Technology Bites

TweetDeck, the popular desktop twitter client released a new version today. The new version 0.32 of the client comes with twitter lists support, LinkedIn, new retweets and geolocation features.

Google Phone rumors are not new, but in recent months there are several reports suggesting that Google is launching a phone. Today Gizmodo is reporting that Google phone is a certainty according to a source. It is not just another Android set but it is Google branded mobile phone running android. We don’t know exactly [...]

Following are some useful web based utilities which enable you to manipulate images like removing red eye, splitting and slicing, adding watermark, extracting color schemes etc.,. These services are free for use and do not require any registration and extra software to get started with.

When there are handy PDF utilities available on the web, you might not have to spend money buying expensive software to view, edit and share PDF files. There are prolific services like Zoho and Google Docs, where in you can compose a document and save it in PDF format. If you aren’t pleased with the [...]

Google is testing a new search interface, the new look is not visible to everyone, but only for some users. The new look is with a new Google logo, colorful buttons and a permanently featured sidebar, something similar to Bing. The sidebar allows to narrow down the search to News, Blogs, Images, Video, Maps etc.

OpenID allows you to sign-in to different web services which support OpenID with out registering at each and every site. The OpenID concept is very useful for the end users, although several sites are supporting this but the majority are not yet providing OpenID support. Popular services like Blogger and Yahoo and many others allow [...]

iFree Skype Recorder is a freeware utility for recording Skype conversations. The software is simple to use and has a minimal interface. First time after installing you need to give access through Skype, from then you can record all the conversations you would like.

Google announced Google Chrome OS in July, at that time it was just an announcement, no screenshots and working demos. Today they finally gave more details on the project and how it works and when it will be available widely. Google Chrome operating system is cloud based as previously thought, it is simple to use, [...]

Microsoft spilled some details on the upcoming Internet Explorer version 9 at the PDC 2009 (Professional Developers Conference 2009). Microsoft started working on IE 9 from past three weeks, so there is nothing much you can expect at this point of time but the goal is now to improve the rendering engine performance and to [...]

Google just announced a new protocol, “SPDY” pronounced “SPeeDY” on Chromium blog. According to Google the new protocol will speed up the web. The protocol is not a replacement to the current protocol HTTP, but it will augment HTTP.

Firefox over the years has garnered millions of fans around the world and has a thriving developer community. Firefox is celebrating five years of success today, part of the success of the browser can also be attributed to the developers who developed thousands of add-ons for the browser.

Google is probably tweaking all Google Apps interfaces to have an unified interface inspired from the Google wave‘s interface. Google Apps interfaces are not pretty, the recently hyped and still in invite only beta does look better and many users liked that. According to Engadget Google apps will have interface similar to Google Wave.

Flickr, the popular photo sharing site has an open API that allowed developers to build applications on top of Flickr. Some of the featured applications are earlier included in Flickr API Services page as a list. Now Flickr has created an application showcase called App Garden.

Microsoft today announced a redesign for its popular portal MSN, the most significant redesign came after a decade Microsoft says. The new home page looks clean, uncluttered and with lot of white space around. MSN is visited by 600 million people worldwide and 100 million people in US every month.

Rediff.com, one of the popular Indian portal has launched a music streaming service called Rediff SongBuzz quietly. The service allows users to stream the music online, although Rediff’s primary audience are Indians it is not restricted to Indian music, you can also find international artists as well.

Windows Live SkyDrive is a free online storage service from Microsoft, it offers 25GB of storage space for users. 25GB of space comes in handy for uploading pictures, documents etc but if you want to use it as a backup space you need to upload files one by one. The better solution is to mount [...]

Google Search by voice feature on mobiles allows users to search on Google through voice instead of typing keywords. Google voice search is already available for iPhone, Blackberry and Andriod phones, today Google announced the voice search for Symbian (S60) phones.

Listorious is a web service which makes it easy for you to find the best Twitter lists on any given topic. Its a directory of Twitter lists enabling you to find the most interesting ones. It aggregates the Twitter lists into categories – media, finance, marketing, food, humor etc. Listorious allows you to search for [...]

There are several websites which allows you to download YouTube videos and there is no shortage of tools available for downloading YouTube videos. Some tools are designed to download videos directly to other formats so that you can transfer those videos to your iPod or other devices.

uTorrent is a popular client for downloading files using P2P networks. uTorrent is developed by BitTorrent Inc. There is much debate over throttling of P2P traffic by ISPs arguing the traffic is causing congestion on the network, users argue for net neutrality rules. uTorrent developers have some sort of solution for this problem which will [...]