Technology Bites

Sorry for no updates on this blog from past one week, my old readers know the reason but my new readers may be wondering of this. I am currently in India for a vacation, i will be back in a couple of days and will continue blogging, till then please bear with me. My recent [...]

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/software/20_Open_Source_Windows_Apps_For_You’; Some of the commercial software like Photoshop are so expensive that an average user can not afford to buy it. Lately I am looking for some free or open source alternatives for windows programs and i was amazed with the range of programs available. Here i will list some of the open [...]

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/design/10_Beautiful_Dark_Wordpress_Themes’; Finding a good wordpress theme for a new blog is far difficult nowadays with thousands of themes available. Sadly some themes are just slight modifications of the popular themes and carry 3 or 4 sponsored links. In this post i will try to list some of the best dark wordpress themes available. [...]

8apps is a social network for productive people. The name itself tells you that it is a combination of 8 applications to increase your productivity. Currently only 4 apps have been implemented, Handshake (social network), Orchestrate (task management), Blueprint (brainstorming) and Pinpoint (meetings). Hand Shake: Handshake is a social network application of 8apps. You can [...]

gleamd is the new social network in people marking. What is gleamd ?: “Users write a short biography or find publicly available information on a person they find to be interesting and submit it to gleamd by clicking “add person” on the menu bar. If others also find that person to be interesting, they can [...]

Sometime its frustrating to wait for an invite for a web service to try out. Now a days all web2.0 sites are launching as private beta before they go public. Invite Share makes it easy to get invited to private betas, it is a good concept and has room to grow big. How it works: [...]

Rediff launched a social media sharing network named iShare. You can share videos, music and photos using the network. If you are a rediff user you can login with your rediff ID and start using the site. To upload files you need to download a desktop client and install to your system, this looks something [...]

Update: The author of the blog promptly removed the post and he said he don`t know about how to reference the links to other blogs posts as he is new to blogging. In response to his prompt action i am altering the post. Two weeks back i wrote a post on Top 20 wordpress plugins [...]

Recently i got a chance to check VeohTV, for those who don’t know about VeohTV it is a desktop application that lets you watch, upload and download video from popular video sites. VeohTV is a killer application in the internet TV space. Like Joost and Babelgum it lets you watch TV over PC, you can [...]

These are some interesting posts from the tech blogopshere, Hope you will enjoy reading these posts. 5 Useful WordPress Plug-ins by Jake of Jatecblog VLC Media Player, play everything anywhere by Benedict Herold of Tech Corner Want To Talk To Someone Human From Now On? by Tim of Lisitikal.com 3 WordPress plugins to increase RSS [...]

Microsoft Research unveiled a new product called Livestation which streams live TV over PC. This is slightly different than Joost, it only streams live TV. Livestation is a P2P broadcating service built on Silverlight technology platform. It is currently in beta and will launch fully in october. Currently available for windows, the application will come [...]

Last week i posted about pownce, Kevin Rose’s New startup. Today i got an invite from Shankar Ganesh to pownce (see his review). I got 6 invites to send, if you need one drop a comment. Pownce features i already described in my earlier post, what i didn’t know at that time is the pro [...]

I have been playing with a Firefox extension called ThumbStrips, this is a quite nice tool it makes screenshots of the sites you visit. ThumbStrips makes a filmstrip of thumbnails of the web pages you visit, so that you can go back to them and see what you browsed. In other words this extension makes [...]

Hi guys, you might have already noticed that my frequency of posts has come down, the thing is i am a bit busy these days with work. I am going to India on a vacation from July 3rd to Aug 3rd and i have to finish some things before i go. I will try to [...]