Little-known Web sites

In addition to the popular Web sites that everybody knows about, there are large numbers of useful sites that are relatively unknown. The Web is so vast and contains so much information that it is inevitable that much that is valuable gets overlooked. PC Magazine’s Top 99 Undiscovered Web Sites is one place to find [...]

Linux: How to disable the IPv6 protocol

Sometime you just need to disable IPv6 protocol. In some case, you do not need it at all or it may increase browsing speed.
Linux has Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) enabled by default, almost all distro enable it.
Open your modprob.conf file (Red Hat and friends) and add following line:
# vi /etc/modprobe.conf
Add following line:
alias net-pf-10 off
Save [...]

How to find out which network service are NOT linked against libwrap.s / tcpd (TCPWrapper)

tcpd is use as a access control facility for internet services. It can be set up to monitor incoming requests for telnet, sshd, finger, ftp, exec, rsh, rlogin, tftp, talk, comsat and other services that have a one-to-one mapping onto executable files.
These days almost all leading Linux distros network services are linked against [...]

Yahoo Messenger has free conference calls

Yahoo launched a new service for their Yahoo Messenger with Voice application on Monday that will allow for free group conference calling. The new service is called ConFreeCall, and is available for download on PC though the Yahoo Messenger plug-in gallery. This new service extends the text, voice, and photo sharing service that Yahoo currently [...]

Foxit Reader 2.0 Released – Lite, Fast and Clean PDF Reader Software

Foxit reader 2.0 has come out from beta version and the new Foxit reader 2.0 introduces a lot of exciting features compare previous FoxIT reader.
On version 2.0, FOXIT having an amazing aspect compare other PDF application like file size of the application around 1.7MB only which is a fraction of Acrobat Reader 20 [...]

Secure your Wi-Fi traffic using FOSS utilities

A recent Slashdot item on Wi-Fi security was a timely reminder of the weaknesses of default Wi-Fi encryption protocols, and the dangers of using unencrypted, public Wi-Fi connections. Fortunately, you can use FOSS utilities to securely tunnel your Wi-Fi connection sessions and protect your Web and email traffic.
To facilitate encrypting your Wi-Fi traffic, first set [...]

Best Open Source CMS Final Five Announced!

 

After six weeks and registering almost twelve thousand nominations, the Open Source CMS Award finalists have been revealed. The following final five received the most public nominations during the course of the six weeks and are listed in alphabetical order:

Drupal
e107
Joomla
Plone
Xoops

Congratulations to these finalists and thank you to everyone who nominated. The [...]

Free hosting for Wikis

Wikidot is providing free webhosting to wiki sites and social networks using an AJAX interface. Wikidot launched in August when the developers were looking for a free wiki to host a software project.
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Free hosting for Wikis
Originally from Download Squad by Chris Gilmer

Free Online Security Scan Websites

Many sites offer to scan your computer for viruses online which should be seen as a last resort because this method has advantages but also disadvantages. If you scan your system online you can be sure that the latest virus definitions are used while scanning your system and that the script that is running was [...]

Free online ringtone convertor for any mobile phone (Nokia/Motorola)

Convert Ringtones is a free website that offers to upload your songs/existing ringtone and convert them to a format that your mobile device supports. Currently the system supports 20 ringtone formats (wav, mid, mmf, mp2, amr, etc) and 1900 mobile phones (like Nokia, Motorola, Windows Mobile, Qualcomm, etc).
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Free online ringtone convertor [...]

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