders to somebody to do a task, then you can automate the process through this special webtool "Monkeys on your back".

You just have to sign in and set up the task, and they will send personal email reminders to the target person(s) at the schedule determined by you. The interface is simple and fun to use.

The recipent can choose to get further reminders or can also stop to get more reminders for a particular task.

The service is free for upto five task, beyond which you have to pay.

MoPay | Sell your old cellphone for a decent price

2007-07-12T21:20:00.000+05:30

If you are planning to buy an iPhone oro any other model of latest cellphones, but worried about what to do with your old handset, go to MoPay.

They will recycle it, or ship it to the third-world countries for reselling. In turn, you will be given a decent price for it and some of the proceeds will go to the charity.

However, the price they offer you are almost half of the street prices shown. For instance, the working price for a NOKIA N95 is 132 British Pounds while non-working price is about 66 BP.

OneDump | Yet another file hosting and sharing service

2007-07-12T16:46:00.000+05:30

OneDump is yet another file storage site, where you can host any of your image, text. audio, video file. The space is unlimited, but you can upload at most 10 files at a time each restricted to maximum 5 Mb.

But why, why do we need just another file hosting service, when there already are plenty of them like DivShare, RapidShare, AllYouCanUpload, Flickr and many more. How they are going to sell their services.

On this, OneDump claims that it offers a straight-forward solution that makes uploading and “sharing files easy as never before”. You actually don't need to register rwith them. Go to their homepage, upload a file, and that is it. You will be provided the link, which you can use or share. They also provide the facility to upload files through emails to the registered members.

But if you want to avail other services like folders, slideshows, and an easy interface to upload and manage your stuff, you will have to register with them.

The important part is that they are also planning to allow file uploading through cellphones.

Flock - Browser for siocial networking, gets a major update

2007-07-11T10:03:00.000+05:30

If you have never come across it, Flock is the special web browser which helps you a lot if you devote much of your browsing time to social and bookmarking websites. It was first released in October of 2005, and now after two years, they have come out with a feature-rich Version 0.9.

So what’s new in this version ?

There is a home base named as MyWorld for you, where you can store all of your sites, feeds and media
If you used to store your images / videos on Flickr, Photobucket, Youtube, and Truveo, now you can access them speedily with Flock's Media MiniBar
And many more...

Get updates and download flock here.

Make your own Web 2.0 badges with this free webtool

2007-07-11T08:52:00.000+05:30

One of the distinguishing features of Web 2.0 is the availability of cool badges and buttons for your use.

They are probably one of the most popular trend in Web 2.0 time. They might have various round or square corners and eye-catchy colours. They immediately attract visitor's attention, it's most over-used trendy little design technique in our days.

But how do you prepare them, especially if you are not a geek or photoshop / gimp expert.
No problem. Try this cool site, and make your own badges.

File Shredder | A free webtool to destroy your files completely from PC memory

2007-07-11T07:37:00.000+05:30

Hitting "Del" key doesn't delete the files from your disk. It only deletes its directory information so that it is not listed and identified by the operating system. But do you know, there are several softwares available, which can easily retrieve this file, leading to possible misuse of it by some unscrupulous person.

Frightened, you need not. There are many programs available on the Internet, which does the shredding job for you. In fact they usually re-write the target file with a random string of data multiple times and thus make it unusable, even after retrieval.

File Shredder (Download here, 1.5 Mb) is one such program, and it is free. It use five different algorithms to shred the target file into binary pieces.

So next time you want to completely feel secured, use these softwares.

Top Gear Vs Formula1 Game

2007-07-11T07:28:00.000+05:30

Despite many ills and criticism, Sponsored blogging has its own advantages. Because if this, you the reader as well as I the blogger, get to know various new things, which may not be of direct interest to us.

One such thing is racing car. I was never much interested in them, but this assignment, wherein I was asked to write a post on Top Gear, made to look and search various resources on motoring industry and this added to my little knowledge about this field.

Top Gear is one of the UK’s premier motoring website, which offers you daily Motoring News, besides a lot of information on reviews of various cars, auto games and a huge database of new and Used Cars which you can buy or sell online.

They also offer you addictive flash game, Top Gear Vs Formula One. In this game you are given a choice to choose from a list of players below:

After that you have to answer a few questions related to auto industry. Answer as many Top Gear and Formula One related questions in the quickest time possible. The more questions you answer correctly in the quickest time, the higher your score will be. But one thing is sure, to answer the maximum questions you have to have knowledge about this world, and for this you are again referred back to the Motoring News section of this website.

If you are a auto fan, this unique website also offers you download from a host of free wallpapers and screensavers, which can really vrooooom your desktop. These are also categorized in to different sections like most downloaded as well as most popular.

Their distribution channel is also very huge. For every make or manufacturer there is a list of the dealers available right there on the website, where you can deal if you are interested in the purchase of used cars.

One important thing, which I often look out for while reviewing an e-commerce site is the section which details the terms and conditions and the other section which details about their privacy policy. This website has both of them in clear and no uncertain terms, and thus adds value and faith into them.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

How to get yout blog approved by payperpost in 75 days

2007-07-10T07:17:00.000+05:30

Hello............,
This is a notification letting you know that your PayPerPost blog, Webtools, has been approved and is now available.
You can now take opportunities and write about them on your blog.

I received this e-mail today from payperpost.

Today was the 75th day since I written my first post on this blog. Thus they have relaxed their condition of 90 days in my case. I always heard that they are a bit liberal in cases of good blogs, which are regularly updated. Seems like payperpost has liked by blog and so approved it. I am planning to take up few quick sponsored posts. Let's see how things shape up in future.

