Technology Bites

Replace Windows Explorer with Xplorer2 Lite

Xplorer2 lite is a good replacement for the default windows explorer. It is a dual-pane file manager with far more functionality than windows explorer. Once you install and open the xplorer2 you will notice lot of options in toolbars, its hard to describe all the functions here, because i have ... Read More →

BBC goes web2.0ish with new beta homepage

BBC is experimenting quietly with a new web2.0ish homepage, you can see the new homepage here. The new homepage a "lick of paint" has all the web 2.0 flavors like rounded corners, large font, draggable Ajax boxes and a web 2.0 color. The new design is pretty good, this design is inspired ... Read More →

Google Profiles

Google is rolling out profiles with information on Google products you use. Google Operating System reports that these profiles integrating in to all Google services so you have one identity across the Google services. A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products — it ... Read More →

Knol: Google’s User Generated Content (Encyclopedia)

Google has posted an announcement on its official blog about an upcoming knowledge portal called "Knol". Something similar to wikipedia, users generate content on the site on topics they are familiar. Google wants users write content who are authoritative on a subject. The users are called knols ... Read More →

Yahoo wants free advertising from wordpress blogs, sort of

Yahoo today released a wordpress plugin for bloggers to show relevant content (read Yahoo content) in blog posts. This wordpress plugin finds Flickr photos, ticker symbols, products, yahoo maps etc which can be included in blog posts as links to relevant words or as badges. If you put lot of flickr ... Read More →

Movable Type finally goes Open Source

Six Apart announced few months back that Movable Type is going towards open-source when they released MT 4 Beta. Now the time has come and finally MT is going to open source from today. If you don't know what is Movable Type it is a weblog engine like Wordpress. Popular blogs like Boing Boing ... Read More →

Schedule backups or sync files with Backup SafeKeeper

Backup Safekeeper is a freeware which allows you to backup your files or sync files with other devices. Once you setup a backup/sync profile you can schedule the backup process so you won't need to remember again to bakup the data. Features: Backup files at any time with a single ... Read More →

Email checker and notifier for GNOME desktop

cGmail is a small utility for gnome desktop which checks your email accounts and notifies you of any new email, the same way as gmail notifier does. cGmail is written in Python and supports Gmail, pop3, imap accounts. You might ask what is different in this than gmail notify, the developer has ... Read More →

Create your own ringtones for mobile phones

You never liked the default ringtones in your mobile and always wanted to have that favorite of song yours to be you ringtone. Now you could make your own ringtone by uploading your favorite track to makeownringtone.com This is nifty one page tool, no registration is required, just fire up your ... Read More →