Skype has no match when it comes to instant messaging, video conferencing, VoIP and PC to phone services. Skype has recently introduced an unlimited international calls plan which will lets users make unlimited long-distance calls for a small per-month fee.

This new mouth-watering offer by Skype starts at a price of $9.95/month (From US) and goes up to $12.95/month (from Europe). This is the first time ever Skype has offered a single, monthly flat rate for international calling to landline numbers in 34 countries.

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Ok so everyone knows whats a Whois Lookup Tool right? Its basically a service or desktop application that gives you information about a domain. The information can be about the current nameservers of the domain, the life of the domain or the date of registration and expiry etc.

The interesting news is that now you can use Google itself as a Whois Lookup tool. According to Googlified, this service was already launched by Google back in 2004 but was taken off after 2 weeks of its release. This time Google has partnered with DomainTools to provide the Whois records instead of abusively querying the network solutions’ Whois database itself.

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Its definitely hard to remember the usernames and passwords for all the websites that we visit daily. The benefit of using a smart browser like Firefox is that it saves the login credentials within the Firefox password manager and retrieves them automatically when you visit a particular website thus allowing you to access it.

But what if you want to print out that login credentials list for future reference or want to save it as a document list somewhere within your operating system. Password Export, a Firefox addon, is there to help you in this regard.

This Firefox addon will let you export a CSV/XML formatted list of all the login credentials stored within the Firefox password manager. This list will have the usernames, passwords, emails and URLs of all the sites that you have ever logged into through Firefox.

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At times where Linux provides a secure and healthy environment for users, it makes other things even more complicated and intricate. Despite being such a user-friendly operating system, it is not that easy to login to Ubuntu as a root user.

Root user has all the administrator privileges so whenever you need to edit system files or configuration from within Gnome, you will feel the need to login to Ubuntu as a root user. But the question is here is “How to login to Ubuntu as a root user?”

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Orkut has been around for nearly 3-4 years now (correct me if I am wrong?) and still Google is not ready to strip the Beta tag. It is a good social network with good and light social features for social networking users but fails to conquer services like MySpace and Facebook.

Recently Orkut launched a low-bandwidth version in hopes of gaining popularity among the dial-up masses of Pakistan, India and other such countries but I personally do not see any good use of it. However the users who can’t leave their beloved 28.8k modems (which I hardly think even exist anymore) can try the low-bandwidth Orkut version which strips off all images and makes browsing fast.

To use the low-band version change your profile settings:

http://www.orkut.com/GeneralSettings.aspx

There is also a mobile version of Orkut (m.orkut.com) which has secretly came to the surface and will make your social networking experience more fun while you are on your mobile or phone. It works best with high-resolution screen smartphones like N95 and iPhone. Here is a preview of how a profile looks when visited through the Orkut mobile version.

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Fring, which is a famous Mobile VoIP and IM service has just launched an iPhone app for users to make free calls. Fring lets you interact with your friends by allowing you to access social IM applications on the go and also allows you to make free calls to other Fring users.

The reason why the Fring iPhone app is being appreciated so much is because of the fact that it is the first ever mobile VoIP app publicly available for the iPhone. Though some other VoIP applications for the iPhone have released already but what makes Fring for iPhone unique is its great iPhone-compatible interface and user-friendly features.

Fring for iPhone not only lets you make free calls but also allows you to get connected to your favorite IM service e.g. MSN, Yahoo IM or Google Talk. The only downside of this app is that unlike most other iPhone apps, it does not work with the iPod Touch but a special version for iPod Touch may soon be out.

To try Fring for iPhone, Jailbreak your iPhone and open Installer. Go to edit sources and add http://www.fring.com/iphone.xml as a new source. In categories you will see a folder called “fring” which can be accessed to install the Fring for iPhone application.

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