Russian Dating Site ChanceForLove.com

2007-07-09T17:11:00.000+05:30

There are many people in the west with a craze for Russian brides or Ukranian Brides. Why ?

Because it is said about Russian ladies that they like to look pretty. They like to dress well. They are concerned about their weight, their hair and how they present themselves. It is believed that their overall attitude about themselves is feminine.

But there are lots and lots on information about the Russian dating scams and how people have been cheated just because of this craze.

But, there is st least one site, which is not a scam. We are talking about www.changeforlove.com.

This site has a lot of services on offer. here you can genuinely find a date, browse through their latest portfoilos, talk with them, send SMSs or flowers or gifts and they can even assists you in organizing a meeting.

True to their reputation, they also have a Search dating scammers guide, which assist you in searching, which dating sites are scam and whcih are genuine.

They also have a section, in which the story, which is reportedly a coverage done by BBC of them, is presented.

If you are interested you can contact them on their US toll free number 1-800-680-0832 or, alternateively, international callers can dial their number +7-8435-439839.

How to run Internet Explorer 7 with 6 on the same PC

2007-07-08T11:03:00.000+05:30

Fellow bloggers, will agree about how important it is to check the appearance of your blog / site on all popular blogs, because it seldom happens that a site looks perfectly ok in all the popular browsers.

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 a long way back and now it has already gained a decent market share of the hot browsers market. But with it, the problems of website designers and bloggers increase, because now they have one more browser on which they have to check and test their site for its appearance. The problems becomes compounded given the fact the installation of IE7 washes IE6 from your PC and you need two different PCs, if you want to see the results on both IE7 and IE6. So, is there any solution ?Fortunately, there is.

And the solution is a third party installer named as Multiple-IE, which allows you to keep multiple versions of the same browsers on the same machine. Easy, isn't it ?

A blog review | Plastic Sergery News

2007-07-07T14:28:00.000+05:30

Of late, this blog has been requested with many requests for writing a sponsored post on Plastic Surgery related services. I know, this is not included in the basic theme of my blog, but these sponsored posts are a way of earning money for this blog, so I have accepted this offer as well.

In fact this post is about a blog itself about the Plastic Surgery News, the purpose of which is to provide you with the latest news and trends regarding plastic surgery so as to enable you to make an informed choice. This cosmetic surgery blog also provides you information about a tummy tuck as well.

The content is good, article are informative, but there seems not many articles available. But one important thing, which I didn't link much on their blog was the absence of proper navigation tools. The only choice for you is to read every article page-by-page. There are no labels or categories for giving you an easy access to the content you desire. You can only find an "Archive" link on the Homepage, which takes you to a page, on which only four months are shown, and nothing else.

These shortcomings should be addressed by the promoters of the blog to give easy access to the readers.

Although this is a fact that this blog is not having years of experience behind it (The first entry on the blog dates back to 6th of April 2007), but the contents are good and seems to be written by a person, which can safely be considered to be an expertise in his field.

So, if you are a person on the look-out of a place to get more know how on the subject before going for a operation or procedure, or just out of curiosity, I will definitely recommend you to at least have a visit to this blog, You might have a face a bit difficulty in going through the entire content, but it will surely be a rewarding read. This site will surely help you a great deal in evaluating the pros and cons of all your options before going for a surgery in this area.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

Using eSnailer to send physical mails may be risky

2007-07-06T14:06:00.000+05:30

Despite the seemingly indispensability of emails, there is huge section of our population, which still cannot access it and are still dependent upon the paper form of communications.

A new servicee eSnailer seemingly promises to bridge that divide. It allows to send you a letter in the form of paper in an envelope to anyone. The sender has to just fill in the receipient' and sender's name & address and the message in a form provided on their website. And the beutiful part is that this is absolutely free.

But what is the catch.

Yeah, you guessed it right, there is surely a catch. In fact before sending, you are asked to sign up at least two of the available offers from their promoters. It was also bearable, but the saddest part is that eSnailer seems to be having an affiliation with the website MyInsiderDeals, which is rated "very spammy" by McAfee SiteAdvisor. [After signing up at MyInsiderDeals, the SiteAdvisor team received 240 e-mails per week.]

Another important point to be noted on their site is the lack of a privacy policy. This raises a doubt about the real motives of the site. I am not saying that this service is a scam, but this great idea could have done better if taken care of these points.

MidoriTech.com | Online Pc and Mac games

2007-07-05T20:02:00.000+05:30

I have a six years old school going daughter, who is very fascinated to work on my laptop. Whenever she sees me on it, she tries to lay her hand over it and I have also started to teach her the basics of the cyber world. During this process, one thing I have noticed that the computer games, both online and offline, are a great way of learning basic skills. The basic skills on working on computers require good hand-eye coordination, which we, the grown up people, do not realize, because we are accustomed to it. But see a child working on a computer and you will understand the importance of what I am saying. In this situation, computer games are very efficient tools to let them master this skills, because they require excellent degree of coordination and at the same time keep their interest alive.

So, while searching for the good computer online games, specially mahjong, I came across with this excellent website, MidoriTech.com, which is a relatively new company based in Burgundy, France offering entertainment products.

The PC games are available on both platforms; you can find here PC games as well as Mac Games. One example of a great Mac game is mac solitaire. So, whichever is the type of your machine, you can always enjoy the excellent Kids games from Midori.

Midori offers the purchase of softwares and games both online and offline. They say that their online payment system is powered by Plimus, a trusted and secure online payment system that uses industry standard encryption, and thus all your personal information, is safe if you chose the online payment method.

