Technology Bites

Twitter redesigned it’s home page, not so surprisingly it is promoting twitter search. The newly redesinged home page is not visible if you are logged in, logout and see for yourself. Twitter says the new home page is for folks who are new to twitter.com.

Microsoft and Yahoo announced a search deal today as widely speculated, according to the agreement Bing will power Yahoo search results for 10 years, and Yahoo will look after the ad sales. The search deal may be beneficial to the Bing as it brings nearly 20% of search market share in US and a bit [...]

Mozilla folks released some interface designs for the upcoming release Firefox 4. One of the mockup design looks a lot like the Google Chrome browser with the tabs-on-top interface.

Panasonic yesterday announced some new additions to its Lumix range of premium compact cameras. The cameras launched: FZ35, FP8 and ZR1 target different audiences and sport varied features. The cameras are planned to release this September. Let’s check what Panasonic has got this time.

Spotify is a music streaming application that debuted few months back, it is not yet widely available except in some European countries. It is one of the best music streaming applications out there, Spotify is has two versions of the app, one ad-supported free version and another premium version. Spotify has developed an iPhone app [...]

Flickroom is an Adobe AIR application for Flickr that comes with a lot of features and a cool interface that will enhance your flickr experience. Flickroom is packed with all the features you ever need, you can view your photostream, profile, sets, contacts and much more. The app is designed in dark colors so that [...]

When Sony unveiled Vaio P series in January this year, everyone called it a netbook, but Sony disagreed and wanted to call it a ‘lifestyle PC’. Well said, with the $1000 price tag it had and sleek pocket-size design. But this ‘lifestyle pc’ had a low powered atom processor. So neither could it be called [...]

Facebook recently enabled custom usernames for users that created a land rush for the same. Some might be wise to pickup a good username for their profiles, others might have picked up something that they don’t really like. if you are in the later league and you repent your choice you have a chance now [...]

Free DVD to iPhone ripper is a freeware for ripping your DVD collection to use in Apple gadgets like iPhone, iPod touch and Apple TV. This can also extract the music from the DVD and export as MP3. There are some options to choose for selecting the audio/video quality while ripping the DVDs.

Windows 7 RTM will be available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers on August 6, Microsoft just announced. First English language build is available and other languages will be available on October 1st.

There is no shortage of URL shortners, but Digg.com URL shortening service provided one of the easiest ways to create short URLs. When the diggbar launched Digg was accused of framing other sites, and this was later changed so that non logged in users will go directly to the source while logged in users had [...]

Yahoo new home page was announced last year and Yahoo is testing the new home pages for quite some time, they are only visible for a small fraction of users. The latest version appeared few months back, some people may not like it but it is quite good. The most striking feature of the new [...]

Mozilla has added a tip-jar option to the add-on’s site that allows developers to collect donations from the users. The option is not yet available widely but this may change in future as developers opt-in to accept donations for their work. The tip-jar option is a not a bad idea which gives a small amount [...]

BingTweets is a new project from Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft. In true sense it is not a mashup but a mix of twitter search results with bing search results. While the idea is interesting, bing search results are embedded in a ugly frame that looks annoying. Bing already displays tweets in search [...]

Firefox 3.5 release came with a new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey for faster rendering of the JavaScript pages. But the release also has a critical vulnerability that lies in Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Mozilla is working on a fix to patch the vulnerability.

Sobees is an interesting twitter and Facebook app that runs in a browser. Sobees is based on Silverlight 3 released recently from Microsoft. Sobees is an web based app but there is a desktop cousin to it names bdule. Sobees along with twitter, real-time search and soon Facebook.

Yahoo Finance is the leading financial web site and always Google Finance lagged behind Yahoo Finance in terms of usefulness, charts, technical indicators. Today I was greeted with a new design of Google Finance, interestingly no major blog has covered this yet. The revamped Google Finance provides a good alternative to Yahoo Finance. The most [...]

Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview will start from today Microsoft announced. The biggest announcement is that Office 2010 comes with web based light weight versions of the popular office applications Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. These web based versions will be made available as free for everyone.

Google Translate, the handy translational tool on the web only allowed pasting text or URLs in the translation box for translating from one language to the other. Now it also allows document uploads, that means if you want to translate a document you don’t need to copy and paste text.

Google announced today that it is going to launch a Google Chrome Operating System. There were rumors about Google OS from years and finally they announced that is was real. The Google Chrome OS will be launched as an open source operating system and will be available in second half of 2010, first it will [...]