Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 17, 2009.
I’m not sure whether you’ve noticed recently Twitter is not accepting SMS posts from many asian countries. So what if you are on the road or in a party and you want to update your status on the twitter, better yet you might want to direct message someone or reply to a status. A few days before I was trying to SMS an update but I’ve seen the SMS get delivered to the twitter post phone number, but the tweet doesn’t appear in the twitter profile. After some researching finally I came across TweetBoxLive Beta, a little web application allows you to update your Twitter status along with direct messages and replies using SMS to a specific number. Now thats more like it. TweetBoxLive also enables you to receive tweets in you mobile phone via SMS, but it seems pretty expensive to receive twitter updates from friends. First of all lets take a look at the features TweetBoxLive is offering. [More]
Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 12, 2009.
Would you like to use a productivity application, to organize your activities, in work, business, or personal? Such as GTDAgenda web based productivity development tool. It’s a web project and task management application based on David Allen’s GTD (Getting Things Done), pretty obvious though. It has the usual features like Projects, Contexts and Next Actions. But also other unique features: Goals & Vision Wall. What are the Goals? Goals are bigger outcomes you want to reach, with a deadline. A goal can be accumulation of multiple projects. On the other hand the Vision Wall is formed of inspiring pictures that you can link to your goals, and have them delivered to your e-mail daily so you are motivated to take action. Pretty neat. Checklists – For the repetitive tasks that you have to do, on a regular basis – take it as a to-do list. In fact GTDAgenda is not that new, it came out beginning of 2008 and still improving itself along the way. [More]
Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 12, 2009.
There are literally uncountable websites around the world. How many sites you can suspect while there are few hundred thousand of sites to steal your identity, do phishing and harm your computer or even worse. You might say hey I have an Anti virus or personal firewall installed in my computer and I am secure. But in that case you’ve spend enough money to secure your computer. Nevertheless not every time an anti virus or firewall software can detect a fake or low privacy site. Previously I’ve tried to use SiteAdvisor from McAfee the popular anti virus maker and Internet Explorer’s Phishing site checker but honestly both of them didn’t really fit my expectations. Then recently I’ve introduced to WOT (Web of Trust) software from one of my online contacts. WOT is a Mozilla recommended security add-on that also works with Internet Explorer and has been downloaded 3 million times. WOT addon warns you about risky websites to help you avoid spyware, browser hijacking, identity theft, phishing and other Internet scams. WOT is a user contributed site checker and comes with a huge database of known sites. This software comes in a flavor of plugin for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, the 2 most used browser on the globe. It represents the safety marks in a ring format. Dark green is most safe and Dark red represents no safety at all. The colors are designed in Human behavior so it takes a less than a second to understand it. As long we understand Red light is No Go and Green light is a Go. Lets take a look at the features this product offers for Free: [More]
Written by Ruhani Rabin on February 1, 2009.
I’ve always wanted to publish my blog or twitter posts to all the social networks where blogging and status updates available but sadly until this time there was no tool to do that job until now…. Ping.fm made the revolution of one click publishing to the social networks which enables you to post status updates, micro-blogging and blogging to multiple social networks at the same time. It’s already supporting a wide range of social networks, micro blogging engines and status updates services. Ping.fm is a centralized location to publish and broadcast to all your social networking sites. That is not all.. they are supporting a variety of tools that can help you publish your broadcast through e-mail, instant messengers, google gadgets, facebook application and even via SMS text. Remember it’s not only an one click multiple social networks publishing engine but also a superb marking tool if you use it wisely. A few social networks to mention are myspace, facebook, friendster, tumblr, twitter, bebo, seesmic, linkedin, friendfeed, plaxo, livejournal, wordpress.com, blogger.com, flickr, jaiku, delicious, hi5, multiply, yahoo 360. Lets take a look into a little bit more details. [More]
Written by Ruhani Rabin on January 21, 2009.
One of my very old friends team just announced the dotNetShoutOut.com for the public. I was kind of aware of their ongoing development. Basically it’s a Digg like Web 2.0 social news site for the .Net related developers and re-searchers. Build on the KIGG open source platform. The dotNetShoutOut team is from Dhaka, Bangladesh and they have wide experience in several international social web 2.0 products. The leading developer Kazi Manzur Rashid is a recurring Microsoft Most Valuable Person. More details below.. [More]