If you don't want to do that, then you can print an order form, available online on the website and send the money alongwith your order to receive the games and software.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

Plastic Surgery 101 | A resource guide to plastic surgery

2007-07-05T15:47:00.000+05:30

Looking good is a feeling, which human beings have been relishing since the time immemorial. People spend a lot of time, efforts and money for it, but sadly, not succeed in many cases. This is because the medium they choose, the doctors they trust, for the accomplishment of their goal is not correct.

But this is not the case with this website Plastic Surgery101, your trusted medium to satisfy your needs related to plastic surgery.

Here you can choose from lot of procedures available like breast augmentation, Beverly Hills rhinoplasty, face lift or Beverly Hills liposuction. The main aim of this website is to create awareness among the people and procedures on plastic surgery. You can learn a lot on this site and clear your doubts and misconceptions about plastic surgery.

This website also contain a very helpful Frequently Asked Questions section, where you can learn things like the difference between cosmetic and re-constructive surgery, how long will be the recuperative period or when you may be able to return to your work after the surgery. The website also contain a before - after section, which is usual for such websites, where you can compare the results of the procedure with the situation before.

They say

The best (and happiest) plastic surgery patients are those that make informed decisions. The information on this web site is provided so you have the knowledge necessary to make the best possible choices.

And it seems, the website accomplished its goal of imparting useful information about the plastic surgery.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

Yet another free webtool | AbiWord, the free word processor

2007-07-04T15:16:00.000+05:30

This is the fourth article in the series of free Word Processors (alternatives to MS Word). In this series, we have already reviewed Zoho Writer, Bean and RoughDraft.
This post will highlight AbiWord.

AbiWord is the lightweight, open source minimalist's word processor, capable of accompishing most of the functions of the heavy-weight word processors. It is part of a project popularly known as AbiSource, started by SourceGear Corporation. The source code of AbiWord has specially been written so as to allow it to function on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting.

It includes advanced word processing features like headers/footers, mail merge, table of contents, and auto fields, in addition to all the basics you would expect.

The website is also very user-friendly, and accessing the information is easy.

Some of the well known features of AbiWord are

Extensible Plugin Support
Dictionary mode for more that 30 languages
Universal Support - It can read almost all the Documents created by different word processor
Multi-Platform - Abiword is not only limited to Windows but it supports another platform like Linux, Unix, etc.

Some of the Windows based plugins are

See the screenshot.

Relocation.com | One stop solution for all your MOVING needs

2007-07-03T08:39:00.001+05:30

Moving your family, your assets is a big big hassles. The problems, apart from leaving your neighbors, your relations, basically are related to logistics. Where to find the new house, who will do the packing and unpacking, where to get your automobiles insured, how to search for the roommates..., the list is endless.

Thanks, there is a service at the website Relocation.com, which takes care of all such worries.

For instance, they have an excellent collection of real estate links, which can assist you in your search for the right real estate agent, houses that are for sale by owner, and a mortgage. You can even ask for free quotes on mortgage rates as well as on homeowner’s insurance policies.

Their special section online apartment search helps you to find the right place just for you and that at the right price. If you are moving to a big city, where you may not be in a position to afford the cost of rent, this service offers you to find a roommate, with whom you can share your costs.

In their auto transport section, you can get a lot of resources, which will guide you to prepare yourself for moving your automobile. They are also helpful if you are considering an international shipping of your articles.

I am sure, with the array of services on offer, they must be one of the best moving companies in town.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

BackupReview.info | Your guide to choose best Online backup and storage service

2007-07-03T07:45:00.000+05:30

Online backup basically is backing up your data on web.

Generally it requires users to download a small application through which they can upload their chosen files to the offsite server regularly and automatically.

To access these stored files the user have to use the application. This service is generally provided for a fee varying with the amount and type of data you want to store.

Now, there are hundreds of such services, each claiming itself to be the best in town. How do you choose the most suited to your requirements. Thanks, there is a site, which helps you to do that.

BackupReview.info, established in 2004, contains a superb collection of information on backup services around the globe. They maintain a dynamically updated Top 25 list (although they don’t say how that’s calculated), articles and reviews. Over 400 backup services are analyzed and listed.

It is a very good starting point to choose the best suited storage service for your needs.

What is Cellphone Unlocking

2007-07-02T08:18:00.000+05:30

So, 29th June had arrived and passed. And with it Apple started selling its iPhone, which has created an unmatched hype, unprecedented in the history of cellphones. iPhone is the properitory technology and it works only with one particular telecom service provider.

In this situation, the question becomes highly relevant, What actually is Cellphone Locking and for that matter, Unlocking.

Cellphone Unlocking

Every GSM compatible cellphone has a unique ESN number associated with it, with which it can be identified. On the other hand the SIM, Subscriber Identification Module, is programmed by the Telephony service provider to identify the subscriber. Two are not to be confused. ESN identifies the handset, while SIM identifies the subscriber..

When the telecom service provider bundle the handsets alongwith the telephony service, they lock the SIM. i.e. they program the handset in such a way that it can only be used with a particular SIM. This process is called Handset locking. The benefit is to the telephony service provider, as now the subscriber is tied to them, and will have to change the handset, if he wished to subscribe to any other service provider, which he may not like to do.

Breaking this programming code, so as to enable the handset to work again with any other service provider is called Cellphone Unlocking.

But how Cellphone Unlocking is done ?

There are two ways.

Many handsets can be unlocked simply by keying a secret code into it. The code is usually a unique number only for that particular phone, based on its serial number (what is called its IMEI) and the service provider who locked it. There are many companies, who hack these codes, and sell it to you, sometimes for a fees as low as $5.
Other types of phone need their 'firmware' - their operating system software - to be rewritten to remove the lock. This requires connecting the phone via a special data cable to a special programming unit. This can be done only by professionals.

