It has been a while since I have covered Mozilla Labs. It is one of the cool places where some of the cutting edge web technologies like Prism, Personas, Ubiquity, Bespin, Snowl, Geode, etc. Mozilla Weave is one such technology out of Mozilla labs. Weave enables you to have incredibly rich, personalized experiences across the […]

Mozilla Announces Weave Sync 1.0 beta 1
on November 17, 2009 in Featured, Firefox, Firefox Add-ons, Mozilla Labs

Amazon Kindle App for Windows PC
on November 11, 2009 in eBook Readers, Gadgets, Windows
Amazon has been seeing some great success in the e-book reader market with their Kindle and the Kindle 2 wireless eBook reading device. Despite the announcements by various retailers including Sony, Barnes & Nobles, Kindle enjoys a sizeable lead in this area. You can ebooks on Amazon from a WiFi enabled Kindle and download ebooks […]

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 Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.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 […]

Install Slew of Popular Free PC Software In One Shot
on October 19, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life, Windows, Windows Freeware
I love quality free software and try to write about the all the good ones I come across here. But, it’s a lot of work when you are configuring a new computer either for yourself after a OS re-install or for a friend when you are ‘fixing it’. Earlier, I came across a project OpenDisc […]

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 […]

Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 09-10-09
on October 9, 2009 in Tech for Life
It is some quiet time in the Firefox front but I still haven’t had problems finding new and exciting Firefox extensions to share with you. The Firefox extensions developer community is awesome and unstoppable! Here are this week’s picks. Feedly: If you read RSS feeds via feed readers like Google Reader, Netvibes, Bloglines, etc. – […]

What is Dropbox? Awesome Video
on October 6, 2009 in Dropbox, Tech for Life
Dropbox is one of my favorite web services. Regular readers here probably have seen a lot of posts on Dropbox. But, if you are still wondering What is Dropbox, wonder no more. Common Craft are known for their simple videos that can explain complex concepts very easily and they have done one for Dropbox. Did […]

Flickroom – Awesome Adobe Air Desktop App for Flickr
on October 1, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life
I love Adobe Air apps that bring web applications right to your desktop in slick and easy to use interfaces. Flickroom is also an Adobe Air application (beta) that beings the most popular photo-sharing site in the Internet, Flickr, to your desktop. Flickroom is shiny, dark and very intuitive to use. If you are a […]

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: Ubuntu Linux Adobe Air Installation Error
on September 22, 2009 in Tech for Life
I am just making a note for myself here and anyone else who might encounter this error. Scenario I was trying to install TweetDeck in LinuxMint Gloria – a Ubuntu Jaunty 9.0.4 variant. Error Could not be installed because another application is already being installed. (I didn’t grab the TweetDeck error screenshot so I reproduced […]

Pre-Order Windows 7 Home Premium for $30
on September 21, 2009 in Featured, Money Matters, Tech for Life, Windows, Windows 7
If you have a valid US college email address, read on. Or if you know someone who has one and would help you out, keep reading. Microsoft has a promotion going at Win741.com where they are offering U.S. students Windows 7 Home Premium edition for just $30! Windows 7 Home Premium is going to retail […]

Free Video to Flash Converter
on September 16, 2009 in Tech for Life
I was looking to convert some avi files to flash format to publish to web. A colleague showed me this cool free tool that lets you do it painlessly. DVDVideoSoft.com offers a free tool – Free Video to Flash Converter on their website. It is a 12.2 MB download and once installed just launch the […]

Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 09-08-28
on September 11, 2009 in Featured, Tech for Life
Mozilla has released a security update for Firefox 3.5.3. Make sure you install it as soon as you can. Plus, Firefox 3.5.3 checks your current Adobe Flash Plugin version that will show you if it needs to be updated. With Firefox 3.6, you would be able to go a Plugin status page and see which […]
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