List of Best Websites in the world

The following list provides the url of the best websites according to the traffic, popularity and other factors. The list may change over time.

Google www.google.com ( Google allows users to search the Web for images, news, products, video, stocks, weather and lot more. Features include PageRank, caching and translation of results, and an option to find similar pages. The company's focus is developing search technology.The AdSense and AdWords are two very popular advertising services provided by the google. To read full reviews about the Google incorporation follow http://www.google.com/about.html ). Google has the majority market share among the all search engines available today. Google was founded in September 1998 by Sergey M. Brin & Lawrence E. Page. Some very popular google services and products include: Chrome web browser, Google Desktop Search, Google Earth , Gmail, Picasa, Picasa web Album Uploader, VPN client for WiFi users, Google Talk iGoogle Reader, Google mobile search Google Latitude, Google Mini etc.

Facebook www.facebook.com ( A social utility that connects people, to keep up with friends, upload photos, share links and videos.This global networking website is privately owned Facebook Inc. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in February 4, 2004 with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Yahoo! www.yahoo.com ( Personalized content and search options. Chatrooms, free e-mail, clubs, and pager. Yahoo is best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping, video sharing and social media websites and services. Yahoo Inc. is an American Public company which was founded in March 1, 1995. There are several millions of yahoo! service users around the globe. Some very popular yahoo! services includes: Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Personals, Yahoo! 360, Yahoo! Buzz, Flickr, Yahoo! Answer,s Yahoo! Music, Yahoo! Mobile, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Publisher Network, )

YouTube www.youtube.com ( YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. Upload, tag and share your videos worldwide! YouTube is a Video sharing website on which any user can upload,watch and share videos. This website uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content. In February 2005, three former PayPal employees created YouTube. YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion in November 2006, , and is now operated by Google. YouTube has been highly criticized for failing to ensure that its videos respect the law of copyright. Despite it's is the number one video sharing website in the world.

Windows Live www.live.com (Search engine from Microsoft. One of the major search Engines on the web.Many of MSN's services were reorganized in 2005 and 2006 under a new brand name, Windows Live. Recently it has been incarnated to bing.com. Windows Live was first announced on November 1, 2005. In its initial release, several Windows Live properties were re-branded and enhanced from Microsoft's MSN set of products and services.There are many different live services available. For example: account.live.com , calender.live.com, )

Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org (Wikipedia is a combination of the word wiki and encyclopedia. It is an online collaborative encyclopedia.The wikipedia.org is the most content enriched and most visited online encyclopedia. Wikipedia is a free, open content, community-built encyclopedia with thousands of articles on topics from A to Z. Available in more than dozens of languages)

Blogger.com www.blogger.com (Free, automated weblog publishing tool that sends updates to a site via FTP.) Blogger is a very popular blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in the year 2003. The service itself is located at www.blogger.com, and blogs that do not publish to their own websites are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com.

Microsoft Network (MSN) www.msn.com (Microsoft Network or MSN is a collection of different websites and services which is provided and manged by Microsoft. MSN was once a simple online service for Windows 95 Operating System, an early experiment at interactive multimedia content on the Internet, and one of the most popular dial-up Internet service providers. MSN remains the second largest Internet service provider in the United States, behind dial-up leader AOL. There are more than 100 MSN services available and among them Microsoft adCenter, Careers, with careerbuilder.com, Calender, Dating and Personals, with Match.com, MSN Directory, MSN 9, MSN Mobile web, Pocket MSN etc are widely used services.)

Baidu.com www.baidu.com (The leading Chinese language search engine, provides "simple and reliable" search experience, strong in Chinese language and multi-media content including MP3 music and movies, the first to offer WAP and PDA-based mobile search in China.)

Yahoo!カテゴリ www.yahoo.co.jp 有料審査制のディレクトリ。ウェブサービスの形でAPIを公開。

10 Best extensions for Mozilla Firefox

1. Google Gears : Google Gears for Windows as an XPI installer, with AMO update functionality. Works with Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, as well as user accounts without administrator privileges.
2. Personal Menu : "Menus Toolbar" item is now available in Toolbar Context Menu and you may hide it forever!
3. Better Gmail 2 : Add useful extra features to Gmail, like hierarchical labels, an unread message icon on your browser tab, file attachment icons, and more.
4. DownThemAll! : The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
5. Foxmarks/Xmarks : Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Install it on all your computers to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized. Xmarks also helps you uncover the best of the web based on what millions of people are bookmarking.
6. Greasemonkey : Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. ...
7. Adblock Plus : Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. For a quick overview watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNvb2SjVjjI.
8. Automatic Save Folder : This add-on will open the File Browser at the right location, using simple filters on the downloaded file. The filters are based on filenames and hosted domain's name.
9. Tab Mix Plus : Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session
10. AutoCopy : Select text and it's automatically copied to the clipboard. Like Linux or mIRC.

Best windows XP tweak

How to Fix Broken and Slow Tab Issues in Internet Explorer 8?
Fix it: Run Command Prompt with Administrative privileges.
Type "regsvr32 actxprxy.dll" (without double quation).
Press Enter Key in your keyboard
You will see a Small Box appearing which says ” DllRegister Service in actxprxy.dll is succeeded”
Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type regsvr32 shdocvw.dll.
Press OK, and then againclick OK.
You will get this message: DllRegisterServer in shdocvw.dll succeeded.
Now restart your computer.

