living in the information age

living in the information age

Flagfox - Display country where the website is hosted at

Flagfox is a nice little utility for firefox that instantly displays the country where the website you are viewing is located. Flagfox sits in the browser’s address bar or status bar and silently queries its GeoIP database and displays a small flag of the country where host is located. On clicking the icon it performs [...]

Google India launches SMS Channels - Free SMS for your group

Google India launched a new service from its labs - named Google SMS Channels, it allows people to create SMS based channels for following up with updates. A Google SMS Channel can be hooked on to a blog, a regular RSS feed or to Google groups mailing list. Its also possible to manually send SMS [...]

Yahoo! Glue search - visual, appealing search results

Need to know about a topic quickly without sifting through pages and pages of results a search engine throws? Try out Yahoo’s Glue search. Glue search is a beta project from Yahoo! India search division and attempts to combine several related search results into a single compact page, in a visually clear format.

Google Chrome’s About pages and Easter eggs

Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox have carried a few easter eggs hidden in their about: pages for long. Like Mozilla’s about:config, The Mozilla Book and Robots pages, Google Chrome too comes with a dozen about: pages covering everything from plugins, stats and cache to histograms and dns.

Google Gears for Safari on Mac OS X released

Google announced the release of its OpenSource Gears browser platform for Safari on the Mac platform. Gears for Safari will now allow more powerful web applications by enabling web apps to store data in searchable database locally and run javascript more efficiently.

Big Huge Labs - Doing fun stuff with your Flickr photos

I’m a big fan of Bug Huge Labs and the entire collection of flickr toys available at their website. From their awsomely true looking Flickr Badges to Jigsaw puzzle pictures, i love almost all the flickr/picture toys. Big Huge Labs was started by John Watson and the website engages people to create millions of interesting [...]

Wuala - Online storage goes social

With the popularity of social applications on the internet going up everyday, there’s a social web application available for everything that can be shared. Wuala is a new storage service which comes with the ease of use of web based applications and the goodness of social web services.

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