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Creating a Poll on your website, blog or in web application is not that hard. Blogger’s and webmasters can use the free service of PollDaddy for creating polls and surveys.PollDaddy gives you simple and flexible polls. Blogger’s can fully customize Polldaddy polls like you can change the skin, layout,css styles to meet your blog or website requirement.PollDaddy has different options to choose a new blogger like me go for the free option of PollDady bloggers have some more requirements can go for paid subscription.

There are lot options available while creating the polls.

• A selection of skins to choose from or create your own in CSS.
• Advanced online reporting in real time of your data as it is collected.
• Deliver your surveys by direct link or website popup.
• Insert HTML directly allowing you to add pictures, video and more.
• Full foreign language support.
• question types to choose from with multiple options for each.
• Export your data as XML, CSV and subscribe to your results via RSS.
• Close surveys after a certain date or quota has been reached, and create custom start and finish pages for your survey.
• Create multi question, multi page surveys with ease using our new advanced survey editor.

• Polldaddy free poll account has some limitations

• Vote analysis is not available
• Only 10 questions per survey
• PollDaddy gives you customer support through email only.
• A Link back to PollDaddy

  Visit PollDaddy

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While surfing over the Internet we find many useful websites and we add those websites to our Favorite, but we can’t carry these favorite websites to always with us. For this problem there is very easy and simple solution use only2clicks. only2clicks gives you an interface to organize your favorite website in tabs like news, technology, science and what ever you what. Favorite websites are displayed in thumbnails. Each website is open in a new windows or in new tab when you click on the website. only2clicks is just like your home page that has the link of all websites that you surf over the Internet.

only2clicks features

• Create personalized links to most used web sites
• Automatic Snapshot
• Manage your Categories (Tab)
• Set as your start page
• Drag and drop as you wish
• Special Search Icons
• Bookmarklet
• Import Bookmark
• Export Bookmark
• iPhone and iPod interface

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We all have heard about Google docs,Microsoft Office Live Workspace and Zoho for creating, managing and sharing presentation. SlideRocket is a new website that also allow users to create, mange and share presentations.SlideRocket is feature rich, easy to use and complete presentation web based application.SlideRocket is also unique in that it includes a community marketplace where content and services can be shared and transacted.Some of SlideRocket business level features include collaboration, robust security, dynamic data binding and business integration with applications like Salesforce.com.

SlideRocket gives you a lot of features for creating online presentations these includes import presentations from Microsoft Office Power Point,Themes, Transitions & Builds, Effects, Rich Media, Charting, Plug-In Architecture and Team Build.

For managing presentations SlideRocket provides search, tag your documents, version control and library for all these tasks. Users can easily publish their presentations with a unique url, use presentations in web meetings, Embed, print, share on SlideRocket community. SlideRocket presentations can be shared on any operating system including Microsoft Windows, Linux,Apple Mac or any browser.

Finally you can analyze you presentation. A off line line software is also available that help you in Synchronizing your presentations for offline presenting.

SlideRocket Tour

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Many people over the internet use the Google docs for creating, sharing and celebrating with each other and most important thing is that Google keeps improving its online Document and spreadsheet suit. Google added some new features in their online office suite. You can find more on each feature by clicking the link on top of Google docs New Features

• Colored Folder: Google docs now support the color folders. Color folder help organizing your files and directories more effectively and reduce searching time that you spent for finding directories and files.

• New Toolbar and Menu: Google has improved the toolbar available when you are editing the documents with Google docs. Google has included frequently used buttons like “save” and “Save and close” into the Document editing toolbar.
  

• Support For 8 new languages: now Google docs support eight indic languages “Google Docs now supports US English, UK English, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. Hebrew and Arabic are also supported for documents and presentations, but not spreadsheets.” These new added languages also support the speel check feature.

• Improved Document ownership: Document owner help users to transfer the document and presentations ownership to other users

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We all have multiple Windows Live, Hotmail or Live email accounts. Using all those accounts we have to sign for each account. Now you can access all your Hotmail, Windows Live and Live email accounts only single sign in but how?. Just follow these simple steps

• Login to your Windows Live Account
• Link Windows Live ID
• Enter the ID that you want to link
• Use all Windows Live ID by only single sign on

You can also use Gmail Manager to access multiple Gmail accounts at one place but it is a firefox Extension.

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While browsing the websites i have found some very reputed websites are infected with the IFrame Injection. IFrame is used by by blogger’s and website publishers to insert ad code into their website, but because it is possible to create an invisible iFrame window, the technology is often misused by hackers as a way to silently redirect victims to malicious Web sites.

If you have paternal control active in your firewall then you might get messages like this website has adult material. I have found some site infected with this attack

• Digital Inspiration : Blog of Mr Amit Agarwal.
• PC World
• Dot Net Nuke Website

To protect your self while browsing disable JavaScript  and ActiveX controls. you can find  more information for securing Web browser here….

