Live Documents to challenge Microsoft Office

Published at November 22, 2007   Filed Under Technology, Tools   4 Comments  

Sabeer Bhatia, the co-founder of Hotmail is challenging Microsoft Office with Live Documents. Yesterday he released Live Documents, a free online version of the office suite with programs similar to Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
The Indian-born Stanford graduate said that Live Documents would pose a “significant” challenge to Microsoft’s propriety software business, which eventually would be [...]

Flashphone: Free browser based phone calls

Published at November 22, 2007   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments  

Flashphone is a web service which allows you to call from the browser itself. Unlike Skype or Yahoo Messenger you don’t need to install any software, it is browser based.
Flashphone as the name suggest is flash based and it works well. You have to register for the service to use. Limitations of the service are [...]

Digg RSS Feeds with direct links to original articles

Published at November 21, 2007   Filed Under Technology   11 Comments  

One of the worst things about Digg RSS feeds is that they doesn’t point directly to original articles with out going to Digg. If you are like me you don’t want to go to Digg (to read those funny comments). For my own use I have cloned an existing Yahoo Pipes Digg Feed and created [...]

Blog.gears: Blog offline with Google Gears and Blogger

Published at October 23, 2007   Filed Under Google, Technology   0 Comments  

Blog.gears is an offline Blogger client which allows users to write posts offline. This is very useful feature if you don’t have net connection all the time.
In order to use this feature you need to install Google Gears first. If you have Google gears go to Blog.gears and click on the link login, it [...]

Technology Talk 20/10/2007

Published at October 20, 2007   Filed Under Blogging, Technology   3 Comments  

This is the time for our technology talk series, find below some interesting posts from the blogosphere.

6 Free Alternatives to Microsoft Word by Nirmal
Office Live Workspace by Online Tech Tips
Acme LPG370TS Head Turner Multi-Screen Laptop by Techlivez
Google launches Identification System for YouTube by Madhur Kapoor
Turn Your Gmail into Awesome Storage Tool with Gspace [...]

Automattic Acquires Gravatar

Published at October 18, 2007   Filed Under Technology   1 Comment  

Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic, the company behind wordpress.com has acquired Gravatar. Gravatar stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar” provides 80×80 pixel avatars that follows you from blog to blog and shows up beside your name wherever you comment.
Matt says that Gravatar servers have been transferred to Automattic and the service is now [...]

Liquid Rescale GIMP Plugin

Published at October 2, 2007   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments  

Remember the Seam Carving technology developed recently for editing the images without losing the aspect ratio of the images. Just two days back i wrote about rsizr image tool based on the same technology, now this is available as a plugin for GIMP.
Liquid Rescale is a plugin for GIMP which adds the seam carving [...]

Technology Talk 30/09/2007

Published at September 30, 2007   Filed Under Technology   4 Comments  

Here we go with our Technology Talk series, below is the list of some interesting articles from the blogosphere.

Steve Rubel explains you how to turn Gmail into a social hub to catch up with the social network overload
Madhur gives us some Tips on promoting your blog
Brown Baron has a nice post on what to [...]