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1 Million calls made in just 24 hours using Gmail

August 27, 2010

US users of Gmail are now equipped with a super awesome feature that allows them to call any mobile phone within US and Canada for free (atleast till the end of the year) and at minimal rates in other countries. The service went live yesterday and within 24 hours, 1 million calls were made using [...]

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Firefox 4 Beta 4 out now: Features ‘Panorama’ and ‘Sync’ [VIDEO]

August 26, 2010

Firefox 4 is slowly making its presence more accountable with the latest beta release: Firefox 4 Beta 4. The new iteration has some performance boosts in addition to new features like ‘Panorama’ (formerly known as TabCandy) and native support to ‘Sync’. We have two videos showing each of the these main features. Firefox 4 Native [...]

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Somewhere in Russia: Internet Explorer 9 interface leaked

August 26, 2010

As of now, Microsoft has released 4 ‘platform previews’ of the upcoming browser Internet Explorer 9 that showcased some of the highly anticipated features backed up by super efficient Javascript engine named ‘Chakra’ and latest standards like HTML5 and CSS3. But, until now, major UI elements in those builds were mostly missing. We can suspect [...]

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Quick weather report in Opera Speed Dial

August 22, 2010

Opera was probably the first to embrace (and innovate) the ‘speed dial’ feature that we now see in Google Chrome and Safari, giving you 1-click access to your favorite/most-visited sites. Now there are plenty of ways in which your can spice up Opera ‘Speed Dial’. One such is to add a quick local weather report [...]

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[Solved] Cannot connect to Gmail in Thunderbird 3.1.2 [Troubleshooting]

August 7, 2010

I use Thunderbird as my offline email client and it’s been a really smooth ride since more than a year. But recently I ran an update [3.1.2] and restarted my PC only to find myself not able to connect to Gmail [using IMAP] on Thunderbird 3.1.2. Turns out the issue lies with Google’s servers. They [...]

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Google Alarm – A Firefox / Chrome add-on that notifies you when Google’s watching you

July 31, 2010

Google and privacy issues go hand in hand. Even Google admits it. And people like you and me are getting increasingly cautious about our privacies online. And we should be. Internet privacy tools have become the talk of the day and if you are using Firefox or Google Chrome, here’s something new to keep you [...]

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New Windows Live Hotmail Wave 4 is here – finally!

July 31, 2010

Not that I really care about this, but Microsoft did roll out the Live Hotmail Wave 4 afterall. It’s been a long wait for Hotmail fans but now they can ride the all new Hotmail. Here is a video showing the new features implemented in the new Hotmail. Currently I am checking out what’s in [...]

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App tabs in Firefox 4 Beta 2 [VIDEO]

July 29, 2010

Yesterday we put a status update on our Facebook Fanpage about the official availability of Firefox 4 Beta 2. [That’s why you should join us on Facebook, because we keep it updated with the latest of the trends]. Apart from lots of under-the-hood improvements over Beta 1, the Firefox 4 Beta 2 also features App [...]

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Introducing Firefox Tab Candy; manage large number of tabs easily

July 26, 2010

Developments related to tab management in Firefox was going on since several months and now Aza Raskin has finally unveiled Tab Candy, a much needed tab management solution in Firefox. Organising tabs can become a tedious task especially when you regularly deal with 10+ tabs. Owing to the large number of people facing the issue [...]

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