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Bookmarking tool for mobile devices by Yahoo 2008-03-05 12:06:00 Yahoo unveiled a cellphone tool "onePlace" at the CeBit technology conference in Hannover. OnePlace lets users keep track of favorite Web topics on their cell phones. onePlace keeps information automatically updated as well as assigns categories and tags.With the help of onePlace users can collect and organize content on the internet. An advantege of onePlace is that it groups different forms of content according to subject, rather than the means or method of distributing that content.Yahoo! onePlace is designed to include the following features, which will allow consumers to:-- Centralized and open content management - Centralize and manage all the content they care about, from anywhere on the Internet, accessible from a single location and arranged to best meet their preferences. The pro Read more:Bookmarking
, Yahoo
Find jobs with video resumes 2008-02-15 01:12:00 VideoJobShop allows job seekers and employers to upload video
s. For those that are more visually-oriented, VideoJobShop is an appealing alternative for companies looking to promote positions to potential employees. For job seekers that need to appear on-camera, VideoJobShop is a good forum for showcasing their work. The content is organized by region and job category. Users can search by state or industry, and comment on or critique videos. Using a widget user can embed their videos on their facebook profile page. Read more:resumes
Hot Chicks Encyclopedia 2008-01-23 12:08:00 Chikipedia claims to be a first female encyclopedia. The wiki style Chikipedia lets you to add a women and edit the existing entries about her. You have to register first in order to add a new chick. And you must follow the guidelines to before adding a chick or editing existing entries. Chikipedia currently have about eight categories of hot chicks – TV, Sports, Business, Film, Fashion, Music, Politics and Misc. The present database of women in the list is small with the home page displaying Featured Girl followed by – theHOTTEST, most WANTED, the UPDATED – photos in DEMAND, the VEDIOS in DEMAND. Read more:Chicks
, Encyclopedia
, Hot Chicks
Make postings to your Wordpress blog using your mobile phone 2008-01-19 07:06:00 Wordpress is one of the most popular and widely used blogging platform. If you own a blog powered by Wordpress then here’s a good news for you. Telewaving has developed a new WordPress application called "Wavelog" which lets you post entries on your WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress blogs via the Nokia N95. You can post text, images, audios and vedios to your blog provided you have any network connetion. Trial version of Wavelog for Nokia N95 is available at Telewaving web site. You can post only text entries using the trial version. However if you want to post audios, vedios and images to blog , you can purchase the license for US$10. Read more:Wordpress
, phone
Real-time Torrent Comparison Search Engine 2008-01-07 13:18:00 YouTorrent
is “the world’s first real-time torrent comparison search engine” according to the site itself. The site is a meta search engine, which means that it doesn’t host any torrent files itself. It currently searches 12 sources; Mininova, The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, MyBittorrent, NewTorrents, SuprNova, Monova, Vuze, BitTorrent, LegitTorrents, SeedPeer and BTjunkie. The world’s first torrent comparison search engine YouTorrent is online now. This site doesn’t host any thing however it currently searches about 12 sources. Here the list: MininovaThe Pirate BayIsoHuntMyBittorrentNewTorrentsSuprNovaMonovaVuzeBitTorrentLegitTorrentsSeedPeerBTjunkie The search results are ordered by popularity (seeds/pe Read more:Search
, Engine
How to find your lost friends using the Internet 2008-01-06 06:24:00 It’s common to fall out of contact with your friends. Over the time, you must have lost contact with few of your friends. Try to locate your friend. Just enter your friend’s name surrounded by quotes in Google. Look for nick names and its variations too. Try to narrow down the search by including location,interests or professions. Also try Google Alerts You'll be automatically notified via e-mail when new pages meeting your search terms are found. Try to search your name too as your friend might be looking for you. Start Blogging People often search for themselves over the internet. To grab an advantage from this just start a new blog. Blogger.com, WordPress.com and LiveJournal.com are some free blogging services. This will just take few minutes to start with. I Read more:Internet
Free downloadable video games for Xbox online gaming service 2008-01-04 12:47:00 Microsoft Corp announced on Thursday it will offer a free downloadable video
game to users of its Xboxonline
gaming service after the network was plagued with connection troubles over the holidays. Xbox Live General Manager of Xbox Live Mark Whitten said the problems stemmed from a "massive increase" in new users of the service over the holiday season, when sales of video game hardware and software surge. "While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance," Whitten said in a statement. He said all Xbox Live members around the world would be able to freely download one game over the service. Games sold on Xbox Live typically cost from $5 to $20. Xbox Live had more than eight million members before the holiday sales surge, many