Quality telecommunications equipment and service

2007-07-01T20:01:00.000+05:30

Having quality telecommunications equipment is something any company can do, but what separates them is the service. That's why I think you'll be happy to stay with a quality company like First Point, Inc. What's great about First Point is that not only are they a top telecom reseller, but they offer warranties, repair services, and a range of telecom cables and accessories. They really do offer the full package. With a company like First Point, I know you'll appreciate how you can make one call to one company and get all of your needs met, instead of having to call multiple places to fix your needs.

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Online Games Toolbar | Waste your life with this Mozilla firefox add-on

2007-07-01T17:04:00.000+05:30

Consider yourself warned | This firefox add-on is a real time waster for life.

The free Online Games Toolbar lets you play many free online games directly from your browser with easy access to an endless stream of flash games and other popular online web games. It gets updated daily on its own to let you discover tons of new online games for playing directly from your browser for free.

The Online Games Toolbar is a Firefox add-on (although it is also available for IE). It is a third party development program. Although it is claimed to be totally spyware / virus free, but the gaming arena on net is always full of risks, so go ahead on your own risk.

Get the Best in Offshore Software Development Services

2007-07-01T16:52:00.000+05:30

If you want the best in offshore software development services you need a partner with technical expertise and a reliable workforce. Hundsun Global Services is the subsidiary of Hundsun Electronics Company, Ltd., one of the top 10 software companies in China. Our experienced team of senior software engineers have the knowledge and expertise in application development to offer you superior solutions when software outsourcing in China.

Blog post sponsored by Blog for Cash

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Hoax your near ones with HoaxMail

2007-07-01T09:25:00.000+05:30

Did you ever wanted to hoax your friends or relatives with a mail or SMS from someone else.

Hoaxmail provides you a free and really simple service that allows to anonymously send spoof email and SMS messages to anyone from any name/number - no matter what country you live in!
But be warned: Your IP address is added to the headers of every email you send, and as well as this we log numerous pieces of data regarding the real sender of the email. This is essential to ensure the service is not misused.

Other features:

No Limits : Choose exactly who you want your email to appear from.
Easy: Just fill in a few boxes and press send.
Receive Replies: Receive replies to your emails in your own personal inbox, your victim will never know.
Set a Time Delay: Allows you to 'queue' an email to be sent later.
Advanced Options: Allows you to insert images, set font colours, make text bold or underlined and lots more.

So, join the fun, but don't abuse. You can be caught easily.

Rhinoplasty at Beverly Hills

2007-06-30T17:26:00.000+05:30

Do you know, what is Rhinoplasty. I didn't know till I was asked to review this facility. Actually...

Rhinoplasty is cosmetic surgery of the nose. It is sometimes called a "nose job." During a rhinoplasty procedure, the shape of the nose can be changed to correct imperfections either present from birth or as the result of trauma. Rhinoplasty can improve the overall appearance of an otherwise attractive face by bringing the nose into harmony with the rest of your features.

So, where do you go for this procedure, if you consider yourself to be a candidate. There may be several clinics, but you would definitely like to a place handled by experienced persons in a professional manner. Fortunately, there is at least one such center which offers rhinoplasty in Beverly Hills.

Here it is done by two experienced surgeons with highly accomplished backgrounds.

On their website here at rhinoplasty Beverly Hills center you can find lot of information related to this highly specialized procedure, which is used not only for enhancing your beauty but also to cure and heal certain abnormalities, deformations and problems of your nose.

So if you are planning for something like Rhinoplasty then try rhinoplasty Los Angeles center.

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FullerScreen | Hide your toolbars and status bar with this Mozilla Firefox add-on

2007-06-30T16:34:00.000+05:30

We all have used the slide-show mode of Powerpoint to make the desktop full-screen. But can the browsers do that. Off-course yes, if you are using Firefox, the versatile net browser. This feature is specially useful in case you are making a presentation.

You need to download this firefox add-on and just have to press the F11 key to toggle full screen mode and normal mode. Or alternatively, you can click a special button on the extreme right of your status bar to go full screen. To return to the normal mode, just scroll your mouse to the bottom, the status bar will appear and you can easily click the normal mode button.

It also provides a slide show feature which, if you are willing to mess about with CSS and HTML a fair bit, will give you basic Powerpoint type functionality from within the browser. Quite smart.

Primeview | A leading web design company

2007-06-30T08:46:00.000+05:30

The prestigious Golden Web Award winning PrimeView is an Arizona web design company, with a great portfolio.
They are truly a full service e-Busines solution provider engaged in web design, hosting, and marketing; specializing in working with clients to create and implement a successful web site. They know the market, the technology, the customers and their users. The have the required marketing expertise to help you assess and establish your online strategy needs and goals.

On their website, they have a special section called before & After gallery, which shows the miracles they create. It basically shows the amazing transformations they have already made to their client’s website. They surely have a large customer base from all walks like Education, Entertainment, Financial, Travel, Service, etc.

A special feature of PrimeView is the focus they attach to the search engine optimization. We, the bloggers, know the importance of SEO in the success of a website. Whatever great a website you make, unless it ranks higher in search results, people will find it difficult to reach your pages and your website will lie in ignominy.

PrimeView even offers hosting services to those clients who do not have their own servers. They offer to implement and maintain their client's web site on PrimeView's servers to include:

Managed co-location servers
Business Web Site Hosting with web site traffic analysis
Professional Business Web Site Hosting with advanced monthly web site traffic analysis
Secure, E-commerce web site hosting

So, go for it, if you are thinking of launching a new website or even if you want to redesign the look and feel of your existing website.

