Users Revolt as the New Design at Last.fm Goes Live
Today Last.fm decided to take wraps off its new design they’ve been working on since May. I was not a part of the beta but still at first glance the new design looks little different from the one we saw during the beta period. Looking through the Last.fm forums I found that the beta design was much criticized and the design that we see now is after tons of user feedback. I was a Last.fm user for quite some time before I stopped using it for unknown reasons. In the... Read The Rest →
Useful Bookmarklets For Casual Web Users
This is a guest post by Sumesh. Bookmarklets are bookmarks whose URLs contain small bits of JavaScript code, that can accomplish specific tasks. These range from the crazy and wacky to useful and time-saving bookmarklets. Since we’re using bookmarklets to save time, we shall leave the crazy and wacky ones for another post. To save these bookmarks, just right click on the link to the bookmark and save it into your bookmark folder. Once saved, simply go to that bookmark for the required action. You can see my collection of... Read The Rest →
Firefox 3 Finally Out After Some Early Hiccups
Well not everything went good for Mozilla on its planned download day to celebrate the release of Firefox 3. Mozilla had declared today as Download Day, in an effort to set a Guinness World Record for most software downloads in one day. Somehow the plans did not work out that well. The Servers were almost down till 1PM PST, while the event was scheduled to begin at 10AM PST. Looks like Mozilla didn’t plan well in advance, as one by one their servers went off with the huge number of... Read The Rest →
Get Ready! Firefox 3 is Almost Here…
Yes get ready. The most anticipated release of the year is just a few hours away as I write this. Firefox 3 will arrive today that is June 17th after over 34 months of active development. As you might already know, Mozilla is trying to create a world record for the most software downloads in 24 hours, and that time just got a little bit more closer. To Help its cause, Mozilla is hosting a Download Day event, the Camp Firefox BBQ, at its offices in Mountain View, California,... Read The Rest →
10 Must Have Tools If You Are A Download Freak
photo credit: johntrainor There are very few of us who just randomly browse about the web, always on the look for interesting sites. But most of the Internet users use Internet for mainly one reason and that’s to download all kinds of stuff from the internet. We all tend to download stuff from the internet, be it music, softwares, movies or anything else. They are a few of them who can be better called as download junkies who like everything to be streamlined and automated in their download habits. If... Read The Rest →
Kaspersky Labs Unveils Kaspersky 2009
My personal favorite Antivirus solution on Windows just got better. The Russian based Kaspersky Labs has just released the latest version of their Antivirus and Internet Security suite. I’ve been a long time user of Kaspersky Internet Security and its the only antivirus solution that I recommend to all my friends. Kaspersky comes in two flavors one the stripped down version that has only the Antivirus and some other security features while the Internet Security package comes in with complete set of security features you’d ever need, which means you... Read The Rest →
The Five Best Twitter Clients
photo credit: carrotcreative As Twitter continues to explode at a rate faster than any other web2.0 app that we’ve ever seen. The reason why Twitter has done so well because of the simple API that Twitter has and the number of apps that have been built on it. I thought with the growing popularity of Twitter it would be a nice idea to showcase some of the best clients for Twitter that have actually outdone Twitter itself. Here they are in what I feel is the best order. From the... 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 →
Are There Psychological Problems With Us Tech Bloggers?
photo credit: marc_eliot Last week the blogosphere was abuzz with talk about the article that NYT published regarding the stress levels being seen in Tech bloggers (My views on this subject are here). At the same time Eric Rice posed an interesting theory last week, asking if social web early adopters have psychological disorders? My initial reaction was like WTF? Is this guy trying to offend Tech Bloggers worldwide. I always thought Tech Bloggers are the people who are generally ahead of the curve in adopting the latest in technology.... Read The Rest →
Demonoid To Come Back From The Ashes
Finally one of the leading BitTorrent website of its times is rising from the ashes. Demonoid one of the leading private BitTorrent trackers was pulled down by CRIA in November last year. Deimos the admin of Demonoid has finally handed over the reins of Demonoid to a fellow admin whom he apparently trusts with the comeback of Demonoid. Deimos will not be the admin of Demonoid anymore because he is tied with some personal real life issues. Here’s the message he posted in the Subdemon forums : Hello Everyone, It... Read The Rest →
