Archive | You and the Internet

21 December 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Funny Google Suggestions

Google has a very helpful auto-complete feature that saves you effort in typing your whole query. For example, if you want to type “leaning tower of Pisa”, you can just type ‘leaning’ and then your query will appear in the auto-complete box.

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08 August 2009 ~ 0 Comments

New features added to Delicious

The popular social bookmarking site, delicious has added some really new features to make it easier for everyone to bookmark and share. Some new and improved search tools have been added in order to enhance the freshness of the content.

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26 July 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Change the appearence of your Firefox with Anycolor

Seeing that interface of Firefox everyday again and again may bore you. And to get rid of it, you head to download a cool vista theme for your Firefox. Well, how long will you keep installing new themes and throwing away the old ones? What if you get to customize the whole appearance of Firefox all by yourself? Well anycolor can help you do it.

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14 July 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Find answers to your child’s questions on whyzz

The demands of your kids annoy you often and when they are stubborn, the case is even worse. Sometimes your kid may ask you questions and then cry over it because you don’t know the answer. But hey, if you want to find the appropriate answers to your kid’s questions, Whyzz might be of some help.

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05 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Gmail attachment size now upto 25 MB

Email is a great way of sending files easily and securely. Gmail used to provide 20MB of attachment limit for a single email i.e. previously you could send a file with a maximum size of 20MB. But now the limit has been increased to 25MB.

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27 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

How to download any embedded flash video from sites

Embedded flash videos are an essential part of many sites. Generally, we get to see videos from Youtube and Vimeo embedded in sites. But some blogs host videos on their own servers. Downloading videos from popular sites like Youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe is easy and many online tools are available for that. Keepvid, Javimoya, etc. let you download videos from most of the popular videos hosting and sharing websites. But what if you want to download from sites that don’t fall in the list? Some videos are really catchy and sometimes you badly want to save them on your hard drive. Well here’s how you do it.

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19 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Wonder wheel now in Youtube too

The Wonder wheel that was introduced in google about a month ago is now on Youtube as well. The wonder wheel in Google is really a very useful tool for diversifying search results and getting more insights to the related content.

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07 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Blogging with write4net

For many people, blogging is a part of their daily lives. But there are other people too who don’t get into blogging seriously but want to write something off and on. Now you can also blog with just your Twitter account. No sign ups required and all that’s needed are your Twitter credentials. Write4net makes that possible.

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04 June 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Compare search results of Google with Bing

Even before its official release, the talks of Bing have been going around. It takes time to decide whether Bing can really be a substitute for Google. Bing has some really cool features and the search results are pretty much impressive than those of Live search. Well you can compare the results from Google and Bing yourself.

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30 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Get alerts for Specific phrases in websites

Suppose that the author of your favorite blog had promised to write about a topic of your interest but he hasn’t been writing any new posts from many weeks. You can’t go on checking his website everyday. But SparkTooth can monitor any web page for a certain keyword and then notify you as soon as it is available on the website.

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