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“Call from Gmail” Service Launched – Free Calls to USA & Canada
There had been rumors about Gmail Call Service since June 2010 and today, Google made it official. Just like Google Chat, Video, and voice chat, Gmail Call option is also integrated right into the Gmail interface using VoIP technology from the Gizmo5 acquisition.
Google’s “Call from Gmail” is not free but cheaply priced. We tried calling Pakistan for $0.11 per minutes which is fairly reasonable. You can make a call by pressing “Call Phone” in the [...]
How to Download Free Antivirus
An antivirus software is a type of program that searches your hard drive and floppy disks for any known or potential infections. The market for this kind of program has grown because of Internet growth and the growing use of the Internet by businesses associated with protecting their computer assets.
Antivirus software provides an important layer of protection from a multitude of infections, trojan, worm, spyware, adware, dialer, keylogger and rootkit infections. Originally antivirus programs just [...]
Where to Find Free Animated Emoticons
Emoticons have definitely transformed the way people communicate via different forums more popularly in emails, instant messengers, social networking sites, mobile phones and like devices. Emoticons are sometimes referred to as Smileys since the graphics can be used interchangeably. The ’smiley’ or the ’smiley face’ is a stylized image of a smiling human face with the most simple smiley being a yellow circle with two small dots symbolizing eyes.
Emoticons are emotional icons or graphics; they [...]
How to: Flush Domain Name System (DNS)
The Domain Name System or DNS specifically relates to a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It connects different sections of information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Added to this, and perhaps its most important use, it translates domain names that are meaningful to humans into the numerical or binary identifiers associated with networking equipment for the intended objective of [...]
Earn Cash for Online Surveys
Now more than ever people are searching for other ways to earn money. The internet has become a useful source for getting extra cash once you use the most legitimate channels. Participating in an online survey is one way in which you can earn a bit of extra cash from home. Most surveys will have specific requirements. These will include age and residency. Once you meet the requirements you can go ahead and register to [...]
Download Emoticons for Free – Enjoy a Colorful Talk
Emoticons can be retrieved for many applications inclusive of Yahoo messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Facebook, Skype, MAC and for Blackberry Messenger to name a few. The typical thinking is that the emoticons download is moderately easy to manage and can be accomplished free of cost on most available websites!
Tracked as far back as the nineteenth century where they were routinely used in casual/humorous writing; emoticons have advanced into one of the notably common and fun [...]
Google Voice in Pakistan
Google voice is one of the most anticipated services offered by Google but it is still not open to everybody. The new service allows you to acquire a universal number that will forward calls to your other numbers for example, your office desk number, your mobile number, your home number etc. You can define rules for re-directing calls and for incoming calls to your Google Voice which will not only save and record your messages [...]
Beware of Fake Antivirus Programs
Virus Creators and Malware Distributors are always looking for different ways to infect every computer and out of all these one of the best method they are using is by getting inside a user’s system through fake anti-virus softwares.
This method is best because users keep searching for free anti-virus software’s and when they find any of these, they would just move forward for a quick installation of the same. These Softwares would perform everything as [...]
Osama’s Profile Disabled: Facebook
Facebook has shutdown the profile of Al-Qaeda’s leader Osama Bin Laden, after a security expert raised the issue with the website’s US owners.
Reports says, Osama bin Laden had a Facebook profile and Facebook page named “The leader of the Mujahideen, Osama bin Laden”, and according to the reports, he was using it as a platform to give speeches to Islamic militants and show them videos.
In regards to the decision, Andrew Noyes a Facebook spokesman said [...]
HTML5 – Future of Internet Evolution
What is HTML5?
WWW or the World Wide Web has traveled a long way since the early days of static pages in other words frozen, simple and silent text based pages low quality graphics. There was a time when we were astounded if a company even had a website, however those days have long gone.
Although there were some ups and down along the way, as in order to display content every browser used its own custom [...]
What is 127.0.0.1 IP Address?
The IP address of the user’s computer is a special IP address and is called ‘a loop-back’ address, local host or simply ‘127.0.0.1’. The loop-back address which is also the top level domain has only one end point and allows a user to access a shared global file system via a browser. It prevents conflict with remote addresses by identifying the current local computer kept at the DNS top level.
All the computers connected to the [...]
What is a Search Engine? And How it Works?
Ever wondered how a search engine performs the search process. Search engines are quite complex units. In order to understand their working we have to breakdown search engine processes and see how they work to provide you with your desired results.
What is a search engine?
In simple terms a search engine is a software application or program that searches for the websites based on the words that you provided or typed as search terms. In order [...]
