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Introducing Mixx Mail

by Sujoy on February 7, 2008

Now Mixx has been around for quite some time now. I have been an avid user of this social bookmarking/networking website and I quite loved the services that it provided. It’s user friendly interface and user-base made up for almost all of its shortcomings. But yes, the need for a Mixx Mail Service was felt. Not anymore. Introducing, Ladies and Gents! the Mixx Mail.

Mixx Mail

Now you can send a Mixx message or mail to your Mixx friends, as you do on other social bookmarking websites. I have quite a few friends on Mixx, and have always felt the need to communicate with a user before adding him/her up. Now, I can do that easily. The Mixx Mail service can be used by clicking on the little mail envelope icon that appears next to your User ID on your profile page. You can select whom to send the message, and even conveniently select all of your friends. There’s no CAPTCHA code here. Good Thing-Bad Thing, You decide! As far as I am concerned, I think Mixx is consistently working to improve its services and I’m loving it. More so because, it’s easier now to share stuff now on Mixx, now with a personal touch.  What’s more lovely is the way Mixx Mail looks when you send a message across many friends. It could actually turn out to be like a discussion thread with the latest post in the bottom. So forums, messages and discussions all covered at one single strike.Go Mixx!!

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Privacy is no more in MySpace

by Sujoy on January 27, 2008

MySpace can be actually termed as the living room of the internet. It is one of the most visited sites across the world, and is still the market leader when it comes to Social Networking. We all know about the irritating scattered layouts with the invisible fonts and the translucent templates. But what was charming about MySpace was, anyone who wasn’t a friend/acquaintance could be denied permissions of having a peek at our private files, ie-photographs. The privacy settings in MySpace were one of the first ones to appear in Social Networking sites, well until Facebook ruined the day. But the party got totaly spoilt with the emergence of many hacks available online, through which pics of even private profiles could be viewable. [Continue Reading]

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This one comes in really handy when you design or redesign your site layouts. Specially with so many free WordPress layouts available, it is absolutely mandatory for all bloggers to keep in mind about the end user browsing experience, in terms of the layout being stable (Techkeyla had a few problems-the sidebars had all scrolled down to the bottom, as IE doesn’t believe in resizing the images to fit the width. Had to resize them myself). But then, we cannot install all the possible browsers available and of course, not test them on multiple OS-s as well. Now, here’s the perfect solution to a complicated problem. Browsershots.org. This site enables you to test your site/blog on multiple browsers and their multiple versions available across three OS-s,viz. Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Among the listed browsers are Firefox, Opera, MS IE, Kazehakase, Epiphany, Firebird, Flock, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Phoenix, Safari, BonEcho, GranParadiso, Galeon, Konqueror, Minefield,K-Meleon and Navigator.Here in the picture above, I tried testing Techkeyla across multiple browsers and it seems to be quite consistent in display. [Continue Reading]

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Review: Zoom.in

by Sujoy on January 18, 2008

A few days back, I came across an ad on Google Adsense, which read Zoom.in, a new images and photo sharing service, which is currently open to users in India and the US. Zoom.in started it’s service in Jan 2007. So, what’s new with this one when we already have the bosses -Flickr, Photbucket, Picassa, et al. Unlike Flickr, Zoom.in offers unlimited photo storage. That is, you just need to keep on uploading without caring about your online space getting full(more like the Flickr pro account which comes at $24.95 a year).What else? Zoom.in offers 15 free prints for every new account signed in. Of course, haven’t tried creating multiple accounts to trick them.Now to the crux of the matter, is it real Good? Yes and No. [Continue Reading]

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