Published on Monday, May 17, 2010 by admin I'm glad to write to you about Skype 5.0 Beta 1 for Windows. In this release we have introduced one of the most requested features over the time - Group Video Calling. You can make up to 5-way group video calls in this release. Also in addition to introduction of group video calling we have re-designed the call view. The new call view is focusing on the ongoi...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin In a quick break from gadget-related news, here’s a nice gem courtesy of BuzzFeed. Two guys on the side of the road saw a Google Streetview car approaching, and acted quickly to make the most out of the opportunity! What would any respectable internet-goer do if they saw a Google Streetview car down the street? Tell us what you’d do in comments! [ad#300x250_im...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin Just a few short months ago RIM released the Twitter for BlackBerry client in a private beta. Although there were many mirrors that offered a copy of the beta to users, it was not until yesterday morning that RIM made it official that it would be available to the public. For the most part the final public release seems to be a carbon copy of the beta release and off...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin Hackers search for compromised sites and use many ways to insert hundreds of hidden spam links into trusted web pages. They target blogs, forums, CMS, image galleries and wikis. [ad#300x250_image_ads] Web site owners are unaware that their sites are hacked and infected with parasites. While the parasites are hidden from human web surfers, they are visible to Goo...

Published on Thursday, May 13, 2010 by admin Despite the increasing complexity of security measures to prevent, detect and remove malicious programs, spyware, viruses, etc, computer crime is hot on their heels and becoming more sophisticated and prevalent. Popular social networking sites such as Twitter, Friendster, Facebook, etc are common targets for cyber criminals. They provide a rich treasure trove for phis...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin Do you have a growing family at home slowly eating away at your bandwidth? Maybe you're a web surfing fanatic looking for a little more speed? If you answered yes to either, a caching proxy is for you. This simple addition to your home network can provide you with additional bandwidth by reducing common internet bandwidth usage. Normally these types of proxies are fou...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin It's almost guaranteed that male Playboy readers have thought that it was be cool if the centerfold of the issue they are reading would just jump out of the pages of the magazine. Well, the long-running magazine is making that happen ... sort of. According to the Associated Press, Playboy's June issue comes bundled with a pair of 3D glasses, and if you look clos...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin There are many people out there complaining about the Firefox RAM Memory Bug. Lets get it straight. It’s not a bug. It’s part of the cache feature. This ‘feature’ is how the pages are cached in a tabbed environment. To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page navigations are renavigations to pages visited less than 10 pages ...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin One way to speed up your Internet browsing experience is using a faster DNS server. Today we take a look at Namebench, which will compare your current DNS server against others out there, and help you find a faster one. [ad#300x250_image_ads] Namebench Download the file and run the executable (link below). Namebench starts up and will include the current D...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin This is just a quick tip for all Twitter addicts out there (myself included) to save you some time when writing updates (tweets). There are so many online and desktop applications, tools and services that help you send tweets from almost everywhere. So why is this one so different? I like this one because it is pretty simple and yet it saves you plenty of time w...

Published on Friday, May 7, 2010 by admin Launched last December, Google Goggles is capable of recognizing the user's snapshots and translating them. It runs on Android smartphones equipped with cameras. Google Goggles can also match snapshots with popular search returns for landmarks, book covers, artwork, places and even corporate logos. Google has revamped the Goggles mobile app it launched in Decembe...

Published on Monday, May 3, 2010 by admin Many users back up their browser’s profile and keep a copy of their bookmarks, extensions, etc from time to time to prevent data loss in case of browser failure or other technical problems. Navigating to locate for relevant directory where the browser keeps the profile files can be quite tedious especially for non-technical users. Many users probably do not know tha...

Published on Saturday, May 1, 2010 by admin Many people might not be bothered about the default page layout shown in the famous social site, Facebook, as long as they can log in and continue to enjoy the services and activities there. Having said that, there are still many Facebook enthusiasts who have different opinions and a lot to say about the default layout. Instead of waiting for the developer to change t...

Published on Monday, April 26, 2010 by admin Google Chrome web browser has a unique problem where its password saving feature is not working properly on some websites. Despite the options already been set to instruct Chrome to offer to save passwords, Google Chrome does not ask, offer, prompt nor show a yellow bar that allows user to save the password future future logins auto-fill. When Google Chrome does no...

Published on Monday, April 26, 2010 by admin Some websites use a special directive instruction that prevents web browser from offering to save and remember the user name and password credentials for future automatic login. These websites, especially secure HTTPS sites, uses <form autocomplete=”OFF”> tag in the form elements’ source code. While AutoComplete attribute is controversial as it clearly ...

Published on Monday, April 26, 2010 by admin When logging in to a website by entering a user name and password credentials in Google Chrome, the web browser will prompt for options on whether users want Google Chrome to save the password. Options that available are either save password, or never for this site. If the user click on “Never for this site” button, intentionally or accidentally, Google Chrome wil...

Published on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by admin Many users make use of Microsoft Office Outlook as a personal information manager to manage personal stuff such as emails, contacts, things to do, event scheduling, etc. If you are on the Facebook social network and also using Microsoft Outlook to handle your personal information, there are a few Microsoft Outlook add-on applications for Facebook you can probably ...

Published on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by admin Windows Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is the next version of popular web browser from Microsoft. Although IE 8 is the new version of web browser, which replacing IE7, it appears that there may lots of compatibility issue with IE8. Among the main complaint about IE8 is frequent crash, freeze, hang, not responding, or has stopped working while browsing web pages, sometimes ...

Published on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by admin Google has announced that it has begun rolling out file storage capabilities as part of Google Docs, bringing it more in line with services like Dropbox and Microsoft's SkyDrive, though they're not direct competitors just yet. The company says that regular users of Google Docs will soon be able to upload up to 1GB worth of files to the service for free, and in any fil...

Published on Thursday, January 7, 2010 by admin Google chrome extensions is now official for all chrome 4 users , although it still says Beta version. Chrome extensions is basically like the addons feature in firefox. The good things about chrome extensions is : You dont have to restart the browser after intalling/ uninstall You can install greasemonkey scripts right away without the greasemonkey addo...