Archive for April, 2007

Get a life?

I am not making this post to offend anyone, but firstly, this is because I read an article about how social networking sites may make us more reclusive than social. Here is a link to the article. It is true, the internet can be addicting; but can anyone completely stop using the internet? If that […]

Kandy X-Change - Connecting candy lovers worldwide

Love candy? Would like to know, collect information on candy or even swap candy with people on the other side of the world? Kandy X-Change is a new online candy club for candy lovers everywhere. Started by an avid candy lover, it includes a forum, club, and also a candy blog where the latest and […]

Tumblelogs

Ever felt that typing out a whole long post in your blog for something as simple as a link, or a video was too much?
Tumblelogs are based on that idea. Why waste time, when it also has different styles for conversations, links, videos, photos, quotes and posts? Now, that’s something. Here is the Wikipedia article […]

Firefox add-ons review contest winners!

Yes! The winners have been finally announced.
The contest was closed on April 9th. The whole lot of reviews, 168 in total, which included 112 spanish reviews and 56 english ones, was adjudged by 4 jury members. It worked in this way : Each jury member would award a review points in a scale of 1 […]

Xpango - Get free gifts!

Free gifts on the internet?
Yes. Xpango offers free gifts based on a unique credit system; you sign up, you select your free gift, complete offers, refer your friends, and get the required credits, and BINGO! the gift at your doorstep.
I already signed up for a FREE Apple iPod Nano as well as a Nokia N95.
Every […]

The bad effects of chatting?

A children’s magazine I read, has started a column on the internet. It’s article on the month April was about “Safe Surfing”. Here is a bit of it about the bad effects of chatting :-
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Simi was at home studying for exams. Her parents were at a wedding. Her brother had gone to play cricket.”I […]

Lack of updates

Sorry that there has been no updates on the site for a couple of days. I was busy with school and what not. But now I am back, I will try to devote time to the blog.
Lots of updates to come!

Screengrab

No more Prt Scr., copying, pasting, and cropping!
WOO HOO!
Screengrab is a very handy extension for Firefox that can save entire webpages, visible portions of webpages, and … even selected portions, as PNG or JPEG files. You can also copy the same and paste it into your favorite graphics application, if you wish to save it […]

McAfee SiteAdvisor

McAfee SiteAdvisor is a great extension which provides protection from adware, viruses, spyware, malware, spam, online scams etc. It’s “safety rating” system tests websites and categorizes them as green(safe to use), yellow(caution) and red(unsafe; do not use). There is also the occasional “grey” site(not tested yet).
McAfee has a free version - the basic one which […]