Miro gets a 1.0 Release, and its Lovely!
Miro, the free open source Video player, just got through a major milestone. The Miro team launched an all new version 1.0 that brings a host of new features that make Miro the best Video Player out there. I just couldn’t prevent myself from trying it out, so I downloaded it, and trust me, it completely blew me off. I was using Joost till now to watch quality Video content online, but now Miro is going to replace Joost, Believe me, its that good. Miro is way better than Joost... Read The Rest →
iPhone goes to China
The Apple iPhone is slowly spreading its wings all over. After the launch of iPhone in the US, UK and Germany its now time for China to get the iPhone or atleast IDG news thinks so. Ofcourse there have been rumors regarding the availability of iPhone’s in Canada as well. While Apple has already announced that it will sell iPhone’s in Asia starting mid 2008, no formalized partners or locations have been discussed. Here is what the article says : China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the... Read The Rest →
India Finally to get 3G, WiMAX coming too
Finally the Indian Government has decided to auction the 3G Spectrum. The Government has decided to allow Indian as well as foreign players to take part in the bidding. The Spectrum that is being auctioned belongs to the 2100MHz band which should make it compatible with most 3G networks world over. I believe the spectrum that is going to be auctioned should be able to hold atleast 5 Carriers. I would expect Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance to pick up spectrum. I am not sure about the foreign players, but I... Read The Rest →
De – Pixelize your Photos easily with VectorMagic
Do you have old photographs that you took long time back when you were on a vacation. Have a look at them now, don’t they look Pixelated and I guess they are at low resolutions. try resizing them, and you will see that they look even more horrible than they were before. Well worry no more because Folks from Stanford university have the solution. A free website called VectorMagic takes your raster images and turns them into smooth vector drawings. If you are wondering what the difference between the two... Read The Rest →
Zune 2 Launched – Ordering Process Unveiled
Microsoft has just announced the availability of Zune Originals . Users who order from the Zune Originals site will be able to customize their Zune with Laser Engraving on the back of their Zunes. A series of 27 artworks from the “Artist” series will cover the entire Zune. Alternatively, a series of 20 artworks from the “Tattoo” series will allow for up-to 3 lines of text. Finally, without images, you are allowed a maximum of 5 lines of text. All this right behind the back of your Zune. This offer... Read The Rest →
Firefox Security Threat – Google is vulnerable
A Malicious exploit has been discovered in Firefox that would allow a Hacker to use a Malicious JAR file to get access to your Google Account and all your confidential information. Firefox is falling into some serious trouble over the past few months, with more and more security exploits being discovered and being exploited. The latest threat involves the usage of a malicious JAR file. The flaw is still in the wild and the problem persists with the websites of Major Internet companies that includes Google. Beford.org has found a... Read The Rest →
Mozilla Prism Now Available on Linux and Mac
Mozilla Prism about which I had talked about earlier has just got a fresh release for Linux and Mac OSX. Prism is basically a stripped down version of Firefox that allows you to load a single page at a time. By using minimal resources Prism is able to deliver high performance. No tabs, no useful URL or navigation buttons. But Prism can come in handy if you like to keep a single web site like Gmail open all day, since it uses fewer resources than Firefox.
AFP for iPhone and iPod Touch
The Super iPhone Hacker Core has completed the implementation of AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The Advantage of this software lies in the fact that you can connect to your iPhone and it shows up as a disk with full read/write permissions. Installing AFP isn’t a straightforward method. It currently involves quite a bit of Manual setup because its not available yet on Installer.app. Well here is how you need to configure your iPhone to be AFP ready,
Firefox 3 to get Beautiful Tab Switching
Mozilla continues to innovate with the Firefox browser. I believe that the upcoming version of Firefox will be the best ever release we will see from the Firefox team over at Mozilla. A Lot of new features and enhancements have been added to the core of Firefox 3. One of them happens to be Tab Switching that is gorgeous to look at and it kinda mimics the Alt -Tab feature in Windows. The only question is weather this piece of innovation will make it into the Firefox core.
Defensio, an Akismet Competitor Launches
If you are a WordPress user, then I am sure you must be familiar with Akismet, which prevents Comment Spam on millions of Blogs world over. Defensio is trying to make combating evil comment spam even better than what Akismet does already. Your comment traffic is routed through Defensio’s spam filtering service. Every comment is analyzed by their system and attributed a “spaminess” score. Defensio makes the call : Is the comment spam or is it legitimate? If it’s legitimate, the comment is immediately posted to your site. If it’s... Read The Rest →
