Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

FriendFeed Gets Redesigned

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Firendfeed FriendFeed today released a beta version of its newly designed interface to all users. The new interface is available at http://beta.friendfeed.com and will soon be available on main site.

Below are some of the new features that are added to redesigned FriendFeed.

(more…)

Best Firefox Add-ons Announced By Mozilla

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Extend-firefox Mozilla today announced winners of its Extend Firefox 3 contest after reviewing over 100 extensions.

One of the grand prize winner of Best New Extensions is Pencil by Dương Thành An, which adds GUI prototyping and diagramming to Firefox using the Firefox’s SVG support for rendering and scripting.

(more…)

10 Essential Portable Applications for your USB Drive

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Portable Applications are the softwares that can be run directly from a portable device without requiring installation. These are quite useful if you travel a lot and need your softwares with you all the time. You can keep portable versions of your favorite softwares all the time with you on a USB drive and they can be run from any computer with a USB port.

Moreover, the greatest benefit of using portable applications is that none of the settings, history, data is kept on the host computer as everything is stored on the portable device.

We have compiled a list of 10 essential portable applications for your USB drive that will work on any Windows system.

(more…)

Buzz Up Great content on Yahoo Buzz

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Yahoo-Buzz

Yahoo Buzz, the Digg like social content rating website from Yahoo is now open to all. Earlier, this service was available to only selected 400 publishers. Now anyone can submit a story on Yahoo Buzz and if it gets featured on front page of Yahoo Buzz, it could drive enormous amount of Traffic to the publisher just like Digg.

(more…)

5 Awesome Tweaks to Power Up Google Talk

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Google-TalkGoogle Talk is  one such IM client that has a minimalist interface which focuses on the basic function of IM i.e. chatting. As compared to other IM clients like Yahoo Messenger, its interface is quite simple.

But here are 5 tweaks that’ll let you get maximum out of your Google Talk client and achieve some of the functions, you might not have thought it could perform.

(more…)

Get Vista like Start Menu on your XP

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Some users find it very cool to experience Vista running on their XP systems. Some features like showing Vista like drive icons on XP make users feel very good. Another nifty Windows utility tweaks your XP Start Menu to look like Vista’s.

(more…)

WikiTaxi your offline Wikipedia

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

wikipedia wikitaxi-logo

Wikipedia is such a great source of information that everyone of us would like to keep it on our pc’s. Well, to keep the whole of it is not possible but WikiTaxi can keep a good part of it on your pc. WikiTaxi is a portable application that delivers the Wikipedia of your choice to wherever you go. With WikiTaxi you can read, search, and browse Wikipedia offline. WikiTaxi has a database in which Wikipedia pages are stored in a compressed form.

(more…)

Sharing Made Easy on Google Reader

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Google-Reader-Customize-Friends

Google Reader today added some new features that make sharing you Favorite items more easier. Now you can control which of your e-mail contacts will be able to see your shared items under their Friends Shared items.

(more…)

Digsby test release promises minimal memory usage

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Digsby

Multi-network messaging client Digsby rolled out its latest test version promising minimal memory usage. Users around the globe used Digsby with a smiling face except one single complaint that Digsby consumed around 125-150 MB of RAM on their systems. This test release is centered around this main issue with many other improvements.

(more…)

Use Jeteye to super power your bookmarks

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Jeteye is a powerful Firefox add-on that makes your browsing experience even more better. Jeteye makes bookmarking your favourite URLs just a single drag-n-drop away( and one click thereafter of-course).

Jeteye

(more…)