Archive for November, 2007

Simple Round Corner CSS Boxes

Published on November 15th, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   5 Comments

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. [...]

Download 180+ vector shapes for photoshop

Published on November 14th, 2007   Filed Under Tools   3 Comments

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 [...]

Web Based P2P file sharing

Published on November 13th, 2007   Filed Under Tools   2 Comments

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 [...]

Top Commentators Widget gone for good

Published on November 13th, 2007   Filed Under Blogging   6 Comments

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 [...]

Kill Runaway Processes with Task Killer

Published on November 13th, 2007   Filed Under Software, Tools   3 Comments

Task killer allows you to kill running processes from your taksbar. It sits in the taskbar as a small icon, clicking that will show the current running processes and their memory usage. You can kill any running process by clicking the name of the application.
It is a good alternative to Windows Task Manager, you [...]

Translation widgets for your blog

Published on November 11th, 2007   Filed Under Blogging, Tools   4 Comments

Google and Microsoft released translation widgets to translate your blog oe website into another language. According to wikipedia only 35.2% of the internet users are English, so it makes sense to add translation widgets for your blog to increase the reach for your blog.
Microsoft Translator widget supports 11 languages as of now if your [...]

Win prizes for using Microsoft Live Search.

Published on November 9th, 2007   Filed Under Microsoft   7 Comments

Microsoft is trying to lure users to use its Live Search Engine by throwing some prizes.
Reportedly Microsoft sent out emails to users to participate in “Live Search Trial Program.” The program rewards users with tickets every time they use Live Search, and these tickets can be redeemed for prizes later on. The prizes include everything [...]

Diffmerge: compare and merge files

Published on November 9th, 2007   Filed Under Tools   2 Comments

Diffmerge will allow you to compare two files or folders and merge them easily. It is a must have tool for any developer.
You can keep track of source code changes and merge the differences between two versions of the file. It also helps you to keep your project folders in sync. The changes are [...]