Free stock photos for bloggers

Published at May 31, 2009   By   Filed Under Tech News   1 Comment  

Images in blog posts will add to the visual appeal and context but finding free images is not easy. Flickr creative commons archive is one of the solution but not the only option. Photoxpress is a free stock photo site that is offering royalty free images to use for personal and professional use.

WordPress Image Uploader crashes Firefox, how to fix it

Published at May 30, 2009   By   Filed Under Browsers, Wordpress   17 Comments  

I am experiencing a Firefox crash when I tried to upload images to WordPress using the built-in WordPress Flash image uploader. In Google Chrome it works fine but Firefox crashes immediately when i try to upload an image.

Yahoo 360 to shutdown on July 13

Published at May 30, 2009   By   Filed Under Tech News   0 Comments  

Yahoo 360 is a blog platform and a kind of social network from Yahoo that launched way back in 2005. But the service has never really taken off except in Vietnam, where they launched Yahoo 360 Plus. Yahoo announced that 360 will shutdown from July 13th of this year, earlier Yahoo announced the closer of [...]

Create a Self Hosted Invoice Application With Siwapp

Published at May 30, 2009   By   Filed Under Software   3 Comments  

If you work on the web or run an internet business, billing and invoicing your clients is certainly going to take a lot of your time. There are some invoicing solutions on the web, some of them are free and some are not. Siwapp is one such billing solution which is both free and open [...]

Embed Google Content with Google Web Elements

Published at May 27, 2009   By   Filed Under Google   1 Comment  

Google today announced Google Web Elements at it’s Google I/O conference. Google Web Elements lets you easily embed content from Google sites like Youtube videos. Currently you can embed Calendar, Conversation, Custom Search, Maps, News, Presentations, Spreadsheets and Youtube news.

Yahoo new home page

Published at May 27, 2009   By   Filed Under Tech News   22 Comments  

Yahoo seems to be tweaking its home page a lot, recently it launched a new home page which is only visible to a handful of users and most of the users didn’t like that change. Now Yahoo came up with a new design for it’s home page, this is not yet live all Yahoo users.

Recover Windows 7/XP/Vista and MS Office 2007 product keys

Published at May 25, 2009   By   Filed Under Software   0 Comments  

If you couldn’t find your Windows product keys, this little program WinGuggle helps you in recovering your product keys from the windows installation. WinGuggle can recover and Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 product keys along with Office 2007 product key.

WhatInStartup: Windows Startup Manager

Published at May 24, 2009   By   Filed Under Tech News   0 Comments  

What In Startup is a simple Windows startup manager that allows you to see, disable, enable or delete programs loaded during windows startup. The idea is to improve the startup time of the computer by removing or tweaking the stratup items.

Test CSS Fonts Online with Font Tester

Published at May 24, 2009   By   Filed Under Web Apps   1 Comment  

Wanted to tweak your design with a different but not sure how it looks, Font Tester will help you to test different fonts online. Font Tester is web based tool that allows you to test different fonts with CSS properties applied to them. It will preview the results instantly.

Google Chrome is much faster now

Published at May 21, 2009   By   Filed Under Tech News   4 Comments  

Google Chrome is already a faster browser and today Google released another version of the Chrome browser which is even faster than the previous version. Google claims that the version 2.0 of the browser announced today will run 30% faster in rendering Jacascript heavy web pages.

Mozilla Jetpack: Build Firefox addons with ease

Published at May 21, 2009   By   Filed Under Browsers   0 Comments  

Jetpack is an API from Mozilla labs that allows anyone who can code for the web (HTML, CSS and Javascript) to write their own Firefox addons. For creating Firefox addons you need to know Javascript, XUL and XMl, but with Jetpack you could create Firefox addons with ease.

OffiSync: Access and Edit Google Docs in Microsoft Office

Published at May 20, 2009   By   Filed Under Software   2 Comments  

OffiSync is a beta application that allows you to access Google docs from Microsoft Office suite. You can edit documents from MS office and the changes you made will be synced to the online versions of the documents.

Get Wolfram Alpha search results in Google

Published at May 18, 2009   By   Filed Under Google, Internet   7 Comments  

By now you might have tried Wolfram Alpha, if you didn’t heard about it yet it is a new search engine launched today. While it may be good in finding answers for complex questions and displaying rich information on places and other things, it is not yet a useful search engine for average user. Of [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview Leaked to Torrents (Updated with Screenshots)

Published at May 17, 2009   By   Filed Under Software   1 Comment  

Microsoft put up a registration for Office 2010 technical preview just a few days back. The technical preview will start in July, if you like to join you can add yourself to the preview program here. If you can’t wait to get your hands with the Office 2010, then look for the same in your [...]

Import Yahoo Mail, Hotmail mails and contacts to Gmail

Published at May 14, 2009   By   Filed Under Internet, Web Apps   1 Comment  

If you love Gmail and looking for an easy solution to move or copy all your emails from other email providers now there is a simple solution from Gmail. Gmail introduced a new feature that you to import emails and contacts from your other email providers like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL mail and several others.

Device Manager for Windows

Published at May 14, 2009   By   Filed Under Software   2 Comments  

Device Remover is a powerful device manager and an alternative to the in-built Windows device manager. It has some powerful features compared to the default device manager of Windows, you can see a detailed view all the devices, drivers and services of the system.

Mixcloud Invites Giveaway

Published at May 14, 2009   By   Filed Under Web Apps   1 Comment  

We wrote about Mixcloud yesterday, an internet radio and podcasts site for music creators. Mixcloud is currently in a private invitation-only beta but I’ve been in touch with Nico Perez from the Mixcloud team and he was generous enough to give us 50 invites to their service for sharing it with Teknobites readers. If you’d [...]

Mixcloud Takes User Generated Music To The Next Level

Published at May 13, 2009   By   Filed Under Web Apps   1 Comment  

Mixcloud is our latest finding on the internet’s music block. If Youtube seems synonymous to video for you, Mixcloud aims to be synonymous with radio, Dj mixes and podcasts. Mixcloud provides a platform for content creators to promote and share everything audio, let it be podcasts, radio shows, mixed tracks or compilations. Everything can be [...]

Create Stylish Photo Albums with Memolio (Free Coupons Giveaway)

Published at May 12, 2009   By   Filed Under Web Apps   10 Comments  

Memolio is a photo album printing and sharing community site that allows you to create stylish portable photo albums. Memolio prints the photo albums on durable, water resistant and tear resistant polyester . The photo albums come as 12 sheet fan out album printed on both sides.

Canonical Launches DropBox Competitor: Ubuntu One

Published at May 12, 2009   By   Filed Under Tech News   0 Comments  

Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distro Ubuntu, launched Ubuntu One yesterday, a native ubuntu file synchronization service that works on the desktop and can be managed from the web as well. Sounds similar? Yes, Dropbox does that. Ditto.