Google is a big fan of the open source MySql relational database, it uses this for its applications. Google made some patches to the relational MySql database for better manageability and reliability, google has released these patches for the community, Mark Callaghan, Software Engineer at Google posted on the google code blog. These patches are [...]

Wikipedia is now available on DVD for those who don’t have a proper internet connection. This wikipedia version 0.5 release contains around 2000 pages from the english wiki pages with topics ranging from geography, literature, arts and science.
The Wikipedia CD is compatible with Windows (back to 98), Macintosh (Intel) OS X and Linux x86. [...]

Newsvine relaunched today calling it Newsvine Evergreen. Now users can customize the Newsvine home page with modules. The frontpage comes with modules like top story, live Newsvine, Top seeds, most active stories, weather etc. Users can now add their favorite RSS feeds to the frontpage.
With the modularization of the front page it is now [...]

Firefox 1.5 in no more supported from now onwards, that means no security or stability will be available in future. if you are still using firefox 1.5 then its time to upgrade to firefox 2. Firefox 2 has some nice features like antiphishing, inbuilt spell checker and advanced RSS feed support. Download the latest version [...]

Yahoo Music launched music lyrics today with Gracenote. This is the first time lyrics are available legally on the internet says Ian C Rogers. Around 400,000 song lyrics are available through yahoo music, yahoo launched this service along with Gracenote. Yahoo licensed the lyrics repository from Gracenote and added to yahoo music. Under the aggrement [...]

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There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.
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Softpedia reports that YouTube is going to add adverts before video clips by next year to allow companies to monetize their videos. The ad revenue generated from these ads will be shared with the broadcasters. Recently Jalipo announced a video market place for publishers and Adobe is planning to release a media player for video [...]

Mercora is a social radio network that aims to connect people and their music. With Mercora you can listen to thousands of songs meet people with similar music tastes. You can connect to mercora with AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Googletalk Ids.

To get started Download the IM Radio from mercora and login with your [...]