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The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: November 18, 2009
The web has been abuzz the past few weeks with chatter about Microsoft’s announcement today at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans about the new version of Microsoft Office 2010. There’s even a mini-movie about its debut. Facing potential challenges from Google’s browser-based Apps products and its new Chrome OS, Microsoft has been touting [...]
Google Music OneBox 2.0
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: November 16, 2009
Google updated the music search OneBox, which used to include song titles, album names and some other information licensed from AllMusic. The new music search OneBox is only focused on finding music, previewing songs and easily buying them.
Search for an artist, an album name or even some lyrics and Google returns a list of songs that [...]
Microsoft Office Overpowers Google Docs in Reader Vote
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: November 15, 2009
Since its inception in 1990, Microsoft Office has quickly been the dominant force in office applications and document building. Need to build a presentation? There’s PowerPoint. Looking to create complex spreadsheets? Excel is still the gold standard. And with the power of Windows to help push the desktop software, its presence only grew.
Over the last [...]
Microsoft Website Spark – A program that offers visibility, support and software for professional Web Developers and Designers
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: September 24, 2009
Visibility, support and software for professional Web Developers and Designers
What is WebsiteSpark?
WebsiteSpark is a new global program, designed by Microsoft to help small professional Web development and design service companies succeed, by providing new business opportunities through connections with global partners and customers, support and training, and software tools – at no upfront cost. WebsiteSpark [...]
HP DreamScreen
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: September 24, 2009
The sleek, stylish HP DreamScreen adds a fun new dimension to your digital content. Easily view photos of your last vacation, watch family videos, listen to Pandora Internet radio, get Facebook status updates, check the weather and more—all with this elegant wireless web-connected screen.
The HP DreamScreen’s sleek design and intuitive features give you and the [...]
Watch ICC Champions Trophy 2009 Live Scores And Online Video Streaming
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: September 24, 2009
The eight nation cricketing combat kicks off live tonight. Yes, we’re talking about the much awaited ICC Champions Trophy which was scheduled in 2008 but due to security concerns in the former hosting nation Pakistan, the big event got postponed. It’s time for the African Safari to witness the mesmerizing game of cricket, where the [...]
Adwords New Interface Thursday: Introducing spreadsheet editing
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: July 14, 2009
Many advertisers use spreadsheets when managing their AdWords campaigns to streamline tasks such as changing bids, creating keyword lists, and adjusting destination URLs. As a result, we decided to work on a way for you to use spreadsheets directly in your account, and today this feature is available in the new AdWords interface.
Google AdWords lets [...]
Firefox Memory Optimization
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: June 29, 2009
If you want to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox in Windows here’s a little trick:
Firefox Memory Optimization
Open Firefox browser, go to address bar, type about:config and hit enter
You’ll see a page full with text under 4 columns: Preference Name, Status, Type, Value
Right-click anywhere on that page and select New -> Boolean
You’ll get prompted to [...]
Explore the world of Google search –
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: June 18, 2009
Weather
To see the weather for many Indian and worldwide cities, type “weather” followed by the city and state, or country.
Example: Search weather bangalore
Local Businesses
If you’re looking for a store, restaurant, or other local business you can search for the category of business and the location and well return results right on the page, along [...]
Trillian beta goes public
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: June 11, 2009
Trillian Astra, which has been in development for nearly three years, is now available to users as a public beta. You won’t need to register for a private key to download it, although if you’ve been using it since we reported on the Astra beta in April, it might be time for an upgrade.
In announcing on [...]
Compete: Facebook US Traffic Nearing Google, Yahoo
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: June 11, 2009
Web analytics firm Compete has released its data for the month of May, and as Justin Smith over at InsideFacebook has already pointed out, US traffic to Facebook.com has increased by nearly 8% to 82.9 million unique visitors last month, with Facebook Connect sites generating an additional 65 million uniques. That means that, according to [...]
Bing – Microsoft New Search Engine
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: June 1, 2009
It doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as go Google yourself, but now you can go Bingyourself. (Then again, Google took a few years ti become a verb.). Bing, Microsoft’s latest effort to compete in search, is now live on a “preview” site. The key thing to pay attention to is the guided [...]
TiE Delhi & OM Careers present OMCAR 2009 – An Online Marketing Summit
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: May 17, 2009
OMCAR 2009, the Online Marketing Summit, is a non-profit initiative, which focuses on ‘empowering businesses to grow by leveraging the power of Online Marketing’, is being held on May 23rd, 2009, from 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM, Amity Innovation Incubator, Noida. OMCAR 2009 will bring together online marketing professionals, sales & marketing people, advertisers & brand [...]
