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If you are a Facebook fan, then now you can access your and your friends’ life stream directly from your desktop. Facebook now provides a desktop client based on Adobe AIR platform that’ll let you access Facebook on the go. With Facebook Desktop, you can view the middle column of your Facebook home page. You [...]

It looks like Microsoft is working on every possible improvement it can make to its upcoming Windows 7 operating system to make it a huge success. Do you remember those Vista annoyances when programs compatible with Windows XP refused to run on Windows Vista even ater changing compatibility settings. But in Windows 7, you won’t [...]

At this year’s RSA conference, Anti virus maker F-Secure’s security expert Mikko Hypponen has recommended users to not use Adobe Reader as their PDF reader because it is one of the most vulnerable software that has been the primary target of exploiters. Over last year, 47 percent of targeted exploit attacks have been on Adobe [...]

Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope has been released and is available for download. With a new version, ubuntu has got a lot of new features. Ubuntu 9.04 has got latest GNome 2.26 environment, includes Open Office suite version 3 which was missing in last version. It also boasts of faster boot up, support for latest ext4 [...]

Now you won’t have to download PowerPoint presentations or TIFF files from your Gmail account to view them as Gmail now lets you view both PowerPoint and TIFF files just like it supports PDF, Word or Excel documents. Next time you receive a PowerPoint file, just click on View and it’ll open up in your [...]

Here’s a nice and impressive way to view and share your favorite YouTube videos with your friends. YouCube is a YouTube mash up tool that lets you add up to 6 YouTube videos to create a mash up using a 3D cube(one for each face of the 3D cube). Once you have added YouTube video [...]

SiteShotr lets you capture a specified web page URL over time by specifying time interval between each capture and a file naming convention. It also lets you adjust browser window size and cropping of screen shot to capture a particular region of a web page.

Firefox usually flies down a long web page when you scroll it down. If you wish to scroll down slowly, then hold down Alt key while scrolling, Firefox will scroll web page at a much slower and smoother pace. Slowly scrolling a web page can let you easily go through long content pages and you [...]

Have you ever clicked on Close button on a window accidently and lost your important work, if yes, then you need NoClose. NoClose is a tiny AutohotKey script that’ll disable Close button of current window on pressing a hotkey combination. Once you run the autohotkey script or standalone exe(no installation required), you can press Ctrl+1 [...]

Here’s a new offering from Google Labs, Google Similar Images, a new refined image search feature that works almost similar to Google Image Search but it can let you search using images in addition to using text query. Though there’s no option to upload images, but you have to first type in your query and [...]