Sunday, March 15, 2009

Tipping for content

Have you felt that for content you post on the internet, one should be compensated? If yes, there is a elegant solution called tipjoy. tipjoy provides a easier one-click mechanism to tip the author of a content you like. You can tip as low as 10 cents to show your appreciation for the content. You can use tipjoy for getting tips for your blogs, photos etc. The procedure to add tipjoy to your content is fairly simple. You just need to add the URL with your username. For eg: my tipjoy URL is tip me. If you like some of my pictures, you can tip me here.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

StackOverFlow.com

A combination of blog, forum, wiki and digg, StackOverFlow provides a collaborative environment for posting and following programming questions. Its a great environment to further purify your programming acumen. I posted my first question here.

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Drowning in your inbox

Are you drowning in email? If yes, there is hope. Email has been one of the killer applications of the internet. The number of emails and number of people you interact with over email just keeps increasing day by day. I think there is a email-threshold beyond which it is not possible for people to effectively use email. It happens to me regularly these days and sometimes I am drowned in my inbox! Outlook and Gmail are the two applications I use for work and personal use respectively. Gmail is a great tool but still lacks some of the features one is used to in Outlook, one of which is the creation of work flows. I use Outlook for work email and use all its possible features to effectively manage my inbox. The tool still lacks the ability for users to effectively take control of your inbox. Instead of using the tool to manage my inbox, I was managing the tool. All that changed after I came across XOBNI (INBOX spelled in reverse). XOBNI is a free plugin available for Outlook which provides with a much faster search for emails than Outlook. More importantly it provides a sophisticated analytic features to rank people, provide links to conversations, email files exchanged etc all in a simple interface with a much speedier search database generation than Outlook. Its a great complement to the features available in Outlook and would highly recommend it. I am looking forward to a paid service which will provide more sophisticated analytics for email. XOBNI is a great tool and I am truly impressed by its simplicity to provide much required and readily available information regarding your email. Congratulations to the team at XOBNI for creating a truly awesome tool.