May 31, 2009

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Auto-Login to Facebook With Your Google or Yahoo Account

You can now link both your Google Account (including Gmail) and Yahoo ID with your Facebook profile.

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The advantage of linking you other online accounts with Facebook is that if you are signed-in into any of the above services, you’ll automatically...

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The Ban on WordPress Blogs in China Is Unlikely to Be Lifted

wordpress in chinaChina has the highest number of Internet users in the world along with a booming economy and that explains why American web companies like Yahoo, Google and Microsoft co-operate wholeheartedly with the Chinese government in implementing internet...

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The Wonders of Facebook and Google

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There are four characters in this true story - father, mother, son and a daughter.

When their marriage broke down, the father took away his son with him to another country though he was just three years old at that time.

That incident happened some 27...

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May 30, 2009

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Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time

Windows and Mac FansGeeks and some part of the tech world consider it cool to hate everything that comes out of the Microsoft campus. Let me share a few instances.

Microsoft develops Vista and the vocal crowd immediately dubs it a failed product although a majority of...

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Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English (Presentations)

This slide neatly sums up the main differences between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.

web 3.0 vs web 2.0

Web 1.0 - That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo!...

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Now Upload MP3 Files on SlideShare

If you are using SlideShare to host your PowerPoint (or Keynote) presentations, the good news is that you can now use the same service to also upload MP3 recordings of your conference talks and the audio can then play in sync with your actual...

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Google Audio Ads for Radio to Stage a Comeback

google online audio ads Back in December 2006, Google introduced an Audio ads service that allowed advertisers to run campaigns on AM/FM radio stations using the familiar AdWords interface. Google’s foray into traditional radio advertising was not very successful and...

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May 28, 2009

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Bing Promo Video Makes Fun of Google Search

Microsoft has released a short promotional video for Bing.com that sort of makes fun of Google Search.

Ever had trouble finding information online using a search engine? When what you thought was a simple search at first quickly spiraled out of control,...

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Watch a Short Video Tour of Microsoft Bing

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Video Tour of Microsoft Bing

Bing is the name of Microsoft’s new search engine that expected to go live sometime next week. You can find overview documents and screenshot images of Bing here while of video tour of the Bing.com service is...

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The Firefox Manual - A Beginner's Guide

The first version of Firefox was released in 2004 and since then, some 230 million people world-wide (or 20% of the 1.2 billion strong Internet population) are using Firefox as their primary web browser. 

firefox market share

The next graph illustrates the Firefox...

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The Design & Manufacturing Process of Apple Macbook

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In this video,  Jonathan Ive (who is best known for designing the iPod and the iPhone) discusses the design of the Apple Macbook notebooks that are carved from a single piece of aluminum (unibody). The video also gives a sneak preview of the...

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Type Text in Indian Languages on any Website

Blogger, Gmail, Orkut and a few other Google services offer transliteration facility by default so you can easily type characters in Hindi, Tamil & other popular Indian languages using the standard English (Roman) keyboard.

Here’s a quick...

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May 27, 2009

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Create a Flash Catalog of your Favorite Amazon Products

Before I get into the actual product, here’s how your Amazon Product catalog will look like on the web. You can navigate through the pages of this virtual catalog like other flipping magazines (e.g. Zinio) and if the pictures or text appears too...

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Never Forget an Email Attachment in Outlook Again

You just sent an email referencing a document but only after that mail has left your Outlook outbox did you realize that you forgot to attach the file with the message. And then there’s another wave of follow emails from recipients asking -...

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Watch TV Shows on the Desktop with Joost Media Player

Joost.com, as you probably know, is a free web service that lets you watch popular TV shows, music videos, podcasts and even some movies on the Internet.

Initially, Joost required users to download a desktop application for watching Internet TV but in...

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Nokia N97 Reviewed at CNET

Like the Palm Pre, there’s plenty of buzz around the Nokia N97 mobile phone that is expected to hit the retail shelves sometime next month.

The touch-screen N97 phone has a sliding QWERTY keyboard, a 5 Megapixel camera and you can customize the...

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Adobe Introduces Acrobat.com Presentations - Create Impressive Slides Online

Acrobat.com Presentations is a new online presentation tool from Adobe to help you create presentations in the web browser. The service may have some things in common with Google Docs Presentations, Zoho Show, 280Slides or Slide Rocket but unlike...

