Technology Bites

Paged articles are common in media sites like New York Times or Reuters, some articles contains 3 or 4 pages. If you are lazy to click the next page links to read complete article look at PageZipper, a new service from PrintWhatYouLike.

According to Statcounter Firefox 3 is now the top browser in Europe. This is a significant milestone for Firefox and good news for Firefox fans who have promoted the browser in every possible way.

Hunch is the next cool thing from Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake. Hunch is about applying common knowledge to make decisions on various topics. If you are Indecisive about something you can hop over to Hunch to make decisions.

If you are on twitter or any social networking site you would have heard people posing as social media “experts”, now a British University is offering a master’s degree in social media. According to Telegraph, Birmingham City University is offering master’s degree in social media which teaches students about Facebook, twitter and Bebo along with [...]

Locked files generate error messages like Access is denied, or a sharing violation or the source or destinaltion file may be in use. These errors will popup when another program is accessing the file, you can get rid of it by closing the program in question. But windows doesn’t show which program is using the [...]

Folder Protector is a freeware for protecting sensitive files from others using the same computer. Folder protector hides unlimited number of folders.

MySpace Grab is a freeware for downloading music from MySpace pages. The software is light-weight and can be ised to listen or download songs from myspace bands pages.

If you prefer to use desktop clients for getting updates from various social sites like twitter, facebook etc, then skimmer is what you need. This Adobe AIR app allows you to get updates from twitter, facebook, flickr, Youtube and blogger.

Torrentfreak is reporting that PirateBay guys are planning to offer a VPN service starting as early as April 1st 2009, i hope this is not an April fools joke.

Bulk Image Resizer is a freeware utility that allows resizing of images in batch. Bulk Image Resizer supports popular image formats like JPEG PNG, BMP, TiFF and GIF etc.

While browsing the web these days, you would rarely come across any website with just plain text on it. Flat text – nothing else. Well, that was Web 1.0 , we now live in the Web 2.0 age, surfing not only just text, but audio, video, presentations, files, movies and what not! If you have [...]

Freeraser is a file shredder software for securely deleting sensitive data from your hard drives. Freeraser is a portable app and you can run it from your USB stick.

Eventzi is a web service that allows you to setup events and sell tickets for the events online. Eventzi offers simple tools for managing your events effectively. The event pages you create can be customized to your needs.

If you are looking for a better solution to upgrade to latest versions of the software installed on your system, then check out Software Informer. This program checks the installed programs and informs you if there are any updates available for those software.

Internet Explorer 8 final version is available to download from today. Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 is released a year back and RC1 came in January. This new version brings new features to the IE from Microsoft. You can download IE 8 from this page.

Avira AntiVir is one of the Antivirus solitions available for free. The new updated AntiVir version 9 adds anti spyware and anti malware features to its free version and to the paid version.

Google Chrome has a new beta version now, Google took off the beta tag in December and from there they released two versions one stable and other for developers. Now they have re-introduced beta of Chrome. According to Google the new beta version is much faster than the stable version.

The number of tools available for downloading YouTube is overwhelming, we see new tools for downloading very often. All these tools will allow you to download videos from YouTube and some allow you to convert to other formats. Youtube2Mp3 is a Firefox add-on that allows you download youtube videos directly as MP3 files.

If Twitter is too much of noise for you and you always have had difficulty finding the right and latest information, Microplaza is no less than a wonder for us twitter addicts. Microplaza is a meme tracker which searches and tracks the latest and hot links revolving around twitter.

My Photo Index is a free and light-weight photo organizer for tagging and organizing your photo collection. It allows you to import photos from physical media, or it can search your computer to find photos.