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Link YouTube videos to start at a specific time
YouTube now supports deep linking of videos. This means that you can specify where the video will start when a person clicks on the link. This is helpful if you want to show a specific scene from a long video to someone. To specify a point, append a tag to the end of your video…
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Create an iTunes Store Account without a Credit Card
If you want to create an iTunes account just for downloading free stuff from the iTunes Store, the gHacks blog has a pretty detailed step by step article which will help you to do so.
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Tata Sky+ Next Gen DTH services in India
The TATA Group in a joint venture with STAR launched the Tata Sky DTH services in India on 8th August, 2006. Taking a majority of market share from DishTV, they have more of less monopolized the market until a few days back. With the launch of Reliance’s Big TV and Airtel’s Digital TV (and all…
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iPhone firmware 2.2 to have Google street view
Apple has seeded the iPhone firmware 2.2 beta 2 to developers. This version fully supports the Google street view feature in Maps.app. There were hidden APIs related to street view in Beta 1 but it wasn’t enabled. This version, however, has them fully enabled. Also, apparently, the seed notes indicate that Line-in audio accessories are…
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Emoticons in Gmail
Gmail is getting better day by day. Starting today, Gmail supports emoticons. To use this feature, one must compose an email with Rich Text Formatting enabled. Here is what it looks like in a Gmail compose screen: You can choose from sets of square or circular emoticons. Also, a new set has been added to…
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Gmail for mobile 2.0
Google launched a new version of Gmail for mobile for J2Me supported and Blackberry phones.
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Yahoo to lay off 10% of its workforce
Yahoo is gonna let go 10% of its staff. Maybe more next year. Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang dropped this bomb in a company wide email. Apparently this will help the company save $400 million in annual costs. Here is the full email text: From: Jerry Yang [mailto:jerry@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:20 PM To:…
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Android Source Code now Available
The much hyped source code for the android mobile platform is now available at http://source.android.com/. Here is an intro video to the Android open source project: If you are interested in developing apps for android, visit http://code.google.com/android/.
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iPhone sales surpasses RIM’s sales
iPhone is getting popular all over the world. This can be proved by the tremendous iPhone sales all over the world which has recently surpassed RIM’s sales. In their quarterly financial results on Tuesday, Apple revealed that they sold 6.9 million iPhones versus 6.1 million sold by RIM. With this, they have now become the…
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woikr in a new and better design
We’re glad to announce that, we have moved to a new theme, which is immediately live at woikr.com. We’re also starting new sections for WTF, Rumors and LOL. What’s so special about this theme ? We feel that this theme is more intuitive and presents much more information to the visitors, helping them discover the…
