Facebook is one of the best ways to stay in touch with friends. If any of your friends have photos to share or any information it will be immediately published in your Facebook Wall.

But, some notifications are bit annoying, especially invitation to join certain cause or application invites.

If you are tired of receiving these invitation and want to stop / block receiving invites from friends, then follow this simple step.

Click on Application Icon at the left side of your homepage. At the end of the page, you will find an option ‘To Control how your friends see your activity‘.

If you are unable to find this option, first click on ‘View your Recent Activity‘. You will find ‘To Control how your friends see your activity‘, click on it.

Select ‘Edit Ignored Friends‘, under 4th option ‘Ignore Application Invites‘.

Just type the name of friends from whom you don’t want to receive any invitation.

This will keep your Facebook Homepage clean and free of any invitation.

WHOIS is widely used to obtain information on domain name or IP address. Traditionally, WHOIS query was run through command line interface.

With the advent of World Wide Web, many websites were available which provided detailed information on domain names or IP address.

WHOIS information of a domain includes Creation Date, Expiration Date, Domain ID, Registrant Name, Address, Contact Number etc.

Sometimes, this information is hidden in case of Privacy Protected Registrants.

Here is a tiny portable application that will display WHOIS information right from desktop. You need not open a browser and go to any website.

Just type the domain name in form box and press enter the entire WHOIS information will be displayed in the form window.

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You must be having a huge network of friends at Facebook. Anything Published by friends will be displayed in Facebook wall.

This notification will help us to reply immediately to any messages.

But, sometimes we will busy doing some other tasks. In such situation, it is tough to stay in touch with messages sent by Facebook Friends.

Here is a Facebook Notifier Chrome Extension, which will display a notification when you receive any update.

Once the extension is installed, a tiny Facebook icon will reside at the top right corner of Google Chrome.

When you receive any Friends Request or any message it will be immediately displayed within your Chrome Browser.

This tool is pretty much helpful when you tend to move away from Facebook homepage, busy doing any other tasks.

AllRecipes.com a website where you will find cooking tips and latest recipes has launched an iPhone app. The application is known as Dinner Spinner Pro and costs $2.99.

With this application users will get full access to recipe library, can add recipes to Personal Recipes box and create interactive Shopping list.

Last year AllRecipes had launched a similar iPhone app, which was free and downloaded 2.8 Million times.
This success made AllRecipes to launch Paid version of Dinner Spinner with additional features.

There are plans to launch Dinner Spinner Pro for iPad, which will make easier for iPad users to read Cooking Tips and Recipes right from their Kitchen.

Three Weeks ago, PayPal had blocked every personal payments taking place from and to Indian customers account. This caused a huge problem to online businessmen from Bloggers to Free Lancers.

Many were upset because PayPal had taken such actions without informing Indian customers.

Later it was announced that Reserve Bank of India had ordered PayPal to block all the transactions, as they did not comply with relevant regulatory requirements.

After certain changes, PayPal has been allowed to resume its Bank Withdrawal Services in India. Anymore, when any amount is withdrawn, Indian Customers will have to fill a new ‘Export Code’.

If you like any article and want to save it in PDF format, then here is a handy tool that will convert webpage into PDF right from the browser.

Web2PDF converter is a simple bookmarklet that will convert WebPages into PDF in a single click. All you have to do is drag and drop ‘Save Pages as PDF’ bookmarklet to your browser toolbar.

When you want to convert and save any webpage into PDF format, just click on the ‘Save Pages as PDF’ button.

Within a second the entire webpage will be converted into PDF and can be saved in desktop.

Websites which start with HTTPS URL and pages within email accounts like Yahoo mail, Gmail etc. which require login in order to access the webpage cannot be converted into PDF.

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Yahoo has decided to fully index Real-Time Twitter Contents into Yahoo search, News, Sports and Entertainment.

In case you are in search of latest tweets related to Olympics, then type ‘Olympics Twitter’ word in Yahoo Search. This will display list of Twitter Links or Tweets related to Olympics.

Very soon Yahoo users will be able to read Twitter feeds directly from Yahoo mail or Yahoo Homepage.

The word ‘Spam’ reminds us of a special folder in our Mailbox. It will be full of mails with subject line ‘Nigerian Million Dollar Lottery’, ‘Claim Million Dollar Property’ etc. Spam mails are usually sent with an intention of gaining financial information of an individual.

Most of the spam mails are sent via Botnet, a network of compromised computers controlled by Bot Masters.

Initially, Bot Master will scan for security flaw in user’s computer, install malicious software’s and then use it to spread more malicious contents or send spam mails.

Microsoft has decided to put an end to Botnet’s that spread Virus, Trojan and Worms, with its “Operation b49” specially intended to destroy Waledac Botnet.

Nearly 277 Internet domains are associated with Waledac Botnet and 651 million spam emails were directed to Hotmail accounts.

U.S. District Court has decided to cut off these domains and you can expect huge reductions in spam mails residing in your Mailbox.

