Archive for March, 2009

Fizy is a simple no frills search engine for finding songs and music videos. It does not let you download the music, nor does it offer a way to queue songs and form a playlist. All it does it find the music that you’re looking for and let you play it, one song at a time. What is great about Fizy...

Twitter can either be an amazing tool or an absolute waste of time, depending on the people that you follow. Follow the right ones and you will have the right information at the right time and follow the wrong ones and you will lag behind your peers by a mile ! When a new user joins, Twitter gives a...

The Amazon Kindle is an extremely capable and versatile e-book reader. It has been a runaway success from the time it was released about an year back. Last month Amazon released version 2.0 of the Kindle and that has also been recieved very well. The only problem with the Kindle is that it doesn’t...

Ellisa is an open source media center that can play DVDs, VCDs, video files and even display your photos. The support for video files is extensive and the player can handle almost any video that you might throw at it. Elisa is extensible and is based on a very neat plugin architecture, which means that...

Who said open source developers were a boring bunch of people. I’m quite sure that person hasn’t met the developers of Calc. For those of you who’ve been living under a rock until now, Calc is the Spreadsheet part of the OpenOffice.org suite and today we are going to unearth a very...

Most websites these days use rounded corners for almost all website elements. Creating rounded corners isn’t easy since it requires creating perfectly aligned images and well, you need to be a photoshop or a GIMP ninja, which I’m definitely not. So, I went looking for a better solution and...

If you’re looking for a simple way to start a countdown to remind you of something, it can’t get simpler than E.gg Timer. To set a timer, all you need to do is append the time that you want the countdown to last, to the URL of the website. For example, to set a 2 minute countdown, try this...

February went by quickly, don’t you think ? The Mobile World Congress at Barcelona kept most of us busy. Not that we were there, but well, the blogosphere has been pretty active :-) The Palm Pre is still hot and the Mojo SDK video gives us all some hope, if it ever comes out that is ! Oh, and it...