Twitter Recently, I got a twitter link to follow @twitterLOL, which has amazing fun tweets in 140 characters. Some of them include : yomama so fat she’s on both sides of the family! When I want your opinion, I’ll remove the duct tape. Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else. The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI... 

Avira My Kaspersky Antivirus beta user license ran out a few days back and I thought of trying back Avira after almost seven months. A performance check revealed some results from av-comparatives on Avira Premium 2009. All tests were conducted at the highest settings of heuristics, and all antivirus users are advised to use these settings. The test data is based on results from the last... 

This tweak I found needs you to modify your system.ini file to speed up video streaming from sites like YouTube, metacafe etc. The tweak is pretty simple and is explained step by step below. Youtube Do not change the rates(numbers) as you might end up screwing your PC. Go to start->Run. [ windows key + R ] Key in system.ini , press Enter. Depending on your version of windows, you will get... 

yahoo microsoft deal Microsoft and yahoo are close to yet another search and advertising deal, this time though, the deal has moved a lot further and there are final talks already taking place at the Silicon Valley for the launch of the deal. The deal much smaller in size than the last one, is for yahoo to take over Microsoft’s search advertising business for a fair payment of some billion dollars... 

Google PR It was not until yesterday that I got hold of this fact. Let us say you have 10 points awarded on pagerank for a certain page. Now, say you have 10 links on the page, out of which 5 are dofollow and the rest 5 are nofollow. As expected, the nofollow links get no PageRank juice at all, that is for sure. But the interesting thing is that, after this, even though you  are supposed to have 10... 

Yahoo! Search Pad Yahoo has attempted a comeback in the search market with it’s search application Yahoo! Search Pad. The Yahoo! Search Pad is an answer to google’s Google Squared service which helps us do an on page search-research. With both the search applications, we can research out search results to get a final compiled result. I did a crude layman’s review of Google Squared... 

Google voice Google is trying out another experimental web-app google voice. With google voice, we can manage all our contacts at one place with customized call blocking, screening, conference etc. The service is totally free of charge and is available only through invites, which you can get at the google voice about page. Although, it has not started off yet, it is due in a short time, so keep a close... 

Well, apple does it again. Apple has always been a trendsetter, when it did away with the floppy drive, the the CD-ROM in macbook air, then the keyboard in Macbook Wheel..Check out this video.  Read More →

UntinyURL Shortented URL’s come in handy when we want to post things to a social networking site, hide links or post links to an advertisement. It is of special interest to programmers as well. In addition to that, the microblogging platform twitter with it’s word limit has taken shortened URL and the services to a new height. But sometimes we want to work the other way around. Untiny is... 

File Sharing Rapidshare and megaupload offer the largest file-sharing and hosting servers on the internet. Rapidshare specially, records millions of downloads everyday. This is good as far as you are a premium user. But, for non-premium members, the download features are limited and there is a never-dying fear of the download being interrupted as there is no resume support. In other cases, you run...