Technology Bites

Have you ever wanted to have large poster of your photo, if yes enter Blockposters it can create giant posters from your pictures. The service is free and no registration hassles.

Some Windows XP SP3 users running Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 had some problems uninstalling this version to upgrade to IE8 beta 2, this happens when you first install Internet Explorer Beta 1 and then upgrade to Windows XP SP3. In this case users have to manually uninstall IE8 beta 1 before upgrading to IE8 [...]

Joongel is a not yet launched product that makes our Internet lives easier, i don’t have any idea of what the product is yet but they have a series of browser search plugins that will save lot of time while searching.

iPhone ringtone converter / maker is a free application to convert music files to iphone format. You can convert ringtones from the .mp3, .wav, .ogg files in your music library, it can also transfer the converted ringtones to your iPhone. iPhone ringtone maker is simple to use, right click the files you would like to [...]

Adobe AIR is a great platform for accessing Web Apps from your desktop, there are some great Adobe AIR applications are out there and the list is growing. Google web apps are so popular that everyone uses at least some of them, the list includes Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Calendar, Google Maps etc, [...]

Royal Pingdom published a new report on traffic trends for social news sites. The study reminds us there are some fast growing social news sites other than Digg to consider for promoting your posts. The sites included in this study are Digg, Stumbleupon, Slashdot, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, Newsvine, Fark, Dzone and Sphinn. Google Trends is [...]

Giving out your email address in sites or public forums is the best way to attract spam in your email. There are ways you can protect from spamming using images, putting some extra characters etc. Tinymail.me is a free service that helps you to protect your email from spam bots using a tinyurl like link [...]

Sweetcron launched today as announced before, Sweetcron is php script that allows you to host your own lifestream on your site. Sweetcron is developed by Yongfook using, and it is written using Codeignitor PHP framework. Installing Sweetcron is easy although not like wordpress installation, but it is still 5 mins installation. Grab the code if [...]

If you are looking for a cool theme for your iPhone, iPhone theme maker will help you to design that gorgeous theme for you. iPhone theme maker is a simple to use app, it provides wallpapers, dock and statusbar images to make your own iPhone theme.

Ever wanted to know everything about a website, Quarkbase can help you in finding information about any website. Surprisingly it gives lot of information about any website, from site introduction to technical data like hosting.

Microsoft is rolling out new Windows Genuine Advantage notifications for Windows XP. According to Microsoft along with the usual validation of Windows XP OS to detect stolen or fake product keys, this release will also include significant updates to detect pirated copies of Windows OS. Looks like Windows XP Pro is the most pirated version [...]

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 today with much talked Inprivate browsing mode and some other useful features. You can download the latest version of IE8 from here.

Chart Advisor is an addon for Excel 2007 that provides an alternative approach for creating charts in Excel 2007. It is a prototype from office Labs and is available as a free download. According to Office labs it uses an advanced rules engine to scan your data and, based on predefined rules, displays charts according [...]

Google introduced Admanager back in March but it is invite only at that time. Today Google released Admanager for public, any one with an Adsense account can use Admanager for serving ad inventory. If you are wondering what is Google Admanager, it is a hosted ad serving and management solution for publishers. Signin here with [...]

Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 is released in march, later this week IE8 team is planning to release IE8 beta 2. There are speculations about IE8 privacy controls in the last few days, today IE8 blog has published details on privacy controls of IE8. According to Microsoft IE8 gives users more choice about controlling what [...]

Grooveshark Lite is a online music streaming service from Grooveshark. For all of you who can’t access Pandora outside US this is a better option to listen to favorite music for free. Grooveshark lite is easy to use, nicely designed and has millions of songs in its catalog.

Web geeks love to see and share their lifestream, there are a ton of services offering lifestreaming like Friendfeed and others but the problem here is that you don’t have control over these services. Sweetcron will tackle this problem by allowing you to host your own lifestream on your domain. Sweetcron is a product from [...]

Copy Cat is a freeware that allows you copy scratched CDs or DVDs to take backup of those classic movies or important files stored in them. Windows copy usually stops at unreadable parts and you want to be able to copy it, at these situations Copy cat can be really useful. Not only scratched cds [...]

Have you ever wanted to save the video files you just watched to your hard drive so that you can watch them in the future, if yes this freeware utility called VideoCacheView helps you to do that. When you watch a web video usually it is saved in the browser cache, videocacheview will extract that [...]

Today at Gnomedex in Seattle, Ma.gnolia social bookmarking service is announcing a new version of the service soon, the big new from the announcement is Ma.gnolia will be released under open source license. Scuttle allows you to create social bookmarking site but the functionality is not that great. The first public commits of Ma.gnolia new [...]