Free call, chat, message, swap files from anywhere with multiple platforms
Nimbuzz is a free web service that allows you to call, to chat, to send message and to swap files with your friends from anywhere in the world and using multiple platforms. For example, you can use its services from your mobile phone, from the web through the browser, by installing a client program on your computer, etc. Moreover, just by using one secure log-in to your free account with Nimbuzz, you can access several chat services such as Windows Live Messenger (MSN), ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk, AIM, Facebook, MySpace, and other similar chat services. And, you’ve the advantage of being in touch with different friends on different chat services from a single platform. Read more…
Find out tweets and comments about current web page with Kutano
Kutano is a browser extension / add-on for Mozilla Firefox that allows you to find out the tweets and comments about the web page that is currently open in your browser. These tweets and comments are displayed in a sidebar beside the web page that you’re viewing. This allows you to see what other people have said or commented on Twitter about that web page. Thus, you can see Twitter in action about each web page that you view in your Firefox browser; and, you read these tweets / comments in context right beside the web page itself. Kutano is also supported on Google Chrome browser as an extension (for Beta version 4.0 onwards) and Internet Explorer. Read more…
Open source web analytics software for your website
If you’ve a website or a blog, you’d be interested to know the visitor statistics. Many of the websites use Google Analytics for collecting such visitor statistics. If you want an alternative to Google Analytics, you may consider the free and open-source Piwik web analytics software that can be installed on your own web-server. You can download this free software and install it on your own web-server through a simple process that will take a few minutes. Thereafter, Piwik will generate a JavaScript tag, that you can copy and paste on the websites that you want to track for the visitor statistics; or you can also use plugins to automatically handle this job for you. Plugins are available for popular content management software such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc. Once you insert the JavaScript tag in the websites to be tracked, or use a plugin for that purpose, you’ll start getting detailed real-time visitor reports from Piwik. And, this visitor statistics will be stored on your web server, which means that you yourself own this data. Read more…
Daily changing Quotations for your website or blog
You can easily add dynamic quotations on your website or blog that can automatically change every day. Moreover, you can customize size (width and height), color scheme and style of the quotations displayed on your site so that it can blend well with the design of your website. What you require to do is to simply copy and paste the auto-generated code in the HTML source code of your website at the desired place where you want the quotations to appear. Once you do that, quotes from famous people, quotes on different subjects such as happiness, science, art, wisdom, fun, success, truth, etc., will appear on your site and will change automatically every day. Read more…
How to send a file of 250 MB size as email attachment
Okay. Let me first correct the heading. It should actually read “How to share a file of 250 MB size with others”, since what I’m writing in this article will allow you to “send” (in fact, to “share”) a file of up to 250 MB size with your friends and others, but not by sending it as an attachment in an email. You’ve to upload it to your free Google Docs account and then share it your friend(s) to whom you wanted to send the file as an email attachment. So, the end result is the same. Your friend(s) get the desired file of 250 MB size from you, though not as an attachment to an email, but by downloading it from your Google Docs account. This alternative method has to be used, since most of the popular email services allow a much lower limit for file size as an attachment to an email. For example, both Yahoo! Mail and Gmail allow the maximum size limit of only 25 MB for a file to be attached to an email. You can now use Google Docs to share files of up to 250 MB size with your friends, as now Google allows all file types to be uploaded online to the cloud. Read more…
No more censored search results for Google’s China search engine
Google is on its way to cease its Chinese operations. So it appears. At least, it appears to have made up its mind for that purpose, and the way the Government operates in China, it now looks to be a certainty. For the time being, Google has announced that it will stop censoring the search results served by its China search engine. But, it has also clearly hinted that it is willing to cease its Chinese operations, if it was not allowed to serve uncensored search results in China. This sudden change of policy comes from Google in response to “a highly sophisticated and targeted attack” that took place last month on Google servers and the “primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists”. Moreover, Google notes that “the accounts of dozens of U.S.-, China- and Europe-based Gmail users who are advocates of human rights in China appear to have been routinely accessed by third parties”. While obviously Google would not say it openly in so many words, but anybody with a little common sense can understand that Google suspects that these “sophisticated and targeted” cyber attacks were organized by some agencies who may perhaps have the blessings of the Chinese Government. Read more…
Free online 1 GB storage of all types of files with Google Docs in Cloud
Google Docs has now allowed every user a free 1 GB free online storage for all types of files in cloud with Google Docs. Moreover, if you want more online space than 1 GB, you can buy additional space at the low rate of $0.25 per GB per year only. That means if you want to have additional 10 GB online space in cloud for your files, you’ve to pay only $2.5 per year. Moreover, the uploaded individual files can be up to the maximum size of 250 MB that is much larger than what is permitted by most email services. For example, Yahoo! Mail permits an attachment size limit of 25 MB. Read more…
Add automatic quotations in your email signature
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
“Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”
“Laugh alone and the world thinks you’re an idiot.”
These are just a few quotations; these and many other quotations can appear automatically in your signature in your email. For free. And, the quotations may be made to change automatically as per a schedule. Read more…
Add HTML signature with logo & images for email in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail
WiseStamp is a free add-on for Mozilla Firefox browser that can be used to create and add HTML or rich text signatures for your email accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL, etc. Moreover, you can easily add your logo and images in your signature with the help of this add-on. You can also add the links to your social networking profiles on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, your Instant Messaging (IM) ID’s, etc., in your signature. Likewise, you can also add links to your website, your RSS feed, etc. You can design your signature with all these features in an easy manner using a Rich Text editor (WYSIWYG Editor) available with this add-on that also allows you to choose color, font, HTML links, etc. You also have the option to treat each signature as HTML. In fact, WiseStamp allows you to have multiple signatures at the same time. Read more…
Delete browsing history and other traces with Wipe
Wipe is a free utility that allows you to clear your browser history and cache, remove cookies, clean user data files, delete auto-complete search history, delete temporary Internet files and erase other traces of the use of your computer. In this manner, it allows you to protect your privacy by deleting the data automatically stored on your computer by the browsers and other applications in respect of your activities. Read more…