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Have you ever wondered what happens to your online accounts after you die(deceased)? Here are some of the solutions to that.

1. E-Mail

Hotmail lets relatives order a CD of all the messages in a deceased user’s account if they provide a death certificate and proof of power of attorney. Gmail requires the same paperwork plus a copy of an e-mail the deceased sent to the petitioner.

2.Social Networking

Facebook will follow a family’s wishes to take down a deceased user’s profile or keep it in a “memorial state,” which removes features like status updates and lets only confirmed friends view the profile and post comments on it.

3.Photo-Sharing

Photo-storage site Flickr will keep an account up and mostly open to the public, but if a user had marked any photos as private, the site won’t let family or friends into the account to access them.

4.Passwords

Several companies, like Legacy Locker, offer encrypted space to store passwords and other account information to give to designated recipients after a user dies. Each site has a system in place to verify a user’s death before distributing any digital assets.

(article from http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1920427,00.html)

3 more days! Yes, I’m a geek. 1/4 geek. Haha. Whatever.

1. Cuil. Aka the “Google Killer”, apparently. Just found out recently. Some says it is the ultimate search engine and is going to replace Google as number one search engine on the net pretty soon. But well, err things happen and they are still trying to beat Google. Just because they have a few exworkers from Google doesn’t always mean they know how Google works. Right now they search more pages than Google, Yahoo and MSN combined. Looks like they’re on the right track. Keep it up, and I’m sure they’ll manage to beat Google by 2050. Oh by the way, for the curious ones, cuil is an old Irish word for “knowledge’. Brilliant, I guess. 8/10.

2. Mix Turtle. Aka the MP3 searcher. Helped me a couple of times in the past. Once I was looking for a particular music file but somehow couldn’t find it. So I fired up Mix Turtle, and in no time I got the file that I’ve been looking for. Quite okay. Try it. 6/10.

3. Pipl. Spock. 123People. When it comes to tracking people down on the web, these three are the best people finder, other than Google and Facebook. If you’re looking for someone, then try one of these. I couldn’t tell you how much they’ve helped me in my detective work. Just don’t ask who I was looking for. And no its not you. 8/10.

4. MyLiveSearch. Okay, for the last one, yet another dubbed as “Google Killer” is MyLiveSearch. Though still in development, it is all ready creating a buzz all over the internet. It works by providing you a better live search. I don’t know. I just merely repeating what it says on the frontpage. Go on and read it yourself. As for me, I’ll be really interested to see how good it is when it goes live, but I can’t really see it working as a long term proposition. 5/10 for hype.

There are few more, but we’ll get back to that later. That’s it for now.