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DQ links for May 7, 2008

Suresh — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:31:53 +0000

Walletproof.com – A quick and easy to use tool that enables you to track your spending, and set monthly budgets for yourself.
luminotes.com – Luminotes is a WYSIWYG personal wiki notebook for organizing your notes and ideas. You don’t have to use any special markup codes or install any software. You simply start typing.
kidmondo.com – Kidmondo is a comprehensive online baby journal. It’s a safe, secure way for parents and caregivers to chronicle their child’s life and share it with friends and family.
cliqck.com – At Cliqck you can share with everyone what you buy, plus your thoughts about it. Track what your friends are buying and find people with similar interests.
kickplay.com – Kickplay is a unique place to create personalized games with your own images and sounds. You can play, make and share all your favorite games in one place.

DQ links for Mar 6, 2007

Suresh — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:40:37 +0000

Here are a few links to some interesting new sites.

girlsaskguys.com: GirlsAskGuys is an interactive website dedicated to popular topics on the minds of men and women looking for advice about the opposite sex.
It’s the virtually uncensored way to learn everything you always wanted
to know about the opposite sex!
radionomy.com: With Radionomy, everyone is finally going to be able to create their own radio station on the Internet.
- By tapping into the contents of vast music libraries.
- By integrating their own musical creations.
- By adding their own audio content, sequences, reports and podcasts.
formsite.com: Build professional, non-branded, advertisement-free registration forms, secure order forms, and customer surveys in just minutes. There is
nothing to download or install. All results are stored in FormSite
database and can be optionally downloaded or emailed . There are 100
professional templates to get you started fast.
knowtes.com: Knowtes is a flashcard-based learning community. By adding a card to
your Knowtes memory, it becomes due at optimized intervals. The Knowtes
Adaptive Learning Engine then adjusts how frequently you have to study
cards in your memory based on how well you do on them.
bitty.com: Bitty Browser helps you keep track of your favorite Web stuff by
enabling navigable windows directly within your favorite sites — it’s like Picture-in-Picture for the Web.
chatsum.com: Chatsum is a free add-on for your web browser that lets you chat with
all the other Chatsum users that are looking at the same website as you.

DQ links for Feb 23, 2008

Suresh — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:28:40 +0000

ToneBee: ToneBee is an online mobile ringtone maker to make real music ringtones from your MP3s & CDs for free.
Linkbun.ch: LinkBunch lets you put multiple links into one small link which you can share over IM, Twitter, email or even a mobile phone SMS.
Buddyfetch: BuddyFetch is a search engine that allows people to search for fellow IM, social networking, and Internet dating users. BuddyFetch searches multiple providers : AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, Skype, Paltalk, Myspace, OKCupid, IMVU, HOT or NOT, NETLOG, Tagged, Black Planet, MocoSpace, WAYN, Zwinky, eSPIN-the-Bottle, YouTube, Hi-5, Stumble Upon, Book Of Matches, Plenty of Fish, LavaPlace, Consummating, and Facebook.
Pixton: Pixton is an online user-generated comic strip. Without having to draw, people of all ages can share their ideas, opinions, and stories - publishing them instantly to a worldwide web audience.
PicResize: PicResize is and easy-to-use online picture editor. Just upload your picture and select from bunch of editing options.

DQ links for Dec 04, 2007

Suresh — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:38:01 +0000

BitLet - This is a browser based BitTorrent client. If you are working on a computer which does not have a BitTorrent client installed and you want to download a torrent, then BitLet could be very useful.
formatpixel - An online application that allows you to create page-based presentations; anything from magazines to fanzines, brochures to catalogues and even portfolios. Using the online editor, you can insert, design and layout pages for your projects. Formatpixel is free for 1 project and 512KB of storage.
Jjot - Simple, lightweight website for jotting down notes. You can use it to take down class or meeting notes, reminders, or Internet research. You can access your notes from any computer and easily share and email notes to other people.
Cownter - Allows website visitors to see how many people are currently looking at different pages within a website. When a visitor mouses over a link, a small bubble pops up telling them how many people are currently on that page.
Clipperz - Online password manager that uses local encryption within the browser to guarantee security.
Snimmer - Web-based instant messenger client for MSN, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ and Google.

Questions raised by DQ readers - July 24, 2007

Suresh — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:38:03 +0000

Quite often DQ readers have requested for solutions to certain problems that they have faced. Sometimes, I am able to offer them a solution. At other times I have failed. So I thought it would be better to compile such questions periodically and post the questions as separate posts. Anybody, who has a better knowledge about the issue may give their opinion as comments to these posts. They could also mail the individuals with their solutions but I would request that they also post their answers here as it would help other people who face similar problems.

And so, here is the first post.

