Archive : Internet

Photo Credit: Velo Steve at flickr Web based file sharing services are dime-a-dozen, and even more keep popping up almost every other day. All these services seem to rely on the facts that storage is cheap, bandwidth is plenty and consumers seem to have a huge appetite for generating data. And if there...

What do you do when you need to find an application for a specific purpose but you do not know its name? Or, if you need to compute a complex mathematical calculation and have no idea how to proceed? Popular search engines fail miserably in such cases as their search results are purely dependent on the...

Photo Credit: zimpenfish on flickr A few weeks back Amazon announced that they’re now selling more ebooks than hardcovers and when a major retailer like Amazon makes such an announcement, it can only mean one thing – E-Books have finally hit the mainstream ! I, frankly, am surprised it took...

Facebook is the world’s most popular social network with over 600 million users. 600 million users who post millions of status messages and upload millions of photos to the site every single day. In fact, Facebook is also the biggest online photo sharing site in the world. But, have you ever thought...

Why would I need to use an external site to share files with a couple of friends ? If you’ve ever tried sharing even a small video with your friends over email, you’d know how frustrating that can be. Sharing files of any size over email can be very inconvenient and if the file sizes are...

A long long time ago, we wrote about a website for sending fake anonymous emails, but the website featured in that post seems to have shut down some time back. Today we’re featuring another website that lets you send fake, anonymous emails for free. For our purpose, a fake or anonymous email is...

If you’re someone who just cannot live without your daily ( or hourly) dose of social networking, you really should give the RockMelt browser a try. The design of the RockMelt browser really reflects how most people use the web these days – for social networking, news, RSS feeds and search....

A social networking website with over 600 million users needs absolutely no introduction. Facebook, without a doubt, is the biggest phenomenon of our times and an absolute craze on the internet today and even though the FaceBook website is pretty easy and use, there are numerous desktop applications...

If you rely heavily on Skype for your work or to keep in touch with your friends, I’m sure you’re anxious after reading this morning’s news of Microsoft buying Skype. To be fair, Microsoft has not really said that they’d curtail usage of the free skype-to-skype calling functionality,...

How often have you shared your email address publicly and later regretted when you start getting spam? Spam, without a doubt, is a problem which we all face. Many a times we are asked for an email address to sign up for a newsletter or register at a forum and then we usually end up with getting our...