Archive for December, 2008
Meebo adds Facebook and Myspace chat.
Meebo is a web-based chat client that lets you keep up with your AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and Windows Live Messenger contacts. Now Meebo has rolled out support for two more chat clients: Facebook and MySpace.
Meebo provides a way to chat with contacts using 9 different IM clients now, and you can do [...]
Goodbye Firefox 2.
As expected, Mozilla has pulled the plug on Firefox 2. There will be no more security updates, and no more support for the web browser. When users download and install the latest update for Firefox 2, they’re greeted with a message suggesting they upgrade to Firefox 3 which is generally both faster and more secure [...]
Remember the Task Puts Remember the Milk in a Stand-Alone Window
Posted by theGeek in freeware, productivity on December 19th, 2008
Remember the Task simply puts web task manager Remember the Milk’s familiar gadget interface into a stand-alone Adobe AIR window, but maybe that’s just what you need.
RTM’s stripped-down, vertically-aligned rectangle is the same you’ll see in its Gmail and iGoogle gadgets, as well as a Vista Sidebar widget and desktop embeds. But since Remember [...]
Microsoft issues patch for latest IE vulnerability
Microsoft is acting to address concerns regarding the vulnerability that has been widely reported on since it was revealed last week. According to BetaNews there still haven’t been any reported incidents involving the exploit. Even though the vulnerability’s existence has yet to be confirmed, Microsoft has responded quickly and has prepared a patch for release [...]
UnChrome Anonymizes Your Google Chrome Installation
UnChrome helps you browse anonymously by removing the unique ID from Google Chrome that Google associates with your Chrome installation. Chrome Privacy Guard does a similar thing.
UnChrome [via Download Squad]
Technorati Tags: Google, Chrome, Privacy
iPhone 3G unlocked.
Hackers known as the iPhone Dev Team have successfully unlocked the iPhone 3G for use on unsupported GSM networks. Right now they’ve simply confirmed the 3G unlock, but according the the Dev Team blog post, a free unlocking software should be available by New Year’s Eve. [via]
Technorati Tags: iPhone
Picasa 3.1 update
Google has released a new official update in the form of Picasa 3.1. The biggest news in this release is that Picasa 3.1 adds support for 38 languages and name tags.
Technorati Tags: Google, Picasa, Downloads, Freeware
How to remove all comments from Wordpress.
As you can see that I hardly blogged for last 4 months. When I logged in to my Wordpress console today, I found around 50k comments – most of them spam. Its not humanly possible to delete all of them manually.
The best way of getting rid of a bunch of un-approved comments from Wordpress [...]