News by Reuters
T-Mobile G1, also known as the HTC Dream or the Google Phone (GPhone) is the first mobile to be launched in the market that will use the Android platform. Featuring full touch-screen functionality and a QWERTY keyboard, the G1 offers complete mobile web experience by incorporating popular Google products such as Gmail, YouTube, & Google Maps.
Posted under Mobile
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 28, 2008
Google recently released its own open-source browser, Chrome, in direct competition to Mozilla’s Firefox and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Lets see what’s new and different in Chrome and compare Google’s new browser with Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Posted under Software
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 27, 2008
If you are using multiple social media and social networking sites like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Digg and Blogger then it can get quite troublesome to login to each service everyday to check for updates from your friends. Lifestreaming services like Friendfeed & Profilactic simplify this job by bringing together the updates from all such sites under one single lifestream.
Posted under Social Networking
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 24, 2008
If you are posting your own or checking others’ status updates in Facebook, then you have been already introduced to the world of Microblogging. Services like Twitter have attained mass popularity by extending this concept & allowing everyone to post the answer to one question: What are you doing?
Posted under Social Networking
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 22, 2008
An US Vice Presidential candidate recently had her Yahoo Mail account hacked into. Is your own webmail account safe from hackers? Yahoo Mail isn’t the only Web-based mail service that could be duped into giving up someone else’s account password. Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Mail are all vulnerable.
Posted under Internet
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 21, 2008
Video sharing sites like YouTube encode all uploaded movies into FLV format and then embed them on the website. If you need to download these videos for offline viewing then you need to use workarounds.
Posted under Internet
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 21, 2008
Do you want to buy a compact point and shoot camera to click casual pictures and are confused in deciding which lightweight digicam to buy? We study the basic differences between a point and shoot & a DSLR and help you in evaluating the features that are important to you.
Posted under Gadgets
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 20, 2008
The most popular blogging platforms like Blogger and Wordpress use a dashboard that includes a online blog editor, but it’s slow and hard to work with. A much better alternative is to use desktop clients such as Windows Live Writer to blog offline in the same manner as you use Outlook to compose emails offline.
Posted under Software, Web Development
This post was written by Nikhil Pai on September 19, 2008
