In past, we have covered a great utility, Lingoes, which can help you find meaning of different words. Today, we came across an excellent extension for Google Chrome which can help you find meaning of words just by clicking on them. Google Dictionary is an excellent extension for Google Chrome which helps you find definitions of words as you browse the web. Go to Google Dictionary extension page and install it. The installation process is really simple and straight forward. Once the extension is installed you will see a small book icon in Chrome’s address bar as shown below. To…

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You have your own style of writing? I don’t think so. Everyone somehow matches to someone’s skills. Same for writing. IWL aka I Write Like is an amazing online tool which finds out whom do you write like. This tool matches keywords, punctuations, idioms used in your sentences with the pieces written by famous authors. With the most matches, it brings the results. To use it, you just need to paste your written snippet into the big text entry box there. Bam! And you’ll see to which author your writing skills match. The tool also provides HTML code for a…

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Everyone who uses peer-2-peer sharing via torrents knows, or at some point, used Transmission. It is one of the most popular bitTorrent downloading clients all over the world, used by many. Transmission is a community developed, multi-platform bitTorrent client which is the default torrent application in many distros of Linux including Ubuntu. Recently, Transmission client went one step ahead with the release of its latest version, Transmission 2.0. The already great client is now faster, sleeker looking and smarter than ever. The new version retains the light-weightiness of the client. TorrentFreak, a popular blog covering all the bitTorrent and file…

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The MWC (Mobile World Conference) this year was filled with exciting news and releases related primarily to cellphone technology. But if you thought that was the most exciting cellphone event of the year, think again. Apple has just confirmed that viagra cheap it will be holding a massive conference for developers. Named World Wide Developers Conference, Apple will hold workshops and provide tutorials on how to develop applications for its iDevices; workshops for a variety of other application development will also be held. These workshops and labs will include over 100 sessions, all of which will be entirely solution oriented…

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There is a good chance that a lot of our readers have an account on Facebook. Being an increasingly popular online social network, the number of Facebook’s members is increasing exponentially. The network is kept interesting with the use of various third party applications (such as Mafia Wars and Farmville) and by the introduction of newer and better features in the website design. Recently Facebook has announced another great feature that it will be adding to itself. This feature increases the functionality of the notification emails we get from Facebook. When you create an account on Facebook, by default you…

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Sometimes I wonder if our governments are run by senile old numpties and then I read stuff like this and this (Here’s your source .. ) and then I wonder no more! There’s some bad news for all our internet users in the UK. I think there are limits to being ridiculous, but obviously some members of the British Parliament don’t think so. If you’re not sure of what I’m talking about and why I’m saying such bad things about the kind people who gave us the English language, please let me explain. The British Parliament recently decided to pass…

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Much like me, many of us use the same password for multiple email accounts and websites. While this practice makes managing passwords an easier job, it also means that only one of our accounts needs to be compromised in order for all of them to be compromised. One way hackers compromise our passwords is via phishing scams. These scams involve the use of fake websites to lure users into entering their personal exploitable information such as, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, etc. Familiar with the loopholes in internet security, most users stay clear of suspicious emails and submitting their…

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Spyware is growing nuisance for computer users. For users this is the most harmful threat specially the ones who enter their private/personal data onto their computers; information such as passwords, credit card numbers, physical addresses, phone numbers, and research papers. Keyloggers are perhaps the most dangerous type of spyware. When undetected by the antivirus software being used, keyloggers usually infiltrate a user’s PC via the internet, and then silently monitor the keys being typed by the user. This information is slowly recorded and sent to the keylogger’s author either in small chunks of information, or one big collective chunk. The…

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Welcome back to the Top 7 stories of the day! So there’s some useful stuff for iPhone, iTouch users; people thinking about upgrading to Windows 7 and Mac Users! 1 – ONE! The Ultimate Guide To Speeding Up Firefox 3.5 – Makeuseof.com – We all love Firefox but if you’ve ever wondered about how to speed it up even more, wonder no more! Here’s a nice and extremely effective list that will get FF running even quicker than you’d want it to! 2 – TWO! Microsoft Windows 7 (Professional) – Cnet Reviews – So Cnet does us all a favour…

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Let the Epic ‘Skillz’ Battles Begin! In case you’re wondering what I’m going on about, JamLegend is the result of a passionate night between FooBrew and Guitar Hero. Imagine GuitarHero, except online and using a keyboard. That’s what JamLegend is. I’ve been having quite a ball trying to Jam to the various songs. The way JamLegend works is simple. You pick a song, you select your difficulty and decide if you want a rock show-down against another player, the computer or if you want to just rock all by yourself and then off you go. You have an on-screen numbered…

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