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Free Word Processors | Zoho Writer

2007-06-30T08:17:00.000+05:30

This is the third article in the series of free minimalist's word processors. Earlier we have introduced Bean and RoughDraft.

We all know that Google Docs (formerly Writely) is the most popular online text editor at present. But who is the its closest competitor. Undoubtedly, it is Zoho writer.

To use Zoho Writer, you just have to register with them. The interface is nice, nice, clean and simple and importantly much faster to load than Google Docs.

Cool Features:

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 A powerful WYSIWYG editor
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Access, edit, and share documents online

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Periodic auto-saving
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Export / Import facility to Word, SXW, PDF, ODT, RTF, TXT and HTML

Directly post your documents to your blogs

View your documents' revision history, compare versions and rollback to any version of your choice

Publish your documents online for public view

I learned It Online and Vadivel M have compiled a useful list of tips for Zoho Writer users.

Celebking | The prince of Celebrity videos

2007-06-29T07:05:00.000+05:30

Recently, I got an offer to review the unique adult site CelebKings, which specializes in short clips of leading actresses, taken mainly from hollywood films. Interestingly, they give you a free temporary password for reviewing, off-course on paid basis, their members area.

I found a staggering numbers of titles there; all were great celebrities, quality video clips and movie titles. All in all, there are 7,121 video clips and 1,545 movie of as many as 2,193 top celebrities.

What I liked most

Categorization: Finding a particular clip or celebrity is very easy. You can choose your desired clip in several ways. You can see their alphabetic listing by Celebrity names, you can see the listing by Movie name, You can see only blondes / brunettes or busty if you so desire ; see their main menu, it is really user-friendly.
Description: Each video clip has a description including a profile of the actress.
Quality: The speed of download seems to be a bit slower as compared to YouTube, but the quality is far far superior.

The movies can be used in different formats. You can play it online in flash format or alternatively can download it to play through your windows media application, apple quicktime or ipod video.

However, one particular thing, which I noted is that the clips were short, very short - most of them being 1-3 minutes, part and were really just like snippets taken from larger movie.

All in all, I would not say that it is the best celebrity sex video site, but it is definitely worth consideration, if you have such taste.

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Free Wordprocessors | Bean for Apple

2007-06-28T04:24:00.000+05:30

This is the second article from the series on free word processors. First one was about Roughdraft.

Till recently, TextEdit was the de-facto choice for word processor for Apple. When you ned to scribe quickly a note or two, and don't want to use a full word processor, Text Edit was a great help.

You can get more information about TextEdit or download it at the Apple website here and here. Peach has given a nice article here.

But now, they have come out with Bean, which starts from where TextEdit has left.

What is Bean

It is a small, simple word processor (actually a rich text editor), with many niceties added to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable.

Don't compare Bean with MS Word. It will be comparing Apples with Oranges. Bean is open source and right now is in Beta.

Cool Features

a live word count
a Get Info panel for in-depth statistics
a zoom-slider to easily change the view scale
an Inspector panel with lots of sliders
date-stamped backups
autosaving
a page layout mode
an alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
an option to show invisible characters (tabs, returns, spaces)
selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
a floating windows option (like Stickies has)
easy to use menus
remembers cursor postion (excluding .txt, .html, .webarchive formats)
all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)

You can get more information on the OS-X website and down it here.

Simplifythis | Simplify your online payments and invoicing

2007-06-27T16:12:00.000+05:30

SimplifyThis is a specially designed online payment and invoicing system, which is best suited for small business, freelancers, and independent professionals.

It’s online and web-based and so more flexible. You can speed up your payment receipts from your clients through it as it allows them to pay online. It also triggers emails and reminders to the client for the due payment.

You will find the interface to be clean and neat. No help is required for using it

The main features include:

Providing a tool for realizing your payments faster
Easy tracking of your dues and payments
Remind clients about the dues through emails
Online payment can be done by your clients
You can standardize the invoices, use your own logos, taglines and punchkits

The application is presumably in beta at present.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

Free webtools | A free wordprocessor - Roughdraft

2007-06-27T11:33:00.000+05:30

RoughDraft is a specially designed free word processor specifically keeping in mind the requirements of script writers like authors of short stories, articles, poetry, plays, screenplays and much more.

There are many features like detailed text and paragraph formatting options, allowing import of files in Word 6.0, word 97 and HTML formats, spell checking of the whole text or of individual words and a customizable dictionary where you can add your own words.

The basic format in which RoughDraft saves files its files is the popular Rich Text Format (RTF), which imply that you can open the Roughdraft files in any other word processor.

You can create HTML files of your work for publishing on the web and automatically generate cover pages for manuscript submissions with word and page counts.

RoughDraft is a freeware. Download here.

Watch out this space for next free word processor.

Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery

2007-06-27T07:29:00.000+05:30

Do you live in Beverly Hills or looking for a good plastic surgery option in Beverly Hills, California? Here is a solution.

Radeodrive Plastic Surgery is one the few reputed centers of ethnic plastic surgery.

They have been offering a unique Beverly Hills breast reduction program, specially meant for ladies with huge, bulky and unshapely breasts. They also run a one of its kind los angeles liposuction program.

They also run a blog, hosted on blogspot, on which you can have a detailed information and discussion about plastic surgery techniques.

This centre has widely been reported in press and electronic media. Various media groups, where this centre has been covered include Access Hollywood, France's Télévision Française 1, Univision, and written about in The Los Angeles Times, Fortune Magazine, Japan's Chocolate Sienne Magazine, Mexico City's Reforma, and InTouch Weekly Magazine.

The motto of this centre is truly reflected in their tagline "We treat everybody like a celebrity".

