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  • Gmail for your Domain
    By vinu on February 20th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    I just came across this new “beta” service from Google which allows you host emails for your entire domain with Google. Each user gets a 2GB mailbox and you get a control panel to manage user accounts, mailin...
  • Get PHP to “Talk” to you
    By vinu on February 2nd, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Would you like your PHP installation to “Talk” to you? Here’s a PECL package called FliteTTS which allows you to do just that. All you need to do is to send a text string and this extension converts th...
  • Apple’s new patent on a unique gaming tablet ap...
    By vinu on January 28th, 2006 | 2 Comments2 Comments Comments
    Abhishek pointed out this cool link today. Here’s a patent from Apple which shows a cool gaming application on a tablet PC. Based on how you move and tilt the tablet, the game would provide visual feedback on the m...
  • Adding Zoho Writer to Google Personalized Page
    By vinu on January 21st, 2006 | 2 Comments2 Comments Comments
    Here’s a great way to add your Zoho Writer Document list over at your Google Personalized Page. Since I’m a heavy google user and have some of my frequently edited documents over at Zoho, this is a great ...
  • ReactOS
    By vinu on January 20th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Came across this interesting project while surfing today - ReactOS I wonder why a lot of OSS projects are still blindly copying Microsoft Windows GUI, when they can come up with much better GUI and features than what Wi...
  • Microsoft working with OSS??
    By vinu on January 18th, 2006 | 1 Comment1 Comment Comments
    Here’s an interesting read. Looks like Microsoft’s Sleeping with the Enemy ! “An investigative report into the Linux lab at Microsoft has revealed some interesting twists to Microsoft’s often stor...
  • Images smaller than JPEG
    By vinu on January 12th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Here’s an interesting piece of news. Someone’s come up with a loseless image compression algorithm which compresses images up to 300% smaller than JPEG images ! Ernst and Young have also verfied that the imag...
  • DRM to unbelievable heights !
    By vinu on January 9th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    A Massive list of Players on which Coldplay’s new album won’t play on! Some CD players that have the capability of burning into an MP3 (such as portable players or car stereos). Some CD players that possess...
  • Tiny 500GB Disk
    By vinu on January 7th, 2006 | No Comments Comments
    Here’s something amazing…. a 500GB drive which transfers data at speeds up to 4GB/sec, works on windows and MAC, can come in sizes up to 4TB !! Link: Live From CES: Quantum Disk From Atom Chip Corp. - Gizmodo...
  • Online Office Suites
    By vinu on December 27th, 2005 | 2 Comments2 Comments Comments
    Here’s some of the latest web-based Office Suites based off Ajax. Some of these do eliminate the requirement of having a bulky office suite installed on your PC. Think Free Online: http://online.thinkfree.com/ ...

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