Archive for the ‘The internet’ Category

Ways to check BSNL Broadband (Dataone) internet usage

Posted by Ashish On 19 April 2011 No Commented

BSNL broadband is still the most popular and widely used broadband service in India. BSNL brought the low cost and high speed broadband service in India (Though we are still far slower than other developed countries). Many people use BSNL‘s fixed traffic plans, we need to keep eyes on our usages in these plans. (Though [...]

How to Share Your Own Files Using BitTorrent

Posted by Ashish On 18 April 2011 No Commented

Most of us are comfortable using BitTorrent to download files, but the popular file-sharing protocol is also a great tool for sharing your own stuff with family, friends, or the world at large. Here’s the basics of creating your own torrent. Proven by the popularity of BitTorrent sites, torrents offer a well-known method of peer-to-peer [...]

How to Create Custom QR Codes

Posted by Ashish On 19 March 2011 No Commented

QR codes have been all the rage this year for big brands, and now ordinary consumers and small businesses can get in on the fun, too. JumpScan lets users create customized QR codes that combine all your contact information, including social media profiles, for on-the-go sharing. Think of it as a QR-powered iteration of Flavors.me [...]

Top 10 Gmail Labs You Should Enable

Posted by Ashish On 17 March 2011 No Commented

As if Gmail wasn’t powerful enough, you can find all sorts of goodies and extra features in Gmail Labs. The list is pretty massive, so we’ve narrowed down our 10 favorite labs to help increase your email productivity. Now, many features are part of Gmail itself, so we’ve decided to revisit the labs and see [...]

Google Launches Site for Teaching Tech to Your Parents

Posted by Ashish On 16 December 2010 No Commented

Ever go home for the holidays and find your parents asking you to help them with “techie tasks” like uploading photos to the Internet? You’re not alone. A bunch of folks over at Google find themselves in this situation nearly every time they visit their families around this time of year. That’s why they’ve launched TeachParentsTech.org, a “tech support [...]

How to Share Your Own Files Using BitTorrent

Posted by Ashish On 8 December 2010 No Commented

Most of us are comfortable using BitTorrent to download files, but the popular file-sharing protocol is also a great tool for sharing your own stuff with family, friends, or the world at large. Here’s the basics of creating your own torrent. Proven by the popularity of BitTorrent sites, torrents offer a well-known method of peer-to-peer [...]

It’s Gonna Be an Android World and We’ll Just Live in It

Posted by Ashish On 22 November 2010 No Commented

While it’s been dawning on us for some time that Android is a beast, each day seems to bring new confirmation that the monster shows no signs of letting up. Android mobile ad impressions drew even with iOS for the first time, according to Millennial Media (PDF). The largest independent ad network said Android OS [...]

Twitter “Screwed Up” With Developers, Founder Says

Posted by Ashish On 21 November 2010 No Commented

Like a teenager apologizing to his parents for having a party and breaking the furniture, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams admitted today that the company “screwed up” its relationship with third-party developers, and says that happened mostly because the startup didn’t originally plan to become a platform company. Now that it’s actually trying [...]

The Year of Facebook: U.S. Traffic Has Grown by 55% in the Last Year [STATS]

Posted by Ashish On 21 November 2010 No Commented

Watch out, Google: U.S. traffic to Facebook has risen by a whopping 55% in the last year, according to data sent to us by comScore. In October 2009, Facebook () had 97.37 million unique U.S. visitors. In October 2010 though, the world’s largest network garnered a whopping 151.13 million U.S. uniques. That’s a growth rate [...]

StumbleUpon launches App Discovery on Android, trips over clumsy interface

Posted by Ashish On 15 November 2010 No Commented

StumbleUpon’s been serving up crowdsourced, personalized website recommendations since the turn of the century with the simple idea that like-minded surfers will enjoy the same stuff, and if that sounds like a fantastic formula for recommending apps, then you’re in a spot of luck. StumbleUpon’s bringing App recommendations to Android today as part of an [...]

The Complete Guide to Google Wave

Posted by Ashish On 13 August 2010 No Commented

Google Wave now gives bloggers, corporate intranets, and other potential Wave users a way to let the public watch what’s going on in a Wave and, for the truly daring, invite any Wave user to edit. Tweet

DocTranslator Translates Office Documents with Google and Keeps Formatting

Posted by Ashish On 11 August 2010 No Commented

Google’s webapps can translate uploaded Microsoft Office documents, but with many caveats involving file sizes and HTML formatting. DocTranslator, a Java-powered webapp, runs your Office and text documents through Google Translate and sends them back with the same formatting. Tweet

Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know Google Maps Could Do

Posted by Ashish On 17 May 2010 one Commented

There’s more to Google Maps than a place you double-check your directions. Google’s data-stuffed site offers a lot of helpful tools for vacationers, spreadsheet nerds, bikers, and others. Today we’re digging into Google’s data-rich geo-tool and pulling out some helpful lesser-known features. Tweet

Windows Media Player 12 is here!

Posted by Ashish On 26 March 2010 No Commented

With the new modified version of Window Media Player (WMP) 12, the definition of viewing video and listening audio has changed dramatically. Through this new version not released and available officially, you can have ample opportunity to freely down load this attractive and impressive medium to enjoy your world of music and video.

Google searches 3G prospects in India

Posted by Ashish On 6 February 2010 No Commented

Google, the world’s largest search engine, and one of the biggest internet brands,is understood to be eyeing opportunities in the third generation of mobile telephony, or 3G, in India. Sources in the industry say Google is looking at broadband wireless access(BWA) in the country and may participate in the auction with an Indian partner. BWA [...]

Next Firefox can detect computer orientation

Posted by Ashish On 26 December 2009 No Commented

The upcoming version 3.6 of Firefox will be able to tell if you’re listing to starboard–and pass that information along to applications running in the browser. That’s because the browser will be able to detect the orientation of laptops and mobile devices equipped with accelerometers that can tell which way is down. The reason for [...]

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