Technology Bites

Panda Security has released a cloud based anti virus to the public. Users interested in testing the application can download for free in the beta period, this application communicates with Panda servers to protect against the malware threats.

Microsoft has released a social networking app designed to connect family and friends in difficult times called Vine. Vine is available as a dashboard application accessible with a windows live ID, it can also be accessed via mobile phones and email.

Mozilla foundation released public beta 4 Firefox 3.5 browser on Monday, it is available for download from Mozilla.com. This release is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

If you want to convert files from one format to the other you have several different options as desktop clients, and most of the time they will support only few formats so you will end up with different software for converting to various formats. Convert Files is an online service that allows you to convert [...]

Bmlet is a one of its kind directory where all you can find is bookmarklets, aka smart javascript bookmarks. The term, coined in 1998 is now noted for the extendibility and productive effects that it brings into one’s surfing experience. Bookmarklets are a single line of javascript code that you put into a browser’s bookmarks [...]

Founded in 2001, Wikipedia has turned into a mammoth of information, news and resources, becoming the largest encyclopedia ever assembled with over 10 million articles already published. A plus factor that Wikipedia has, that keeps it above any other informational resource is the freedom to edit the content. Anybody can edit and make pages and [...]

Google Analytics team released an API in beta and is now publicly available for all Analytics users according to Google Analytics blog. This is good news for the developers who want to integrate Analytics data in their applications or to release apps for general public.

AVG is offering its LinkScanner feature as a stand-alone plugin for both Firefox and IE. AVG Anti-virus edition already has this feature, with the new browser plugin users who don’t use AVG can also use this LinkScanning feature.

Another feature released today over Google Labs along with Similar Images is the Google News Timeline that lets you visualize news, blogs etc in chronological order on a timeline. The results are fetched from Google News, Blog search, wikipedia entries.

Google Labs released a new experimental service “Similar Images” that lets you find similar images related to the search you are doing. Search for a word and then click on similar image link below the image and it returns similar images, the tool so far works perfectly.

DoInk is a fun service that allows you to create animations in your browser. The app runs in Java and feels like working on a desktop app. DoInk has a large collection of animated clips, backgrounds which you can use to create animations or drawings.

If you want to download photos of your friends albums from Facebook you have to do it one by one, if the album is large then its pain to download one after another. Facebook Photo Album Downloader is a Firefox addon that allows to download photos of entire album from Facebook.

Gmail has introduced a new experimental feature in Labs, which may be useful some folks, called “Suggest more recipients”. This feature suggests more recipients to be added to the email you are composing to send.

Since the popularity of Twitter started to rise and the 140 characters mania began, there has been an outburst of Url shortening services which allow you to sqeeze a long url in the given limited space. There are many url shortening services out there which are both free and easy to use. There is no [...]

Diggbar, the recently launched framebar and URL shortner got alot of criticism for the way it frames the content and redirects the URLs. Digg has listened to the feedback and now offers changes to the Diggbar.

You can get a custom URL with your username for your Google profile, Amit noticed this in Google Profile. Although its nice to get your name or something you want for your Google Profile, you have no luck if you are a Gmail user. I don’t know the login behind this but Gmail users can’t [...]

According to a report, 94 percent of all email sent is spam. In plain english, it is unwanted email that automated bots and software send you for the sole purpose of advertising and in many cases, phishing and online scams. You’ve probably got a lot of them and so has everyone. Once a spammer gets [...]

Vista Start Menu is a freeware for windows NT operating systems that serves as a alternative to default windows start menu. Vista Start Menu offers several features and customizations over default windows start menu.

If you want to edit images quickly with basic tools check out Fotograpfix image editor. It is a portable app and light-weight, you can put in your USB key and carry with you.

Stimator is a web service that gives the value of a website by taking different parameters into account. Touted as a “real website value estimator” it checks the web for backlinks, popularity in social media sites and gives an estimate in USD.