Technology Bites

Free Extneded Task Manager is a freeware utility for windows that gives additional features than the default windows task manager. This gives additional management features and information about disk activity and network port usage.

Hard Drive Eraser is a free program to completely remove data from the hard drive partitions. You might already know when you delete data from the hard drive only its reference is removed and the data still resides in the system, and it is possible to recover the data with other programs. There are several [...]

Some ISPs might be throttling P2P traffic with out letting the users know about these practices. There are not many good tools available to test ISPs behavior and if they are throttling some kind of traffic. Google along with New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and researchers came up with Measurement Lab, [...]

Finally Google offered the offline feature for Gmail via Gears, Google took so much time to offer offline Gmail although Gears is their own project. As usual this feature is not yet available to all users, it will be rolled out in phases.

Flickr Gallery Plus is a Firefox add-on that adds some additional functionality to view Flickr sets faster, loads images with out refreshing the page. Flickr Gallery Plus is available as bot Greasemonkey script and Firefox add-on.

Google Drive or GDrive is long-awaited or speculated Google service that never launched, Google Operating System got some clues to believe that Gdrive is actually may launch some time soon. The little icon embedded here looks like a hard drive icon, and this icon reference is found in a Google Apps CSS class with the [...]

Microsoft has just released Internet Explorer 8 RC1 and is available for download in case you never used Firefox or Chrome. The IE8 RC 1 released today is available for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server users. If you are already using (testing) Windows 7, then you have to wait for the next OS [...]

Megaupload is a popular file sharing host used for swapping files. Megaupload uses Captcha like many other sites for protection from automated bots. Users have to fill up the captcha before they can download the files, Captchas are good for avoiding bots but they are annoying for the user. If you use megaupload frequently to [...]

EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition is a freeware for hard disk partitioning, it offers useful features for resizing and managing hard drive partitions easily. It boasts itself as a free alternative to commercial app Partition Magic. Windows Vista has an inbuilt disk management utility for partitioning the hard drive but Windows XP users are out [...]

YouTube has the watch in high quality option in YouTube site for videos which have high quality version but this is not available for embedded videos till now, although it is possible to use a hack to do that. Now YouTube enabled the high quality YouTube video embeds, YouTube is providing a HQ button in [...]

Windows 7 beta download availability is extended up to Feb 10th by Microsoft. If you wanted to test Windows 7 beta but not yet downloaded, you have the time until Feb 10th after that it will be removed from public download. For those who have started the download but couldn’t finish can download until Feb [...]

Hotmail announced the availability of POP3 for Hotmail users in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. For users in the other countries this feature will be rolled out later this year. POP3 support allows users to get the email messages to desktop clients like Outlook, Live Mail etc.

Gmail chat added a new feature that allows embedding of YouTube or Google videos directly in the chat. This feature is not yet available in Google Talk.

Feedvis is a free service that allows you to track a selected list of blogs in any niche for hot topics. Feedvis currently allows up to 100 blogs to track at any time, you can supply the list of blogs to track in OPML format. Then it will generate an interactive tagcloud from those RSS [...]

SUMo (Software Update Monitor) is a free software for monitoring the installed software for updated versions. After installing SUMo can auto detect the software installed on your computer, click “Automatically detect installed software” button from the SUMo wizard.

Ad-Aware is one of the must have free program for protecting system against malware attacks. Ad-Aware will protect your system from spyware, keyloggers, trojans and other identity theft software. Ad-Aware has both free and paid versions, and the free version is enough for average user.

Gizmo Drive is a freeware for mounting ISO images, encrypted hard drive images to virtual drives in Windows. Windows 7 natively supports this functionality, for other windows this freeware comes in handy. Not only ISO images virtual hard drive images (.vhd) Gizmo Drive also supports .cue, .bin, .mds, .mdf and .nrg formats.

Windows 7 has some useful shortcuts which are absent in Windows Vista or Windows XP. Windows 7 Shortcuts is a freeware that enables some of the best windows 7 shortcuts for Windows Vista and XP.

BannerSnack is an online tool for creating Flash Banners with out any experience and with out any installed software. It allows to add various effects and transitions to banners you create.

Win7 Codecs is all in one codec package for the latest Windows Operating System Windows 7 Beta. Windows Media Player 12 natively supports Xvid, Divx and MP4 codecs, however if you have some videos which are not playing correctly in Windows 7 you can try this package.