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The new Skype 2.0 has the ability to make calls over 3G networks. However, the down side is that Skype is offering free Skype-to-Skype calls over the 3G network only till August 2010 after which a fee will be charged. Normal Skype-to-Skype calls remain free though.
If you are an Opera user who has not familiarized himself with its widgets, you are missing the best Opera has to offer.
Opera has gone with a completely different direction with its widgets. Unlike Chrome’s extensions or Firefox’s addons that need the browser to function, Opera’s widgets are standalone applications that can be executed without even opening the browser. They can sit neatly on your desktop and can serve a multitude of functions.
Even if you have countless apps already on your iPhone, you are still looking for the next best application out there. That is exactly what makes the iPhone so enjoyable – endless great applications waiting to be discovered. Below you will find a list of 10 great free iPhone applications that I have gathered. All of them are must-have apps to realize your phone’s true potential. Give each one a try.
When I read about web browsers online it seems that all the headlines are captured by Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. With their massive library of useful extensions and addons, both these browsers offer a great user experience. But the web browser which I have only recently started to extensively use is Opera. Addons for Opera are called widgets and they, too, provide great convenience to their users.
Not all people who use the internet are native English language speakers. Mainly due to this reason, many users come across unfamiliar words on websites. Even native English speakers can run into this problem, but less frequently. To understand the unfamiliar word we can look it up in a physical dictionary or preferably, use the internet to look up the word.
Chrome is a wonderful browser. Its speed and constant updates keep it ahead of the game. The gaps left in the user interface are quickly filled out by great 3rd party extensions.
One type of such extensions pops up a menu of options each time we highlight a word on a webpage. The options in the popup menu can be of searching through a search engine, looking up the meaning or synonyms of the word using a variety of online dictionaries, or even checking which online stores is the ‘word’ available on (if the highlighted text is a product).
Workplaces can be boring especially if we finish our work early. Usually we turn to the internet to entertain us when the boredom gets too much to take. But the Boss’s fear makes us tread cautiously. We need to keep an eye out for our superiors passing by. If they do pass by, we close our browser and resultantly lose all the tabs we had open. Finding those lost URLs can take a lot of time if there were many tabs open.
While websites may allow us to choose from certain available themes, visitors to a site do not have the liberty to change the site’s color scheme. This is disadvantageous for the visitor in case the site’s existing color scheme makes it difficult for the visitor to read text.
Whether you want to change a site’s color scheme because of this problem or because you want to have fun, you can do so via Webpage Decorator.
Most download managers show us a semitransparent floating window. This window indicates the progress of our current downloads. Firefox, unfortunately, does not have this brilliant feature. To view the progress of our downloads we need to have the Downloads window in Firefox in view; surfing the web in other tabs and continuing with our work thus becomes very difficult unless we are fine with being unaware of our downloads’ progress.
Google has released many useful products to the internet community. Most of these products are free and many computer users benefit from them. Take Google Maps for instance; it shows us the map of almost any location in the world. All we do is type up the location’s name or its longitude / latitude to obtain its map.
Today’s cellphones are mini-diaries in which we store all our information. The smartphones of we use are feature rich and allow us to store text, pictures, videos, and anything we can save electronically. This is why losing a phone is not only a matter of losing our financial investment, but also of losing our personal data.
Phone owners therefore, should know what steps can be taken to help them in the event of a lost phone. Here are 5 web services that help users relocate their phones or at least protect their data in case of phone loss or theft.
Application developers have created many clients for various social media websites. Most of these clients are targeting at the Facebook and Twitter community. From what I have observed, Twitter clients outnumber the Facebook clients; but Twitter clients often lack originality. Many of these clients are similar to each other and do not offer anything special. Even if they do offer something special, Twitter catches up and makes that ‘special’ feature a built-in Twitter feature.
Because of all that, a unique Twitter application is a rarity which is what makes TweetyMail such a wonderful find.
You find yourself in your apartment, hungry. You had pizza the previous night and do not want to order any fast food. You want to treat your taste buds with something out of the ordinary and delicious.
Smartphones like the iPhone can help you out in such situations. If you want to find a new place to eat, then Urbanspoon will be greatly helpful. But if you want to enjoy the fruit of your labor and cook something yourself, then a number of iPhone applications can be used to obtain a unique and tasty recipe.
Streaming videos online is a great way to kill our time. We often find humorous videos that are bound to cheer us up. Sometimes we stream these videos to view what our favorite band’s latest video looks like; at other time we stream educational video to increase our general knowledge. Whatever the purpose of our video streaming, YouTube is the site to visit.
At times after watching a video on YouTube, users want to download it and store it on their computer for easy access later (and also to transfer it to their phone or portable media player). There are numerous tools to perform this task; their main functioning involves the user entering the YouTube video’s URL in the program, after which the download proceeds.
Windows customization is just another step in personalizing our computers. Just like we personalize our office space with our favorite coffee mug or family photos to make it more comfortable, Windows customization gives us a more comfortable environment to work in. Consequently we get things done faster and have an improved efficiency.
While there are many Windows customization tools out there, getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing 10 great freeware tools for Windows customization with all of you. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
Tabbed browsing allows us to save a lot of space in the Taskbar. Each new browser window takes up space in the Taskbar. Tabbed browsing makes sure only one browser window is open; this occupies the least space on the Taskbar. We can then open as many webpages we want in this single window using tabs.
However sometimes when we click a link in some other program or even within our open browser window, it opens in a new browser window, rendering tabbed browsing useless. We need a way to merge all tabs being used into one browser window rather than spreading them out into multiple windows.
One of the most popular file hosting solutions is Dropbox that offers free and paid packages to its users. The free plan gives users a 2GB storage space which can host any of their files. Many Dropbox users use their accounts to store the pictures and videos they shoot from their smartphones. The procedure involves first transferring the data from the phone to their computer, and then to Dropbox.
But thanks to Dropbox for iPhone, that lengthy procedure is no longer necessary.
Dropbox for iPhone is a free application available at the App Store. The OS requirement is 3.1 or later. Previously the application supported only iPod Touch and iPhone but the most recent release adds support for the iPad.
Modern web browsers for desktops and laptops often have a bookmarks bar where we can place shortcuts to our favorite websites. The point is to have these bookmarks always accessible and not need to click any extra links or buttons to get to them.
Since the space on the bookmarks bar is limited, we need to be careful about which websites we add on it. If we add too many websites, our shortcuts on the bar become scrollable and in addition to clicking an extra button to reach our shortcut, it becomes more difficult to find our desired bookmark.
A quick fix for this problem comes in Iconized Bookmarks Popup.
Once we have an internet connection on our computer, we can use instant messaging clients to send and receive unlimited messages. With cellphones however, the case is different. Even after getting a service carrier, we have to pay to send SMS messages. MMS messages (picture messages) cost even more than text messages.
What if there was a way to send and receive unlimited text messages through our cellphone without spending a penny? Thanks to Textie, doing that is now entirely possible.
Netbooks have tiny screens. Often there are websites and dialogue boxes which do not entirely fit into the resolution I have set. For a better view I change the screen resolution for that particular website or dialogue box; once my task has been completed I roll back my resolution to its previous state.
I change my screen resolution using Windows settings. A considerable amount of time is spent on each resolution change. Tired of all the back and forth resolution settings, I decided to search the web and find something that would provide a better way to shift between screen resolutions. Hotkey Resolution Changer is where I ended my search – it was exactly what I was looking for.
