Google Testing New Layout for Search Results Page
Google has been toying around with it’s search results page layout for some time. They randomly serve these modified layouts to a small fraction of Google Search users and track various user patterns. Below are screenshots of some of the layouts that Google has played around with : The newest layout looks something like this […]
Opera Vulnerable to BitTorrent Exploit
LaFlecha is reporting that due to a bug in Opera Browser, a malformed Torrent file (*.torrent) can cause it to consume 100% cpu resources thus making the system unusable. According to this report, this bug affects Opera for Windows running on Windows SP1 or SP2. A proof of concept code has also been published. It’s […]
Microsoft to Buy Yahoo!
According to Nypost Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo!. This is not the first time such a rumour has surfaced on the web though. Google has been pushing Microsoft hard. Very recently it overtook Microsoft has the Most Valuable Brand. A week before that Google won a bidding battle with Microsoft and acquired DoubleClick. And of […]
Top 13 User JavaScript
Userjs is a powerfull tool that allows the user to modify a website according to his needs. It basically allows you to specify local JavaScript files for Opera to include on every page that you visit. It’s identical to what Greasemonkey does in Mozilla Firefox and Creammonkey does in Safari. It was introduced in Opera […]
More Joost Invites
I just recieved 998 invites from Joost. So anyone without an Joost invite just drop a comment and it would be sent to you. The email would contain the download link for Joost. After downloading and installing the software, you would be asked to create an account upon first run. Just make sure that you […]
Joost Invites
I have got 3 Joost invites which has been lying around for some time. Joost invites are quite easy to get these days (Joost should go public in a few days). However, if you haven’t managed to get your hands on an invite yet, just drop a comment, and the invite would be emailed to […]
GreedyTorrent – Boost Your Ratio
An Indian Software Developer has come up with a software, that promises to boost your download to upload ratio in private torrent trackers. GreedyTorrent acts as a local proxy for the BitTorrent Protocol. To start using it, you need to change your clients proxy settings to localhost:3456 . You can find detailed step by step […]
OpenDNS – Faster and Smarter
DNS stands for Domain Name System. Essentially, Domain Name System (DNS) translates domain names (host names) into actual ip addresses. So whenever you type an url in your browser, it first sends a request to the DNS of your ISP which resolves the hostname. If your ISP has a poor domain name system, then a […]
Opera Bytes v3
Hi there! Its time for another longish edition of Opera Bytes. I shall take you through all the hot news and scoops from world of Opera. Yesterday, Johan Borg posted a rather poetic update in the Desktop Team Blog, regarding the future of Opera. Of course, like everything coming from Opera Soft. Developers, it was […]
Review : Vista Start Menu
One of my major grudges with Windows Vista has been the way it’s start menu works. I am someone who regularly arranges the start menu entry into folder and subfolders. In this way, in spite of having a large number of applications instaled, whenever I want to launch a program I know exactly where to […]
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