Technology Bites

Don’t use Digg as a URL shortner

There is no shortage of URL shortners, but Digg.com URL shortening service provided one of the easiest ways to create short URLs. When the diggbar launched Digg was accused of framing other sites, and this was later changed so that non logged in users will go directly to the source while logged in ... Read More →

Yahoo new home page launching, allows customization

Yahoo new home page was announced last year and Yahoo is testing the new home pages for quite some time, they are only visible for a small fraction of users. The latest version appeared few months back, some people may not like it but it is quite good. The most striking feature of the new home page ... Read More →

A Tip-Jar for Firefox add-on developers, will you contribute?

Mozilla has added a tip-jar option to the add-on’s site that allows developers to collect donations from the users. The option is not yet available widely but this may change in future as developers opt-in to accept donations for their work. The tip-jar option is a not a bad idea which gives a ... Read More →

Bing Tweets: Twitter and Bing Search Mashup

BingTweets is a new project from Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft. In true sense it is not a mashup but a mix of twitter search results with bing search results. While the idea is interesting, bing search results are embedded in a ugly frame that looks annoying. Bing already displays ... Read More →

Critical JavaScript Vulnerability found in Firefox 3.5

Firefox 3.5 release came with a new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey for faster rendering of the JavaScript pages. But the release also has a critical vulnerability that lies in Just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler. Mozilla is working on a fix to patch the vulnerability. ... Read More →

Sobees web based twitter app

Sobees is an interesting twitter and Facebook app that runs in a browser. Sobees is based on Silverlight 3 plugin released recently by Microsoft. Sobees is an web based app but there is a desktop cousin to it. ... Read More →

Google Finance Revamped, adds technical indicators

Yahoo Finance is the leading financial web site and always Google Finance lagged behind Yahoo Finance in terms of usefulness, charts, technical indicators. Today I was greeted with a new design of Google Finance, interestingly no major blog has covered this yet. The revamped Google Finance provides ... Read More →

Google Translate now translates uploaded documents

Google Translate, the handy translational tool does a good job of translating from one language to the other, but don't expect human translation quality as it is machine translation. Till now it only allowed pasting text or URLs in the translation box for translating from one language to the other. ... Read More →

Google to launch Chrome Operating System

Google announced today that it is going to launch a Google Chrome Operating System. There were rumors about Google OS from years and finally they announced that is was real. The Google Chrome OS will be launched as an open source operating system and will be available in second half of 2010, first ... Read More →

Yahoo Mail Inbox Updates: Smarter Inbox

Yahoo announced a smarter inbox and application platform strategy in Dec 2008. Recently they included some more applications and made available these applications to all US users. Last month they announced some updates to the inbox in the name of social and interactive features. One of the feature ... Read More →