Archive for September, 2010

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Surprise! Surprise! Microsoft has released the final version of Windows Live Essentials 2011 just after 3 months since they released the beta version of the same. You can go ahead and download Windows Live Essentials 2011 right away. We have the offline installer (direct download) links at the end of the article. The Windows Live Essentials suite of applications includes the popular programs -
  • Windows Messenger
  • Photo Gallery
  • Windows Movie Maker
  • Mail
  • Windows Live Writer
  • Family Safety
  • Windows Live Mesh
  • Messenger Companion
  • Bing Bar
  • Outlook Connector Pack
  • Microsoft Silverlight

Download Windows Live Essentials 2011

We will review the Windows Live Essentials 2011 soon, but you can go ahead and download the stable version right now from their website. Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 (web setup) The Offline installer is around 155 MB in size and includes all the programs, you can chose which needs to be installed while running the installer. Download Windows Live Essentials 2011 (Offline installer) [via]
There is no dearth of smartphones coming out with Android operating systems. Every week we see a couple or more Android phones entering the market and that makes the life of someone looking to buy an android phone really tough. google-phone-gallery-android Well, Google has taken the onus on them to help you choose the best Android phone for your need. Check out Google Phone Gallery. The Google Phone Gallery is a showcase of Android-powered devices that deliver the best Google experience today. It hosts a selection of many Android Phones from multiple phone manufacturers. The site has phone images, detailed phone features, specifications, carrier information and more. You can sort phones by hardware manufacturer, by phone service provider and even by country. The best part of it all is that it allows users to compare up to 3 Android phones side by side, thereby allowing you to compare devices from different manufacturers and carrier operators. For US visitors, Google Phone Gallery lists more than 20 Android phones from popular ones like Motorola's Droid X and HTC's EVO 4G to the lesser-known Motorola Charm and LG Ally. Discontinued phones, like the Nexus One and HTC Droid Eris,...
Instant is the flavor of the season! Ever since Google Instant was launched, we have seen a splurge of services getting the instant treatment like Google Maps & YouTube. The latest to get added in the growing list is Facebook Instant.

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Facebook Instant is a personal project by Noor SyRoN, a 20 year old Computer Engineering student and a freelance web-developer from Dubai. Noor says that he was inspired by Feross Aboukhadijeh, who created YouTube Instant, and was eventually landed a job at YouTube!

Facebook Instant - Facebook Search on Steroids

Facebook Instant makes use of the JavaScript and Ajax calls to contact the Facebook servers and bring information and display it in a nice and organized way, where you can click on it and go directly to that page on the original website. Facebook Instant is aimed to be Facebook Search on steroids, though it isn't as instant as one likes it to be. Noor attributes the slight lag to the Facebook API request time which takes an approximate 426ms. Considering that, there is a minimum of 3 requests being sent to Facebook servers, each...
If you’re an YouTube addict, then it gets annoying to assemble the playlists on YouTube to string together several videos of the same theme. ListAndPlay is an useful tool which helps you to play and create playlists from instant search and allows you to share it on social networking sites with a single click.
ListAndPlay gives users the opportunity not only to search for YouTube videos instantly, but to create playlists as they search and share the playlists with their friends on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and a huge number of other social sites.

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As you can see in the above screenshot, when I type Wordpress it started playing the related video. Each video has a small green icon on its top right corner that’s shows up only when you hover the mouse pointer over it. You could click on this button to add video to playlist that shows up on the right sidebar of the page.

When you click on green button it allows you option to move a video up...
Until some time back, there wasn't anyone who could challenge the domination of Google on the internet, not even theoretically. Enter Facebook and it has turned the tide on Google so much so that the search giant is looking at ways to curb the rapid progress strides of the social networking giant. Facebook, on its part, believes that everything, including the mobile phones need a social layer on top of it (remember Facebook phone?), while Google maintains that Bing (and Microsoft) is their primary competitor and not Facebook (or Apple). Still, they are working at a service which can actually take on Facebook's social media dominance (Google Me?) Check out the infographic below, courtesy AllFacebook, which might look biased, but is not. 6 Comments Read More
Misplaced your phone? No idea where you lost misplaced it? Why don't you simply call the phone? That should be the easiest way to track your phone, isn't it? Oh! you don't have access to another phone to call your lost cell phone? Ouch! Don't fret. FoneFindr is there to your rescue! find-phone-fonefindr True to its name, FoneFindr helps you to find your misplaced phone, by letting you enter your cellphone number, right from the website's homepage and wait for the service to call and make your phone ring. You can then follow the sound and find your phone! What more? You can even decide how soon you want FoneFindr to call your phone. You can make the call immediately, or choose to wait 30 seconds or 1 minute. It might so happen that the phone is buried under a heap of clothes or books, so the service lets you make several calls till you actually find the phone.

phone-finder

Once you find the phone, make sure you answer their call and record your message as to where you found your phone! You can manually type the message on the homepage....

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With privacy becoming more of an issue these days, in addition to geo-location restrictions on certain websites, we are seeing a huge surge in the VPN services market in recent times. We have had several posts discussing the use of VPN, different types of VPN protocols, top free vpn services and reviews of several paid vpn services as well. Today, we have a look at FBVPN, which is tipped as Faster and Better VPN (by the developer of-course). FBVPN is a California based VPN provider and supports a wide variety of devices like iPhone, iPad and Android in addition to PC, Linux and Mac systems. FBVPN has a single plan which costs $5 per month which is nothing really especially if you want to catch up on your favorite TV show and don’t want to wait for it to air in your country. I am not sure about any bandwidth restrictions, but they don't seem to have any. The developer claims that the service works in China too, which is great if true! Some of our Chinese friends can confirm this. I have been using FBVPN for...
The importance of social media, specially of Facebook is getting more by the day. More and more software companies are luring users fans on Facebook and Twitter off-late. The new one on the block is F-Secure. f-secure-antivirus-free F-Secure is providing a 12 month valid activation code for their most popular product, F-Secure Antivirus 2011 to everyone who joins their Facebook page. The caveat is that you need to be a German user in order to avail this offer, which we can't understand exactly why. But then, as Webtrickz explains, one can easily change their primary language to Deutsch, by going to the language settings page and then clicking the promotion link. I am not sure if anyone want's to do all those to get the 1 year free activation code, but our German friends at-least can make use of this promotion. As expected, you are required to Like their page and enter the basic details like name and email and you would receive the free activation code in your email inbox. F-Secure has been a key player in the security space, so I would definitely recommend trying out their software, specially when they are providing...
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