Everyone needs rest, so do servers on which our websites are hosted. It is very important that your website is accessible and alive from different locations in the world. There are times when site is completely dead as a result of server outage.

However, in some cases website may not be accessible at few locations in the world. Therefore it is very important to monitor the alive and accessible status of your website.

There are number of online web services available to check the status of your website. Usability is also easy, just enter the URL of your website and see the report for the alive status. Here are few tools you can use for website monitoring: (more…)

• 60 is the number of hot dogs eaten by an American in 2002.
• $50,000,000,000 is Bill Gates’ estimated fortune in 2006
• 65,000 videos uploaded on YouTube per day on June 2006.

Reading above must have done some good to your knowledge base. Here comes an interesting concept of learning about new things and facts using numbers. If you know any interesting fact corresponding to any number then make your presence felt at BigNumbr.

After going through some facts on that website, I am sure one would realize the importance of numbers in our life. Numbers, (more…)

Web browser is very important while accessing or sending information on the internet. Besides images, we tend to type a lot. Some text is mis-spelt and one spends lot of time in manually correcting it. How about getting automated spell check for your browser?

Firefox users already have number of options to check spelling real time in the browser, for example Addon Spellbound. But what about Internet Explorer users?Well no worries, they also have option for a free addon to get real time in built spell check facility in IE.

IESpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell-checks text-input boxes on a Web page. It should come in (more…)

Flickr fun continues this week on techno Life - tothepc. So after checking out how to make screensaver from Flickr Photos, here comes an excellent tool  to make slide-show of your favorite flickr photos in just few seconds. SlideFlickr will help you create and embed Flickr slideshows on the fly.

Procedure is really simple and easy. You need to enter a relevant Flickr URLto let this tool fetch photos from Flickr. For example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/XXXX Here XXXX can be your username or any keyword.

To get Flickr set format is like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/user/sets/7210/ To get photos from a Flickr group format is like: http://www.flickr.com/groups/interestingness/ After entering the URL you can simply click on ‘generate’ button to get your slideshow. (more…)

Microsoft Vista and Live recently made official debut on youtube with its ‘WindowsVistaAndLive’ channel. They have uploaded some videos showing goodie-goodie things about their products. Videos are not advertisements instead showcase use of Microsoft products in daily life.

But Microsoft made a mistake of launching (vista?) this youtube channel with comments open. This could be Vista bashers latest alternative to vent out their frustration. Comments seems to piling up with most of them echoing Vista being copy of Mac OS, not so good, slow and more. (more…)

Making a screensaver without installing any software? Yes, that is what online tool ‘instaSaver’ intends to do. It is easy, quick and very effective for making screensavers instantaneously. You can make screensaver from your personal or favorites images. Besides you can also get your Flickr photos to be part of your screensaver.

It has very easy to use interface: first select the name of the screen, then upload images from your computer or get them from your Flickr account. Final step involves configuring slideshow settings. Here you need to select/configure the slide transition speed from a drop down menu.

Also you need to select background image for the screensaver. There are number of image options available for (more…)