Bradicon: Online Image To Icon Converter
I had a few images that I wanted to convert into icons to use with my desktop shortcuts, so I Googled a few converters, but didn’t found any good ones, so I continued my search till I came across Bradicon. It is a free online image to icon converter, that will convert your images (supports all major formats) to an ICO file. This icon file can be downloaded and used with shortcuts.
Del.icio.us Plugin 1.0 For IE Released
Del.icio.us has officially released the bookmarks browser plugin for Internet Explorer users and is now available for download. Earlier, it was only released for the open-source web-browser, Firefox. And later in May, a Beta version of the browser plugin was released for the Internet Explorer users to get feedback and improve the quality of their tagging and bookmarking features from IE.
Skype 4.0 Beta Released For Windows
by Haris on June 20, 2008
in General, Internet, Softwares, Technology
Skype has finally released a much-needed upgrade to its famous VoIP software, Skype 4.0. They have released the first beta version and is currently only available for Windows users. This has been released to get user feedback which would further help them to improve Skype and release the final version in summer. Skype is very user-friendly as its automatically detects connected audio and video devices, checks for available bandwidth to get you started.
Skype 4.0 comes with many new features and enhancements. The interface has been completely re-designed (now full-screen) and improved to provide the best video-calling user experience. The old UI was built for voice calls, but the new one is for video. Skype is owned by eBay, and has a user base of 309 million with revenues around $126 million in the first quarter.
Reddit Goes Open Source, Says Thanks To Everyone
A popular social news site and an early Digg competitor, Reddit, has gone open-source today. They announced a day before that they have an announcement to make tomorrow, and the invite page had an image of a penguin which meant that the announcement was something related to to Linux or open source. The next day they released their own code to the public and now you can also build a site like Reddit.
Free & Exclusive Formula One 2008 Stickers
Shell, the official partner of Ferrari, is giving out free and exclusive stickers of its cars and their drivers (Kimi Räikkönen and Felipe Massa). Usually, their offers are limited to US residents only, but this time they have made this offer available to everyone worldwide including free international shipping. You can apply for your free stickers here. There are separate forms for US residents and other international residents.
How To Add More Slots In Opera Speed Dial
by Haris on June 15, 2008
in General, Tips and Tricks
Opera is no doubt one of the fastest, and most powerful web browser available. Of course, Firefox is still my favourite browser, but we can’t put Opera behind. It uses only 20MB of memory as compared to Firefox’s 60MB memory consumption. One of the best features and first of its kind in Opera is the Speed Dial feature. It was introduced back in April 2007, in Opera 9.2. It lets you visit your favourite and most-visited sites quickly with a mouse-click.
In earlier versions of Opera, it wasn’t possible to edit the number of slots but with the latest release, it is now possible using a very simple hack, thanks to Opera Watch.
Force Enable Incompatible Extensions In Firefox 3
by Haris on June 15, 2008
in Firefox, General, Tips and Tricks
Yesterday, I installed Firefox 3 RC3 and was amazed to see how fast and better my favourite browser has become. I actually use lots of addons with my Firefox 2, and I found that most of them were disabled after upgrading. That’s because they still haven’t been updated yet by their developers and Firefox 3 doesn’t even try to run addons that are not compatible. FEBE is one of the plugins that are not (see update below) compatible with Firefox 3 RC3.
Google Docs: Upload & Share PDF Files
Google has finally added the much-requested feature in Google Docs, PDF documents support. Just a few days ago, Google announced that soon users will be able to upload, read and share PDF documents in Google Docs, and lo! It’s here! But the bad part is, you can only upload, read and share PDF documents. I mean, editing PDF files is not yet supported by Google Docs, and is expected to be added later.
Uploading a PDF document is simple as cake (they don’t offer anything to eat, though!). Just go to the Google Docs homepage, and click Upload. The maximum size you can upload from your computer is 10MB and and from web URL is 2MB.
Show Twitter Followers Count With TwitterCounter
TwitterCounter is a service that can show your Twitter follower count in a small chicklet like FeedBurner. It is targeted towards towards bloggers, social networkers and other well connected individuals to communicate and track the number of followers they have on Twitter. This service allows you to create a badge (aka chicklet) and put it on your blog, or site which will show the number of Twitter followers you have.
This is not all, you also get stats graph which shows you the number of followers for the last 7 days. All you have to do is, put in your Twitter username on the site, and copy/paste the generated HTML code where ever you want your badge to display. TwitterCounter badge is exactly the same as FeedBurner’s chicklet. The only difference I see is the colour scheme which matches that of Twitter.
