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YouTube Adds Automatic-Captions/Subtitles and Automatic-Timing for Videos

Youtube can only get better by the day. Google just announced two new features which will be of tremendous help to the hearing impaired. It will also help the video uploaders gain more global exposure for their content.
The two new features are Automatic-Captions and Automatic-Timings. These features let the video uploaders add [...]


iPodMeister – Exchange used CD’s and DVD’s for iPod Nano, iPod Touch, iPhone 3G/3Gs or a Hard Disk Drive!

Internet is an amazing place. Here you meet people with the brightest of minds that come up with the most creative concepts. While quite a few of these concepts have a mass appeal only few manage to show impressive numbers on the balance sheet at the end of the year.
The concept we are going to [...]


Bing – WolframAlpha: Computational Knowledge Comes to the Decision Engine

WolframAlpha and Bing come together to bring some interesting search experience for Bing users. WolframAlpha is one of the most advanced computational engine on the web which converts queries to graphs and numbers.
For example one could simply compare a number of US states to see crime rate in each state.
I ran [...]


Google Safe Search Lock: Browsing the Web with Children is Safer Now!

Google Safe Search is kicked up a notch by introducing the Locking feature to the existing feature. Once the lock is enabled on Google safe search the first thing you will notice is the colorful balls on the Google’s search page.
If you don’t see the colored balls on the search page, go [...]


New Adsense Interface Coming Up!

Google follows a set of philosophies. “Don’t be evil” being one of the most controversial but at Google these philosophies are aggressively followed and this is what puts them ahead of the competition.
One of the other less known philosophies is “Focus on the user and all else will follow”, while all the [...]


Related Links and Script Converter Live on Google Labs!

Google just added two new tools, “Related links” and “Script Converter” to Google labs.
Related links, the name is pretty self-explanatory. It’s a widget that shows all the related links/articles/content that’s published on a particular domain.
WordPress and other CMS package plugins have been offering this plugin since ages now. The only difference is [...]


New Orkut Coming Soon – Take a Listen to Shashi and Poppy, the “Orkut-crazy Googlers”!

While Shashi and Poppy might spend a lot of time approving or rejecting friends requests with the launch of “New Orkut” community, Orkut expects to bring back users who’ve switched/switching to services like Facebook or Twitter with the upcoming launch.
Recent stats from Alexa show Orkut is not doing as well as it [...]


Amazon PayPhrase aims at Making CheckOut Simpler and Secure!

Quite a few companies including Google, ebay and others have tried to shorten the steps involved in shopping/checking out as short and simple as possible.
Today Amazon launched a new service as part of Amazon Payments which makes checking out a little more easier and secure.
Amazon introduced something called Amazon Payphrase which [...]


WordPress Plugin Compatibility Beta – With WordPress Things Only Get Better!

One of the main reasons I do not upgrade to the latest version of the WordPress is because of the fear that few of my plugins might not work.
For this I have a dummy TNerd setup where I install the latest version and mirror TNerd on it to see if all [...]


Find and Register Domain Names for Local Businesses Using GeoDomain Map from Godaddy!

With everything going local from a search to shopping to selling to dating to, well you get the point! It was time for the process of registering domain to go local!
I have been a Godaddy customer for a long long time, superbowl ads being one of the reasons
I am sure [...]