Srinivas Padma: Personal Musings on Life, Growth, and Connections

Google will take a fee $20 per year from those who want additional storage in its Gmail and Picasa applications. As of now, Google offers free storage space of 2.8 GB for Gmail and 1 GB for Picasa. By paying $ 20, users can have extra 6 GB storage. Yahoo, on the other hand, offers unlimited storage in its mail service. Microsoft has also refurbished its Windows Sky drive application and now offers 500 GB storage for free.You can put your files there and access them from anywhere in the world. All you need is a Hotmail ID. Internet is not kid stuff A survey by security firm Symantec has confirmed the worst fears of parents. It warns that most teens and kids who browse the Internet are doing dangerous things online. While most parents thought that kids were online only about three hours a week, in reality, they were online for more than seven hours. And more than 25 per cent of them confessed that they were doing things that would make their parents shudder. The survey reve...

The open source browser, Firefox, which can be freely downloaded, now has a child-friendly extension called Glubble. Glubble, ( www.glubble.com ) which has a Walt Disney sound and look to it, will make browsing the Internet an easier game for kids. Designed by Glaxstar, a company which has built other free addons for Firefox, the browser is user specific (you need to create a user name and password to browse) and parents can tweak it easily to restrict access to sites according to the age of the child. In that sense, it is parent-friendly too. It initially gives access to some 350 sites including Disney, National Geographic and Animal Planet, which kids dote on. Parents can add on or delete as they wish. Even if searches are given on Google or Yahoo, kids will get to see only those sites which fit Glubble specifications.