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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: Read the rest of this entry »

REKO is a tool designed to track most popular sites you visit, it finds other users who have similar browsing habits. So it can make similar like minded peoples bring closer in a network. REKO uses FireFox 2.xx web browser and it comes as an extension. The Firefox add-on sends REKO the domain names of the sites you visit. It then adds these to your profile and compares them with other users to find people with similar browsing habits. These users are your neighbours, you can view their profiles to see what other sites they are visiting. REKO also allows you to upload OPML files. If you have an RSS reader, export your OPML file to find RSS reading neighbours! REKO utilises Alexa related links to give you related links based on your top browsing websites.

You will need a free account before you start using REKO. (You will need at least FireFox 2.x )

rCache is a caching tool. It's designed to use with firefox browser as an extension, which is that always-there place to store data that you want to refer back to. Bookmarks and saving web page data to your computer's disk can be messy and slow processes. Your data is stored on your hard disk tends to be unorganized.

rCache frees you from this, by giving you your own research repository online – where you can store articles, blog postings, documents and images. Tagging and full-text keyword searching is a snap. You can store data that you may want to cite in your research, white paper, article or your own blog posting.

rCache currently offering the features below:

Collect data from web pages, PDFs, Word Documents and other resources.
Index all of this data in a searchable, browsable database.
Tagging of Entries makes pinpoint filtering easy.
Filter your data by the Entry's source domain name.
Search your data by keyword or phrase.
RSS: Use an RSS reader to keep track of your most recent Entries or any tag based lookups into your data.
Collaborate: Give colleagues access to your research data, with restrictions based on tags or keyword searches.

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What is Swarm?

Swarm shows you what websites people are visiting, right now.

Swarm is a graphical map of hundreds of websites, all connecting to each other. It updates itself every second with where people are going and coming from. As sites become more popular, they move towards the center of the swarm and grow larger. Conversely, sites that lose traffic move away from the center and grow smaller.

Website traffic is symbolized with thin lines. Each time you see a line appear, it means someone has moved from one site to the other. You can gauge how many people are swarming around based on the number of lines. 

Why use this?

Swarm is a useful tool for browsing the web, not searching it. You need to come here with an open mind and you may find some really cool stuff.

Community:

In addition to a forum, Swarm allows you to chat about any link you see. When you see a little chat icon flash, it means people are actively chatting about that link. You don't have to wait for the icon to appear, you can begin talking about any link you find (and hopefully someone will join in!)

Firefox Extension:

You may be asking where Swarm gets its data. The answer is in a Firefox extension that you can optionally download. When you download the extension, websites you visit are anonymously sent to Swarm. There is no registration, no email and no personal data ever given to Swarm. You can also turn it on and off easily. Learn more.

The Firefox Extension is the lifeline of Swarm. Please help enrich Swarm and join the community by downloading the extension.

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blueorganizer is a Firefox extension that allows you to easily collect and manage your favorite things like books, music and movies. blueorganizer integrates with many popular sites and services to help you organize and search all your collections right inside the browser. Simply click to grab and automatically tag a book, a music album or your favorite gadget

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