Pando is a free P2P website. With this you can send large attachments and folders very easily. It also helps to publish your downloadable videos to web in an easy manner.

Whatsonwhen

Whatsonwhen.com helps to know the events, attractions and exhibitions from around the world by simply entering a location and dates in this site.

Gazelle

You can sell your old electronic gadgets like iPod, cell phone, MP3 players etc. regardless of its condition.

160by2

This website offers free SMS to your desired number in India.

Pdfhammer

PDF Hammer is a free online PDF Editor that helps you to merge, edit and rearrange PDF documents online without installing anything.

Cellswapper

This website helps you transfer your current mobile contract to someone else or get a free plan with only a short term contract.

Ohdontforget

This website enables you fix scheduled message reminders to any phone. It reminds you about an en event at a specific day and time. You can remind things to your friends too by simply entering their number, date and event.

Rondee

Rondee is like teleconferencing among many people like friends, relatives and business people. This offers easy, fast and free phone conference calls with as many people as you want.

Spokentext

You can record PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and convert them to speech automatically.

Worldtaximeter

World Taximeter is an international taxi fare calculator accessible both from the web and the mobile phone. It gives you an estimate of the cost of a taxi ride around the globe in cities like Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Chicago, Dublin, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, New York, Paris, Prague, Rome, San Francisco, Sydney and Toronto.

Bookinmyphone

You can download and read books on your mobile phone.

Dailylit

It helps to read your favourite book by email. It currently offers over 1000 classic and contemporary books for free or on a pay-per-read basis.

Kiva

The main mission of Kiva is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. It lets you to lend small sums like $25 to a business project. This website keeps track of your investment and repays your loans as the business grows.

Retailmenot

You can find fresh online discount coupons for more than 20,000 stores here.

Esnailer

You can send free postal mail letters to anywhere in the US from your desktop by simply filling the address in the envelope and writing your message. This is free of charge.

Maxroam

Maxroam helps you to get the best deal while roaming by offering as much as 80% lower than roaming with your traditional mobile carrier. For this all you need is an unlocked GSM phone.

Yapta

This website tracks prices before you buy. If the price drops after you buy, they help you get refund travel credits from the airlines.

Podiobooks

This website enables you search, subscribe and browse through a variety of totally free audio books. These are 100 % legal.

Priceprotectr

It tracks the price of items you bought online. It also notifies and gets your money back in case of price-drops.

Switchplanet

SwitchPlanet helps its members to sell their used DVDs, CDs, video games and books for its internal currency switchbucs. Switchbucs can be used to buy things they want from other members. In another way it promotes exchange of things from one another like barter system.

Cracked

With a caption of America's only humor & Video site since 1958, cracked.com offers funny stuff. Categories include TV, music, Celebrities, Tech, Sex, sports, News and More Funny stuff. It is very popular at digg and almost every article from this site hit the front page of digg and get thousands of diggs.

YouTube

YouTube needs no introduction. Users can upload videos of their interest, home-made or professional, onto this site. Almost every day there will be videos from youtube on the front page of Digg.

Lifehacker

Lifehacker is a blog that features tips, short cuts and downloads that help you get things done more efficiently. This site publishes over 20 tips per day and offers a free download of lifehacker code (productivity of software applications). Most of the blogs from this website get hundreds of diggs.

Ars Techinca

Ars technica (art of technology) is a specialized website in original news and reviews, analysis of technology trends and expert advices on technology. Most of articles from this site get hundreds of diggs and some get thousands.

Live Science

Live Science offers blogs and articles in space, health, environment, technology, history and strange news. Most of the articles and blogs are very popular at digg.

Steam

Steam offers browsing games of all sorts including action, adventurous, racing and sports etc. Many new games are available here and they are quite famous at digg.

PCWorld

PcWorld offers blogs, reviews, articles about all latest tech gadgets including cameras, PCs and mobiles etc. As this site is all related to latest technology, most of the reviews and articles get popular at digg.

Defective By Design

Defective By Design is a broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors.

Wired

There are many sections in Wired.com including car, culture, entertainment, gadget, gaming, how-to and politics etc. It offers blogs in Gadget lab, Epicenter etc and they are famous at Digg.

 

Safari

Safari is one of the fastest web browsers on any platform. It loads pages up to 1.9 times and executes JavaScript up to 6 times faster than Internet Explorer 7. It has excellent features like tabbed web browsing, resizable text fields, snapback and easy book marks. As expected from any apple products, this web browser is designed for more security and easy usage.

Latest version: Safari 3.1

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is an excellent free web browser. With this browser you can view the pages faster and it requires less computer memory. You can avoid online scams with Instant Website ID. It offers a wide number of features like anti-malware, anti-virus and anti-phishing options. This web browser is available in more than 40 languages. Pop-up blocker, Spell checker and many more wonderful features are available with this browser. Whenever I get a problem with IE, I use this browser and personally felt that this is the best alternative to IE.

Mozilla web browser is faster in Java script processing when compared to other web browsers.

Latest version: Firefox 3.0 Beta 5

Opera

Opera is a superfast web browser. It is a free Web browser and can access web pages 30% faster than Internet Explorer and much faster than Firefox when using tabbed browsing. Moreover it offers lots of great tools for Web Developers. This is more secure and stable with fraud protection, cookie control and security bar.

