Category: Internet

Skin Lightening App on Facebook

Skin Lightening App on Facebook

Indians have a special liking to the fairer skins and Vaseline has exploited their liking with the launch of a new app for Facebook. The sponsored app lightens your skin color and makes you look fairer, as fair as you want to be, or should I say, the app helps us with the Michael Jackson [...]

Mozilla Firefox 4 Public Beta Launched

Mozilla Firefox 4 Public Beta Launched

Just a quick update! Mozilla has made Firefox 4 Beta available to the public as of today. You can download it here. I am going to download it tonight and offer my views. Keep tab on this post for further updates.

YouTube Hacked, Target Justin Bieber

YouTube Hacked, Target Justin Bieber

Video sharing website YouTube has been hacked yet again, but, this time around the website was not the target, young Canadian pop star Justin Bieber instead.
Bieber’s music videos were the target. Comments, abusive in nature were posted on the video clips and some comments even claimed that the singer was dead. Yikes!
The site was down [...]

Google Caffeine Brewed and Served for Fresher Search Results

Google Caffeine Brewed and Served for Fresher Search Results

Google’s new technology in web search is made public. Caffeine, as they call it is the brains behind the Google Search since yesterday. It provides 50% fresher results which is great news for information crazy public who dwell on getting new information from the net.
Illustration : Suppose I wanted to search for an event that [...]

Becoming Twitterpated

If the term “Becoming Twitterpated” doesn’t ring a bell in your ears, then you’re missing out on loads of fun in your life. Basically, the term signifies the phenomena of thinking about your current object of desire.

It has also been described as a strange enjoyable disorder, which is mainly characterized by simultaneous feelings of anticipation, [...]

Are You Biking? Lost? Try Google Maps…

Are You Biking? Lost? Try Google Maps…

Google never ceases to grow, that’s the mark of a company which is good to invest on. Their latest addition to their tally is an add-on to its Google Maps engine, aiding bikers to find routes across the US.
Shannon Guymon, product manager for Google Maps said, “We wanted to include as much bike trail data [...]

Paypal Back in Action

Paypal Back in Action

Paypal, which had mysteriously stopped all transactions to and fro from India is back up and running. This is a huge relief for thousands of freelancers from India and also the minute section of exporters from this country.
Paypal had stopped all transactions based on a direction from the Reserve Bank of India, which holds the [...]

New Features in Gmail

New Features in Gmail

The most popular webmail currently, Gmail is offering loads of new features. It seems like the web giant is beginning to unleash plenty of free options along with some paid ones too.
Here are some of the new features on Gmail:
1. Secure Gmail – Gmail is now enabled with HTTPS protocol and users can now choose [...]

List of Banned Passwords on Twitter

List of Banned Passwords on Twitter

Twitter has banned approximately around 370 passwords from being used during sign-up, and also at any point later in time. This is to ensure that the most common passwords don’t make Twitter look weak in security.
The ban is not new. Do a google search for ‘twttr.BANNED_PASSWORDS’ and you will get the same list that [...]

Google Wave Invites Giveaway

Hiya! I have around 25 invites left for Google Wave. Comment here if you want me to invite you to it. First come first serve basis.

Handy Web Directory List for Improving SEO with Directory Submissions

If you’re looking for some good web directories to obtain some back-links and boost up the Page Rank of your website/blog, here’s a handy list of some useful directories, listed in the order of Google PR from 6 to PR2.

Note: This list doesn’t cover the PR7, 8, 9 directories like Digg, Delicious, Reddit and the [...]

TrashMail for Temporary Email Addresses

Many forums in particular ask us to register if we want to access any data imbibed in them. The whole process of registering is one part of the headache while dealing with mails sent from these forums is another. To counter these dirty forums, introducing to you, a free service – TrashMail.
The concept is simple [...]

HP Snapfish and Yahoo Flickr are Partners Now!

HP’s Snapfish and Yahoo’s Flickr have entered into a partnership which will enable Flickr users to order prints directly from the website, through Snapfish. Users don’t have to leave the Flickr website to order prints by the way.
There are some partnerships that makes us scratch our heads in disbelief, trying to understand the motive behind [...]

The Google Snake Game

The Google Snake Game

Here’s a party game which needs nothing but a working internet connection (say, a notebook or cell phone), and Google.com’s web search. The goal is to create the longest phrase that Google can find by alternately adding one word to the end of the other player’s search phrase. Say, the first person [...]

“Ads by Google” Label to Undergo a Dynamic Change

Google has announced that certain multi-media rich ads will not be accompanied with their label on the bottom right corner. Instead, it will carry an ‘i’ label and hovering over it will display the standard label.
As more and more advertisers use rich media ad formats, such as Flash and interactive ads, we want to provide [...]