We update our Facebook account with different status, photos, videos etc. and also hit the “Like” button for other’s stuff. If you want to keep those memories for lifetime, then how about having a real book compiled with your facebook statuses.
Most of the time we spend on Internet searching things. We search on Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Google News etc. for different purposes. If you want to save some time by using one service to perform search on these places using command line, then here is the solution to do so.
If you need a tiny but useful desktop application to share files, links, notes, videos, images, screenshots from your desktop (Mac or Windows) to others thru email, Twitter, Facebook etc. then here is the solution.
If you are using Google reader for subscribing and reading your favorite feeds, then here is a new way to read them. FeedSquares is a Google Chrome extension to show you the feeds of your favorite websites in a pictorial way which will change the way you read feeds on desktops or notebooks.
What if you want to select a car for a test drive and you just get the specifications and technical details and reviews from other people, but not able to see the images…aahhh, you would say, first I want to see ‘how it looks’. Now-a-days all the websites, blogs, product pages, review pages, wikis, social media sites and so on have to have images. Thus the restriction on nude images display or upload on the user depending on the site terms and user age is very essential when it comes to good sites.
Sometimes we need to get the text out of photos or scanned documents. There you can use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software which are available for free to download to extract the text from images or photos taken from digital cameras or Smartphones. There are lot many small software available for this purpose.
Are you a traveller? If yes, then use your smartphone to share with friends a trip map (animated) with photos, music, stories. You just need to open a web application thru mobile browser or you can use Foursquare (location based social app) or Twitter to create such map.
These days almost every mobile phone is coming with either 2MP (mega pixel), 3MP, 5MP or even 12MP camera and we do take some snaps with that. And the market is also populated to cheaper digital cameras with 4GB or more memory card. To organize your memories, you should take backup of your digital life so that after 15 – 20 years, you can recall the moment by just going thru them
Idea’s Sirji (Abhishek Bachchan) is already promoting MNP (Mobile Number Portability) on TV Ads and it is confirmed by DoT as well that finally MNP is coming in India on 25’th November 2010. Initially MNP will start from Haryana where 8 mobile operators are currently providing services. At least finally DoT is starting rolling out the most awaited feature in mobile industry i.e. MNP in India.
Sanjeev Mishra is a computer geek and co-founder of Internet Techies, a technology blog with 1000+ how-to articles to provide helpful tips on Software and Web Applications..read more.
