Technology Bites

PicLens is an awesome browser extension that turns photos or images from popular sites in to immersive slide shows has added support for Youtube videos. I covered Piclens in last june, and this is one of the popular article in this blog.
PicLens supports Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa Web Albums, Fotki, FotoTime, deviantART, Smugmug, Facebook, MySpace, [...]

PicArtia is a new service that allows you to create photo mosaics online. “Photomosaics are created by dividing pictures in to rectangular sections, each of which is replaced with another photograph of appropriate average color.”
PicArtia is not completely free, only mid-resolution photo mosaics are free, if you want to create a high resolution photo mosaic [...]

Slideboom is a new service for sharing powerpoint presentations on the web for free. Slideboom converts your presentations to Flash movies immediately when you upload.
Slideboom presentations can be shared with your visitors if you have a blog or site. It also has some social networking flavor like finding people with same interest and commenting and [...]

Jaxtr has announced a free SMS text message service to users worldwide. Jaxtr now supports 38 countries, you can send to any mobile phone whether they are Jaxtr users or not.
You will see a “Send a Free Text Message” box in the sidebar inside Jaxtr, select your recipient country and enter the mobile phone [...]

Demonoid is back as expected and it is working properly. I am happy to see it working again after it went offline for few months.
The old database is intact so if you are a user in the past your login credentials will work.
I have 5 invites (No more Invites) to share if any of [...]

The number of services built on top of Twitter is increasing day by day, some are useful apps and some add just noise. Twit Links is the latest app built on top of twitter which scans twitter accounts of Top tech bloggers and presents the links shared by them. It grabs the links content with [...]

There is a blog storm happening around a “Social RSS Reader” called Shyftr. What Shyftr does is takes RSS Feeds and publishes on its own site, of course these articles have comments, and a community around it, which they call as Social Network for RSS Feeds. The idea is interesting, but Shyftr is doing this [...]

Twingly is a new blog search engine currently in private beta. What is unique about twingly over others like Technorati or Google Blog Search is that twingly claims they are 99.99% spam free. That sounds interesting, becoz both Technorati and Google Blog Search have the spam problem, particularly Technorati counts all the spam blogs.

ClipClip is an another web clip tool to bookmark text and images from any web page. It is useful when you want to save a portion of the webpage and show it to others.
Clip Clip works the same way as Clipmarks, you drag a browser bookmarklet to your browser bar and when you want [...]

Yugma is a slick web collaboration and desktop sharing tool for windows, Mac and Linux. Yugma is available as a Free and Paid versions, but free version is enough for most of the users, but for business purposes paid may be the way to go.
You need to register to use the app, it takes a [...]