The Internet is host to hundreds of new tools and applications. We searched around and found some amazing websites that will keep you entertained and help you get your work done faster. Try them out!
- Monali Gaikwad
MUSIC
Online music is the newfound replacement for carrying your music around with you on portable drives or CDs. All you need is a computer, headphones and a decent Internet connection, and you can log on to www.in.com/listen/. This site offers a huge collection of music, ranging from Bollywood tracks to Tamil, Punjabi, ghazals, devotional, pop, rock and all the international artists. Sign up for an account and you can listen to some great music as well as make friends and share tastes using the community features such as recommendations and comments.
The streaming is very fast, and sound quality is crystal clear. The website allows you to create your own playlists, or you can listen to playlists created by other members or search for something to listen to by typing the name of a song, artist or album into the search box. The site houses a collection of complete albums, with no interruptions or ads, just pure music!
TOOLS
Have you ever been stuck in a situation where you urgently need to edit photographs and don't have Photoshop installed on your computer? Don't worry, simply log on to http://www.fotoflexer.com/ and edit your pictures online! This site has all the tools you need, including resizing, cropping, color adjustment, special effects, etc.
It also has additional features for adding stickers and glitter text to the picture. You can create fun cards and posters, or morph pictures for fun using the squish, twirl and stretch tools. Women will definitely love the beautify tool which helps you clear blemishes and wrinkles from their portrait shots. You can upload and edit pictures directly from your Flikr, Picasa, Facebook or Myspace account. Online photo editing is the new frontier of web applications, blurring the line between the Internet and programs installed on your PC.
VIDEO
The guitar is one of the most popular instruments, and it is quite diffi cult to learn. For everyone who dreams of rocking out like Jimi Hendrix or Joe Satriani, http://www.guitarvideotabs.com/ has a collection of videos of that teach you how to play the guitar in easy steps. Every video also has printable tablature so you can learn to read tabs like a pro. The site has over 100 videos that show you how to play popular guitar riffs and complete songs. The videos are made by guitar enthusiasts around the world and you can fi nd popular songs by artists including The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, AC DC and more. Each video clearly shows how to play the song, with each tab and string being plucked. With videos as clear and precise as these, you'll become the next guitar hero in no time, so go find yourself one and start rocking out!
SYSTEM
Many users of open source operating systems find it difficult to find software and other utilities to support them. http://www.osliving.com/ is dedicated to providing all sorts of open source programs for graphics, web development, gaming, office productivity and more. Everything is sorted into clear categories, and so finding what you require is very easy.
You can download common applications such as Atunes, Pixie, NeoOffice, Pidgin, and Gimp or even lesser known ones, as long as they are designed as open source projects from the ground up. Many of the applications are developed by users themselves. The site is updated regularly, and also has an active forum in which users share their problems and offer suggestions to other users. The site acts as a community for open source enthusiasts and supporters of the philosophy from around the world.
FUN
Online games are some of the simplest ways to kill time when you have nothing to do. The online fl ash games at http://www.multigames.com/ are highly engaging, and plenty of them are available to keep you amused.
The games are categorized as arcade games, card games, boards games, sports
games, puzzles and more. All the games on the site are free and will keep you busy for a long time. The site even has classic side-scrolling PC games like Prince of Persia which take you back to the days when you spent hours playing them because they were the coolest games ever seen at the time! Some of the other titles on the site include Soccer: Suburban Goalie, Guitar Hero II, Battlefi eld Assualt, Bookstick, Stunt Bike Deluxe, Math Lines and many others. Check out the site, but don't get caught slacking at work!
BLOG
http://www.aspisdrift.com/ is blog by a gentleman named Aspi. He talks about the Drift on his blog, by which he means not taking things too seriously and taking everything in good humor. All the posts are light and amusing. He rips into the Indian television scene and talks about shows such as Sa Re Ga Ma, Indian Idol, the Saas-Bahu sagas and dozens of other singing and dancing talent shows.
