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Microsoft Photosynth Goes Public

Microsoft Live Labs product Photosynth goes public, the technology previewed in 2006. For those of you who don't know what it is, Photosynth allows to transform digital photographs to 3D models, called as 'Synths'. With the public release now users can convert their digital photos to synths in their ... Read More →

Flickr Finally Launches Embeddable Slide Show

Photo sharing site Flickr finally launched embeddable slide show, earlier slide shows are only available to view but not for embedding. The lack of embeddable slide show from Flickr spurred numerous third party services to fill the gap. Flickr slide show itself got some improvement. Flickr blog ... Read More →

Pixlr: Online Image Editor

There is no shortage of online image editors, Pixlr is a new entrant in this crowded space. Pixlr is simple to use and does basic photo editing but don't expect it to perform more advanced functions like in photoshop or other desktop photo editing tool. Pixlr is developed in Flash, interface is ... Read More →

Yahoo Buzz is now open to all

Yahoo Buzz, a community voting site from Yahoo is open to all. That means you don"t have to wait for the mail from Yahoo Buzz, you can go submit your stories to Buzz and vote other stories. Earlier only a few selected publishers were allowed to submit their stories to buzz but from now any one ... Read More →

YouGetSignal Checks Network Ports and does Reverse IP Lookup

Yougetsignal is an interesting service with set of tools for checking network ports, reverse IP domain check etc. Port Forwarding Tester: With this you can check your external IP address and detect open ports on your connection. Useful for finding out if your port forwarding is setup correctly ... Read More →

Easily Extract Hardware Information of Your System

HWiNFO32 is a freeware for extracting all the hardware component information from your system. It provides maximum possible information of all the hardware installed on the computer in a easily understandable way. Once you get all the hardware information you can export this as a report, the ... Read More →

Copy Files Faster with TeraCopy

Teracopy is a simple app for faster copying of files in Windows. If you copy and paste large files quite often then this app will simplify the work and make it faster. It is copying files a way faster than Windows explorer, in my tests it copied files at up to 14MB/Sec speed which is good speed ... Read More →

Recover deleted files with Recuva

Recuva is a free tool for recovering deleted files from your hard drive. If you have accidentally deleted some files, or deleted some thing but later you thought it may be useful, this tool is for you. It can recover pictures, music, documents, video etc. When you want to recover you can select ... Read More →

SocialThing Invites

SocialThing is a lifestream aggregator like friendfeed and others. Socialthing currently supports all the major social sites including twitter, pownce, flickr, brightkite, delicious, digg, facebook, last.fm, ping.fm, plurk, seesmic, vimeo, youtube. It not only aggregates the data but it also ... Read More →