Entries from March 2009

Facebook Explains Photo Outage

If you are an avid user of Facebook photos,  you may have notice that some photos that you’ve uploaded before may not be displaying. Instead of properly displaying the photos, Facebook is displaying a question mark instead. That’s because Facebook photos have suffered from a minor outage the past few days.

Create Awesome Wallpaper With Myoats

I just wasted 30 minutes on Myoats. I have nothing to show for my efforts, but there’s something addictive about the Website.
On the surface, Myoats allows you to create images using a Web-based graphic design tool. Dig a little deeper and you might find a portal that reveals your deepest, darkest secrets.
Much like the [...]

Online invoicing apps – create your own invoice templates

Lately I faced a problem – I needed to create some invoices but didn’t know how to do it and started to search for some templates. Luckily for me I remembered those online invoicing services/apps and decided to try them out. It  worked out perfectly – I created my invoice templates for the clients within [...]

Top 25 Free e-books Sites, the Definitive List

Recently Amazon spiced up the e-books industry with the release of its second generation e-book reader the Kindle 2. Then last week, Amazon also announced the availability of its Kindle for iPhone application. With these two products Amazon hopes to beef up the sales of its e-book catalog. Although e-books are good source of portable [...]

Rotorblog Weekly Highlights: Facebook, Twitter and the Kindle 2

So what stirred up the tech world this week? Guess what, just like last week Facebook is on the rampage again. Good thing was, what could be its emerging rival also managed to get into the tech buzz.  But of course, the most talked about tech news was the release of the Kindle for iPhone [...]

Zoho Writer Gets an Upgrade

It takes a brave person to stand up and stare down Microsoft and Google. Sridhar Vembu, founder of online software suite destination Zoho, remains unafraid.
The latest enhancements out of Camp Zoho are some major upgrades to online word processing tool Writer.
Previous users will notice that the entire menu toolbar has been revamped.
The ‘MenuTab’ mirrors [...]

Twimailer Offers a Better Looking Twitter Follow Email Notification

If you’re tired of seeing the same old boring Twitter Follow notifications which states that so and so Twitter member has started following you and gives you the link to the Twitter members’ profile page – Twimailer is not going to help you with solve that problem. Instead, Twimailer is offering a better format for [...]

Facebook Improves Public Profile Pages, To Launch a New Home Page Soon

Facebook has announced two new drastic improvements – one has something to do with Public Profile pages and the other a fully revamped Facebook homepage. Let’s take a look at this two improvements separately.

Single Function Websites

I like simple things. I have no room in my life for clutter and chaos. That is why so many of today’s homepages make my stomach churn.
Then along came Google, the wunderkind search engine who helped bring us back to basics.
Saluting single-minded Web sites is SingleFunction.com, a great destination that focuses on sites [...]

Start With a Fresh Homepage

I’m quite accepting of vowel-phobic URLs. That is why I am willing to five stHrt (pronounced like START) a fair shake.
The Website is determined to become your Web browser’s start page. Similar to Google Chrome, the stHrt will allow you to organize sites you visit often. But what sets it apart is [...]

SpinVox Voice-to-Text Comes to Skype

First the hard facts. SpinVox is the leader in voice to content messaging, while Skype is a major player in the VoIP market.  Combining the two together gives you voicemail to text conversion delivered as SMS messages for all Skype voicemail users. Sounds fun, right? Additionally SpinVox also converts voice messages to whether in English, [...]

Flickr Video Rolls Out New Features

Yahoo’s answer to Google’s YouTube, Flickr Video has been around for quite some time now. Although it has managed to gather some membership base and loyal followers, Flickr Video still couldn’t quite take off primarily because it was available to premium members only. Now, hoping to spruce up its services, Flickr Video is opening its [...]