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DNS stands for domain name server as its name suggest it translate domain name to IP address. Like when you type http://readerszone/ in your browser then this request first goes to your ISP and ISP’s DNS servers will resolve this domain name to IP address 64.22.101.212. This domain name resolution process only takes few hundred milliseconds. When your ISP’s DNS server fails you will not able to access web sites like Google, Yahoo, MSN and many other useful web sites and suddenly your all work will suspend. To solve this sort of problem you can OpenDNS and FastCache.

OpenDNS : OpenDNS runs a distributed network of DNS servers so using it is more reliable. It filters out bad addresses so phishes and spammers can’t direct you to their site. OpenDNS also detects typos in the URLs you enter so entering craigslist.og leads you to craigslist.org.
For more reading on OpenDNS

FastCache: A piece of software called FastCache takes care of the problem of speed. It stores the IP address that is returned by your DNS server so your computer doesn’t have to request it every time you want to go to a particular site, saving a few hundred milliseconds each time.

To set it up:

1. Once you install and start FastCache, you configure your computer to use it by going into Start->Control Panel->Network Connections.
2. Right click on the connection you’re using and go to Properties.
3. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties.
4. Choose "Use the Following DNS server addresses" and enter 127.0.0.1 as the primary.
5. Click OK and restart your computer.
6. To configure FastCache to use OpenDNS’s servers, enter these IP addresses into it:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

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Rapidshare is a great place to store file without worrying about the file size. If you have an account with the Rapidshare then you don’t have to worry about the upload and download on the Rapidshare but if you don’t have account on the Rapidshare then how can you download files from the Rapidshare. Rapidshre keep track of your system by your system’s IP Address.

1. Request a new IP Address from your Internet service provider server.

• Click Start
• Click run
• In the run box type cmd.exe and click OK
• When the command prompt opens type the following. ENTER after each new line.
                   ipconfig /flushdns
                   ipconfig /release
                   ipconfig /renew
                   exit
• Erase your cookies in whatever browser you are using.
• Try the Rapidshare download again.

If your system has a static IP address then this will not work for you. If these commands wok for you then you can save these commands in a batch file and execute whenever you want to get new IP address for your system

2. Using JavaScript : use this simple JavaScript for downloading files from the rapid share

• Short-Out the JavaScript:
• Goto the page you want to download
• Select FREE button
• In the address bar put the following: JavaScript:alert(c=0)
• Click OK
• Click OK to the pop-up box
• Enter the captcha
• Download Your File

use all above tips and enjoy download with RapidShare.

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Do you have problem reading English, German, French or any other local language. Don’t worry here is the solution for you.Windows Live Translator

70 percent of web pages are created in English language while creating web pages other then English language is very tough job. So for this a free service provided by Microsoft to translate your text and web pages to any language.

Windows Live Translator enable web developers to create web pages in any language. Windows Live Translator is free portal and web services that allow you translate pages in any language.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 1 is available for download. it’s a new version of Microsoft browser.This new version has some significant improvements as compare to previous version of the Internet Explorer.

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and layout
• Programming model performance.
• Reliability usability.
• Service integration.

There are a lot of new feature that has been added in Internet Explore 8.

Activities : Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any web page. Users typically copy and paste from one web page to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.

WebSlices : WebSlices is a new feature for web sites to connect to their users by subscribing to content directly within a web page. WebSlices behave just like feeds where clients can subscribe to get updates and notify the user of changes.

Favorites Bar: In Internet Explorer 7, the Links bar provided users with one-click access to their favorite sites. The Links bar has undergone a complete makeover for Internet Explorer 8. It has been renamed the Favorites bar to enable users to associate this bar as a place to put and easily access all their favorite web content such as links, feeds, WebSlices and even Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.

Automatic Crash Recovery:Automatic Crash Recovery (ACR) is a feature of Windows®Internet Explorer® 8 that can help to prevent the loss of work and productivity in the unlikely event of the browser crashing or hanging. The ACR feature takes advantage of the Loosely-Coupled Internet Explorer feature to provide new crash recovery capabilities, such as tab recovery, which will minimize interruptions to users’ browsing sessions.

Improved Phishing Filter:Internet Explorer 7 introduced the Phishing Filter, a feature which helps warn users when they visit a Phishing site. Phishing sites spoof a trusted legitimate site, with the goal of stealing the user’s personal or financial information. For Internet Explorer 8, we are building on the success of the Phishing Filter with a more comprehensive feature called the “Safety Filter.”

Internet Explorer 8 can be installed on Microsoft Windows Vista® Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista, Windows XP® Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2). Downloads are available from the following locations:

• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista x64 Edition and Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Window XP SP2
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Server 2003 SP2 x64 Edition and Windows XP SP2 Pro x64 Edition

All the information given above is taken from Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Web site.

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