50 Most useful websites

Useful Websites Worth a Bookmark!

I am sure that the sites mentioned below solve at least one problem really well and they all have simple web addresses (URLs) that you can easily learn and thus saving you time to visit Google.

01. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube.
02. bounceapp.com – for capturing full length screenshots of web pages.
03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
04. untiny.me – find the original URLs that's hiding behind a short URLs.
05. localti.me – know more than just the local time of a city
06. copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren't on your keyboard.
07. topsy.com – a better search engine for twitter.
08. fb.me/AppStore – search iOS app without launching iTunes.
09. iconfinder.com – the best place to find icons of all sizes.
10. office.com – download templates, clipart and images for your Office documents.
11. woorank.com – everything you wanted to know about a website.
12. virustotal.com – scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses.
13. wolframalpha.com – gets answers directly without searching  - see more wolfram tips.
14. printwhatyoulike.com – print web pages without the clutter.
15. joliprint.com – reformats news articles and blog content as a newspaper.
16. isnsfw.com – when you wish to share a NSFW page but with a warning.
17. e.ggtimer.com – a simple online timer for your daily needs.
18. coralcdn.org – if a site is down due to heavy traffic, try accessing it through coral CDN.
19. random.org – pick random numbers, flip coins, and more.
20. mywot.com – check the trust level of any website - example.
21. viewer.zoho.com – Preview PDFs and Presentations directly in the browser.
22. tubemogul.com – simultaneously upload videos to YouTube and other video sites.
23. truveo.com – the best place for searching web videos.
24. scr.im – share you email address online without worrying about spam.
25. spypig.com – now get read receipts for your email.
26. sizeasy.com – visualize and compare the size of any product.
27. whatfontis.com – quickly determine the font name from an image.
28. fontsquirrel.com – a good collection of fonts – free for personal and commercial use.
29. regex.info – find data hidden in your photographs – see more EXIF tools.
30. tineye.com – this is like an online version of Google Googles.
31. iwantmyname.com – helps you search domains across all TLDs.
32. tabbloid.com – your favorite blogs delivered as PDFs.
33. join.me – share you screen with anyone over the web.
34. onlineocr.net – recognize text from scanned PDFs and images – see other OCR tools.
35. flightstats.com - Track flight status at airports worldwide.
36. wetransfer.com – for sharing really big files online.
37. pastebin.com – a temporary online clipboard for your text and code snippets.
38. polishmywriting.com – check your writing for spelling or grammatical errors.
39. awesomehighlighter.com – easily highlight the important parts of a web page.
40. typewith.me – work on the same document with multiple people.
41. whichdateworks.com – planning an event? find a date that works for all.
42. everytimezone.com – a less confusing view of the world time zones.
43. warrick.cs.odu.edu – you'll need this when your bookmarked web pages are deleted.
44. gtmetrix.com – the perfect tool for measuring your site performance online.
45. imo.im - chat with your buddies on Skype, Facebook, Google Talk, etc. from one place.
46. translate.google.com – translate web pages, PDFs and Office documents.
47. youtube.com/leanback – enjoy a never ending stream of YouTube videos in full-screen.
48. similarsites.com – discover new sites that are similar to what you like already.
49. wordle.net – quick summarize long pieces of text with tag clouds.
50. bubbl.us – create mind-maps, brainstorm ideas in the browser

Another Top-level Domain( whatever ) coming soon

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)  is going crazy and allowing suffixes named after brands, hobbies, political causes and just about anything else.

Under guidelines approved Monday, Apple is planinng to register addresses ending in ".ipad," 

By this the web addresses will expand beyond dot.com, with top businesses and governments expected to hasten to apply for signature domain names.

The Top-Level Domain program will be ratified by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) in Singapore on June 20 and will be followed by a four-month global communication campaign to get anyone with a digital presence onboard with this drastic change.

Following this there will be a 60-day window to apply for a Top-Level Domain name, attached with a hefty application fee to discourage joke applications. The first Top-Level Domain names are said to come into effect by the middle of next year.

Trademark holders will be protected when applying for a domain name, whilst it has been reported that no one will be allowed to apply for a city name, such as .Sydney or .NewYork, without written approval from the relevant government.