Chesley Sheppard says:

I downloaded what I thought was an mpeg video via bitcomet it has a .bci extension and will not open on any program. Have any suggestions on where I can get help?

Related Post: Every file extension in the world.

Bob Shell says:

I’ve downloaded and installed FlyakiteOSX on my Windows computer. It installed smoothly and everything seems to work fine except that I can’t get iTunes to work. It put an alias for iTunes in the dock, but when I try to run it I get a message saying:

iTunes.exe - Entry Point Not Found.

I don’t have a clue what that means. I reinstalled both iTunes and FlyakiteOSX, but it made no difference.

Know a fix for this?

Also, any way in FlyakiteOSX to move the Dock to the side and set it up to hide?

DQ links for July 20, 2007

Suresh — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:28:49 +0000

Pagebull.com - Pagebull is a visual Internet search engine which gives you actual screenshots of the search results.
Businessitonline.com - Business IT Online offers free online small business software applications that take away the need for a costly networked IT solution. 5 free modules are offered: CalendarOnline, CashflowOnline, ContactsOnline, DocumentsOnline, MarketingOnline.
Nymbler.com - Nymbler is a new baby name web site that allows you to search for baby names based on popularity, styles and origins as well as your personal tastes. Nymbler allows you to find your favorite names and share them with your friends and family.
Windows Evolution - Short history of Windows, from 1.01 (1985) to Vista (2007). Enjoy.
Powerfootball - Web-based 3D soccer game that supports both single player and team mode. Single player mode can be played without registration.
Cameroid - Lets you take photos with your computer’s webcam and add special effects at the same time. You can choose to download the photos to your harddisk, or host them online and use them on your websites.
Lokut - Keep all your frequently-used information in one place. Includes modules for contacts, calendar, notes, lists, bookmarks, RSS feeds, files, reminders etc.

DQ links for July 9, 2007

Suresh — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:31:37 +0000

StreamYard.com - StreamYard is a simple tool to help you save all your favorites videos that you watch on the Web to your computer. Just enter the video link (youtube, ifilm, blip.tv, etc..) and click on the download button.
Soundsnap.com - Soundsnap is a free online sound library and community for sound designers and producers. People can upload sounds and share them with the world.
The 10 Best Places To Find How-To Videos - Once upon a time, how-to guides were all about numbered lists and badly-drawn diagrams. Now those guides have gone multimedia, with a slew of new sites offering video how-tos from the users themselves. Here are 10 of the best.
Favicon.cc - Favicon lets you create nice icons. Just choose a color, click on the squares and paint your logo. Download when your are finised or publish it to favicon community.
Onedump.com - OneDump is a free text and audio hosting solution that makes uploading and sharing files easy.

DQ links for 27 June, 2007

Suresh — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:27:39 +0000

Yourgen.com - YourGen is a free, easy to use text generator. It has a wide selection of fonts and more are being added each day.
mycybertwin - It is a free service where you can create a virtual clone of yourself. So even when you are offline, your ‘clone’ will respond to instant messages. Using information you provide, it develops a profile that responds the way you would when someone IMs you.
Lupo PenSuite - Lupo PenSuite is a completely free suite of portable programs and games (doesn’t need to be installed). It includes over 150 programs and lots of games.
MizPee - MizPee finds the closest, cleanest toilet and gives you entertaining reading material once you get there.
E-Mail on Vacation - Should you check your e-mail while you’re on vacation? Here are some arguments for and against.
LibriVox - LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. You can volunteer to read them as well.

DQ Links for June 1, 2007

Suresh — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:45:44 +0000

Google Gears - Google released an offline web app framework called Google Gears. Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.
Mahalo.com - Mahalo is a human-powered web search site where humans help organize the best results for the top search terms. The man behind Mahalo is Jason Calacanis.
sudokular.com - Sudokular is a place where you can play Sudoku online, face up to the sudoku challenge, get listed in the hall of fame, play in different game modes on so on.
livelook.com - Let’s you watch lots of live cams across the world. Since the cams are plotted on Google map it is easy to spot and choose one.
mobopic.com - moboPic is a free service for creating wallpapers for cell/mobile phones in just 3 easy steps.
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DQ links for May 21, 2007

Suresh — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:54:31 +0000

Summize - If you are looking to buy a camera or a mobile phone or stuff like that but would like to see some public reviews for the product before you make a decision, just head on to summize.com. You are sure to find lots of reviews for your item that can help you to make your choice.
Free Blog Pinging Services - Huge list of free services that you can use to ping your blog.
Webxact.watchfire - WebXACT is a free online service that lets you test single pages of web content for quality, accessibility, and privacy issues.
Panda ActiveScan - Free online antivirus to combat viruses, spyware and other Internet threats.
E-Mail to Many Without Looking Like a Spammer - Scott Spanbauer tells you in PC World how to send emails to lots of people without looking like a spammer.