Dropbox
  Dropbox is simply a folder box in your computer to which you can drop any files and then you can access it from anywhere in the world! Importantly, you can share any of the files in this box with any number of people and changes would be made live to everyone. Its free and you can share photos, videos, documents, presentations etc

Interested? See this simple introductory video at Dropbox and download it at the same link.

Next time you need to share a video or even a movie with a friend, just copy it to the dropbox folder in your own system. They would be able to see it inside their dropbox folder in their system. Dont forget to keep adding friends to earn upto 8GB of online space for free!

Cheers

Google App for Microsoft Word
 I am sure you all use Google Docs or at-least have heard of it that I need-not talk about it. Now here is something cool they have come up with. Google App for Word.

Why would you need it?
1) If you ever felt the need to send a document/powerpoint/excel sheet to someone/group of people to share and edit simultaneously without having a mess of emails with everyone.
2) If you needed to access/edit a document from work and home without going through edit-attach-download-edit-attach cycles at each place.

Install this app, it automatically(or you can do it manually) syncs the document and shares it with anyone you specify, all within your document!!

Check out.

Border Maker 

Did you ever feel you had to put your ownership on a photo before releasing it to the umpteen sharing possibiities of facebook? 
Seeing many a pretty photographs I felt a need to add watermark and a border to my photos as well. Doing it in photoshop or irfanview was too much of a pain and lazy I am, there was a need for dead simple software for that (ofcourse, which is free!). This is what lead me to border maker ..

Now what can you do with it?
# Run it either on Windows, Mac or Linux!
# Resize your photos, add watermark,borders and logos to "Folders" containing photos!
#what else do you need!!!


Its very easy to work with, if you have troubles figuring it yourself, maybe this short video will help.


If you have found anything better and free, please share here.

Goa From Bangalore

Well, when I tried going to GOA, the many first hand experience of people online helped me make my decisions. This is just an attempt to help someone make a good decision.

We had two days to get off from Bangalore and went off to Palolem Beach, South Goa. We went on "Seabird Tourists/Travels" which I would really not suggest unless you want company of bed bugs, being broken down in the middle of the night, reaching 5hours late etc. "VRL" which we took back home was really good and reached in some 12hrs including the munch breaks. (There are no trains running for a weekend break to Goa, wonder why!)

After the break down and snail pace journey we reached Canacona new bus stand at around 1:30pm (while ~7:30am was the scheduled time). You can take a rickshaw or taxi to get to Palolem beach. The rickshaw should cost around 50Rs.

Palolem beach itself is very calm and beautiful with shacks all along the shore. We had booked "Sai Valentine" which was on one of the right end of the beach. Almost all shacks are basic but decent enough with a double bed, mosquito net and attached bathroom. We paid 750rs/cottage for 2/day. Here again you can bargain.

Restaurants we went to are Draupadi, Magic italy, Fernandes of which latter one is inexpensive while all are good. There are no ATM facility available and most places dont accept Cards. There are couple of shops where you can swipe your card and for 3% commission they give you money for a minimum of 1000Rs. If you plan to make the most of cheap liquor Goa is famous for, you should probably not go to any restaurants but buy from wine shop (The only one at palolem is located few meters from the entrance to the beach).

Palolem is very calm and beautiful and so one could spent most time in the sea swimming, playing, kayaking etc. Even very late into night restaurants are open (unlike B'lore) and beach itself looks very safe to take a stroll into Silent Noise party happening at one end of the beach.

There are no water sports as such at Palolem and we headed to Varca beach for parasailing, Banana ride etc. I would suggest not to take Boat to Varca as it would take off a neat 4-5Hrs from your day for the travel alone.

Sai valentine was pretty much a decent place to be though maybe next time I would try and go to "Fernandes". We missed on the "Silent Noise" which could be a priority next time. I would definitely go back to Palolem for the Goan Food and the silent Beach.