HTML5 is catching a lot of momentum especially with Apple’s newest and hottest devices – Apple iPad and Apple iPhone 4 gaining huge popularity. What does an Apple product have to do with HTML 5, you may ask? Steve Jobs has banished Flash (which powers a huge number of sites and video players on the […]
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Google Voice Goes Public. Finally.
Google Voice was born out of GrandCentral and has been in invite-only beta for more than a year now. Even though it wasn’t hard to get one before you still had to apply for an invite and wait for it to arrive. Google Voice is now open for everyone! Google Voice gives you one number […]
Kindle and Nook 3G Price Drops. Hello Nook Wi-Fi!
Apple iPad has stolen the limelight lately in the tablet form factor eBook reader space. And for a good reason. (plug: visit our young sister site Top iPad Resource for iPad stuff) Driven by fierce competition in this market, we are seeing price drops from 2 of the ‘other’ eBook readers. Amazon Kindle and NOOK […]
Apple Silently Introduces Redesigned Unibody Mac Mini
Most of us iPhone fans have been waiting for June 15 to place our iPhone 4 pre-order. But, Apple silently updated their webpage at midnight with the availability of a new redesigned Mac Mini. Mac mini has to be the unsung hero of the Apple product lineup. And it has received more than a minor […]
If the BP Oil Spill Happened in Your City
The BP Gulf oil spill is a tragedy and my heart goes out to those who are affected. If you want to know how big the Gulf Oil Spill is, there is a Google Maps mashup called If It was my Home. This Google Maps mashup lets you move the Deepwater Horizon oil rig from […]
Mozilla Weave Sync Graduates As Firefox Sync
Weave Sync from Mozilla has been available as a Firefox add-on in beta versions. I have been following it closely as it promises to deliver what Xmarks – a Firefox add-on that syncs Firefox bookmarks, passwords, etc. to the cloud and your other Firefox browsers – delivers now. Weave Sync also added tab sync in […]
Amazing Dog Robot from USC
Just some fascinating robotics work from University of Southern California. How did you like it? How did you like it? [via John Gruber]
TV Guide for Your Live Web Events – Live Matrix
The Web is no longer static pages of text and still images. It’s alive with tweets, tweetups, live video conferences, uStreams, live-blogged product launches, webinars, live auctions, virtual world meetups and events, time-limited sales and contests, live audio and video podcast recordings, live chats, and more. And it’s all happening in real-time. (RWW) I get […]
Facebook Privacy Scanner & How to Quit Facebook?
Facebook has been receiving a lot of flak lately and for good reason. It is a great social networking platform that is being used by millions around the world. But, with time Facebook’s privacy settings have become downright a nightmare to manage. That is for those who are worried about their privacy and actually go […]
Easiest Way to Create Gmail HTML Signatures
One thing that surprises me a lot is that Gmail still hasn’t added support for HTML signatures. With everyone in a social network like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and may be even run a host of blogs, it would be very helpful to just add social icons and link to them in the email signature. For […]
TweetDeck Gets Google Buzz, FourSquare & More
TweetDeck is an amazing desktop Adobe AIR app for Twitter. But, it has been adding support for other social networks as well making it a one app to have in your desktop to access all your social network accounts! TweetDeck version 0.34 just came out with some amazing additions and here is a quick run […]
New Skype Beta Gets Group Video Chat. Not Free.
Skype is one of the best & popular video chat clients and we use it to chat with our parents and family in India. The chat video is pretty amazing compared to other video chat clients even when one end is in a low bandwidth connection. One feature we have missed is a ‘group video […]
Dropbox Hack: Dropbox Folder Sync
I love Dropbox hacks and promote the Dropbox free account with all my heart to my readers. As a Dropbox user you might know that Dropbox syncs everything under the main ‘My Dropbox’ folder in your computer. If you wanted to sync a folder outside of Dropbox folder, you had to jump through hoops to […]
Dropbox Delivers Android app, iPad app and Mpbile API
Dropbox is an amazing little file sync/backup solution that just works. I highly recommend it to all my users to give it a try. You get a free 2GB account when you sign up. If you already use Dropbox, you are in for a little treat. Dropbox is now available as an Android app for […]
Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 10-05-04
It doesn’t matter how many new browsers come to the forefront Firefox still does the job for me with its extensive browser add-ons. Google Chrome is catching up in the extensions space but Firefox still is in the lead for me and my specific tasks. I have found a few more great add-ons that I […]
