Technology Bites

Google is still adding the new features to gmail. Some users are already noticing the new version of gmail with faster page loads and better contact manager. Google operating system is reporting that Google may be adding a multi IM support to gmail. There are indication in the Google code for support to Jabber transports, [...]

Giftube is trying to be a youtube for animated gifs. I personally hate these animated gifs, but some people may like these images, if you are among those then check this site. There are four categories on the site, Funny, famous, Sport and Cartoon. It also features sections like Featured Gifs, recnt uploads and popular [...]

With the latest Google PR update some sites were penalized and some got higher PR, my blog got PR4 for homepage and PR5 for one post. I am curious to know what other pages in my blog got PR. There is an easy way to do this, LivePR will tell you the pagerank of your [...]

Today Techcrunch posted (here and here) launch of two startups aiming to make blog commenting better. These are Disqus and Intensedebate, both of these do the same or almost the similar thing. They add a comment thread at the end of a blog post just like a blog comment form but with options like rating, [...]

Google Blogoscoped is reporting that they see a link to Newer Version in Gmail. I checked my account and i don’t see anything as of now. They also published some screenshots of this new version. This new version seems to be faster than the old one and it has a better contacts manager. When you [...]

FlyakiteOSX is a software for transforming Windows XP into Mac look alike. It changes the desktop theme of XP to resemble that of Mac OSX.

Skype and mobile operator 3 announced 3Skypephone. With skypephone users can make free skype-to-skype calls and send free test messages from anywhere. It doesn’t matter whether to phone or desktop. This is all in all a good deal for the skype users. Skypephone is a mobile internet phone with builtin skype, that means you can [...]

In this web 2.0 age there are many photo editors available to edit and style photos for social networks or for sharing with your friends. Here is a list of online photo editors available online.

LoudTalks is an application which works like a walkie talkie. It allows you to talk to your friends easily with out the hassle of text messaging. You can even talk to groups of firends at a time. Download and install the application. After installing add few friends and start talking to them. Loudtalks is based [...]

Most of the mobile phones have preloaded wallpapers to chosse from, but they are boring or sometimes you want something cool. You stumbledupon a picture and you want that in your phone as wallpaper. Pix2fone is a free service using which you can download any image on the web or from your computer to your [...]

GIMP, the popular open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop has been upgraded to version 2.4 with lot of new features. GIMP now comes with Tango style Icon set to provide a consistent look on Windows, Mac and Linux. New features includes improved selection tools, brushes scalability, changes in menus, improved display when zooming in or [...]

Yesterday and today i observed a strange thing in my adsense account, page impressions and clicks are tracked but these are not showing in custom channels. I have setup custom channels to track my ad spots, usually each channel will display the page impressions and clicks but now it’s broken, channel data is not tracked [...]

Today blogosphere is full of posts related to the drop in PageRank to the major sites and blogs. Everyone is speculating that it is because of the paid links and Techcrunch says that network blogs also got hit because of this update. I used to run TLA ads in this blog, but removed few weeks [...]

Blog.gears is an offline Blogger client which allows users to write posts offline. This is very useful feature if you don’t have net connection all the time. In order to use this feature you need to install Google Gears first. If you have Google gears go to Blog.gears and click on the link login, it [...]

You like the vista style but may not like to upgrade to Windows Vista in near future then VistaMizer is for you. With Vistamizer you can get the look of Vista for Windows XP, MCE or 2003. This program will modify around 380 files of windows including icons, pictures to give a vista style look. [...]

Stumbleupon is a great site for driving traffic to blogs, i prefer stumbleupon over digg. Digg traffic will spike up for 2 days but stumble will send you traffic for few weeks. StumbleUpon launched a new feature called SearchReviews. It will allow users to see stumbleupon reviews beside the search engine results. It will add [...]

doof is a new service for playing games and meeting people of the game world. In doof you will find those arcade games you used to play in all stunning flash interface. Apart from games you can do lot of other things in doof like chat with others in doof messenger, email messaging gifts, tickles, [...]

Florian Quèze and Quentin Castier Mozilla released an Instant Messenger client called Instantbird. It is based on mozilla rendering engine and libpurple code library what pidgin uses for connecting to different networks. Instant bird is still in early beta, the version 0.1 can be downloaded from the site for testing. You don’t have to install [...]

This is the time for our technology talk series, find below some interesting posts from the blogosphere. 6 Free Alternatives to Microsoft Word by Nirmal Office Live Workspace by Online Tech Tips Acme LPG370TS Head Turner Multi-Screen Laptop by Techlivez Google launches Identification System for YouTube by Madhur Kapoor Turn Your Gmail into Awesome Storage [...]

Blogonize is a new service for hosting blogs. It has a web 2.0ish interface with attractive colors. It is pretty easy to create an account and updating blogs with blogonize. Once you are registered you can start writing your blog entries. It offers a WYSIWYG editor for writing the posts. Blogs are created as subdomains [...]