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Google announced in July that it will launch Google Chrome Operating System targeting netbooks initially and later with the possibility of extending it to the laptops and desktops. Since then some screenshots are popping up as early builds of Chrome OS, they may be fake and we don’t know yet. Today Techcrunch posted a couple [...]

ScreenTunes is a free music search service that helps you to find songs featured in movies and TV shows. You can search using the song name, lyrics. If you are not sure of the song title you can search with a Movie title, it will show all the music from that movie.

Wikipedia is a rich source of information on any topic but it is some times not trustworthy, due to the free editing of the articles some people add random crap into articles. If you think this problem is the main reason to not to trust Wikipedia information, Wikipedia adding a trustworthiness to the article text [...]

How active are you on the social web? Here is an easy to use widget to spotlight your  latest  activity on social sites. BloggyBits is a flash widget that helps you showcase your latest activity at your favorite social sites right on your blog or website. Currently, it supports Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon,Flickr, Delicious and one custom RSS [...]

Nokia today announced a new smartphone that uses Linux based OS Maemo. This is the first phone for Nokia that is using Maemo. Whether you call it a smartphone or an internet tablet this thing is looking great in the pictures.

Google just announced that it is offering free downloads of one million public domain books in EPUB format through Google Books. EPUB format books are ideal for devices with smaller screens like mobile phones, e-ink readers etc.

Yahoo today unveiled new look and features to it’s search results page, mail and messenger products. The announcement follows the launch of new Yahoo home page last month. The user interface changes to Yahoo search results pages are similar to the new yahoo home page design with a few tweaks like a left column to [...]

The mobile giant Nokia is entering the PC market with a new netbook dubbed as Booklet 3G. There is speculation about Nokia entering PC market for quite some time, Nokia today announced it’s first PC product named Booklet 3G powered by Intel Atom processor.

Screencasting can be very useful for presenting your work to others or to make video tutorials on any application, etc., There are many applications and websites that provide high quality screencasting solutions where you can create a screencast and share it online with your friends or business partners easily. Here-in are some of the best [...]

Google offered video chat feature in Gmail for quite sometime. Now Google added the same feature to iGoogle, from now you can access the video chat feature from your iGoogle page. With this feature added to the iGoogle you can chat with those who don’t actively use Gmail but use iGoogle as their home page.

Google Reader is one of the popular RSS feed readers and useful web service to keep up with the RSS feeds from around the web. It pulls RSS feeds you add it to the reader, but it won’t pull the comments originated either in the blog post or in places like twitter. gReactions solves this [...]

Adobe has added new features to its online photo editing site photoshop.com. Now users of the photoshop.com can upload videos and create Group Albums. The video uploads feature is a welcome thing but Adobe is late on the game.

Alilg is a simple and free online photo editor with some basic photo editing tools. You can easily create a new image,  edit it and import photos to your image document. Options like crop, merge, opacity control, color pick and rectangle tool are made available. It also allows you to write texts with different fonts [...]

Google announced a Doodle 4 Google contest for school children in India. School children in between 1st and 10th standards can participate in the contest, these children have to design a doodle for Google which Google will put on it’s home page on Children’s day (Nov 14th).

The infamous torrent site Pirate Bay was copied by an anonymous user and made available as a torrent for other to download as a backup if the original site goes away or goes paid with the new owners. The copy which contains nearly 800,000 torrent files of Pirate Bay is a whooping 21.3GB file, but [...]

Windows Live Movie Maker is a part of Windows Live essentials suite of applications, it was available as beta for quite some time and today they released the final version. Windows live movie maker is the successor of windows movie maker which never got much traction. This app is available for both Windows Vista and [...]

Last week Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched Bhuvan, a much anticipated Satellite Mapping solution similar to Google Earth. Bhuvan is currently in beta, but they would have relapsed as pre-alpha to only few users for testing. Because I am using the application it is unusable at times, the site itself is confusing and there [...]

As you might have noticed on most of the blogs, in comments and discussion forums, avatars are small pictures representing your online identity. It’s always crucial to have an elegant avatar as its the foremost thing people notice on your profile. Here are some cool websites to find and create elegant avatars easily.

Google Chrome added a bookmarks synchronization feature today to the latest developer build of Google Chrome. Google engineers announced this feature recently on the Chromium developer Google Groups. If you are running a developer build you can use this feature immediately or else you need to wait for some more time before you can synchronize [...]

Free Video Downloader is a freeware that allows you to download HD quality YouTube videos, optionally you can also convert them to various other video formats.