I’m a big fan of the Gmail Labs and have been religiously monitoring cool features that the Gmail Labs Team put out every now and then. I’ve tried activating some of those features including offline email viewing, task manager and more.  And now, Gmail has just announced another cool feature – previewing YouTube videos, Flickr [...]

Are you tired of seeing your Twitter profile sporting the same old default Twitter background? And changing the background pic is not enough to please your taste? How about getting a fully customized Twitter background or something that is different from the default one? Here are ten useful sites that offer both free and paid [...]

Yahoo, through its location-aware developer program Fire Eagle has created a new Facebook application called Friends on Fire.  Friends on Fire is a social location application that collocates your present location and allows you to share it with your trusted friends. The application utilizes Yahoo maps to pinpoint your exact location, or your Facebook friends’ [...]

Tastemaker, now that’s a job! Imagine if you were paid for figuring out the next big thing?
While I have no clue what’s next in fashion (the return of baggy, pleated pants?) and no idea what popular culture will embrace next (could a Bachelorette reject be president?), I do have a pretty good [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

There’s no doubt that YouTube is the ultimate resource for cool videos on the web. And sometimes when we find cool videos, we wanted to download it to our PC to watch it offline or to transfer it to our portable media player. Here are 17 online tools and desktop software which can help you [...]

There are two big items that made waves this week – the great Gmail outage of 2009 and the continuing discussion about the Facebook TOS issue. All these news items generate too much buzz around the tech blogging community, so much so that their Techmeme contextual entries stayed on the front page of the tech [...]