Firefox 3.5 Beta Version Launch
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: April 29, 2009
Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 10 months. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users:
* This beta is now available in 70 [...]
AMD Launches 3D Media Browser – AMD’s Fusion Media Explorer
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: April 11, 2009
For whatever reason this week’s launch of the beta version of AMD’s Fusion Media Explorer, the company’s first forray in the social media hub / browser space, isn’t being met with a mountain of buzz. For a 40-year old giant of a tech company that’s mostly known for its micro-processors and related technologies, that’s quite [...]
Is Your Username Taken on Social Sites? Find Out With Namechk
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: April 3, 2009
With more and more social sites popping up on the Web, your preferred username is becoming directly entangled with your social identify. The reality is that it’s becoming a priority to claim your username everywhere.
So how do you know if your username is available on most social sites? You could try each site individually, or [...]
Woopra v/s Google Analytics
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: April 2, 2009
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What is Woopra
Woopra is a robust web-tracking & analysis tool that works perfectly on any website. It is mainly targeted for small to medium websites ranging from few hundreds up to tens of thousands of daily page views.
Essentially, it is targeted for blogs interested in the most minuscule details of every single action. In addition, Woopra [...]
Firefox 3.1 Beta Version Lauch
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: April 1, 2009
Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is the fifth development milestone and third beta release of Firefox 3.1, the next version of the Firefox web browser. While this release is considered to be stable, it is intended for developers and members of our testing community to use for early evaluation and feedback. Users of the latest released [...]
Google Ventures Opens For Business
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: March 31, 2009
The long awaited Google venture capital fund, Google Ventures, is now open for business. The Fund is led by managing partners Bill Maris and Rich Miner.
The fund’s FAQ says they’ll invest in just about any type of startup (”consumer Internet, software, hardware, clean-tech, bio-tech, health care and others”) and they’re willing to invest just about [...]
Google Talk Lab Edition
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: March 27, 2009
Features
Features of the Google Talk Gadget on your desktop (emoticons, group chat, and more!)
New! Desktop notifications from the following services
Gmail
Calendar (with a new snooze option!)
Sony Reader v/s Amazon Kindle
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: March 21, 2009
The e-book market is still up for grabs. And in a sign that Sony is far from ready to let Amazon get a lock on the market, yesterday it announced a deal with Google to include in its eBook Store over 500,000 public domain books scanned by the search company.
That means that while the Amazon [...]
Did Google Chrome Just Get Even Faster?
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: March 18, 2009
Google Chrome launch has a new beta
What Google claim about his new beta version. it’s 25% faster on our V8 benchmark and 35% faster on the Sunspider benchmark than the current stable channel version and almost twice as fast when compared to our original beta version.
You Tube go green
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: March 18, 2009
The new youtube logo its green color not bad. YouTube has released a subtly redesigned site today, complete with a marginally updated logo and a series of cosmetic improvements.The social filters have moved too: they now appear down the left hand side, rather than along the top. They’ve added a footer to every page for [...]
Google Voice – One number for all your calls and SMS
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: March 13, 2009
This product allows a person to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email (gmail) inbox and also makes it possible to find a specific information within a phone message as its converted into a text based email conversation.
This is inline with Googles strategy to organize all the worlds information and make it accessible.
Features
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Google Heatlh
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: March 5, 2009
About Google Health
Google Health allows you to store and manage all of your health information in one central place. And it’s completely free. All you need to get started is a Google username and password.
Google believes that you own your medical records and should have easy access to them. The way we see it, it’s [...]
The beginner’s guide to speeding up Vista
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: March 1, 2009
Give your computer a new lease of life in just a few minutes
Free up hard drive space
The very first thing to do is check whether your hard drive has enough free space. If it’s completely full, your PC will crawl. The general rule of thumb is to leave at least 15-20 per cent of your [...]
Google Sponsored Links on Facebook Apps
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: February 26, 2009
Get the Good Ads on your facebook apps to maximise your profits
Google is taking a multi-pronged approach when it comes to winning over the hearts and minds of Facebook developers. We already know that it will attempt a direct appeal to get developers to come over to Google’s side and create social applications via its [...]
Google Adds Task Manager to Gmail
Posted by: Lalit Wason on: February 17, 2009
GMail team announced the addition of a new feature in the Gmail Labs – a Task Manager, or to do list. It’s quite an elegant little feature, when it and the rest of GMail work. Below we’ve got a two minute video tour that shows how the feature works, in case Gmail is down for [...]
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