Archive for the 'Technology' Category


10Apr

BumpTop Reinvents the Desktop in 3D with Social Site Integration

Anand Agarawala has launched BumpTop for Windows (Mac version coming soon), a gorgeous desktop application that transforms the desktop from a cold, vertical interface into a dynamic 3-dimensional room that makes not only organizing files easy, but browsing images, writing notes, and even updating your Twitter, Facebook, and email. Read on Mashable

15Dec

Microsoft iPhone Apps: Just the Beginning?

Microsoft has arrived in the iPhone App Store. The company’s first official app, released today, has been a fun distraction for us this evening: SeaDragon Mobile lets you “View thousands of images over the air, quickly view massive gigapixel images, explore Photosynth collections in 2D, including your own, add your own PhotoZoom / Deep Zoom [...]

19Nov

OPEN SOURCE: Yahoo Browser Plus Opening Up

Yahoo BrowserPlus, the technology platform from Yahoo that lets desktop and web applications interact, is going open source. The company announced the plans on its blog, indicating they hope the move “will allow developers to rapidly extend the platform in a distributed fashion” and “ensure BrowserPlus stays a secure, robust platform running on all popular [...]

14Nov

OpenSocial: State Of The Union Presentation

Google’s OpenSocial application platform is marking its first birthday with an event bringing together some of the platform’s top developers at MySpace’s San Francisco office. In conjunction with the milestone, the OpenSocial team has announced that Google’s Dan Peterson (former product manager of Google Web Toolkit) has been named President of the Board of OpenSocial, [...]

12Nov

Google Launches Video and Voice Chat for Gmail

Google announced a major update for Gmail: video and voice chat. To make this work, users only have to install a small browser plugin. Google will start enabling these new features for all Gmail and Google Apps users at 12pm PST today. As is typical for new releases in Gmail, Google will roll this feature [...]

10Nov

StarOffice No Longer Part of Google Pack

With no formal announcement from Google, StarOffice seems to have quietly disappeared into the night. Other products, such as Norton Security Scan, Adobe Reader, Skype, Spyware Doctor, Real Player and Google’s own products remain part of Google Pack. As Google’s Dave Girouard declared at the Web 2.0 Summit last week: “It’s Google’s mission to bring [...]

06Nov

Microsoft Offers Free Software to Startups

Microsoft today announced that it will give away software and services to qualifying software startups as part of its newly announced BizSpark initiative. Those companies that are accepted into the program will receive a full suite (PDF) of Microsoft’s server and development packages, including Windows Server, Office Systen 2007, the Visual Studio System Team Suite, [...]

04Nov

Windows 7 video

Thanks to these videos published by Geekissimo we can discover Windows 7. Windows 7 – Demonstrating on Video from Lukychan on Vimeo. Windows 7 Calc – Demonstrating on Video from Lukychan on Vimeo. Paint Ribbon Interface – Demonstrating on Video from Lukychan on Vimeo.

03Nov

JungleScripts.com: Web Design Services & More

A company which specializes in web design services, JungleScripts aims to make surfing the web a better overall experience for all involved parties. Its corporate website lists its products and services in a very concise manner. Products include PHP and Ajax-based scripts that come complete with a money back guarantee. A collection of these scripts [...]

03Nov

Microsoft Document Editor Coming To The iPhone

DataViz, makers of Documents To Go, a Microsoft Office editor app for mobile devices, has confirmed that they are developing an application for the iPhone. The application would allow for editing of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files on your iPhone, or, presumably, your iPod Touch. According to a company representative, the application will likely [...]