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Great OS X Style dock for Windows – RocketDock

11 Feb, 2009 by Raju PP

RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable, there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.

Features of RocketDock - OS X Style dock for Windows

* Minimize windows to the dock * Real-time window previews in Vista * Running application indicators * Simple drag-n-drop interface * Multi-monitor support * Supports alpha-blended PNG and ICO icons * Icons zoom and transition smoothly * Auto-hide and Popup on mouse over * Positioning and layering options * Fully customizable * Completely Portable * ObjectDock Docklet support * Compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins * Runs great on slower computers * Unicode compliant * Supports many languages and can easily be translated * A friendly user base Smile * And best of all... its FREE!!! Note: It is tested on Windows 7 also, fully compatible. Note2: Icon pack included, some of which are seen in screenshot. Download Rocketdock Rapidshare... 4 Comments Read More

Free License – Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 – Valid for 6 Months!

by Raju PP

Uncategorized

Previously, I have written about how to get Free Genuine license keys of Antivirus software like McAfee, Avira Antivir premium, Norton Antivirus, BitDefender and others. But today, i will let you know how to get the free license for Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 with a validity of 6 months!!
Just last week, Kaspersky was voted as the 2nd Best Antivirus Software for 2009, and you must be knowing that it is one of the recommended antivirus software for Windows 7
Get Free Genuine License Key for Kaspersky Antivirus 2009

~~Visit Kaspersky India promotional website~~ Links removed as there are some phishing reports

Enter the required details, make sure you enter a valid email address because this is where you will be getting your license key.
Update: Some readers complained that it is not working. Make sure you enter a 6 digit PinCode Ex: 560011, 570023 etc

You will get a confirmation message about the license key being sent to your mail.

Your license key may come immediately or might take time (sometimes 2 days).

That's...
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10 Free Tools to Check Website Loading Time

by Raju PP

Featured, Tech

Everyone knows how annoying it can be having to deal with websites that take forever to load. As per some recent researches, almost 75% of the Internet users do not return to sites that take longer than four seconds to load. A Fast loading website is the first step to a successful online presence, but you will be surprised how many scripts and widgets may be slowing your site to a crawl.
10 Free Tools to Check the Website Loading Time
1. iWebTool Speed Test - Simple tool to test your website's loading time and compare with other websites. great tool for benchmarking. It allows you to enter up to 10 websites, and the results display the size of the website, the total loading time and the average speed per KB.
2. Pingdom Tools - Pingdom is a popular uptime performance monitoring service for websites and servers. They also host a free load time test for web pages. The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes) and displays the load time of all objects visually with time bars. Also see the statistics like...
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Why Charging Businesses Might Spell Doom for Twitter?

10 Feb, 2009 by Raju PP

Featured, News, Social Media

I just got to know that the co-founder of Twitter - Biz Stone has confirmed that Twitter plans to charge businesses for extra services. This might sound exciting to all those investors who have invested in the company and hoping to see some returns atleast now. Since Twitter was started, everyone has been asking

"How can Twitter make money?"

"What business model will they follow?"

"From where they will get the returns?"

There is no doubt that Twitter has proven it's value. It has helped many businesses (like Dell) who have successfully used Twitter to reach out to their new customers and sell their products effectively. Twitter is seen as one of the fastest growing Social media networks in the world today. it has even managed to get past Digg in terms of traffic. There are said to be anywhere from 4 million to 6 million people using Twitter and as per Compete, it is the 3rd biggest social network today. But the problem with monetizing social networks like Twitter is that people don’t go there to buy, but to communicate. Plus, they’re used to getting everything free. Looking at the Twitter way of...
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Tragic Victorian Bushfires Mapped by Google

by Raju PP

News

The death toll from wildfires in Victoria State, Southern Australia has reached at least 170, the worst in the country's history. Entire towns in Victoria state were destroyed as fires were fanned by extreme temperatures and wind. Thousands of firefighters, aided by the army, are battling the bush fires. Google Maps came to the rescue by tracking the deadly bushfires and help take off the traffic load to the official emergency service websites in Victoria. The maps contain real-time information about the fire locations and their status from the State of Victoria's Country Fire Authority (CFA) website via an RSS feed with address search functionality.
The Flash map is also available as a Google Gadget and If you want to embed the gadget containing this map on your website, you can do so by clicking here If you wish to DONATE to the RED-CROSS to help the Bushfires victims, you can do so by visiting their site...
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Top 6 Alternatives for McAfee SiteAdvisor – Browse Safe

by Raju PP

Featured, Tech

Internet is no more WWW. It is a BBW - Big Bad World! When you are browsing the web, you may encounter many types of threats such as phishing sites that tries to trick you into revealing your private information such as paypal, online banking etc. Then there are sites that will pass on spyware onto your computer and then try to trick you into buying their anti-spyware program. Then there are scripts that is capable to exploit the browser’s vulnerability. According to the latest Netcraft web server survey, there are about 222 million sites and the numbers are growing rapidly. With that amount of sites on the Internet, distinguishing the good websites from the bad is very tricky, even for experienced users. I was almost tricked into installing a rogueware / scareware (Spy Sheriff) once because everything seemed so real! Mozilla Firefox has a built-in security feature where it can block some attack sites and web forgeries. It works fine, but in my opinion, it is a little annoying when I want to ignore the warning and continue accessing the “attack site”. The best one is probably McAfee SiteAdvisor, ~~a shareware~~ has...
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Top 10 Ways to Watch Smallville Season 8 Online for FREE!!

by Raju PP

Featured, Online Tv

Update: Watch Smallville season 10 online for Free!!
Smallville tells the tale of a teenage Clark Kent in the days before he was Superman. It is the town where he came from where very strange things started happening with his arrival in a spaceship in the midst of a meteor storm of green rocks. Clark must deal with a variety of individuals given powers by the green rocks, keep his powers a secret, cope with his friendship with a young Lex. Smallville is now into Season 8 and in case if you are not in US or if you missed an episode, here is the easy way to catch up with the latest episodes of Smallville Season 8 online!
Update: Watch Smallville season 10 online for Free!!

Top 10 Ways to Watch Smallville Season 8 Online for FREE!!
1. TVDuck - All episodes of all the 8 seasons are online! 2. Livestreamshow - contains only the latest episode. 3. Hulu - Great quality, all episodes 4. SurfTheChannel - Each episode, multiple links, great site!! 5. Buddy TV 6. Free-Tv-Video Online - Few episodes are yet...
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How I Reduced Spam by 99.99% on my WordPress Blog?

08 Feb, 2009 by Raju PP

Featured, Tiny Tip, Wordpress

Last month I had written a post on Wordpress Flash about A Plugin Better Than Akismet? May “BEe”. It was an informal preview about a Wordpress Plugin - Antispam Bee by Sergej Muller. Though my first impression about the plugin was very good, I wanted to test it for a month or so before declaring if Antispam Bee is actually better than Akismet or not. As we know, Akismet is a tried and trusted plugin to filter Spam from the genuine comments. I used to get around 15 spam comments on an average every day, and at-least 1 of them used to sneak in through Akismet somehow. Then I stumbled upon this new Plugin - Antispam Bee which claimed to be the wisest and the best anti-spam plugin for Wordpress. The way it works is simple, yet effective! It just replaces the comment field, probably by changing the name/ID parameters. So, all those bots spamming the Wordpress blogs world over are proved useless. Still, there were few spammers determined to beat the new anti-spamming system on my blog and started to manually enter spam through the comments section. This is...
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