Nokia C2-03 Dual-SIM Phone Specifications, Price, Release Date

Nokia announced a new dual-SIM phone at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore.  Following the release of the Nokia X1-01 and the C2-00 dual-SIM phones, Nokia this time announced the C2-03 handset, a dual-SIM Touch and Type phone.  This is the same device that leaked a few weeks ago and was rumored to carry the name C2-06.

The Nokia C2-03 is a slide phone with a touchscreen which has an Easy Swap feature that allows you to open the slot on the side of the phone and insert a separate SIM without having to reboot the device.

Nokia C2-03 Touch and Type Specifications

• OS: Symbian 40
• Screen: 240 x 320 with up to 65K colours
• Memory: 10MB expandable up to 32GB
• Camera: 2-megapixel camera
• Browser: Nokia Browser for Series 40
• Size: 103 x 51.4 x 17mm
• Weight: 118g
• Standby time: up to 400 hours
• Talk time: up to five hours
• Music playback time: up to 35 hours

The Nokia C2-03 will be available in Q3 2011 and will cost about Php5,000.

Here’s Nokia’s intro video for the C2-03.

Google to launch a photo sharing service (Photovine)

Back on June 7th, Google filed a USPTO application for the name Photovine, sending sparks flying down the, er, grapevine about a possible photo-sharing program. The application cites a service dedicated to the "transmission of visual images and data by telecommunications networks, wireless communication networks, the Internet, information services networks and data networks." Unsurprisingly, it looks like the internet giant's also picked up the corresponding domain name.

Who Are LulzSec ?

From the last 2 months we are hearing this name very often

In commemoration of the LulzSec Twitter account's 1,000th tweet, the group has issued a lengthy and remorseless statement attempting to explain its actions.

Hacker collective or, as they put it, "those evil bastards from Twitter" LulzSec has issued an official statement attempting to explain its actions. You can read it here.

"The main anti-LulzSec argument suggests that we're going to bring down more Internet laws by continuing our public shenanigans," the statement reads, "and that our actions are causing clowns with pens to write new rules for you. But what if we just hadn't released anything? What if we were silent? That would mean we would be secretly inside FBI affiliates right now, inside PBS, inside Sony... watching... abusing..."

The thrust of the statement is that Internet security is not what it could be, and that hackers don't always announce what they've hacked. "We certainly haven't," the statement continues, "and we're damn sure others are playing the silent game. [...] You are a peon to these people. A toy. A string of characters with a value. This is what you should be fearful of, not us releasing things publicly, but the fact that someone hasn't released something publicly. We're sitting on 200,000 Brink users right now that we never gave out. It might make you feel safe knowing we told you, so that Brink users may change their passwords. What if we hadn't told you? No one would be aware of this theft, and we'd have a fresh 200,000 peons to abuse, completely unaware of a breach."

The statement goes on to make light of the group's most recent actions -- releasing user names and passwords for a variety of sites across the Web, including Facebook, GMail, PayPal and Amazon accounts. "Welcome to 2011," it continues. "This is the lulz lizard era, where we do things just because we find it entertaining. Watching someone's Facebook picture turn into a penis and seeing their sister's shocked response is priceless. Receiving angry emails from the man you just sent 10 dildos to because he can't secure his Amazon password is priceless. You find it funny to watch havoc unfold, and we find it funny to cause it. We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it."

Said "equally evil people" have reportedly claimed PayPal accounts containing significant amounts of money; access to online games and services such as World of Warcraft; Facebook accounts; and email addresses containing private information. While losing access to one's account will provide a potent message to use more different passwords around the Web -- and more secure passwords, at that -- the unpleasant (and potentially life-wrecking) manner in which the group has delivered this message completely undermines whatever valid point it may have had to make about Internet security. But they don't care:

"Nobody is truly causing the Internet to slip one way or the other," the statement continues. "It's an inevitable outcome for us humans. We find, we nom nom nom, we move onto something else that's yummier. We've been entertaining you 1000 times with 140 characters or less, and we'll continue creating things that are exciting and new until we're brought to justice, which we might well be. But you know, we just don't give a living fuck at this point -- you'll forget about us in 3 months' time when there's a new scandal to gawk at."

Officials Comfirmed that CIA website Attacked ...

A U.S. official has confirmed that the website belonging to the Central Intelligence Agency, which was inaccessible for hours on Wednesday evening, suffered a cyber attack.

