Technology Bites

If you are a social media junkie probably you are everywhere from Flickr to Twitter, how about showing all your profiles in a single widget. Retaggr just that it makes an interactive business card with your online social media life. These cards will follow you online, you can leave them wherever you want.

It has been long since i posted some interesting links from the blogosphere. Here we go for this week. How to Shred Files In Your Hard Drive for Free? by Shankar Create Web Album Quickly with Web Album Generator by Nirmal Snackr – Pimp Your Desktop with RSS News Ticker by Syahid Set Facebook Status [...]

It is a pain to check your web design in all the versions of IE in your computer as your PC won’t allow you to install multiple versions of IE. Most of the time designs will break in lower versions of IE, that it is a whole different story. IEtester is a free tool that [...]

Ever wanted to turn your images or photos in to icons so you can set custom icons in your desktop or for your blog. Bradicon allows you to turn any image in to an icon quick and easily. Using the app is simple, upload an image and download the icon. The service is currently free [...]

Mozilla is aiming to set a Guinness World Record on Firefox 3 download day for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. If you are Firefox user and love the browser you can support the cause by downloading Firefox 3 on download day. The date is not yet fixed but it will be some time [...]

Yahoo unveiled a browser plugin called BrowserPlus that allows developers to add desktop like features to browser. It supports drag and drop feature like a desktop app and allows you to do things like “client_side” image manipulation, like a real photo editor app. The most unique attribute of BrowserPlus according to Yahoo “is its ability [...]

Today Google announced a browser plugin for Google Earth at I/O Conference “which brings the power of Google Earth to the web”. Till now there is no way to build web applications using Google Earth, but now with the browser plugin and API we may see rush of web mashups built on top of Google [...]

Orgoo wants to manage all your IM, SMS and email accounts at one place. With Orgoo you can check all your email accounts, chat with your IM buddies, SMS and video chat with your friends by creating rooms. That is quite a lot of things in one place, i haven’t seen any other app right [...]

Adobe released new beta versions of its popular software Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth. Dreamweaver is the one of the best IDE available on the net for web development. Fireworks is a vector graphics tool for web designing. Soundbooth is an audio editor. Today released beta are CS4 versions of the software and they will only [...]

Omnisio is an interesting startup that offers ability to create mashup of the videos. You can grab videos from Youtube, Google Video and Blip.tv to Omnisio either by searching with keywords or by providing URls, then select the portions of the clips you want and stitch them together as one video.

SharePod is a freeware utility that allows you to manage your iPod content easily. It allows you to add and remove music and videos to your iPod, edit playlists and more. You can backup all your tracks to your desktop computer. SharePod also runs on iPod so you can use it anywhere you want. SharePod [...]

Ultimate Tag Warrior is really the ultimate wordpress plugin for tag management, but unfortunately it is no longer developed and not compatible with latest wordpress versions. My online buddy Keith Dsouza just released a tag management plugin called Better Tags Manager. As the name suggests it is better than some of the tag management plugins. [...]

Icons are an important part of any user interface, whether it is desktop or web icons are everywhere and they are essential for visually appealing designs. Icons look tiny art pieces but designing them is not as easy as they look, but thankfully there are lot of people who have released their icons with a [...]

Ad-Aware is one of the software tool you need if you want your system to be spyware and adware free. Lavasoft the company behind Ad-Aware has released the a new version Ad-Aware 2008 and is available for download. I first discovered this gem with Google Pack in its early days it is called Ad-Aware SE, [...]

TinEye is an image search engine that goes beyond the usual search engines like Google Image search. You can upload a photo to TinEye then it shows you the similar images on the web. This is quite useful if you want to find out who is using your own images or want to find out [...]

NewsGator introduced RSS feed suggestions to its users from today onwards. It will recommend stories from feeds that users have never seen and subscribed to. The service uses SenseArray colloborative filtering software of Uprizer Labs, according to NewsGator.

Google sites is now available for all users, earlier it was open to only Google Apps users. Any one can create web pages using Google sites. It provides a WYSYWIG editor to create pages. The number of pages you can create is unlimited. The URLs of the sites you create look like this. http://sites.google.com/site/[YourSiteName]/

Taskix is a tiny freeware application that allows you to organize your taskbar items. The application is just 70 kb in size. It won’t do a whole lot of things, it is helpful to organize your taskbar. There is no installation this is a standalone app, first time when you open it it will ask [...]

If you use many file sharing services and upload lot of files then TinyLoad is for you. This will allow you to upload files to multiple file sharing sites. Currently it supports Megaupload Filefactory, Rapidshare, Divshare, Bestsharing, Sendspace, Uploading, Filesend, Easyshare, Badongo, zShare and Amazon S3. Upload file size limit is 100MB, and the service [...]

Tweetcube is a new service built around Twitter API that allows to share files with twitter. Pownce has this feature of sharing files with followers but twitter lacks this one. Tweetcube is a free service, you can share images, videos, songs, zip files. The upload limit is currently 10MB/file. You can upload unlimited number of [...]