From the monthly archives: July 2010
With a room having walls covered in a mural with large pictures Google just showed off the all new Google Image search. The new Google Image Search now shows the results as unaligned image tiles. The metadata is shown when the mouse hovers over the image with image enlargement. A lot of results are shown [...]
Usually parents are too worried about the internet usage of their kids and now with the rampant growth of social networks, inappropriate content is easy to access. Here we are going to introduce you to , a social networking website, Togetherville, for kids below 13 years. It enables parent to connect the child’s profile to [...]
Google has just acquired Metaweb, a semantic search engine provider. Metaweb’s most notable product, Freebase, which is a repository of structured data has more than 12 million entities in its database. Freebase has its own API and runs on community support. It is clear that Google’s search capabilities will increase with the introduction of a [...]
Now Gmail users can put their signature using rich text in their mail. This gives you the freedom to attach images as well as text in different fonts and colours. To change your signature to something cool and colourful, you just need to go to Settings of your gmail account and in the signature section [...]
Now a days everything is going 3D. From daily soaps to movies, we enjoy 3D effects a lot, so here is the turn of your bowser. We read a post which reveals that Adobe will roll out a 3D plugin very soon. Adobe’s product manager posted a few details about the same: “If you are [...]
Some of you might find this girly but here we show you some images of Fluffy Linux. It is an eyecandy for the pink lovers. Most of the design is in pink and reflects some sort of fairy land with unicorns and bunnies. I was particularly impressed by the Kopete, the chat application. Fluffy is [...]
Boy Genius Report revealed some shocking pics yesterday. It is an image of a burnt iPhone. The brand new iPhone4 caught fire for no reason. It was just hooked to a computer via Apple USB cable that accompanied the device. BGR confirmed it from an Apple store that it was not the user’s fault but [...]
The Kubuntu Team has decided that with release of Kubuntu 10.10 there will be no Netbook Remix. Instead Plasma Netbook Workspace would be packaged with the standard Kubuntu distro. According to Digitizor an algorithm would run during the install which would decide the default workspace: desktop or netbook, though it would be manually changeable. Digitizor [...]
This post is not coming out because of my Technical interests. I am writing this post because I had to write it. India is a developing country. We have a large pool of doctors, scientists and engineers. Still a very huge population in rural India is illiterate with female illiteracy rate touching alarmingly high marks. [...]
We told you about a few suspicious apps made by a Vietnam-based Thuat Nguyen which were eating up money from certain app store and iTunes clients. As it turns out, Apple just got rid of all the apps made by this developer. Apple said that the developer violated the Program License Agreement in a way that rigged fraudulent purchases of his e-books. A few hundred users were charged as high as $600 for the ebooks they never purchased. We recommend our readers to check their iTunes account and remove all the sensitive information which can lead to monitory loss.
