Author: Akshay Tyagi
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Get the new YouTube design now!
2011 has been a year of make overs for Google products. Google search, Gmail, Google reader, and finally, YouTube gets its due. As with all the other redesigns, YouTube redesign make YouTube more Google+esque. The new design, apart from making YouTube more pleasant, also adds functionality. Although the new design is being rolled out, but if you want it now, here’s…
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BookTrolley, a New Delhi based startup plans to disrupt the books market!
BookTrolley lets you buy and sell books within your campus. Seniors make money, juniors get books for cheap. Seems like a win-win situation! To find out more, I asked Anant Chowdhary, the founder of BookTrolley, a few questions. Me: Explain your start-up in at most two lines. Your elevator pitch. Anant: An online portal to Buy/Sell books within your college campus.…
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We are not very far from flexible phones!
Video of the week is a new section, where we will be bringing you cool videos from around the internet. ? This is what Sony was upto, back in 2007, a flexible display, functioning, but with minor glitches. ? This is what Samsung show cased at CES 2011, a fully functional flexible display, getting video input from…
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Flash is finally dying!
Steve Jobs had said last year that the world needed to get over Flash, and move onto newer technologies like HTML5 – ‘New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and…
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5 Awesome online image editing tools for having fun with profile pictures
We all love our profile pics. Now you can make them better. Here’s a list of the best websites that let you tweak your profile pics with different types of effects. 1. BeFunky – Cartoonise your self, or your friends along with you! 2. Photofunia – Good for putting your pictures on billboards all across the city,…
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Why do YouTube comments suck?
We all know that the video quality at Youtube sucks, especially when you watch at less than 720p. But that’s actually a blessing in disguise for people with slow internet connections. Something not very rare in India. Services like Vimeo offer much better video quality. But, video quality isn’t the only thing Vimeo scores in.…
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Is blekko what google wants to be?
It’s a widely acknowledged fact that the primary purpose of Google’s +1s and Google Plus itself was to get what facebook has. User data. Why? Better search. It’s been clear for quite some time, that having an awesome algorithm, with high levels of complexity, does no more mean better search results. What does? Well, in…
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The first decent 10k tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUtmOApIslE] First thing first, its not coming to India or any of the International markets soon. It will launch in the US on 15th of November [ random fact: thats 4 days after 11/11/11 ]. Hardware: 7″ IPS Display with 16 million colors and a 169 ppi resolution [ denser than the iPad ] Unlike…
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Sync FB events to your phone’s calendar
How many times have you been in a situation where you planned an event on your phone, only to find out on Facebook that there was already an event at that same time? This article will help you avoid such situations. STEP 1: Go to facebook events and select the export link on the bottom of…
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5 Awesome YouTube labs
This is a round-up of the best labs at youtube that will enable you to kill more time. #1 Cosmic Panda Cosmic Panda is something what youtube should always have been. It’s a new layout engineered from the ground up. It makes video watching a beautiful experience. #2 Feather Beta This is for all 240p…