Entries Tagged as 'Cool Stuff'

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 [...]

17 Online Tools and Desktop Applications that Lets You Download YouTube Videos

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 [...]

RotorBlog Weekly Highlights

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 [...]

MySpace Music Previews U2’s Latest Album

If you got excited when Sydney Morning Herald reported that the full copies of U2’s latest album No Line in the Horizon have found their way to the web, you might want to stop scouring the web to find ways of obtaining it the not so legal way. MySpace  is offering an alternative, by way [...]

Family Tree 2.0: Dynastree

Have trouble keeping track of your family? Dynastree allows you to create a family tree and connect with family members for free. You can set up a profile (to allow other family to search for you on the site), add photos of you and your family, and research your genealogy.

Top 15 Free Online File Storage Sites

Following our coverage of online file storage Box.net which just became a little more social, here are 15 more free online storage sites which you can use for storing, sharing  and backing up your important files.

Google Book Search Goes Mobile

I knew this was bound to happen.  With Google slowly making its web content and services on the mobile phone, it was just a matter of time before it makes Google Book Search available as well. Although it would have been a cooler idea if Google created a native iPhone or Android application,  the mobile [...]

Skype 4.0 Launched

Skype fans, rejoice.  As your favorite VOIP calling/chatting service has just announced version 4.0, which according to the Skype blog, is the most distinctive release of Skype to date.  Key features of Skype 4.0 include full-screen video calling, crystal clear quality and easier interface more than it was before. Of course, you’d still get the [...]

Five Q&A Sites That Answer your Burning Questions

Question and Answer sites have been around for quite some time now. But despite the its being useful, it is one online niche that has never really received too much attention. So, we can count only a handful of Q&A sites which have managed to live on. Here are five top Q&A [...]

Hotbooks Will Bring Your Facebook Photo Collection to Life

For the fast couple of weeks, I must admit that I was getting pretty annoyed by the sudden influx of my Friendster college friends to Facebook.  And of course, I can’t turned down their invitation to connect to them via Facebook. But what bothers me is the rate that they are posting photos on their [...]

Techmeme Uses Twitter to Get News Tips

For tech bloggers and writers, a good way of getting publicity for their articles is to have them indexed/featured by tech news aggregator Techmeme. However, compared to other news aggregator, Techmeme is very hard to infiltrate. If your blog doesn’t have that much traffic yet, you won’t get into the Techmeme cloud that easily even [...]

Top 5 Best Free Photo Sharing Sites

Here you go, your definitive lists of the best photo sharing sites available today. You don’t need to have a lists with 40 or 50 of these sites. Ten is enough to help you decide which photo sharing site to use if you haven’t done so in the past. Or if your current photosharing site [...]