This centre has been accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Inc.
You can get more information about this center by calling 310-550-6300.
Breasts are a woman’s great assets and represents her sexuality. The desired hour-glass figures of voluptuous breasts, small slim waists and sexy hips have attracted men since time immemorial. Some women may go for breast augmentation to enlarge them or you can check out Beverly Hills breast reduction to get that perfect pair of breasts.

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A new viral train to boost your blog juice

2007-06-25T18:30:00.000+05:30

Bloglines is one of the oldest feed aggregators and still many advertisors and SEO specicalists use it, alongwith other tools like technorati and alexa to judge the popularity of a blog.

Here is a cool tool to increase your technorati rankings as well as Bloglines feed subscriptions.
So, if you are a blogger, you can follow this instructions by copying and pasting it to your blog too.

***Start Copying Here:***

Here are the rules:
1) If you don’t have a bloglines account, as many of you may now, signup for one, if you do have a bloglines account sign in to your account!

2) For bloggers, you can write a short introductory paragraph about what how you found the Bloglines list and include a link to the blog that referred you, (i.e my telenovela blog, in this case) to the list.

3) COPY the Rules and ENTIRE List below and post it to your blog. To avoid duplicate content and increase the amount of keywords your site can be accessible for, go ahead and change the titles of the blog. Just don’t change the links of the blog.

4) Take the “My New List” and move them into the “The Original List”.

5) Add 3 Blogs that you’ve just added to your Bloglines List to the “My New List” section. Remember to also add the “List the Site link next to your new blogs (i.e. http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theblogurl.com/feed

http://www.bloglines.com/sub/http://www.theblogurl.com/rss.xml)

6) Add Everyone on this list to your Bloglines List by clicking on “List the Site.” Those who want good kharma will list you back. If not, you will for sure get the benefits of readers from the bloggers who continue this list after you.

***My New List***

Webtools - List the Site

Sexy Celebrity - List the Site

The Third Eye - List the Site

Earn Money on Internet - List the Site

***The Original List***

Agloco Hours - List the Site
Affordable Graphic Design - List the Site
Story-Story Dot Com - List the Site
Telenovela Love Garden - List the Site
KellyCho - List the Site
DerekSemmler - List the Site
CashForComments - List the Site
Nice4Rice - List the Site
Ms. Danielle - List the Site
Search Engine Marketing - List the Site
Mr. Gary Lee - List the Site
Dosh Dosh - List the Site
David Culpepper - List the Site
Darin Carter - List the Site
Derrich - List the Site
Big Rayvin - List the Site
Jon Lee - List the Site
pyxlb0mb - List the Site
Samanathon - List the Site
John Chow - List the Site
IdiotBrain - List the Site

***End Copying Here***

A brief mention of MovieGatherer.com

2007-06-25T11:06:00.000+05:30

MovieGatherer.com is a site, which tells you about the latest movie news and thus helps you in a better organization of your movie collection. You can also find a few useful links on this website and many tips and tricks related to the home movies.

They claim...

"MovieGatherer.com is for movie collectors and movie lovers. Here you can read about the ways to store your movies organize them and news about released collector editions of the best movies."

Go ahead and visit this movie collector site.

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

Free webtools: See your name in lights

2007-06-24T14:07:00.000+05:30

While surfing on the net, I found a really cool free webtool. See below.

I got my name in lights with notcelebrity.co.uk

FactSpotter | A new context based Search Engine from Xerox

2007-06-23T11:08:00.000+05:30

If you are fed up with the process of choosing different sets of keywords in Google to get your desired results, here comes factSpotter, the Xerox's new context based semantic oriented search engine, which is now in Beta.

What does it mean: Present Search Engines including Google work on keywords. e.g. if you search for parade ground, it will also give you results like naked parade of models to baseball grounds in US. Both of which are of no use to you. But FactSpotter proposes to be intelligent enough to go much deeper into the context of the result pages to bring you only the relevant pages.

Xerox Press Release says...

What it is: New Xerox text mining software for service offerings is discriminating, smart and easy to use.
How it's different: Takes ordinary search to the next level by digging into more documents, analyzing meaning of words and context, accepting queries in everyday language.
Why it matters: Makes it easy to retrieve information from massive data bases in legal cases, fraud detection, drug discovery, risk management, and more.

Notenook.com | an online shopping website for notebooks and computers

2007-06-22T12:58:00.000+05:30

It appears that Notenook.com, Yes, I am right, it is noteNook.com and not noteBook.com, is a just some sort of a gateway to search for the articles listed on ebay. The articles are only computers related. On the left sidebar of the website, you will find a list of about 25-30 links, clicking on which opens a list of the laptops and notebooks in ebay related to that keyword.

The search results can be arranged in any of the four choices like decreasing or increasing prices and two others based upon the time to expire the bidding at ebay.

The same search results are given by a drop down list given at the top of the page. No significant differences are there in the two.

Notenook.com seems to be a totally new site. When I tried to search for Notenook.com in Blog Search of Google, I could not find any entry. Even a regular google search returned only 14 entries.

The website also doesn't seem to be properly designed. There is a Sitemap link on the top, but there is virtually no sitemap found if you click on it.

There is a link to Richmond Computers in the Sponsored Links section, apperantly based in Canada, which also has the same design as Notenook.com.

The site seems to be eyeing the traffic generated with the misspelled words during the search by people. That is the only reason I could understand for somebody to name the website as notenook.com.

Although I am not very hopeful, but I wish them all success for the future. The anchor text of the website, to which I have been asked to kick with this site is notenook 2007-06-15.

Check the website, if you want to.

