Adobe Acrobat Online Takes A Giant Step Forward
Adobe continues to tread the path of online services with its latest offering Acrobat.com. With the launch of the online tools, Adobe also launched a tightly integrated version of Adobe Reader 9.0 that works seamlessly with the internet. With the latest offering, I feel Adobe is taking small but significant steps in the online office arena. Weather or not it can defeat Google, Microsoft in this threeway fight is the big question? Well Acrobat.com is a mini portal of sorts. It is the combination of their online meetings tool –... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Find The Font Used In An Image
I’m one of the few kind who has more fonts on his system than any other type of stuff. Call me a font addict, but I love trying out the different fonts to see how it looks. Case in point, I’ve spent over 80 permutations and combinations of fonts for the business card that I’m designing for myself. Everyday I come across fonts that are lovely and I want to try them out. But it isn’t all that easy to find which find the artist or designer has used. Earlier... Read The Rest →
Futuristic Next Gen OLPC XO Laptop Revealed
Nicholas Negroponte the founder of One Laptop Per Child Foundation yesterday unveiled the design of their upcoming XO Laptop. Dubbed to be the world’s cheapest laptop ever it is expected to retail about 75$. The designs that were unveiled totally blow the current market, as the design is simply amazing, and looks very user friendly. The only catch is that it will take them till 2010 to bring this design from the artist’s canvas to a real functional device. The laptop to be called XO-2 will have dual touch screens... Read The Rest →
Microsoft Live Search Cashback Is Chock-full Of Failure !!
Consider this as a rant, but with today’s announcement of Live Search Cashback program Microsoft has stooped itself to new lows. I cannot believe that Microsoft is actually trying to be the number one search engine ahead of Google, Yahoo by actually by paying the users in return for visiting their advertisers. Doesn’t sound like a good idea to me though. More like the proverbial, “If you can’t get users to your site, buy them!!“. If you are wondering how this scheme actually works, head over to the detailed explanation... Read The Rest →
[Confirmed] iPhone Take Two Coming On June 9th
Looks like the iPhone fever is not gonna die anytime soon. The Rumor mills have been abuzz over the past few months with talks about what features the 3G version of the iPhone would bring to the table. As everyone suspected the 3G iPhone would indeed reveal itself the coming June 9th. According to Gizmodo who have got information from sources close to Apple, the second-generation iPhone will be available worldwide right after the launch, and not at year’s end, as previously thought. The new model will also herald new... Read The Rest →
Add Google Reader To Firefox Sidebar
Google recently updated the mobile version of Google Reader. The New version works very well with iPhone and other smartphones. The good news is that even if you don’t have an iPhone you can enjoy the mobile version of Google Reader from your Firefox Sidebar. Like other web apps that are designed for the iPhone interface, Google Reader fits very well in Firefox (and other browsers) sidebar.
Twitter Shows Its Strengths As Earthquake Strikes China
photo credit: seektan Twitter is finally coming of age, and is demonstrating why the microblogging medium is fast catching up to be the fastest news breaker in the world. Something like 7 hours back a huge earthquake struck in China. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the richter scale and thousands have been feared to be dead. The epicenter was 50 miles from Chengdu, which has about 10.5 million residents. Robert Scoble a noted tech blogger and a Twitter addict first broke out the news on Twitter, even before the... Read The Rest →
Youtube India Is Now Live
Google has just launched the Indian version of Youtube, which is good news for Indians not only in India but worldwide. Viewing videos online is fast catching up here in India with the growing penetration of Broadband. By offering localized content on Youtube Google has taken one more step to dominate the yet untapped internet video market in India. Youtube India features all the content from the global Youtube as well, but the difference between the two begins in popularity charts etc.. The top video charts on Youtube India will... Read The Rest →
HTC Touch Diamond Unveiled – Its Beautiful !!
HTC officially unveiled its HTC Touch Diamond high-end handset during the “May 6 HTC Event” held in London which ended a few hours ago. As expected and as seen in several leaked images that appeared yesterday, the new device from HTC is slim and compact, and has a very nice overall aspect. The rumored diamond-like pattern on the phone’s back case is real, providing a look that is not only unique but also awesome to look at. HTC Touch Diamond’s official dimensions are: 102 x 51 x 11,5 millimeters, and... Read The Rest →
OoVoO – Video Conferencing Redefined
I got an invite email from a friend of mine, and it was for a product named OoVoO. I usually delete all invite emails before marking them as spam. But this time, I opened this one to see what it had to say. After reading the features, I ended up installing he product and now I feel so happy for having opened that email, because I’m now a big fan of OoVoO. OoVoO also happens to be a Webware 100 Winner and here’s what it does basically : OoVoo is... Read The Rest →
