With the holiday season in full swing, many of you are probably traveling and some of you are flying. As you may already know, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have installed new backscatter body screening machines across many airports. A lot of people feel this as way too intrusive. If this is something you want […]
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How to do the Facebook Profile Picture Hack?
Facebook unveiled a new profile design earlier this month where they added thumbnails of your recent pictures. A French artist named Alexandre Oudin found a creative way to express himself with this in mind. If you want to do this yourself, there is an easy way to do this. If you are familiar with Adobe […]
Disable Third Party Data Tracking with Disconnect
Former Google employee, Brian Kennish, has created a browser extension, Disconnect, for Chrome and Rockmelt to disable third party data tracking while browsing. You might have already heard about the extension Facebook Disconnect which removes the Facebook Connect functionality that automatically identified you in 3rd party websites if you are logged into your Facebook account. […]
Free Reverse Phone Number Lookup
Once in a while you may want to lookup who called you from a phone number you didn’t recognize. This called reverse phone number lookup. Usually this is offered as a paid offering from a lot of services. However, I found a free service that does this well. ReverPhoneLookup.com is a free service that lets […]
How to Get Websites to Serve HTML5 Video to Safari on Mac OS X?
It has been now proven that Flash sucks battery life even out of Macbook Pros and Macbook AIRs. Apple (read Steve Jobs) has been against Adobe Flash on mobile devices since the launch of iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, people have proven Apple does this for good reason as they found running Flash content on […]
Facebook Becomes Better at Security – One-time Passwords
Facebook gets a lot of backlash about privacy and a lot of people get their Facebook account hacked. But, they have been working constantly on this area and now have a very good feature set when it comes to security. The kind we are used to with Gmail. One-time passwords Facebook just started to roll […]
Delicious Could Become the Xmarks Alternative For Some
Xmarks recently announced that they will soon be shutting down their free browser sync service since they couldn’t make a business out of it. With the service going away, a lot of you Xmarks users are probably looking for an alternative way to sync your bookmarks. If all you need is bookmarks syncing, there may […]
Archive All Your Social Data With ThinkUp
Twitter and Facebook and other social networks are in a way microblogs out there. You publish content on someone else’s servers and they hold on to it. If you ever wish to leave a particular network, all the history of your activity thee is gone… poof! I think about this all the time and in […]
0Boxer Makes it Fun to Organize Emails in Gmail
Who said organizing emails in your Gmail inbox has to be a boring, mind numbing affair? 0Boxer aims at making the mundane email tasks such as reading, deleting, organizing, tagging your Gmail emails a fun task. Once granted access to your Gmail account with oAuth, 0Boxer web app monitors your Gmail account for activity. You […]
UberStudent – Linux for Students and Academic Success
Traditional Linux operating system distributions come packed with everything – applications, toys, media apps, games, utlities, etc. If you are a student or part of an educational institution you may looking for something more tuned to getting things done in this space than entertainment. UberStudent is an Ubuntu-like Linux distribution geared especually for students, learners, […]
One Site to Instantise Popular Web Services
A few days ago Google unveiled an awesome new feature in Google Search – Google Instant. Google Instant search enabled seeing results as-you-type and was ridiculously fast in displaying the results. It wowed everyone including yours truly. Inspired by Google Instant, a lot of web developers started applying this to various services like YouTube, Flickr, […]
ToodleAir – A Must Have ToodleDo Companion
For those using ToodleDo, it needs no introduction. If you are new to it, check out my ToodleDo online task manager review here. ToodleDo has really helped me with managing my tasks with me loosely following the Getting Things Done principle. However, I wanted an easier way to input my tasks as I came across […]
Get IIT Technical Lectures For Free on Youtube
IIT – Indian Institute of Technology is one of the premium Indian educational institutions. Only the best of the students graduating from high school get into it after rigorous screening. I went to school right across from IIT Chennai and always wondered what it would be attend classes there. Now, thanks to a program called […]
Tips for Using Google Voice in Gmail
Google announced the ability to make calls from within Gmail recently. It looks like it has been very popular among Gmail users and 10 million calls had been made as of Sep 1. If you have your Google Voice number attached to your Gmail and use it to call people from within Gmail, Google Voice […]
Comprehensive Comparison Spreadsheet of All Known Android Phones
When it comes to choosing an Apple iPhone, we got you covered in our iPhone blog. However, when it comes to Android based phones if you start looking into the selection available to you, I guarantee that your head will start to spin. The good folks at Portable Electronics Ltd, a New Zealand based electronics […]
