Archive | May, 2008

Experience Google Earth in your browser

Posted on 30 May 2008

Google has recently released a browser plug-in that lets you experience Google Earth inside a browser.

The new plugin is accompanied by an API that web developers can use to easily incorporate Google Earth into their applications which can then be embedded in web pages. The Google Earth API is a free beta service, available for [...]

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Firefox community’s Guinness World Record - You could be a part of it

Posted on 29 May 2008

The Firefox community is always up to some cool, collaborative way to declare their passion for Firefox.
The latest attempt is to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. No prize for guessing what the software is. It’s Firefox 3.

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FlickrSLiDR - Easily embed Flickr slideshows on your website or blog

Posted on 29 May 2008

Wouldn’t it be nice if instead of inserting several photos from Flickr in your blog, you could embed a single slideshow that displays all the photos?
FlickrSlidr lets you do just that.
FlickSlidr allows you to easily embed flickr slideshows on your website or blog.

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Wobzip - Free web based uncompression tool

Posted on 28 May 2008

Wobzip is a free online tool that can uncompress files on the fly. Wobzip can uncompress most compressed file formats like ZIP, 7z, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS.
Wobzip lets you uncompress files residing on your computer as well as directly from a url. Once the files [...]

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How to download popular magazines from Zinio for free

Posted on 28 May 2008

Recently Amit had written a post on How to Read Popular Magazines on your Desktop for Free. It is basically a simple, but effective trick of changing your browsers useragent to view the magazines at zinio.com/iphone.
While the trick works fine, you have to be online to read the magazines. I prefer to read such stuff [...]

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Google’s Hindi Translation - More fun than useful

Posted on 26 May 2008

Google online translation engine has recently been upgraded to include 10 new languages, one of which is Hindi. That takes the total languages supported to 23. The newly featured languages include Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish.
I was particularly interested to see how well the Google engine translates English to [...]

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Simple Firefox trick to autocomplete web addresses

Posted on 25 May 2008

Here is a simple trick which can save you quite a few keystrokes each time you enter web site addresses in Firefox.
Suppose you want to visit Digital Quest, instead of entering the full address like www.dq.winsila.com, you could just enter dq.winsila and press Ctrl+Enter. The www and .com are automatically added and Firefox starts fetching [...]

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