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Over the past few weeks I have been pretty busy doing lots of things behind the hood, that is one reason you are seeing lesser posts as compared to earlier. Behind the hoods I have been working on several things which you will know about in the coming few months.

However I wanted to take [...]


13
Jun

In the press release that solemnized the deal between Google and Yahoo to display Google ads in Yahoo search results, there was also another announcement that Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk would have interoperability. In plain words it works out to you being able to message your friends from Google Talk through Yahoo Messenger and vice versa.

Both Yahoo and Google Talk are not new to having interoperability with different messenger clients.

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13
Jun

We were quite excited moving to Firefox 3, but with the move many of the extensions stopped working all together. One of the extensions that stopped working for us was Greasemonkey, for which luckily we found a alternative some time back.

Few other extensions like Google Toolbar and Google Browser Sync which we used to sync up our bookmarks, tabs and history across computers had also stopped working. We expected Google to release a update soon but learnt today that the Google Browser Sync extension will no longer be supported for Firefox 3.

13
Jun

It’s yet another Friday and time for us to make you laugh like always. This time around we will bring to you some funny videos from tech support calls and call centers across the world.

So go ahead watch those videos and have your share of laughs for this week.

13
Jun

TwitterCounter is a service ala Feedburner Count. The difference is that TwitterCounter allows you to display the number of followers you have for your Twitter account.

The service will allow you to create a badge with the number of followers you have on twitter and display it on your blog or website.

12
Jun

We have been a huge fan of Google Reader and have seen them rolling out new features time and again.

As we were browsing through our feeds today we came across a new feature which may not be that interesting but useful nevertheless.

12
Jun

evernote-logo Evernote has released another update with quite a few exciting enhancements. We had covered their last update which had also included several features such as faster search, multi-select checkbox, iPhone support and more.

The new features in this update are quite good too and include

  • PDF support
  • Encryption on Mac and Windows
  • Drag-n-drop in Evernote Web
  • New blog/Facebook widget for easy sharing of public notebooks
  • Flock browser extension
  • Faster synchronization

The most notable features we see in this release is the PDF support and encryption of notes which will be definitely useful.

In addition to that the Flock extension definitely is a welcome addition for one of our favorite browsers.

I have quite a few invites to give away, so if you are note a Evernote user yet simply leave a comment asking to send you a Evernote and we will do the needful. Invites available only till they are left with us.

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Jun

It’s finally going to be D-day for Firefox 3 to be released to the world. This is quite exiting news for many users who have been waiting for the release to hit the markets. The Mozilla Firefox development team announced on their blog that Firefox 3 will be most likely available for downloads starting Tuesday, June 17th 2008.

Firefox RC 2 which we actively used for quite sometime is really much much faster than the earlier versions and also has a lot of exciting new features which make using Firefox much better.

On the other hand Firefox is also looking to make history and enter the Guinness World Record books by having the most downloads of the software in a single day.

If you are looking to help them reach the record and be a part of it you can support it by pledging to download Firefox 3. Visit the pledge page by clicking on the link on the image below.

Download Day

As of now there are over a million pledges from users across the world to make history for Firefox.

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So go ahead join the millions of people who are going to make history.