Flickr thumbnails for landmarks in yahoo search

Published at May 10, 2007   Filed Under Yahoo   0 Comments  

Yahoo is on a roll in adding shortcuts to its search platform, last week they added shortcut for lyrics. Now they have added flickr thumbnails for famous landmarks like Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower, Empire State Building.. These flickr thumbails in yahoo search is not new, they already have this shortcut for funny photos and interesting [...]

Launchy: Keystroke Launcher for Windows

Published at May 10, 2007   Filed Under Software, Tweaks   7 Comments  

Launchy is a small application which will help you in opening your computer programs in a few strokes. With Launchy installed you can forget start menu, desktop icons etc, Launchy will do all the work for you.
For opening any program you can just type a few letters it will show you the matches, then [...]

Split-Screen Technology to Double Computer Use

Published at May 10, 2007   Filed Under Microsoft, Software, Technology   0 Comments  

Folks at Microsoft Research Bangalore, India are developing a software that can split a computer screen in two halves, each half can act as an individual computer with its own operating system, desktop, cursor and keyboard.
This will help small businesses in developing countries like India who have limited resources to deploy several systems.

“At the [...]

How Firefox earns money

Published at May 10, 2007   Filed Under Software   0 Comments  

We all know Firefox is an open source project and is a product of Mozilla foundation, but we never thought of how Mozilla foundation is making money from firefox. APCmag published an interview with Mozilla Fondation CEO Mitchell Baker, there she reveals that Mozilla foundation is making millions per year from Firefox.
The general assumption [...]

Google to Identify malicious sites

Published at May 9, 2007   Filed Under Google, Technology   3 Comments  

Google is preparing to identify sites spreading malicious software which can harm the users PCs. If you remember recent hack a mac day contest winner hacked the mac by exploiting a bug in the quick time through a malicious site. These malicious sites look normal and users doesn’t know how they will spoil the system [...]

Ubuntu Mobile Edition

Published at May 8, 2007   Filed Under Gadgets, Software, Technology   0 Comments  

The popular open source Linux provider Ubuntu is partnering with Intel to bring Ubuntu to Mobile devices. Few days back it was announced that Dell will offer Ubuntu powerd Linux PCs. The Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Project will release the first version in October 2007.
Matt Zimmerman’s announcement on Ubuntu lists

Three years on, it is [...]

Yahoo to close US auction sites

Published at May 8, 2007   Filed Under Yahoo   0 Comments  

Last week there is an announcement that Yahoo photos is shutting down in favor of flickr, today Yahoo said in a blog post its US and Canada auction sites are retiring on June 16th, 2007. Other Yahoo auction sites Hongkong, Singapore and Taiwan will continue to offer services.
After careful consideration, we have decided to [...]

Google Analytics Redesigned

Published at May 8, 2007   Filed Under Google, Software   0 Comments  

Google Analytics has been redesigned with improved interface, reporting and sharing features. Google announced today at the EMetrics summit. All the features of the current version will be there in the new version, infact more features have been added.
Currently some of the accounts have been switched to new interface and the rest will be [...]