How to Kill Processes from Command Prompt?
Fix it: Most of the windows users press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys to open Task Manager to see the running processes and to terminate,start,end process(es).The same thing can be done from the command prompt. Additionally, killing processes in Command Prompt provides much more control and the ability to end multiple processes at once.

Type"tasklist" in the command prompt(C:\>tasklist) to see all the running processes. Now you can kill a process by the process ID (PID) or by image name (EXE filename).
For Example if you want to kill Orbit Downloader run :

C:\>Taskkill /IM orbitdm.exe /F ( IM for Image Name/Process Name in the task list)
Or,
C:\>Taskkill /PID 28754 /F (PID for Process ID shown in the tasklist)
The /f flag is kills the process forcefully.

How to Create a shortcut to switch users?
Fix it: Creating a shortcut to switch the active user is as easy as creating a shortcut to c:\windows\system32\tsdiscon.exe

-- Right click where you want the shortcut to be created and select New and then Shortcut.
-- Copy and paste “c:\windows\system32\tsdiscon.exe” into the location box and hit Next.
-- Give it a name and press Enter.

Best FireFoxAddOns

You can add a add-ons(some-times called plugging though technically different) to extend the functionality of your firefox web browser. There are lots of pluggins/Add ons to add but the best practice is to add as your requirement. Here is a list for most useful add-ons for firefox web browser.To add a pluggings goto Tools-->Add Ons-->Click on Add-Ons tab and then either search for a paticular Add -ons or browse all Add-ons.

Addons for all Web Users.
* Bookmarking -- Keeping Track of Links
* Music While You Surf -- Listen to your favorite music while you suft the web.
* Social Networking -- Connecting With Other People. be connected while using net.
* AnyColor -- Change Firefox to Any Color and create your own personalized.
* Integrated Gmail -- Very helpful for G-mail users. Gmail ,Google Calendar,Google Reader,Gmail Labs = Integrated Gmail.
* Last Tab Close Button -- It shows Close button on the last tab in Firefox 3.5*, which closes the last tab but not the browser.
* Personal Menu -- "Menus Toolbar" item is now available in Toolbar Context Menu and you may hide it forever!
* QuickPageZoom -- Zoom your page quickly.
* TidyRead -- TidyRead turns your web reading into a fast, smooth, no-fringe experience again. It intelligently extracts the core text of news articles and blog posts — even multi-page ones.

Addons for all Web Developers/Web Designers
* Get Information About a Webpage (or Site)
* IE View
* User Agent Switcher
* Web Developer
* Tiny url Creator
* Copy Plain text
* Open Java Console
* Make Link
* Edit CSS
* Java Script Debugger
* HTML Validator
* ColorZilla
* RSS Editor
* DocumentMap
* Link Checker

* SEOpen
* Header Monitor
* Fire FTP

List of the best IELTS Preparation websites

Online IELTS Preparation isn't always a pleasant experience. Most of the websites doesn't give the IELTS Preparation for free. Their premium services can only be gained by spending money. the list provided bellow gives you a helpful list of url for free IELTS resources and preparation.

1) www.ielts-exam.net
2) www.ielts-blog.com
3) www.britishcouncil.org
4) www.askynz.com
5) www.canadavisa.com/ielts/free-practice-tests.html

Best Search Engines

What is the best web search Engine? Well , there is no short cut answer for the question. If you are a laconic person , you would simply say Google. Yes this is pretty correct because a recent case study reveals the fact that Google now controls 72% of all searches in the US, Yahoo has 14% market share and MSN 8% for a total of 87%. So all the other search engines together have 6% market share. But people are different and so are their choices about the search engine choices. The list here gives you a overview about list of best search engines. Add your comment to let us know your choices.

1) Google - if you are looking for information then you have no other choices that to find it in the Google search engine. This search engine fetches the best result for anyone searching for the information. Google currently controls 74% of all the market-share.Google is currently the 2nd largest PPC search Engines too.

2) Yahoo -- Yahoo is the web's oldest directory which was established in 1994.Yahoo no longer uses Google’s search technology, replacing it with its own tools, web spiders, and technology in an effort to become the world’s top search engine again.

3) MSN(live , bing) -- MSN is the Microsoft controlled search Engine. The bing (www.bing.com) is the latest project by microsoft. It's one of the major search Engines available. Bing, a replacement of the search engine Live Search, was originally named Windows Live Search (and MSN Search prior to that) and was once part of the Windows Live family of services.

4) Ask
5) AltaVista
6) Alltheweb
7) Lycos
8) Profusion
9) Copernic
10) Myxcite
11) HotBot
12) DogPile

Best mafia story books

The following is a list for mafia book readers. The listed books are best among all the mafia novel written ever.Check out your read-list and add any other mafia-books you enjoyed.

1) The Godfather -- Maria Puzo
2) Murder Machine (Onyx) -- Gene Mustain
3) Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire -- Rick Cowan
4) Donnie Brasco -- Joseph D. Pistone
5) Wiseguy -- Nicholas Pileggi
6) The last Don -- Maria Puzo
7) The Mafia Rat: A True Story -- Jimmy Breslin