Technology Hacks from the Owl
Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on 29 Feb, 2012. It’s a pre-release version of MS’ latest OS on the block, Windows 8. Since it’s a prerelease software, it may be...
Facebook was in the new last December when it partnered with Greenpeace for using renewable and sustainable sources of energy to power its mammoth server farms. Remember the Un-Friend Coal campaign by Greenpeace? Greenpeace has targeted...
Firefox 4 and above comes with this brilliant feature of Grouping Tabs (Panorama) and tried once, people will definitely start using it routinely. It comes real handy to folks who have tens of tabs open all...
Subshash Dhar, Ex-Infosys Council Member has gone ahead and started his own venture - Enterprise Nube. The key area EnterpriseNube focuses on would be ‘digital enterprises’ where the ‘off-the-shelf’ sachets or Nubes will come with innovative...
Sometimes Firefox automatically switches to “Offline Mode” [Work Offline Mode] on trivial issues like a router reboot or a temporary DNS Error. The trouble is, FF fails to come back out of it even after the...
According to Twitter representative, Carolyn Penner, Twitter users will now be able to flag their own content, as well as those of other users, indicating that the content might be inappropriate. All video and photo links...
My new laptop came with “AVG Secure Search” as the default engine and it was pretty annoying. Typing a query in the addressbar and hitting enter would throw up AVG’s SERP. Here’s how to change it:...
Google’s Swiffy converts flash SWF animations to HTML5. You just need to upload the SWF file and Swiffy does all the hard work for you. This means flash developers can now just upload and convert their...
WPWebHost WordPress Hosting specialists WPWebHost has come out with an Independence Day Special offer – A whooping 47% off, applicable to all plans and payment terms. Sign up at http://www.wpwebhost.com/ signup/ with our special coupon code...
Tata Indicom Broadband does have a Fair Usage Policy. But it doesn’t suck as much as what other providers’ FUPs. Infinity 64kbps – 5 GB/month Infinity 128kbps – 20 GB/month Infinity 256kbps (Special R) – 20...
