There are plenty of URL shortening service and one that gained a lot of traction is bit.ly. Google had introduced it’s own URL shortening service late last year – Goo.gl. One of the prominent places you might have seen it in action is in Feedburner Twitter integration. Since then Goo.gl has made it’s way into [...]
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Archive All Your Social Data With ThinkUp
Twitter and Facebook and other social networks are in a way microblogs out there. You publish content on someone else’s servers and they hold on to it. If you ever wish to leave a particular network, all the history of your activity thee is gone… poof! I think about this all the time and in [...]
Rainmaker Fills Your Google Contacts With Social Info
I have been using Google Contacts as my primary contacts database for a while now. I even sync my iPhone to Google Contacts and try to maintain a nice address book there. But, with so many friends over at Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter and their contact information different or incomplete in different areas it is [...]
Xmarks Browser Sync Service Announces Shutdown
I have been using Xmarks since it’s early debut in Firefox as Foxmarks extension. Xmarks is a free cross-platform browser sync service that kept bookmarks, passwords, history, etc in sync between multiple computers and even across browsers. I was happily using it to sync my bookmarks between Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari in Apple iMac as [...]
0Boxer Makes it Fun to Organize Emails in Gmail
Who said organizing emails in your Gmail inbox has to be a boring, mind numbing affair? 0Boxer aims at making the mundane email tasks such as reading, deleting, organizing, tagging your Gmail emails a fun task. Once granted access to your Gmail account with oAuth, 0Boxer web app monitors your Gmail account for activity. You [...]
Gory Details on the Recent Facebook Outage
Facebook was out for 2.5 hours yesterday due to some technical issues. With millions of users on the network, it did create a furor in the social networks. A lot of people were dissing Facebook for this outage but as a database administrator by day and as a person running multiple websites, I was lot [...]
Dropbox Gets App Directory & Mobile Updates
Have I said Dropbox is my favorite file sync – file backup service enough times? Well, I will say it again, it really is the best! For those unaware, Dropbox is a seamless file sync utility that can keep folders and files in sync across multiple computers, multiple operating systems and over the Internet. The [...]
UberStudent – Linux for Students and Academic Success
Traditional Linux operating system distributions come packed with everything – applications, toys, media apps, games, utlities, etc. If you are a student or part of an educational institution you may looking for something more tuned to getting things done in this space than entertainment. UberStudent is an Ubuntu-like Linux distribution geared especually for students, learners, [...]
One Site to Instantise Popular Web Services
A few days ago Google unveiled an awesome new feature in Google Search – Google Instant. Google Instant search enabled seeing results as-you-type and was ridiculously fast in displaying the results. It wowed everyone including yours truly. Inspired by Google Instant, a lot of web developers started applying this to various services like YouTube, Flickr, [...]
Get Local Traffic Alerts via SMS With Nixle
We were traveling to Detroit on I-96 E this past weekend and was turned back around due to an accident resulting in the closure of the Interstate. There wasn’t anything on the radio and we could have avoided the trip had we known about the accident. And so can hundreds of motorists everyday. What if [...]
ToodleAir – A Must Have ToodleDo Companion
For those using ToodleDo, it needs no introduction. If you are new to it, check out my ToodleDo online task manager review here. ToodleDo has really helped me with managing my tasks with me loosely following the Getting Things Done principle. However, I wanted an easier way to input my tasks as I came across [...]
Deal: Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive $89
Amazon has lightning deals that end very fast as soon as the limited supply runs out. I just caught sight of this amazing deal. Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive is now available for just $89.99 in the Amazon Lightning deal section. If you have been looking for a 3.5” internal hard drive, [...]
Get IIT Technical Lectures For Free on Youtube
IIT – Indian Institute of Technology is one of the premium Indian educational institutions. Only the best of the students graduating from high school get into it after rigorous screening. I went to school right across from IIT Chennai and always wondered what it would be attend classes there. Now, thanks to a program called [...]
Google Instant Unveils Search As You Type
Sorry to be covering Google so much lately but it is hard to ignore when they bring so much productivity enhancements in their tools! Google has unveiled something new called Google Instant. It is simply Google search on steroids. Lots of steroids. Google Instant gives you search results as you type in the search box. [...]
Tips for Using Google Voice in Gmail
Google announced the ability to make calls from within Gmail recently. It looks like it has been very popular among Gmail users and 10 million calls had been made as of Sep 1. If you have your Google Voice number attached to your Gmail and use it to call people from within Gmail, Google Voice [...]
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