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Google Instant has inspired a whole lot of imitators out there and most of them are surprisingly usefull. Come iTunes Instant the Google Instant implementation of iTunes search.
All of us know to love and hate iTunes at the same time (more so hate if you use iTunes on Windows ). While it is the reason our iPhone, iPod and iPad experiences with media and apps have been so awesome, it is also the most major time waster out there. It is bloated and slow as hell. Now with new layers like Ping being added has only slowed things down so much m
The Economic Times recently published an article about a “full-fledged underground marketplace on the Web” where all your personal data which you might consider as private and confidential is up for sale. The Economic Times claims that everything including your online banking ids and passwords and credit card numbers are being sold in this unknown [...]
India’s premier open source conference – LinuxAsia Conference and Expo – used to be held every spring in New Delhi. LinuxAsia had become a dynamic meeting ground for leaders from the international community and the Indian government, industry, enterprise users, academia and open source community. What started off as LinuxAsia in 2003, got renamed to [...]
It is about time for all the open source enthusiasts to get ready for the OSI Tech Days, Asia’s largest open source conference. Sponsored by giants like Google, Facebook, Ingres and CDAC, this OSI Tech Days will see some of the most awesome-est speakers in the world. While we have another post in line just [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday a handful members of internet community 4chan hacked YouTube and targeted the videos of pop singer Justin Bieber, although some other videos were also hacked. Some users claimed that they saw a pop up saying that Bieber is dead.
It seems that You Tube had a vulnerability which allowed the members of 4chan group to inject html directly into the webpages and execute it. For a few hours You Tube was the host of a variety of malwares, pop up messages and pornographic videos.
Mozilla Firefox 1.1 just got released for for Nokia’s Maemo platform. This release is built upon the same engine as the Firefox 3.6 desktop edition. Firefox 1.1 is packed with a navigation bar, add-ons and one-touch bookmarking to make your browsing experience easy. And the feature I liked the most, Firefox Sync, it synchronizes perfectly with your desktop Firefox – even your open tabs! Now that is something to boast about.
Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg said this morning “The future is now, folks.” and he was right. Wordpress brings you a unique new feature. Now you can just call your blog and do an audio post (And no, we are not crazy! It is true.) According to Matt “You can now go to your My Blogs tab, enable Post by Voice, and get a special number and code to call your blog.”
