A few weeks ago, Google Plus started showing the verified sign, to show that a particular Google+ account of a famous person is the real deal. But it has no way at of looking up interesting users with Google Plus. …
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In this age of information, there are literally a million things happening around us. RSS readers and search engines usually do a good job of keeping people informed. Sometimes you just want to catch up some real-time buzz. For example …
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I have a lot of friends who travel a lot. One complaint I often hear from them is about how there is very little information about cities they are visiting. Information like travel routes, some basic interesting places in the …
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Webmasters and bloggers all over want to know more about their competition. This usually means looking up other websites. Getting too obsessed with the competition can actually be harmful, but a little bit of analysis and understanding is a good …
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If you closely observe the trend prevalent online these days, its definitely all about minimalism. Minimalistic design, minimal work and all this the minimum amount of time. If one online activity stood out like a sore thumb with this trend, it would have to be file sharing. We all have been victims of those moments when the file takes a century to upload. Ge.tt. Its a website which allows you to share files to others easily.
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Recently I wrote about Min.us, a minimalistic photo gallery application, which allows you to upload and share your photographs easily. Its been making the rounds these days that Min.us is hugely ‘inspired’ by Google’s Dropmocks.
Min.us is designed by John Xie and Carl Hu, while DropMocks comes from Glen Murphy of Chrome team. If you visit the two sites, one is easily fooled to believe they are the same site with probably two different URLs! Keeping that in mind, it would be incorrect to discredit Min.us entirely.
Twitter’s 140 character limit has made life so difficult for us, chatterboxes! It gets worse if you want to share a link, and almost like a ‘tweeting’ time bomb you can see the character limit reducing – 3, 2, 1, 0! Short URLs are obviously the lifeline of Twitter and websites like Bit.ly sure makes life easy. What if you want to share say 10 links with your friends? Bit.ly Bundles a new service can be quite useful.
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Remember those days when your Grandmother read out those stories of how ‘HTML 5′ won over the heart of ‘Browsers’, how ‘Privacy Issues’ were the treasure chest which ‘Applications’ stole away – As bizarre as this may sound, that day has come. Google’s most recent development is 20 Things I Learned About The Browsers and the Web which is styled much like an children’s e-book.
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I seem to be enjoying this music syndrome I am going through these past few days. Keeping up with theme of few of my past posts, here is what I’ve managed to lay my hands on this time. If you feel the need to try composing music but lack the time to learn the art, here is a simpler way out. These free online applications will soothe those itchy nerves down and make your club popping with your own tracks.
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Most times when we use our browser we use tabs. Even if the pages are well known to use we need to use part of one page like Google search along with keeping an eye on the news. I found a nice way to visually bookmark parts of a page rather than the full page. This gives us a mosaic like webpage which has parts of other webpages to quickly and instantly use different features from different sources all in one place.
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