Technology Bites

PicStreem is a desktop app from the DocSyncer team for sharing photos easily. DocSyncer is an app for syncing office docs with Google Docs, it was shutdown and now the team has launched PicStreem.

Desktop is a experimental Firefox addon that allows you to customize the new tab page of Firefox with your bookmarks or your favorite websites. This feature is missing in Firefox but other browsers like Google Chrome and Opera have it, infact Opera has this from long.

I am big fan of Remember The Milk, the web based to do list manager. It is open always on my Gmail sidebar. If you use RTM, you may like to use this RTM Notifier Adobe Air App. RTM Notifier doesn’t do much at the moment but the developer says that he will add other [...]

Microsoft’s sysinternals team has released a useful software utility for Windows called Desktops that allows you to have four virtual desktops at the same time. You can use the virtual desktops feature to run multiple applications at the same time with out cluttering your desktop.

Launchy is one of the best windows application launcher available. Launchy new version released today got support for Linux OS and it works with Gnome and KDE desktops. Gnome Do is another launcher for Gnome desktop, if you are familiar with Launchy windows version and wants to have the same type of launcher for linux [...]

Mikogo is a free software for screen sharing and online meetings. Mikogo also offers Skype extra tool. Mikogo allows to share your desktop up to 10 participants simultaneously. To start a meeting download the software and create a meeting. Now invite all your participants, you will be notified when the participants join your meeting. When [...]

Adobe AIR is a platform that allows developers to create applications that run on your desktop. Adobe AIR is a good platform to build desktop apps, these apps work both on windows and mac computers (Linux coming soon). Some of the folks have built useful desktop apps using Adobe AIR, here i am going to [...]

Alert Thingy is a Desktop app for friendfeed status updates. Alert Thingy is a Adobe Air app for friendfeed like Twhirl for twitter, which streams updates and allows you to post comments and messages to friendfeed. Till now i am not an active user of friendfeed but after installing Alert Thingy i am now following [...]

Yugma is a slick web collaboration and desktop sharing tool for windows, Mac and Linux. Yugma is available as a Free and Paid versions, but free version is enough for most of the users, but for business purposes paid may be the way to go. You need to register to use the app, it takes [...]

Yakkle is a tool for instant collaboration that lets you collaborate with your colleagues of firends. Using Yakkle you can do instant messaging, Voice chat and importantly desktop screen sharing. What is unique about Yakkle is it offers all the necessary ways to collaborate with others. No other free tool i know offers all these [...]

uvLayer is a new Adobe AIR application that allows you to watch and share videos with your friends. It is a nice way to watch videos on your desktop if you prefer that. uvLayer lets share the videos you are watching with your uvLayer friends or Facebook friends. User interface of the application is visually [...]

Mac Only: 1001 is a free desktop app that allows to bring Flickr out of browser. This app uploads your photos to Flickr, notifies you about updates from your contacts, everyone, or from the tags you are following. 1001 has a nice UI and a fun way to use Flickr in a desktop app. It [...]

digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/software/20_Open_Source_Windows_Apps_For_You’; Some of the commercial software like Photoshop are so expensive that an average user can not afford to buy it. Lately I am looking for some free or open source alternatives for windows programs and i was amazed with the range of programs available. Here i will list some of the open [...]

Launchy is a small application which will help you in opening your computer programs in a few strokes. With Launchy installed you can forget start menu, desktop icons etc, Launchy will do all the work for you. For opening any program you can just type a few letters it will show you the matches, then [...]

Folks at Microsoft Research Bangalore, India are developing a software that can split a computer screen in two halves, each half can act as an individual computer with its own operating system, desktop, cursor and keyboard. This will help small businesses in developing countries like India who have limited resources to deploy several systems. “At [...]