A temporary email address could come handy in situations where you don’t want to share your primary email address because of the risk of spam. Now there are quite a few services on the web, Mailinator and 10MinuteMail for example, that have long offered temporary email addresses for free but with certain limitations. For example, these services provide receive-only inboxes so you can’t send email to someone using your temporary address. … [Read more...]

Millions of Indians woke up to a pleasant surprise this morning. The Times of India, which has the largest number of print subscribers among all English newspapers in the world, carried a full page cartoon on their front page illustrating “a day in the life of India.” If you aren’t a Times subscriber or haven’t see this cartoon yet, here’s a PDF version. This is part of a campaign for day.in, IndiaTimes’ latest project where people of … [Read more...]

OpenDNS, one of the most popular DNS services on the Internet, is frequently used by parents and organizations to block websites that they think are inappropriate for children or may hamper productivity at the workplace. OpenDNS, which claims to handle DNS requests for 1% of Internet users worldwide, has released a report detailing a list of top 10 websites that are most frequently blocked by home users and business users. The list includes … [Read more...]

Google Cloud Print is an interesting web service that brings wireless printing (well, sort of) to your home without any complicated set-up or hardware upgrades. Once Cloud Print is enabled, you’ll be able to send documents and emails to your local printer for printing from anywhere over the Internet. Google Cloud Print currently supports printing only through iPhones and Android mobile phones but if you find that limiting, here’s a new Chrome … [Read more...]

GoDaddy is a web hosting company and the world’s largest registrar of web domain names but they are also popular on the Internet for something more – their TV ads that often air during the Super Bowl. BigRock, which is an India based domain name registrar and operates an almost similar business as GoDaddy, is also trying their luck with TV commercials. Their ads are mostly targeted at small business owners in India who are looking to have … [Read more...]

If you are curious to know what apps have I installed on my iPad, check these interactive screenshots for a complete list - Screen 1, Screen 2 and Screen 3.              You may hover your mouse over any of the app icons to read more about that app and why I have it on the iPad. If you come across a new app, just click the app’s icon to download it directly from the iTunes store. Some … [Read more...]

See how cell biology professor Dr Edward Johnson and Clayton Wright from the Eastern Virginia Medical School were able to grow a 'living' Google logo in their microbiology lab as part of the Demo Slam competition.       This article, titled Professor Creates a ‘Living’ Google Logo, was originally published at Digital Inspiration under Google, Internet. … [Read more...]

If you are based in India and have been using the PayPal service to receive payment from foreign clients and advertisers, here’s some disheartening news for you. Starting March 1st, you’ll not be allowed to receive payments that exceed $500 per transaction. Also, you won’t be able to keep any money in your online PayPal account – all money received into PayPal must be transferred to your Indian bank account within 7 days. There’s … [Read more...]

Notice some suspicious activity on your wall? Well there some simple security settings built into Facebook – some of these settings are new while others have been around for some time – that should help you quickly detect if any other person is secretly logging into and using your Facebook account. Go to Facebook.com -> Account -> Account Settings -> Account Security. Here you’ll see a list of all computers and mobile devices … [Read more...]

What is that name of that one company that Google fears hates the most? No Google executive would be willing to answer that question but you can get a quick hint from an easter egg that’s hidden somewhere inside Google Translate. Go to Google Translate, put the phrase “WE REALLY HATE THIS COMPANY” in the translate box, set the translation language pair as English to Japanese and click Translate. The answer may surprise you  - … [Read more...]