Technology Bites

Opera has created lot of buzz with their “Reinventing The Web” message recently, today they released the reinvention called Opera Unite. The service turns every computer into a web server, this is a cool idea although i didn’t get the reinvention of the web.

Facebook is preparing to launch Vanity URLs for Facebook profiles and pages, according to Facebook Blog starting this weekend users can have the Vanity URLs (user names) for their profiles. The usernames will be assigned on first come first served basis, so grab your favorite URL immediately as they are available.

By now you might have tried Wolfram Alpha, if you didn’t heard about it yet it is a new search engine launched today. While it may be good in finding answers for complex questions and displaying rich information on places and other things, it is not yet a useful search engine for average user. Of [...]

If you love Gmail and looking for an easy solution to move or copy all your emails from other email providers now there is a simple solution from Gmail. Gmail introduced a new feature that you to import emails and contacts from your other email providers like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL mail and several others.

BitLet is a browser based Java applet that allows you to download torrents with out any BitTorrent clients installed. BitLet recently added the ability to stream Video from .torrent files.

Mininova, one of the popular torrent sites is testing a filtering system to recognize and remove torrents infringing copyrights in the aftermath of the Pirate Bay trial. Under the new system Mininova will use a third part content recognition system which will flag the .torrent files that point to potentially copyright infringing content, these files [...]

Bmlet is a one of its kind directory where all you can find is bookmarklets, aka smart javascript bookmarks. The term, coined in 1998 is now noted for the extendibility and productive effects that it brings into one’s surfing experience.
Bookmarklets are a single line of javascript code that you put into a browser’s bookmarks bar. [...]

AVG is offering its LinkScanner feature as a stand-alone plugin for both Firefox and IE. AVG Anti-virus edition already has this feature, with the new browser plugin users who don’t use AVG can also use this LinkScanning feature.

Diggbar, the recently launched framebar and URL shortner got alot of criticism for the way it frames the content and redirects the URLs. Digg has listened to the feedback and now offers changes to the Diggbar.

The Diggbar, which launched recently by Digg is one of the hot debates in the blogosphere. Some feel it is evil and think that it increases digg experience for digg users. In publisher point of view it is evil in its current form and sites like engadget are blocking it. One of the main concerns [...]