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Internet University Cast

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

deviantART is one of my all-time favorite sites and has always been a part of my daily web surfing routine. For those who are not familiar with deviantART, it is an online community that showcases various forms of user-made artwork – photographs, sketches, illustrations, etc. One of the artists on deviantART who goes by the [...]

dfGallery 2.0 – Free Flash Gallery

Monday, February 9, 2009

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Deziner Folio is not only a source of inspiration for web designers but also a good source of icons, wallpapers, Photoshop textures/gradients and WordPress themes like the dfMarine. Recently, they released version 2.0 of their popular free flash gallery called dfGallery. Wooo! Finally we are on dfGallery 2.0. We now commit to you that this gallery [...]

Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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Do you use IM (instant messaging) to communicate with clients, friends or family? I do and I have a lot of contacts scattered across different protocols like Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Google Talk. Having to open and login to each protocol's IM client is too much of a hassle but thanks to multi protocol instant messaging applications, I only need one program to access all my accounts and contacts.There are numerous multi protocol IM clients like Trillian, Pidgin (formerly Gaim), Miranda, Adium (Mac only) and online ones like Meebo, Kool IM, eBuddy. I've tried most of them but the ones that I liked were Trillian and Pidgin. I used Trillian for quite a while but uninstalled it because it was a resource hog. I switched to Pidgin which was lighter and faster. Even though it lacked some features like video/audio chatting, I liked it and it worked for me. I even posted an article on how to upgrade Gaim to Pidgin on Ubuntu. I never thought I would stop using Pidgin, or so I thought.The other day, I came across a new multi protocol IM client called Digsby. It was on private beta testing a few months back and was recently released to the public for free. I wasn't really interested in trying it out or using it because I already had Pidgin, but eventually I ended up downloading and installing it on my machine. At first, I thought it was just another regular multi protocol IM client but after trying it out and going through its features, I realized that it was much better than the others I've previously tried and used.

Spokeo: Social Networks and RSS Feeds Reader

Monday, August 6, 2007

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I know for a fact that almost all internet savvy people have an account in one or several social networks, right? I’m sure that these persons also visit several blogs other than your own, right? Am I talking about you? Anyways, wouldn’t it be nice and convenient if you can keep track of all your [...]

Facebook Adds Twitter-like Options

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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Are you guys familiar with Facebook? It’s one of the most popular social networks here in the US and has the most number of members among college focused sites with an estimated 19 million members. Even the infamous Virginia Tech gunman, Seung-Hui Cho had an account in Facebook. However, Facebook is not that popular in the [...]

Blogger.com Hijacked by Scammers

Sunday, March 18, 2007

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Be careful with what blogs you visit. Google’s Blogger.com is reportedly being hijacked by scammers to spread malware through fake blogs. Security experts are calling this the “fake blog scam”. Blog hopping or surfing hasn’t been this dangerous. Scammers are creating what would seem as a normal-looking blogs with ordinary topics like “Star Wars, school, [...]

Malicious Friendster Javascript

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

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Last night, as I was logged in to my Friendster account, I viewed my cousin’s profile after accepting his request to add him as a friend. As soon as his profile loaded, a small dialog box with the word “american” in it popped up. I checked his profile and at the bottom I saw that [...]

Trig – Myspace Killer?

Thursday, February 8, 2007

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Trig is a new social networking site. Although Trig is still in it’s Beta version, it has a lot of potential to compete with Myspace or Friendster. Trig is powered by Ruby on Rails which means that you’ll see a lot of visual effects that use AJAX. When you sign up, you get to choose what [...]

Myspace Girl is a Cop

Monday, February 27, 2006

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Almost everybody on the web knows about Myspace. It’s a cool site to meet friends, old and new. However, sites like these are also a haven for online sex predators. October last year, Taylor Behl’s body was found after missing for a month. She was killed by a man she met on Myspace. This is a [...]