Technology Bites

From past few days i am playing with Inkscape, a open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape functionality is similar to Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Freehand or Xara X, it uses Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open XML-based W3C standard, as the native format. So far i am impressed with Inkscape functionality it has. Inkscape is [...]

I have installed quite a few wordpress plugins in the last 3 months to keep this blog running. I would strongly recommend these plugins to any blogger and they might be useful for the new blogger. Add Meta Tags Add Meta Tags plugin adds the description and keywords XHTML META tags to your blog’s front [...]

Fliva widget is a fun way of telling about yourself to your audience. Fliva is a flash widget that can be embedded to any blog or social networking site. It is a kind of poll widget where you fill questions and answers and add your favorites. The design is flash based and its simple, just [...]

Cellfish is a new community site for sharing media on your cell phone. You can upload media content from your phone or from your computer and share with friends. How it works: Register for the site to access the features, once registered you will get a licker (storage space) where you can save all your [...]

MySpace Launched its video sharing network MySpace TV. It appears to me that they have copied most of the features from Youtube. It would have been better if they design the site with a unique look and feel. Mashable did a nice comparison of the two sites and came with 12 similarities. The most prominent [...]

Microsoft announced today the availability of windows live folders beta and windows live gallery beta. Windows Live Folders: Windows live folders is a file storage service for users, currently 500Mb of space is available for storing files. Documents, Photos and Music can be uploaded to folders. Upload is through a form, you can login to [...]

Digg founder Kevin Rose announced today about his new startup on his blog. Pownce is a kind of social network site where you can send stuff to your friends. Currently the site is in private beta, if you are interested you can request an invitation from the home page. What is Pownce Pownce is a [...]

Google News launched a new image version, to see it in action go to Google News, currently it appears to me that it is only available in US. The new version adds a text link “Image Version” on the home page when you click this link you will see News Images as square thumbs. Mouse [...]

Spotplex is a news ranking site like [tag]Digg[/tag], but it is different from Digg. The site is in beta for quite some time and launched public today. .. you can find what is the hot news today, this week, or this month in real time at Spotplex. This is not a list of articles people [...]

Printo is a Bangalore based startup aims to transfer digital printing in India with services from printing from Photo albums to Business cards. Printo is different from the digital photo print services available in India, it is focussing on photo calenders, business cards and digital documents. Hindu reported that Printo is in talks with services [...]

Blinkx, video seach engine launched a contextual advertising platform for video content. With the new platform video content publishers can include video advertising with options that include pre, post and mid-roll placement, as well as dynamically selected banners, in-video mini banners and a unique, post-roll catalog view. The AdHoc platform uses the speech recognition technology [...]

This weeks interesting blog posts from the blogopshere, Hope you will enjoy reading these posts. Programmer’s Notepad, simply powerful text editor by TechCorner Top 5 Statistics Tool for your Blog by Nirmal Blogger can make things better by Shankar Ganesh Start Getting A ROI By Building Your Own Netflix/Gamefly Store by Listikal Review of Gizmo [...]

Wink is a great tool for building online presentations to demonstrate your software applications or build a screencast of an application. You can create presentations or screencasts with Wink in just minutes, you can record mouse movements or take screenshots of your application and save them as flash files. [Click to enlarge the image]

The web based Google talk gadget now allows you chat with multi users in a group chat. To open group chat click on the icon Group Chat when you are on a conversation with somebody, you can invite several people to the conversation. It is a small feature but it is much needed feature, but [...]

WordPress 2.2.1 version is released today and is available for download from wordpress.org. This is a security fix release, so you must upgrade to this version as early as possible. List of bug fixes Atom feed validation fixes XML-RPC fixes Widget backward compatibility fixes Widget layout fixes for IE7 Page and Text Widget improvements

Few days back K2 v0.9.6 theme for wordpress was released, this release contains security fixes. It’s time to update to this version if you have not already done. The new K2 now has support for two sidebars, you can enable this feature in the K2 options panel. I am glad that they considered 2 sidebars [...]

Few days back i had a chance to test Synthasite, a new web based WYSIWYG editor. With Synthasite one can create web pages in minutes. The site is currently in private beta and has some basic features but it looks impressive, when they add full set of features it becomes killer application. Synthasite tool uses [...]

Yesterday there was a rumor about Yahoo and MySpace deal, TechCrunch reported that News Corp is in talks with Yahoo, where Yahoo will buy MySpace and in return 25% stake in the combined Yahoo and Myspace for News corp. Based on the current Yahoo market value Myspace is worth $12 billion. Mashable has a story [...]

Apple today announced that iPhone users will be able to stream Youtube videos on their phones. A new application designed by Apple will wirelessly stream Youtube videos to iPhone over Wi-Fi or EDGE networks. Youtube announced that they will be encoding their videos in H.264 format for high quality streaming, which will make iPhone the [...]

Yahoo announced on tuesday its improved version of Yahoo Go for Mobile, the new veriosn will be introduced on Friday. Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 will launch in fully customized versions on Friday in other countries including Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesian Italy, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, Thailand and Vietnam. Yahoo! Go is [...]