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May 26, 2009

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Countries that are Least Affected by Recession

This world map shows a list of countries that are considered least affected by the global economic crisis.

 world map of recession proof countries

Australia takes the top spot followed by China with India and Singapore in equal third place. Qatar is the only gulf nation that figures...

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Download Windows Vista SP2

Vista SP1 DVDThe Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista is now available for public download on Microsoft Download Center. You may either download Vista SP2 as a standalone installer or as an ISO image for burning onto a DVD.

The installer for Vista SP2...

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Take a 3D Virtual Tour of Disneyland via Google Earth

With Google Earth installed, your kids can now take a virtual 3D tour of the beautiful Disneyland Resort in Paris much like Peter Pan.

Assuming that you have the latest version of Google Earth on your machine, just search for "Disneyland...

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May 25, 2009

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Google Street View Blurs the Face of KFC Colonel - Are Royal Statues Next?

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blurred kfc mascot 

Google Street View has blurred (see here and here) the cartoon images of Colonel Sanders that are present on advertising banners outside every KFC restaurant in UK citing a very strange reason.

kfcThe privacy laws of UK require Google to blur...

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AutoDesk DragonFly - An Awesome 3D Home Design Software meets the Web

Autodesk as a company is well known for producing some of the best 3D design and architecture software in the world including AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max and Maya. Now they are eyeing the home consumer market with the launch of DragonFly - a web based...

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The Circuit City Website is Up & Running Again!

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After staying offline for nearly 5 months, CircuitCity.com, the popular online store for electronic gadgets is back in business.

The website of Circuit City has been acquired for some $14 million and the purchase also includes data about all existing...

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May 23, 2009

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Publish Spreadsheets in Google Docs Directly as PDF or Excel Files

Google Docs has long allowed users to publish their spreadsheets on the web as HTML web pages but now you can also publish spreadsheet data as downloadable PDF or Excel files.

That means anyone one can download your public spreadsheets from Google Docs...

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Capture Screenshots in Office 2010 with the new Screen Clipping Tool

screen clippingMicrosoft OneNote has a built-in screen clipping utility that lets you capture any part of the desktop screen with one click. And it’s smart because if you screen capture a web page with OneNote, the URL of the page is automatically added to the...

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China Imposes Blanket Ban on all Blogger Blogs

There are some 275 million blogs hosted on Blogger.com and all them have possibly been blocked in China.

china blocks blogger 

This "crackdown" could have some relation to June 4, 2009, the day when the world will mark the 20th anniversary of the

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Expand the YouTube Video Player to its Maximum Size without Full Screen

The default full screen button in the YouTube video player expands the video such that it covers your entire desktop area and all existing windows on the screen stay hidden as long as you are watching the video is this "maximized" state.

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Google Analytics "Visitor Counter" Badge for WordPress Blogs

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You probably use the FeedBurner badge to show the count of your feed subscribers and Twitter badge to display the number of your followers on Twitter. Now there’s a new badge in town to display visitor data from Google Analytics onto your...

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May 21, 2009

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New Visual Search Engine Arranges Results in a Large Collage

visual search

Search results for Google (above) and Microsoft (below)

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Spezify is a new visual search engine that aggregates search results from multiples sources including Yahoo, Flickr photos, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, etc. and then arranges all these...

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Now Ship Your Hard Drive to Amazon for Offsite Backup

Online backup services like Mozy, Carbonite, etc. are some good & inexpensive choices for storing your photos, home videos, music files, personal documents and other important computer files on to a remote location. Amazon S3 too can be used for...

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Compare Wolfram Search Results with Google

Firefox users can now use the brilliant Wolfram search engine alongside Google.

Google and Wolfram on the same page
google and wolfram together

This is possible through a new Firefox add-on that displays search results from Wolfram Alpha in a neat sidebar whenever you perform a...

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May 20, 2009

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Now Read All Those Spam Emails from Russia & China in English

translate & print email

Google has enabled language translation in Gmail meaning you can now translate emails written in foreign languages to a language you can read.

The translation happens inline so you don’t have to leave the current message view. And there’s...

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Amazon S3 Hosting Tips You Should Know About

If you using Amazon S3 (or CloudFront) for your web hosting needs, here are some essential tips that you should know about.

The tips discussed here will also help reduce your monthly S3 bandwidth (thus saving you money) and you don’t have to be...

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