Operation Firefox – A New Take on Spread Firefox
Mozilla has come up with yet another initiative to take Firefox to the masses. The latest campaign coming from Mozilla is titled as "Operation Firefox" an initiative that takes to marketing Firefox in the traditional way by putting up large sized banners in public places. In brief: The goal is to post fifty 3½-feet (~1 meter) wide Firefox logo stickers in some very visible areas around the world. Participants must be residents of the US, Canada, Japan, China and New Zealand though. Well here are some more details about the... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Crack Date Protection in Trial Software
Have you ever had the software that you always wanted to have, but unfortunately it was a trial software that would expire after a specific period of time. Did you ever wish to take the trialware to last till anyday you want, and not the generic 30 days trial. Well there you go.. A Freeware called Date Cracker 2000 allows you to just that. It allows you to extend the trial of your favorite software to virtually any date in the future.
Firefox 3 to get a Visual Refresh
The Mozilla team is working really hard to make sure that Firefox 3 will be the best browser we will ever see on this planet. Part of the plan is to enhance the UI of Firefox to make sure it blends with the host OS. Firefox 3 will come out with inbuilt skins that will integrate completely with Windows Vista, OS X and Linux. The Mozilla team posted some screenshots on what we can expect, and here the screenshots of the theme for Vista and OS X in action :... Read The Rest →
The Wait is Over : Ubuntu 7.10 is Here
Well the wait is finally over, Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) was released just a few hours ago. Ubuntu has changed the way we perceive Linux. Ubuntu has taken Linux to new levels taking it beyond geeks to a lot of normal people like you and me. In its 3 years of existence Ubuntu continues to grow as the biggest challenge to Microsoft domination in the Operating System market. Well today marked the day when another version of Ubuntu labeled as Gusty Gibbon present itself. Gusty has brought a lot of... Read The Rest →
Apple Announces a Real SDK for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Alas! Apple has finally done what we have all been craving for the past 4 months. Steve Jobs today in his usual open letter style announced the arrival of 3rd party apps to the iPhone. Well Apple plans to release a SDK(Software Development Kit) in February 2008 which is quite far away right now and I bet its got be February 26th this time around. Well this bodes well for a lot of iPhone users all over the world. For the first time you will be able to apps like... Read The Rest →
Google Analytics Announces Exciting New Features
The Google Analytics blog today made some important announcements today for which we have been waiting for a quite a while now. In addition to the new features that will be rolled out soon, Urchin Stats which provides the backend for Google Analytics which Google had acquired back in 2006 will be released with a new version 6 that will bring Urchin on par with Google Analytics. Urchin Stats is a standalone package that you can install on your website without depending on Google Analytics. Being a corporate stats package,... Read The Rest →
Dev Team Announces anySIM for iPhone
The Dev Team is at work again. anySIM has been upgraded to support the latest iPhone firmware 1.1.1. If you are a person who has been dying to get your iPhone unlocked but don’t want to buy iPhoneSIMFree (60$-100$) then you can get anySIM for free from the dev team.
Zune 2 Software Leaked in Windows Update
It looks like the guys over at Microsoft are having a hard time reading this blog. In the past couple of days I have been writing about hacks or leaks about Microsoft software. Well this one just adds to the list. Well a guy called JJRules over at Zunerama Forums got his hand into the next update of Zune Software. He Writes “As part of Windows Updates on my laptop today, I installed an optional update called “Driver Update for Zune USB.” It actually installed a pre-release version of the... Read The Rest →
Firefox for the Super Geeks – WebRunner
Well if you are super geek and productivity conscious just like the way I am then I am sure you are going to fall in love with this amazing app developed by Mozilla, the same team behind Firefox. Well the app I am talking about is WebRunner, a standalone version of Firefox that is lightning quick and does not leak memory like its Bigger Brother does. But the catch is that WebRunner is Firefox minus all the bells and whistles (See Screenshot on the left). Well that means that WebRunner... Read The Rest →
Time Waster of the Day – Twingly
Well Technorati currently tracks over 108.7 million blogs and that number increases with every passing day. Well you can’t read each and every blog post that is published in the world can you? So if you want to pass some time reading some random stuff then Twingly is for you.. I downloaded Twingly and I have been using for almost a day now, and I must say that Twingly really is an amazing piece of software. To start off with, Twingly basically is a visualization tool, that allows you to... Read The Rest →
