Archive for December, 2006
Aggregate your Social Networks
With increasing number of social networking websites, inevitably, there has to arise websites that help in consolidating the various profiles you maintain at these numerous pages. These new breed of websites are called Social Network aggregators and they provide you one platform where you enter all your profile information, which can be automatically updated at [...]
Posted: December 28th, 2006 under Product Analysis.
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Previewing links: Snap Vs. Cooliris
Snap was launched as “the other way to search” concept. Accordingly, while the conventional search engines judge the usability of a destination page based on the text content it has, Snap does so based on the seeming usability it offers through an preview screen of the page that the user could expect to land on. [...]
Posted: December 26th, 2006 under Product Analysis.
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Good Mash-up tutorial
Incidentally, after my last post regarding Mash-ups, I found a good tutorial on what Mash-ups are and how they work. The presenter is David Berlind, executive editor of ZDNET. You may watch the video, if you did not have a good idea of what Mash-ups are before this.Video Link
Posted: December 25th, 2006 under Product Analysis.
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Build your own map
Building maps are one of the most common amongst mash-up programmers. Some of the most well known and popular maps available on the internet are Google Earth and Virtual Earth. There are a lot of mash-ups based on these like the MapBuilder and Wayfaring. These websites let you build your own maps for your own [...]
Posted: December 25th, 2006 under Product Analysis.
Comments: 2
Encrypt your email for security
Some companies have started scanning the emails of their employees for security purposes. Though this is for good, it can also hamper other innocuous things like unofficial emails to friends from your office email id. Mobrien is a software that helps you to encrypt your email message. What you need to do is go to [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2006 under Product Analysis.
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Gmail feature to integrate all your emails
Google has recently introduced a new exciting feature in gmail. As per this, you can now integrate all your email ids (i.e upto a maximum of five) under one gmail account. Since this is in beta, not all gmail accounts have this feature. Nevertheless, you can check if your account has also got the feature [...]
Posted: December 9th, 2006 under Product Analysis.
Comments: 3
Display RSS feeds as a Screensaver
Screensavers are most often chosen to display your attitude or passions. However, newer softwares allow you to customize screensavers to show your RSS feeds. NuParadigm offers a free download of a software to set up your RSS feeds to be displayed as a screensaver. The software looks to offer much more than a screensaver, in [...]
Posted: December 8th, 2006 under Product Analysis.
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Hide Windows from Boss – hot key from MrHyde
If you are my kind, then you surely do not want to display Internet Explorer windows that you have kept open to track cricket scores or to simply chat or orkutting, while at office. I found this nice software that helps you to define a hot-key which you can invoke to automatically hide all the [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2006 under Product Analysis.
Comments: 1
One-click automatic social bookmarking
If you notice my blog, I have a link for you to bookmark my blog above each of my blog entries. With so many social bookmarking tools available, it can sometimes get clumsy there, or I might fail to provide the, exact bookmarking tool that you, as a visitor use. Socializer is an alternative to [...]
Posted: December 3rd, 2006 under Product Analysis.
Comments: 2
