Ping.fm

Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.

Making an update on Ping.fm pushes the update to a number of different social websites at once.

Pros

• Supports major social networks
• Registration is simple and fast, you can get started immediately
• Several posting methods available, like post via email
• Posting images is possible, works only with post by email
• Custom triggers, makes it possible to post to selected social networks.
• Several posting methods, like via aol, instant messengers and even iphone.

Twitterfeed

Twitterfeed allows you to feed your blog into Twitter. You provide the URL of a blog’s RSS feed and how often you want posts to Twitter, and twitterfeed does the rest. Create a new twitter user at twitter.com (or use your existing one) this twitter user is going to be the one twitterfeedposting your blog entries…

Pros

• Posting using your RSS, so no actual work on your part, its automatic, like what there website said “You just sit back and relax!”
• Posting can be set from 30 mins to 24 hours

Cons

• Service is limited to twitter only, it would be cool if it can update multiple sites.
• Posting is limited to 5 items per update, so if you have lots of post, better set the updates to 30 mins.
• Registration is via OpenID only, those with no OpenID are force to use myvidoop.com OpenID Services

The content of a micro-blog differs from a traditional blog due in that it is typically more topical, smaller in aggregate file size (e.g. text, audio or video) but is the same in that people utilize it for both business and individual reasons. Many micro-blogs provide this short commentary on a person-to-person level, or share news about a company’s products and services.

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Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? With Twitter, you can stay hyper–connected to your friends and always know what they’re doing, please note we’re using twitterfeed to updated our twitter.

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In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

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Plugins

ShareThis provides a widget for easily sharing content found online with others through social networks, social news sites, and other online services. Users can also email content to friends with the widget.
The first version of the widget was launched in November 2007. … Click on our sidebar to test..

AddThis is the #1 bookmarking and sharing button on the Internet. AddThis has become the standard button for bookmarking and sharing. The AddThis button spreads your content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to bookmark and share it with other people, again…Click on our sidebar to test

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs. ..Visit our Delicious Page

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.
Web pages are presented when the user clicks the “Stumble!” button… Visit Our stumble Upon Page

FriendFeed is a feed aggregator that consolidates the updates from social media and social networking websites, social bookmarking websites, blogs and micro-blogging updates, as well as any other type of RSS/ Atom feed. Users can use this stream of information to create customized feeds to share (and comment) with friends. check out sharealink on friendfeed

Faves is a social bookmarking and networking software that installs a single browser button for users to “fave” a webpage, making a link to the page part of their Faves profile. Until October 2007, Faves was called Blue Dot. While offering a service similar to the better-known del.icio.us, .. ShareAlink on Faves

Google Bookmarks – Google Bookmarks is a free online bookmark storage service, available to Google Account holders.

The service allows one to bookmark favorite websites and add labels or tags, and also notes. Visit Our Sharealink Google Bookmark

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Open source WordPress has been incredibly successful and risen from a handful of users to the most-used blog tool in its category. However, as easy-to-use as we could make it, there were still a few barriers in that it requires a hosting account, a database, FTP, and a whole alphabet soup of acronyms that make normal people like you and me dizzy.

We wanted to bring the WordPress experience to a larger audience. So we created WordPress.com, a hosted version of the open source package where you can start a blog in seconds without any technical knowledge.

We’re a bit of an underdog, as there are much larger hosted blogging services such as Blogger or Typepad that have been out for years, but when WordPress.org got started people said the blog software market was saturated and there wasn’t room for anything new. (The big players then were Greymatter and Movable Type.) We think we have something unique to bring to the table.

WordPress.com is under very active development, and we roll out updates almost every day. New features and services are driven by you so please let us know what you want.

Almost everything on WordPress.com is free, and things that are currently free will remain free in the future, but we do offer paid a la carte upgrades for things like CSS editing and custom domains. How do we pay for everything? WordPress.com is run by Automattic which currently makes money from the aforementioned upgrades, blog services, Akismet anti-spam technology, and hosting partnerships.

