Microsoft Comes up with a Google Gears Competitor
Well Microsoft has finally come up with a product that potentially looks like a competitor to Google Gears that was launched earlier this year. Dubbed as Microsoft Sync Framework it will help developers take their web services and Databases offline to work in an environment without being connected to the internet. The Framework will offer P2P synchronization of any file type, including contacts, music, videos, images and settings, and provides built-in support for synchronizing relational databases, NTFS/FAT file systems an RSS feeds. According to Microsoft, “The advantage of a synchronization-based... Read The Rest →
iPhone/iPod Touch Jailbreaking becomes Super Simple!
Jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch couldn’t get any simpler than this. A team of hackers have come up with what is arguably the best way to jailbreak that Apple Toy of yours. Erica Sadun of the TUAW fame who was one of the developers of jailbreakme.com (I’m not linking to it, because it can wreak havoc with your Desktop Safari Browser) The jailbreak opens your iPhone for full disk access and installs Installer.app so you can add pretty much any third party application you like. To use it all... 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 →
iPod Touch now running Mail, Google Maps and more
Well as I said in an earlier post that the cat and mouse race is still on, and right now it seems that the hackers are winning the race. We have been seeing a lot of iPhone related news this month and now its the time for iPod touch to steal the show. Well so far the touch was just the younger brother of the mighty iPhone but not now anymore. iPod Touch is now really the best iPod we have seen so far. The guys over at iPhone... Read The Rest →
Applists – Gets the Best out of iPhone
If you are an Apple iPhone fan, and have been stuck at the very limited choices of third party apps, then worry no more, because Applists has come out with a new version of its Web Based App List, that you can comfortably browse through the Safari Web Browser. What stuck me the most is the intuitive interface that Applists 2.0 has. A Lot of detail has gone into each and every icon and text that you see on Applists.
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 →
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.
Launchy 2.0 Alpha Release
Launchy our favorite App Launcher is getting ready for a major release. Last Week the Launchy 2.0 Alpha was released to the testers. Launchy has been completely rewritten from the ground up and features a lot of cool new stuff. Some of the new features are :
Convert Anything to Anything Using YouConvertIt!
Have you ever been frustrated with the multitude of File Formats that exists today? Were you in a fix when you wanted to send a file to your friend but were worried if he could open it or not. Worry No more because we now have You Convert It, an online file convertor that handles many types of file formats. You Can convert Audio, Video, Images to various formats all from the web. Once the Conversion is done you are emailed the output which you can download. If you... Read The Rest →
NoteSake the Easy Way to take Notes
Notesake is the easiest way that I have seen to take notes. Its elegant and eye catching interface is a sucker and it pulls you into it. NoteSake allows you to take your class notes completely online, enabling you to access them from any computer, at any time. With some social features built in like Groups, Tagging etc.. Notesake is a must kitty for any serious college student. Ever Since I found Notesake I have been using it, and it is the place where I draft all my posts... Read The Rest →
