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. ... Read More →
Archives for February 2009
Google Books Downloader
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. ... Read More →
Test updates to Windows 7 Beta on Feb 24th
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. ... Read More →
Customize Adsense Font
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. ... Read More →
Google Chrome May Get Extensions By May
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. ... Read More →
Techmeme Links To September 2008 Story, Automation or Human Error?
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 news ... Read More →
PDF Creator Freeware
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. ... Read More →
Yahoo Search Pad Makes Online Research Easier
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. ... Read More →
10 Dollar Laptop
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 Ethernet and ... Read More →
Google Toolbar for Firefox Adds Chrome’s New Tab Feature
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 ... Read More →