Archive for January, 2008
Ian Hickson, the Google Employee was assigned the job of working on the next generation Acid test has completed his work and the Acid3 test is live at its new home http://acid3.acidtests.org/. The Acid test is a test which we all use to measure a Web Browser’s adherence to standards. Read more about Acid [...]
January 31st, 2008 | Posted in internet | Comments Off
Windows Vista, the latest new kid on the block, turns One today, making over a 100 million friends in just a year of its growth that has continuously come under fire from Blogs and Tech Journalists like me and everyone seemed to favor its big brother, but things seem to smoothening now for the [...]
January 31st, 2008 | Posted in microsoft, windows | Comments Off
When Google first unveiled Android, the mobile OS way back in November, something inside me told, “Hey, Wait this is not what Google would want, they will want to have a complete phone”. Interestingly the rumor mills are abuzz saying that Google might partner with Dell to launch a new handset that would come [...]
January 31st, 2008 | Posted in Apple, Google, Mobile, dell, internet, iphone | Comments Off
Every other day we see an app being built that takes advantage of the versatile Flickr API. An App that caught my eye today was 1001 that bills itself as the desktop version of Flickr. Though 1001 carries a weird name, it performs just about everything the online version of Flickr does, be it [...]
January 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Download the full-quality, 480 x 320 .m4v file here. 49.7 MB. Kevin and James are each jonesing for new geek stuff, and not the same thing. What we would like may surprise you and you’ll have to watch the chat…
January 29th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
The much hyped Qtrax (read as disgusting) that released yesterday to much fanfare, had one of the most disastrous launches a product or a service could have probably asked for. The people behind Qtrax thought that it was Ok for a web company to lie to its user base. When I first read about [...]
January 29th, 2008 | Posted in Software, internet, windows | Comments Off
Ever thought of using your finger as a mouse for your PC? We are not talking about any touch enabled functions, but a 3D optical tool. This gadget, which can we worn around your index finger, enables your finger to be used as a mouse. Just put this on and align your fingertip and the [...]
January 29th, 2008 | Posted in Hardware | Comments Off
Stand in the middle of the road, Hijack a car, run down pedestrians or do whatever you like! But remember this time it will be more realistic. Well, I am talking about the next installment in the GTA series which is slated to release on April 29. The game will be initially available for Xbox [...]
January 28th, 2008 | Posted in Gaming | Comments Off
HP has outed a new PDA phone in the Japanese market known as iPaq 112 Classic handlheld. The 32500 Yen ($305) phone is just like any other Windows touchscreen phone and offers a 3.5â screen at a resolution of 240X320 pixels, Windows Mobile 6.0 Classic, Wi-Fi (b/g), Bluetooth 2.0 and host of other media [...]
January 28th, 2008 | Posted in Mobile Phones | Comments Off
Apparently the popular photo sharing site Smugmug has a huge security hole that could allow anyone with a bit of common sense to access private photos on Smugmug. The basic problem here is that Smugmug uses URL’s for public and private galleries in a way that can be easily guessed. And whats even more [...]
January 28th, 2008 | Posted in internet | Comments Off