Elgg is a open-source social networking platform for building a community based website. Think of a fully customizable MySpace of your own. Elgg V1.0 just launched on August 18th and every week there are new plugins being released from community members. Elgg’s Full Package comes with quite a few useful plugins, but these plugins from the community really bring Elgg to the next level.

• Be Myspace’s Tom v1.0 1.1

  The Be Tom plugin automatically adds the user of your choice to a newly registered users friend list. Hence the name Be Tom. On Myspace every new user automatically has …

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Many ads on the web nowadays can be annoying and intrusive. Some can actually be quite helpful though. I am not against advertising on the Internet, but I am for a persons right to block them if they so choose. With just 3 free programs you can be nearly 99% ad free, even from the ads on this site!

First off I want to say that if you are a Verizon Wireless customer and have been stuck with outrageous charges on your bill from “megabyte usage”, you are not alone. Since Verizon has decided to switch over to a per-megabyte usage charge, complaints have been piling up all over the Internet in response to its vague and deceiving outlines.

Apparently there is mass confusion over what constitutes megabyte usage. I will settle this for now and say anything you do with your phone besides making voice calls uses megabytes. The real question is, what does Verizon want to charge as …

MixTurtle.com is a new music search website. Not quite like downloading discographies, this is anbsp; single track search engine. You can stream music off sourced websites, and it has multiple sources for the same song. Much like stumbleupon or google, except strictly for music.

So far, I’ve gotten pretty good results even in the foreign music arena. This is a pretty big one because it is difficult to find torrents for obscure bands. Combine this website with Firefox’s plugin “download helper”, and you can download …

Lasik eye surgery is a great alternative to wearing corrective eye glasses and contact lenses. I personally have been contemplating Lasik eye surgery for some years now and have found that the benefits of Lasik are even more convincing than I originally thought.

Some of the many benefits of Lasik eye surgery

• A meta-analysis dated March 2008 from the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery found a 95.4 percent patient satisfaction rate among LASIK patients worldwide.
• Lasik can be safer then contact lenses for your eyes. Risk of infection is much lower for Lasik surgery than your common, everyday contact lenses.
• There are …
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