Technology Bites

Recently the Google’s Orkut team has announced the launch of a new version of Orkut. The team stated that this new version of Orkut will create a faster, richer and more intuitive experience for users. This new version has a clean, simple interface with fewer pages. It provides you with greater personalization options and a [...]

Many times it might have happened that you like a song but don’t know the name of the song or the album. Sometimes, you might remember one or two lyrics of the song, but you forget the exact name of the song. That tune you heard in a restaurant recently is catchy and you really [...]

Google Docs is a useful tool for most of the users who don’t need full featured Office suite like Microsoft Office. It also provides a good means of accessing files from multiple computers. Google Docs added a new feature that allows users who want to download all their files to their system as a backup [...]

PDFAmigo is a browser based tool for creating fillable PDF forms in your browser. This tool is simple to use and intuitive. It allows you to create PDF files with fillable forms using text fields, list boxes, radio buttons etc, in your browser.

Yahoo home page redesign is working for Yahoo after all. Some people didn’t like it so much and preferred old Yahoo home page over the new one, switching to old Yahoo home page is not so difficult either.

Recently, the Google team announced that Similar Images is becoming a permanent feature in Google Images. You can check it out by clicking on “Find similar images” below the most popular images in Google image search results. For instance, if you search for Ancient Egypt, you can use the “Find similar images” link to find [...]

There are these awesome stuff you want to buy on eBay, or keep track of  – auction(s), job posting(s) or alike. But, you should spend a lot of time online to scour through multiple sites to keep track of listings which intrigue you the most. To help you keep track of listings in an organized [...]

Microsoft released a useful tool aimed at netbook users who wants to upgrade to Windows 7. Netbooks came with Windows XP before and often they lack a DVD drive, with this tool users can create a bootable USB drive or DVD.

Miro is a free open source video player for accessing video content like TV shows, videos, podcasts. It also supports HD videos, you can download content from sites like Hulu or YouTube, it will download HD videos wherever available. With Miro you can organize your video feeds for offline viewing, so that when you are [...]

Microsoft officially launched Windows 7 today worldwide and is now available on sale. OEMs will also offer Windows 7 now with new PCs. Windows 7 RTM is released on July 22, 2009 and got good reviewers from many users and enthusiasts unlike its predecessor Windows Vista. Windows 7 is priced from $200 (Home Premium) to [...]

Google recently made an official announcement that it would include Twitter updates in its search results.  Following is an excerpt from a blog post on the official Google blog written by Marissa Mayer, Google Vice President of Search Products and User Experience.

Google announced a set of new features for its Google Analytics service, there are some quite useful features in those updates. An intelligence engine that helps you to see new insights in the data being collected.

Google Tasks is the simplest form of to-do list, it is not feature rich but it gets job done for most of us. Tasks can be used in Gmail or Google Calendar etc. While tasks is very useful, it is cramped in to the gmail and Google calendar so it becomes hard if you want [...]

WinX DVD Author is a DVD authoring application that costs $29.99, but the developer Digiarty Software is giving away the software for free. The giveaway runs until the end of this month starting from today that is Oct 20th to Oct 31st. No strings attached, no registration, no email etc, just go to the download [...]

Windows Access Panel is a freeware and portable application, which gives an easier access to several windows programs in Windows Vista and Windows 7. Most of these programs are buried in control panel in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Fittr Flickr is a Google Chrome extension that is designed to enhance the user experience of Flickr using Google Chrome browser. Recently Flickr logo changed, it now includes a Yahoo logo along with it and immediately the most vocal fans of Flickr are up in arms. Fittr Flickr removes that Yahoo part of the logo [...]

Earlier twitter SMS updates were available in India but later twitter discontinued the SMA updates because of the cost associated with them. Now they have reached a sort of exclusive deal with Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile operator. Bharti Airtel customers can now send tweets from their mobile phones @Rs.1, and they can receive the [...]

Is Twitter spam annoying? Here is a breather. Today Twitter added new options that enable users to flag bad accounts on Twitter. Clicking on the “report for spam” link will alert Twitter that the account is possibly a spam account. And, it blocks the account from following you or replying to you. However, no automated [...]

Google Wave is the much hyped product in recent times, like Gmail Invites Google wave invites are hot and people are selling them in eBay. Google started sending 100000 invites few days back, but the demand is still high. Today also they sent several invitations to users.

According to the Telegraph, twitter may be adding video tweets feature soon. The report doesn’t include any quotes from twitter founders or any sources, so the information at this point may be rumor, but the feature would be great for some folks if it is really in the works.