Anyway, we know there are a lot of places you could put your blog on the internet, and we’d be extra honored if you consider us too. If you’re a current user and you dig what we’re doing, the best way you can help us out is to help a friend get set up as well. (It also gives you more buddies for your blogroll

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• Matthew Mullenweg
  WordPress, Inc. 4734 Stillbrooke Houston
  TX 77035,
  USA
• Phone: +1 713 723 8969
  m [at] mullenweg.com

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We were three friends, funded by doing annoying contract web projects for big companies, trying to make our own grand entrance onto the Internet landscape. What we were originally trying to do doesn’t matter so much now. But while doing it, we created Blogger, more or less on a whim, and thought — Hmmm… that’s kinda interesting.

Blogger took off, in a small way, and eventually a bigger way, over a couple years. We raised a little money (but stayed small). And then the bust happened, and we ran out of money, and our fun little journey got less fun. We narrowly survived, not all in one piece, but kept the service going the whole time (most days) and started building it back up.

Things were going well again in 2002. We had hundreds of thousands of users, though still just a few people. And then something no one expected happened: Google wanted to buy us. Yes, that Google

We liked Google a lot. And they liked blogs. So we were amenable to the idea. And it worked out nicely.

Now we’re a small (but slightly bigger than before) team in Google focusing on helping people have their own voice on the web and organizing the world’s information from the personal perspective. Which has pretty much always been our whole deal.

Other Information

• Owner Google Inc.
• Created by Pyra Labs
• Launched July 31, 2000
• Alexa rank #9

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Developer

The current developer is Eugene Roshal, while his brother Alexander Roshal is engaged in business of the software.

Features

WinRAR supports the following features:

• Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7z and Z archives. Future versions of WinRAR are planned to include 7z creation.
• The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.
• Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and recovery volumes, even allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.
• Support for advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.
• Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.

Other Information

• Developed by Eugene Roshal / Alexander Roshal
• Latest release 3.80 / 30 September 2008; 50 days ago
• Written in C++
• OS Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux (Wine required for GUI), OS/2
• Available in Multilingual (46+ languages)
• Development status Current
• Type File archiver
• License Commercial proprietary, Shareware
• Website Primary: www.rarlab.com, Secondary: www.win-rar.com

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Q3A’s aim is to frag (kill) enemy players and score points based on the game mode’s objective such as capturing the enemy flag. When a player’s health points reach zero, that player’s avatar is fragged; in the majority of modes the player can then respawn and continue playing, health restored, but without previously gathered weapons and power-ups. Games end when a player or team reaches a score or time-limit. Game modes include deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag, and tournament.

Notable features of Quake 3 include the minimalist design, lacking rarely used items and features, the extensive customizability of player settings such as field of view, texture detail and enemy model, and advanced movement features such as strafe-jumping that give more speed with greater skill in contrast to the digital, all or nothing design of many computer games.

An expansion pack titled Quake III: Team Arena was released in December 2000 by id Software. It focused on team gameplay through new game modes and new weapons, items, and player models.Team Arena was, however, criticized as its additions were long overdue and had already been implemented by fan modifications. A few years later Quake III: Gold was released, including the original Quake III Arena and the Team Arena expansion packs bundled together.

On August 19, 2005, id Software released the complete source code for Quake III Arena under the GNU General Public License, as they have for most of their prior engines. This does not make the entire game GPL, the textures and other data were not released. A project called OpenArena addresses this issue, creating open content and bundling it with the engine as a standalone Quake 3 release. Open Arena uses the ioquake3 engine, which is focused on bug fixes, sound and graphical improvements.

Other Information

• Developer(s) id Software
• Publisher(s) Activision (Windows), Sega (Dreamcast), Virgin Interactive (PlayStation 2, Linux), Activision/Valve , Corporation (Steam)
• Designer(s) Graeme Devine
• Series Quake series
• Engine id Tech 3
• Version 1.32c (2006-05-08)
• Platform(s) PC (Linux/Windows), IRIX, Macintosh, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, source ports to additional platforms, Xbox Live Arcade
• Genre(s) First-person shooter
• Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer

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Written in the Java programming language, LimeWire is able to run on any computer with Java Virtual Machine installed. Installers are provided for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Support for Mac OS 9 and other previous versions was dropped with the release of LimeWire 4.0.10. From version 4.8 onwards, LimeWire works as a UPnP Internet Gateway Device controller in that it can automatically set up packet-forwarding rules with UPnP-capable routers.

