Category Archives: Tech News

Pirate Bay copied, resurrected

Posted on August 20, 2009 by vrreddy

The infamous torrent site Pirate Bay was copied by an anonymous user and made available as a torrent for other to download as a backup if the original site goes away or goes paid with the new owners. The copy … Continue reading →

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

Posted on August 10, 2009 by vrreddy

Facebook has just announced that it acquired FriendFeed, the real-time content sharing service. Facebook is moving towards a real-time news stream and adopting some of the FriendFeed’s features like comments and “likes” on stream. FriendFeed is liked by the geek … Continue reading →

Flickr search revamped

Posted on August 4, 2009 by vrreddy

For longtime Flickr search hasn’t changed much, but finally today they released a revamped search pages for Flickr. Earlier the search used to return results in a  single column with large thumbnails but now it has changed, now it includes … Continue reading →

Microsoft Yahoo Search deal: What is in it for you?

Posted on July 29, 2009 by vrreddy

Microsoft and Yahoo announced a search deal today as widely speculated, according to the agreement Bing will power Yahoo search results for 10 years, and Yahoo will look after the ad sales. The search deal may be beneficial to the … Continue reading →

Spotify music app coming to the iPhone

Posted on July 27, 2009 by vrreddy

Spotify is a music streaming application that debuted few months back, it is not yet widely available except in some European countries. It is one of the best music streaming applications out there, Spotify is has two versions of the … Continue reading →

Yahoo new home page launching, allows customization

Posted on July 21, 2009 by vrreddy

Yahoo new home page was announced last year and Yahoo is testing the new home pages for quite some time, they are only visible for a small fraction of users. The latest version appeared few months back, some people may … Continue reading →

A Tip-Jar for Firefox add-on developers, will you contribute?

Posted on July 19, 2009 by vrreddy

Mozilla has added a tip-jar option to the add-on’s site that allows developers to collect donations from the users. The option is not yet available widely but this may change in future as developers opt-in to accept donations for their … Continue reading →

Yahoo Mail Inbox Updates: Smarter Inbox

Posted on July 7, 2009 by vrreddy

Yahoo announced a smarter inbox and application platform strategy in Dec 2008. Recently they included some more applications and made available these applications to all US users. Last month they announced some updates to the inbox in the name of … Continue reading →

Mozilla Launches Open Web Tools Directory for Web Developers

Posted on July 7, 2009 by vrreddy

Mozilla has launched a Open Web Tools Directory aimed at web developers. There are plenty of tools available free for web developers but it’s hard to find all you need for a project. The Open Web Tools collection aims to … Continue reading →

TubeMaster++ for downloading Videos and Music

Posted on June 30, 2009 by vrreddy

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 … Continue reading →