Robots recognizing text in images 2008-01-04 12:29:00 An application filed by google (NSDQ: GOOG) in June 2007 highlights more sophisticated search techniques. As per the patent application privacy issues raised by Google Maps Street View will only get more complicated, that YouTube searchers may one day be able to conduct keyword searches for text captured on video, and that Google searches may one day return a list of products on local store shelves. The filing suggests that the privacy issues raised by Google Maps Street View will only get more complicated, that YouTube searchers may one day be able to conduct keyword searches for text captured on video, and that Google searches may one day return a list of products on local store shelves. "Recognizing Text In Images" is an application to patent a method of optical character recognit Read more:recognizing
A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff 2007-12-25 12:48:00 With all due respect to Kevin Smith, the web is no longer only for complaining about movies. In fact, there are a large number of very helpful sites that teach you how to do things. These are do-it-yourself sites, but we're not talking about building a deck or baking a cake -- the web is full of more general interest sites that give quality instruction on all sorts of fun and useful projects. Including, sometimes, how to build a deck or bake a cake. In this horribly-titled, but hopefully useful round-up we will specifically focus on such general purpose sites that include some sort of rich media instruction (generally video). We also might throw in a tech-focused site or two, since this is after all, a tech-focused blog. If you know of any instructional sites that are missing from this l Read more:Sites
Photoshop online editing tool for free 2008-03-29 02:46:00 Adobe Systems launched a new photo-editing
website Thursday that blends its popular Photoshop
software with the ease and community of social networks.Photoshop Express which is now open to everyone as a "beta" test version, strips away both the complexity and the price tag of the original Photoshop. This free web-based editor offers tools for one-click cropping, color adjusting, and sharing.Those familiar with Photoshop Elements 6 will be in familiar territory using Express, but there are two vital differences between the tools. First, Express is not a desktop application at all, but a Flash-based website.It forms the latest part of Adobe's campaign to develop online
tools that has seen it buy up the online word processor Buzzword, and means that users can access and edit their saved files
Take online screenshot of entire website 2008-04-19 11:50:00 Super Screenshot is a web based alternative for taking screenshot of any web page and save the output as JPG/PNG formats.Its a free service which can generate a screenshot of entirewebsite
very quickly.Just enter the URL of the site you want to capture and then customize the dimensions and size. Read more:online
Virtual college tours online 2008-04-21 13:44:00 Are you a high school junior or senior who is planning a college career.Here's a good news for you. Now you don,t need to waste your time and money to to visit the campuses all around the country.Ecampustours.com provides 360 degree virtual tours of just about every college campus in the country. Just register and search for the college you'd like to see by name or by selecting a state. After you find the college of your choice click on View Tour to see the interactive pictures of college campus. Make sure to scroll the mouse over the picture to get a fuller view of campus. Read more:online
CoffeeCup Software Releases HTML Editor 2008 2008-04-24 14:27:00 CoffeeCup Software
, Inc. has released CoffeeCup HTML Editor
2008, the latest version of the most downloaded HTML editor on the Internet.
New features in the 2008 version include an enhanced code editor with HTML and CSS Code Completion, a powerful new Project Manager, Quick Tag Help which gives you instant information on every HTML tag, Quick Start from 40 professionally-designed CSS and XHTML
Virtual college tours online 2008-04-21 13:44:00 Are you a high school junior or senior who is planning a college career.
Here's a good news for you. Now you don,t need to waste your time and money to to visit the campuses all around the country.
Ecampustours.com provides 360 degree virtual tours of just about every college campus in the country. Just register and search for the college you'd like to see by name or by selecting a state. After
Read more:online
Take online screenshot of entire website 2008-04-19 11:50:00 Super Screenshot is a web based alternative for taking screenshot of any web page and save the output as JPG/PNG formats.
Its a free service which can generate a screenshot of entirewebsite
very quickly.
Just enter the URL of the site you want to capture and then customize the dimensions and size.
Read more:online
Photoshop online editing tool for free 2008-03-29 02:46:00 Adobe Systems launched a new photo-editing
website Thursday that blends its popular Photoshop
software with the ease and community of social networks.
Photoshop Express which is now open to everyone as a "beta" test version, strips away both the complexity and the price tag of the original Photoshop. This free web-based editor offers tools for one-click cropping, color adjusting, and sharing.
Read more:online
Bookmarking tool for mobile devices by Yahoo 2008-03-05 12:06:00 Yahoo unveiled a cellphone tool "onePlace" at the CeBit technology conference in Hannover. OnePlace lets users keep track of favorite Web topics on their cell phones. onePlace keeps information automatically updated as well as assigns categories and tags.
