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PayPal India Personal Payments Outage – Solution

6 February 2010

While PayPal is a trusted and a widely used payment processor, it has now created a lot of frustration among its Indian users, especially those users who initiated transaction in the past couple of days.

Shorten URLs, the longer way! Binged.it

18 January 2010

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After TinyURL, Bit.ly and Goo.gl, Microsoft is up with it’s very own URL Shortening service, naming it ‘Binged.it’ (inspired from Bing.com). It isn’t available for the public now, but is used internally and is common among Microsoft employees, and will soon be public.

SiteGround Holiday Hosting at $9.95/year

16 December 2009

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Seems like Santa’s now at SiteGround. SiteGround, well-known for its Tutorials and Templates for CMSes like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, WP, is now giving away Web Hosting and Joomla-optimized hosting at a very discounted price – that’s $9.95 for one year. The $9.95 offer was sent to those who downloaded Joomla templates from SiteGround and opted [...]

Google’s Site Performance & Public DNS

4 December 2009

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Google has today announced the start of its Public DNS (Domain Name System) that is expected to give you a faster web experience, linked to the recently announced Site Performance – a Google Labs feature and a part of Google Webmaster Tools. Site Performance, a Google Webmaster Labs tool helps webmasters know the performance of [...]

Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Awards Voting starts today

18 November 2009

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After nominations and over 92K+ ReTweets and 900+ Facebook shares, Mashable’s 2009 Open Web Awards voting starts today. Nominations were made available via Facebook & Twitter though November 15, 2009. From today, November 16 2009, the voting begins and ends on the 13th December this year. Winners will be announced two days later, December 15 [...]

Lock your Google Search to SafeSearch with a Password

13 November 2009

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Google, to give you more safe browsing experience, is now up with an enhanced version of Google SafeSearch, which allows you to have your search locked to SafeSearch with password-protection, and this is linked to your Google Account

Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Symbian Phones

6 November 2009

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Few days back, Opera announced the new beta version of its mobile browser, Opera Mobile 10 for Nokia, Sony Ericsson and other phones that run on Symbian or S60 platform running 3rd and 5th editions. The new version is said to bring you a complete desktop browser experience.

Google Dashboard – Google goes on record

6 November 2009

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Google has been offering a variety of services – Web Search, Mail, Blog, Calendar, Docs, Orkut, Picasa, YouTube, Reader, the list goes on.. But have you ever wondered what Google knows about you? We’ll just have a look: Web Search: The searches that you do daily. Mail: The mails that you send and receive. The [...]

Domain names set for change

31 October 2009

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Till now, you have been used to names that could only contain 26 alphabets, the Internet regulatory now, has approved plans to use non-latin scripts in web address. It is said to be the biggest change since the start of the Internet 40 years ago.