Technology Bites

The popular social bookmarking site delicious relaunched today with a new design. It took almost one year to launch delicious 2.0 i don’t why it took this long for them to launch a new design. Along with the design the name is also changed, there are no dots in the name it just reads delicious.com, [...]

Gmail has added a new filter rule “Never send it to spam”. Enabling this filter rule ensures your important email messages will never end up in Spam folder of gmail. To enable it go to Filters in settings and select the criteria first like From (teknobites.com) and then in the next step enable “never send [...]

Fotosizer is a free batch image resizer tool for windows. It allows you batch resize images using either percentage of width and height or by specifying a custom width and height. You can select individual files or entire folders for resizing, you can also include sub folders. It maintaines the aspect ratio of the images [...]

Streamfile is a free service that allows you to send files of up to 2GB to your recipients. One good thing is there is nothing to install, just use your browser to send the files. There are many sites that offer free file transfer services but there are a few who offer large file sharing [...]

Microsoft is reaching out to users to tell them that Windows Vista doesn’t suck. There is nothing wrong in reaching out to users to convince them to use Windows vista, but the experiment itself is a dumb experiment. What is Mojave Experiment?, a group of people were given a 10 min demo and told what [...]

PushTheWeb.com is an effort towards a safe and better web browsing experience for users. The site or blog owners can embed the code to their blogs or sites, the code checks the web browser site visitors are using and shows a non-intrusive popup asking them to upgrade their browser. The message shows a reminder if [...]

Favtape is a way to listen to songs in Muxtape style. Just enter your Last.fm username or Pandora profile URL to listen to your mixtape. It shows the songs you loved, your top songs and the recent ones. Favtape gives the ability to see the top songs by year from 1901 to 2008, which is [...]

Launchy is one of the best windows application launcher available. Launchy new version released today got support for Linux OS and it works with Gnome and KDE desktops. Gnome Do is another launcher for Gnome desktop, if you are familiar with Launchy windows version and wants to have the same type of launcher for linux [...]

Today’s blogosphere buzz is about a new search engine in the town called “Cuil” (Pronounced as “Cool”). Everyone jumped on the new kid and draw conclusions that it is bad, worse and not relevant. Yes i tried a few queries the results are not impressive but hey it is just one day old, give it [...]

URLInfo is a nifty utility built on Google App Engine that shows the hidden web server details of any site you wish to see. It is true that the data is good for nothing but if you see some sites you may find some interesting details. As dailygyan notes webworkerdaily headers contain a job notification [...]

PDF Download 2.0 is a Firefox add-on that allows you to control opening pdf files in Firefox and Flock browsers. It also allows you to convert any webpage to pdf in a click, the conversion to pdf os fast and you will get the pdf file immediately. Best of all it won’t freeze your browser. [...]

Twitter is awesome but sometimes it is not enough, the conversations are mixed in the timeline and it is difficult to follow them. If you are also feeling the same checkolut this Greasemonkey script by Pratham, it shows nested repelies in the twitter timeline. The big advantage with this is that you don’t need to [...]

Gmail wants to help its users to secure their Gmail accounts from phishing eyes using https. Https keeps your email encrypted while it travels between your browser and gmail servers. If you use public wi-fi you may want to use this option to secure your gmail account as it encrypts the data. Gmail sign on [...]

You may already know the Scrabulous saga. Hasbro, the maker of the Scrabble board game finally sued the two Indian brothers of the popular Scrabulous Facebook game. Scrabulous is wildly popular app on Facebook platform and it is based on Scrabble board game. Hasbro has also asked Facebook to remove the Scrabulous game on DMCA [...]

trueSpace is a 3D modeling and animation software that allows you to render 3D content, it also allows you to make 3D content for online shared spaces and Virtual Earth. Today Microsoft announced that this program is available as free download on Virtual Earth Blog Truespace is the product of Caligari, a company acquired by [...]

I never thought that it is possible to display our blog posts on major media sites like Reuters until i saw this post on QOT. IIt is possible to put your blog posts on big media sites with blog syndication service BlogBurst.

Google Knol is live, any one can create a knol on topics they are familiar with. They announced this project in December 2007 but it is in testing at that time and is now live. Knol is something similar to Wikipedia but it is different in some aspects like moderation and multiple articles on the [...]

If you are the one who loves science fiction books then head over to Tor.com to find some e books for free download. There are 24 e-books and high resolution wall papers available for download. The books are in PDF, HTML, HTML Zip and Mobi format, pick your format and download. Wallpapers are available in [...]

Mygazines is a free community site for reading, sharing and archiving magazines. The service is free for reading magazines, but if you want to upload magazines you need to register for an account. Users can upload magazine articles to the site and customize the articles they uploaded in a Mygazine. Not only magazine articles but [...]

WordPress for iPhone App is now available from iPhone App store as promised earlier. WordPress for iPhone app works with both wordpress.com blogs and self hosted wordpress blogs. “You can write posts, upload photos and edit your wordpress blogs from your iPhone or iPod Touch.” You need to be running WordPress 2.5.1 version or higher [...]