Hacker group LulzSec, which spearheaded attacks on PBS.org, Sony, the Senate, and other organizations, claimed responsibility for taking CIA.gov offline, tweeting, "Tango down - cia.gov - for the lulz."

Politico reports:

The disruption on the CIA’s public website Wednesday did not involve “any kind of outside intrusion,” a U.S. official told POLITICO. [...]

The technical issues cia.gov experienced are more consistent with a “distributed denial of service attack,” which is an attempt to overwhelm the servers of a website so people cannot access it.

In one of two hacks this week directed at Senate computers, LulzSec successfully stole information that it later posted on its website.

LulzSec said of the hack, "We don't like the US government very much. Their boats are weak, their lulz are low, and their sites aren't very secure. In an attempt to help them fix their issues, we've decided to donate additional lulz in the form of owning them some more!"

According to The Next Web, LulzSec has released personal information, such as email addresses and names, belonging to over 100,000 users, and on Thursday posted 62,000 users' logins that are believed to have been taken from the site Writerspace.com.

Oracle filed a suit against Google over Android:This could Cost Search Giant 'Billions'

Oracle Corp is seeking damages "in the billions of dollars" from Google Inc in a patent lawsuit over the smartphone market, according to a court filing.

Oracle sued Google last year, claiming the Web search company's Android mobile operating technology infringes Oracle's Java patents. Oracle bought the Java programing language through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in January 2010.

In a document filed in court by Oracle on Thursday, Oracle accused Google of trying to conceal the fact that Oracle's damages claims in the case are in the billions.

Google has redacted large portions of Oracle's damages estimates from recent court filings. Oracle asked the court on Thursday to make some of that information public.

Google representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The case in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, is Oracle America, Inc v. Google Inc, 10-3561.

Facebook's iPad App Soon...

More than a year after Apple introduced the iPad, Facebook is finally getting around to releasing an app for it.

Nick Bilton at the New York Times reports that the app has been in development for almost a year, withMark Zuckerberg taking a personal interest in its design.

Facebook had its application for the iPhone ready right when the Apple App Store opened in July 2008. But more than a year after the iPad went on sale, there is still no official Facebook app for it.

That is about to change. People briefed on Facebook’s plans say that in coming weeks the company plans to introduce a free iPad application that has been carefully designed and optimized for the tablet.

The app has been in production at Facebook for almost a year, going through several design iterations, and is now in the final stages of testing, according to these people, who declined to be named because they were discussing confidential product plans.

One person who works with Facebook said Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief executive and founder, has been heavily invested in the process, overseeing design decisions and the app’s unique features.

People who have seen the application said it has a slick design that has been tailored for the iPad and its touchscreen interface. Facebook developers and designers have also overhauled the Facebook Chat and Facebook Groups features for the application. And the app will go beyond the features available on the Facebook Web site by allowing users to shoot and upload photos and videos directly from the iPad’s built-in cameras.

“The photo and video experience is amazing, offering full resolution and full-screen images,” said a person who has seen the app.

Jaime Schopflin, a communications manager at Facebook, declined to discuss any future products. “We have a great relationship with Apple that is exemplified by our iPhone application, but with regards to an iPad application we have nothing to announce now, and cannot comment on future Facebook products,” she said. Apple declined to comment.

Facebook’s users have complained in the past that its Web interface is not optimized for the iPad or any other touchscreen experience. In response, a number of outside developers have introduced Facebook-friendly applications for the iPad, including My Pad, iFace and Friendly.

The new app could be a boon to both Facebook and Apple. Mobile applications and optimized mobile Web sites have been a major area of growth for Facebook, with the company saying that there are now more than 250 million Facebook users actively accessing the service on a mobile device. Facebook is approaching 700 million users worldwide.

A compelling Facebook application for the iPad could help Apple woo customers who are torn between buying an iPad and a competing Google Android tablet. Apple has sold more than 25 million iPads since the device was introduced last year.

Apple also plans to help Facebook promote the new application by featuring it prominently in the App Store, said a person familiar with the plans for the app.

In addition to the iPad app, Facebook also plans to introduce a better version of its Web site for the iPad. It is unclear when this will be unveiled, but it isnot intended to compete with a Facebook iPad or iPhone application, and instead is meant “to supplement these experiences,” this person said.