xFruits is a web 2.0 service, still in beta, that comes with a very low learning curve to understand what it does and how to use it. The home page of xFruits will tell you, in less than a minute, about its capabilities and features it currently offers. I like websites that can project about its offerings in very short time. It’s all about organizing your home page. Ok, now back to xFruits. xFruits is a free online service that
Continue ReadingIf you have been happily embedding videos from Youtube and other popular video sharing web sites into your blogs and sites, you should know that it can fail the XHTML validation of your site or the page that is embedded with the video clip. That’s true! I had never thought about it but discovered it accidentally when as a part of my monthly website checkup, I tried to validate my site for XHTML 1.0 Transitional and it failed poorly. Looking
Continue ReadingGood news for users of FeedBurner services. After the recent acquisition of FeedBurner by Google, the PRO services are now available for free to everyone. FeedBurner Stats PRO will show you the number of people who have viewed or clicked individual content items in your feed and “Reach,” which estimates the daily number of subscribers who interacted with your feed content. This service was earlier charged but is now completely free. MyBrand is another PRO service that lets you brand
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Wayki is a free service that lets you create your own markers on Google maps and share them with other by linking to them from your website or blog. You can also add a photo, message or a place on the map to share. The interface is pretty easy to work with and creating a new place on the map is such an easy job that you will love it. Creating your own marker is easy. Login using your free
Continue Reading[gritwire] is another online portal offering customized pages with plenty of online tools, just like [Netvibes] does. It consists of the following online tools built into the site: 1. SpeedFeed Reader – You can organize your feeds into folders for easy navigation. One can also rate the feeds and feed items. If you have an OPML file, you can upload all of your feeds in one go to your customized page. 2. Friends Network – Invite friends and create your
Continue ReadingIf you haven’t come across Firebug yet, you are missing a lot of good things that Firefox can do for you. Firebug is an amazing Firefox add-on that lets you edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. The entire add-on is under 300k in size and offers the following features. One key stroke to open the interface. Global enable and disable options for websites. Option for blacklist and white listing websites. Inspect and edit
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YouOS [as of now] is an experimental operating system that’s installed on web, boots up in your browser, accessible at your office and home too. In fact, YouOS is a web based application, which looks more like an OS and less like an application. The interface resembles a Windows or Linux desktop and is very easy to work with. Registration is free and as soon as you login, the default icons are loaded on the desktop. You can then customize
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