The World eBook Fair enters 4th year with this month, and the month-long event will continue from July 4 to August 4. There are some 2 million titles for free download. Among contributing organizations are Project Gutenberg with 100,000+ titles, World Public Library with 500,000+ titles, Internet Archive with 1,385,000+ titles, even 17,000+ titles from […]
Breaking Wrilence
Getting rubbed off by Sukumar Roy’s talent may be a good sign of better days on the way, so I’d ask for your little indulgence as I combine ‘writing silence’ to ‘wrilence’ in the heading. But what is writing silence (I can see the creases on your forehead…)? Well, it is my way of saying […]
Google’s Chrome
It has been awhile since we last heard about browser war. IE seemed content with a steady share coming as it did with Windows OS. Google on the other hand promoted Firefox, which for many has been a delight, what with open source configuration that saw hundreds of nifty extensions that made browsing a pleasure. […]
Mac lures, but Windows still rules, and why?
That Apple is selling Macs beyond most people’s estimates is not in doubt. After all, Jan-Mar ’08 has seen 2.29 million shipped, up by 51% from Jan-Mar ’07. Perhaps on cue many reports are appearing that routinely praise Mac and rubbish XP or Vista, such as the one by Rob Pegoraro in the Washington Post. […]
Apple’s smart wonder
When TechSmith Corporation on April 17 informed the update of the version 5.1 of its blockbuster screen capture software, Camtasia Studio, one facility it incorporated is to be able to put Flash movies on iPhones. In the release to the subscribers TechSmith said: “Steve Jobs plans to ship 10 million iPhones this year. Now you […]
Free video calling. What?
When the MySpaces and Facebooks of the world of ‘online sharing’ came upon us with all the guns blazing, many (mainly the old schools) thought these are fads for the young and so will pass away soon. Instead, as time passes, the Web 2.0 technology is spreading its multi-headed tentacles far and wide. A recent […]
Is Googlemania waning?
Sheryl Sandberg, who was chief of staff to US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers during President Clinton’s time and later became Google’s Vice President of Global Online Sales & Operations 6 years back, has left the search giant to work for Facebook. Sandberg, an alumna of both Harvard College and Harvard Business School, was named in […]
Have a good voice? Earn money
The days of stale life are fast fading into oblivion. The web is so trendy and in constant flux that a few days away from it seem to be equivalent to a few decades. Last week I was thinking of rendering my voice to one of my client’s web need. I’m a poor speaker. And […]
Thrill of Google’s GrandCentral
Back in July last year Google took GrandCentral under its wings. That buyout now seeks to change the way people talk on the web. It was Skype that first made it possible to talk free of cost through its web interface. Acquired by eBay in late 2005, Skype soon became a promising arsenal in eBay’s […]
Speak and it’s done
Speak for 15 seconds and have that emailed to you in 2-3 minutes. That’s Jott, www.jott.com. So what’s great with Jott? For me what appeals is that you (if you’re in US) can blog your voice that gets deciphered into text that in turn appears automatically in your blog. If blogging is there, can social […]