Category: You and the Internet
For free users, the fun of enjoying videos in Flickr was not possible. But now Flickr has added a feature letting the free members to upload videos as well. The HD videos uploaded by the pro users on Flickr can now be viewed by everyone.
With the standard version of Gmail, you can choose from, a lot of beautiful themes for your Gmail interface. From the stylish to the funny ones, the themes are surely gonna lure you. But...
You can now easily manage the groups on twitter. You can now manage the ones you follow in groups and receive their updates easily.
After being on my old domain http://www.bishaladhikary.com.np for a couple of months, I finally decided to move to this one. Actually my friend Ghtozkat suggested me that as the domain was a country domain of Nepal, the traffic would be targeted to Nepal by default. So, he suggested me to move to a new domain .com, .net or .org and so I moved my Wordpres blog to this domain. Well I had to go through a lot of processes to get all my previous posts on this domain and then finally redirect my old domain to this.
You receive documents and letters from companies, banks, government etc. off and on that are delivered in your mailbox. But as you have been addicted to internet and are used to checking mails over the internet, you sometimes wish that such physical documents also be delivered directly to your email inbox. If you are a resident of US, then Zumbox get your documents delivered to your inbox.
On 31st January 2009, Google Search had shown a serious error where it added “This site may harm your computer” to every search result. This Google Malware lasted for about 15 minutes. Google has given a clarification for that.
Youtube’s annotations feature lets you add interactive text balloons and do much more with your video. The annotations feature in Youtube has been improved now.
I came across this video on the history of internet on Youtube. Take a look.
If a video gets fairly popular in Youtube, it is sure to receive a number of comments from the viewers. But while reading comments, you might have noticed some really silly comments. Sometimes you may regret after making a comment which you later think you shouldn’t have made and wish to delete it. Youtube now lets you delete the comments you make in just a snap.
While you chat with your friends on Gmail, you sometimes share links with them if you discover anything interesting on the web. Or maybe you’d like to share a newly released music video of your favorite artist on Youtube. Your friend will have to open the link, wait for the video to buffer and continuously switch between the video and the chat window. So, you tend to get annoyed at your friend’s delay in sending the message who would be busy watching the video.
Do you find problems keeping track of people who follow you on Twitter? Or you are confused about following back people who are following you? A recently launched Twitter application Tweepler helps you decide whether to follow a person or not.
Google Profiles has added a new feature called contact info where you can add details for your friends to see it. Actually the information that you add is not totally public and you can control the people who see it.
If you belong English speaking community and you aren’t familiar with other languages, you’d probably post your tweets in English . But if you want to post them in other languages that you don’t understand, use Twitrans for translating your tweets.
Viewing a site normally doesn’t provide you the information on its hosting provider. But if you really need to know the Host of a certain website, whoishostingthis will be of a help.
Microsoft’s Surface Computing Technology might have blow your heads off. Well PQLabs has come up with its surface computing device which it calls it the iTable. And it is just as smart and stunning as Microsoft’s surface.
Google has come up with new logo, precisely the favicon. Many of you must have noticed that the blue “g” sign that used to appear on your address bar (which is the Google’s favicon) just before the URL of Google, has been replaced by a motley favicon with a white “g” in the foreground and the colors blue green yellow and red as the background. Most of the Google services now have the same favicon.
Now you can remove search results in SearchWiki with a sound effect playing along. The sound is recorded by no-one but Google’s cofounder Sergy Brin.
Google Docs has made life easier for many people by helping them edit and share their documents online. But can you imagine using Google docs for drawing? I found a video on Youtube that interested me a lot. Hope you’ll also be amazed.
Recently Youtube has added a new feature that allows the video owners to to see the number of unique visitors watching their video.
Well just besides tweeting about your daily chores, updates and learning about what the people in your network are doing, you can use Twitter to do a lot of useful things. Besides just gossiping, see how people are using Twitter for good reasons.