Recent Posts Tagged With 'news'

• FreeAllMusic.com – Ad supported, free, legal music download

  Posted on Saturday January 2nd, 2010 at 05:04 in internet, news

  The Ad supported business model has proved to be quite popular, viable and in fact profitable for many recent startups. Take Hulu, the popular Web site that streams free television shows and other video, for example. Hulu has confirmed that users are...

• Windows Live Wave 4: Photo Gallery, Writer and Mail screenshots leaked

  Posted on Tuesday December 22nd, 2009 at 10:20 in news

  Earlier this month website Neowin revealed some hideous screenshots of Windows Live Messenger 2010 which later turned out to be fake, to everyone's relief. Today, Neowin leaked some more screenshots, this time of products from the Windows Live Wave 4...

• 114 fake antivirus software to avoid at all cost

  Posted on Sunday December 20th, 2009 at 02:01 in lists, news, Security

  Rogue antivirus software has become a growing problem in recent years. These malware infect a machine by deceiving the user into installing and paying for fake antivirus software that neither cleans the computer nor defends it against virus infection...

• Checkout the redesigned Google interface yourself

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 23:19 in internet, news

  Last week Google rolled out a new search page design which was accessible only to a selected few. Now with a short JavaScript code, any user can try out the changes themselves. Simply open www.google.com, paste the following code into the address bar...

• A chance to win Garmin-ASUS Nuvifone M20

  Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 08:42 in news, free offers

  Opera Software and Garmin-ASUS have organized a contest that offers you a chance to win the newly launched Garmin-ASUS Nuvifone M20 – a sleek and sexy, touch screen, Windows Mobile based, GPS mobile phone, along with other daily prizes. The cont...

• Map of threatened or arrested bloggers around the world

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 09:17 in internet, news

  Threatened Voices is a new project by Global Voices (a community of bloggers), that maps instances where bloggers and online writers have been threatened, arrested, killed, or disappeared by authorities for speaking out online since 2000. The map is ...

• Microsoft calls Zoho the “Fake Office”. Zoho responds with fakeoffice.org

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 08:21 in news

  One of the reason why Microsoft attracts so much bad press is their trash talk. If you follow Microsoft’s recent track record you will see a pattern. It begins with Steve Ballmer or any spokesperson from Microsoft making a disparaging comment about...

• First DirectX 11 benchmark demo released

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 00:52 in news

  If you own a spanking new DirectX 11 video card, you might want to know how it fares in the DirectX department. Tom’s Hardware in a blog post announced that the “supposedly” first DirectX 11 benchmark demo has been released by Unigine Corp. The...

• Linus Torvald poses in front of Windows 7 stall

  Posted on Saturday October 24th, 2009 at 11:55 in news, windows 7, geeky fun

  During the recently concluded 1st Annual Japan Linux Symposium held at Tokyo, Japan, Linus Torvald was seen posing in front of a Windows 7 promotional booth that Microsoft had setup - right across the street from the symposium’s conference center! ...

• Amazing Photosketch converts free hand sketches into realistic pictures

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 04:41 in internet, news

  This is possibly one of the coolest thing I have ever seen, since VideoTrace. Photosketch is, a soon to be made available, web based application that can take a simple stick-figure like rough sketches with annotations, search the web for matching p...

• Find non-free works in Linux distributions and earn “GNU Cash”

  Posted on Saturday October 3rd, 2009 at 09:12 in news, Linux

  The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has set up a new scheme under which the foundation will start rewarding those who could spot and report any non-free or commercial components buried deep inside Linux distribution, thereby violating the guidelines m...

• Google introduces a better site translation widget

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 01:14 in internet, news, blogging

  Google just announced a new site translation widget for website owners. This new widget is better than the old widget on several counts. Firstly, the old site translation widget was bulky and looked like a scar in the face when placed on a website. ...

• AMD announces $99 Quad Core processor

  Posted on Friday September 18th, 2009 at 00:17 in news, gadgets

  AMD is back and back with a bang, with the introduction of two new models into the market - the Athlon II X4 620 and Athlon II X4 630. What makes these two babies so special is the under $100 price tag that brings quad core processors within the reac...

• Aviary launches web based audio editor Myna

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 05:36 in internet, news

  Aviary, the online service that offers a number of web based applications for graphics designers, is now targeting amateur sound artists and hobbyists by launching a web based audio editing tool named Myna. Those who are familiar with audio editor...