He also covers Bollywood, music and other events. The blog has a section called Driftworthy where Aspi posts links to the topics he fi nds interesting, and sure
enough they are indeed worthy of the title. He has also posted some very interesting interviews. Some of the celebrities he loves to blog about are Rakhi Sawant, Bappi Lahri, Himesh Reshammiya and Vishal-Shekhar.
Aspi already has a lot of fans on his page, so go be a part of the drift and join
the laugh riot!
Internet Trends- Personalized Homepages
Home pages at your command
With all the websites you visit regularly to check your mail, weather and other
tasks, you might have wished for a single page that could do it all. In fact, you can have everything you need at one glance, and what's more, you can have it in your favorite color and with your own design on it too.
With Web users getting more and more savvy and a whole lot of online applications available, personalized home pages are the new trend to talk about.
With personalized home pages, users can customize the fi rst thing they see when they load a browser to start surfing. Users can have these personalized
pages on their desktops or mobile devices, so that their email, photos, weather forecasts, games and more such applications which they need quick access
to are all within reach. Personalized home pages have made it possible to show
content from many different websites on a single page, eliminating the need to visit each site separately. Simple and easy!
Services Offered
Some of the sites that offer personalized home pages are Pagefl akes (http://www.pageflakes.com/), My Yahoo (http://www.my.yahoo.com/), iGoogle (www.google.com/ig) and Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/). The sites use AJAX technology which allows the user to drag and drop applications anywhere on the page. They can show your email from services including Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and POP accounts. They can also show activity on social networking sites such as Facebook. Netvibes.com supports Flikr.com, so that you can check out photo slideshows too.
Users can also add games and puzzles or podcasts and current news feeds to their home pages. My Yahoo offers stock quotes, horoscopes, TV listings and many other features along with Yahoo mail. The sites also allow users to change
the background colors, themes and even the titles of the pages so they feel truly
customized. Personalized home pages give users something they can create
and call their own, without needing any programming or web design skills.
Website reviews- CHIP Magazine, October 08
- Monali Gaikwad
MUSIC
Online music is the newfound replacement for carrying your music around with you on portable drives or CDs. All you need is a computer, headphones and a decent Internet connection, and you can log on to www.in.com/listen/. This site offers a huge collection of music, ranging from Bollywood tracks to Tamil, Punjabi, ghazals, devotional, pop, rock and all the international artists. Sign up for an account and you can listen to some great music as well as make friends and share tastes using the community features such as recommendations and comments.
The streaming is very fast, and sound quality is crystal clear. The website allows you to create your own playlists, or you can listen to playlists created by other members or search for something to listen to by typing the name of a song, artist or album into the search box. The site houses a collection of complete albums, with no interruptions or ads, just pure music!
TOOLS
Have you ever been stuck in a situation where you urgently need to edit photographs and don't have Photoshop installed on your computer? Don't worry, simply log on to http://www.fotoflexer.com/ and edit your pictures online! This site has all the tools you need, including resizing, cropping, color adjustment, special effects, etc.
It also has additional features for adding stickers and glitter text to the picture. You can create fun cards and posters, or morph pictures for fun using the squish, twirl and stretch tools. Women will definitely love the beautify tool which helps you clear blemishes and wrinkles from their portrait shots. You can upload and edit pictures directly from your Flikr, Picasa, Facebook or Myspace account. Online photo editing is the new frontier of web applications, blurring the line between the Internet and programs installed on your PC.
VIDEO
The guitar is one of the most popular instruments, and it is quite diffi cult to learn. For everyone who dreams of rocking out like Jimi Hendrix or Joe Satriani, http://www.guitarvideotabs.com/ has a collection of videos of that teach you how to play the guitar in easy steps. Every video also has printable tablature so you can learn to read tabs like a pro. The site has over 100 videos that show you how to play popular guitar riffs and complete songs. The videos are made by guitar enthusiasts around the world and you can fi nd popular songs by artists including The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, AC DC and more. Each video clearly shows how to play the song, with each tab and string being plucked. With videos as clear and precise as these, you'll become the next guitar hero in no time, so go find yourself one and start rocking out!
