Technology Bites

Feedburner which stopped to innovate after Google acquisition added an useful feature which might of interest to bloggers. Now it is easier to publish your RSS feed headlines to twitter directly from Feedburner.

Along with the Google Chrome for Mac and Linux versions today Google also announced the availability of extensions in beta. If you are running a beta version of Google Chrome you can install extensions now. The extensions are available for both Windows and Linux versions from today, but Mac users have to wait a while [...]

Google Chrome for Mac and Linux versions have finally hit beta today. If you are running chromium builds for Mac now you got the more stable beta version. It took quite a while for Google to release the Mac and Linux versions of the speedy browser, considering Google Chrome for Windows is launched more than [...]

Yahoo finance is still leader in Finance and Google Finance is trying hard to catch up. Google Finance recently got a facelift with a bunch of useful features. Today Google added a streaming news feature to Google Finance.
The streaming news can be seen both on the main page (Market tab) and on the overall market [...]

Picasa Web Albums is a photo hosting service offered by Google. Using Google Picasa you can manage the photos in Picasa web albums. Picasa web albums although not as popular as Flickr, it is still used by many. Picasa Downloader is a freeware that helps to batch download photos from picasa web albums.

Google dictionary is the new service from Google, that gives definitions for the words you search. When you search with a keyword a link “definition” appears on the blue bar above the search results. Google used to offer “define:word” parameter to get definitions, and now the dictionary is the natural extension of that.

Sending files these days is not so cumbersome and there are tons of services. WeTransfer offers a simpler way to send files of upto 2GB to anyone. It doesn’t bother you with cat captchas are anything like that. It doesn’t ask you to register also, just upload the file and send it to your friends [...]

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 [...]

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.