Windows Live Translator Beta From Microsoft

Published at September 9, 2007   Filed Under Microsoft   0 Comments  

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or Email alerts. Thanks for visiting!Windows Live Translator is a new beta service from Microsoft for automatic machine translation of text and web pages. The tool lets you translate text from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, [...]

Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads

Published at September 8, 2007   Filed Under Firefox   3 Comments  

In less than three years Firefox hit 400 million downloads. It took 99 days to hit 25 million downloads, and one year to 100 million downloads. Spread Firefox buttons and banners placed on websites and blogs helped to achieve this feat by Mozilla.
Techcrunch reported that 50% of thier readers are Firefox users, i was [...]

40+ Free Windows Apps For You

Published at September 8, 2007   Filed Under Software, Tools   118 Comments  

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This post is the part 2 of my earlier post 20 Open Source Windows Apps For You, i got lot of feedback for that post and my readers suggested some excellent programs to be included in that list. So here i am listing all those programs which i have missed in my earlier [...]

del.icio.us 2.0

Published at September 7, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   3 Comments  

The popular social bookmarking site Del.icio.us is getting a new web 2.0 look, they are offering a preview for some invited users.
According to del.icio.us blog the initial invites list is full and they will add more invites later, if you want to get invited for the preview you can add yourname here.
Techcrunch has [...]

Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Gimp

Published at September 6, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   3 Comments  

Deziner folio has released Web 2.0 layer styles for photoshop some time back, now gimp-tutorials.net released some of these styles for GIMP. If you are a GIMP user you will love these styles.
These will come handy in creating cool Web 2.0 headers, buttons, or graphics. These are released under GPL, go and get your layer [...]

Google Reader gets Search

Published at September 6, 2007   Filed Under Google   2 Comments  

The much awaited feature in Google Reader, the ability to search feeds with keywords is added today. You can search your subscribed feeds as well as shared feed items using keywords.
It took long for the company who is specialized in search to add this feature to Google reader. Along with search there are some [...]

Customize iGoogle’s Layout

Published at September 3, 2007   Filed Under Google   6 Comments  

iGoogle has a feature which lets you customize the layout of the tab. Whether this is new feature or a hidden one is not clear, myself i never noticed it.
There are 7 layouts available so far,
1. 1 column
2. 2 column (3 types)
3. 3 column (2 types)
4. 4 column

Encode E-mail addresses

Published at September 3, 2007   Filed Under Tools   2 Comments  

You may be inviting a lot of spam messages by posting your email address on your web pages. You can avoid this by encoding your email address with Hivelogic Enkoder.
Hivelogic Enkoder will encode your email address so that bots can not read the address but your visitor can read the email address. To encode enter [...]