living in the information age

living in the information age

Manage your todos in Gmail

The guys at Gmail labs never sit idle. This week they launched a much needed feature in Gmail. Now you can manage your Todo list in Gmail itself. For a simple and personal todo list, there’s no need to maintain that spreadsheet or signup for Tadalist.

Google’s language translation bots

In the older days, there was Altavista Babelfish, now known as Yahoo Babelfish for translating peices of text or websites from one language to another. It worked for me as i was able to register for an email account at GMX.net - a german portal and an email service provider.

Learn HTML, CSS with examples at htmlplayground.com

Looking for a practical online HTML, CSS reference? Something that shows you how the tags and style selectors work with examples — WYSIWYG style? Move over to HTML Playground, and try out some XHTML+CSS reference by example.

Gmail canned responses for the truely lazy

Tired of send the same reply over and over again to your well wishers, friends, flamers, buggers? Announcing the all new Gmail Canned Responses from Google labs - email reply templates for the truely lazy

Search for alternate domains at Domai.nr

Can’t find your favourite domain name at any of the Top level domains? Can’t think of catchy domain-hack with a popular ccTLD? Domai.nr is a cool new website which makes your domain name search even more easy.

OpenOffice 3 Free Office Suite released and available for download

October 2008 is a month of several major Free & OpenSource Software project releases. Today the OpenOffice.org project announced release of version 3 of its popular free office suite. With its third major version bump, OpenOffice.org has come a lot closer to become a strong alternative to Microsoft’s Office products.
OpenOffice.org comes with six well known [...]

Create annotated website screenshots with Fireshot

Don’t like Print screen for taking screenshots of web pages? Not happy with regular screenshot programs available for your OS? Try Fireshot, a Firefox extension to take web page screenshots, add some minor editing touchups and annotate the important parts.

Find out where is your username registered

People never run out of truely whacky ideas really. Want to quickly check out which social/email/blogging site is your username already registered at? Move over to http://usernamecheck.com, enter your username and hit the “?” button. A background process queries almost over 50 social networking, photo sharing, social bookmarking, blogging and twitting websites and reports where [...]

EveryDNS.net - the best Free DNS hosting service provider

When you register a domain and start a website, you’ll definately need a stable and reliable DNS hosting service provider. The easiest place to find a DNS hosting service is to ask your domain registrar or your web hosting provider. When i my personal blog, i signed up for DNS hosting service at my registrar, [...]

Flagfox - Display country where the website is hosted at

Flagfox is a nice little utility for firefox that instantly displays the country where the website you are viewing is located. Flagfox sits in the browser’s address bar or status bar and silently queries its GeoIP database and displays a small flag of the country where host is located. On clicking the icon it performs [...]

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