Technology Bites

LiceScribe developed technology that redefines the way we use paper and pen. LiveScribe’s pen will let you take hand written notes from a lecture, the pen remembers the lecture you are hearing. If you miss any notes during the lecture, just tap the pen on the paper, and it will play back the lecture for [...]

Gizmoz is a new service for creating 3D talking avatars quite easily. Voki is another site operating in this space. The unique feature of gizmoz is that it creates a 3D image of your photo. You can place these avatars as widgets in your MySpace profiles or blogs. Gizmoz is built on flash platform and [...]

Apple today announced that it is bringing YouTube content to Apple TV. Beginning in mid june Apple TV will stream YouTube videos to users wide screen living room TVs. Apple TV now comes with 160GB hard disk to store lot of video or music content. to st With Apple TV’s remote users can browse, find [...]

Jobs and Gates on computing industry future. Further reading

Yes you can download 10000 shapes for free. If you are photoshop user then you must have these shapes. There are almost all kind of shapes including, circles, stars rings, 3D objects etc. The author has tested the shapes on Photoshop CS2, CS and 7.0. The file size is large around 37MB, but its worth [...]

Firefox has a good number of extensions to make it powerful web browser, these extensions may not be safe and they can make your computer vulnerable to hackers. Security Researcher Christopher Soghoian based at Indiana has found that the process used to update some of these add-ons automatically appears to be flawed, and allow hackers [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today unveil Microsoft Surface at All Things Digital conference, “the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology. Surface computing technology can recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content [...]

Music social network Last.fm has been acquired by CBS corporation for $280 million. Last.fm was founded five years ago and has 15 million active user following. This is the leading online network in this space, other include Pandora, Mog and iLike. As part of the deal Last.fm will remain independent with its management staying in [...]

Add relevant news feeds or video feeds to your blog and make money from these clips. This is a unique monetization for your blog or sites, if you cover news on your blog this is a good option for you to get relevant video clips to increase interactivity with your readers. TheNewsRoom is a viral [...]

Google’s acquisition spree continues with the latest acquisition of GreenBorder, a company focussed on security software. GreenBorder Pro is designed to protect computers from malware execution through browsers. The software separates browsing session from the computer virtually, so that malware or trojans can not infect the host system and when you close the session all [...]

Record any audio playing on your computer as mp3 or wav file with mp3mymp3 recorder. It can record any sound originating from your computer, it works by recording all audio through your sound card. Record internet radio and save to mp3 or wav. Record streaming audio from the Internet, microphone, or any other source for [...]

PlayMyGame is another site like Pictogame for creating flash games with your pictures. You can upload your picture and select the game from the 4 game options and create the game. These games can be embedded to Myspace or blogs. What is different from Pictogame is it allows to create eCards and Clips also along [...]

BlueOrganizer is a firefox add-on from AdaptiveBlue, which allows you browse the web faster and smarter in just a single click. It helps you organize your life online, it understands what is in a page like books, movies, restaurants, etc and then links them to the online tools to make browsing easier. For example you [...]

Twitbin is a Firefox Add-on to send and receive messages easily from your Firefox sidebar. You can take twitter with you where ever you go on the web. Once you login with your account you can start sending messages to twitter. You can set the refresh times for getting messages as 1, 5 or 10 [...]

Pictogame is flash based online tool for creating fun games with your pictures. It will make nice flash games out of your pictures, these games once made can be embedded to your blogs or myspace pages. To create a game upload your pic, select the game type you want and set options zoom and rotation, [...]

Vivendi a french media gaint is funding a startup dubbed as “Vivendi Mobile Entertainment”, a content with functionalities similar to YouTube and MySpace according to a report from French business journal Les Echos (Google translation). But unlike YouTube, Myspace this service is not free, users have to pay for the service. This service will launch [...]

I came across few nice tools to embed Flickr Photos in your blogs or myspace pages, I will make a list of them here and update the post with new tools whenever i find new ones. Pictobrowser: Easy to use interface, you need to enter your flickr username first and then select tags or sets [...]

Google Video ad formats now extended to support the 728×90 Leaderboard, 120×600 Skyscraper, and the 160×600 Wide Skyscraper. Previously video ads were enabled only for rectangles and squares. Now publishers using leaderboards and sky scrapers can also be able to show video ads, for this to work publishers should have enabled image ads in the [...]

Here are some interesting posts from the blogopshere CodeIDE, a online code complier and IDE by Tech Corner 10 reasons the Iphone will succeed by The Techie Blog How to Display Your Online Presence in Web Pages from yahoo? by Lyte Byte Firefox Scam Email to make Money From Adsense Referals by Techie Buzz Protect [...]

The Google Talk Gadget now supports emoticons, they just introduced this feature. Now you can IM your freinds with your favorite emoticons, total 15 emoticons to show your emotions. These emoticons comes in 3 different types, rounded, ractangled and naked. [Via Google Talk Blog]