Technology Bites

TubeMaster++ is a freeware for windows that allows users to capture the video and music playing in ay browser. Unlike other video download tools you don’t have copy paste the URLs, it automatically captures the media you are playing at any time, all you need to do is keep the TubeMaster++ running.

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.

p>Images in blog posts will add to the visual appeal and context but finding free images is not easy. Flickr creative commons archive is one of the solution but not the only option. Photoxpress is a free stock photo site that is offering royalty free images to use for personal and professional use.

What In Startup is a simple Windows startup manager that allows you to see, disable, enable or delete programs loaded during windows startup. The idea is to improve the startup time of the computer by removing or tweaking the stratup items.

Google Chrome is already a faster browser and today Google released another version of the Chrome browser which is even faster than the previous version. Google claims that the version 2.0 of the browser announced today will run 30% faster in rendering Jacascript heavy web pages.

Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distro Ubuntu, launched Ubuntu One yesterday, a native ubuntu file synchronization service that works on the desktop and can be managed from the web as well. Sounds similar? Yes, Dropbox does that. Ditto.

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 [...]

Panda Security has released a cloud based anti virus to the public. Users interested in testing the application can download for free in the beta period, this application communicates with Panda servers to protect against the malware threats.

Since the popularity of Twitter started to rise and the 140 characters mania began, there has been an outburst of Url shortening services which allow you to sqeeze a long url in the given limited space. There are many url shortening services out there which are both free and easy to use. There is no [...]

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.