Cuil: New Search Engine Launched Today

Published at July 28, 2008   Filed Under Technology   6 Comments  

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 [...]

How to see hidden web site server details

Published at July 28, 2008   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments  

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 Firefox Add-on

Published at July 28, 2008   Filed Under Firefox, Tools   0 Comments  

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. [...]

Nested Twitter Replies Greasemonkey Script

Published at July 26, 2008   Filed Under Firefox   0 Comments  

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 [...]

Secure Gmail with https

Published at July 25, 2008   Filed Under Google   0 Comments  

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 [...]

Hasbro Finally Sues Scrabulous Facebook Game Developers

Published at July 25, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   0 Comments  

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 saying [...]

TrueSpace 3D Modeling Software is Free Now

Published at July 25, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft, Technology   1 Comment  

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 [...]

Display Your Blog Posts on Major Media sites like Reuters, USA Today

Published at July 24, 2008   Filed Under Blogging, Technology   1 Comment  

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.