Archive for September, 2009

Like me, I’m sure many of you folks also use Google Reader for managing and reading RSS feeds. Here’s a little “surprise” in your Google reader, by typing the following combination of keys known as the Konami Code… Hint: The key combination that will invoke the secret Ninja mode in Google Reader is Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. You would see a Ninja [...]

Yahoo has a change to the logo of the online photo sharing service Flickr. The Flickr logo now has a new “from Yahoo!” in the home page and the search results page. It’s kinda weird why Yahoo suddenly sees the need to add its name to the Flickr logo.

How to protect yourself as Twitter scam rise alongside the popularity of microblogging site Twitter.. 2009 has turned out to be “The Year of the Twitter Scam.” The growing popularity of microblogging sites like Twitter has sparked the rise in social networking scams. I’m sure many of us know what twitter is all about, but for all newbies, simply put, Twitter is an Internet service [...]

Google, the name needs no introduction. It’s the world’s no one Search Engine Giant and of course a part of our daily life. Google today turns 11. Google home logo contains two L’s, Most of the people asking why is Google spelled wrong? and why does Google hit two l’s? This is the question asked by every Internet surfer who visit Google website on September 27, 2009. The Google [...]

People on Facebook can use their username rather than their email to log on to Facebook.com. If you don’t have a Facebook username yet, Go to http://facebook.com/username/. The new feature, announced by Facebook, allows you to skip typing the extra characters that comprise your email and instead utilize your shorter username to access your Facebook account. The move makes sense – usernames [...]

Now you would be able to sync your status from twitter to myspace easily. Members of both services can connect their accounts using OAuth. Status updates from MySpace are then identified as being “from MySpace” in your Twitter stream, as if though it were another Twitter client, with a link back to MySPace. Members can choose either one-way (read-only) or two-way syncing. It’s [...]

Twitter has four new themes added and the number of available themes now to 16. Twitter has also updated the default theme and avatar to match the twitter front page. Finally, you also get new default avatar when creating a new account . This is also updated and available in six colors. To change your Twitter page design, visit Settings > Design.

++ Did you know that you Blogger blog is an OpenID which can be used to sign into other websites? well now you know … Plaxo has always been friendly with Opensocial stuff like OpenID, Auth which provides more ways to sign in to your Plaxo online account in a secure way. Here’s how to use your Blogger URL as an OpenID to sign in to your Plaxo online account: 1. Click on Sign in using [...]

Not very long ago, I wrote about some new features the Snow leopard has and now its time for the ‘Must have applications’ for your new Snow leopard. Here are Five must have applications for the snow leopard which you could use to make life more easier. - Hardware Growler: nice visual notifications of HW events (e.g, connect/disconnet USB devices, insert a CD/DVD in the drive, when [...]

I’ve always been surprised by the Apple terminologies for their new operating systems. First the tiger, Leopard and now a Snow leopard. Lets keep the Apple innovation aside and look at some of the new improvements from MAC OS Leopard to the new Snow leopard which is making so much news. Here are nine advantages of the new Snow leopard: Its 64 baby – Fast, secure and lots of memory! Every [...]