Are you the only one on earth holding out without buying a flat panel LCD TV? Sorry this deal is going to tempt you. A lot. Amazon has VIZIO E420VO 42-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV for $498.00 with free shipping! This full HD television has 4.5 star rating on Amazon and that is a great thing […]
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NotionInk has Announced Pricing on Adam Tablet
NotionInk has been behind the much talked about Android based device – Adam tablet. The specs for the tablet device blew a lot of people, including me, out of the water. NotionInk has finally announced pricing for their Adam tablet device. They had promised to keep it lower than the Apple iPad and they have […]
VeeBeam Streams Anything From Your Laptop to TV
A lot of video content is now available online. Watching that content that you can already view on your laptop should be easy to be viewed on your television, right? Veebeam is one other easy solution to this problem. Veebeam is a box that makes it easy for you to stream any online content that […]
Free Reverse Phone Number Lookup
Once in a while you may want to lookup who called you from a phone number you didn’t recognize. This called reverse phone number lookup. Usually this is offered as a paid offering from a lot of services. However, I found a free service that does this well. ReverPhoneLookup.com is a free service that lets […]
How to Get Websites to Serve HTML5 Video to Safari on Mac OS X?
It has been now proven that Flash sucks battery life even out of Macbook Pros and Macbook AIRs. Apple (read Steve Jobs) has been against Adobe Flash on mobile devices since the launch of iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, people have proven Apple does this for good reason as they found running Flash content on […]
Why Wesabe Lost to Mint? From the Horse’s Mouth
Wesabe was my first online personal finance manager experience. I was awestruck with its simplicity and functionality. I had a new found love for personal finance thanks to Wesabe. However, over the years Mint came along and they swept me off my feet. Although Wesabe was good, Mint had an uncanny knack for doing little […]
Adobe AIR to Power Tablets & Televisions
Adobe AIR has been an interesting technology and continues to do so. It is used to power web apps but make them look like they are desktop apps. Adobe AIR is cross platform and it works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. I have covered a lot of Adobe AIR apps here before. One […]
Gmail Out of Space – How to Clean Up?
You have run out of space for your Gmail account. You will not be able to send or receive any emails until you delete some items. If you were greeted with this message in Gmail and wondering how to go about cleaning up your emails, it is easy. As you would do with cleaning up […]
Facebook Becomes Better at Security – One-time Passwords
Facebook gets a lot of backlash about privacy and a lot of people get their Facebook account hacked. But, they have been working constantly on this area and now have a very good feature set when it comes to security. The kind we are used to with Gmail. One-time passwords Facebook just started to roll […]
Delicious Could Become the Xmarks Alternative For Some
Xmarks recently announced that they will soon be shutting down their free browser sync service since they couldn’t make a business out of it. With the service going away, a lot of you Xmarks users are probably looking for an alternative way to sync your bookmarks. If all you need is bookmarks syncing, there may […]
Google TV Mini-Site
Hot on the heels of the latest Apple TV announcement, Google has finally revealed features and details about Google TV in the mini-site http://google.com/tv. Google TV and the likes aim to provide us with a seamless Internet on TV experience – a browser, integrated TV & web search, easy access to online media content, etc. […]
Google Launches Goo.gl, A Bit.ly Competitor
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
