SKYPE
http://www.skype.com/intl/en/
Skype is a free web application that provides users with telephone capabilities over an internet connection aka VOIP.
• Search
Search enables users to find friends and family by entering their full name, email address or Skype name. You can also narrow this search down by entering a country/region, state, city, language, gender and age range.
• Contacts
Contacts are sorted on the main Skype page. They are by who is ‘online’ and in alphabetical order. Offline contacts appear in grey and online contacts in green.
• History
History- gives a log of all activity including calls, chat and file transfers. It gives the date, caller ID, time and file name.
• Chat and File Transfer
Chat is very similar to MSN messenger. Both parties can type messages to one another and it is stamped with the username, date and time of message. Messages can be sent whilst the receiving user is offline, the message appears when they next log in.
• Conference
Conference chat and calling is provided on Skype. Users can invite a third party to join a chat or calling group.
• Status
A status can used to identify what the user is doing. Some of these are ‘away’, ‘do not disturb’, and ‘not available’. An interesting status is the ‘skype me!’ status which means that anyone who finds you in the Skype directory can call you.
• Profile Customisation
Your profile picture can be customised. Users can add their country, state, city, language, gender, birth date, home page, about me, email address, phone numbers, number of contacts and myspace page connection.
• Skype Credit
Skype credit can be purchased with a fee to enable users to call land line phones or mobiles.
• Importing Contacts
Contacts can be imported from such programs as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, MSN hotmail and Yahoo!
• Language
There are over 20 languages which Skype can be set in.
• Video
Skype doesn’t only allow for voice over the internet but also video if the user has a web cam.
DIZZLER
http://www.dizzler.com/
Dizzler is a free media player that plays free streaming music, radio, video, and games. Dizzler offers a way to access free media content on the web as safely and easily as possible without any SPYWARE, ADWARE or storage constraints.
• Profile customisation
Users have the option of customizing their profile regarding colors, pictures, how their ‘player’ appears, adding their websites, myspace usernames, youtube user names, music preference, description and location.
• Bands can upload music
Upon subscription bands can upload music files up to 100MB.
• Put Dizzler on facebook/myspace/Friendster
With Dizzler uses have the opportunity to add code to their facebook/myspace/friendster page so that their Dizzler player appears on their profile with their playlist.
• Search (music, video, lyrics)
The search function of Dizzler makes it very easy for the user to find their favoured artists, videos and lyrics.
• Compile Playlists
Users can search to find music and add it to their playlist.
• Download desktop Application
Users can download a desktop application which makes it
• Email Playlist
Users can email playlists to singular or up to 10 email addresses. A unique address is emailed to allow for this.
FILE 2 HD
http://file2hd.com/
File2hd is a web application which allows any file from a website to be downloaded to a user’s hard drive. Files include; Audio, Movies, Links, Applications, Objects, Style Sheets and Images.
The user inserts the URL from which they want to download a particular file into the text box, read and accept the terms and conditions then click ‘get files’. Below are all the files that can be downloaded at the user’s discretion.
This application is very simple with very minimal styling. It is most useful for downloading YouTube videos and audio. It is also useful for retrieving music from Myspace music profiles which allows the user to have a song on their hard drive.
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