Technology Bites

There are plethora of fabulous images on the web you might want to use in your blog. But, some times you might not be sure of the license and whether the image is copyrighted or not. Following are three useful WordPress plugins which enable you to add images to your blog without the hassle of license and copyright issues.

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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.
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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 if it is true or not, consider that as a rumor for now.
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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.
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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 output, following are some alternate options to process PDF documents.
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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.
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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 you to use your profiles as OpenIDs across the web. Other than OpenID there are similar services, for example Facebook connect and OAuth.
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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.
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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, faster. Don’t get excited as it won’t be available immediately, it will take atleast an year to be released to the public.
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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 speed up the browsing experience for the users. IE9 is not available immediately for people to download and test but at least Microsoft is working on to improve the IE as a standards compliant browser.
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