Americans are the top spammers !!!

Playfuls.com, a science and technology portal’s article says that United States accounts for 23.2 percent of world’s spam in second quarter of year 2006. The article also says that spamming is a crime or as an actionable tart via CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 in United States. I think that is why I find many people hiring freelancers from other countries to send large automated mails. I was in dilemma that why these people hire freelancers when this can be done without any particular software knowledge and there are lots of software and instructions are available widely on the net. Reading this article clears my doubt and many people are using these freelancers to send the spam, which is illegal in their county.

According to the article, below is the list of top 10 spammers.
• United States: 23.2 percent
• China (including Hong Kong): 20 percent
• South Korea: 7.5 percent
• France: 5.2 percent
• Spain: 4.8 percent
• Poland: 3.6 percent
• Brazil: 3.1 percent
• Italy: 3 percent
• Germany: 2.5 percent
• United Kingdom: 1.8 percent
• Taiwan: 1.7 percent
• Japan: 1.6 percent
• Others: 22 percent

Source article can be found HERE

Pageflakes -- Your personalized startup page

“Pageflakes” is your personalized online startup page, which you can accesses from anywhere. Get a free account, login, design your online startup page, save it, and recall at anytime anywhere. It allows users to access e-mail from Gmail or any POP mail acount, read news feeds, do web search from Google, Yahoo, MSN, or Ask; and variety of services like del.icio.us, Flickr, online file storage, book marks, address book, clock, dictionary, and a variety of features that you can add or remove and arrange as you like on your online desktop.

Pageflakes and community developers developed application called Flakes that you can add to your homepage to get various functions to be accessed from a single page. You can enable your homepage to be shared by your friends or by total public. You can access your Box.net free online storage right from the same page.

Have a look at the startup page I have designed for my needs. I am a medical transcriptionist and I have to open up lot of windows while doing transcription. With the help of Pageflakes, I can see if a new mail arrives in my Gmail, search in Google, know the meaning of a word in dictionary, note anything new in “My Note”, have all the books marks arranged neatly, and at the same time, I can look at the watch to speed up the things.

Find it helpful ? get it HERE.

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Goowy - Your Personal Webtop

Goowy.com is a web-based desktop like application offering free e-mail, free online storage, online calendar, games, and integrated IM client to receive IM from AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, ICQ, and GTalk developed in AJAX and Flash.

“Goowy media helps you simplify your online digital lifestyle by delivering a virtual desktop that helps you manage your personal communications (instant messaging, email, contacts, calendar), organize your digital content (virtual file storage and sharing) and aggregate your web information (minis for rss, news, weather, search, bookmarks, etc.)”

Find below some of the screenshots: Click the images for a bigger view

Settings Page



Your Webtop


Integrated IM to check multiple accounts at the same time


Inbuilt 1 GB free storage from Box.net


Free E-mail (user@goowy.com)


Online Calendar


I hope you enjoy this...

Box.Net – Yet another free online storage solution

Box.net is a free online storage solution offering 1 GB of free storage. You can register with Box.net with a valid email address and needs only two fields email and password, hassle-free easy way to get in. It’s neat and clean web design will make you really happy and user friendly and moreover…there will be no ads.

As the Box.net blog says that “Online storage will soon become a Big industry. As someone in the chat room recently said, our turf is getting validated. The benefit of big players with big pockets is that 95% of the marketing and consumer education/awareness will be done for us.”

They think that the big players in industry will offer the same thing, but with some price quote that makes users to turn to the Box.net. Box.net is developing APIs to integrate the Box.net feature with other sites and already, Goowy and Pageflakes are embedded Box.net. Box.net team hopes that more sites will be going to add these features to their sites.



