Technology Bites

Yahoo launched a new version of its popular IM client, Yahoo Messenger 9.0 . The new version introduces some useful new features. Yahoo Messenger 9.0 is available for Windows XP and Vista. Pingbox: Pingbox is an application that allows you to embed Yahoo messenger chat in your blog or site and chat with your visitors. [...]

Orkut Theme Generator lets you create your own orkut themes. While it is good to have a different theme for your orkut profile, these themes are nothing but waste of time because the themes you create are only visible to you.

Much anticipated Google Phone aka HTC Dream running Android launched today. T-Mobile G1 is the first phone powered by Android mobile OS with touch based interface. It is available in US starting from next month by T-Mobile for $179 with a two-year contract.

Automattic, the company behind wordpress acquired IntenseDebate, one of the comment enhancement systems. IntenseDebate launched last year with features like ratings, comment threading, OpenID support etc. IntenseDebate provides community features likevoting, reputation, profiles, reply by email among others. Automattic says that InteseDebate will stay as an independent service, much like Akismet Automattic’s other product. In [...]

Hulu has some good video content but it is only available for US viewers. If you are outside US like me and want to enjoy Hulu shows there is an easier way. Gpass is a freeware that allows you to access Hulu or Pandora or any other site that is restricted outside the US.

Google today announced set of free tools that allows anyone to embed books from Google Book Search on their blogs or web sites. We are also providing new ways for these sites to display full-text search results from Book Search, and even integrate with social features such as ratings, reviews, and readers’ book collections. By [...]

ArtWeaver is a light weight desktop image editor. Functionality and tools resembles Photoshop interface but it is not as powerful as Photoshop. If you are looking for a simple image editor to quickly edit images this is one of the Photoshop alternatives you can consider. If you have ever used Photoshop then ArtWeaver is easy [...]

Printwhatyoulike.com is a useful service to save ink while printing web pages. With this tool you can print any web page by removing unnecessary elements with mouse clicks.

The latest version of Microsoft Pro Photo Tools has been released with some new features. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides a set of tools for photographers to perform various tasks with their images including RAW captures. The new version brings some useful features. You can identify the location of your images and apply it to [...]

Yahoo added a nifty feature to its search, listen to music with out leaving yahoo search results page. Yahoo search has a shortcut for music artists for find out more information about artists. Now they have partnered with Rhapsody to allow you to play the music right from the search results page. Go to Yahoo [...]

Yahoo.com home page is got a redesign, although it is not available for public, some users in US, UK, France and India. Later the new home page will be made available to general public. (Screenshot of the new home page)

Joost is the much hyped startup when it launched, and the hype faded after the launch and slowly everyone forgot about the service, partly because of the desktop client requirement to watch videos. Today Joost announced that the web version of the Joost is live, no desktop client is necessary to watch videos. You need [...]

Wave 3 is the new release of the windows live suite of programs, these beta programs are available from download.live.com. The program list includes Messenger Beta, Movie Maker Beta, Live Mail Beta, Windows Live Writer Beta, Photo Gallery Beta and others. These are packaged with a common installer, you can choose which programs you want [...]

The popular open source media player, VLC media player version 0.9.2 is released. Code named Grishenko this new release brings lot of new functionality and brings a new interface for Windows and Linux. What’s Cool in this release, currently 0.9.2 release notes page is not available because of the high traffic, you can veiw 0.9.0 [...]

Gmail Labs team added another useful feature, forgotten attachment detector. This is an experimental feature, you need to enable this feature from Gmail Labs tab. Go to Settings, Labs tab and enable this feature to use it. After enabling this feature if you mention an attachment in your email but forgot to attach a file, [...]

If you are a Mac or Linux user and wants to try Google Chrome, you can try now. There is no official version of Google Chrome browser for Mac and Linux yet. The folks at Codeweavers released an unofficial Google Chrome version for both Mac and Linux.

Updating.me is a site that allows you to update all your micro blogs at once, i posted about this site just few days back. Updating.me is currently in beta and you need an invite to use the site. Updating.me has provided some invites for our readers, if you want to get to the site use [...]

Google Chrome launch generated a lot of buzz and the slowly it is getting the much needed tools. Google Chrome backup is a tool that lets you backup your Google Chrome Profiles the easy way.

Over time your hard disk may have filled with duplicate files of all kinds, and these will take valuable disk space and serve no purpose. Easy Duplicate File Finder is an application that allows you to search for duplicate files in your system and delete them to free valuable disk space. Easy duplicate file finder [...]