Archive for February, 2009

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Are you one of those who loses sleep over who has blocked you on FriendFeed? Or do you at-least like to know who has blocked you so that you can block them in turn?! Well, in that case you will be happy to know that there is a new web tool which you are looking for - ffblockr. Please take a note that you are supposed to share your login information for this service to work and they promise that they would never store it! You need to drop in a valid email address of yours where the report will be sent to. And the interesting thing about ffblockr is, it displays the top 5 people who have been blocked by others! Are you in the list?! Update1: My friend @remzology alerted me that ffblockr asks for password instead of API key like other Friendfeed apps. I will investigate more about it. Update2: FFblockr has put up this explanation on their site -
** Why not REMOTE KEY? Because we determine who blocked you by logging in your account (this can not be done with your remote key, as you know) and checking...
ashampoo-firewall-free You probably would be knowing that having a firewall program is a must in order to use the Internet safely. In addition to protecting you against attacks from the Internet, a good firewall will also tell you when programs installed on your computer are trying to phone home and enable you to prevent them from doing it. It’s essential for identifying and stopping the activities of many malicious virus and spyware programs. The recent deadly Downadup / Conficker worm is a perfect example for that. A Firewall enables you to prevent your computer from being turned into a “zombie” controlled by spammers or destructive hackers. The default windows firewall acts as an application blocker which prevents an application from accessing internet but provides no protection against any malicious program, worms and viruses entering into your system. This is why it becomes extremely essential to go for a professional Firewall software like Ashampoo Firewall. Ashampoo is a well known brand with a wide range of software like Ashampoo Burning studio, Music Studio etc. Here is a chance to get one of the Best Windows Firewall software for FREE. But before I tell you how, have a look...

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Update: Watch How I met Your Mother season 6 online for free!

How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted (Josh Radnor) and how he fell in love. It is ridiculously funny and one of my current favorites. It airs on every Monday at 8:30 PM on CBS. But say if you are not in US but still want to catch up with the latest episodes online, then you don't have to worry. There are ways to watch the live streaming of How I met your Mother online for FREE! If you are in US but somehow missed the episode last monday, even then you can Watch the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother online for Free! With the advent of Online TV and its gaining popularity, having a TV at home is not a basic necessity anymore!! It is currently into Season 4 and Barney is getting funnier than ever!

10 Ways to watch "How I Met your Mother" Online for Free!

Update: Most of the links below are outdated. We have no plans to update this article with new links. 1. Sidereel - Watch all the episodes of...

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Planning for a backup for all the important things in your life is a must. Especially when it comes to your Computer Data the probability of losing it is very high (due to hard disk crashes, power surge, laptop being stolen etc). Hence, one can look for an online service to backup the data. I would not like to go into the discussion about "if online data backup is safe or not". But storing your valuable data online gives you easy access to it, in the event of disaster and, even more usefully, lets you retrieve your files remotely from any location. There are lots of reliable and secured ways of taking data backup online but most of them come under Premium section. If you are looking for a free version of Online Data backup services then read ahead. It has taken a lot of effort to come up with this list. It would be great if you consider STUMBLING or DIGGING the article if you like it.

Top 10 Websites to take Online Backup of Data for FREE!

1. Online Data Backup by Mozy.com

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USB Flash Drive Any USB drive can suffer data loss due to several reasons like -
  • Bad sector infected USB storage media result in data loss.
  • Corrupted music files due to system failure.
  • Damaged images/photos because of power surges.
  • Recover data when pen drive is formatted accidentally.
  • Files/folders erasure even after using (Shift+Del) keys!
  • Virus generated data loss.
  • Software related problem.
DiskDigger USB Drive data recovery Software easily recovers all types of deleted data files including digital (image, pictures, photo, video clips) or music files (mp3, mp4, midi, wav etc). Beside the software retrieves documents like word document file, xls, DAT or .ppt file etc. USB Drive Data Recovery Software supports all major branded USB drives like Transcend, Sony, Kingmax, Kingston, Jet flash, Super Media, Super Flash, Apacer, AVB etc. Even the files/folders with long names can be recovered easily. DiskDigger can be used to recover data from any internal or external hard drives. But I suggest that it to be used to recover data from smaller drives since it includes all found files in the results (including non-deleted); hence not efficient for large internal drives. Download DiskDigger - Free USB...
Just a while back i got an Instant Message from one of my colleagues who hardly ever chats with me. Surprisingly it was a Tinyurl link which said something like - "LoL! Check out for this funny video ", which was so unlike him to send an URL of a funny video. But still i went ahead and clicked on it and i was taken to a website - Viddyho.com (I am not linking to it - no way) which asked me to login to GTalk by entering my GMail username and password in the space provided!

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Obviously it looked fishy (phishy). Why would anyone needs to login to GTalk to watch a funny video? Good try buddy, but I am not someone who would fall for it! But I am not sure how many have fallen for it. One of them of-course was my friend who had promptly logged on using his GTalk user-id and password. Once he did, it smartly sent IMs to all his contacts with tinyurls pointing to viddyho.com. It might just be a prank or an actual phishing link. I am not too sure about it right now. But...
That is a question, I am sure, many of us would have asked at one point or the other. Whether it is to appreciate the stability and reliability of a website or to complain about a domain owner who is scraping your content, one would have asked this question - "Who is Hosting that Website?"

Easiest way to find out who hosts a website

Who is Hosting This? is a very simple web service whose sole purpose is to tell you the company that is hosting a website. You just type in the URL of the site you are curious about, and press ENTER - you will get the answer. Simple and cool web-tool!

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According to the site, they answer accurately over 98% of the time. I tested for around 15 websites for which i know the web hosts and except for TechPP rest of the results were accurate!

Easy but not so accurate way of knowing the host of a website

Who-Hosts.com is an online tool similar to WhoIsHostingThis.com but with lesser accurate results. You can consider to use this in case WhoIsHostingThis is down or not accessible.

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There are umpteen number of software applications available on the internet to download from Youtube, to download from Myspace, to download from Google video and so on. But only some of them can download from all these sites at once and only few amongst them are safe and certified to be free from spyware/adware. flashlynx logo Check out FlashLynx Video Download Software. It is a very practical download manager, specialized for downloading video clips from YouTube, MySpace and Google Video. To download a video, you just have to enter the URL for the video in “ADD Url” box. If not, you can check “Search related video” option, which is very useful, especially if the video has several parts. FlashLynx will find all the parts and show them in the main window. When you enter the URL or select the video from search, the user interface of FlashLynx shows the name of the clip, the duration, size, and there is even a thumb picture and its text description. Now, select one of the eight output format, set the compression settings and start the download. FlashLynx also has “Video” and “Categories” options. These option show Featured, Most discussed, Most...
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