Monthly Archives: August 2007

Orkut Redesign

Posted on August 24, 2007 by vrreddy

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. … Continue reading →

Stop YouTube Overlay Ads With TubeStop

Posted on August 24, 2007 by vrreddy

[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 … Continue reading →

Youtube Catcher: Youtube and Other Video Downloader Tool

Posted on August 23, 2007 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →

Microsoft Tafiti

Posted on August 23, 2007 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →

Yahoo Inline Videos

Posted on August 23, 2007 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →

SuprNova is Back

Posted on August 22, 2007 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →

Zoho Writer Goes Offline

Posted on August 21, 2007 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →

Vlingo: Voice-To-Text Mobile Web Browsing

Posted on August 21, 2007 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →

Adobe Flash Player Now Supports HD Video Quality

Posted on August 21, 2007 by vrreddy

[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 … Continue reading →

Skype Blames Windows Update for Outage

Posted on August 20, 2007 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →