Bring Life to YouTube with PicLens

Are you tired of the user interface on YouTube? Perhaps you want to see all your Flickr photos in a more engaging way? The solution is called PicLens. Now it is easier to show than to tell with words, so just check out the video below.

Daniel Scocco on May 15, 2008 | Filed Under Online Video | Leave a Comment

After Yahoo, What’s Microsoft’s Next Move?

Shares of Microsoft rose since last weekend when it announced that it was not interested in pursuing Yahoo in an acquisition bid that was expected to go down till the wire. Analysts are hailing the move as great since there were always the integration hurdles, both cultural and market related that would have eaten costly time.

Daniel Scocco on May 14, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

This is Why I Hate PCs that Come with Windows

I have been running Linux both on my desktop and on my laptop for a couple of years already, and it just works. Recently I decided to sell my laptop to get on a better one, though, so I figured I would need to load a fresh Windows install on it (after all the probability of finding another Linux user to buy it is pretty low).

So I just loaded the OEM Windows copy, installed it, and once I was done BAM! All those bad memories came back suddenly. How much preinstalled crap do they manage to put on those things?

Daniel Scocco on May 13, 2008 | Filed Under Software | 49 Comments

What’s Brewing Between IBM And Google

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The on-stage appearance of Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt and Sam Palmisano at the IBM Partnerworld conference in Los Angeles may pronounce the single largest development to hit the cloud computing space. IBM, with its established credibility in the server and enterprise applications space makes the perfect partner to Google for taking cloud computing to the commercial masses - i.e. the businesses.

Arun on May 13, 2008 | Filed Under Internet | Leave a Comment

What Happened to the Quick Launch Bar?

If you used the Windows Quick Launch toolbar through Windows 98 to XP then you may have been somewhat annoyed when you began using Vista… Try to drag the Quick Launch off the Vista taskbar and nothing happens!

Laurence on May 12, 2008 | Filed Under Software | 1 Comment

Security Friday: May 9 2008

New Spam Record

Figure this, 50% of spam comes from a single source, a 3,00,000 zombie computers strong botnet called Srizbi.

An excerpt from Infoworld:

Arun on May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Security | Leave a Comment

How Rich Will You Be?

If you would like to find out the answer to this question, check out this cool online quiz titled How Rich Will I Be?.

Daniel Scocco on May 8, 2008 | Filed Under Funny Stuff | 3 Comments

Gmail Versus Windows Live Hotmail. Which Will Win?

One of Google’s most recent moves that kept it as one of the top search engine based companies out there was Gmail. In recent years the top online email website was Hotmail. You know, Hotmail; you almost never saw anyone without one (unless they hosted their email on their own website). Hotmail had all the features and they were convenient too.

Kade on May 8, 2008 | Filed Under Web Tools | 22 Comments

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