The Difference Between Yahoo! and Google - Bloggers Love G
Google just announced that they’ll be providing stock prices in real time on the Google Finance website. As expected, the news is currently the top story at Techmeme. A similar announcement was made by Yahoo! last week when they said that...
Sites That Accept User Generated Content go for the Mullet Hairstyle
Websites like MySpace and YouTube, that accept user generated content, are embracing a technique known as Mullet* Strategy to keep their main sections clean. *This phrase is actually inspired by the Mullet hairstyle of 70’s that was formed by cutting...
Sorry! BlackBerry Phones Are Not Allowed Inside the Amusement Park
Last year, authorities at IIT Bombay decided to cut off Internet access in hostel rooms for couple of hours in the night because "students preferred to sit in their rooms and surf the net rather than interact with their mates." Rashmi Bansal...
YouTube Inbox Gets an Upgrade - Wish Gmail Was Like This
Login to your YouTube account and visit the Inbox - they have totally revamped the interface and it’s much more responsive now. You can read comments on your YouTube videos and messages from other YouTube members inline - something like the auto-preview...
Photoshop for Web Design - Download This PDF e-Book for Free
SitePoint is running a unique promotion this month. They are giving away free PDF copies of "The Photoshop Anthology" - a cookbook that illustrates 101 web design techniques on how to use Adobe Photoshop for stuff like creating web buttons,...
Memorize Text Notes - One Word At a Time
A Tachistoscope can display information (like text, images, etc) before your eyes for a very small amount of time (few milliseconds) to help you memorize stuff and also improve reading speed. "By quickly viewing a series of words, the brain is...
Backup Outlook PST Files Regularly with Personal Folders Backup
The Personal Folders file (.pst) of Microsoft Outlook is one of the most important files on your computer that stores offline copies of all your email messages, calendar appointments, contacts, tasks and other Outlook items. [PST = Personal Storage Table] Whether...
Oh! Yahoo Desktop Search Tool Goes Missing
Yahoo! launched Yahoo Desktop Search software in January 2005 using technology from X1. Yahoo’s search program was definitely superior than competing products from Google or MSN because it supported many more file-types and would let you preview...
The Logo Designs of YouTube and Airtel - Separated at Birth?
Bharti Airtel is the largest cellular service provider in India while YouTube, a Google subsidiary, is the largest video sharing site in the world. Am sure this is purely coincidental but the logo designs of these two very popular brands do bear a...
The Logo Designs of YouTube and Airtel - Separated at Birth?
Bharti Airtel is the largest cellular service provider in India while YouTube, a Google subsidiary, is the largest video sharing site in the world. Am sure this is purely coincidental but the logo designs of these two very popular brands do bear a...
Online Movie Maker from National Geographic - For Kids
If you have kids in the family, introduce them to Wildlife Filmmaker - a simple movie making software from National Geographic. With WildLife Filmmaker, they can quickly create animal videos by just dragging wildlife video footage on to the timeline....
Online Movie Maker from National Geographic - For Kids
If you have kids in the family, introduce them to Wildlife Filmmaker - a simple movie making software from National Geographic. With WildLife Filmmaker, they can quickly create animal videos by just dragging wildlife video footage on to the timeline....
Health Warning Labels for Bloggers and Twitter Addicts
Enough has been said already about health problems of bloggers but these warning signs take a more hilarious approach. Get your blogger label from The Joy of Tech. This one is particularly good - "Repeated exposure to Valleywag can cause brain...
Read Your Orkut Scrapbook on Mobile Phones - m.orkut.com
Google has just launched a mobile version of Orkut at m.orkut.com - this new mobile site lets you read scraps, receive updates from existing friends plus you can approve or decline new friend requests. You can also navigate the Orkut mobile using keypad...
Display Windows Clock On Your Desktop With a Keyboard Shortcut
The clock in your Windows taskbar shows the current time but not the date or the day of the week. You can however setup a keyboard shortcut that will open the Windows clock on your desktop that will have both the date as well as time. But before that,...
Time Lapse Photography Videos on Flickr
Flickr looks like a good destination for watching time-lapse videos. Heather Champ recently uploaded a time-lapse movie shot at the Flickr office - those moving heads are Flickr employees. You can view some more time lapse videos on Flickr at this...
Display Windows Clock On Your Desktop With a Keyboard Shortcut
The clock in your Windows taskbar shows the current time but not the date or the day of the week. You can however setup a keyboard shortcut that will open the Windows clock on your desktop that will have both the date as well as time. But before that,...
Time Lapse Photography Videos on Flickr
Flickr looks like a good destination for watching time-lapse videos. Heather Champ recently uploaded a time-lapse movie shot at the Flickr office - those moving heads are Flickr employees. You can view some more time lapse videos on Flickr at this...
Strapya Mini Solar Charger
Strapya has start to sell their mini solar charger "Solar Charger ECO" at Japan. The cell phone strap charger is small but able to charge your mobile phone under the sun light. Support of certain phone models, the solar charger cost about 20...