Technology Bites

YouTube has rolled out a new feature that will let you link to a specific point with in YouTube videos. To create deep links for the videos append a time link to the end of the the youtube video URL, for example if you want to link to a video after 1min 15sec you would [...]

A new beta version of Google Chrome 0.3.154.9 is released, it is not yet pushed to users but it will updated in the next few days. However if you want to update now all you have to do is open up settings menu (small ‘tool icon’ on the right corner of the browser) and click [...]

Bulk Image Converter as the name suggests it can convert from one image format to another. It is not a full pledged converter app like FormatFactory or others, instead it just does the image conversion from one format to other.

Google is releasing new features to Gmail one after another via Gmail Labs, some of these features are useful and some are for fun. Today they introduced Calendar and Docs gadgets for Gmail via Labs. These gadgets can be added to the left-nav in Gmail next to labels and chat. The two gadgets released today [...]

Microsoft demoed a pre release of its next OS Windows 7 at PDC 2008. The build used for demo is 6933.winmain.081020-1842 according to Neowin. Windows 7 has some new features and enhancements to User interface compared to vista.

Microsoft today announced that it plans to release web version of office applications at professional developers conference (PDC2008). These are lightweight versions of Microsoft Office suite that can run in a browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers are supported.

Windows Live now became an OpenID provider, the release is meant for a technology preview and users are advised to wait for the final release to use Windows live ID as OpenID. The Windows Live ID Provider enables anyone with a windows live ID account to setup an OpenID alias to use at OpenID supported [...]

Can You Run It? is a web app that tells you if you can run that popular game on your computer. It compares your system specs with the minimum requirements of the computer games and shows you whether your computer can run that game or not. It does so by downloading a Java applet for [...]

Gmail got a bunch of few useful features in the last ween including Gmail mobile version 2.0, canned responses and emoticons support for outgoing messages. If you prefer to spice up your email messages with emoticons, Gmail has released two kinds of emoticons round static emoticons and square animated emoticons. If you are using visual [...]

Microsoft is getting ready to launch Vista service pack 2 in the coming months, before that it is releasing a beta version to a small group of testers. A small group of Microsoft’s technology adoption program customers will get Vista SP2, Mike Nash posted on the windows vista blog. There is a speculation few days [...]

Gmail has released a new version for mobiles called Gmail for mobile 2.0. It is available for J2ME supported phones and BlackBerry phones. The new version improves speed significantly with smoother scrolling and no freezing. Multiple account management allows you to quickly switch between Gmail accounts for example personal Gmail and Google Apps email. Now [...]

Google Analytics introduced new features today. These new features includes custom reports, a data export API, advanced segmentation, multi-dimensional data visualizations and Adsense integration. The upgrade also includes an improved user and administrative interface. The most useful feature in today’s announcement is the Adsense integration. With this feature now publishers can track the pages that [...]

AppLoop is a new service that allows you to make an iPhone App for your blog. It’s App Generator tool can take any RSS feed and turn it in to an iPhone app. The process is straight forward according to Techcrunch, all you have to do is answer few questions, your blog name, url, icon, [...]

ScreeanToaster is an application to create screencasts. You don’t need to download any application to record your desktop screen, the service runs via Java web applet that makes it a platform independent service so you can use it on Windows, Mac or Linux. Screen Toaster can be controlled by using combination of keyboard shortcuts to [...]

Grooveshark released a music playlist widget creation tool with the ability to add your own music collection to the widgets. Grooveshark is one of the best places to find music and Grooveshark Lite is an alternative to the rest of us who can’t access Pandora.

Microsoft released a beta tool called “Microsoft Web Platform Installer” this week that lets you install popular open source applications like Drupal and WordPress among others. I think this is a companion tool for Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta released on Sep 30th 2008.

No this is not yet another youtube converter, it lets you convert from one unit to another (meters to centimeters) online. This is more useful for students who want to quickly convert from one unit measurement to another.

Foxmarks, the popular bookmarks synchronizer add-on for Firefox browser now syncs passwords across PCs so you don’t need to remember all those me too site passwords. The updated version of the Foxmarks add-on allows you to sync your passwords to Foxmarks servers so that you can access from other computers where fox marks is installed. [...]

If you are a iGoogle user the new feature update will be interesting to you. iGoogle today got some new features like integration of Google Reader, Gmail, Google Finance, Youtube Videos, and others. The new feature also brings NewYork Times, Washington Times to your iGoogle start page. The update to iGoogle extends the gadgets to [...]

Firefox 3.1 beta 1 is available for download for testing from Mozilla. It brings some new features along with the features it supported since 3.1 alpha 2 release. The new release brings some standards improvements to the Gecko layout engine, support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties. Now Ctrl+Tab tab switching shows thumbnails of [...]