Bug in Google Talk’s Invisible Status Feature

Our reader, Anirudh Mehta, discovered a bug in Google Talk’s invisible status feature available in its Gmail Chat version. If use smartly, you can figure out if the girl next door is really invisible or avoiding you. Here are steps: Set the chat as off the record with target user (how?). Continue reading

Orkut Apps Now Available For All Users

Rolling out first in Estonia, then in India, Orkut Apps finally became available worldwide. Orkut Developer Blog announced yesterday that they have finished rollout of OpenSocial apps to all orkut users. This means you no longer need to change your country to enjoy Orkut apps. I have noticed Continue reading

HtmlOrkut.com – Treat for Orkut Users!

HtmlOrkut is a new portal from Gaurav Dua, who runs OrkutPlus, one of the most famous blog on Orkut. HtmlOrkut has around 2000 graphics and glitters, over 625 High quality games, over 1000 orkut themes. Many fascinating and amazing generators, exclusive widgets, ASCII arts, musical scraps and Continue reading

Google Talk tricks and keyboard shortcuts

Google Talk Tricks: Change the font size - While holding the control key, move the scroll wheel on your mouse either up or down. This trick works while being focused in either the read or write area. Insert line breaks - If you Continue reading

Speed Up Wordpress 2.6 with Google Gears

Yesterday I spend lots of time playing with new Wordpress 2.6 and one feature I liked most is support for Google Gears which really speeds up admin panel tasks. I feel everyone must use this feature which once enabled transparently speed up your wordpress dashboard, so here are step-by-step Continue reading

Orkut search filters are back but…

Orkut restored search filters with new interface which is much cleaner and easier to use. Search filters gone missing few days back breaking one of my best trick to find a date in your city. Unfortunately new search filters which appear good in terms of visual appearance lacks advance control Continue reading

Wordpress 2.6 final is released

A month ahead of its schedule, Wordpress 2.6 is released now. You can download it from wordpress.org. Below are key-features which I will be exploring today… Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits. Good for multi-author blogs. Press This bookmarklet for quick posting from anywhere on the Continue reading

Lifestream.fm - Stream Your Life on One Page!

Lifestream is a new aggregator service from social bookmarking service mister-wong. As of now there are 57 services are available to add into your account which includes famous services like Facebook, Digg, del.icio.us, Flickr, Google Reader, Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, LastFM. When you start Continue reading

Force Firefox To Display Your Full Feeds [Wordpress Hack]

There is a problem (or feature) in Firefox. For wordpress blogs and few other feeds it always show partial content making it hard to judge for a wannabe subscriber whether your are displaying full feed or partial feed. Many subscribers just hate partial feeds and most of them are unaware of this Continue reading

mChek on Airtel – Mobile Based Payment System in India [m-commerce]

mChek is a new payment system that link your debit/credit card or SBI bank account to your mobile phone, allowing you to make payments from your mobile phone. Once registered you can pay your phone bills, transfer talktime to your friends accounts, book tickets for flights, movies etc from Continue reading