Awesome Time Tracking Time Software – actiTIME
Everyday I get emails from small startups asking me how to manage time and reduce their expenses. Well I’m not into this startup thingy but I thought I’d do these guys a favor, so I went hunting for the best free time tracking software and stumbled upon actiTIME. In a nutshell actiTIME is basically : “A clear and simple way to register time expenses, analyze employee performance, prepare timesheets for billing your customers” I’ve tried out the demo and the web based app is highly functional and easy to use.... 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 →
Tip : Screenshots With Windows Live Writer Made Easy
Windows Live Writer happens to be my favorite tool for publishing posts on this blog. I use it everyday and blogging is way more easier with it. If you are a long time Dailyapps reader you might have noticed that a lot of my posts contain considerable number of screenshots of apps and software’s. I normally use Snagit for all my needs of taking screenshots, but today thanks to Amit Agarwal I found a cool new plugin written by a Microsoft employee Joe Cheng that allows me to take screenshots... Read The Rest →
Eject USB Devices Faster With USB Disk Ejector
USB devices are the best solutions these days to carry data around rather than using bulky DVD’s, CD’s or even the now ubiquitous Floppy Disk. USB devices are fast and easy to use. The only problem is that while it is really easy to plug in a USB disk/device but while removing it you got to take extra precaution to make sure while ejecting the USB device there is no data loss or damage. You might ask me, doesn’t Windows already provide a tool that ejects the USB devices safely... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Terminate Explorer.exe Cleanly On Vista
I keep trying variety of registry tricks everyday, and install and uninstall numerous applications that demand a restart whenever I install them. To get away with boring restart process I normally kill Explorer.exe from the task manager and wait for it to restart automagically. But the problem is that the Task Manager method is like forcibly killing the process instead of terminating it cleanly. Luckily there is a hidden option in both Windows XP and Windows Vista Start Menu that will allow you to terminate and restart Explorer.exe cleanly. As... 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.
Take Google Reader To Your Desktop With ReadAIR
For those of you who are big fans of Google Reader, here’s an app that you must check out. You’ll love this new Adobe AIR app called ReadAIR that completely syncs with Google Reader and has the same basic layout as Google Reader, so you should have no problems starting out.
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 →
