Beware with Twitter Links, Malware Arrived on Twitter

Published at August 5, 2008   Filed Under Internet, Technology, Web 2.0   2 Comments  

Twitter links are mostly in short URL format and you never know what you are clicking until you see the opened site. It is always better to click links from only trusted contacts.
Kaspersky folks are reporting that malware is making its way to twitter, Twitter, so be cautious with suspicious profiles and links. Some [...]

Cuil: New Search Engine Launched Today

Published at July 28, 2008   Filed Under Technology   6 Comments  

Today’s blogosphere buzz is about a new search engine in the town called “Cuil” (Pronounced as “Cool”). Everyone jumped on the new kid and draw conclusions that it is bad, worse and not relevant. Yes i tried a few queries the results are not impressive but hey it is just one day old, give it [...]

How to see hidden web site server details

Published at July 28, 2008   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments  

URLInfo is a nifty utility built on Google App Engine that shows the hidden web server details of any site you wish to see. It is true that the data is good for nothing but if you see some sites you may find some interesting details.
As dailygyan notes webworkerdaily headers contain a job notification [...]

TrueSpace 3D Modeling Software is Free Now

Published at July 25, 2008   Filed Under Microsoft, Technology   1 Comment  

trueSpace is a 3D modeling and animation software that allows you to render 3D content, it also allows you to make 3D content for online shared spaces and Virtual Earth. Today Microsoft announced that this program is available as free download on Virtual Earth Blog
Truespace is the product of Caligari, a company acquired by [...]

Display Your Blog Posts on Major Media sites like Reuters, USA Today

Published at July 24, 2008   Filed Under Blogging, Technology   1 Comment  

I never thought that it is possible to display our blog posts on major media sites like Reuters until i saw this post on QOT. IIt is possible to put your blog posts on big media sites with blog syndication service BlogBurst.

Read Magazines for Free with Mygazines

Published at July 23, 2008   Filed Under Technology   5 Comments  

Mygazines is a free community site for reading, sharing and archiving magazines. The service is free for reading magazines, but if you want to upload magazines you need to register for an account.
Users can upload magazine articles to the site and customize the articles they uploaded in a Mygazine. Not only magazine articles but [...]

Watch 380 TV channels on the internet with Livestation

Published at July 21, 2008   Filed Under Software, Technology   0 Comments  

Livestation is a Microsoft backed startup that provides streaming TV channels for free on the internet. Initially they stared their private beta focusing on news channels, at the time of the launch the listed channels are BBC World, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera (English), Bloomberg, Euro News (English & French), France 24 (English, France), i>Télé, [...]

Browser’s address bar or Search bar which one you prefer?

Published at July 18, 2008   Filed Under Technology   0 Comments  

Marshall had a nice post on Readwriteweb where he discusses about people entering URL’s in the search bar rather than in the address bar of the browser.
Google’s search share is growing like a weed, Latest Hitwise search market share data for June shows that users are entering URL’s and domain names with out extensions [...]