Archive for October, 2007

LoudTalks: IM meets Voice

Published on October 28th, 2007   Filed Under Software, Tools, Web 2.0   0 Comments

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 [...]

How to get web images as wallpapers in your phone

Published on October 25th, 2007   Filed Under Tools   4 Comments

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 2.4 Released

Published on October 25th, 2007   Filed Under Software   6 Comments

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 [...]

Adsense custom channels broken

Published on October 24th, 2007   Filed Under Google   3 Comments

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 [...]

Google PageRank Update

Published on October 24th, 2007   Filed Under Google   5 Comments

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: Blog offline with Google Gears and Blogger

Published on October 23rd, 2007   Filed Under Google, Technology   0 Comments

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 [...]

Get Windows Vista Look For Windows XP

Published on October 23rd, 2007   Filed Under Software   7 Comments

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. While [...]

SearchReviews: StumbleUpon rankings for search engine results

Published on October 23rd, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   0 Comments

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 stumble [...]