Category Archives: Tech News

Opera Unite: Turn your computer into a web server

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 … Continue reading

Yahoo Mail Applications

In last December Yahoo announced an application platform for developers that allows anyone to build applications for Yahoo Mail. At that time there are only 3 apps and they are available to select power users only. Yesterday they introduced some … Continue reading

Microsoft Bing Goes Live, Review

Microsoft Bing the (new) search engine from Microsoft is live today for everyone. My first impression is that atleast it is better than the live search, live search really sucks. There are some nice features in Bing, but whether users … Continue reading

Free stock photos for bloggers

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 … Continue reading

Yahoo 360 to shutdown on July 13

Yahoo 360 is a blog platform and a kind of social network from Yahoo that launched way back in 2005. But the service has never really taken off except in Vietnam, where they launched Yahoo 360 Plus. Yahoo announced that … Continue reading

Yahoo new home page

Yahoo seems to be tweaking its home page a lot, recently it launched a new home page which is only visible to a handful of users and most of the users didn’t like that change. Now Yahoo came up with … Continue reading

WhatInStartup: Windows Startup Manager

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 … Continue reading

Google Chrome is much faster now

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 … Continue reading

Canonical Launches DropBox Competitor: Ubuntu One

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 introduces copyright filtering system

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 … Continue reading