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TweetEffect is a new web service which is designed to give you information on the number of followers that you have at any time. Not only that, it also tells you the number of followers that you added to your list and the number of followers that stopped following you on the basis of the last 200 updates...

Google has just released an iPhone optimised interface for their Book search portal. This brings almost 1.5 million public domain books within easy reach of iPhone/iPod touch owners. The only problem is that unlike other eBook readers available for the iPhone, the user has to be connected and online...

How many times have you had to reinstall the OS on your computer and then had to install all your favorite pieces of software by hand. I’m sure it’s quite painful. And even more so when you forget to install a couple of software and then have to install them in a crunch when you need them...

My sister lost her iPhone a couple of days back and with that all her contacts, notes and calender entries that she had painstakingly stored on the device. Her only hope of getting all that important data back was the backup that she had taken a couple of days earlier and she asked me to help her out. This...

The first month of 2009 has been a super exciting one. The Palm Pre was demoed at CES, the next version of Android is almost upon us and I managed to publish my first post on MakeTechEasier. With all the fun stuff happening in the tech world, Geeky Ninja has managed to be the only sane place around the...

Well, actually, Ubiquity can do a lot more. Ubiquity is a firefox extesion that is can really only be described as a launcher for the Internet, integrated with the web browser, which in this case is Firefox. Confused ? Well, Let me explain. Ubiquity allows you to use your keyboard to give commands to...

Applications to help you take and organize notes on your computer are available dime-a-dozen. Linux purists will, ofcourse, give their vote to text editors such as Vim or Emacs but there are also applications such as Tomboy and BasKet available for the non-geeky users that make taking and organizing...

The search function integrated in the Start menu is probably one of the best features in Windows Vista. I use it all the time to search for files on my computer and even as a launcher to launch applications. It also gives an option to search the Internet from the same search box, but the only problem...

Google acquired feedburner somewhere in 2007 and since then has been running the service almost unchanged. But, that is going to change soon. The feedburner service (which is also used to manage the feed of this blog) is going to go away sometime over the course of next week and Google is migrating all...

Ever tried helping your non-technical friends with their computer problems over phone. If yes, you know how irritating that can be. To solve the problem, Microsoft added an option to one of the Win XP service packs to let remote users take control of your system and made troubleshooting Windows systems...