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WhatsApp – Yet Another Instant Messaging App

WhatsApp Messenger is an internet based mobile device application that allows you to exchange messages among other WhatsApp users. WhatsApp mobile messenger currently works on  iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia s60 devices. Since the reception is based on your existing data plan that you use for browsing the web, exchanging short messages is virtually free. If the chatting feature doesn't impress you, don't worry iPhone, Android and BlackBerry WhatsApp Messenger users can exchange unlimited images, video and audio media files amongst each other, now thats cool. Features: Group chat, available for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android devices lets you chat with a group of friends in real time. Status feature, this alerts your friends when you are busy doing something, like sitting in a lecture, sleeping, in a movie or at a meeting, so that they can decide whether to ping you at a time or not. Block, you can even block a particular user from sending you mes...

Shareaholic – Sharing Integrated With Browsing

Recently we discussed about Rockmelt, a web browser that integrates with your facebook and twitter accounts and makes sharing easy, but for those of you who are in pure love with their cute browsers and those who would like to adopt RockMelt only after there are no more bugs left, we have just found something great and interesting. Shareholic, the simplest way to share something online, might it be an article, or an image or the webpage you are working on with friends on digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, Google bookmarks, magnolia, mixx, reddit, stumbleupon, tumblr, twitter and many more websites. Its an add-on that creates a small shareaholic button either on your navigation menu or the address bar and every time you click it, it displays an organized menu which lets you choose the services to share upon. You can customize the menu either to just display your customized websites or to change their order. Sharing is simple and clean, the concerned dialog appears and you can ...

Share Your Internet – Make Your Own Personal WiFi Hot Spot

Gone are those days when bulky net adapter were required to connect your different computers with a single network. Now, if one of your computers(or MAC) is connected with a wired or wireless network and you wish to connect it with other computers wirelessly, here is the solution. Create an ad-hoc network Creating and computer to computer network in Windows Vista and 7 is very easy. Just go to et up a connection or network" and choose "Set up a wireless ad hoc (computer-to-computer) network". Now select "Save this network" and now the network is displayed in along with other wifi networks.                              But there's a short cut, the next two softwares creates such a network automatically for you, and let you manage the connection as in a real wifi router. Connectify Connectify is a free virt...

RockMelt – Share Your World Around

Its not just another web-browser that claims to be faster and safer, its build for sharing , based on Chromium (the open source project used in Google Chrome). The catch, it integrates your regular cyberspace and social media interactions. RockMelt makes sharing and chatting easier with an optional facebook sidebar on the left hand side of the browser. It integrates with twitter as well. The latest youtube app makes it possible to watch YouTube videos right there. The address bar has a big share button that lets you share the current web address on your facebook/twitter logins. The browsers signs into your facebook account every time you start the browser making it easier for you to share things, check status messages of different friends, have a little chit chat and update your own status. Now what might interest my fellow geeks is the real cool name behind it, Marc Andreessen, yes the founder of Netscape who himself lost the war of browsers but  i think RockMelt might just be...

NetWorx – Free Bandwidth Monitoring and Usage Reporting

NetWorx is a very simple and powerful tool that keeps an eye on all your network connections in live time. The software enables you to check your network speed, your internet traffic details and much more. It has very exciting feature with which you can add custom alerts that notifies you with visuals and popping sounds whenever there's an unusual activity which might be due to unauthorized usage on your network, due to malicious software like Trojans or when you exceed your bandwidth limit. You can customize your NetWorx to give you monthly/weekly or daily reports about your usage. It can generate these reports in a number of exportable formats such as excel, word and HTML. You can even customize it to perform specific actions such as closing down connections or even shutting down the system on detection of suspicious activity. It also includes network tools such as ping, trace route and netstat.

Make Stats interesting, present like Hans Rosling

Stats were always boring during a presentation but have you ever heard or watched Hans Rosling, the Swedish statistician and co-founder of the Gapminder which developed the software Trendalyzer (about which we will talk later in this post). I advice you first watch this video to have an impression on how he talks and what makes him different as a speaker. Now let us discuss why is he so popular and how can you probably be like him. The structure He presents shocking things and stats. Shocking stuff is what wakes people up from their deepest sleeps. Try to look at the surprising things of your data or of your study an collaborate that in your presentation to make it more interesting. Sequence He starts with discussing himself and his field and discussing various experiences he had during his study of the project, like how he got into this, what people thought if the study initially, how people got wrong in the tests. This is an very ...

Crack GRE – The Smart Way

Preparing for GRE was never an easy task but who said it can't be fun.Today we will tell you about Quizlet.com, an interactive method to learn for international tests like GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, LSAT and many more like them. The concept involves creating notes(or flashcards as they call it), learning them by reading and listening and then testing in a real simple and organized manner. There are millions of existing flashcards(thanks to the users who discovered the website before us :P) ready for learning. Just choose the topic, select one flashcard from the list displayed and start learning. At Quizlet.com you can create your own groups, add friends, share your flashcards and compete amongst. The three step process of learning, testing and playing makes you a master of the topic in practically no time. You can even play with your flashcards with two very addictive and interesting short games that makes learning even more fun. The website is very well organized, you can group ...

Astrobix–Online Astrology

Worried about your future…? If you are looking for an astrologer, it is better to get things done online. Astrobix provides you with online astrological services. They provide you free astrological charts and predictions based on multiple systems like Vedic Astrology, Marriage astrology, Yearly astrology, Lal Kitab, Krishnamurthy, Jaimini, Daily astrology, Muhurtha, Prashna, etc… It is the only website in world which reports in 10 languages, so now you can get the ancient Vedic astrology based results in your own mother tongue, results are so easy to understand. They provide a numerous amount of services like free horoscope, rashifal, marriage compatibility etc… For more information, check out there website [ http://www.astrobix.com ]

PowerMockup- Helps you sketch mockups in Powerpoint

Most of us use Microsoft Power point to give presentations to our clients… Here is the solution to your wireframing, mockup, sketching needs in Power Point, its PowerMockup… Main features includes- 63 fully editable user interface elements Easy access via a separate ribbon tab Compatible with PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 Microsoft Power Point Window The best part of it which I liked is.., that you can create fully editable mock-ups. So, there is no need to install any other additional software to present in Power point, just use Powermockup and you are done. You can get this amazing piece of add-on just for free, till wednesday(6 April 2011)… So.., hurry up, don’t loose chance. Check out the main product website for more details.. PowerMockup