Amidst concerns of curbs on free speech and online gaming addiction, China has passed a decree to limit the amount of time kids spend gaming online report Xinhua. Kids spending more than three hours online will lose half the credits they earned and those spending more than five hours online lose all of them. Online [...]
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People using Google Personalized Homepage would be well aware that you can add pages, read feeds and lots of other stuff.
Recently the folks at Google introduced a brand new feature to make your homepage look even better, viz. Themes.
Currently there are seven themes that you can select from besides the original default one.
There is one [...]
If you’re familiar with free templates, or have been working in the printing industry you would have come across this text often:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea [...]
Prism Video Converter is a free video file format converter for Windows.
It can convert video files from avi, mpg, vob, wmv (Windows Media Video formats) and more into avi, asf or wmv files.
You will need to have the appropriate codecs installed in order to run the conversion.
Features:
Converts avi, mpg, vob, asf, wmv, mp4, ogm [...]
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April 2 - Multimedia Monday: jetAudio Basic
April 3 - Tool Tuesday: IE NetRenderer
April 4 - WordPress Wednesday: A Plugin A Day
April 5 - Tip Thursday: Preview Pane in Windows Vista
April 6 - Fun Friday: Rotate
April 7 - Service Saturday: IndiaNewsBox
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IndiaNewsBox is a new Indian startup that aims at being a news aggregator to display news on a single page while preserving the segregation in news source.
Currently they offer news from the following categories:
National Headlines
International Headlines
Business
Sports -> Cricket
Technology News
Showbiz
Regional News -> Hindi
Regional News -> Kannada
Market News
Indian [...]
Don’t we all love games. But, nothing stimulates the mind more than a game that needs you to rack your brains.
That is what Rotate and its successor Rotate2 hope to establish.
Rotate uses photos from Flickr and jumbles them up. You need to rotate the individual pieces and place them the right side up to complete [...]
One of the new additions in Windows Vista is the new Preview Pane.
The Preview Pane can be activated in Explorer by navigating to Organize » Layout » Preview Pane.
Using the Preview Pane you can browse readable views of various documents or, with media files, preview a few seconds of content.
This becomes extremely useful if you [...]
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All this month of April, the folks at Weblog Tools Collection will be taking up a single plugin every day and reviewing it in detail.
The purpose is to highlight some of the outstanding (for various reasons) plugins available today as well as provide a means for the WordPress community to tell the authors what they [...]
Google launched their brand new ISP which provides free in-home broadband via wifi. The ISP is called TiSP. Read the official press release or find out how to go about getting it.
