Now many tools and software are being developed to find the fastest DNS server for the computer. Namebench is a free tool for such purpose. With this little freeware software you can find the nearest and fastest DNS server for your computer.

I just used it on my PC and found that Google Public DNS server is slower than MAXCOM server which is running in my country. So I used it and the speed has increased really. The time to find the fastest DNS server for your PC depends on your internet connection speed as well.

Download Google namebench:

You can download this tool from here with complete usage instructions and you can get the details from here how to change your DNS settings on your computer after finding the fastest one.

namebench runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX, and is available with a graphical user interface as well as a command-line interface.

But these virtual gifts are not free at all. Each gift costs 10 credits ,equal to 1 USD, if you send one.

Fortunately “The Closer” is offering a box of chocolate which you can send to your friends free of cost. This box of chocolate will be displayed on the wall of your friend.

My ID on facebook is http://www.facebook.com/ausman and I hope you will send me too.

Here is the link to send the free box of chocolates.

Pingdom is already giving alerts through SMS, email and twitter, but now iPhone users get the similar alerts on the screen of their devices.

You will get automatic push notifications when your site/s goes down and when it is up again through this simple and free app.

In this new version of Pingdom iPhone App 2.0 you can get graphs of uptime and downtime of your sites. The graphs can be shown for any date range, so you can examine a specific day closely, or view trends over several months.

You can get this free app from Apple store.

• Copy and paste the Google Video URL into VideoDL.
• Press Get it and save the video.
• You can open saved video with these two free players  FLV Player or VLC Player to open the flash video file.

But there are many occasions when you don’t want to install the yahoo messenger on your computer or you are not allowed to install any software on the computer and you even don’t want to use the yahoo mail. In these situations, you can use the web based yahoo messenger without installing the yahoo messenger on your computer.

You can sign in to your yahoo messenger from any browser and you can chat with your yahoo and windows live friends.

The important Features are:

1. New message notification sound
2. Show your style with emoticons and Avatars
3. Stay in control with handy stealth settings
4. Message archives that stay with you, no matter where you sign on
5. Stay organized with tabbed conversation windows

Online, Web Based Yahoo Messenger:

You can go the Yahoo Messenger web here or you can remember this simple link web.im for easy access.

Introducing new features, Yahoo has updated its three products; Yahoo! Search results page, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger. Yahoo messenger 10 is now availble to download, though it is still a beta version but it does not matter.

The new features in updated yahoo messenger are, according to yahoo:

• Enhanced video calling: Feel like you’re there with high-quality, full screen video and voice calling

• Keep up with what your friends are doing:  See your friends’ latest updates from Yahoo!, Flickr, Twitter and more with the new “Updates” view

• Improved language support: Change your preferred language in Yahoo! Messenger with just a few clicks

More Features of Yahoo messenger:

1. Instant message with one friend, or conference in a bunch
2. All-new Insider with Yahoo! Mail, news, weather, search and more
3. Easily find or invite friends from other services to come chat with you
4. Send text messages (SMS) to friends’ mobile phones for free*
5. Make free PC-to-PC calls and PC-to-phone calls for as low as 1¢ a minute (plus free voicemail!)
6. Use the built-in media player to watch web videos and view photos with friends
7. Show your style with emoticons, Avatars, audibles and IMVironments

Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta:

Hurry up and download the latest version of yahoo messenger 10 and give the feedback to Yahoo as they want to know what do you feel about new changes.

1. You are in a net cafe and you don’t want to login to your original email address due to any reason (you don’t want to expose your password) and you want to send an email to your friend.
2. You want to send emails to government organizations without letting them know your original email ID and even IP address.
3. You want to register an anonymous complaint etc.

In all these situations, you can use these services to send instant emails without logging in to your original emails and without any registration.

1. Send Anonymous Email:

2. Note2Email:

Note: Read all the terms and conditions of respective sites before using them.

Just start it and begin walking. You can optionally close your laptop lid or turn off the screen to save battery life – this tool guides you by sound too!

When you hear a ding, stand still and wait. Next you’ll hear either a hihat or a “ding ding ding ding“. The hihat means that it failed connecting and that you must carry on walking.

The tool verifies the connection by trying to fetch http://www.google.com/favicon.ico and notifies you only if it succeeds. You can download this free software from here.

The main features for conversion are:

• Start cutting of video from anywhere
• End the video cutting anywhere in the middle
• Format of the mp3 you want – e.g. 128 kbps
• Options to edit ID3 tag data
• Estimation of the file size from the cut video part
• Apart from mp3, you can download video too

Here is the link to dirpy.com.