Archive for November, 2008


27Nov

Photoshop.com: Store & Share Your Pics Online

Photoshop is a resource that serves one concise aim, namely letting you share your own pictures and stills with other site users, while also preserving them for posterity on the WWW. This service is presented by Adobe, and it lets you upload and organize photographs in the way services like this usually do – IE, [...]

27Nov

Itensil.com: Analyzing The Lifecycle Of Data Sets

Itensil is a San Francisco-based company that provides a solution intending to make analyzing the lifecycle of data sets smoother and suppler. This is achieved by automating the steps of the process that are repetitive and enabling workers to accommodate change exactly as it happens. The basic aim of this solution (named “Itensil Business Lifecycle [...]

26Nov

Google Maps Gets Its Own Version of Clippy

Google Maps has just launched a number of updates that make Street View much more prominent. Now, whenever you’re viewing a map where there is Street View imagery available, you’ll be able to drag “Pegman” from the view slider to the street where you’d like to see a picture. When you’re using Pegman to navigate [...]

21Nov

Gmail Gets Themes

Similar to the themes for iGoogle, some of these new themes also change according to the local weather and time of day, which is a neat effect, though obviously not very useful. Overall, this is not a dramatic update to Gmail, but a lot of users have been waiting for this feature, and judging from [...]

20Nov

Yahoo Brings Glue To U.S.: A Plethora of Aggregated Topical Third Party Content

Yahoo Glue, a new search results page design that the company has been testing in India, is rolling out to the US market. You can view it at glue.yahoo.com, although Yahoo says it is rolling out in stages, so sit tight if you don’t see it. For the US, Yahoo is starting with a limited [...]

20Nov

SketchUp 7

Google SketchUp 7 was released. SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models of anything: your house, killer robots, furniture, trees, abstract art — anything. Architects and engineers use it to design buildings and other structures. Woodworkers use it to plan their projects. And lots of people use it to figure out where [...]

19Nov

Etherpad Shows Google Docs How It’s Done

A team of ex-Googlers, with backing from Y Combinator, the Friendfeed founders and others, have created what might be both the ugliest and most useful group productivity app we’ve seen. Etherpad, a new product from Appjet, launches this morning, and you must try it out. It’s comparable to Google Docs or a wiki, but it’s [...]

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 [...]

19Nov

iStylr.com: Online CSS Template Generator

A site which will be of great interest to webmasters and anybody who is in the process of designing a website, iStylr stands as an online resource that facilitates the creation of CSS templates. From a technical standpoint, what iStlyr does is to create tableless CSS designs that can be then edited and shared with [...]

18Nov

Google Mobile App Update With Voice Recognition Finally Available – And it Works

Google’s highly anticipated update of its Google Mobile App for the iPhone (iTunes link) finally arrived in the App Store. The app now uses voice recognition to translate voice commands into search queries. The new version also gives you easy access to all your other Google apps, though the star of this update is obviously [...]