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Veoh TV | The new webtool for turning your PC into IPTV

2007-06-21T16:50:00.000+05:30

After the mention of the new IPTV services like Joost and Babelgum on this blog, it was very natural that the latest announced service Veoh will also be talked here. Announced this week itself, Veoh claims that the services like Joost are offering the same old concept of cable or satellite TV in a new bottle, i.e. they are changing only the media, which is now Internet. The content is still in the hands of the service provider.

On the other hand, Veoh claims that through their Veoh TV, users will be able to share their videos also to their audience or clients and this makes a different proposition altogether.

Veoh TV is being launched presently in a limited, invite-only beta that will become more widely available to the general public later this year.

A nice Color Picker for webmasters

2007-06-20T12:37:00.000+05:30

This post is being written with a specific purpose of earning a free PR7 quality link for this blog.

This blog earlier has written a post about a nice way to determine hex / RGB color code of any pixel on your desktop. This was done through a small program named as Color Cop.

AdesBlog.com have come out with another nice color picker called AdesClrPicker.

This tool also has a powerful picker, which you can drag to any pixel on your screen and it will fetch you the color code of that pixel. The library, where your color codes are stored is better than Color Cop. o

Masterseek | A new search engine for B2B search

2007-06-19T18:14:00.000+05:30

I had never heard of masterseek earlier and before the Bloggerwave assigned this sponsored post to me.

Masterseek is a special search engine for all your B2B (Business to Business) search needs. it has been estimated that it lists more than 45 million companies in 75 countries (a huge list by any standard) and thus provides and excellent platform for establishing a contact between buyers and suppliers worldwide! They offer users the quickest and most precise search results on the market with relevant, detailed, and updated information.

Why Apple launched Safari

2007-06-19T17:53:00.000+05:30

Much has already been written about Safari, the latest browser for Windows from Apple. Reports are there that already 1 million downloads of Safari have taken place and it is grabbing the browser market very fast.But what had actually been the reason that Apple chose this time, just before the release of iPhone, to release Safari. There have been many theories behind them, right from the desire of apple to control the lucrative browsing business to Apple's to intentions to install a particular malware supporting iPhone. Read two of the interesting stories at ZDNet and Business2.com

Earn money with Bloggerwave

2007-06-19T17:10:00.000+05:30

Ever since I started taking up Sponsored post assignments on this blog, I had heard many rumours about Bloggerwave that it is a scam and it has some payment issues with paypal.

But I had been with Bloggerwave all through this, with the result that a few days back I received my first payment from Bloggerwave, see below. It is a payment of $6.0, which got credited to my paypal account on 15th June.

For the beginners, I must say that Bloggerwave was launched in March 2007 and provides bloggers with a great way to earn an extra income. Advertisers, who want to spread a word about their products and also get links to their websites for getting better pageranks, contact Bloggerwave, who provides an opportunity to the bloggers registered with it to write about the advertisers' products and services for a fee. this fee typically range from $6 or more.

If you have not yet joined Bloggerwave, you can join them here.

Come to The Fruit Company for online fruite purchase

2007-06-19T08:55:00.000+05:30

Do you like cherries, fresh ripe sweet cherries. Or you know somebody among your relatives or friends who is obsessed with them. Which one ? Dark Colossal Cherries or Rainier Cherries....or both?

In any case, come to The Fruit Company, which specializes in sending fruits, the delicious ripe fruits to your chosen destination. See the varieties on offer. A basket of Dark Colossal Cherries containing 2lbs. of pure delicacies costs you around $36.95. The shipping and packaging is done free of cost. The other variety Rainier Cherry is shipped for just $54.95 and if you want to get a mix of two you have to shell out $46.95. The deep mahogany color of our Dark Colossals show up nicely along side the blushing color of our Rainiers. Both are firm, sweet and guaranteed to arrive fresh and cool.

If you think 2 lbs is a too less for you, you can choose either a 3 lbs or 5 lbs box.

However, there is an important announcement, Cherries will not ship until July! Shopping Cart delivery dates do not apply.

About the company

The Fruit Company is the result of an idea, conceived 57 years ago, by Roy Webster, promoted by his son Wayne, and launched by his grandsons Scott and Addison Webster. The idea is simply to deliver the best-tasting pears in the world directly to the consumer's doorstep, ripe and ready to eat.

We hope you enjoy their fruit and food gifts.

If you want to browse the complete catalog, in which a wide array of option to choose from are given, you can, Click here.

They also have a robust Customer Service Centre:
Toll Free No.: 1-800-387-3100

Email:

ask@thefruitcompany.com

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post.

Improve rankings with this tool

2007-06-18T16:58:00.000+05:30

Thefind.com | Search online stores for purchsing with paypal

2007-06-18T13:24:00.000+05:30

We all know that paypal today has become the most trusted name for online money transfer and provided a safe way of transactions to millions, who were hesitant to reveal their credit card information on web. Virtually, every online purchase store worth its mettle now accepts paypal payments.
Due to this versatility of paypal, a new search engine Thefind.com has been launched which searches all the stores accepting paypal for any item you want and gives you best results.
The search results are ranked based upon a sophisticated algorithm and is trustworthy. They primarily focus on consumer product areas at present.

This service has been launched from the promoters of Fatlens, a search engine, which was built specifically for event tickets (concerts, sports, theatre, etc). At present FatLens.com redirects you to Thefind.com itself.

They also have a partnership program where writers and reviewers can review their product, probably for fee.

YouTube videos may be injurious to your PC health

2007-06-17T13:38:00.000+05:30

I recently came across an article at Websense, which indicates the potential use of YouTube videos downloaded onto your PC for installing malware and viruses.

When you download and run an application file, cleverly disguised as a video file, your browser opens a video but in the background it also connects to its another webserver, which uploads a few Trojan Horses in to your machine with the primary objective of stealing your valuable information.

