Category: Internet

Dropbox is a freemium cloud service that provides integrated file synchronization, backup and sharing. It offers free cloud storage of two gigabytes and you can pay for more space in case your needs cross the two gigabytes limit. You can use the Dropbox service through a web browser or through a platform specific client. The Dropbox client is available for all the major platforms like Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, BlackBerry etc.

Dropbox is the popular cloud file storage service that offers 2GB of free cloud space for every user who signs up with them. It is great cloud service that lets you access your files, pictures, videos, documents from anywhere in the world. You can also share large files with friends and families. Now Yahoo! Mail has the Dropbox plug-in built inside their web mail interface, so that you can upload files to your Dropbox account and share the links through email messages.

The internet is full of knowledge but unfortunately most of it is available in the text form. You have to read it all if you want to gain your knowledge. But reading so much is not so healthy for your eyes. You can relax your eyes and start listening to webpages instead of reading them by using the free SpeakIt extension for the Google Chrome web browser. This extension converts text into speech and reads it out loud for your listening pleasure.

Facebook is infested with fake facebook accounts which people create to advertise their products, spam and spread phishing or malicious links. The security company Sophos reports new forms of scams found on Facebook almost everyday on their blog Naked Security. But how do we find if a facebook profile is fake or not? The freeware application FBChecker addresses this question and allows you to check if a Facebook user is bogus or real.

Norton Zone is a free cloud storage service from Symantec. It offers free 5GB data storage for anyone who creates a Norton Zone account. You can use it to share folders and files with friends or family. The Norton Zone client is available for Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone and iPad. Norton Zone synchronizes your cloud storage continuously across all the devices that you have connected with a Norton Zone account – making it perfect for project collaboration.

Facebook is the most popular social networking sites. Billions of people use it everyday to connect with each other through comments, pictures and videos. If you also love Facebook, then how about applying some custom themes to make it look pretty? The Facebook Themes Gallery extension for Google Chrome lets you apply themes to your Facebook page instantly. It has many pre-built themes ready for your use.

Life would be so much easier if we all have personal secretaries who would remind us about the forthcoming anniversaries, dates, meetings and so on. But since not everyone can afford a personal secretary, we have to get in the habit of reminding ourselves. And what can be much easier for reminding yourself than to set email reminders using FollowUpThen. It is a free online service using which you can set email and SMS reminders for any time in the future.

The auto-correction feature of software like Microsoft Word corrects all our typing mistakes automatically. But when it comes to typing in facebook, web mail services like Gmail or twitter, we make mistakes so often. But if you are a Chrome, Firefox or Safari user, then you can install the Grammarly Lite extension and have your typings checked for spelling as well as grammatical mistakes. Additionally, it offers definition lookups for all the words on any webpage.

Google offers so many free services but most of us just use very popular Google services like Google search, Gmail, Youtube etc., even though Google offers more than twenty different productive services. If you want to have all the Google services at hand and ready to be used, then you can make use of the Black Menu extension for Google Chrome. The Black Menu extension adds a menu in the Chrome browser giving quick and easy access to all of the Google services.