Technology Bites

If you use lot of programs then chances are that your start menu is so long that you hate to look at it. But not any more Tidy Start Menu will help you to keep your start menu in order by categorizing the programs. For setting the menu in order, the program offers you to [...]

I started this blog in March 2007 and it is doing well with all your support. I managed to post around 450 posts so far, some of them were received very well by the community. I will list here my best posts of 2007. I didn’t took time to list popular posts by month, so [...]

A new version of the Windows Genuine Advantage Validation is released. With this new release users having a pirated version of the windows can also use the windows update and Microsoft Download Center. This is an “updated release since MS has started to push out updated WgaTray.exe and WgaLogon.dll files, but they are still using [...]

I wish all of my readers a wonderful New Year. May this year 2008 will bring you all happiness and joys that you wanted. See you all in 2008

Spellify is a nice Ajax powered spell checker for form fields. Spellify will make it easier for your visitors to spell check while filling the text fields. Spellify is based on script.aculo.us/prototype Javascript library. You can easily include spellify in your web pages. It suggests automatically if you misspell words in text fields, it shows [...]

There are many tools on the web to create websites without knowing any programming skills. But none of them really provide the tools necessary for creating flash websites. A new startup Wix.com which is in private beta claims that it will allow users to create Flash based websites or content to deploy anywhere on the [...]

I just saw a post on Life Rocks 2.0 which explains you to how to protect your wordpress theme files. It is possible for any one to see your wordpress theme files or plugin folders to see what themes you are using or what plugins you use if you don’t protect them. What you do [...]

This week blogs are filled with best of 2007 posts, but Pingdom came up differently with a list of 13 internet related outages of 2007. The list includes Skype Outage, Twitter growing pains, ubuntu.com crash, Google Analytics break. Check out pingdom to see the notable internet outages in 2007.

There are many sites where you can upload large files to share with your friends, but there are none to send large files as email attachments. AOL is trying to change this, with AOL’s Xdrive now you can upload up to 5GB file attachments with your email. You can send any file through this way, [...]

Have you ever lose your email because of the your disk crash or for some other reason. Not any more now you can quickly and easily take backup of your emails with MailStore Home. MailStore Home is a free windows app that allows you to take backup of emails from most of the desktop clients, [...]

Forbes released this year’s 25 Web Celeb list, guess what the celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton is at the top followed by Michael Arrington. 3 out of 5 editors of boingboing.net also featured in the list. Things change fast on the Internet–and fame is no exception. Nearly half of the online celebrities identified in the [...]

An internal build of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 passed the the Acid2 test. This is a great news for the developers, even if you are not a developer you will love this because IE8 will become standards complaint and you don’t have to code specifically for IE anymore. For those who doesn’t know about Acid2 [...]

Xplorer2 lite is a good replacement for the default windows explorer. It is a dual-pane file manager with far more functionality than windows explorer. Once you install and open the xplorer2 you will notice lot of options in toolbars, its hard to describe all the functions here, because i have yet to explore all the [...]

BBC is experimenting quietly with a new web2.0ish homepage, you can see the new homepage here. The new homepage a “lick of paint” has all the web 2.0 flavors like rounded corners, large font, draggable Ajax boxes and a web 2.0 color. The new design is pretty good, this design is inspired from many sources [...]

Google is rolling out profiles with information on Google products you use. Google Operating System reports that these profiles integrating in to all Google services so you have one identity across the Google services. A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products — it lets you tell others a bit more [...]

Google has posted an announcement on its official blog about an upcoming knowledge portal called “Knol”. Something similar to wikipedia, users generate content on the site on topics they are familiar. Google wants users write content who are authoritative on a subject. The users are called knols here, these knols can write on any topic. [...]

[Click Image to enlarge] Microsoft launched Office Live Workspace on 10th December as an answer to Google Docs, Zoho and the recent Live Documents (coverage). Office Live Workspace is not a complete online office, it is just like a space for sharing your documents online. I am testing currently the service, although it is not [...]

Yahoo today released a wordpress plugin for bloggers to show relevant content (read Yahoo content) in blog posts. This wordpress plugin finds Flickr photos, ticker symbols, products, yahoo maps etc which can be included in blog posts as links to relevant words or as badges. If you put lot of flickr images or a financial [...]

Muvibee is a music video aggregation tool, works like a music video search engine. Search by artist, albums or with song names to find that music video. Ofcourse youtube is there to do this but youtube has lot of spoof videos and i hate searching through these junk. Muvibee doesn’t host these videos, these are [...]

Six Apart announced few months back that Movable Type is going towards open-source when they released MT 4 Beta. Now the time has come and finally MT is going to open source from today. If you don’t know what is Movable Type it is a weblog engine like WordPress. Popular blogs like Boing Boing and [...]