The leading company in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), Tivo has announced the availability of YouTube videos on the TV via TiVo DVR, allowing broadband-connected subscribers with TiVo Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs to search, browse and watch million of videos from YouTube directly on their televisions.

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The emergence of Google has changed the way users utilize the internet significantly. Most net users Google information via Google’s browser, check email via their Gmail account, locate their girl friend’s house with Google Earth, and so on. Besides these useful and common tools frequently seen from Google, there are a lot more Google’s products available. A fan of Google has compiled a list of useful but not commonly known tools. Probably you’ve never heard of these tools, but it is worthwhile to give them a try.

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Astronomers, space enthusiasts or star gazers probably have traveled the galaxies to see the constellation or watch the planets’ movement with Google Sky. If the experience doesn’t seem to be convincing with Google’s application, Microsoft would like to welcome you to its recently announced free tool, WorldWide Telescope, for exploring and enhancing the universe experience.

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The leading global online social network, Friendster has recently launched a mobile version of its site globally (m.friendster.com), which can be accessed through any Internet-ready mobile devices, allowing users to stay connected with their friends - anytime, anywhere even when away from the computer.

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Home security system is important for any household. However, it may not always be affordable especially the Digital Surveillance system involves huge maintenance and installation cost. Not to worry now, you have the option to turn your conventional webcam in your house to a low cost yet free maintenance internet based home surveillance system. By signing up and accessing to HomeCamera website, user will be able to connect to the server to view and monitor the condition at the other ends remotely, through a conventional web camera.

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Instant Messaging is a pretty great and popular utility which allows users to have real-time or instantaneous communication with friends using internet facilities. It helps to maintain friendships and relationships all over the world in a very economical way. Despite its useful features to enhance and enrich effective and efficient communication, the main drawback of most of the instant messenger tools is it needs to be installed and tied to a specific computer. You probably can’t use the communication facility in other computers if it is not installed with the software. For instance, if your office software policy restricts you from installing any software application, then you can’t enjoy real time communication based on typed text. To overcome the difficulty and to allow users to continue enjoying the fun of instant messaging, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has unveiled its next generation and improved Instant Messenger for the web, namely AIM Express.

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Occasionally, you may need to share presentation material with your clients or counterpart besides walking them through voice conversation. There are few tools such as Windows Netmeeting or Google Presentation that you can explore to ease the working life especially for those that are situated in different geography areas. If you are fed up with any of them and would like to try out new tool, you may need this. Named as Zoho Show 2.0, it enables users to deliver live presentation from a remote site without personally attend to their clients. Besides, user can edit or upload the foils anywhere as long as there is broadband access.

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The famous online music file sharing service, Napster has just announced the launch of the world’s largest and most comprehensive MP3 store offering 6 million unprotected tracks songs, which the company claims is 50% larger than any other MP3 download store in existence. The Napster’s DRM-free MP3 tracks are compatible with virtually any music player including iPod and iPhone and currently only available to customers in US.

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Facebook enthusiasts can now invite their friends in their social network community to join and have a group phone chat via the newly released, Party Line, by Equals. This new application in Facebook allows users to create their own “party line” and invite up to 5 friends to enjoy group communication for up to 15 minutes. The emergence of “Party Line” has substantially changed the façade of social networking. The new platform in Facebook has created considerable excitement among users who are active in the social networking community. They can initiate an instantaneous group phone chat with friends from other countries and enjoy the fun. It has bridged social networking and voice in a truly unique and compelling way.

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Parents or teachers who want to expose kids to the wonders of wildlife can introduce them to an online movie maker from National Geographic. What better way to get young kids or teenagers to appreciate the wonders of wildlife and nature than to get them to put together a video just by dragging some images and clicking on some keys. The Wildlife Filmmaker is a user-friendly and fun way to create beautiful animal videos. It beats the idiot box for it is both educational and interactive.

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