Technology Bites

Yahoo is reportedly building a social network called Kickstart for college students looking for jobs. It connects college students with the employers. Registered users will have profiles like mini resumes something similar to LinkedIn and a quotation to have a personal feel of the user. Users can join groups of the companies they are interested [...]

We have huge list of nice wordpress themes to pimp your blog, but when it comes to photoblog themes for wordpress we only have few themes specifically created for wordpress. Benedict of Techcorner is looking for some photo blog themes to amuse us with his photography skills. Below is a list of nice photo blog [...]

Nokia launched 4 new models of phones and internet services under the brand name “Ovi“. The new service ovi will include nokia music store, N-gage gaming site, maps. “With millions of tracks from major artists, independent labels as well as local hits, the Nokia Music Store offers people the chance to enjoy music directly on [...]

The Google Phone rumors are continuing to roll but no one seems to know exactly Google plans. Engadget today reported that Google is planning a linux based OS for the mobile platform. Google’s mobile project started with the acquisition of a mobile software company called Android late in 2005. They have developed this mobile operating [...]

BoingBoing.Net, the second top blog in the world according to technorati got a new look and some exciting features. The new design is pretty clean and simple with out any clutter. The redesign includes new logo, mascots, clean design, user comments and a new gadget blog. A few years back BoingBoing removed the comments because [...]

This image resizing and manipulation looks interesting, it resizes the image without losing the original features. Images can be shrunken or expanded with out distoring the image. Check the video for the demonstration. This unique algorithm developed by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan (Adobe) Video link [Via TechCrunch and Go2web20]

Frostfirehive.com is another startup entering already crowded space of Personalised start pages. Fristfirehive is launched today as beta, if you are a Netvibes or Pageflakes user you will realize this is just another personal start page. You can add content to your Hive as widgets and keep up to date with whats happening on the [...]

Thanks to YoutubeDesktop team for allowing me to see their rich web 2.0 application. Youtube desktop has a simple to use interface which is better than any other video watching application. It is a web based application and mimics a desktop application but nothing to download to watch the videos Youtube desktop is a dynamic [...]

Text Link Ads is sending emails that they have changed their URL structure and all the affiliates had to change to the new URl, they are suing tiny URL. I guess this move is because of the Google’s move on penalizing sites selling text links. Whatever may be the reason, if you have posted these [...]

Here is a list of useful Firefox extensions for web developers and programmers. 1. Greasemonkey Greasemonkey allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to specific web pages. Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functionality to web pages, fixing rendering bugs, combining data from multiple webpages, and numerous other purposes. 2. Firebug With [...]

Orkut is going to have a face lift, this is the first redesign of the sites as far as i know. My account is still showing the boring old interface, the new design is looking better than the old one. The one comment we always hear is how orkut’s simplicity keeps long-time users coming back [...]

[tag]YouTube[/tag] this week started displaying overlay video ads on videos. When you are watching a video after 15 seconds a video ad appears on the player and sits there for 10 seconds, if the user doesn’t click the video it will go and the normal video resumes, if the user clicks the video it starts [...]

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech_news/Youtube_Catcher_Youtube_and_Other_Video_Downloader_Tool’; Looking for a good solution to download [tag]Youtube[/tag] and other video sharing site videos, Youtube Catcher is for you. Youtube Catcher can download videos from Youtube, Google Video, Myspace Video, Yahoo video Dailymotion Stage6 Veoh. The downloaded videos can be exported to various formats like MPG,AVI, MP4,3GP, 3G2, WMV, PSP, MOV, FLV [...]

Microsoft Tafiti is a new search site built on their [tag]silverlight[/tag] technology. The user interface looks pretty good it provides a dynamic interface with intuitive graphics. You can search web, Images, news, rss feeds and books. When you enter the search term, search results will open on the center pane and small icons popup on [...]

Yahoo has introduced a new section for inline videos on thier front page. I am not sure when it was introduced but i just noticed it now. The good thing about this is that you don’t have to leave the home page to view videos. You just have click on the video image and then [...]

The once most popular BitTorrent search engine SuprNova.org is back, thanks to The Pirate Bay. The site is in open public beta and will remain as public beta for few weeks for testing and bug fixes. The relaunched version of SuprNova is tracking 1.048.775 torrents on 26.899 trackers and there are a total of 20.602.164 [...]

Zoho writer, the online word processor now supports offline functionality. This new version includes offline viewing of the documents and comments. To use this feature you need to install first Google Gears and then click on the ‘go offline’ link in the Zoho writer, it will download the documents to your computer. Whenever you want [...]

Bored of typing in mobile keyboards, a new company Vlingo is offering the ability to talk to your phone instead of typing. Vlingo speech recognition technology will allow you to speak to your phone what you want. For example you want to search something in your mobile browser, instead of typing your search queries you [...]

[tag]Adobe[/tag] today announced the latest version of its Adobe Flash Player 9. This new version supports H.264 video support, the same standard used in Blu-Ray and HD6DVD high definition video players. Codenamed Moviestar this update is avialable as a free download from Adobe Labs later today. According to Adobe this new player also supports High [...]

Skype today explained what happened on August 16th on skype blog. It seems that Microsoft Windows patch has caused this outage, they are blaming Windows patch for bugs in their system. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after [...]