Author: Richie S

Richie blogs on topics ranging from softwares, programming, web-design, start-ups and random thoughts! View his blog at techwithric.com. Follow him on twitter @techwithric

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Send Free Unlimited SMS to USA and Canada

by Richie S on July 20, 2009

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Send Free Unlimited SMS to USA and Canada

WorldTexting.com is a new site that claims to allow users to send free SMS’s worldwide. However this service works currently only in USA, Canada, Caribbean, Alaska, PR, Hawaii. They allow text messages of 130-160 character length without any ads , unlike traditional free SMS providers. They also provide a facility to send and receive the messages online, just like you would do on your mobile phone. There is no daily limit for sending messages, however you may send only 1 SMS at a time, no group messages.

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Twitter Users: IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On!

by Richie S on July 20, 2009

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Twitter Users: IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On!

IE6 was one of the worst editions of the Internet Browser series to be released by Microsoft in terms of compatibility, design and just plain, simple  surfing. A simple Google search would bring out thousands of results wherein people have …

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Top 4 Sites To Add Special Effects To Your Images

by Richie S on July 20, 2009

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Top 4 Sites To Add Special Effects To Your Images

‘A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words,’ so goes the famous saying. Images bring the creativity of its authors out in the open. Artists use many image editors, one famous example being Adobe Photoshop. But editing images and adding special effects to images is not that simple thing to do. So here are the top 4 sites to add effects to images and get stunning results.

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btaccel – The Fastest Way to Download Torrents

by Richie S on July 15, 2009

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btaccel – The Fastest Way to Download Torrents

Torrents. What was the first thing that came into your mind? Illegal? Warez? Axxo? The torrent system was meant to share large files without using up too much bandwidth. However downloading a torrent is not a piece of cake for the novice user. Seeds, peers, leechers all could be overwhelming. Enter btaccel – torrent downloading made easy and fast.

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Office 2010 – The Trailer

by Richie S on July 13, 2009

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Office 2010 – The Trailer

You haven’t read it wrong. The guys at Redmond have released a mind-blowing, special-effects filled video trailer of their newest Office offering, the Office 2010. The Microsoft officials have already confirmed that Office 2010 will be released by the first …

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God Save Adsense!

by Richie S on July 1, 2009

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Category: Google

God Save Adsense!

Google Adsense, as we know, is the pioneer of content-related advertising, using bloggers, small-time business or any website (that gets approved!) as advertising estate. Their revenue system helps many people get online and earn a little dough (or for some …

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In case of fire, DO NOT use Twitter!

by Richie S on June 24, 2009

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In case of fire, DO NOT use Twitter!

With the popularity of Twitter increasing by the day, there seems to be no limit to which people would stop to tweet an update. There was furious updating during the Mumbai 26/11 blasts, during the California earthquake (where the tweets came in earlier than CNN!) and many such related times. And so, in most cases, people now seem to rely on Twitter to call in time of emergency.

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How to save Bing’s Background Image

by Richie S on June 21, 2009

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How to save Bing’s Background Image

Bing, as we know, is slowly increasing their user base. Whether the reason is its novelty or usefulness is a different debate altogether. But one of the interesting features in Bing is the background image that appears on the main page. It gets changed daily, and contains information about the place in the image too. But there isn’t any way to download the image to our computer directly.

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Blogger Dashboard Begins to Show Adsense Ads

by Richie S on June 21, 2009

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Blogger Dashboard Begins to Show Adsense Ads

Blogger, the free blogging service from Google, has begun to show adsense based ads, in place of Blogger internal ads (look at the screenshot for details) at the ‘Your blog post published successfully!’ page. The adsense ads aren’t implemented on a permanent basis for now, hence you may not see the ads still.

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