We all have been attacked by spams/viruses through our web-based email accounts every once in awhile if not most of the time. In fact, email spams have become a prevalent issue that web-based email users might have already been immune to this and don’t mind it anymore. Continue reading the story called Communicate Online Safely Using Email Alternative, Woomail
By early 2009 there is a good chance you will stroll into your local Best Buy and be able to buy a Mac. The electronics retailer is planning to double the number of stores that sell Apple computers. While all of the chain’s stores sell iPods, Apple computers are currently available at only 250 out of 900 stores. Continue reading the story called Is Your Best Buy a Mac?
Brief background in case you are not familiar with genealogy site, Geni.com. It’s a social networking site geared for creating your family tree online. It’s a collaborative in a way since; members of your family tree can create their own family tree and connect it to your own family tree as well. If you enter your family members’ email address, Geni sends those updates about your family tree.
Geni.com is a pretty much powerful social networking sites in terms of building family scrapbooks and trees of your family life. Just recently Geni has introduced new features which let you monitor the going-ons in the life of your family members through Geni Timelines. This timeline is a new feature of the Geni profile section that shows a virtual history of the events in a person’s life. Continue reading the story called Check Your Family’s Timelines through Geni.com
Today on AIM community blog I found an article that might be very useful to many AIM users so if you are one I definitely recommend you to check it out. I know from my experience that nice organized contact list not only helps you faster find people you are looking for but also lets to find your classmate Bill who is hiding under the nick Buddy7569 for example. Human memory isn’t perfect you know ;)
By the way if we speak about AIM and usability - have you upgraded to new AIM 6.5 version? If not you can find it here.
So, check out the article and if you know some other usability tips share them with us!
Yahoo released their annual awards for the most interesting and innovative websites of the year and in social category the award goes to Doggy Snaps - place where people can talk about their dogs. Similar to it’s closest brothers like Dogster or Pawspot Doggy Snaps allows you to communicate with other pet owners and talk about similar topic, exchange information and find out a bunch of interesting stuff about your dog.
I’m not the user of these networks but I have a feeling that Doggy Snaps is more interactive network than others and is more about dogs not their owners. You can upload photos of your dog, write interesting stories and adventures from to let others know more about your dogs personality. Of course none of these social networks can live without forum where people can talk about some problems and give advices to each other.
For those of us living in America, the race for the White House is in full swing. It will be impossible to watch the news from this point forward without having politicians shoved in our faces. In case you can’t get enough on the boob tube, there’s even more on the Web. Growing at lightening speed is Politico. According to Alexa data, the less-than-a-year-old Website is currently ranked at around 10k. Continue reading the story called Track the Presidential Race and Predict Winners
You’ve got to give credit to the development in the mobile web industry for continually advancing the state of technology. What use to be a technically difficult task of creating mobile web site has now become an easy task. And with a user-friendly mobile creation site such as CellAdmin’s Jagango, creating your mobile web site is even more fun.
Jagango’s mobile web site creation site is loaded with pre-designed templates that you can use when creating your mobile site. After creating the site, it is save on Jagango’s server and you can invite friends to visit your mobile site through their internet-enabled mobile handset. Continue reading the story called Create Your Mobile Web Site at Jagango in 5 Simple Steps
Things are getting ugly in the low-cost laptop sector as Intel has bowed out of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. Citing a “philosophical impasse” (aka, their competitor AMD is providing chips for the computers) the chip maker continues to work towards creating its own expensive laptop, the Classmate.
Sounds to me like some folks who set out with a philanthropist mindset are starting to let greed and money seep into their systems. Continue reading the story called Will Greed Kill the One Child Per Laptop Program?
Yahoo’s social networking site Mash has been around for quite some time now and yet it has never seemed to get a good leap from the ground. Yes, despite bearing the Yahoo brand, Yahoo Mash failed to gain mass popularity and to get into the ranks of top social networks such as mySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn.
It is such a pity that such a good social network such as Yahoo Mash, bearing the branding of a major internet player would not make it to the spot or even gain significant membership base. But for those who still use Yahoo Mash since day one of its inception and up to now here are 10 cool Yahoo Mash modules that could beef up your profile. If you are not using Yahoo Mash yet, these 10 modules might get you started. Continue reading the story called 10 Cool Modules to Beef Up Your Yahoo Mash Profile
Create a “movie” of your Website’s visitors and track their every movement. In essence, that’s what ClickTale, a tool for Webmasters, promises to do.Many Website owners are inundated with page views and unique visitors and a million other metrics, but the reality is, they can’t easily uncover people’s surfing patterns.
Thanks to ClickTale’s videos, you can view every mouse movement, click and scroll that your visitor’s conduct.
All you have to do is choose the percentage of visitors you want to track and install two snippets of Javascript.
There is a basic free plan that gives you 100 recordings each week with up to two domains. Larger packages vary from $19 to $99 a month depending on your needs.
Continue reading the story called Make Movies of Your Website Visitors
Here’s a little insight into your author’s personal world. Often, together with family and friends, I’ll play really stupid celebrity games. For example, “Who Would You Rather Do?”; “Who Would You Rather Look Like?”; “Build the Perfect Star” (Angelina’s eyes, Katie’s legs, etc.) and so on. Given that little tidbit, it should come to you as no surprise that I really dig MorphThing, a Website that simply lets you blend two photos together. Celebs can be blended without registering and your personal photos can be put together with free and quick registration. Do you know who this is?
Continue reading the story called Waste Time at Work By Morphing Celebrity Faces
Gamers have been pretty much alive and kicking online since ages ago. And in today’s web 2.0 era, it is but natural that they should have their own social networking site. Contrary to what the normal people say, gamers are not actually the most “anti-social” type of human being. In fact, in their quest for game supremacy and in thei desire each every game they want to conquer, gamers have been pretty much relying on their fellow gamers. Gamers have been socializing with fellow gamers through online forums and chatrooms before - and now through social networks as well, and Glinkster is one of them. Continue reading the story called 5 Cool Things You Can Do at Glinkster, a Social Networking Site for Gamers
