Beta

Gravatar – Private Beta

February 7, 2007

Gravatar, the service which lets weblogs display user provided pictures is now in private Beta. Gravatar was taken down few weeks back for various reasons. Just when many people thought that the service was dead Gravatar 2.0 was announced. If you are interested in joining the private beta leave a comment on this post. If [...]

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Scrybe

November 1, 2006

Scrybe, the online organizer is now open for Beta invitations. Scrybe™ is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today´s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way. Check this official video, you will definitely be tempted to use it. Scrybe is a Flash based organizer and off late I am seeing lot of flash based [...]

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Adobe Digital Editions

October 31, 2006

Adobe labs has come out with Digital Editions which is supposed to be a completely new way of reading and managing e-books. Digital Editions is built from the ground up as a lightweight, rich Internet application (RIA). Digital Editions works online and offline, and supports both PDF and XHTML-based content. This is an early Windows [...]

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Windows Live Mail Beta

August 12, 2006

Few months back when I tried to sign up for the Windows Live Mail Beta, I was just asked to register and was told that I would be notified when the service is available. It was never done ! Few days back when I was checking the Windows Live Ideas Page, I happened to see [...]

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Windows Vista Beta 2

June 9, 2006

Windows Vista Beta 2 is now available for public download at the following link: http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x86/download.htm However when I tried to download I got the following message (Guess I need to wait for few more hours) Tags: Windows Vista Beta 2

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Howz This !!

June 2, 2006

No I didn’t create these effects using some Adobe or Corel product.. The latest beta of Word 2007 comes with a nice Picture Style Toolbar from which you can choose a host of formatting styles for the images. Microsoft Office 2007 also introduces a feature called “Live Preview“, which temporarily applies formatting on the focused [...]

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Office 2007 Beta 2 Released

May 24, 2006

The Beta 2 of Microsoft Office 2007 is available at this link. The load on the server might be too high (I tried for 1 hour yesterday), in which case you might need to try at a latter time. The download size of Microsoft® Office Professional Plus 2007 is about 450 MB. This package includes: [...]

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Flock – Browser for Bloggers

May 4, 2006

The WYSIWYG "editors" for posting blogs in Blogger or WordPress are pretty slow. You need to login to the administration page whenever you need to write a new post. Blogger does provide a plugin for Microsoft Word, however you cannot post documents with images. So I started searching for a nice tool to ease this [...]

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Get Yahoo Mail Beta !!

April 26, 2006

I read in digg on a way to enable the Yahoo Mail Beta ! Here is the procedure explained again (in case you have not clicked on the digg link) 1. Login to your yahoo mail box 2. Go to Options -> Account Information 3. Go to Member Information->General Preferences->Preferred Content 4. Choose either of [...]

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Riya – Photo Searching Redefined

April 20, 2006

Few weeks back I blogged on "Photo Uploading" portals. Flickr was the best, however there was a upload limit in the free version and the number of albums you could create also was limited to 3. At that same time, the google search had come up with a link to Riya. The portal boasted of [...]

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