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Download Free Earthquake Preparedness Handbook

The United States Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazard Program is giving away FREE copies of the Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country and Protecting Your Family From Earthquakes Handbooks. This handbook provides information about the threat posed by earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay region and explains how you can prepare for, survive, and recover from these inevitable events. If you live or work in the region, you need to know why you should be concerned with earthquakes, what you...

What is CAPTCHA?

CAPTCHA stands for 'Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart' and are a test to ensure that the entity taking the test is a human. For example, this Word Verification on Blogger is a Captcha to filter out spam comments: A common Captcha requires users to identify letters or digits from a distorted image. Captchas philosophy is to allow a computer to administer a test to a user which can be only be completed by a human and not a computer. It is thus...

FREE Firefox and Thunderbird Gift Certificates

Everybody loves Firefox and its now time to spread the cheer! This holiday season gift your loved ones the best tool to surf the internet with utmost ease. Its time to give them a gift of Firefox. The Spread Firefox community is giving away Free Firefox and Thunderbird gift certificates. Print them or email them - your friends and family will love them. Even if ALL of them use Firefox, you can still gift them the wonders of Thunderbird. They can carry forward the gift and spread some Firefox...

Manage multiple Firefox tabs using Taboo

If you are a Firefox maniac and have 50+(or often 200+) tabs open in your Firefox window you always run the risk of losing a whole lot of information if you close your window accidentally or otherwise. Not only this, you might want to save a site for checking it out later. Yeah, we know you can always bookmark it - but Taboo takes bookmarking to another level. Read on. Why is Taboo useful? Taboo is extremely useful because: Taboo lets you save a tab for use at a later time. When you...

What is VoIP?

Voice over Internet Protocol(also known as Internet Telephony or IP Telephony) is a  general term used for technologies employed in transmission of voice signals over the Internet or other networks. VoIP is a technology which allows you to make voice calls over the internet, in the digital format, rather than traditional PSTN based voice communication. VoIP usually requires a decent internet connection(usually broadband or higher) and may sometimes require special VoIP phones. Image...

Check Disk Space Usage with TreeSize Free

Disk space usage can be of critical importance when you have the habit of storing things randomly. I didn't realize which folder was guzzling all my hard disk space until I laid my hands on TreeSize Free. TreeSize Free is a disk space usage analysis tool which displays a comparison of disk space occupied by folders and subfolders. It tells you how your disk space is being used and explains so statistically and graphically. Features of TreeSize Free: Can be started from the context...

Manage multiple network settings easily with NetSetMan

If you have a laptop or shuffle between several internet connections, which in turn result in multiple IP addresses and connection settings, you can understand the pain in changing the Windows network settings over and over again. I personally face a lot of trouble shifting from my DSL settings to an IP connection or a Wifi connection whenever I venture outside. It would come in handy if there was such a tool which made shuffling between various connection settings easy. To our relief,...

Subscene: Download Free Divx TV Episodes and Movie Subtitles

Movies and TV episodes are a lot more fun when you understand what the characters are saying. But what with their heavy accent and foreign language, sometimes it becomes difficult to comprehend what an actor is saying. To make your lives easy you can download subtitles from the internet for your favorite movie or TV episode. Subscene is huge directory of subtitles which can be downloaded for free. Some features of Subscene are: Subtitles in many languages Subtitles for movies as...

What is RSS?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication and is a family of web feed formats used to publish updated content like blog entries, news headlines and audio-visual content. RSS is used by millions world over to keep in track with the updates of their favorite websites or important news, without bookmarking and visiting the websites everytime. How RSS works? RSS works by compiling notifications and updates of a website(for example news headlines) and some metadata into a...

What is Second Life?

Second life is a three dimensional virtual world created by Linden labs in 2003, which can be accessed using the internet. Members can register and participate using the Second Life Viewer program assuming a virtual identity or avatar. The Second Life virtual world is made of such Residents who can interact with (via IM and built-in chat) and meet other residents.  Residents can take part in several activities, create and trade virtual real estate and services with one another, or explore the...