Technology Bites

I love to use P2P for sharing files and downloading from torrents, but you never know when you will be sued by RIAA. Mute is a simple file sharing tool for protecting your privacy while sharing. Usually File sharing clients make direct connections between peers, MUTE avoids direct connections with your sharing partners in the [...]

Last year we have seen lot of rumors about the possible launch of gPhone, but finally Google released Android software for mobiles. Now Marketing Week is speculating that Dell and Google may reveal a mobile phone next month. Neither of the companies have confirmed this, but there is a lot of discussion happening about this [...]

Mac Only: 1001 is a free desktop app that allows to bring Flickr out of browser. This app uploads your photos to Flickr, notifies you about updates from your contacts, everyone, or from the tags you are following. 1001 has a nice UI and a fun way to use Flickr in a desktop app. It [...]

Sprout is a new startup launched today At DEMO 2008. SproutBuilder is a WYSIWYG editor for creating flash widgets. The tool is built on the flex platform and allows users to create flash widgets with easy drag and drop features. Currently you can create photo slideshows, images, audio juke box and few other things. Video [...]

If you are a Twitter user you already know it is a good way to communicate with friends. Twitter is a good way to communicate but what if you can create your own twitter to use with your friends or for your organization. The folks at Automattic thought the same thing and released a wordpress [...]

Tweetmeme tracks the popular links posted to twitter similar to techmeme does for tech blogs. Tweetmeme tracks what content is posted to twitter and ranks the content based on how many users are posting or how popular is that among twitter crowd. It can recognize the content as Blogs, videos, images and audio. I don’t [...]

If you upload videos to different sites and want to save time in uploading HeySpread is there to help you. HeySpread currently supports Sclipo, Sumo, Sevenload, Youtube, Google, Dailymotion, Blip, Metacafe, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, Vimeo, Revver, Veoh, Vsocial, Photobucket, Putfile to upload videos. You need to give login credentials for each site you want to [...]

There is a security hole in SmugMug, discovered by Google Blogoscoped which allows you to view or even download private albums. SmugMug users can protect photos from public view by selecting private option, one would expect these won’t be viewable by public. But that is not the case, any one can view these photos by [...]

Do you know that it is not hard to put your face on the cover of popular magazines like Time, Maxim, Vogue. Magmypic is a service that allows you to put your face on popular magazines, currently they support 12 magazines including Time, Maxim, Vogue, Fortune, Rolling Stone. It’s completely free to design “fake magazine [...]

ScheduleOnce is a simple web 2.0 service that helps you to schedule meetings with accuracy across all time zones. You can specify time range and date range for your scheduled meeting. You need to specify your time zone while creating your schedule. You can give permission to suggest time zones by other invitees, or you [...]

Pimpmynews is a free social news site that converts text from news & blog posts to mp3 clips which you can listen in your iPod or iPhone. If you are tired of reading news in the web or in your reader, this is a good option to listen to them instead of reading. You can [...]

WordPress founder Matt recently wrote about plans to offer hosted forums much like WordPress.com blogs at Automattic. Today on a phone conversation with Houston Chronicle’s Dwight Silverman Matt said the the upcoming forums will be called as “Talkpress”. Talkpress is built on BBPress, the forum board software from WordPress. According to Matt the Talkpress will [...]

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Data Crow is a freeware that makes your life easier by cataloging all your collections, be it movies, music, images, books or software. The beauty of this app is you don’t need to fill put the information in the app, you need to enter minimum information, then it will retrieve other information from Amazon.com, Imdb.com, [...]

Firefox has an inbuilt spell checker and it comes quite handy at times when you mistype a word. But the most popular browser on the planet IE doesn’t have one. Of course i don’t use IE very often, but if any of you work with IE this is useful for you. ieSpell is a free [...]

There is a much talk recently regarding Windows 7 release dates and some leaked screenshots. Speculation is that it may be released in 2009. Recently there is a forum post about windows 7 with information on Neowin forums. Today Windows 7 screenshots appeared at Thinknext a Chinese blog, these looks legitamate, of course we are [...]

VLC media player is the best free media player available on the net, it can play almost any video file. While it is a great player, some may not like the interface, for those of you who want a pretty VLC player Kantaris is here. Kantaris is a new media player based on VLC code [...]

Last.fm announced that they now allow users to play full-length tracks for free on last.fm website. The four major recording labels EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner are all supporting this with a new business model. Currently full-length tracks are available in US, UK and Germany, and will expand to other countries later. Users will [...]

Mebeam allows you to create chat rooms with built in audio and video features. All this is done via mebeam website and you don’t have to register or download anything. It is a great place if you want to chat with audio and video with friends. You give a unique name at Mebeam site and [...]

Shareaholic is a Firefox extension for sharing content to social bookmarking sites easily. With sharaholic you can submit the sites you are browsing to all your favorite social bookmarking sites, you can also email the links to your friends. Shareaholic supported sites: