Thank you everyone who participated in the software giveaway! - We received 112 responses and deciding the winners was no easy job.Here’s the list of five winners in no...
Automatically Download Satellite Images from Google Maps
Google Maps Image Downloader is a Windows-only tool that lets you auto download satellite images from Google Maps between two locations anywhere in the world. To use Google...
Embed Flickr Photostreams in Web Pages as a Flash Slideshow
Want to display Flicks photos in web pages as a Flash slideshow? Look no further than PictoBrowser. Here's a sample Flickr Photo slideshow generated just using PictoBrowser...
Say Cheese - This Sony Digital Camera Clicks Only Smiling Faces
Say Cheese else the new Sony cameras won't capture your photographs. These affordable Cyber-shot DSC-T Series cameras have a special "Smile Shutter" mode that can recognize facial expressions like smiles, grin or a hearty laugh. If there are several subjects in the frame, you can specify the smiling face that you want to take as the main subject - or let the Smile Shutter choose the main subject and take the picture. The 8-megapixel,...
Amanda Congdon - The Perfect Match for Mobuzz TV
Amanda Congdon, the famous vlogger who joined ABC News after her split with Rocketboom, is now moving out of ABC as well. There are two versions of the story - some say that Amanda has been let go by ABCNews.com while Amanda says that she herself decided not to continue at ABC as she is taking up a new digital project after her ABC contract expires. The excellent MobuzzTV, an English video blog similar to RocketBoom, are also looking...
Password Protect Hyperlinks Before You Share Them Via Email
A lot of companies read emails sent by their employees. If you are also worried that someone in your office may be secretly reading your email messages, here's something you can do to at least prevent the email snoopers at work from visiting links (URLs) that you share in your emails - use a password. HideLinks is an online service that helps you password protect any web URL easily. You type in the URL and a password - HideLinks will...
Create Videos from Photos and Screen Captures - QlipBoard
QlipBoard is free application that lets you create movies from photos and screenshot images. The interesting part is that QlipBoard has an in-built screen capture feature and voice recorder. The images (or screen captures) appear in the timeline of QlipBoard (like most other video editors) so you just have to drag-n-drop to change the position of any image frame in the timeline. Further, you can easily record voice narrations, annotate...
When You Click An Adsense Ad On Your Own Website by Mistake
What is the first thing you would do if you accidentally clicked your own Adsense ads that are displayed on your website? As an honest Adsense publisher, you are likely...
Is Your Computer Connecting To Websites Without Your Knowledge
If you are worried that some hidden or unknown programs on your Windows PC are secretly making connections to websites in the background, you can use a simple DOS command...
Microsoft Releases Office 2003 SP3; Slipstream Your Installer CD
Microsoft today released Service Pack 3 for Microsoft Office 2003 (link). The service pack includes all patches and updates released for Microsoft Office 2003 since SP2....
Get an International Phone Number With FAX and Voicemail
pfingo is a new service that provides a personal phone number for you to make (or receive) phone calls from a PC (or Wi-Fi enabled mobile phone) to any landline or mobile...
Create A Tag Cloud Based On The Content of Your Blog or Website
Tag Clouds, you have seen them on delicious, Technorati or Flickr, are an easy way to get people explore your site deeper. Here's a sample tag cloud that uses Google AJAX Search. Tag Clouds (provided they are not cluttered and display just the relevant words) help visitors quickly visualize what your website is all about since the topics you frequently cover are mentioned in bold or relatively bigger fonts. WordPress community already...
New York Times Makes TimesSelect Available Without Subscription
Good News. New York Times has decided to break the subscription firewall and provide TimesSelect content for free. If you are a paying TimesSelect subscriber, you will receive a prorated refund. In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some...
Google Docs Adds Web Based Version of PowerPoint 1.0
Google today launched a "very basic" PowerPoint clone that lets you create Presentations inside the web browser. Other than creating presentations from scratch, you can also upload your existing PPT and PPS slideshows into Google PowerPoint. The new Google tool, which surprising doesn't have any name (they call it Google Docs presentations feature), is available at documents.google.com or can also be accessed from docs.google.com....
Did Google Relax Rules for Mahalo To Join Premium Adsense Club
Mahalo is now a premium Adsense publisher meaning they get permission from Google to display custom Ad formats on their web pages among other benefits. Related: Premium Adsense publisher privileges Normally, Google invites only those websites to the Adsense Premium club that average more more than 20 million page views a month. If Mahalo has managed to cross that number in such a short span of time, hats off to Jason Calacanis. There...
Want to do More With Firefox? Get The New HyperWords
Say you are reading a blog or website inside Firefox and encounter some name (or an unknown term) that you would like to explore deeper. You will probably visit Wikipedia to read more about that person and search Flickr or Google Images for some photos. And if the text on the webpage is not in your native language, you'll copy paste that into Babel or Google Translate. Is that the way to work on the internet ? Well, that's a perfect...
More Ways to Upload Presentations & PDF Files to Slideshare
SlideShare, an online service for hosting PowerPoint and PDF documents, has registered an extremely impressive growth ever since its debut last year. (see this recent Alexa snapshot) Related: Comparison of PowerPoint Hosting Services SlideShare have added some new email+web based options for uploading PDF and PPTs that makes the service all the more attractive. For instance, if you want to move your presentations from Scribd to SlideShare,...
Adsense Referrals - How to Pick Relevant Products That Convert
Unlike the regular Adsense ads (CPC or CPM)where Google automatically picks relevant ads based on the content, Adsense Referrals (CPA) require some effort on the part of Adsense publishers because they have to manually select products from the vast Adsense inventory that is changing almost everyday. How do you find the Adsense Referral Ads that are likely to become popular among your visitors ? I have been using the Adsense Referrals...
Google Developing GMail Offline Version Using Google Gears
A report, citing highly placed sources, says that Google has developed an offline version of Gmail that is likely to be made available within this year. Like Google Reader which lets you work offline using Google Gears, GMail users will be able to interact with their GMail account even when they don't have an active Internet connection. This news, that Google is developing GMail Offline, is reported by a prominent Indian...
Blogger Play and Bloglines Wall of Images
Blogger Play is a self-running slideshow of photographs recently uploaded on Blogspot blogs. Other than the image, you also get to read a short excerpt of the accompanying blog post and the profile of the blogger. Excellent implementation. Bloglines offers a similar feature called Image Wall but that's not limited to Blogger Photos - they show recent images from virtually all blogs that are indexed by Bloglines. A small concern with...