PayPal, the reknowned online payment service has recently rolled out a hardware key, that adds an extra layer of security to your online transactions. How does the so-called “Security Key” work? The key is actually a small hardware device that works in conjunction with your PayPal and/or eBay account. Everytime...
Here’s a short but sweet one. If you’re daunted by the task of creating OpenSearch plug-ins for your site or any of your favourite sites, fear no more. OpenSearchFox is a cool new Firefox extension that can create such plug-ins for you with a single click. Is it really that...
The lack of trust has always been a big issue on the Internet and with the emergence of new collaborative services revolving around Web 2.0 it has only taken a hike for the worse. With every dawning days more and more people / concerns are stepping into the world of...
Do you often encounter slow page-load times despite using a decent broadband connection? Does you browsing experience often come to a bitter halt with a message like “Looking for xxx.com” or “Waiting for xxx.com“? If you are facing similar problem, it might be indicative of a lousy DNS setup by...
How would you like to be able to create new events in your Google Calendar, write new posts on your blog hosted on Blogger, Typepad or WordPress or create reminders, to-do’s and notes without ever firing up your browser? That too all this through the familiar environment of you favourite...
Pimp My Blog is a brand new service being offered by Everton Blair and the readers of the Connected Internet blog. It involves registering at their forums and submitting your own blog along with some required information. Each week a blog is picked up from that list (in order of...
Do you occasionally feel like sending a greetings to your friends / family with a touch of difference ? geoGreeting offers you a new & cool service through which you can send out customised greeting messages that are composed of aerial snap-shots of various buildings all around the world. Yup,...
For people like me, who live & work out of their country both SMS ad Email serve as extremely useful mediums of communication with relatives & friends back home. Out of these SMS or Simple Messaging Service is by far the most favoured method – for whether you have a...
Couple of weeks back, I’d written an article on creating the .htaccess file visually using a free tool called HTAccessible. This time I present you two online tools that does a similar job for those who don’t want to go into the trouble of downloading yet another software. I found...
“Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.” – Elliot Spitzer. Have you ever sent out nasty emails while you were very angry or upset and then wished real hard that you hadn’t done so? If only there was...