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 [...]
Tags: browser plug-in, Google, google earth, google earth API
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.
Tags: Download day, firefox 3, Firefox Guinness Record, Most downloaded software in 24
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.
Tags: embed slideshow, flickr, flickrslidr, photo slideshow, slideshow
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 [...]
Tags: .rar, compression, decompress files, uncompress, uncompress files, wobzip, zip
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 [...]
Tags: downloads, How to, HTTrack, iphone, magazines, tips, zinio
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 [...]
Tags: English to hindi, google translate, google translation, hindi, hindi translation, translate to hindi
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 [...]
Tags: autocomplete web address, Firefox, Firefox Shortcuts, Tips & Tricks