Category: Internet

  • Like Wikipedia? You Must Install Footnotify in your Browser

    You know the most irritating thing about Wikipedia? The references. Going up and down the text/references is terribly distractive and sometimes I even get lost within the page. The good news is that Hans from Norway already came up with a solution – Footnotify. Footnotify is a Chrome/Safari extension that allows you to see references in Wikipedia in…

  • Facebook unveils video calling

    So, the alleged “awesome” thing from Facebook is video calling. Yeah, might be awesome for Mark Zuckerberg, but its a pretty routine thing for, you know, us Gmail users. Anyways, in addition to the video calling feature, Facebook also rolled out a redesigned chat interface & group chat. The video chatting feature has been developed…

  • Amazon entering India soon

    PluggdIn reports that Amazon is coming to India very soon. They have opened up offices in India (not the software ones, they already have those here) and are on a hiring spree! If all goes well, we should see them launch in the next 6 months. They have already grabbed Landmark’s Retail Chain executive Madhu…

  • YouTube India to show one movie every month in Full HD for free

    YouTube India has launched a boxoffice channel which will showcase one popular bollywood movie every month in Full HD. The movie will be free to watch but will contain ads after every 10 minutes. Anyone with a good broadband connection and a browser which supports flash will be able to watch the movie for free.…

  • Location Privacy And All The Fuss Around It

    Social check-in services have a secret agenda. They’ve grown to keep their user’s engaged by awarding them “new badges”, they make money by signing up deals with the famous places. If every one wins, what’s all this fuss about “Location Privacy” that’s on the news last week? I would classify the end-users who are “affected”…

  • Firefox 4 Final Available For Download Now

    The most awaited browser release of 2011 is here (No M$ fans, I wasn’t waiting for IE9) What’re you waiting for? Head over to Mozilla’s FTP server to grab your copy ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/ Directly jump here for Windows EN-US build and here for Mac. Mozilla doesn’t want people to download using these FTP servers which can’t…

  • There Is A Clone For Everything On Internet [In China]

    From Facebook to Twitter to Instagram to Flipboard. There is a clone for everything in China.

  • How To Use Google Maps For Facebook Places

    Have you been Facebook places religiously, then you probably also hate that Facebook.com uses Bing Maps to show you the check-in(s). This article tells you how to configure your browser to show Google Maps instead of Bing Maps. If you still don’t know what I mean, then check how boring a check-in to the Statue…

  • Facebook Places Now Works in India

    For those already not using a hack to get Facebook Places to work in India or other un-supporting countries, Facebook today silently rolled-out "Places" check-ins in India. This feature was actually available to me since like a week and more users are discovering this now which could mean a phased rollout by Facebook.