Archive : WebApps

Why would you need to use PHPanywhere to code in PHP from anywhere ? Of course, you can code in PHP from anywhere – As long as you have php installed on the machine that you happen to be using. And also have access to the scripts that you want to work on. Also, working without your favorite IDE...

Youtube is the biggest video sharing site on the Internet. And also, arguably, the biggest source of interesting videos on the planet. If you’re like me, you’d also want to save a copy of all the interesting videos you find on youtube and on other video sites, to your computer. That, depending on...

Searching photos online is a big PITA if you care about copyright laws and stuff. A lot of bloggers just use Google image search or Flickr to search for images to use on their blogs without really understanding the terms under which the owner of the photos has released them. Yes, photos have owners (and...

In a perfect world, every software application in the world will be able to open files created with any other application. You’d be able to create a file with whichever software you have, send it to your buddies and be sure that he/she will be able to view and edit the document in whichever application...

Editing documents in collaboration with someone else used to be a pain before the Internet and modern word processors only made the pain a little easier to handle. We writers thought we had it easy when word processors and the Internet came in – Write up a draft, zip it up and email the document...

Twitter is a great business tool and many companies have just started to realize the benefits of using twitter to connect with their user base. The only problem with using for business is that the service, by default, doesn’t really caters to businesses very well. Sure, you can have conversations...

The Gmail team has just made your life infinitely easier by enabling you to translate all the chinese spam emails that you get, to English. I can’t begin to tell you how much more productive I will be because of this new feature. On a more serious note, this is probably more useful than it sounds....

I have a confession to make – I am addicted to news. I have to read a newspaper the first thing in the morning and my RSS reader is open all the time that I’m on my desktop. While I’m not yet ready to switch full time to an e-paper, there are days when I wish that my newspaper would cover more...

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...