Originally posted 2009-05-05 08:32:33. Microsoft Windows 7 has been creating a steady buzz with the release of beta. The Release Candidate has also been making the rounds in torrent trackers. Microsoft has made an official Windows 7 RC available for download. It looks like Microsoft took enough precautions to handle the load from a surge [...]
Yahoo Photos closing deadline announced
on November 20, 2011 in Tech for Life
Originally posted 2007-06-19 22:29:01. Raise your hands if you use or have used Yahoo Photos. Even though I have been using Flickr, Picasa Web Albums & Photobucket for various needs lately, I still have a lot of my pictures left in Yahoo Photos. You might have read it here or elsewhere about Yahoo’s decision to [...]
DropBox Web – Redesigned with Bulk Operations
on November 20, 2011 in Dropbox, Tech for Life
Originally posted 2009-09-14 09:42:37. Dropbox is my favorite file sync software and one of its major advantages over others in the file sync area is their incredible web access to all your stored files and folders. Dropbox Web just got prettier. Not only, did it get a nice UI redesign but they also added some [...]
Evernote Opens up it’s API – Users Rejoice
on August 2, 2011 in Tech for Life
Originally posted 2008-10-01 16:47:06. Evernote is a note-taking application on steroids. It has the winning formula and success written all over it. I did step over a line and called Evernote as a Google Notebook alternative. And it has definitely come true for me. I have completely ditched Google Notebook for Evernote. Evernote just introduced [...]
Flurry of updates: Google Reader and Yahoo Web Messenger
on June 9, 2011 in Tech for Life
Originally posted 2007-05-04 01:45:51. We are seeing a flurry of news about updates on various software by the giants today. This is really good for us, the consumers. Yahoo Messenger launches Web Messenger Yahoo is finally getting the drift that there are people who can’t download the IM client at certain places like work or [...]
StumbleUpon Update: StumbleThru sites
on April 27, 2011 in Tech for Life
Originally posted 2007-04-21 17:08:23. I was just talking about how StumbleUpon’s categories are broad in my last post. Now, this doesn’t address that particular topic, but definitely a plus as a feature. Even though the StumbleThru page is accessible right now, they haven’t formally announced this feature in the home page yet. What they have [...]
Google Chrome – New Kid in the Browser Block
on April 25, 2011 in Tech for Life
Originally posted 2008-09-02 16:18:27. After years of Google working on it’s own browser, Google has released it today. Let’s welcome Google Chrome. If you subscribe to a few tech blogs, I am sure you are going to be inundated, even feel sick with news about Google Chrome. So, I am going to keep this brief [...]
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Now Available for Download
on November 20, 2009 in Microsoft Office, Tech for Life, Windows, Windows Freeware
I guess it’s free beta week this time. We just saw that we can download and try Adobe Lightroom 3 beta for free. If you have uploaded to Windows 7 recently, you might be looking to re-install your Office software or the free Open Office software. Microsoft recently announced Office 2010 with a ton of [...]
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 Available For Download
on November 1, 2009 in Firefox, Tech for Life
Firefox 3.6 with Gecko 1.9.2 is here as beta 1 now. Here are the new features in Firefox 3.6 Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas. Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe. Open, native video can now [...]
Upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7 Gotchas
on October 30, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life, Windows, Windows 7
Windows 7 has finally launched! (check this post for a ton of articles related to this current post) Just want to give you a heads up that this post is mostly my experience in upgrading Windows XP Home to Windows 7 Home Premium with lots of useful resources I came across thrown in for good [...]
Windows 7 Released. Vendors Offer Free Anti-Virus SoftwareWindows
on October 22, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life, Windows, Windows 7
Windows 7 has been officially released by Microsoft today – Oct 22nd. I still run Windows XP SP3 on my 5 year old desktop and it runs like a champ. I never upgraded to Vista as i knew how resource hungry it was. My wife has been running Vista on her Sony Vaio and it [...]
TweetDeck Gets Recent Follower Columns & Inline Replies
on October 15, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life
TweetDeck has been Twitter companion ever since @MattJabs convinced me to try it. I was a great fan of @Twhirl until then but the dashboard like Twitter interface lets you track so many accounts in columns at once. TweetDeck is an Posts on Adobe Air Twitter client and offers Multiple Twitter accounts support Facebook/Myspace integration [...]
Evernote Windows 3.5 New Features
on September 28, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life
Evernote has been my favorite note taking application in my desktop, iPhone as well as the web. Evernote is free and it keeps your in sync between all these platforms all the time. Plus, Evernote has been in the leading edge on online note taking and I switched to it even before Google Notebook bit [...]
Quick Tip: Gmail Down? Access Gmail using iGoogle
on September 1, 2009 in Gmail, Google, Tech for Life, Tips & Tricks
Gmail has been down, reportedly worldwide, for a tleast an hour for me now. But there is a workaround. If you have POP access or IMAP enabled accounts setup, you can still access your Gmail. It works fine. Here is a list of supported POP clients if you don’t have one. If you don’t have [...]
Digsby – Not My Favorite Instant Messenger Right Now
on August 18, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life
I famously proclaimed that Digsby is my favorite instant messenger in this blog post. Digsby is a free instant messaging client that offered support for multiple instant messaging support including Gtalk, Yahoo, MSN, AIM, etc. It also stodd out by offering support to social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc making it a one-stop [...]
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