Technology Bites

Today Google Operating system posted about a personalized search experiment Google is doing with the search results. This experiment will allow you to personalize the search results by adding, moving or removing the order of search results. In the search results page there are two buttons, one up arrow and one “x” button, you can [...]

Google added a much awaited feature emoticons to Gmail chat. They added emoticons support to Gtalk Gadget in May, it took almost six months for them to add this feature to Gmail and may be another six months for Gtalk. Now you can share your emotions with your gmail buddies, these emoticons comes in three [...]

Google added a new feature called My Location to Google Maps for mobile phones. My Location works like GPS and shows you your location on your mobile phone. If your phone already supports GPS, then it will use this information to show your location if it is not available it will try to approximate your [...]

Mediamaster is a service that allows you to store your music collection online and listen to your music anywhere. Once you register at mediamaster you can upload your music, or listen to other users uploaded collection. You can listen to your music from anywhere, from a PC, Mobile or from your media player. One can [...]

Techcrunch is reporting that frustrated Digg contributors are heading over to Mixx, a new web 2.0 site for social news. What is Mixx Mixx has the same functionality as Digg, users can share stories, vote on favorites and comment on the stories. Mixx has categories lke Tech, News, Business, Sports, Science etc. Your Mixx section [...]

This is the time for our technology talk series, find some interesting posts below from the blogs i read. 30 More Excellent Blog Designs by Smashing Magazine 13 Excellent Visual Styles For Windows XP by Brown Baron The Value of a Domain Name by Kyle Create Disposable Phone Numbers with numbr by Siteguide How a [...]

Sabeer Bhatia, the co-founder of Hotmail is challenging Microsoft Office with Live Documents. Yesterday he released Live Documents, a free online version of the office suite with programs similar to Word, Excel and Powerpoint. The Indian-born Stanford graduate said that Live Documents would pose a “significant” challenge to Microsoft’s propriety software business, which eventually would [...]

Flashphone is a web service which allows you to call from the browser itself. Unlike Skype or Yahoo Messenger you don’t need to install any software, it is browser based. Flashphone as the name suggest is flash based and it works well. You have to register for the service to use. Limitations of the service [...]

One of the worst things about Digg RSS feeds is that they doesn’t point directly to original articles with out going to Digg. If you are like me you don’t want to go to Digg (to read those funny comments). For my own use I have cloned an existing Yahoo Pipes Digg Feed and created [...]

Flickr released the beta 3.0 of their official Flickr Uploadr tool. If you have never used this tool a small recap, this tool allows you to upload photos from your desktop to Flickr easily. I use it to upload photos and it works well and faster than the browser based upload. You can drag and [...]

Mozilla has released the Firefox 3.0 beta 1, it is available for Windows, Linux and Mac. As Mozilla release notes states it is for testing purposes and aimed at developers, not recommended for normal users. “Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more [...]

Mac Only: ImageWell is a small application which allows to edit your images quickly. You can do all the basic editing including, resize, crop and watermark. It also allows you to annotate your images with text, shapes, arrows and lines. You can also add simple effects like drop shadow, shaped border etc. Here are some [...]

If you are a micro blogger who uses Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku etc HelloTxt will make your life easier. HelloTxt will allow you to post to different microblogging services at the same time. It supports, Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, tumblr, Meemi, frazr, beemood, yappd and goZub. When you open the site you will see a text box, [...]

Microsoft has quietly launched a free service called Windows Live Community Builder, that offers Windows Live services for domains. This is a similar service like Google Apps for your domain, under this service Microsoft offers Live mail, photo service, messenger, writer and other live services. You can get started using these services by entering your [...]

PayPal is announcing a secure credit card Tuesday to use on sites which doesn’t support PayPal payment system. It is called ‘PayPal Secure Card’, which generates a single use MasterCard number that PayPal users can utilize to make payments on site that don’t accept PayPal. You need to download a software and this will automatically [...]

Mixaloo is a company which allows you to create mix tapes or playlists from music tracks on the web. You can share these mix tapes in your blogs or social networking profiles, when someone buys these tracks you will get paid from the sale. The current share is 50/50 between you and mixaloo. Creating playlists [...]

Spiffy Box is a nice tool if you are looking for simple CSS round corner boxes for your blog or site. It is easy to use tool and instantly generates boxes with CSS and XHTML code. Define the box size, corner radius and colors you want to use, it generates round corner box and code. [...]

Vector shapes will give a great look to the graphics you design and they save a lot of time. Vector Portal is giving away 180+ vector shapes for download, you can use these shapes freely for your designs. Download the shapes from Softpedia and unzip them. For loading these shapes open your photoshop and select [...]

Pipebytes is a service which allows you to send files via web browser. There are many services which will allow you to upload files and then you share a link with others so that they can download. All of these services have an upload limit and you have to wait until it gets uploaded to [...]

Lately i discovered that people are gaming the top commentators widget by linking to junk sites which doesn’t have any value. I am removing the widget for the moment to stop this. If you are a regular commentator of my blog you will be rewarded with links in Technology Talk series, so keep commenting and [...]