LimeWire offers the sharing of its library through the Digital Audio Access Protocol. As such, when LimeWire is running and configured to allow it, any files shared will be detectable on the local network by DAAP-enabled devices (e.g., iTunes).

More Information

• Developed by Lime Wire LLC
• Initial release 2000
• Stable release 4.18.8 (19 September 2008; 57 days ago) [+/−]
• Preview release 5.00.0 Alpha (06 August 2008; 101 days ago) [+/−]
• Written in Java
• Platform Cross-platform
• Available in 31 languages
• Type File sharing
• License GNU General Public License
• Website LimeWire.com, LimeWire.org

According to AVG Technologies, over 80 million users have AVG Anti-Virus protection, including users of the Free Edition. On April 24, 2008, AVG released AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0. Along with a more colorful interface, the new program added some new features – a combined Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection engine, LinkScanner Search-Shield safe search protection, plus the AVG Security Toolbar – which were previously only available in AVG commercial versions.

There are some limitations with AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 compared to the commercial versions of AVG products. These limitations include:

• Less protection – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 provides only base level protection against viruses, spyware and safe searching. It does not provide safe surfing (drive-by download protection) nor protection from crackers, keyloggers, spam, phishing attacks and malicious file downloads that can come through instant messaging and attachments from seemingly friendly sources. This protection is only available in the commercial versions of AVG products.
• Slower updates – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 receives updates via a lower priority service. Priority updating via high-speed servers is only available for the commercial versions of AVG products.
• No telephone or e-mail technical support – There is no telephone or e-mail technical support provided by AVG for users of AVG Free Edition products anywhere in the world. AVG Free Edition users have access to support via the self-help AVG Free Forum.
• No customization – Scheduling options in AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 are very limited (only one scheduled update per day, one scheduled scan per day etc.). The AVG Resident Shield configuration is limited with no exclusion settings. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition does not offer advanced testing options, password-protected archives reporting, adjustment of scan process priority and many other features.
• No server support – AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 cannot be installed on server operating systems (such as Windows Server 2003), nor can it be used for the scanning of network drives.
• AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 is only licenced for home and non commercial use on a single computer.

AVG Free Edition was once responsible for popup ads advertising the non-free versions of AVG Anti-Virus 8.0 and AVG Internet Security 8.0, which claim to provide more comprehensive levels of protection. Current free versions display only in-program banner ads for the full edition, not popups.

Other Information

• Developed by AVG Technologies, s.r.o.
• Latest release 8.0.199 / 04 November 2008;
• OS Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD
• Type Antivirus, Malware removal, Internet Security
• License Proprietary (freeware and commercial)
• Website www.avg.com

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It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6.

Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher), today Linux also runs on (at least) the Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS, Renesas M32R, Atmel AVR32, Renesas H8/300, NEC V850, Tensilica Xtensa, and Analog Devices Blackfin architectures; for many of these architectures in both 32- and 64-bit variants.

Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although functionality is then obviously somewhat limited. See the µClinux project for more info.

New to Linux?

If you’re new to Linux, you don’t want to download the kernel, which is just a component in a working Linux system. Instead, you want what is called a distribution of Linux, which is a complete Linux system. There are numerous distributions available for download on the Internet as well as for purchase from various vendors; some are general-purpose, and some are optimized for specific uses. We currently have mirrors of several distributions available at mirrors.kernel.org, as well as a small collection of special-purpose distributions at http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/.

Note, however, that most distributions are very large (several gigabytes), so unless you have a fast Internet link you may want to save yourself some hassle and purchase a CD-ROM with a distribution; such CD-ROMs are available from a number of vendors.

Other Information

• Design by Linus Torvalds
• Developed by Linus Torvalds (author) and Andrew Morton. Thousands of collaborators
• Initial release 1991
• Latest release 2.6.27.5 / 7 November 2008;
• Preview release 2.6.28-rc4 / 9 November 2008;
• Written in C
• OS Linux
• Available in English
• Type Kernel
• License GNU General Public License version 2 (only)
• Website www.kernel.org

Linux Distribution

• Debian
• Red Hat
• CentOS
• Fedora
• SUSE
• Ubuntu