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If you missed our free AceVPN and Hide IP VPN giveaway you can now enjoy similar anonymity at decent speeds using free VPN service provider - TheFreeVPN, the new free service lets users surf the web privately also allowing them to bypass internet censorship.

There are numerous free SMS websites and hacks which advertise allowing users to send free text-messages across the globe but most of them fall short of their claims allowing free SMS's to selected operators only, but new free online SMS service KuripoTxt worked as advertised allowing absolutely free international text-messaging.

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Microsoft SkyDrive offers a generous 25 GB of free online-storage but lacks the simplicity of having the online-storage mounted as an local disk-drive for easier access like the one offered by ZumoDrive and LiveDrive, however, the same can now be achieved by using free Windows utility - SkyDrive Explorer.

SkyDrive Explorer enables users to use SkyDrive online-storage like a local disk-drive attached to the computer, user's can perform all the actions as they are working on a local disk-drive including full drag-n-drop support and multi-operations like renaming objects or deleting a group of files/folders.

It is advisable to keep your operating-system and software's updated for optimal computer performance and security and Windows allows automatic update functionality to ensure this; however if your computer does not have a functional internet connection getting updates can be a bit tricky and you need to get offline-update files via an internet connected PC and install them on your computer.

Microsoft Windows 7 operating-system supports Windows Update Stand-alone Installer (.msu) which is used for distributing standalone update files for computer's without internet connection, follow the simple trick described ahead to download all updates in a single go.

Twitter is a micro-blogging service and hence allows users to post short 140 character limited messages, however if you wish to post longer messages new service Long Reply allows you to create really long messages which can be read from the unique URL for the message - so all you need to do is to tweet the unique web-address which users can click to read the full text.

Mozilla Labs unveiled their RainDrop messaging aggregator project allowing users to get information of interest prioritized from all the clutter from various sources like Email accounts, blogs, twitter and social-networking sites all at one place.

Mozilla Labs describes Raindrop as a open-Web technology for creating useful and compelling messaging experience.

The platform will allow users to categorize and prioritize messages so communication or information of higher importance gets visible before everything else, the open-platform will encourage front-end widgets and code from 3rd party developers for greater extensibility and customization - you can preview the prototype in action in the video posted next.

Few months ago Indian Railways started offering railway inquiry and PNR status updates via SMS, now India Post has also jumped onto the tech-bandwagon offering Speed Post and eMoneyOrder status tracking from mobile phones using SMS.

To track the current status of your speed-post or eMoneyOrder all you need to do is to use the following short-codes and send them to 55352.

For Speed Post:

SP[space]Speed Post Tracking Number
OR
EMS[space]Speed Post Tracking Number

For eMO:

MO[space]eMO PNR No
OR
EMO[space]eMO PNR No

There is an online service for almost everything these days, and new one of it's kind service Check My Torrent IP plugs a gap which nobody else addressed which is to let users check there publicly exposed IP information while downloading torrents - this can come handy if you are using online anonymity service like TorrentPrivacy or VPN and wants to check whether it is working as expected or not.

Posting and receiving updates via SMS is one of the most important feature every Twitter users wants, sadly, free SMS notifications from twitter are not sent to all countries citing texting costs - the good news is that Airtel users in India can now enjoy receiving free SMS notifications from Twitter and posting updates to twitter @ Re.1/SMS using the newly introduced 53000 short-code for Airtel India users.

To get started simply SMS START to 53000 and follow instructions to complete linking your device to twitter, if you are new to twitter SMS Signup to 53000 (all SMS's to short-code 53000 costs Re 1), somehow sending the above commands did not worked for me so I used another approach as instructed next.