Technology Bites

Microsoft Security Essentials is a free antivirus program for Windows and is the successor of Windows Live OneCare. Microsoft released the beta of the program in June this year, and the final version is released today, it is rather quick. Download Security Essentials from Microsoft.

Tweaking Windows Services to disable unnecessary services can help improving your system performance. Windows has an in-built services tool for doing this. But the long list of services list confuses you, then head over to ServicesEditor, an online service that helps you in tweaking the Windows services.

Rollip is a free web service that gives your digital photos a vintage look. If you are bit of nostalgic upload your photo to rollip and turn it into vintage Polaroid style photo.

Google Docs Viewer is an online service by Google that allows you to read PowerPoint, PDF and Tiff files online without downloading them. It saves some time and hassle of downloading files to your computer before you could view them. The Google Docs Viewer is a good alternative if you don’t have the software required [...]

FastestFox is a Firefox Add-on which enables you to surf the web faster and thereby save time by speeding up common tasks. It provides you with faster, parallelized downloads and customizable shortcuts to quickly open your favorite websites on the fly!

If you ever wondered what the internet thinks about, lets say – Financial Crisis, Global Warming, a Celebrity or a specific topic of your interest. Here is an interesting way to find answers to your questions in an easy and effective way. Whatdoestheinternetthink is a web application that lets you find out what the internet’s [...]

Trendsmap is a web service which provides you with real-time mapping of Twitter trends from across the world. It lets you see what are the current trending topics in any region of the world like a tag cloud. Upon clicking any of the topics, you can see real-time tweets posted by users on that specific [...]

Optimizing CSS code is not just about reducing the file size but making the code effective, well organized and clean. Non-valid CSS files might be messy and can result in errors. So, following are some handy web based tools to help you optimize and organize your CSS code in quick and easy steps.

JAJAJH, the web based phone service launched today a new service over twitter – Jajah@call, that allows twitter users to call each other over phone. This is a nice feature on top of twitter to call your followers to say Hello, but is it effective?. The service only allows 2 minute calls, that means if [...]

We already know that Microsoft Office 2010 will have web based apps for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, today finally Microsoft announced and started the technical preview program for MS Office Web Apps. The private beta saw a huge demand and immediately closed for now, but you can add your email to waiting list at [...]

Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets you quickly read and flip through bundles of news articles. Its interface combines the best qualities of both print and web media. It gives you the ability to flip through news articles online quickly, just like you do with a print magazine. It enables you to [...]

Bored of chatting on Facebook using the default chat and want to spend more time in chatting with your buddies by voice?, Vivox is bringing voice chat to Facebook. Vivox provides integrated voice for online games and visual worlds like Second Life, it is bringing the technology to Facebook.

Facebook is launching Prototypes, a list of experimental apps built by Facebook Engineers. Facebook Prototypes is similar to Google Labs from Google where experimental features are first being tested before launching for the public.

According to a report from ComScore, Google sites account for nearly 30% of the online time spent in India and Brazil. Worldwide time spent online on Google sites accounts for only 9.4%.

Flickr introduced a new feature today called Galleries. Galleries are different from sets and collections you use in Flickr. While sets and collections belongs to your photos with Galleries you can display your friends photos or any Flickr members photos as a set called a Gallery.

Microsoft’s search engine Bing added a visual search feature. This is not a general feature available for all the search queries that goes through bing, but a feature that is more useful while finding products such as cameras, cars, people or books etc.

Drop.io, the super simple file sharing service has released a Yahoo Mail Application that allows Yahoo mail users to attach upto 100MB files to the mails while sending. The application is enabled by default for all users.

Yahoo Meme is a new microblogging service from Yahoo. In my previous post i noted that it is not a twitter clone but more like Tumblr, now i got my invite to test the service. It is indeed looks like a Tumblr clone.

TweetDeck, one of the best twitter desktop apps around is updated with some new features to Facebook integration and MySpace support for the first time. MySpace support may not interest to most of you but there are folks who are still using MySpace. TweetDeck is aiming to become a one for all desktop app for [...]

If you’ve got a bunch of profiles all over the internet like on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, YouTube, Flickr etc., then here is an easy way to put all those sites together at one place. Hi, I’m is like your nametag on the internet. It features all your latest content from your favorite social networks. [...]