Monday, May 19, 2008

How people write their School Exams! ( Part 8 )

I have posted several posts on how funny some of the answers in school exams are (part1, part2, part3, part4, part5, part6, part7). Here is one more ...


Hope you enjoy these funny answers :)

Thursday, May 15, 2008

USCIS Online Change of Address

All non-US citizens have to report a change of address to USCIS with in 10 days of moving by filling a form AR-11. Previously you have to fill out the form and send it through post to USCIS. Now they have an online form where you can submit your change of address.

The address where you can do this is ...

https://egov.uscis.gov/crisgwi/go?action=coa

This saves time, postal stamps and some paper :-)

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Dropbox

There are several applications available that help you backup your data securely or share your files with your friends or sync data between your computers. All of these have one common point that is to put your data online whether it is just to backup or share or sync between computers. Dropbox (http://www.getdropbox.com/) does all these three jobs and that too very well.

Using separate applications for backup, share and sync is difficult as you have multiple copies of the files in separate places and you have to manage files at several different places. Dropbox simplifies this job by providing all three in one interface. After sign-up, a folder called 'My Dropbox' gets created on your system and anything you place in this folder gets sync between all your computers. You can share files placed in this folder with other Dropbox/non-Dropbox users.

Go try it. You will like it ...

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Free Anti-Virus

I don't understand why people pay for anti-virus software. There are so many free and better anti-virus software available that you can depend on. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition (http://free.grisoft.com/), Avira AntiVir Personal (http://www.free-av.com/) and Avast Home Edition (http://www.avast.com/) are some of the many free anti-virus software that are available free for personal/home use.

Personally, I'm using Avira AntiVir for a long time and it is very good. The main thing is the time it takes to finish the whole system scan. It is very fast and unlike those paid softwares, it won't take days to finish the scan. At the same time, its virus detection capabilities are also very strong and dependable.

If you are paying to get virus protection, I think it is time for you to try these software and then evaluate if the money you are spending is worth it ...