Even though I have been using Craigslist to buy stuff locally for a long time, yesterday was the first time I sold something. A Lexmark Color printer. We sold it within a day of listing it. Craigslist has adopted the less is more principal in terms of design, features, etc. ut, for the power users [...]
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Oosah Offers 1TB of Free Online Storage
To be honest, I was skeptical at this claim but still proceeded to try out this service. I signed up for an account and played around only to be pleasantly surprised at the intuitive interfaces ad features in it. What is Oosah? If you have seen Bad Boys movie, you’d know this term from Martin [...]
StormPulse – Intuitive Hurricane Information
With the hurricane season in full swing and with Hurricane Ike nearing the shores of US, some of us might be keeping an eye on news sites and weather sites for hurricane information. I wanted to share an excellent resource that I came across recently for tracking Hurricanes – Stormpulse. Stormpulse is dedicated to sharing [...]
Passpack Integrates OpenID, Google & Windows Live
My favorite online password manager Passpack has just taken a step in the right direction with support for OpenID. For those who haven’t heard of Passpack, it is an online password manager that lets you securely store your passwords in an encrypted manner whose is known only to you. It is a very secure service [...]
DriverSide – Car Owner’s Best Friend
One of the big ticket items we purchase in our lives is our car. And when that starts having a problem, most of us are nervous about taking our car to a mechanic just like we are about getting our tooth pulled out at a dentist. Unless, we have a relative or friend who is [...]
Evernote – Google Notebook Done Better.. Way Better
Last week, I reviewed a cool file sharing web application in private beta – DropBox. I have had a chance to get a sneak peek at another cool web application, Evernote, in the last few weeks. It’s quickly replacing my need for Google Notebook and I find it worth the hassle to login to yet [...]
DropBox – My Favorite File Sync Genie
Here I go with another one of my favorite web applications. This one is a cross-over web/desktop application. Read on to find out why: Anyone with multiple computers like a desktop, personal laptop and a work laptop would know the pains to find the right file you need for a task at hand from one [...]
GTalk Gadget + Prism = GTalk Alternative for Linux and Mac Users?
It’s no secret GTalk client is for Windows only. Linux and Mac users have so far sought out other IM alternatives thanks to GTalk using Jabber protocol for their IM client. I use openSuSE 10.3 as my primary desktop and have had trouble getting some of the excellent IM clients like Pidgin to work behind [...]
SecondBrain: One Place to Store All Your Favorites
If you are a web application lover, you probably have accounts everywhere in different web services such as Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us, etc. And it could be incredibly hard to remember which service has something you saved or marked as a favorite or bookmarked or dugg or shared via RSS feed. The information you need is [...]
Mozilla Prism: Bringing Web Applications To Your Desktop
Mozilla Prism is an open source initiative from Mozilla Labs which attempts to bring web applications from the browser to run directly from your desktop. In Mozilla’s words, Prism is an open source cross-platform prototype of functionality that lets users split web applications out of the browser and run them directly on the desktop. Web [...]
MySpace Private Profiles Aren’t That Private
Recently Ashyley of CyberNet News wrote about how someone else can view a MySpace profile’s picture even if the profile was set to private. Apparently, MySpace has fixed this issue. But, a few weeks back I came across an interesting post at SlickMania about another site named MySpacePrivateProfile.com. As the name implies, all you need [...]
Eye Candy + Flashy Start Page = Symbaloo
Using bookmarks to get to the sites i daily use has become the thing of the past for me. It is after I started using HomepageStartup for my startup page needs. It allowed me to have my links that I use often in separate tabs based on their function. Symbaloo does the same and more [...]
Good Reads: Buzz in Blogs 07-12-16
I was just going through my Google Reader starred items and found these gems that I wanted to share with you. Enjoy! Caution: Online MD5 Cracker Tool – Ryan of CybetNet News MD5 is a popular encoding used widely for encrypting passwords. It is scary to find out that these MD5 encryptions could be hacked. [...]
3 Super Fast Dictonaries in the Internet
I have stopped looking up words in my Webster’s College Dictionary a while back. I used their online version for the longest time before I started using other super fast means of finding meaning for words in the internet. I have listed them in the order I have found and used them, Google being the [...]
Remember the Milk – Reloaded With New features
Remember the Milk is my choice online task manager. As fun as the name sounds, the application is very intuitive to use as well as very web 2.0. I have wrote about Remember the Milk here, here and here. Remember the Milk – Reloaded My favorite application to keep track of tasks in different lists [...]
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