Over Half a Million Private Myspace Photo's leaked
This is not good news for the News Corp owned Myspace. Myspace has had its fair share of privacy concerns in the past. But this major leak puts all of them to shame. Over half a million photos have been leaked on BitTorrent, and the catch here is that all the leaked photos have been taken from private albums on Myspace. Well that just made just about everyone’s private moments for the whole world wide web to see. This sets a very bad precedent for Myspace, and I am sure... Read The Rest →
Manage Multiple Web IDs with CookieSwap Extension
I have three Google Accounts. I use one to access Orkut and the other two for Gmail and Google Reader respectively. What if I want to read as well as do some social networking? Logging out and back in would do the job, but it would consume too much of my precious time. Managing all these accounts was a mind-numbing job for me. I was then introduces to a life saving Firefox add-on called CookieSwap. It effortlessly lets you switch between cookies on the fly! For instance, I’m reading my... Read The Rest →
Get a Flickr Pro Account Free For 3 Months
If you are planning to purchase yourself a Flickr Pro Account, then this is the right time to do so. Well if you are wondering how, Flickr has a deal running for the month of January wherein if you purchase a Gift Account, 3 Extra free months are credited to your Flickr Account. Which means you get 15months of Flickr Pro Account for just 24.95$, not a bad deal isn’t it? Well here is how it works.. Go to the Flickr gift site. Purchase a 12 month gift subscription which... Read The Rest →
Batteries to last 10X Longer thanks to Nanotech!
If you’re fed up with your current Mobile Phone’s battery, don’t fret, the future of Battery technology, just got brighter, with Nanotechnology promising upto 10 times more battery life. Which means if your battery previously lasted for 6days, it will now last for 60days. Charging your mobile phone only six times a year – imagine that! Over at Stanford University researchers have found a revolutionary concept, that could forever change this world. They have found a way to use Silicon nanowires in rechargeable Li-ion batteries that power the current... Read The Rest →
Ubuntu 8.04 to be the Greatest Ever!!
The Ubuntu team is at hard work and I must say I’m impressed with the work that has been done so far. Ubuntu 8.04 is on track to be shipped on April 24th 2008, and in the early stages of its development it continues to impress me with the new features being added.. This alpha release comes with HOT new features and improvements, like PulseAudio as the default sound system, the latest and greatest 2.6.24 Linux kernel and Xorg 7.3, with an emphasis on better autoconfiguration without config files “The... Read The Rest →
WordPress.com gets Enhanced Feeds
If you are a WordPress.com blogger, then you have many reasons to rejoice this festive season, and the feeds on WordPress.com have received a major upgrade. And Ofcourse that latest addition from Automattic is Enhanced Feeds that has for long been associated with Feedburner. Read on to find out what these Enhanced Feeds really are,
Internet Explorer 8 Clears Acid2.. Really??
Well the Whole Blogosphere has been talking about IE8 Clearing the Acid2 test. Lets hear to what the IE8 team has to say about the milestone : As a team, we’ve spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode. Before I answer the question that I raised in the title of this post, let me tell you what the Acid2 test is all about :... Read The Rest →
Remember the Milk Now Integrated (Fully) into GMail
Remember the Milk, one of the best Online Task management services is now fully integrated into GMail. The Integration of RTM into GMail is so good that you’ll never again need to visit RTM again. Email integration of this kind is always welcome, because I can do everything from Emails, to planning my tasks, and just about everything from a single interface. On a side note Remember the Milk integrates pretty well into other Google Services like Google Calendar, and Offline support via Google Gears. For other forms of... Read The Rest →
Mozilla Makes Skinning Firefox Easy With Personas
If you ever wondered why changing themes in Firefox was so time consuming, then Mozilla has got an answer for you. Mozilla has just released an extension called Personas that takes the pain out of changing the look of your Firefox. After a quick install you can change the look and feel of Firefox at the click of a button without having to restart the browser. Personas is a prototype that builds upon the ideas that: themes today are too hard to find, install and use graphic designers should be... Read The Rest →
Google Makes its Identity Management Move
Google has been evolving beyond its search roots in the recent past, and has been adding services at a pace that very few would dream off. The latest in line is an Identity Management system that will build a profile on the basis of your activities on all Google Services. While still in development, the current version of Google Profiles is accessible from Google Reader, Maps and Shared Stuff. For example, in Google Maps you’ll find the link to your profile at the top of the page.
