Defraggler – A Fresh Take on Defragmenting
The Makers of CCleaner, one of my favorite apps in a long time have come up with yet an another, HOT app, I am sure will redefine our perception of Defragmenting. I am sure many of you at some point or the other have used Windows Defragmenter. I am sure you had it run all day long only to see that it gave you virtually no improvement in performance. Well now you can dump Windows Defragmenter and get yourself Defraggler, that will free you from Defragmenting woes. Defraggler has a... Read The Rest →
Nokia Gives Apple a Nice Little Punch
Off late Nokia has been indulging in some Smart Advertising in trying to get the Mighty Apple iPhone to bow its head in despair. Nokia had published some ads through Google Adwords, when Apple Slashed prices of the iPhone by 200$ and this time they have come up with something better in the form of the posters that you can see below.
Google Street View to loose its Sight on December 27th
Now that’s a misleading title for sure. But it does make sense. Google Street view will no longer be able to show street images to you from December 27th because Google’s contract with Immersive Media (The Company that provides Street View Images) will expire on the 27th of December. October 1, 2007 – Immersive Media Corp. announces the termination of its content license agreement with Google Inc. effective December 27, 2007. “We’ve had our technology validated and it has been exposed to millions of people which was a key objective... Read The Rest →
Adobe Launches Adobe Media Player
Adobe has launched a Media Player, that is kinda sandwiched between Miro and Adobe Digital Editions. Built upon the industry standard Flash, Adobe Media Player can be used to watch Online Video. There seems to be a mad rush to create desktop Media Players. While this is completely understandable, I thought Adobe could have come up with something better. Installing Adobe Media Player is a breeze. You Need to install the latest beta of Adobe AIR and click a few buttons here and there to install Adobe Media Player and... Read The Rest →
Google Apps Gets Presentations
Google Apps is now almost complete. Presentations that was launched earlier last month is now a part of the Google Apps for your Domain. I just got this email from the Google Apps team. I am quoting the email straightaway. Presentations — all new! We’re pleased to announce that you can now create and share presentations with Google Docs — the application in Google Apps formerly known as Docs & Spreadsheets. With this feature, you can create a new set of slides from scratch or import existing presentations and share... Read The Rest →
Backup and Restore Saved Passwords in Firefox
If you are a big time Firefox user, then you surely have a large number of passwords saved in your Firefox. What happens if your computer decides to crash one day and you loose all your saved passwords? If you haven’t thought about a situation like that, then you better backup all your passwords now. If you are wondering how, then the solution is very simple, all you need to do is install Password Exporter Addon for Firefox. Once you have installed, follow the steps that I have outlined and... Read The Rest →
Demonoid is back – But not ready for Prime Time as Yet
After nearly a week of being down, Demonoid is back up and running, but there are issues that are being ironed out as we speak here. If you are wondering why Demonoid was down, then here is the official response to the downtime. We received a letter from a lawyer representing the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience. I am sure many of the Bittorrent users worldwide would... Read The Rest →
Bitlet Improves – Adds Creation of Torrent Files
Back in july I had written about Bitlet, a web based Torrent downloader. At that time Bitlet was just starting up and it had some amazing features, that had the potential to take Bittorrent to lay users. Well things have only got better at the Bitlet camp. They have now added support for Creation of Torrent files. With this step, I feel that we will see more and more stuff popping up on torrent search engines like Mininova etc.
Joost 1.0 Beta is Here
My favorite P2P Application, Joost has received a major makeover in the first public beta release. Joost 1.0 comes with a revamped UI, that is super slick and is better than the old one. I have really fallen in love with the new UI. Joost 1.0 has everything rearranged, and the new Navigation system is the best I have seen in a P2P Application.
BusySync – Calendar Sharing for iCal
BusySync lets you share iCal calendars with family and coworkers on a local area network without a dedicated server and with full read/write access. How it works BusySync is a Mac OS X System Preference Pane that runs in the background keeping your iCal calendars in sync with others on your network. It uses Apple Sync Services and Bonjour to automatically synchronize calendar data over a local area network. Key features Bonjour networking — BusySync automatically synchronizes calendars with others on your local area network. No dedicated servers or complicated... Read The Rest →
