Wanna know whether you are an internet addict or not? Take up the Internet Addiction Test created by the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery and you will know for yourself!
If you are interested in Internet Addiction and want to know more, read this study report.
To take the test, click here.
I'm sure most of us have probably had one or two emails from close friends and from not so close friends trying to get us to join AGLOCO by now. If you haven’t, then AGLOCO is a new service that will be finally launching this week that allows advertisers to reach you directly while you surf and search the internet, by adding a small toolbar called the Viewbar at the bottom of your browser.
The incentive for users to join is that they not only get paid for their own surfing and searching, but also for any of their friends that they refer. Though I'm not sure about the whole thing, I’m prepared to at least give it a go.
To join Agloco, click here.
Fire Tune is an awesome tool created by Totalidea Software with a very simple interface and does a very good job of tweaking Firefox according to the users' preferences. A snapshot of the interface is shown below.
The tool is less than a mb in size and doesn't take more than 2 min to setup. You can download it from here.
Apart from Fire Tune, they also have tweaks for Windows XP/Vista and Outlook 2002/2003/2007. Check out the all their products here.
And for all those who haven't used Firefox, you can download it from here.
Orbitfiles helps you backup 6 gigs of your files online for free and share them with your friends.
They have 2 plans - a free one and a paid one (obviously!). You can sign up for free here. However, with the free account, the maximum file size that can be uploaded is 100 mb. They also give an option of a paid account which offers 70 GB at $20 per year.
And what's more, you can earn money thru Orbitfiles too. You can invite all your friends to join Orbitfiles and earn cash! You will get $0.10 for every referred user who confirms his account. I know it is not a lot, but then, something is better than nothing!
Verisign, the domain name registry that controls the .com domain (as well as .net and others), just notified its registrars (the companies that actually sell domain names to end users) that the wholesale price of .com domains will be raised 7%, from $6/year to $6.42/year.
This means registrars, particularly discount registrars like GoDaddy with little margin to play with, to raise their prices by roughly the same amount.
And with roughly 65 million .com domain names registered worldwide, Verisign just added $27 million dollars per year to their bottom line. ;)
Here is another iPhone killer, only the difference is, it is designed by a 15 year old Korean high-school student studying in Canada. Check it out here. It's nicknamed butterfly and its for all those slide phone lovers!
Out of the mouths of children…!
1. A nursery school pupil told his teacher he’d found a cat, but it was dead.
“How do you know that the cat was dead?” she asked her pupil.
“Because I pissed in its ear and it didn’t move,” answered the child innocently.
“You did WHAT?” the teacher exclaimed in surprise.
“You know,” explained the boy, “I leaned over and went ‘Pssst’ and it didn’t move”
2. A small boy is sent to bed by his father. Five minutes later…..”Da-ad….”
“What?”
“I’m thirsty. Can you bring a drink of water?”
“No, You had your chance. Lights out.”
Five minutes later: “Da-aaaad…..”
“WHAT?”
“I’m THIRSTY. Can I have a drink of water??”
I told you NO! If you ask again, I’ll have to smack you!!”
Five minutes later……”Daaaa-aaaad…..”
“WHAT!”
“When you come in to smack me, can you bring a drink of water?”
3. An exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief, finally asked him “How do you expect to get into Heaven?”
The boy thought it over and said, “Well, I’ll run in and out and in and out and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, ‘For Heaven’s sake, Dylan, come in or stay out!’”
4. One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her son into bed.
She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in his voice, “Mummy,will you sleep with me tonight?”
The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. “I can’t dear,” she said. “I have to sleep in Daddy’s room.”
A long silence was broken at last by his shaky little voice: “The big sissy.”
5. It was that time, during the Sunday morning service, for the children’s sermon.
All the children were invited to come forward. One little girl was wearing a particularly pretty dress and,as she sat down, the minister leaned over and said, “That is a very pretty dress. Is it your Easter Dress?”
The little girl replied, directly into the minister’s clip-on microphone, “Yes, and my Mum says it’s a bitch to iron.”
6. When I was six months pregnant with my third child, my three year old came into the room when I was just getting ready to get into the shower.
She said, “Mummy, you are getting fat!”
I replied, “Yes, honey, remember Mummy has a baby growing in her tummy.”
“I know,” she replied, but what’s growing in your bum?”
7. A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself,
“Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven.
Three plus six, that son of a bitch is nine….”
His mother heard what he was saying and gasped, “What are you doing?”
The little boy answered, “I’m doing my math homework, Mum.”
“And this is how your teacher taught you to do it?” the mother asked
“Yes,” he answered.
Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, “What are you teaching my son in math?”
The teacher replied, “Right now, we are learning addition.”
The mother asked, “And are you teachingthem to say two plus two, that son of a bitch is four?”
After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered,
“What I taught them was, two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four.”
8. One day the first grade teacher was reading the story of Chicken Little to her class.
She came to the part of the story where Chicken Little tried to warn the farmer. She read, “…. and so Chicken
Little went up to the farmer and said, “The sky is falling, the sky is falling!”
The teacher paused then asked the class, “And what do you think that farmer said?”
One little girl raised her hand and said, “I think he said: ‘Holy Shit! A talking chicken!’”
The teacher was unable to teach for the next 10 minutes.
9. A certain little girl, when asked her name, would reply,
“I’m Mr. Sugarbrown’s daughter.”
Her mother told her this was wrong, she must say, “I’m Jane Sugarbrown.”
The Vicar spoke to her in Sunday School, and said, “Aren’t you Mr.
Sugarbrown’s daughter?”
She replied, “I thought I was, butmother says I’m not.”
10. A little girl asked her mother, “Can I go outside and play with the boys?”
Her mother replied, “No, you can’t play with the boys, they’re too rough.”
The little girl thought about it for a few moments and asked, If I can find a smooth one, can I play with him?”
11. A little girl goes to the barber shop with her father.
She stands next to the barber chair, while her dad gets his hair cut, eating a snack cake The barber says to her, “Sweetheart, you’re gonna get hair on your muffin.”
She says, “Yes, I know, and I’m gonna get boobs too.”
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation may soon allow domestic airlines to permit passengers to use mobile phones and access mail on PDAs while air-borne. In India, Kingfisher Airlines could be the first airline to implement it. The airline has sought government permission and has started talks with German telephone equipment company OnAir to install technology allowing passengers to use GSM mobile phones while in the air. Under this new technology, GSM phone signals will be transferred from the cabin through a satellite to a GSM network on earth and connect the in-flight caller to the receiver of the call. Source: Business Standard
Rahul Dravid and Mahendra Singh Dhoni have got the axe from their sponsors Sansui and Videocon respectively. Financial Express has quoted Sansui marketing director Anil Khera saying "We have lost Rs 6 crore on our Rahul Dravid ad campaign”. Videocon has spent Rs 15 crore on its ad campaigns on the World Cup. Just before the World Cup, Sachin had lost the lucrative Airtel contract. I have a strange feeling Reebok is next in line!
