Found this while wasting away on YouTube. 
Really funny stuff 
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
I stumbled upon a few competitions, and am taking part in them. I’m gonna show you how you can too and win some decent cash. Here are a two competitions for this week.
1. Kevin from BloggingTips is promoting his forums. Hence he’s organized a competition wherein you can win $50 via paypal, just by referring members to his forum.
Four forum memebers with the highest number of referrals by the end of this month(July), will win $50 each.
Taking part is simple. All you need to do is register with the BloggingTips forums(opens in a new page), make a few posts and start referring your friends with your own referral link – it’s as simple as that. Read all the details here.
How would you like to be among the other 3 people winning the cash, along with me. Sign now!
2. A good friend of mine, Anand is giving away the $27.93 that he won from a competition at Andreas Bard’s blog. Anand is an inspiration to all young bloggers from India and is a friend I know I can turn to whenever I’m in need of tr
Never shy of trying new ideas to make money online, he just created a his very own wordpress theme for his blog, and is raking in backlinks from the subsequent downloads.
Open source software is any computer software whose source code is made available to public, permitting the end-users to tweak, modify and refabricate the software as per their requirement, for their personal benefit and that of the general public.
All this said, what is most important to the general public/ is that open source software is freeware. Hence you can use them as an excellent and highly competent alternative to expensive commercial software.
Here is a list of some of the best FOSS (Free Open Source Software), most of which I use myself:
Mozilla Firefox
Arguably the best web-browser at the moment, its popularity can be easily judged with how rapidly rising numbers IE users making the switch to Firefox.
FileZilla
FileZilla is among the best FTP (File Transfer Protocol) management software out there. It’s speed, ease of use, and simple interface make is stand out from the horde of FTP software.
Mozilla Thunderbird
The open-source replacement for Microsoft Outlook, it boasts of features like advanced Spam filtering, RSS/Usenet newsreader, etc.
Gimpshop – The web 2.0 version GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), Gimpshop is the open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and has the same features and navigations as Photoshop.
7-Zip – It is a file compression utility with an extremely high compression ratio. It supports the .zip, .7z, and .tar formats.
Notepad++
Notepad++ is an excellent open source replacement for Microsoft Notepad, and can be used as a simple text processor, web development, and coding. It supports a variety of programming languages with syntax highlighting for languages like C++, C#, Java, PHP, Perl, CSS, SQL, VB, etc.
VLC Media Player
Possibly the most versatile media player available, VLC Player supports almost all of the widely used audio/video formats in the industry. Fast and hassle-free, it is the video player that most people vouch for.
Open office
The Open Source answer to Microsoft Office, it is a complete suite, which comes with replacements for MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access and MS PowerPoint.
