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Firefox 3 World Record Download Day 2008

May

30

2008

A guiness world record day has been planed to mark the official release of Firefox 3. On the day, a record for the most number of downloads for a single software in 24 hours will be attempted. Spread the word around and help FF achieve this unique feat. Signup and pledge here. Experience the Web ...

Great Indian Developer Show!

May

25

2008

India’s first ever Developer summit held recently at IISc, Bangalore, concluded friday night with them giving out developer awards. The event was aptly titled, The Great Indian Developer Summit held between May 19th to 23rd 2008. Yes, it feels great to be recognized as a developer, more so for Indians. FOSS.in, Barcamps and this, I ...

Searchme – The new era of visual search. 1

Apr

24

2008

Searchme is a search engine. Yes, one would guess, oh here’s another one out to change the way one searches the web. But this one does catch your attention. It displays results in visual format and lets you slide through results using a slide bar in the bottom. The visual effects are appealing, which gives ...

This one time at the Barcamp..

Apr

19

2008

For those who are aware of the American Pie movie series, the above line should definitely ring a bell. But here am referring this to the ongoing Barcamp Bangalore 6 at IIMB. Bangalore,www.barcampbangalore.org The 6th summer edition 2008 is scheduled on 19th and 20th April. The sessions were varied at its best. For geeks, for ...

Watch web Flash Videos (FLVs) offline.

Mar

15

2008

With most websites you surf these days have some type of video content embedded in them. Be it news sports or entertainment sites. And 9 out of 10 times they are Macromedia Flash Videos (flv). If they are youtube links, there’s a good chance you can download them for future viewing. Otherwise its difficult to ...

Use Google for your Peer 2 Peer searches. 1

Mar

15

2008

You can use google for your p2p searches. Use the following search string to look for any media files. intitle:”index.of” (mp3) titanic -html -php -asp -cf -jsp mp3 refers to the media you want as in a extension. You can also use other formats in the following fashion (mp3|avi|mpg) titanic refers to the name of ...

G-Archiver : Do Not use or download this spyware!

Mar

10

2008

I came across this post http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001072.html regarding a malicious intent behind the creator of g-archiver, a gmail backup program. Apart from doing what it claimed to do, the author John Terry stored and sent a copy of gmail username and password of every user who has ever used this software to his own email account. ...

Juploadr: Flickr upload tool for Linux and Mac!

Mar

1

2008

Though i had found this tool long time back, it came about pretty handy while using it recently. Get it from jUploadr Just untar the package and run jupload from the installation folder. This launches a simple UI which allows you to drag and drop photos to it. Just add a flickr account and authorize ...

Now Add Google talk to your website/blog. 16

Mar

1

2008

Google talk team has come up with a talkback gadget which can be added to your site or blog. This will allow visitors to be able to chat with you on your gtalk account if you are online. With just few lines of html code, you can be now be contacted from anywhere on the ...

Cricket Live Scores on your Firefox statusbar! 3

Feb

21

2008

You are a developer and spend lot of time on a browser(and its firefox I presume!!). You can’t always open a cricket scorecard site to view the latest scores. This could for two reasons, one you dont want to be disturbed and the other is you dont want to be caught by others doing this ...