OtherInbox – One inbox to handle all incoming mails

Posted by Lim on Sep 21st, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Internet, Tips | 1 Comment

There are a lot of temporary email service arround us. For example, we have SpamBox, MintMail, 10 Minute Mail, and etc. You may refer to my previous post for more information.

However, most of the services are temporary and the email account will disappear after certain time, which means that you need to create another account when you need.

OtherInbox provide alternative solution. It let user to register for an account, but with unlimited email addresses. Let say your username is “username”, so any emails which send to address ending with @username.otherinbox.com will be forwarded to your account.

So, you may create different email account for different use. For example, you may create forum@username.otherinbox.com for forum purpose, while sales@username.otherinbox.com for buying or selling online.

Currently, you need to have invitation code to signup for new account. Thanks Download Squad for giving out the invitation link.

source: Download Squad

OtherInbox

How to check and download the latest Chrome build

Posted by Lim on Sep 18th, 08 | Filed under Application, Downloads, Internet, Tips | 2 Comments

Google Chrome is a new browser, and the developers release around 10 versions per day. So, how are you going to check the current version and download?

Dirhael from DonationCoder.com had release an application which can check the latest release and download it using your default browser.

Just press the “Check” button and it will show you the latest release version. after that, you may choose to download the Installer or Archive. The download will start with your default browser.

download from DonationCoder | download from MediaFire

Laptopical – A laptop review website which provide useful information

Posted by Lim on Sep 17th, 08 | Filed under Accessories, Internet, Tech News | 3 Comments

If you are going to buy a laptop, i am sure you will do a lot of survey to gather more information. You may want to know the laptop’s spec, the pros and cons of the model, and probably some screenshot of the laptop in different views. So, you may need to go through a lot of websites and put a lot of time to gather the information.

So, why not give Laptopical a try. They list down the specification, pros and cons and a full and detail review of laptops. You can even found similar laptops and view the photo of the laptop at different views.

The above screenshot is the main page of Laptopical, which clearly shows the laptop news and latest reviews, while you can find more information through the sidebar. The Interesting Laptop News section covers all latest information about laptop and computer accessories.

How you define a computer/laptop speed? How fast is fast? It is actually according to how you are going to use the laptop. You may interest to read more on how to choose the best laptop in their The Best New Laptops section.

You may also read the reviews by each brand. For example, you may go through the Samsung reviews by entering the Samsung Laptops category.

If you want to get the latest news from them, you may consider to subscribe to their RSS feed or follow their Twitter.

Laptopical

How to find out which websites sharing the same server with you

Posted by Lim on Sep 15th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Internet, Tips | 3 Comments

YouGetSignal is a web tools collection website and it contains a handy tool to let users find out those websites which sharing the same server.

So, how to check which websites sharing the same hosting server with you? Just type your website and press the “Check” button. Wait for few seconds and you will get the list. As you can see, there are 330 websites sharing the same server with techsnack.net.

So why we want to check our “neighbour”? It is because for shared hosting plan, there are few hundreds users sharing the same server (my hosting server allow 300 users), and you may want to find out those “neighbour”.

Find Other Websites Hosted On a Web Server

File Savr – Free premium account giving until 15 September!

Posted by Lim on Sep 13th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Downloads, Internet | 1 Comment

File Savr is a free file hosting service. It provide free file hosting for file size that less than 10GB without create any account. However, if you want to manage your files or or have more storage, you need to purchase their premium plan, which range from $5 per month to $10 per month.

Now, you can create your free premium account, without pay anything. This promotion will end at 15 September. They are giving out free Gold Plan, which is $10 per month and you will get 250GB storage.

If you signup before 15 Sept, you will have lifttime membership for free! But, due to high demand, the service is extreme slow now.

Grab your free premium File Savr account before it expire

Desktops – New virtual desktop manager from Microsoft

Posted by Lim on Sep 10th, 08 | Filed under Application, Downloads, Operating system | 2 Comments

Desktops is another application for users who like to have multiple virtual desktops. It is similar with Virtual Desktop Manager, but with some advantages.

Virtual desktops utility will showing the currently active window, while hiding those inactive windows. Application windows are bound to their own virtual desktops so that Windows know which application to show when you switch to different virtual desktops.

Lets talk about advantages of this new application over Virtual Desktop Manager. First of all, its size is smaller and it is a portable application. So, we can easily bring it along with our USB flash drive. Second, users can set different hotkey sets, in case the default one is used by other application.

download Desktops | download from MediaFire

QuarkBase – Find everything about a website

Posted by Lim on Sep 8th, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Internet, Tips, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

QuarkBase is a powerful tool, which can “dig” everything about a website. For example, you can get the WHOIS information, traffic ranking, social popularity, total feed readers, and also the blogging platform (if the website that you traing to check is a blog).

To get information about a website, simply provide the domain name and press the “Search” button. I try to search for “techsnack.net” and below is the screenshot of the summary of my blog:

At the rught hand site, it will show you the domain owner, summary of the website, alexa ranking, and also the blogging platform that you are using.

There are also some tabs at the top of the page, which will bring you more details of the website information. For example, the Intro tab will show you the introduction of your blog, your blog description, about and contact page.

The Popular tab will show the social popularity while the Traffic tab will show the details of alexa ranking. The Technical tab shows you the framwork and programming language that had been used to create your website. You may also get hosting information through this tab.

QuarkBase

Senduit – Make file sharing easier

Posted by Lim on Sep 6th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Downloads, Internet | 1 Comment

Senduit is a simple file sharing service. It is a free service and require no registration.

The file limit is 100MB and you can choose the expire date for it. For example, you can set the link expire in 30 minutes, 1 day, 5 days, and etc. The maximum period to store this file is 1 week.

There is only 2 steps to share file. simply upload your file and choose the expire date.After that, you will get a link to your file.

Its simple user interface had attracted a lot of users. For those who don’t like extra features and just want to share file for a short period, i think they will prefer Senduit.

Senduit

Chaos Generator – Best tool to generate random password

Posted by Lim on Sep 3rd, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Downloads, Portable Apps | 4 Comments

Chaos generator is a good tool for us to generate random password. Users can set different options, and generate different length’s password easily.

As shown in the screenshot, you can check or uncheck the upper letters, lower letters, numbers, and include special symbols or not. For special symbols, you can add your own symbols or remove the unecessary one.

The quantity box allow you to set the number of random passwords that you want to generate, while the length box let you to set the length of random passwords. You can even save the generated passwords in text file by pressing the “Save” button.

Beside using it as a password generator, you can also use it as an activation code generator, member card ID generator, or coupon code generator. How you going to use it is depands on your imagination.

Tips: If you want to bring along this application with your USB flash drive, simply go to your Program Files\SafeSoft\Chaos Generator, and copy ChaosGen.exe to your USB flash drive.

download from soft32.com | download from MediaFire

Pixlr – Free online image editor

Posted by Lim on Aug 28th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Design, Internet, Web 2.0 | 6 Comments

Pixlr is a new web-based image editor. Its interface is pretty simple, and the loading speed is very fast. There are some other similar services which i introduce before, such as Sumo Paint, Photoshop Express, Splashup, and Picnik.

There are a lot of tools which you can use. For example, they provide marquee tool, stamp tool, blur tool, filter, and even add new layer to the image!

The entire application is based on flash and contains almost all features of a basic image editing sotfware. You may give it a try if you want a simple yet fast web based image editing tool.

Pixlr

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