When it comes to saving bookmarks online, delicious.com is most preferred. Delicious is one of the oldest online bookmark services available today.

I’m using delicious since 2006 and my account is full of many useful websites. I have even transferred my delicious bookmarks to Firefox browser, which makes it easier to access my bookmarks.

If you want to transfer or export delicious bookmarks to Firefox or Internet Explorer, just have a look at my article on How to import and export delicious bookmarks.

And Safari users, here is a good news. You can easily import Delicious bookmarks to your Mac OS Safari Browser with a simple tool known as delicious2safari.

delicious2safari is a fast, small cocoa application that lets you organize bookmarks into Folder or a Flat List. All your delicious bookmarks will be neatly saved in Safari Bookmarks Bar or Bookmarks Menu. It also uses Mac OS X Keychain for password storage.

System Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) or later

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iphone created a huge buzz when it was first released in u.s market. With special features like Multi-Touch and High Speed 3G network, iphone was a huge hit in u.s.

But, iphone did work well in Indian Market mainly because of its cost. In India the discussion was about price and not about extraordinary features in iphone.

Anyways, here is a good news to those who have managed to buy an iPhone. Get a rich look to your iphone with these stylish themes and wallpapers available for free at Thememyphone.

There are many different themes to choose from like iNav Beta 1.0 iPhone Theme, wooden theme, Android iphone Theme and many more.

Download theme of your choice and give a fresh look to your iphone.

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Today, YouTube will be celebrating its 5th Birthday. Ever since its launch on February 14th year 2005 by 3 Pay Pal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, YouTube has gained a huge success.

Within a year of launch YouTube was purchased by Google Inc for $1.65 billion. Today, YouTube is ranked as the 4th most popular website with billion views per day.

YouTube has added more features that keeps it apart from other Video Streaming websites like adding annotation, High Definition Video, Support for HTML 5, 3D videos and Live streaming of Concerts.

Easy Video Splitter is a free software that will cut single video into many clips. In case you have a video file and want to save only a part of this video up to certain duration, then Easy Video Splitter would be a good choice.

Just add the source video and manually set start and endpoint of the video to be split. The inbuilt video player will help you set the exact position.

This task can also be done automatically by selecting another option known as ‘Split the source file automatically’.

With this you can limit each clip on the basis of file size (300 Bytes), seconds or simply split the video into 30 clips of equal duration.

Easy Video Splitter can only be used for 7 days; you need to register to continue using this software. Click on ‘About’ button, enter your email ID and paste the unique code available here.

The software is compatible with Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

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Nowadays, you will find many online image editing tools with unique features and effects. Mainly trying to replace the ultimate software available today Adobe Photoshop.

In the past we have covered an article on online image editing tool Dr.pic. Here, is another image editing tool known as Sketchpad

Sketchpad has a simple easy to use interface and bunch of unique features. At the left side of the browser, you will find different types of image editing tools like Spirograph, Add Text, Eraser, Color Picker etc similar to those found in ms-paint.

There are some special features like Swatch, Gradient, Pattern, color etc located at the top right corner. You can also add Butterfly stamp to the image.

To do this just click on ‘Stamp’ button located at the left side and select required pattern like Butterfly, Doodles, Leaf, Flowers etc. When you are done with selection click on any area within image, this will add Stamp of chosen pattern.

There are many different options which will help us add more designs and colors. Just visit the website and find tools of your choice.

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We have already covered an article on Ringtone website Tonzr. It has got a huge collection of Ringtones from Trance to Hip-Hop. But, some songs that are quite recent or unique may not be available at Tonzr.

One fine day, even I was in search of a ringtone from the latest movie, but was unable to find it.

Best part was I had that entire song saved in my desktop. So, what’s next?

I could have tried any free software to edit and cut the mp3 file. But, I will have to download the software and install it in my computer, just to create one ringtone.

Instead of this, I tried online mp3 editing website known as Mp3cut.net.

Mp3cut.net is a free online web tool that allows you to edit mp3 files. You don’t need to install anything on your Computer. Just upload mp3 file from your computer.

Select the interval, the Slider at the right side will set the starting point and the left slider will set the ending point.

Click on “Split and Download” button. Within few seconds mp3 file which you have cut will be ready for download.

The most popular Mobile Operating System Symbian is now free and Open Source. With these changes, cell phone manufacturers will not have to pay for the operating system used in mobile devices.

Symbian was recently purchased by Nokia and it had planned to set source code free under Symbian Foundation.

Today, they have finally released the source code. Companies like Samsung and Ericsson will start working on it to tweak and customize the o.s to better suit their mobile devices.

The most happening thing in today’s Mobile Market is the Operating System being installed in cell phones. Currently, Symbian has a huge share in the mobile o.s market, with Microsoft windows o.s widely used in PDA Smartphone’s. On the other hand, Google’s Android operating system is gaining a huge popularity and support from developers all over the world.

With the release of source code, Symbian Platform will have a huge community of developers working to make the operating system better and customized for different mobile devices.