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Spotify music app coming to the iPhone

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 app, one ad-supported free version and another premium version. ... Read More →

Facebook lets users change usernames

Facebook recently enabled custom usernames for users that created a land rush for the same. Some might be wise to pickup a good username for their profiles, others might have picked up something that they don’t really like. if you are in the later league and you repent your choice you have a ... Read More →

Don’t use Digg as a URL shortner

There is no shortage of URL shortners, but Digg.com URL shortening service provided one of the easiest ways to create short URLs. When the diggbar launched Digg was accused of framing other sites, and this was later changed so that non logged in users will go directly to the source while logged in ... Read More →

Yahoo new home page launching, allows customization

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 not like it but it is quite good. The most striking feature of the new home page ... Read More →

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

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 work. The tip-jar option is a not a bad idea which gives a ... Read More →

Bing Tweets: Twitter and Bing Search Mashup

BingTweets is a new project from Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft. In true sense it is not a mashup but a mix of twitter search results with bing search results. While the idea is interesting, bing search results are embedded in a ugly frame that looks annoying. Bing already displays ... Read More →

Sobees web based twitter app

Sobees is an interesting twitter and Facebook app that runs in a browser. Sobees is based on Silverlight 3 plugin released recently by Microsoft. Sobees is an web based app but there is a desktop cousin to it. ... Read More →

Yahoo Mail Inbox Updates: Smarter Inbox

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 social and interactive features. One of the feature ... Read More →

Mozilla Launches Open Web Tools Directory for Web Developers

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 solve this problem by including the tools links in one place. ... Read More →

Droprecord uploads files to multiple file sharing sites

File sharing is a common practice among users to share files with friends or to host files elsewhere if they don’t have enough drive space to host themselves. Sometimes you may want to upload files to multiple hosting sites so that you can eliminate download counters etc. ... Read More →