Byte-sized bites of technology
When it comes to spending money, Indian have found diverse ways of doing so, be it offline i.e. in retail stores or malls or online via Myntra, Flipkart or Amazon. TrustedCompany.com has put together a second by second infographic that gives you an insight of what India spends its money on. Seems like we drink… Continue reading What India spends its money on
SeventhSide Games recently launched its first game "Beebble", a city builder (a virtual town simulator) geolocalised at a junction between Farmville, Sim City and Foursquare, offering players the possibility to allow their virtual environment to interact with their real world location. The game's story was inspired by one of Albert Einstein’s theory, stating that the survival of humanity rests on the bees' destiny: "If bees disappear from the planet, Man will only have four years to live." To save humanity the Professor Beebblestein, a crazy scientist, created a new genetically modified species of bees names the Beebbles, capable of communicating with humans.
While surfing the web for free web-based alarm clocks I came across Metalock. Unlike many other web based alarm services, MetaClock offers a lot more functions than just a wakeup call. It can also be used as a "To-do-List" manager because it has the ability to let it's users set notes which will remind them of tasks to do when the alarm is triggered.
While ABBYY may seem like a spelling mistake it actually is the name of a software solutions company that makes the one of the best OCR software in the world. For those who don't know OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which simply is a technology that goes through scanned documents and/or digital photos of text and number and then converts that un-editable data into editable text that can be saved in various formats. By converting your documents into editable text you increase your ability to search for important documents (eg.
Loopslab is the name for the technology that powers web based audio synchronizing and editing applications. In short its a web based mixing studio. Designed in flash the app basically places the power of being a DJ and even a full fledged musician in the hands of the average web user.
Being a Sci-Fi buff I normally play through any kind of video game that is set in the future and has robots! Today's BOTS is no exception! Designed as a Massive Multiplayer online game (aka MMOG), BOTS story sets you as one of the many robots who need to defend cyberspace from `corrupted sectors' that are turning your BOT buddies into nasty goons.
When writing an article for any blog I make sure to collect maximum information about the post and note it down on Notepad because I always find it hard to switch from one tab to another. I do that because there isn't just one source of information I use. I like to take opinions of all the popular websites out there and even test out the services I'm writing about and then present it to our readers so that they don't get disappointed.
Flickorama provides a cool Flickr 3D viewer that allows you to search and view pictures from Flickr as a 3D photostream. You can view these images in horizontal and vertical angles. You can even manipulate the photostream back and forth, left or right with your mouse, hence creating the 3D effect.
The best way to protect your images on the internet is by adding watermarks to them. I personally feel that it is almost impossible to visit every webmaster and ask them to remove copyright images that originally belongs to you. Recently, I have discovered a new website that plays an important role by adding watermarks to your images and protect it from others.
Saving content online is a great way for Bloggers to make sure that they don't miss on anything important. There are services that allows you to clip a specific part of the text or copy and paste images or videos and save them all in one place. You can use the following web services that allows you to do so without installing any third part software.