Technology Bites

DalilyMe is a personalized news service currently in private beta. DaliyMe is not another news aggregator, what separates it from the crowd is DailyMe licensed the content from publishers, so you will never have to leave the site to read that interesting piece of story. After creating an account with DailyMe, you can refine your [...]

Here we go with our Technology Talk series, below is the list of some interesting articles from the blogosphere. Steve Rubel explains you how to turn Gmail into a social hub to catch up with the social network overload Madhur gives us some Tips on promoting your blog Brown Baron has a nice post on [...]

rsizr is an online image resizing tool based on Seam Carving a technique developed by by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan (Adobe). This tool resize the image without losing the original features of the image. I played it with for sometime and i am impressed with its functionality. As Orli points out it [...]

Youtube is rolling a new feature called video units with embedded Google ads. You can create video channel related to your site’s content and monetize it with Google ads. So far i haven’t seen any active link in Youtube to create these video units. Checkout the Youtube page for more details. Youtube has a link [...]

flauntR is a nice tool for editing and styling photos online. If you feel photoshop is complicated for you or you just want to have your photo styled for social networks flauntR is for you. flauntR has a nice interface built on Flex platform, working with the tool is a breeze. You can start right [...]

InterviewUp is a new site which helps you prepare for the interview. InterviewUp has possible questions and answers you may face in your interview. The idea is simple and interesting, the site has lot of questions categorized with tags. You can find the type of questions you are looking by using the tags and search [...]

Zimdesk is a web OS, Virtual Desktop and Web applications with a nice interface. ZimDesk is organized in different categories including Office, Internet, Media, Games etc. Office apps includes Zimwrite, Zimmail, Zimsheet and Zimcalc, all of these apps works decently. There is an inbuilt Jabber based IM client for connecting with friends. There are few [...]

Blogrush, the much hyped widget is not driving any traffic. I installed it a few days back to check whether it really sends any traffic or not. Today i removed it from my sidebar because it is not of any use. If we look at the last 7 days stats of my blog i got [...]

Amazon launched today its DRM-free online music store called Amazon MP3. The service has around 2 million DRM Free songs now from more than 180,000 artists. The songs are priced at 89 cents to 99 cents and most of the albums are priced at $4.99 to $9.00. Top 100 songs can be downloaded at $0.89 [...]

WordPress 2.3 is released a few hours ago with support for tagging, plugin update notification etc. The full feature list can be found here. I always update to next version of wordpress immediately, but this time it’s better to wait until the plugins get updated to the new release. I use a lot of plugins [...]

dimdim is the first fess web meeting service based on the open source platform. didmdim is launched today at DEMOfall 2007. dimdim is a browser based service that allows you to share your desktop with your colleagues or friends. With dimdim users can share desktop, presentations, talk with each other and broadcast via a webcam. [...]

VibeAgent is a hotel recommendation site with tons of nice features. The site is still in closed beta and it is quite useful if you are frequent traveler. You can search for hotels and go through reviews by others to find the right hotel for you. The search is awesome and has several filters like [...]

Vixta.org is a Fedora based Linux distribution to get a vista style look for the fedora linux. From the screenshots it looks like Windows vista style. I don’t have access to a Fedora Linux machine to test this one. If you like what you see on the screenshots go and get your copy from sourceforge [...]

iFood.tv is a social network for food lovers to share and discuss recipes, meet new buddies. Users can upload text recipes, photos and videos. Registered users will get a profile page with guest book, blog and links to favorite recipes, videos. You can invite your buddies to the site from all the popular mail services [...]

Scriblink.com is an online collaboration tool to share your ideas with others. Scriblink has some basic tools to draw or write on the white board and then invite others to discuss the idea or your creations. You can invite up to 5 people to your white board at any time and also can talk with [...]

Fairtilizer is a community for music lovers. Using Fairtilizer you can upload and share songs, and vote on others submitted songs. You can listen to what people have voted most, create playlists. All tracks submitted first appear in the Upcoming section. From there, tracks that get the most support make it to the Charting section, [...]

Digg is introducing new features this year and today night they are releasing the first of these, new digg user profiles. Digg claims to be revamped the profiles from the ground up- making it easy to share your favorite stories and discover new interesting content by seeing what your friends are digging. The other important [...]

Propeller, a rebranded version of Netscape is live. The site looks like previous Netscape social news Digg clone. According to Netscape Blog, the new social site is live at propeller.com and also at news.aol.com. “In the coming weeks, you will be able to see Propeller content on both the new Netscape.com portal, as well as [...]

The use of mobile devices for browsing is increasing and its now time to make your wordpress blog mobile friendly. Particularly for geek blogs it is essential to optimize their blogs for mobile devices. In this post we will see the plugins available to make your wordpress blog Mobile friendly. Plugins: WordPress PDA Plugin: WordPress [...]

Google finally launched the much awaited presentation tool in Google’s online office suite. This tool is named Presently and has the basic functionality of powerpoint. The web interface is simple and and usable like other Google Apps, i like Google Apps because of their simplicity and ease of use. Presently may not be a competitor [...]