The security of online passwords is usually a subject of constant concern for many web users. If you use the same password for all your online activities, you are taking a huge risk. If any of the sites' security gets breached and your one and only password becomes exposed, you are in serious trouble. If you create new passwords for everything you do online and do not have a password manager, you also stand ...

The web is changing dramatically, and web surfers' habits are evolving extremely rapidly. It is no longer impressive to simply research and churn out written information. Web users are experiencing diminishing attention span. As a result, they are getting more attracted to infographics – information that can be scanned quickly and remembered easily. Infographics are clearly displayed visual or graphic representation of straight-forward and interesting data. They tend to draw surfers ...

Have you ever wanted to share information in a file in a read-only format? If you are a Dropbox user, there is an easy way to do just that. Using Pancake.io, you can share a text file as a web page. There are occasions when you need to share a file or a list of files. The problem is, there are so many services out there, it’s hard to know ...

There have been frequent efforts in the past, sometimes by pretty major organisations such as Google, to bring social annotation to the Internet (Remember Google's SideWiki?). They've often failed, never really living up to the promise for one reason or another. But Hypothes.is aims to be a little different in its approach to this sort of software, allowing users to do all sorts of weird and wonderful things which we'll cover in detail later on, making the web a more open, connected, and less biased platform. For now lets look ...

How may web-based applications have you tried once and not used again? Did you delete the account or is it just sitting out there taking up space, keeping a record of your personal details? We have heard about how personal information of thousands of people was compromised when the Gawker Network was hacked and not to forget the much publicized Playstation ...

Have you ever wanted to paint a beautiful picture and realize you have no painting skills what so ever? If you are equally untalented at Photoshop, you will want to check out Psykopaint. The flash-based image editor easily turns your pictures into a Van Gough style painting. With no skill or learning required, you can transform any photo you upload into a work of art. Even if you are as poor a photographer as you are a ...

Several months after acquiring then social bookmarking site Delicious from Yahoo, AVOS has finally launched the new Delicious site. Subsequently, the site was put back in beta. According to the announcement, this was done to open the site for improvements as well as solicit feedback from the users. The feedback was then to be incorporated to improve the new Delicious. So, what has changed? Which features were removed and what has been retained? Let's take a closer look at the new Delicious to find out ...

Google's music service in the cloud has been in beta for a couple of months now. I'm not really sure what's taking Google this long to release the service for public consumption. It seems pretty stable and as far as current features are concerned, I don't think there's anything left to do to enhance it some more. It's also possible, Google is waiting for Apple to launch its iCloud service first, to ...

Have you ever needed a new app, but didn’t know which one to choose among the hundreds of options? Or maybe you’ve wanted to find a cool new app to try, but didn’t know where to start? Well, Chomp can help you with both of these issues and more. Chomp is a very smart app recommendation engine for the iPhone and Android platforms. As stated on the website, “Chomp’s proprietary algorithms learns the functions and topics of app, so you ...

Apple has revolutionized the portable music industry with the iPod, changed the face of the music industry with the iTunes store, and upended the mobile industry with the iPhone and iPad. As applications and services move from the desktop to the Web, companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are in stiff competition to create innovative web-based applications and storage solutions. Apple recently announced their iCloud service, which will disrupt ...