Ever come across sites where you can send SMS for free? Most likely you have, have you used it? Maybe. The lure of the word free works wonders on the human brain. So it’s quite likely that many users may make use of such free services.

I am a command line junkie and love to use my keyboard more than my mouse. The transistion is thankfully to me being a Software Engineer working more often on Linux based systems. I have Cygwin installed on my system so that I can navigate my computer and interact with linux based system easily.

Sending emails to users and having them click on scam links to get bank and credit card information is a thing of the past. Here is the newest scam from probably a clever hacker. This is really a top scam that I have ever seen hit the internet.

Vizu Answers which allows publishers to add polls to their sites and make money from it has a strict policy of accepting users into their system, but I uncovered a flaw that compromises the system and allows users who have not yet been accepeted by Vizu access to the system, thus allowing them to design polls and get the ad code for it.

An intersting post at Lifehack.org caught my attention. Though Google runs their own poll to users as to what they like, I was quite drawn towards what Lifehack had put up as to adding new features to Google products In Gmail Sort features Two panes Dragging. Drag-n-drop and batch uploads. Progress bar. Better integration with [...]

Vizu Answers which allows publishers to add polls to their sites and make money from it has a strict policy of accepting users into their system, but I uncovered a flaw that compromises the system and allows users who have not yet been accepeted by Vizu access to the system, thus allowing them to design polls and get the ad code for it.

Are you annoyed that Photoshop CS3 is priced at more than 500$ and want to have a simple no frills attached browser based editor with the features of Photoshop than look no further. Fauxto is a photoshop lookalike that allows you to create images using layers, and is the only one that has this feature [...]

For the past few days Google has been releasing quite a few updates for their products, first it was the change of Google Personalized to iGoogle, the new feature addition to Google Reader and then the Google Adsense login page redesign. Google Desktop Blog today announced another update to the Google Desktop Gadget Designer along [...]

Web Messengers have been popping around a lot these days with sites Meebo leading the way. But it wasn’t long before the big web players caught up with the game.

Google Reader which is a popular online RSS reader, also has a very good functionality to share and star posts, another feature that’s used more often is the email post feature. A quote on the Google Reader Home page tells feed readers We’ve made emailing items to friends even easier, with address auto-completion and HTML [...]

xplorer² lite is a very good alternative for your regular Explorer windows and performs better than QTTabBar. It is a lightweight version of xplorer² software which is available for commercial usage. It is free for personal and academic use.

Windows Live Mail which was rechirstned to Windows Live Hotmail will soon get out of the Beta and be launched to public. Windows Live Hotmail is a feature rich web UI email interface that looks like a desktop client allowing you use drag and drop features. Microsoft has been sending mails to its users with [...]

There have been many stories about how bad violent games are and how much of a negative effect they leave on young minds, but how bad is it that the creator of the games leave a bad side effect on non gamers too. Check the picture below from the Sony pary to promote their game [...]

I am a big fan of the Champions league, UEFA cup and English Premier League, but since I landed in US i haven’t caught a glimpse of football on cable. ESPN and Start sports in India showed all the matches live in India

Google Ig the popular personalized homepage from Google has been rebranded to become iGoogle. The new name iGoogle was being used by Googlers as a shorthand to refer to the Personalized Homeage.