Technology Bites

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

Facebook has just announced that it acquired FriendFeed, the real-time content sharing service. Facebook is moving towards a real-time news stream and adopting some of the FriendFeed’s features like comments and “likes” on stream. FriendFeed is liked by the geek crowd but not so much by the ... Read More →

Backup Facebook Photos, Profile Info with SocialSafe

SocialSafe is an Adobe AIR application that allows users to backup their Facebook photos, profile information, friends and the photos they are tagged in. Facebook backup is not required for everyone, but if you upload lot of pictures or have a large friends and worried about losing your data if ... Read More →

Futz.me Is Your Command Line On The Address Bar

Futz.me is a simple tool that lets you email notes, pictures, links, files to yourself for later viewing, in a command line fashion. The best part about Futz is its simplicity. Once you signup, there is no more logging in or messing with anything required later. ... Read More →

Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 RC available now

Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 is designed for better compatibility of apps running in Windows XP to run on Windows 7. In Windows XP Mode a full copy of Windows XP is installed as a virtual PC in Windows 7. This is primarily aimed at small and medium sized businesses to make a transition from Windows ... Read More →

Flickr search revamped

For longtime Flickr search hasn’t changed much, but finally today they released a revamped search pages for Flickr. Earlier the search used to return results in a  single column with large thumbnails but now it has changed, now it includes small, medium and detail view. ... Read More →

Google Chrome to get bookmarks synchronization

Main hurdle for users to switch from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome is the lack of add-ons and features like bookmarks sync and others. But those days are numbered as Google Chrome is added support for extensions in the recent developer builds and now they are adding support for bookmark ... Read More →

Setup Online Store with Google Docs and Google Checkout

Google Checkout is one of the online payment gateways available, Google Checkout launched as an alternative service to PayPal but it never got any traction. PayPal is still the leader in this space and it offers rich functionality for setting up online store, but it needs some kind of technical ... Read More →

Search Options for Google Images

Search Options are a set of features that allow you to refine your web searches on Google. For example while searching you could these options to see for the stories that are published in the past 24 hours or past week etc. These search options are quite useful for refining the search, these options ... Read More →