Monthly Archives: July 2009

Don’t use Digg as a URL shortner

Posted on July 21, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →

Yahoo new home page launching, allows customization

Posted on July 21, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →

A Tip-Jar for Firefox add-on developers, will you contribute?

Posted on July 19, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →

Bing Tweets: Twitter and Bing Search Mashup

Posted on July 15, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →

Critical JavaScript Vulnerability found in Firefox 3.5

Posted on July 15, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →

Sobees web based twitter app

Posted on July 14, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →

Google Finance Revamped, adds technical indicators

Posted on July 13, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →

Microsoft Office 2010 includes Web Office, Office 2010 Technical Preview Starts

Posted on July 13, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →

Google Translate now translates uploaded documents

Posted on July 12, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →

Google to launch Chrome Operating System

Posted on July 8, 2009 by V R Reddy

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 … Continue reading →