Adobe ConnectNow - High Impact Web Conferencing

Adobe Connect Now - A wonderful tool for web conferencing. Formerly code named as Macromedia Breeze, it truly stands out in the list of web conferencing tools already available like the Microsoft Live meeting, and Cisco WebEx. It needs adobe flash 10 to run, which is available free on the internet.

All you have to do is to sign up for free, which allows a maximum of 3 participants for the meeting. Once the signup is complete you will get a unique URL and you can mail the url to the participants to meet online. This URL is permanent so its always easy to know where to meet online. The screen sharing palette, Video conferencing palette, Chat palette all are neatly docked on the screen providing us with a simple and neat interface to conference.


For a larger meeting, say for 1500 people there s adobe acrobat connect pro. There are annual subscription fee, and monthly and pay-per-use.

Tired of Convertors - Try Zamzar

Zamzar, is a free online file conversion utility. It supports conversion of upto 80 file formats. 

Zamzar supports document, Image, Video, Music and Compressed formats. All you have to do is upload your file, select the file format to be converted to and then enter ur email address to which the download URL will be sent to. Once you signup for Zamzar, u get a inbox to maintain the list of files converted. 

You get to upload files of size upto 1 GB and less waiting time !!

There s also a web toolbar button that we can add to our browser bookmark toolbar. In case if the file format you are looking for is not in the list, u can mail them and they are quick in adding the format to the list. 

WikiTrash - A list of Unusual Articles

WikiTrash - This page in Wikipedia contains a list of a bit unusual articles. Wikipedia states that the page contains “unusual articles” - are articles that you wouldn’t normally find in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Probably you could spend a lazy afternoon going through the articles and editing the pages. The contents are categorized into Military, Relegion, Language, Sports, Science, Food and drink etc.

Few interesting articles from the trash PigWar, Extraterrestrial Real Estate, Vril, Guilty not proven, Longest English word etc.

SmsLife.in - Send Free SMS throughout India

SMSLIFE, allows you to send 100 free sms on a day to any mobile users all over India. You have a phonebook to maintain your contacts, and also the you have an option to manage reminders, birthdays, anniversary etc. 

The only drawback is that u cant send lengthy forwards to you loved ones as they restrict the number of characters per sms to 80. But anyways for people who are in abroad and who cant afford to send an international sms, smslife.in is a superb option..

PipeBytes - A new way to send large files to your friend

PipeBytes a free online service to transfer any file size only to your buddy. Even though there are many sites like mailbigfile or yousendit which emails large files to the recipient, but this PipeBytes is special. No software to install. Only web browser is needed. Send files on any size. 

Sender logs in to PipeBytes gets a code selects the file to upload. It gives a key and a link. Pass on the key to your buddy and he can log into PipeBytes and click “Pick File”, Enter the key. So your buddy could start downloading file as you upload it, which lacks in many of the already existing file server. PipeBytes widgets are also available, so now you can add this functionality to your website