Technology Bites

Windows Live Planet is a social network from Microsoft India. The details about the site like when it is launched are not available at this time but Liveside readers spotted the site from MSN India pages.

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TubeMaster++ is a freeware for windows that allows users to capture the video and music playing in ay browser. Unlike other video download tools you don’t have copy paste the URLs, it automatically captures the media you are playing at any time, all you need to do is keep the TubeMaster++ running.

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Mozilla Firefox 3.5 final is released today with several improvements and new features. The most notable are new Tracemonkey Javascript engine which will make rendering heavy Javascript pages like Google Docs and others to load faster. Geo location features, and HTML 5 tags support is also included. The release also includes improvements to the Gecko layout engine.

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Everyone who has a website or blog has to upload files to their ftp server and download files to local computer regularly. There are some great software like Filezilla to do that, but there is also a better way to use FTP with out connecting with FTP software. NetDrive is a freeware for Windows that allows you to map FTP servers as local drives in Windows.
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File sharing is a common practice among users to share files with friends or to host files elsewhere if they don’t have enough drive space to host themselves. Sometimes you may want to upload files to multiple hosting sites so that you can eliminate download counters etc.
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“I find television to be very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.” Said Groucho Marx. But apparently, everyone these days is too busy to read books. Of course you are excluded if you are a student and that too a ‘good’ student. People these days watch less of television and spend more time online. Spending time in the library is a far off thing for many.
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Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7 will ship on October 22, 2009. Today Microsoft announced the pricing details for windows 7, interestingly the prices are slightly lower when compared to the Windows Vista prices. Along with the pricing Microsoft is also allowing users to pre-order upgrade packages for half the price in select markets.
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Yahoo is testing new home pages for quite some time, these new home pages are not enabled for all Yahoo user, but only a small percentage of users will see these designs. There are two variations of the new Yahoo designs, one that is released in Sep 2008 and the other that is released in May 2009.
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Image Tuner is a freeware for windows that allows you to do basic editing of your digital photos and images. The program allows batch resizing, converting, watermarking, and renaming of the photos.
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There are several video downloader and scripts available for downloading Youtube and other popular video sharing sites, but not many for Hulu. Hulu Video downloader is a freeware app that allows you to download Hulu videos to your desktop.
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