Technology Bites

Facebook Vanity URLs

Facebook is preparing to launch Vanity URLs for Facebook profiles and pages, according to Facebook Blog starting this weekend users can have the Vanity URLs (user names) for their profiles. The usernames will be assigned on first come first served basis, so grab your favorite URL immediately as they ... Read More →

AppRemover helps uninstalling AntiVirus applications

AntiVirus applications and other security software are integrated into the system deeply, so while uninstalling some of these programs may leave files behind. It is  nearly impossible for the average user to hunt these files and remove all the files. There are some uninstall applications like ... Read More →

Merge multiple RSS Feeds into one

Combining RSS feeds is sometimes useful for managing RSS Feeds. Yahoo Pipes is a great tool for merging RSS feeds, and doing mashups with a bunch of RSS feeds. If you are not comfortable with Yahoo Pipes check out FeedMingle, it is the easiest way to merge RSS feeds in to one. ... Read More →

BetaSignal.com: Science and Technology Memetracker

Memetrackers or blog aggregators provide a quick glance of what is happening in the blogosphere, often these memetrackers index the stories fast before they made it to Google and other sites. BetaSignal.com is a memetracker launched recently that tracks science, technolgy, environment and space ... Read More →

Bing Special Searches: Do More with Bing Search

Microsoft Bing search engine got a lot of buzz, and as i mentioned in my Bing review post it is better than Live search, in fact it looks like a tweaked version of Live search. Anyway like Google and Yahoo Bing also allows you to do special searches for quickly finding things. ... Read More →

Google Page Speed for Firebug Firefox Addon

Web page load time is an important factor in we design and development, not only web developes but bloggers and site owners need to optimize their web pages so they load faster or else retaining users will be difficult. There are many tools which analyze web pages and show you ways to improve load ... Read More →

Yahoo Mail Applications

In last December Yahoo announced an application platform for developers that allows anyone to build applications for Yahoo Mail. At that time there are only 3 apps and they are available to select power users only. Yesterday they introduced some more apps, this time applications in Yahoo mail are ... Read More →

Microsoft Bing Goes Live, Review

Microsoft Bing the (new) search engine from Microsoft is live today for everyone. My first impression is that atleast it is better than the live search, live search really sucks. There are some nice features in Bing, but whether users will stick to it or not is difficult to tell now. ... Read More →

Google Docs accepts .docx and .xlsx files

Google Docs now allows users to upload Microsoft Office 2007 formats .docx and .xlsx. This is useful not only for Office 2007 users but also for lower versions of office. If someone sends you a Office 2007 file, instead of using an online converter you can just upload it to Google Docs and download ... Read More →