eNewss is an Indian Blog Aggregator service that keeps tracks of the Indian Blogs. It is a service created by Sridhar Kondoji and its motto is to ’ Bridge Indian Blogger’s Globally’. Indian users can submit there blogs to various categories which include Technology, Entertainment, Personal, Recipe, Sports as well as regional categories such as Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telgu and Gujrati blogs. The blog gets generally accepted within 24 hours. After the blog is accepted, eNewss will keep track of the blog’s feed and will display the posts from the blog with a headline and a short description.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 : First Impressions
By Madhur Kapoor on Aug 28, 2008 in Microsoft, Tech | 1 Comment
After installing and trying out Internet Explorer 8 beta 2, it looks as though Microsoft is serious about giving some tough competition to Firefox 3. The new beta has got some new features that makes browsing much faster and more intuitive. It has an improved address bar, a suggested sites feature, intelligent tabs, a privacy mode and lots more. It is much much better than the previous beta we had seen.
Test your Internet Connectivity with VisualRoute 2008 Lite
By Madhur Kapoor on Aug 28, 2008 in Windows | 0 Comments
The command line tool tracert displays the route that is taken to contact a Website/server. It also displays every hops on every router that is taken along the way. It also displays the IP addresses of the intermediate routers and the time it takes to get to those routers. VisualRoute 2008 Lite is a graphical representation of the tracert command. But it has an important use, you can use it to check the connectivity if your Internet.
Make your Firefox Tabs Colorful
By Madhur Kapoor on Aug 28, 2008 in FireFox Extensions | 0 Comments
ColorfulTabs is a neat little extension for Firefox which allows you to make those colorless Firefox tabs colorful. This will make them more beautiful and easy to distinguish.
Though very simple in nature, it does give the user a few choices. Users can select any custom color for there tab or let it generate one randomly. They can also use a background image for the tab or generate a tab color based on the URL. Though not very important, but still a sweet application to further enhance the look of your Firefox.
Convert Docx Files using Docx2Rtf Converter
By Madhur Kapoor on Aug 27, 2008 in Windows | 1 Comment
Microsoft introduced the Docx file format in there new version of Office 2007. However it is incompatible with the older Office versions and since many people are still using the older Office, you need a way to convert your Docx documents to a format that is supported by Older Office versions. Docx2Rtf is a freeware file converter for MS Word 2007 Docx and OpenOffice Sxw and Odt files and you do not even need OpenOffice or Office 2007 to be installed for the program to work.
Internet Explorer 8 to have a Privacy Mode
By Madhur Kapoor on Aug 27, 2008 in Microsoft, Tech | 1 Comment
Microsoft is going to add a new Privacy Mode to its next release of Internet Explorer 8. With it, just by clicking a button, users will be able to limit how much information is recorded where they go online and what they do. This made will also clear the browser cache at the end of the session.
Control your Computer from anywhere using RealVNC
By Madhur Kapoor on Aug 26, 2008 in Windows | 2 Comments
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a remote control software which allows you to view and interact with one computer desktop (VNC ‘Server’) using another computer desktop (VNC ‘Viewer’). It is currently finding a lot of applications in troubleshooting a distant computer by just sitting at your home. It can even be used by System administrators and for education purpose also.