Some of the great features and uses of the site are:
>> Simple, neat, clean and user-friendly designing
>> No advertisements
>> Easy sign-up process
>> Drag and drop feature.
>> Multiple file uploading
>> Save backup copies of important files
>> Always have a backup plan to prevent data loss in case of computer failure
>> Move documents between your computers
>> Use your Box to transfer files so that you can work on them in any location
>> Setup sub-accounts for multiple user access
>> A perfect solution for small businesses and workgroups requiring collaboration
>> Store photos and other important memories
>> Relax! Your priceless files and photos are always safe
>> Share files or create online photo galleries

Users who need more than 1 GB storage, no file size limit, sub accounts, blog posting, mobile access, and zip folders, which are not included in free service, can update their service to premium and pro at a cost of $4.99 and $9.99 respectively.

Get your Box today HERE.

Get into Yahoo! Mail Beta with couple clicks

Nowadays, every free e-mail provider is trying to redesign their site to offer the functionality look like a desktop e-mail application like Outlook. After Live.com and Yahoo Mail, Rediff.com has followed the same way and is now offering the same functionality.

What’s new in Yahoo Mail Beta:
• Drag and drop messages into folders for easy organizing.
• Search for messages containing any word or phrase you want to find with the new super-fast and comprehensive search tool.
• Open multiple messages in tabs so you can multitask.
• Read and manage your messages more easily with the new Reading Pane.
• Type the first letter or two of a friend's email address and Yahoo! Mail finishes it for you with Address AutoComplete.
• Work quicker with the new, speedier interface (DHTML for the techies).
• Use keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl-s to save a message.
• Navigate from message to message with the arrow keys.

Yahoo! Mail Beta is offered as an invitation and users have to get invited through Yahoo! Mail Beta signup form. Google Operating System, a blog, shows you how to get into the Yahoo! Beta without invitation. Just by changing content preference to UK in your mail options, you can get into the Beta version.

To do this:
>log in to Yahoo! Mail
>Click “Options” (Right side upper corner)
>Select “Account Information” from the left panel
>Go to Member Information>General Preferences>Preferred Content
>Select “Yahoo United Kingdom” (I came to know that by changing it to Australia also, you can get into Beta)
>Click “Finished”
>Go to Yahoo! Mail
> You will be prompted to sign up for the new Beta
> Click on "Try Beta Now" and you have done

If you don’t want to keep the content preference changed, just repeat the above and change you preferences to your county. It won’t leave you out off Beta.

Give it a try !!!

Get Rid of Yahoo Messenger Ads

Just have gone through a blog, which tells about how to get rid of the ad that is located at the bottom of the Yahoo Messenger window. I have tried it and worked fine for Yahoo Messenger Beta 8, though the article describes the trick for Yahoo Messenger 7.5. No software or patch to install. It’s just a registry hack and any one can do it in 10 seconds.

Click “Start” and then click “Run,” type “regedit” and hit enter to open Registry Editor. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\YUrl, create a string named “Messenger Ad” and enter “*” as the value for that string.

Else, copy “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\pager\YUrl” (without quotes), go to Registry Editor press Ctrl+F, paste it and hit Enter. It will search for that registry entry where on the right side you can create the string and enter a value for it. Press F5 to refresh the registry and now start the Yahoo Messenger. See the bottom of the Yahoo Messenger……there will be no ads. Please note that manipulation of registry entries to be done very carefully, otherwise it may cause problems in operating system.

Source article can be found HERE.

Old Windows Support Ends

From July 11, 2006, Microsoft is going to stop the support of Windows 98, Windows SE, and Windows ME. Users of these versions will no longer get software updates and fixes. It is estimated that 70 million users will be left without security updates and leaving them open to hacker attacks. A more comprehensive article can be found HERE.

Upcoming WGA tool will cripple Win XP systems?

An article on ComputerWorld says that Microsoft has no plans to do that, but they are making it harder to pirate the Windows Vista version. WGA product manager said that it will not turn off the system if it fails to validate the license, but you will not be able to download the full range updates and other software. It also said that who were affected by the WGA notification being marked as counterfeits though having genuine Windows copies are offered free replacement copies.

Full article can be found HERE.