Monthly Archive:: January 2008

Facebook is in love with Open Source?

You all know about the latest trend setter in Social Networking area, Facebook, with Facebook application hosting feature. With the huge revenue generated in advertisements Facebook is also helping Open Source Software and Community. The screenshot below will explain further. I got this page, when I was searching about an apache project. Facebook is acting

Hear pronunciation with WordWeb Dictionary

Dictionary is a very essential to users in all ages, from primary school students to grand fathers. Now a days there are number of dictionaries available in the market, with rich vocabulary, grammar and all. But what was lacking in most of the freely available dictionaries is a facility to hear pronunciation. But, latest WordWeb

Art of Lyric Making Simplified with JetAudio

It is not so easy to get the exact lyric of a song. We have to listen each and every lines of a song very carefully and even multiple times. Normal mp3 players does not provide any extra support for simplifying the task of lyric making. JetAudio is an exception. If you install JetAudio you

Add Comments and Highlight texts in PDF documents

PDF documents are very portable format for sharing textual and graphical data. And we have free and versatile Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing the PDF files. You might have thought of having some extra-facilities like adding review comments in a PDF document created by a colleague, team member, friend OR highlighting some points in a

Learn to make strong passwords for Bank and Mail accounts

There are some tips to share with you all to make your passwords very strong and unbreakable. Kaspersky has made a password strength analyzer [ Earlier link was pointing to Microsoft, but they are no longer working ] that can help you analyze the strength of your passwords. I recommend all of you to go through password tips

Add Stumbleupon review power to Google Search

StumbleUpon is a fastest growing website where users can review about other websites, articles, photos and videos. Its always better to listen to reviews about a product, before we actually buying or having the product. Similarly reviews about articles and websites can give us an outlook before actually visiting it. So, if we integrate StumbleUpon

Orkut is without invitations, still a network of trusted friends?

Google has opened Orkut membership to public, even without invitations. This will result in more people joining the Orkut network without direct invitations, thus resulting more pseudo profiles. But, who ever creating profiles in Orkut must remember that, you IP address, ISP provider address and machine name will be logged in the Google server. So,

Share what you read in Google Reader

Now Google Reader extends a feature to share your favorite feeds. This would be very useful to share a news among a team, where members are sitting across political boundaries. In order to share your Google reader content, all of your friends need to have a Google account and they should be listed in your

Build a TV with Apple iPod Nano

Don’t get surprised, its true. I happened to watch a video from a YouTube user Markrirwin, which explains the reality of building a TV with your iPod Nano. It is also called Nanoscope. You have to watch the video below to believe it. Even though we have portable dvd players with good lcd displays, this