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“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.

If you have a lot of web-based email accounts, checking all of them in certain time range will be tedious. In that situation, email notification softwares will work fine and eliminates the need to check for new mails in every account. Here, I review two of them, which are free.

ePrompter

ePrompter is a tiny program that lets you check the emails from 16 email accounts simultaneously. It also downloads the text part of your email if you set to do so. You can also send reply to them saving a copy on the server. You can delete the emails right from the ePrompter without going to the actual email account. It shows you the number of new messages received in every account by a “rotating tray icon” and also by playing sound.

When I was new to internet, if I find anything new or useful like software, icons, music files, or PDFs, I used to open one of email accounts and send it to another email ID and used as a storage medium. Floppies were there but they are limited to 1.4 MB. This was six years ago.

Now the things have changed and there are number of sites that offer free online storage where you can upload your files, arrange it in folders, create a link and share it with your friends. Find some of those, which are of worth to have and I will start with my favorite ones, Box and Esnips. There are lot of free services, but their restrictions make it useless.

I have come across lot of discussion forums and Yahoo! Answers asking how to download the Yahoo! mails into their favorite email client and there were answers saying that it is a paid service from Yahoo! called Yahoo! Mail Plus and subscribe to that service. Yahoo! Mail Plus is a paid service and costs $19.99/year when I am writing this article.

There are lot of companies, institutions, showrooms, and agencies that use Yahoo! Mail for their official correspondence. Even I see big billboards advertising some local companies with Yahoo! Mail ID as their contact email. I surprise to see that 1% of the cost of that advertisement gives them official domain and email address for a year. Lack of knowledge about web domains and emails and fear about maintenance might be causing this.

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.)”

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.

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.”

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 “*” (asterisk)as the value for that string.

Sometimes, I feel bored with browsing the same thing for everyday. Do you? Just browse the following sites and let me know if you feel the same still.

Google Earth
Google Earth is a powerful software, which combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.

Download Google Earth and try to point out your home, school, college, or your relatives’ houses. It will be very fun and you can watch how your city looks from a bird view. Download Google Earth here.

Hi:

This is NoVice. I am a medical transcriptionist working from home. I had done a variety of jobs and finally settled with medical transcription that lets me to do my job from home and spend the whole free time to concentrate and developing my blogs and learning web designing.

I am a commerce postgraduate, though I am very much interested in information technology and I am going to write articles on effective usage of this technology, how to use internet very effectively to fulfill our needs. I hope you enjoy it. Besides that, I will write articles on health-related things, as I am a medical transcriptionist by profession and I really enjoy doing my work.