Tech Dosa

Tools, Tips and Tricks for chrome is flowing in daily. We will have a look at Google Chrome Backup Tool that lets you back up your Google Chrome Profile. The google Chrome profile includes your Bookmarks, History etc. It requires Dot net Framework to be installed in your computer.

You can also add new profiles and open saved profiles using this Tool. A pretty great utility.

USB 3.0 will hit the market in 2009-2010 and it has got the speeds. It will transfer data at speeds up to 4.8Gbit/second which is ten times faster than USB 2.0.

USB 3.0 will be backward compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1 and employs more efficient protocols to conserve power while increasing the maximum power available for connected devices.

Moser Baer who has entered the entertainment domain with DVD’s and VCD movies and with DVD players has now launched its range of LCD Tv’s.

Moser Baer LCD TV’s are available in 19″, 22″, 26″, 32″ and 42″ and Full HD LCD TVs available in 40″ and 47″ sizes. The price range of the newly launched series starts from Rs. 20,900 and goes up to Rs. 1, 49,900.

FIFA 09 is out with over 250 additions and enhancements to the core play.

The Demo Features:

• 6 teams to choose from:
  1. Marseille
  2. Schalke
  3. Real Madrid
  4. Chelsea
  5. AC Milan
  6. Toronto FC
• Exhibition match, 2 x 2 minute halves
• Kick-off Team and Kick-off Be A Pro flows are accessible
• Adidas Live Season info and tips & hints screens
• PC controls video/Intro video

iPhone 3G will be launched by BSNL with 3G support in India from December 2008. The launch of iPhone by BSNL will be on the occassion of it launching its 3G services in India.

BSNL and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) are the first two government operators to get 3G licence. 

Image hosting service is one of the major services in the internet. There are plenty of websites that lets you host your Images. We will have a look at some of these.

There are image hosting websites that lets you upload images without a signup and lets you share these images in forums and websites. There are others which lets you upload your images and gives a url for the set of photos you have uploaded and lets you share the link to the photos.

Please note some of the Top image hosting websites also have Masala (soft porn) hosted in them.

Top Image Hosting websites

• 
  Picasa
  Its from google and they offer 1GB of free space. You need to download Picasa tool to upload photos. 
• 
  Flickr aka (Yahoo Photos)
  You can upload 100MB of photos every month. Flickr is the most used Photo sharing website in the world. Flicker lets you share photos easily on your website and blogs. 
• 
  Imageshack
  Lets you upload images of size upto 1.5 MB. You can also upload multiple images. You can register and then create slideshows.
• Tinypic and Photobucket
    
  Tinypic is from Photobucket and the only difference is that all pictures uploaded to Tinypic are public. If you need to host private photos you need to go with Photobucket. There is a limit of 25GB on the bandwidth for free users. 
• Imagevenue
  Upload Unlimited Photos and Unlimited bandwidth. Only Jpeg Images 
• Slide
  No Limits image hosting. Host any number of images. Slide also lets you personalize your picture with stickers and also create slideshows.
• ImageFap
  Host images and earn money for views. You can earn $1 for 14000 views. This site does allow adult content to be uploaded.
• Picscrazy 
  From Xboard.us this is a masala picture hosting website. All celebrity images and masala indian movie images are hosted here.
   

Chromifox is a brand new theme for Firefox which makes it look like Google Chrome.

I now use firefox just for the plugins/addons which are not present in Google Chrome. Now the Chromifox theme lets me get the feel of chrome in Firefox also.

Hewlett-Packard will be releasing a laptop which can run for twenty-four hours on a high-capacity battery. The laptop will have to be run on Microsoft’s Windows XP, since Vista, has some power-draining problems.

The Laptop will have a LED display instead of LCD. This will add four hours of battery life. The laptop will also use an Intel Solid-State Drive, which is reported to make batteries last 7% longer than they would if information were to be stored on a rotating magnetic disk.

Google Chrome has a set of hidden pages which can be accessed using the keyword about:

The Different About: Pages of Google chrome are

• about: Gives the Google Chrome build versions & copyright info.
• about:version does the same as the about:
• about:memory “Stats for nerds”
• about:crash Shows a page with message ”Aw, Snap!”
   
• about:dns
• about:hang – It kills the tab by stopping processess in the tab
   
• about:shorthang
• about:histograms – Your browsing stats
• about:network
• about:plugins Lists Plugins enabled/Disabled in Google Chrome
• about:stats
• about:internets
• about:cache – Lists the pages cached by Chrome

BigTV from reliance is the new Digital Tv service in India. It has the largest network of more than 7000 installation teams that currently cover 6500 cities and towns across India.

BigTV Price: Rs 1490/- for starter kit along with Set-Top-Box

What you get?

• A choice of 200 channels
• 3 months free unlimited access to exclusice Big Cinema (20 cinema channels, 120 movies etc)
• Free Regional Pack
• 10 Audio channels