Joost – Now Streaming to Your Browser
Do you remember Joost – the video streaming that promised to bring Television to your desktop? It made a big splash when it was launched. Joost invites were much sought after resource. But then something went wrong. People stopped bothering about Joost. No one wanted to download a separate piece of software to watch videos. […]
How Much Is Your Website Worth ?
Ever wondered how much your website is really worth? Well here are five fun tools that attempts to figure that out : Glurk : Glurk bases your valuation on factors such as value of the domain name, Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Number of Incoming Links, Monthly Uniques, Monthly Pages, Years in Existence, Monthly […]
Make Vista’s User Account Control Less Annoying with Norton
User Account Control or UAC is one of the most annoying new features in Windows Vista (7 Steps to Delete a Shortcut! – give me a break). Microsoft has promised to tone it down in Windows 7, but you don’t need to wait for Windows 7 to make UAC more bearable. Norton has released a […]
Opera Bytes v6
After a long break (in fact very long) I am back with another edition of Opera Bytes. Yesterday Jon Hicks formally joined Opera Software as a Senior Designer. He was a part of the team that developed the ubiquitous Firefox logo (it was created by Hicks based on a concept by Daniel Burka). He has […]
Opera 9.6 – It’s Here
After multiple Release Candidates and a Beta build, Opera 9.6 has finally arrived. The main changes are – Opera Link : Now you can synchronize Custom search engines and typed history along with bookmarks, notes, personal bar and Speed Dial in Opera Link. I wish they would add RSS feed list, toolbar.ini and menu.ini to […]
Opera India Community Meetup
Opera Software (India) is organizing a meet-up of Opera fans in Delhi on the evening of Oct 9 from 7 to 9 PM. If you are in Delhi or NCR and would like to come to the event, then please RSVP by sending a mail to shwetankd [at] opera.com. There is no age restriction, and […]
Google Launches MapMaker For India and 57 Other Countries
Google has launched it’s MapMaker service for India and 57 other countries ( full list available here ). Google MapMaker was completely developed by Google India. It is aimed to improve the quality of maps for those regions of the world where maps data is sparse. MapMaker will allow users to contribute, share and edit […]
Pixelpipe – Simultaneously Upload Your Media to 30+ Websites
Pixelpipe is a new service that enables you to mass distribute media. The concept itself is not new. Ping.fm did it for text (microblogging and status updates) and Hey!Spread and TubeMogul did it for videos. But Pixelpipe allows you distribute all forms of media across the web – Images, Videos as well as Audio Clippings. […]
Everything You Wanted To Know About Windows 7
The Windows 7 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) What is Windows 7? Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista. When will it be released? Microsoft is aiming for a Jan 2010 release. But, it’s too early to tell for sure. If all is well, then it may even be released in time for 2009 Christmas. […]
Ubisoft caught Pirating the Pirates
I just read this over at Thinkdigit forums. The story goes something like this : Apparently people who purchased Rainbow Six Vegas 2 from Direct2Drive were facing problems while applying the official 1.02 patch and D2D didn’t seem interested in fixing the issue soon. Generously enough Ubisoft decided to go ahead and solve the problem […]
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