Category Archives: Feature

Offline Gmail: More details

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: February 2, 2009
Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there’s one little catch: it’s inherently limited by your internet connection. From public WiFi to smartphones equipped with 3G, from mobile broadband cards to fledgling in-flight wireless on airplanes, Internet access is becoming more and more ubiquitous — but there are still [...]
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Battle of the Linux Distros

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 26, 2008
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For the geek that has it all comes a desk that can fit it all

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 22, 2008
Introducing (well I’m not “introducing” anything really since this thing has been available for at least a few weeks now) the Pro Gaming Table from Digital Edge. Priced at $380, and designed with CH controllers in mind, the Table offers what looks to be eight different platforms.
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Oosah Hosts up to 1TB of Media Online for Free

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 20, 2008
Web application Oosah hosts a whopping one terabyte (that’s 1,024 gigabytes) of media online for free. In addition to hosting videos, photos, and music you upload directly to the site, Oosah also integrates with Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, and YouTube. Once you’ve connected your accounts, you can actually drag and drop photos between webapps—so, [...]
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The Indian behind Intel’s super chip

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 19, 2008
When Intel launched its first six-core x86 microprocessor – a high-end processor to crunch huge amount of data – designed and developed by its Indian team, there was relief at its India office.
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World’s smallest PC?

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 19, 2008
As reporters, we tend to be wary whenever a company claims to be the first, the best, or the smallest of anything. But when we saw an image of CompuLab’s Fit-PC Slim, we thought it could very well be the tiniest machine capable of running Windows XP yet.
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Featured Freeware: CinemaForge

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 18, 2008
This combination video-conversion and creation tool boasts good speed and a nice set of features.CinemaForge’s polished interface is both handsome and rather simple to understand, the Tom Cruise of software if he weren’t into Scientology.
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AtomicView processes media quickly

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 17, 2008
If you have a lot of media to browse through, no matter what viewer you use, it’s bound to take some time. Whatever the project may be–from picking the best shots from a pro photo shoot to getting the most action-packed movie clips from a birthday party–you need a good way to browse, compare, and [...]
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FoxTab turns your browser tabs into a spectacle

By Prithvi Mandava | Published: September 17, 2008
One of my buddies just tipped me off to a must-have tab management add-on for Firefox. It’s called FoxTab, and it’s a cross between Mac OS X’s Expose, Windows Vista’s Flip 3D, and the thumbnail view in Google Chrome. When you’ve got a lot of tabs open in Firefox, this offers a quick way to jump [...]
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