v-phone for Vonage VoIP service

Vonage, the leading VoIP service has come out with pretty interesting device known as v-phone. It is a tiny, bright orange colored device attached to your key chain which you can take with you any where and connect to any internet connected PC (obviously broadband) and start making calls through your own vonage account. I love this idea.

I called the customer service and only problem that you have to purchase other plan. I am using Vonage VoIP service but I can not add it on to my existing service and have to buy another plan which is not right. But otherwise this idea is pretty cool.

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Price: $39.99

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TVeyes.com

I came across this wonderful website a.k.a. tveyes.com

They have very interesting concept. It employs special technology so when you order a search with particular search term, the underlying search engine will scourch the web and find all video clips which has that particular search term is spoken in the clip. It is very interesting and I personally think this technology has tremendous dimension just imagine you can record all your conversation and then one fine day you search your audio clips with particular "phrase"....wow.

I love this technology and I think more developer should focus on underlying technology to find more uses.

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Online image editor

I came across this wonderful web application which lets you edit your photos online. I tried using it and was amazed with its simplicity. It comes handy when you want to quickly edit your photo online. After editing your pics you have option to upload to flickr or to download to your harddrive......cool

Quoted from website

"PXN8 is an online image editor with a user interface developed with standard web technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) which are available by default on all modern web browsers. "

Try it here and enjoy.

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Next generation photo viewer

While browsing randomly on web I encountered this wonderful new technology on which Microsoft has started working. Looks like web 2.0 is going to bring lots of great applications and also will bring best places of world to your computer screen in a way which you have never seen before.

Basically it is a system to browse large quantity of photos in 3d with high quality computing in the background but you need to see for yourself to understand it better.

http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/

Also see the work in progress at Microsoft here.

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Creatre round corner for your webpage

Finally, a simple, easy way to add rounded corners to any element on your web site. Upload this script to your site to allow your web site visiters to quickly and easily generate the code needed to add rounded corners, or use it for your own site.

• Easy to install. Just unzip and upload, or if you're using it on a local server, just unzip!
• 18 different rounded corner styles to choose from.
• Simple, clean code that is easy to apply site-wide
• Choose from HTML or PHP code for the rounded corners. The PHP code is slimmer, but there's HTML for those without PHP installed.
• An easy way to add a cool new feature to your web site.

Download it here
File size: 64K

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Google to recruit MSU students

Having a family where each and every member graduated from MSU, this news really makes me proud.

Google, the search engine company which is known for implementing complex algorithms for optimizing search results is coming to MSU for interviewing candidates and will provide one of the highest pay package in Indian job market for starters. This is the first time google is interviewing other campus besides IIT.

Read entire story here

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Flash Saving Plugin

Flash Saving plugin allow you to save flash files to your hard drive directly from your browser. It is a very cool utility which I have been using for a while to save flash files. All flash files on the particular webpage which you are visiting can be saved with a single click. The plugin installs as an addon IE browser tool in your IE toolbar and from there it works like a charm...

Download it here and enjoy it.

Version: 1.2
File Size: 567 KB
License: Free
OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Server 2003

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Photo2Sketch

Photo2Sketch is a simple program that will turn your usual photos into designs imitating sketches.

It creates pencil/pen drawings of your photographs. I tried it and was pleasantly happy with it. Sometimes you have to play with precision and line slider parameters. The quality of sketches is very good. The program is very limited in functionality but serves its functions.

They have paid version which has more functionalities but for starters like me free version is ok.

Download here
Size: 848K

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lucidCMS

lucidCMS is a simple and flexible content management system for the individual or organization that wishes to manage a collection of web pages without the overhead and complexity of other available "community" CMS options.

lucidCMS is designed from the ground up to be easy to install and use. It will run efficiently on shared hosting accounts where disk space and features may be at a premium. Once installed, all configuration options can be changed from the user interface.

Size: 432K

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The Big Picture

I saw this cool feature on CNET's news.com site and thought of sharing it with you it is known as 'The Big Picture'. More details are available here but I will be glad if this tool is made available by CNET for all different websites.

The Big Picture is a CNET News.com special feature, connecting the dots between stories, companies, and topics within the News.com site.

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Sony MP3 Player

Sony - the pioneer in mobile music with walkman in good old days is bringing another great concept, portable MP3 device which can detect your pace of exercise and accordingly switch to your favorite playlists.

There are 2 Mp2 players

NW-S203F - 1gb capacity (about $120)
NW-S205F - 2gb capacity (about $150)

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Zune Player from Gates of Bill

Microsoft showed the Zune player, which it plans to release in time for the holiday season. Zune will include wireless technology to allow Zune owners to share their music files and playlist. Can't wait for it...

Now it is time for Apple to bring new Ipod.

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Splitz

Bjoern has written this wonderful software just under 400kb. I love it and I have used it so often. You can cut any image into rectangular parts and use it in your website design. Just download and try it out, you will not regret it.

Splitz

License: Free
Publisher: Bjoern
File size: 352 K

The best graphic editor

This is one of the best graphic editor and absolutely free. It is small, nice and easy to install and uninstall with tons of features. I have used it everyday and I can't believe that how my life would be without this wonderful software. It does not provide high end editing of graphics but for day to day photo editing and organizing it is the best....Irfanview

License: Free
OS: 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Publisher: Irfan Skiljan
File size: 884.5K

Welcome to my tech blog

Hi folks,

I am starting this new blog today to satisfy my appetite for Technology. I am a graduate in Medicine but I also posses Masters in Computer Science and that is the reason that inspite of being active in Medicine I have inherent love for technology which so far I have been using to my advantage in research and various other day to day functions. I usually keep all my lovely softwares in one nice folder but then I realized that I should share them with the world.

My main focus in this blog would be to share with you nice and small software. I personally like small softwares which are easy on RAM, less CPU intensive and quick to install and run. I also intend to share good technological news in which I am interested and sometime I may discuss big size softwares if I am blown away by its functionality. I hope you will enjoy my posts here and at the same time softwares which I mention. Do not forget to leave your feedback in comments section.

sincerely,

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