Technology Bites

TubeMaster++ is a freeware for windows that allows users to capture the video and music playing in ay browser. Unlike other video download tools you don’t have copy paste the URLs, it automatically captures the media you are playing at any time, all you need to do is keep the TubeMaster++ running.

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 final is released today with several improvements and new features. The most notable are new Tracemonkey Javascript engine which will make rendering heavy Javascript pages like Google Docs and others to load faster. Geo location features, and HTML 5 tags support is also included. The release also includes improvements to the Gecko [...]

Everyone who has a website or blog has to upload files to their ftp server and download files to local computer regularly. There are some great software like Filezilla to do that, but there is also a better way to use FTP with out connecting with FTP software. NetDrive is a freeware for Windows that [...]

File sharing is a common practice among users to share files with friends or to host files elsewhere if they don’t have enough drive space to host themselves. Sometimes you may want to upload files to multiple hosting sites so that you can eliminate download counters etc.

“I find television to be very educating.  Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book.” Said Groucho Marx. But apparently, everyone these days is too busy to read books. Of course you are excluded if you are a student and that too a ‘good’ student. People [...]

Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7 will ship on October 22, 2009. Today Microsoft announced the pricing details for windows 7, interestingly the prices are slightly lower when compared to the Windows Vista prices. Along with the pricing Microsoft is also allowing users to pre-order upgrade packages for half the price in select markets.

Yahoo is testing new home pages for quite some time, these new home pages are not enabled for all Yahoo user, but only a small percentage of users will see these designs. There are two variations of the new Yahoo designs, one that is released in Sep 2008 and the other that is released in [...]

Image Tuner is a freeware for windows that allows you to do basic editing of your digital photos and images. The program allows batch resizing, converting, watermarking, and renaming of the photos.

There are several video downloader and scripts available for downloading Youtube and other popular video sharing sites, but not many for Hulu. Hulu Video downloader is a freeware app that allows you to download Hulu videos to your desktop.

Microsoft Security Essentials, a free security software from Microsoft is available for download from today. This is a beta release of the software and the download is capped at 75,000, Microsoft may increase the download limit based on the demand, but if you want try the software download as soon as possible. Download from here.

This is useful for those who use multiple Yahoo Messenger IDs, with the official Yahoo Messenger program it is not possible to login with multiple Yahoo IDs to Yahoo Messenger. Multi Yahoo Messenger is a simple tool that allows you to run multiple yahoo messenger instances simultaneously.

Aviary has pretty powerful web based graphic editing tools, recently they released an another tool that is quite useful for bloggers. Falcon image markup editor is the latest edition to the Aviary suite of applications. Combined with Aviary Firefox addon Talon it provides a simple and efficient way to take screenshots and add simple markup [...]

Microsoft used to offer a Anti-Virus suite called OneCare that got discontinued due to lack of interest, and then Microsoft announced that it will offer a free solution code named “Morro” for security in November 2008. Looks like finally Morro has come to life. Neowin.net obtained screenshots of the program code named “Morro”, which will [...]

Crush3er (pronounced: Crusher) is an online tool that lets you create invitations rapidly. With Crush3r, you can easily create invitations for a variety of functions, parties, get togethers or any social gathering and distribute them easily through the medium of email.

Opera has created lot of buzz with their “Reinventing The Web” message recently, today they released the reinvention called Opera Unite. The service turns every computer into a web server, this is a cool idea although i didn’t get the reinvention of the web.

BitBlinder is an open source project aimed at offering anonymous bittorrents and browsing to get around filters. With increasing policing and Governments considering internet cut off for users downloading music or movies over P2P networks, anonymous bittorrenting is good solution to get around these draconian rules.

Splitting a file may not be useful all the time but it can come handy when you have a large file that needed to send by email or to be uploaded somewhere for sharing it with others. Splitter & Merger is a tool that does splitting and merging files as easy as it can get.

Twitter made Microblogging more famous than any other and some folks gave up blogging for twittering. These twitter messages or micro blogs are rich source of valuable links, breaking news, and of course spam. Twitter acquired summize last year and launched as a twitter search engine.

WordPress 2.8 Final version is released to the public. 2.8 version brings lot of improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies and overall speed according to WordPress blog. Visually it looks the same as previous version 2.7 but you will see some changes like code editor and others.

Facebook is preparing to launch Vanity URLs for Facebook profiles and pages, according to Facebook Blog starting this weekend users can have the Vanity URLs (user names) for their profiles. The usernames will be assigned on first come first served basis, so grab your favorite URL immediately as they are available.