Technology Bites

Flickr has an amazing collection of wallpapers if you are looking for a perfect wallpaper to pimp your desktop. Although Flickr has a great collection it is not convenient to screen large number of wallpapers at any time. Wallpapr is new search engine designed for Flickr photos. Type to search for wallpapers using keywords of [...]

Zoho writer, the web based word processor has added a bunch of useful new features. The new features include DocX support: Zoho writer now supports exporting to Docx (Office 2007) format. Thesaurus: Now Zoho writer has a thesaurus in 10 languages. To use it right-click on a word choose the ‘Thesaurus’ option to view synonyms [...]

Google finally relaunched JotSpot as Google Sites since it acquired 16 months ago. Google Sites is now available for all Google Apps users including free users. Google Sites is offering 10GB of extra storage. With Google sites you can create wiki style web pages with out learning any html. You will be presented a rich [...]

BBC’s web 2.0 design is live today, BBC experimented with a web 2.0ish beta homepage for quite sometime now it hits the main site today. The new homepage features AJAX content modules with drag and drop features. You can customize the look and content of the page in few clicks.

MoFuse is a service that creates a mobile version of your blog. MoFuse takes blogs RSS feed an turns it into a mobile optimized page. Today MoFuse launched a iPhone app creator to optimize websites for iPhone. MoFuse says that your “mobile site will be standards-compliant! Our mobile site creator creates your mobile site and [...]

EverNote is a nifty and powerful application to take Notes, web clips, Images. EverNote earlier available as a windows app but now they have introduced web based version and currently it is in private beta. I got a chance to see the EverNote Beta version and i am really impressed with it. With EverNote you [...]

Today i wrote about Aviary creative suite, while playing with their Phoenix Image Editor i realized that have 5 invites to share with others. I am giving these to my readers, if you want to test this drop a comment with the email address to which you want to receive the invite. Update: No more [...]

Blogged.com is a blog directory and a tool for discovering new blogs. Unlike other directories like Technorati Blogged is human edited. Users can rate the blogs, comment and submit their favorite blogs. Each blog is ranked in relevant categories with a score, this score is assigned editorially by Blogged.com. Users can also rate blogs, you [...]

My Favorite tasks scheduling tool, Remember the milk has released a ‘full-featured’ mobile version specially optimized for iPhone/iPod Touch. Features: View upcoming tasks (due today, tomorrow, and this week) View tasks by list (including Smart Lists), tag or location Add new tasks and notes Complete tasks with the touch of a button Edit existing tasks [...]

Aviary is a creative suite of editing applications created for the artists of all genres. Aviary tools span from image editing to typography, music, video. Aviary tools will simplify the collaboration between artists and also provide a marketplace for the artists. It is good for hobbyists or budding artists to work in a collaborative environment. [...]

Google released a new chatback widget that allows your site vistors to chat with you live. All you need to do is copy paste the code displayed on the chatback widget page to your blog or site. Whenever you are online in Gtalk, your visitors see your online status and can chat with you by [...]

The much anticipated Digg clone (sort of) from Yahoo, Yahoo Buzz Launched. Yahoo Buzz stories are not submitted by users but they are aggregated from news sources, users can vote on these stories to move them to the front page. Foe each news story it shows a buzz factor which is determined by various factors [...]

New York Times Launched a note taking application called ShifD for desktop, browser and mobile phone. ShifD allows users to shift notes, links and addresses between desktops and mobile devices. You can access ShifD through web interface or through browser bookmarklet or using a desktop application on top of Adobe AIR. While you are on [...]

One of the useful features in Yahoo and other messengers is that the ability to set your status as invisible. This feature is necessary when you want work with out any disturbances and also see who is online. Google Talk doesn’t have this feature, but luckily Gmail chat got this feature now. This feature is [...]

Microsoft sent our invitation letters to beta testers to participate in Inter explorer 8 beta 1. Other than the invitation there are not many details about IE8, this will be released soon to the general public. According to ZDNet, Microsoft will show off IE 8 at Microsoft’s Mix 08 conference in early March in Las [...]

Microsoft is offering an official save as PDF or XPS plugin for Office 2007. This plugin allows you to export and save Micorosoft Office 2007 documents in PDF and XPS format, you can also send these PDF and XPS files as attachments with some of the Office programs. To download the plugin you need to [...]

Doodle 4 Google From Google Blog “Doodle 4 Google gives U.S. students in grades K-12 the opportunity to design a doodle for the Google homepage. Students will be asked to draw a doodle that best represents the theme “What if…?” We ask ourselves this question every day when we build our products, so we thought [...]

“A Picture is worth a thousand words”. Adding pictures to your posts helps to get attention to your article. Flickr is a great tool for finding millions of creative commons licensed photos to spice up your blog posts. Photodropper is a wordpress plugin that allows you to search for CC licensed Flickr photos right from [...]

mp3DirectCut is a freeware application for editing compressed mp3 audio files. It allows you to “cut, copy, paste and change the mp3 volume with no need to decompress your files for audio editing.” It is fast and saves your time, because there is no re-encoding of the edited audio files. mp3DirectCut has a built in [...]

Yakkle is a tool for instant collaboration that lets you collaborate with your colleagues of firends. Using Yakkle you can do instant messaging, Voice chat and importantly desktop screen sharing. What is unique about Yakkle is it offers all the necessary ways to collaborate with others. No other free tool i know offers all these [...]