SYSTEM
Many users of open source operating systems find it difficult to find software and other utilities to support them. http://www.osliving.com/ is dedicated to providing all sorts of open source programs for graphics, web development, gaming, office productivity and more. Everything is sorted into clear categories, and so finding what you require is very easy.
You can download common applications such as Atunes, Pixie, NeoOffice, Pidgin, and Gimp or even lesser known ones, as long as they are designed as open source projects from the ground up. Many of the applications are developed by users themselves. The site is updated regularly, and also has an active forum in which users share their problems and offer suggestions to other users. The site acts as a community for open source enthusiasts and supporters of the philosophy from around the world.
FUN
Online games are some of the simplest ways to kill time when you have nothing to do. The online fl ash games at http://www.multigames.com/ are highly engaging, and plenty of them are available to keep you amused.
The games are categorized as arcade games, card games, boards games, sports
games, puzzles and more. All the games on the site are free and will keep you busy for a long time. The site even has classic side-scrolling PC games like Prince of Persia which take you back to the days when you spent hours playing them because they were the coolest games ever seen at the time! Some of the other titles on the site include Soccer: Suburban Goalie, Guitar Hero II, Battlefi eld Assualt, Bookstick, Stunt Bike Deluxe, Math Lines and many others. Check out the site, but don't get caught slacking at work!
BLOG
http://www.aspisdrift.com/ is blog by a gentleman named Aspi. He talks about the Drift on his blog, by which he means not taking things too seriously and taking everything in good humor. All the posts are light and amusing. He rips into the Indian television scene and talks about shows such as Sa Re Ga Ma, Indian Idol, the Saas-Bahu sagas and dozens of other singing and dancing talent shows.
He also covers Bollywood, music and other events. The blog has a section called Driftworthy where Aspi posts links to the topics he fi nds interesting, and sure
enough they are indeed worthy of the title. He has also posted some very interesting interviews. Some of the celebrities he loves to blog about are Rakhi Sawant, Bappi Lahri, Himesh Reshammiya and Vishal-Shekhar.
Aspi already has a lot of fans on his page, so go be a part of the drift and join
the laugh riot!
Internet Trends- Personalized Homepages
Home pages at your command
With all the websites you visit regularly to check your mail, weather and other
tasks, you might have wished for a single page that could do it all. In fact, you can have everything you need at one glance, and what's more, you can have it in your favorite color and with your own design on it too.
With Web users getting more and more savvy and a whole lot of online applications available, personalized home pages are the new trend to talk about.
With personalized home pages, users can customize the fi rst thing they see when they load a browser to start surfing. Users can have these personalized
pages on their desktops or mobile devices, so that their email, photos, weather forecasts, games and more such applications which they need quick access
to are all within reach. Personalized home pages have made it possible to show
content from many different websites on a single page, eliminating the need to visit each site separately. Simple and easy!
Services Offered
Some of the sites that offer personalized home pages are Pagefl akes (http://www.pageflakes.com/), My Yahoo (http://www.my.yahoo.com/), iGoogle (www.google.com/ig) and Netvibes (http://www.netvibes.com/). The sites use AJAX technology which allows the user to drag and drop applications anywhere on the page. They can show your email from services including Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and POP accounts. They can also show activity on social networking sites such as Facebook. Netvibes.com supports Flikr.com, so that you can check out photo slideshows too.
Users can also add games and puzzles or podcasts and current news feeds to their home pages. My Yahoo offers stock quotes, horoscopes, TV listings and many other features along with Yahoo mail. The sites also allow users to change
the background colors, themes and even the titles of the pages so they feel truly
customized. Personalized home pages give users something they can create
and call their own, without needing any programming or web design skills.
Website reviews- CHIP Magazine, October 08
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