Technology Bites

Apologies to Technology Bites readers for the lack of posting lately. I am in India right now on a vacation, i will return in March 2nd week and will continue regular posting. Until then please stay with me.

Google Book Search already provides downloads for the books that are in public domain. Books that are not in public domain are only available as a limited preview in Google Book Search. You can download the individual pages as images though but its tedious job to do.

Microsoft is pushing test updates to Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000) users via Windows Update. These updates won’t have any features, fixes or patches these are just test updates pushed to test the Windows 7 update process.

Adsense ad units can now be customized by changing the font from the default to Arial, Verdana and Times. Although the choice is limited to only 3 fonts it is still useful for users for matching the ad unit font to their web application font.

The much requested feature for Google Chrome is the support for extensions, in fact the lack of extensions is preventing users like me to fully migrate from Firefox to Google Chrome. According to Google OS blog this will change pretty soon, Google Chrome may offer support for extensions by May 2009.

Today while scanning Techmeme for news i discovered a story of Guardian written in Sep 2008 is clustered with Google Chrome news. At any given time you won’t find news that is more than 2 days old in Techmeme clusters, this is a rare case, but this proves the point of Gabe Rivera that automated [...]

PDF Creator is a freeware for converting documents, images or anything that you can print . PDFCreator installs as a virtual printer, so you can convert any document to PDF by selecting PDF Creator as printer.

Yahoo is rolling out a new research tool called Search Pad which will make easier for users to take notes while using Yahoo search. The search pad is a king of note taking tool that will allows users to save snippets of the content they are searching.

Private Torrent sites like Demonoid won’t accept registrations all the time, they will open registrations once in a while and then close them. While public trackers like ThePiratebay are good some files you will not find on them and you have to look at private trackers.

The media in India is reporting that $10 Laptop in unveiled today, but i couldn’t find a picture of the same. I was not sure whether this is real of some fake news, building a $10 Laptop is not an easy task. The specs according to media reports is, it features 2GB RAM, Wi-Fi and [...]

Google Chrome has nifty features, ofcourse Firefox is more customizable than Chrome. One of the useful feature of Google Chrome is the new tab feature, when you open a new tab on Chrome it shows 9 most visited sites thumbnails, you can click those thumbnails to get to those site quickly. The new updated Google [...]

Song.ly is a new service built around twitter for sharing MP3s with your twitter followers. Song.ly takes URLs of mp3 songs hosted on twitter and converts them into short urls and also allows users to play them in a flash player.

Google search is broken, whatever you search in Google it is showing malware warning. Even Google.com search is showing “This site may harm your computer” warning. Google is showing malware warnings for quite some time in search results if the site is infected or hosts potentially dangerous scripts, i think now this has been broken [...]