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Top 5 Popular Torrent Sites of 2007
Dec 28th
Have you ever wondered about what would be the most 5 popular torrent site of 2007? Guess what, here we have the list of torrents that made into top five position based on popularity this year. Last year I compiled the list of popular torrents based on the few selection parameters. This year I have decided to put most top 5 list based on popularity.
The selections criteria are based on following parameter. The main factor of popularity was based on the traffic site receives (Alexa Ranking has been used to determine it). The second factor for popularity was number of sites that More >
(+78 rating, 17 votes)
Stixy, free-form collaboration and online sharing service
Dec 22nd
Stixy provides a new free-form approach to collaborate most of the day to date contents online with your friends, colleagues and family. Along with collaboration Stixy also provides online file sharing.
Stixy provides a new free-form approach to collaborate most of the day to date contents online with your friends, colleagues and family. Along with collaboration Stixy also provides online file sharing.
Stixy is an online bulletin board application that features Stixyboard, a free-form drag ‘n drop bulletin board. Stixyboard is highly flexible and shareable web bulletin boards. You can invite more users to collaborate on your Stixyboard.
Stixyboard can be effectively used for More >
(+50 rating, 11 votes)
CatalystOffice, small office productivity web suite
Dec 3rd
CatalystWeb features small business software known as Catalyst Office on web. CatalystOffice is an integrated suite of productivity software such as email, document sharing calendar, task, contact etc.; Catalyst Office is a web application that gives you desktop like feel.
CatalystWeb has been officially launched a week back; you can catch more release and background information about CatalystOffice at Catalyst launch blog. Catalyst Office has been designed not to include the drawbacks of popular office application such has Microsoft Outlook.
Bob Mathew, CEO of CatalystWeb has been working on this small business software for last 3 year to overcome his frustration experienced with Microsoft product More >
(+28 rating, 6 votes)
Recover deleted files with Handy Recovery™
Oct 17th
Handy Recovery is data recovery tool created by SoftLogica for recovering lost or deleted files under Windows platform. Handy Recovery comes in with nifty features for recovery and proves it is a worthy choice for data recovery. Have you ever bothered to backup files? If not then Handy Recovery is a handy tool for you that helps you to recover accidentally deleted files. However, I personally encourage everyone to backup their important and sensitive data in timely manner.
There are plenty of tools available both freeware and commercial when it comes to file recovery. Handy Recovery stands out from most the rest More >
(+45 rating, 12 votes)
Exclusive Interview with Matt Brown
Sep 21st
I wrote about ByteSwap a new online service. Now I have got a chance for an exclusive interview with Matt Brown founder of ByteSwap.
ByteSwap is an innovative way to organize your content, share your content with friends / community and search your content as well as shared content.
Tell us about ByteSwap from your perceptive?
Basically, ByteSwap is an easy-to-use tool for organizing and finding information. Think of it as a virtual file cabinet or a personal search engine. You can store links to web resources, files in any format, photos, organize your contacts and more. It’s information that’s relevant to More >
(+46 rating, 10 votes)
4 tools to integrate Flickr photos into your website
Aug 23rd
Flickr is a great and best photo-sharing site, no second thoughts about it. But the inability Flickr to allow their users to brand their own photoset is notable. Flickr API’s comes in handy for the rescue. Flickr tools built over Flickr API allow the user to brand their photo into their own site.
I have been using Gallery2 till now, since I wanted to brand my photos under my banner. But when you have bunch of photos trust me managing it with a self-hosted solution is a pain. That why I decided to move to hosted photo-sharing solution. Flickr sounded like the More >
(+89 rating, 18 votes)
Top 5 open source Wiki engines
Aug 15th
A Wiki is a website which visitors can modify. Wikis are composed of web pages you can write on, enabling fast and easy collaboration Why Wiki?
This is very commonly asked and answered question. But here is the few uses which I feel about a Wiki.
Educational: It can be used as instrumental tool for building knowledge management system. Wiki is also been used as Text books in few educational institutions.
Collaboration: It allows the project team to collaborate on any specific task / idea.
Documentation: It can be used for the documentation purpose of any project. Draft version of document can be developed greatly using Wiki features.
Personal: It More >
(+93 rating, 20 votes)
