Create Online Business Cards with MeeID
Ever wanted to aggregate all your online social sites profile links into one simple contact card? I had this problem but today I found a very nice service that solves by problem in just 10 lines!
MeeID is a web app that gives you 10 lines to write about yourself, your social profiles or what you do. It’s sort of an online business card where you add links to your Facebook, Twitter etc profiles and share them with your friends.
How To Check for Google Chrome Updates
by Haris on September 7, 2008
in Google, Tips and Tricks
According to Google Chrome Help Center, Chrome automatically updates to a newer version when one is released which happens silently whether or not you’re using the browser at the time.
But for some reason, this isn’t working for me and I had to manually check Google Chrome for the latest version. If you are also having this issue and want to see if a manual update is available, follow these steps:
Shutdown PC Automatically with EasyShutdown
by Haris on September 7, 2008
in Tools, Windows XP
Many of you download large files from the Internet, and in countries like India and Pakistan where we don’t have lightening fast Internet speeds, we have to keep our PCs on for long till the download finishes. My PC stays on whole night as I download a lot.
I have found this very small freeware that can shutdown your PC after a duration of specified minutes. EasyShutdown lets you instantly shutdown or restart your computer or you can delay it by a few minutes.
Share Digg Articles on Twitter with TwiggIt
Twitter is no doubt the most popular micro-blogging site. There are hundreds of Twitter-related services available online (few reviewed here), but this time what I have found is going to be liked by all the Digg users who are on Twitter.
TwiggIt is an automated service that mashes up two of the most popular sites on the Internet, Digg and Twitter, and lets your friends on Twitter know what articles you Digg.
4 Sites To Add Speech Bubbles to Images
by Haris on September 7, 2008
in Design, Internet, Personal, Tips and Tricks
It’s always fun to add speech bubbles to images and make them funnier. You don not need Photoshop to create these speech bubbles when you can do it online because they are way easier to use and doesn’t take much time.
I have compiled a list of four sites that allow you to add speech bubbles to your images easily and for free. Click on the titles to visit these sites.
Upload Photos by Email to Picasa Web Albums
by Haris on September 6, 2008
in Google, Tips and Tricks
Picasa Web Albums is a free photo-sharing web app site by Google that allows you to organize and edit your photos online and share them with your family and friends. It also has a native application for your desktop so that you can easily upload new photos.
It gives users two methods to upload photos. One is to upload from your browser, and the other is by Picasa (desktop application). Another method I found to upload photos is by email. You can upload new photos by email in whatever you album you want.
Google Chrome Browser Themes
by Haris on September 6, 2008
in Google, Tips and Tricks
The Chromey buzz that Google created in just 2 days before the actual release doesn’t seem to calm down so soon. A blog looks incomplete if it has not shared a Chrome tip with its readers.
One of the best and most popular features of Google Chrome is its themes. Chrome allows users to change the interface with different styles and colours.
GIFMake: Create GIF Animations Online
Today I needed to create an animated GIF out of a few static images. I googled for some free animators, but none of them produced good output, and most of them put a watermark in the image.
During my search, I stumbled across a free online tool that could create GIF animations. GIFMake is the service I’m talking about. It can create GIF animations from static images which are in the format GIF, JPEG and PNG.
Download Paragon Drive Backup 9 Express Free
How often do you make regular backups of your important data? It is important to make regularly make backups of your important data because you never know when your hard disk might crash or get a brutal virus attack that wipes out your data completely.
Paragon Drive Backup is a simple and easy to use application that backups up your entire hard disks as clone without asking you bewildering questions and recovers whenever disaster happens.
