Technology Bites

Host Your Own Lifestream Site with Sweetcron

Web geeks love to see and share their lifestream, there are a ton of services offering lifestreaming like Friendfeed and others but the problem here is that you don't have control over these services. Sweetcron will tackle this problem by allowing you to host your own lifestream on your domain. ... Read More →

Copy Scratched CDs or DVDs with Copy Cat

Copy Cat is a freeware that allows you copy scratched CDs or DVDs to take backup of those classic movies or important files stored in them. Windows copy usually stops at unreadable parts and you want to be able to copy it, at these situations Copy cat can be really useful. Not only scratched cds ... Read More →

Best Firefox 3 Extensions Winners

Mozilla labs announced winners of the official Mozilla Extend Firefox 3 contest. There are some good extensions for you to check out. Extend Firefox 3 is a contest for developers who can build extensions making use of Firefox 3 features. Along with the new extensions prizes are awarded for updated ... Read More →

Microsoft Photosynth Goes Public

Microsoft Live Labs product Photosynth goes public, the technology previewed in 2006. For those of you who don't know what it is, Photosynth allows to transform digital photographs to 3D models, called as 'Synths'. With the public release now users can convert their digital photos to synths in their ... Read More →

Flickr Finally Launches Embeddable Slide Show

Photo sharing site Flickr finally launched embeddable slide show, earlier slide shows are only available to view but not for embedding. The lack of embeddable slide show from Flickr spurred numerous third party services to fill the gap. Flickr slide show itself got some improvement. Flickr blog ... Read More →

Pixlr: Online Image Editor

There is no shortage of online image editors, Pixlr is a new entrant in this crowded space. Pixlr is simple to use and does basic photo editing but don't expect it to perform more advanced functions like in photoshop or other desktop photo editing tool. Pixlr is developed in Flash, interface is ... Read More →

Yahoo Buzz is now open to all

Yahoo Buzz, a community voting site from Yahoo is open to all. That means you don"t have to wait for the mail from Yahoo Buzz, you can go submit your stories to Buzz and vote other stories. Earlier only a few selected publishers were allowed to submit their stories to buzz but from now any one ... Read More →

YouGetSignal Checks Network Ports and does Reverse IP Lookup

Yougetsignal is an interesting service with set of tools for checking network ports, reverse IP domain check etc. Port Forwarding Tester: With this you can check your external IP address and detect open ports on your connection. Useful for finding out if your port forwarding is setup correctly ... Read More →