http://thesharath.com mYpassion is technology blog that helps you know social media news, blogging tips, Software reviews, how-to guides and new web technologies so that you can do more with the stuff you like. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:30:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sharing photos on social media is a common thing nowadays. But the only disadvantage of sharing photos on social media is easy access to download the photos from the sites unlike sharing via email or on photo sharing sites. Here is a new tool called PhotoGrabber that can be used to download bulk photos from ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/03/08/download-bulk-photos-from-facebook-easily/ Google Chrome 4 has two extensions very useful for all those social media addicts who start their day by accessing Orkut or Facebook like me. First is the Orkut Chrome Extension. It shows, all the new scraps, friend requests, group messages, and other types of alerts. Second is the Facebook extension for Google Chrome. As before, it ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/03/08/chrome-extensions-to-access-facebook-and-orkut-info-with-a-click/ Ever wondered how 2 comic charecters would look if morphed together? Here is a pic of Shrek + Avatar morphed together and we call it the SHREVATAR. A combined hero for fans of Shrek and Avatar. Dowload the Shrevatar wallpaper (1920×1200) Image credit – Moinid ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/03/08/shrek-avatar-shrevatar/ According to foreign media reports, an independent research firm NSS Labs recently released reports showing that Microsoft’s IE 8 browser is the securest and the only browser with highest performance. The study also shows that the interception of social engineered malicious software, in 2010 Quarter1. Malware interception chart: IE8 intercepted 85% of the social engineering malicious software, Firefox ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/03/06/ie8-is-the-most-secure-trusted-and-used-browser/ Now that Google indexes the updates from the Facebook fan pages, surely many companies would start to show promotional support to advertise on the Facebook fan page and track the converisations and all that can’t be easy without the help of the search engine giant.. If you ever wanted to track your Facebook Fan page visits ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/03/01/track-facebook-pages-with-google-analytics/ After the funny controversies of the iPad, here is a quick sneak peek into the future products from Apple The photo collage shows the release of the iPhone in 2008, the iPad in 2010, next is the Apple iBoard in 2012 and finally if the world doesn’t end in 2012, its going to be ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/02/28/apple-innovations/ We all know about the free antivirus by Microsoft. Now there seems to be a fake one too… Microsoft is warning users about a new threat – Fake version of, the Security Essentials. The fake anti-virus, known as Security Essentials 2010 is actually a trojan Win32/Fakeinit, which installs itself to detect cases of breaking at ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/02/28/fake-security-essentials-2010/ WinZip as you all know is the most popular file compression tool which is powerful and easy to use. It can quickly zip and unzip your files to save disk space and to reduce email transmission time. In addition, WinZip also supports 128-bit and 256-bit AES encryption, so that the user can pass highly confidential data. ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/02/25/download-winzip-14-build-9029/ Tweetmeme has come up with a new way of increasing Twitter followers by creating a follow button. TwetMeme’s new Follow Button feature will help you and your readers to find and follow one another on Twitter!  The button has been designed for simplicity and comes in three styles as shown below.  The Follow button does not ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/02/24/more-twitter-followers-strategy-by-tweetmeme/ Are you an instant messenger kind of person, love to stays online to chat with friends & family?  We’ll then; here is an interesting service that combines the capabilities of ‘RSS feeds’ with ‘Instant Messaging’. It’s called RSS.IM. This unique service reports all your favorite RSS feeds directly to your instant messenger (GTalk or Jabber ]]> http://thesharath.com/2010/02/23/instant-message-your-rss-feeds/