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Most of us do have to either send or receive faxes at one or the other time. During such moments, either we look up to the Fax machine located centrally somewhere in our office or go to the nearest center which provides fax services.

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In this post, i shall describe some free services using which you can send and receive your faxes over the Internet for Free. However, this post shall be of interest mostly to readers outside India and primarily from US / Canada.

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The below embedded slow motion video from Youtube shows a bullet hitting various objects and the after effects captured in multiple frames played in slow motion. Have a look.

Lets keep the GUNS off the Streets and make peace. Live life to the full.

Also read: How Google Search Really Works

Recently, At JavaOne 2008, LinkedIn employees presented two sessions about the LinkedIn architecture. Find below the embedded slides which talk about the architecture of LinkedIn as discussed during the JavaOne event.

LinkedIn Communication Architecture

LinkedIn - A Professional Social Network Built with Java™ Technologies and Agile Practices

Visit my LinkedIn Profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/vaibhavpandey

Also read: LinkedIn is now available on Mobile

I usually get this question about the varying Broadband speed from many of my readers. The usual question goes like this

I am on a 512 kbps unlimited plan but still my download speed is not more than 64kbps . Do you have any clues. Is my ISP cheating? Where can i measure my actual broadband speed?

So here you go, The first thing to remember is that most of the ISP’s sell the speed as upto speed and not a guaranteed speed. Also, upto speed usually is not the speed we get most of the times. In such scenarios if you really wish to test your current internet speed, Speedtest.net is for you.

Earlier i wrote about a simple Google trick which can let you get Serials and product keys of the various softwares. Today, lets see a website which can also help you get the same.

YouSerials is one such website using which you can gain access to the repository of 54000+ serials of various softwares. The website also has some interesting features like Recently Added, Top Serials and Just Added.

To search serials for your favorite software, follow the steps below

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Mozzila released the final version of Firefox 3.0 today and you can download it at Mozilla.com.

Available today in approximately 50 languages, Firefox 3 is two to three times faster than its predecessor and offers more than 15,000 improvements, including the revolutionary smart location bar, malware protection, and extensive under the hood work to improve the speed and performance of the browser.

Google is developing a tool to detect whether your ISP is throttling your bandwidth, according to web site HotHardware. Can't wait for Google's tool? Check out previously mentioned BitTorrent...

The Atlantic Monthly's Nicholas Carr is worried that his increasing reliance on the internet for research and other information has made him stupid:...what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away...

"La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net) has seen the draft "Trust Online” Charter (FR) that the Ministry of the Interior is asking ISPs to sign by June 10th. The text confirms La Quadrature’s worst fears. Under the pretext of protecting users, the French government is attempting to put in place an all-encompassing Internet monitoring and filtering system.

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I earlier wrote about OpenDns and how it can help you stay ahead while making a dns query. But interestingly, i met someone recently who quite didn’t understand the whole DNS and the resolution thing, for him and for all those of you who might be interested, this is the post.

Have you ever thought about how the website address you type in the browser address bar gets resolved to the IP address. This post describes the way Domain Name Servers resolve the web address to IP Address.

When you enter the address of a website into your web browser, the browser tries to identify the IP address of the server hosting this website. Follow the steps below to identify what happens behind the scenes.

1.) The user enters the web address for Technofriends (www.technofriends.in) ( URL –> Universal resource locater) in the browser’s address bar.

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Often while surfing the web for some particular content, we land up at websites which require us to register in order to view the requested content. This post will help you get a handle to an interesting service which helps you get rid of this problem.

BugMeNot.com was created as a mechanism to quickly bypass the login of web sites that require compulsory registration and/or the collection of personal/demographic information (such as the New York Times). BugMeNot.com has a repository of login information for 194153 websites.

In order to access webcontent without registering with the website follow the steps below

1.) Point the URL of your browser to www.bugmenot.com

TVChannelsFree brings many of your favorite TV Channels live and free to you over the internet. The website allows you to sort your channels based on your country/ category and most viewed channels. To view your favorite channel ensure that you have a compatible player. List of compatible players can be found here

Google has launched Google Health for public. Google Health is a completely free application by Google which can be used to collect, store, manage, and share your medical records and health infomation.

Here’s what you can do with Google Health:

• Build online health profiles
• Download medical records from doctors and pharmacies
• Learn about health issues and find helpful resources
• Connect to online tools and services
• Search for doctors and hospitals

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Often we wish to use some of the images, cursors or the AVI movies from an installed application. But as these applications happen to be .exe or .dll or .ocx files, we end up nowhere. This post will guide you to an interesting utility called ResourcesExtract.

ResourcesExtract is a small utility that scans dll/ocx/exe files and extract all resources (bitmaps, icons, cursors, AVI movies, HTML files, and more…) stored in them into the folder that you specify.You can use ResourcesExtract in user interface mode, or alternatively, you can run ResourcesExtract in command-line mode without displaying any user interface. ResourcesExtract doesn’t require any installation process or additional DLL files. In order to start using it, simply run the executable file.

Follow the step by step process below to extract images and other resources from any application