Cool microblogging platform: meetog 07/19/2010
 At meetog.com you can post texts, photos, videos etc and share the link with others. It is also a good platform to to create and store an official online resume or CV for easy reference. Meetog is simple and very easy to use. Try it todday at www.meetog.com Probably some of you have come across the acronym NSFW, it simply means, 'Not Safe For Work' and this is usually a prefix some people may put in the 'subject' of an email to warn you about the content you are about to see, that it could potentially be not safe to open at work place for work and office regulations. Now let's say if you receive a lot of links in your emails at work without a warning and wonder if you should or should not open them, and you think you'd really like to have a peek and see what's in that website (because obviously you can't wait until you get home or that person demands your opinion on that site or may be you don't have internet access at home?) what do you do? Here is where VariablySFW comes in. This is a website that you can paste the URL of a site you want to visit and scroll a little bit to see what's in before you decide to 'proceed' or 'close' the page. Initially you will see a black screen, all you have to do is drag the bar to increase transparency and visibility for the comfort level of your eyes. Website: www.variablysfw.appspot.com TIP: If you don't see the empty box where you are to paste the URL, you can simply add the URL at the end of the forward slash "/". For example: if you want to sneak peek at wavuti.com simply open www.variablysfw.appspot.com/ and add wavuti.com at the end i.e. www.variablysfw.appspot.com/wavuti.com These links will be helpful in instances where you want to format text document but come short of the normal editing tools such as Microsoft Word, Open Office, GoogleDocs, Zoho etc. Basically, these links have the ability to uppercase, lowercase, flip, reverse or transform any text. Will let you copy and paste the results into an e-mail, word doc, powerpoint or just about any application. The links: (1) textfixer.com (2) convertcase.net (3) UppercaseIt.com (4) caseconverter.com (5) thesentencecase.org (6) online-html-editor.org and (7) string-functions.com/case.aspx  The joys of technology are never without some sorrows. We have heard of people getting their email addresses hijacked, people have lost their important information because they have never been able to recover the lost addresses. This usually happens in many ways and one of them is through key logging, literally meaning, harvesting people's personal information such as username (login ID) and password where computers are shared by different people. To prevent yourself and others from this kind of information stealing, you can install Spy Shelter which has a free anti-key logging service. It claims to prevent computers from trojans, root kits and other malware attacks. Website: www.spyshelter.com  Axess.im is simple a platform that let's you create your own personalized page that you can put personal information, business details, or contact address and numbers to share with others. Careating an oline page is a way of the future, just convenient for those who do not want to own a blog or pay for a website or share social network pages like facebook, twitter, hi5 etc., which sometimes contains stuff they would not want everybody to see. In this case, it is useful to have a personal page that contains only certain information in the form of a resume or CV or business card that lives online for easy to access to potential employers or customers. Axess.im says all the pages created with them will not be deleted or expire unless they violate their Terms of Use. For more on this and any other FAQ's and to create a page, please visit www.axess.im Cool site of the day: globalfloodmap.org 06/24/2010
Concerned about global warming and melting ice caps? Make use of Global Flood Map to see how many inches the seas must rise before your city is underwater  Use the interactive map by entering in any number of inches – the map will show what areas would be flooded or at risk and the left side bar will display the number of people displaced. Click on individual points for current elevation, elevation after sea level rise, and the number and percentage of people losing homes. Global Meltdown: Find Out Which Cities Get Flooded First Global Flood Map uses NASA satellite data to show what areas of the world are under water and at risk for flooding if ocean levels rise. Change how many inches the sea level rises and watch the land start to disappear. As sea levels climb, Global Flood Map changes its color coding to show you what areas are flooded, at risk for flooding, and safely above sea level. Use the sidebar to see how many people across the globe are displaced by flooding. --How Soon Will the Sea Come to You?-- Customize your search by entering in the name of your city, state, or country, or click on individual points for more information – current elevation, elevation after sea level rise, and the number and percentage of people losing homes in that area. The dark blue dots represent land submerged underwater and the lighter blue-green dots represent land at risk for flooding. The left side bar displays the number of people displaced by continent and country. --Is it True that Sea Levels Are Rising?-- According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), global sea levels have risen 7.87 inches since 1870. Over the past century, sea levels rose an average of 1.7 millimeters per year, but are currently rising at a rate of 3 millimeters per year since 1993. eMail: info@maplarge.com Website: globalfloodmap.org  Since the great introduction of short URL services such as bit.ly, tiny.url etc to shorten long urls, there have been reports of abuse whereby spammers, virus and malware creators use the service to to victimise others. Just recently, both Twitter and Bit.ly have taken measures to prevent the spread of malwares by scanning all submitted, shortened and shared URLs in order to protect users. However, you may want to uncover, unhide and expand these URL before clicking them. Performing this simple task could save you a lot of money if a link contained a malware. Below is a list of services that I have been using to scan shortened URLs against virus: For Firefox and Wyzo users, there are add-on's:
Cool website of the day: DistanceFromTo.net 06/23/2010
 14361km = 8924miles from Alberta Canada to Dar, Tanzania I am happy to have come across distancefromto.net, a website that helps measuring the distance between two points on earth. Type in the names of the two places and share the results with an online or distant friends who might want to know the distance between you and them. This site can also help travellers, planners, teachers, students etc. in their demos. You can grab a screen shot of the map, edit it, add some info/elaboration, attach it to an email and send it over to someone. Website: www.distancefromto.net EASEUS Partition Master 3.0 Home Edition is an excellent partition management freeware. WHY do you need partition a hard drive? What's the advantage? Because it will maximize Computer Performance. Stop whining about your computer becoming too heavy and running slow, on top of stopping visiting malware containing sites, in addition to stop ping downloading every interesting file you come across, regain some of your computer ability by performing disk partition.  What can EASEUS do:
To download a copy of EASEUS click Here or click Here or visit the website: www.partition-tool.com Windows Access Panel is a free, useful program that can make it easier for you to change Windows settings instead of having to navigate your way through the Control Panel, or dig deep into menus. It gives you one-click access to settings that normally require several clicks to reach.  For example
It has been tested on Windows 7 & Windows Vista. It can simply be downloaded and used as a portable application Web: www.thewindowsclub.com  |