I love the GrandCentral idea and have been kind of waiting to see what kind of integration Google is going to bring to the table after they acquired them. After a long wait, we are starting to see some activity in this front. GrandCentral has been in private beta and new account sign-ups were only […]
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Google Maps ages better with more features
Google Maps has become one of my main everyday search tools. I use it to lookup addresses, phone numbers for business and location at one shot and even sometimes use it to call the business right from the web. Google Maps have added a couple of new features that I really liked. Embed Google Maps […]
Windows Live Writer Portable 2.0 – With U3 Support
Windows Live Writer Beta 3 Released Windows Live Writer (WLW) Beta 3 was released last week. This is the last beta release before the final release of WLW. Some of the new features and improvements in this release are Support’s ‘Insert Video’ natively previously made possible by a plugin Publish XHTML style markup Use Writer […]
ToodleDo is A Great GTD Oriented Task Manager
I have taken a great interest in Getting Things Done concept after I started listening to the book – David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity book on Audible. In my quest for a GTD workflow I can implement with the way I work, I needed an online tool that I can […]
Google Nexus S Available in Best Buy Today
Google announced their second phone – Nexus S recently with some impressive specs. It has an awesome 4” contour display, 1Hz Hummingbird processor and comes loaded with the latest Android 2.3 Gingerbread version. Google’s own phone- Nexus One is popular among techies as they provide a pure, unadulterated Google Android experience. And I am […]
Pingdom Adds Free Website Monitoring
Pingdom is one of the premium website monitoring services out there. We have looked at free website monitoring services such as Montastic. Free website monitoring services like Montastic could suffice if your needs don’t go beyond knowing when your website goes down. But, if you wanted to know more about uptimes, response times, error analysis, […]
Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 09-04-09
There has never been a time when I found it hard to find new and cool extensions that I wanted to talk about. Here we go with some more awesome add-ons! Of course check out my Top Firefox Extensions to find some of the all-time best add-ons!
Windows Live Essentials 2011 Download
Microsoft does a few things right. One of them is the Windows Live Essentials free software package. Windows Live Essentials is a bundle of free software and contains a nice array of quality software for Windows. Did I say it’s free? I download this package just for Windows Live Writer – a free blogging tool […]
Excellent Free Online Book – Dive Into HTML5
If you are interested in learning HTML5, there is an excellent online book from Mark Pilgrim. Dive into HTML5 is available online for you to read for free. However, you can also purchase the print edition of from O’Reilly. This is an interesting strategy for a book to be available for free online as well […]
Google Chrome – New Kid in the Browser Block
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 and just show a […]
Passpack Mobile Comes to iPhone, Android & Opera Mini
If you are a regular here, you already know that Passpack is my choice online password manager web app. I use it to store all my passwords, software keys, frequent flyer cards, or any info that I want access to safely while I am on the road. So far, Passpack was great to access remotely […]
Animoto – End of the Slideshows Era
Image slideshows have been around for a while. We are used to wading through the monotone pace of image slidheshows from our albums in computer or photo services such as Flickr, Picasa, etc. Animoto aims to put an end to image slideshows as we know it. Animoto is a web application that takes your images […]
Blu-ray Disk Deals Under $15 at Amazon
Have you been putting off getting disks for your brand new Blu-ray player because they are so goshdarn expensive? Well, Amazon has a great selection of Blu-Ray disks for under $15. Some of the titles found there Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Extended Version The Hangover Gangs of New York The Crazies Harry Potter and […]
Minimalist Online ToDo Manager – TeuxDeux
I have been through a lot of online task managers but there is still something lacking in every one I have tried. May be I get bogged down with the application being too complicated aka feature-rich. TeuxDeux is a minimalistic and simplistic web application that lets you manage your to-do lists easily. Once you sign […]
Friday Fun: Blabberize Any Picture
Blabberize is a funny web application where you upload a picture and select the mouth and attach a sound clip and make a talking video clip of anything. Nothing more to it. You can upload your picture or your friend’s or for that matter even your dog and make them/it talk. Check this clip I […]