Latest version: Opera 9.5

Maxthon

Maxthon is a powerful web browser with many interesting features like Tabbed Browsing, Feed Reader, Ad Hunter and Web Sniffer etc. The super Acceleration Mode improves your browser speed. URL Alias enables you to visit your favorite website by setting its name in the menu and typing just the name in the address bar than the whole web address. The Filter pack feature removes ads on a specified website and also gives you the possibility of modifying web page source code. Some excellent features include Anti-Freeze, Web Bar, Super Proxy, Screen Capture and Undo List. It offers Trusted Website Check by indicating with green color.

Latest version: 2.1.2.649

Avant

Avant is another web browser with many interesting features like Active X controls, Java Script, Real Player and Macromedia Flash. The Flash Animation Filter helps you to block the unwanted advertisements (which are mostly flash files). Additional mouse functions, multi window browsing, ATOM Reader and Pop-up Blocker are some of the important features of this.

Latest version: 11.6Build20

At last I contacted the Digg support and they answered me that I could not submit that article because it was spam. I was stunned by the reply because neither the article nor the website contains spam content. At that time I got curious about the spamming or banning of websites at Digg. Then I searched for and learned many things. Here I am sharing the information with you.

There are three types of bans in Digg:

Permanent Ban:

When you try to submit content, a message appears saying “URL is on the banned submit list.” This is a permanent ban.

Temporary Ban:

“This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg's submission process and cannot be submitted at this time”. This may be a temporary ban. Some sites which were listed with this tag don't appear to be currently banned.

Banning for Some Period:

Sometimes the banning may be for a period of time. Then the message appears like this “Please link directly to the story source. This URL has been reported as a news middle-man, it will remain blocked for x days”, x being any number.

Digg banned many famous sites like Geocities, Furl, News Now nearly one and a half years ago. But after sometime it let many of the banned sites backed in.

Actually, Digg banned adult content of all sites and some sites containing spammed advertisements.

At present some domains and websites are banned at Digg.

Here is a list of some banned sites. The articles from these sites cannot be submitted at Digg.

Computersight

You can find excellent computer related articles here.

Ezinearticles

Ezinearticles.com is an online writing site for expert writers to post their articles to be featured.

Go Articles

Goarticles is a free content article directory.

Indian Pad

This is a social bookmarking and blogging site like Digg.

1. Naomi Filter

   This is an advanced internet filtering program, very easy to use and completely free. Unlike other filtering programs, it does not just ban a few listed sites: it rather continuously monitors the information sent and received via the internet and blocks all material that is considered inappropriate for children.

2. Parental Lock Guard v1.2:

   This free software protects your computer from many dangers lurking on the net. The most appealing part of this software is that it can only be controlled using an admin password; No close buttons, no “end process” in task manager and no software that can shut it down.

3. K-9 Web Protection:

   This is a free internet filtering and control solution to protect your kids from viewing inappropriate content across the web.

4. Reveal:

   This is a free program that finds porn files stored on your computer. It searches all text available in files and matches it against a dictionary that is normally used by pornographers. It also lists all images and videos so that you can quickly review for content that is inappropriate.

5. B-Gone:

   This is a free web filter based on key words written in the title bar of a website and is great for those wishing to keep their children away from porn sites.

6. File sharing sentinel:

   This is free software that blocks many file sharing and peering software like Kazaa, Morpheus, Bearshare etc. It also blocks spyware and computer viruses.

7. ICRA Plus:

   This free software is more than just an internet filter. It allows you to combine different filters to get one customized filter that works exclusively according to your preferences.

8. Hitware Popup Killer Lite:

   This is one of the many free popup blockers available on net. It can be downloaded from

9. Cyber Patrol:

   This is excellent software that lets you to take control of your internet access even when you can't be there and safeguards against internet threats. A 14 days trial version can be downloaded free of cost from the above website and the full version can be bought for $39.95.

10. Surf Safe:

    This site-blocking software lets you decide what has to be blocked and what not, enabling you to take complete control over what your children can access on the net. A trial version of one month is available and this costs £ 2.99 a month.

11. I am Big Brother:

    This records all incoming and outgoing Instant messages, AOL and emails on your computer. This is available for $29.95.

12. 1st clicks:

    This software safeguards your children from inappropriate programs and protects your computer from potential harm. This is also useful for employers. You can download a 14-day free trial.

Very useful in creating web page by easily replacing text across multiple web pages. You can download it here.

Notepad++

Improved version of notepad that supports several programming languages. You can download it here.

Html kit

These tools are very useful for coding web pages. You can download it here.

Cool text

It is a free graphics generator for web pages. You can download it here.

Irfanview

It is an image editing software. You can download here.

Pixie

It shows value for colors on screen. You can download it here.

Coffee cup free FTP

It is very useful to drag and drop files to and from your websites. Download it here.

Filezilla

It is a fast FTP with a lot of features. Download it here.

Lynx browser

It is a standard text browser to check their web sites for accessibility. Download it here.

Video Encoder

It converts video to streaming flash. Download it here.

Kool moves

It easily creates flash animation. Download it here.

Firefox web developer tools

These tools are very useful for the development of sites. Download it here.here.

W3C Validator

It checks the markup validity of your page coding against web standards. Download it from here.

XSPF Music Player

It plays mp3s on your websites. Download it here.