Technology Bites

Windows Thumbcache Viewer

On Windows operating system when you view photos or images in windows explorer thumbnail view, thumbnails are created for each image. These thumbnails are stored in a cache file, the purpose of this file is to avoid CPU processing by recreating thumbnails when a folder has large number of files and ... Read More →

CyanogenMod 9 Disables Root Access by Default

CyanogenMod, one of the most popular alternative Android ROMs available for Android powered devices will now ship with root access disabled by default. CyanogenMod explained in a blogpost that due to the security concerns posed by the root access they enhanced the security by merging 3 patches into ... Read More →

Apple Lists Great Apps for New iPad

The new iPad landed with a high a resolution screen, and now developers are updating their apps to take advantage of the retina enabled screen. The retina enabled screen has a display of 2048 x 1536. ... Read More →

New iPad (iPad 3) Jailbroken

It didn’t took long for the jailbreak community to Jailbreak the new 3rd generation iPad. The new iPad was managed to jailbreak with in few hours of its release by the dev team reports Jailbreak untethered. The new iPad 3 running iOS 5.1 is jailbroken by iOS hacker who goes by the name MuscleNerd. ... Read More →

YouTube Brings 19000+ Indian TV Shows Online

The popular video sharing network YouTube brings 19000+ Indian television shows at one place Youtube.com/shows/. YouTube has partnered with major Indian broadcasters including Sony Entertainment Television, Colors, Imagine TV, Star India and Vikatan TV to bring their shows online. ... Read More →

Rumor: Lenovo to Release First Windows 8 Tablet

We are seeing rumors about launch of Windows 8 tablets from several manufacturers  ever since the latest operating system from Microsoft landed as a consumer preview. The latest rumor comes from The Verge that Lenovo is planning to release a tablet running Windows 8. Lenovo wants to be the first ... Read More →

Microsoft Office 15 Technical Preview Screenshots

Microsoft announced Office 15 Technical Preview in January this year. Only select partners were invited to the technical preview under non-disclosure agreements. Some screenshots leaked initially but Microsoft managed to keep technical preview with out any leaks. Today Paul Thurrott of Winsupersite ... Read More →

Google to Improve its Search with Semantics

Google to revamp its keyword based search engine to include semantic search results along with the keywords based results according to WSJ. This is a major revamp considering Google always relied on keywords to give search results based on user queries. If these changes are implemented they will ... Read More →

Bing Maps Revamps Pushpins, Popups and Transit Info

Bing revamped its design for Maps elements pushpins, popups and transit info. Bing expects that the new changes will make it easier for users to find information on the map, explore venues and transit information. Bing recently released a Metro app for Bing Maps on Windows 8 platform. ... Read More →

16 HTC Devices Getting Android Ice Cream Sandwich Updates

Samsung already announced that Galaxy S II will get the ICS update in Europe and Korea. Now HTC also released a list of handsets that are getting Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. HTC wrote on a blog post that 16 of its smartphones are getting updated to ICS. Other HTC smartphone owners are left in ... Read More →