Websense has also upoladed a video about it on YouTube here.

Use Embiggen to expand tinyURL

2007-06-17T11:58:00.000+05:30

We all know how useful is tinyURL, the service which shorten any URL to manageable limits.
But every good things comes packaged with bad things. So is here.
The drawback of tinyURL is that the person clicking it doesn't know beforehand where is he being led to. See Lifehacker's observation on it.

Embiggen is a useful tool, which you can use to expand any tinyURL to know what is hidden beneath it. Publishers / Bloggers and browsers can use it in different ways.

Publishers / Bloggers: They can insert a code into their template, which will give you a button on your page.As soon as the visitors on your page click this button, all the tinyURLs on this page will expand for his convenience.
Browsers / Surfers: They can create a bookmarklet on their Bookmark toolbar and click it to expand the tinyURLs on a page.

Save Money with these 20 Firefox add-ons

2007-06-17T11:28:00.000+05:30

Add-ons and extensions of Firefox, developed by third party make it so popular. This blog has already published many posts on Firefox add-ons like Searchstatus, CoolIris, Firefox Showcase, pdf Download, Joey, Fasterfox, Answers and IE Tab.

But do you know that Firefox add-ons are a great way to save your money also. How...?
Recently, SavingAdvice has compiled a great and very useful list of 20 useful firefox add-ons for the same. The list is categorized into following categories.

Cell Phone Minute Minders (3 add-ons)
Grocery List Generator (1 add-on)
Product Price Comparison (5 add-ons)
Mailable Browser Tabs (1 add-on)
Customizable Charts (1 add-on)
Travel Price Comparison (2 add-ons)
Deal Alerts (3 add-ons)
Local Deal Finder (1 add-on)
Be an eBay Sniper (1 add-on)
Save Money by Saving Time! (2 add-ons)

You can check out this list here.

Disclosure Policy

2007-06-16T22:54:00.000+05:30

At this point of time, when my blog is already one and half month old, I am thinking of monetizing it but before that I think it is appropriate to announce my Disclosure policy. So here it goes.

The validity of this policy starts from the birth of this blog, i.e. today.

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact me desinet1 [at] gmail [dot] com.

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post may not always be identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content may not always be identified.

FutureMe | Free webtool to send mail in future

2007-06-16T14:08:00.000+05:30

A new, (although not so new) website, FutureMe enables you to send an e-mail to yourself (or others, if you prefer so) so as to get it delivered any time in future anyday between 90 days in future to 50 years, yes fifty years. (Although I really don't know with the rapid changes in info-world, how far it is appropriate to talk of fifty years).

Most of the people have been using it for fun and for setting up goal reminders, Even you can use it as greetings if you tend to forget importnt birthdays and anniversaries.

They also have a e-mail management system, which takes care of changed e-mails in case you are worried about your changing e-mails in future.

Mozilla Firefox add-on Blog

2007-06-13T16:45:00.000+05:30

Firefox add-ons are always a treat to watch and use. Although many of them are just fads, but a few of them are really useful. A few of such add-ons like Searchstatus, CoolIris, Firefox Showcase, pdf Download, Joey, Fasterfox, Answers and IE Tab have already been discussed on this blog.

Latest from the firefox is that they have started a blog especially focussed on fire-fox add-ons.

As they say...

"This blog will be used to keep add-on users and developers up to date on the latest news and information regarding add-ons and addons.mozilla.org. Stay tuned for information on Firefox 3 extension compatibility, upcoming changes to the site, and a few surprises."

Check it out here.

The week that was (1) | My 4 beloved postings

2007-06-13T11:21:00.000+05:30

I have been blogging for more than about one and a half month and learnt a lot in this period. One of the basic things I noted that many of your posts, which you think are a gem, go unnoticed sometimes. One method of bringing them to limelight again is to revisit them after some time, especially those which are still relevant.

With this view, I am starting a series of posts, in which I will choose my 4 posts from a week in the previous month.

Here are my picks from Week 3 of May 2005.

Visit them.

SearchStatus | A firefox add-on or an alternative to Alexa Toolbar for IE

2007-06-12T12:47:00.000+05:30

Do you use Firefox and still wanna reap the benefits of using Alexa Toolbar for increasing your Alexa Rankings ? Read on...

We all know, well I presume so, Alexa toolbar is available for Internet Explorer users only. So what do we, the firefox users, do. SearchStatus, a firefox add-on is probably the alternative.
In fact, SearchStatus is actually meant for providing you the site's various rankings in one go. It provides you information like PageRank, Alexa Ranks, and Compete.com Ranks. You can also check the Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and many backward links from Google.

Besides all this, the download page of SearchStatus also mentions that
SearchStatus users form part of the panel of toolbar users that contribute towards Alexa statistics.

I don't know how far it is true because the Alexa website doesn't mention anything about it.

But it is for sure, that for the last three weeks or so, I have witnessed an unprecedented increase in my Alexa Rankings after installing SearchStatus.

Voice Pay | Online payment system based upon voice

2007-06-11T21:55:00.000+05:30

Internet is growing and so is e-commerce and online payments. But the biggest threat, phishing or frauds, to online payments still looms large.

Voice Pay is the latest method for online payment based upon voice recognition, where your voice acts as a verification tool instead of a PIN or chip. On every payment order, you have to enter you PIN vocally, your speech components are analyzed and compared with the sample given by you at the time of the registration of the service. On authorization, the transaction is completed.

They claim that the technology works everywhere, “ in a shop, on a train, on TV, in a newspaper and on-line”. But definitely it will have its limitation in case of poor signal or voice quality.

Let's see, how far does the system goes.