With the help of onePlace users can collect and organize content on the internet. An advantege of onePlace is that it groups different forms
Read more:Bookmarking
, Yahoo
Find jobs with video resumes 2008-02-15 01:12:00 VideoJobShop allows job seekers and employers to upload video
s. For those that are more visually-oriented, VideoJobShop is an appealing alternative for companies looking to promote positions to potential employees. For job seekers that need to appear on-camera, VideoJobShop is a good forum for showcasing their work. The content is organized by region and job category. Users can search by state
Read more:resumes
Hot Chicks Encyclopedia 2008-01-23 12:08:00 Chikipedia claims to be a first female encyclopedia. The wiki style Chikipedia lets you to add a women and edit the existing entries about her. You have to register first in order to add a new chick. And you must follow the guidelines to before adding a chick or editing existing entries. Chikipedia currently have about eight categories of hot chicks – TV, Sports, Business, Film, Fashion,
Read more:Chicks
, Encyclopedia
, Hot Chicks
Make postings to your Wordpress blog using your mobile phone 2008-01-19 07:06:00 Wordpress is one of the most popular and widely used blogging platform. If you own a blog powered by Wordpress then here’s a good news for you. Telewaving has developed a new WordPress application called "Wavelog" which lets you post entries on your WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress blogs via the Nokia N95. You can post text, images, audios and vedios to your blog provided you have
Read more:Wordpress
, phone
Real-time Torrent Comparison Search Engine 2008-01-07 13:18:00 YouTorrent
is “the world’s first real-time torrent comparison search engine” according to the site itself. The site is a meta search engine, which means that it doesn’t host any torrent files itself. It currently searches 12 sources; Mininova, The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, MyBittorrent, NewTorrents, SuprNova, Monova, Vuze, BitTorrent, LegitTorrents, SeedPeer and BTjunkie.
The world’s first torrent
Read more:Search
, Engine
How to find your lost friends using the Internet 2008-01-06 06:24:00 It’s common to fall out of contact with your friends. Over the time, you must have lost contact with few of your friends. Try to locate your friend. Just enter your friend’s name surrounded by quotes in Google. Look for nick names and its variations too. Try to narrow down the search by including location,interests or professions. Also try Google Alerts You'll be automatically notified
Read more:Internet
Free downloadable video games for Xbox online gaming service 2008-01-04 12:47:00 Microsoft Corp announced on Thursday it will offer a free downloadable video
game to users of its Xboxonline
gaming service after the network was plagued with connection troubles over the holidays. Xbox Live General Manager of Xbox Live Mark Whitten said the problems stemmed from a "massive increase" in new users of the service over the holiday season, when sales of video game hardware and
Robots recognizing text in images 2008-01-04 12:29:00 An application filed by google (NSDQ: GOOG) in June 2007 highlights more sophisticated search techniques. As per the patent application privacy issues raised by Google Maps Street View will only get more complicated, that YouTube searchers may one day be able to conduct keyword searches for text captured on video, and that Google searches may one day return a list of products on local store
Read more:recognizing
A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff 2007-12-25 12:48:00 With all due respect to Kevin Smith, the web is no longer only for complaining about movies. In fact, there are a large number of very helpful sites that teach you how to do things. These are do-it-yourself sites, but we're not talking about building a deck or baking a cake -- the web is full of more general interest sites that give quality instruction on all sorts of fun and useful projects.
Read more:Sites
AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0 released 2008-04-30 07:49:00 AVG Technologies, a leading provider of Internet security software has released
AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.0.
The latest version of widely-used free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware through a new combined anti-virus and anti-spyware engine.
The software also offers a revamped scanning engine for faster performance, and reduced system resource requirements.
While
Get your voicemails as text in real time 2008-04-30 03:46:00 VoiceCloud offers a real-time, voice-to-text transcription service.
With VoiceCloud's patent-pending streaming audio technology users are able to access and read their voicemail messages -- transcribed in real-time -- on either a mobile device or online. Whether users are on a mobile phone, iPhone, Blackberry or online, they can immediately see who has called and what was said -- ensuring that
Read more:real time
Google news on your iphone and ipod 2008-05-02 10:02:00 You can now use Google
Apps on your iPhone.
Google has released a new interface for the iPhone/iPod Touch that lets Google Apps users easily access everything they need in an integrated environment.
This new interface lets you use applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and other services that aren’t associated with Google Apps like Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google News and
Read more:Google news
Surf the Google Earth's Ionosphere 2008-05-02 07:54:00 NASA-funded researchers released to the general public a new "4D" live model of Earth
's ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through the layer of ionized gas that encircles Earth at the edge of space itself. All that's required is a connection to the Internet.
The ionosphere is, in a sense, our planet's final frontier. It is the last wisp of Earth's atmosphere that astronauts leave
Read more:Google
, Google Earth
ooVoo launches Apple Mac version of video chat application 2008-05-02 06:34:00 ooVoo has announced the launch of the Apple
Mac edition of their video
conferencing application.
This application is a free to download. However there are few limitations as Mac version
does not include: Free phone calls, Recording and vedio effects.
Six users can simultaneously chat with each other using this application. They can also exchange files and write text messages.
System