Picasa adds Face Recognition

Google's Picasa is seeing updates on both the web- and desktop-based versions of the popular photo management application. The biggest new feature is coming to Picasa Web Albums in the form of people tagging, a Facebook-style tool that lets you tag faces in your photos by name and then view pictures of that person by simply searching. The difference between this and Facebook is that Google identifies all of the faces in your pictures automatically and groups together the faces that it thinks are the same, making people tagging extremely quick and easy to do. According to technology web site CNET, Google will also be releasing a new beta version of Picasa for the desktop today, the main improvements to which include a movie maker and online synchronization of every edit of a photo. The download isn't showing up for me yet, but people tagging is live, so give it a try and let's hear what you think in the comments.

Roteting image

Free application Desktop Takeover is like a rotating digital photo frame for your desktop, embedding user-defined images in an overlay on your desktop.



The cool thing about Desktop Takeover is that it can embed several images at a time, and it can rotate the pictures from your hard drive, online photo sharing sites, or even webcams.

Intel's UrbanMax concept device

The entire touch panel measures 11-inches diagonally with a resolution of 1,366x768.




This is Intel's new concept which is shown at IDF and its primary function was designed to be a touch device. The entire touch panel measures 11-inches diagonally with a resolution of 1,366x768 a slide out QWERTY keyboard, a tiny optical mouse and Windows Vista. There's a also a video demonstrating it and you can watch it

Total numbers of website

A Netcraft report suggests that the total count of websites (including blogs ?) is around 156 million.

iPig speaker for your iPod

The Speakal iPig packs in a total of five drivers including a 4-inch subwoofer, adjustable bass control, 360 degree sound distribution.



Ever wanted a unique speaker system for your iPod that everybody would notice when they walked into the room? Well now you have one , and this one is just not for show too as it's one loaded speaker system. The Speakal iPig packs in a total of five drivers including a 4-inch subwoofer, adjustable bass control, 360 degree sound distribution. There's also a 3.5 millimeter auxiliary jack and a bundled remote. The only set back is the price which is around $139.99.

Thanks Peter Cohen, Macworld.com

Extract MP3 Songs from DVD Movies

Jodix provides a free software to rip MP3 audio from movies and music videos stored on DVD or VCD disks. its a great utility for music lovers. Some time we don't find the music but we found the video for that music. Free DVD MP3 Ripper makes easy to extract MP3 from any video.



You can open this VOB files in the free DVD MP3 ripper, select the video portion that you want to save as an MP3 file and click the RIP button. Its also extract MP3 file form VCD , MPEG etc.

Download it from here . Direct link

Design Your Own Fonts Online

You need not be very creative to build good looking fonts. FontStruct is a new web-based font building that lets you create beautiful fonts in the browser itself using nothing but the mouse. The tool is powerful yet simple to use.



To make a new font from scratch, start the FontStruct font builder, pick the pencil tool from the tool palettes and start sketching. If you makee a mistake, just use the eraser. You can pick different styles for the corners and edges of your fonts to make them look more stylish.

Atom vs. Athlon -- AMD Wins!

Tom's Hardware pit the Intel Atom processor and a low-wattage Athlon processor against each other to perhaps surprising results. The site found that the 1GHz Athlon 64 2000+, with its 8 watt power draw, bests the 1.6GHz Atom 230 -- both in terms of performance and enery consumed. The comparison concludes that "The Achilles heel of the Intel system is its old system platform with the 945GC chipset, while AMD offers a more modern 780G platform". The author Bert Toepelt, further adds that the AMD platform was able to run fine without a fan. He notes that while the AMD chip requires more power than the Atom processor, AMD's system -- as a whole -- requires less energy both when idle and under load because of its chipset.

While such a platform would make for an ideal HTPC setup, the only negative is that the 780G chip powering the AMD platform is currently only available in the microATX; Intel is also present on the miniITX board.

Sony Mylo Internet Device

Sony re-brands Mylo Personal Communicator as Mylo Internet Device

Sony Mylo 2 din't do any wonders in the market but in it's last ditch effort, the company is hoping for a miracle by re-branding the product.



Now, the Sony Mylo Personal Communicator will be known as Mylo Internet Device. Along with getting a name change, the gadget also got a software update and direct video uploading to YouTube feature recently. Will this move boost the sale of Mylo? Let's wait and watch.

Yash Raj's Bachna Ae Haseeno & Xbox 360

Microsoft Xbox 360 and its exclusive titles will be making an appearing in the Yash Raj Films production, Bachna Ae Haseeno.

Apparently, Gears of War and Halo 3 play an important part in the film. The producers claim the two games were chosen as they were the favourite games in the character's eyes.

Bachna Ae Haseeno stars Ranbir Kapoor in the lead, playing the role of an Xbox 360 game developer. In the movie, Ranbir's character will be seen developing popular game titles such as Halo 3 and Gears of War. Ranbir is supported by actors Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba and Deepika Padukone in pivotal roles.

Skull DVD player

A terminator's head that houses a DVD player. Complete with white teeth and a im-gonna-kill-you grin



Ok, so we suck at putting the Terminator theme to words but check out this sweet endoskeleton skull from a downed Terminator, now gainfully employed as a DVD player

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Photoshop for video

Graduates at the University of Washington have proposed a system for editing and enhancing videos using still photographs as a reference




Eight graduates from the University of Washington have proposed a system which, at face-value, appears to do for video, what an image-editing tool such as Photoshop does for still photographs. The system makes use of reference photographs to edit and improve on a video scene quality.

The technique presented can be used to transfer a photograph's strengths such as better lighting, high dynamic range and high resolution, on to a video. The system also allows a users to edit a video by modifying just a few scenes -- remove unwanted objects, or eliminate camera shake, for example -----------

know more here

New dashboard for Blogger

After adding gadget buttom on blog layout page blogger update its dashboard with a great look. we post it on june its new page in draft made. It has two column left & right . left is for your profile & the right one for your all bloglist. now its very easy to use. Try it

The Indian Orkut

Today orkut relies a Independence Day theme for Indian user on its Independence Day (15th Aug). To enable theme It add a Indian flag bottom before the orkut search box.



Its also congrats to Abhinab Bindra for his individual Olympic Gold Madel for his country



Here is full theme

Musicovery : interactive webRadio

Musicovery.com another gorgeous flash based music playing device.Again very like Web based radio.Its a tool that allows you, just like in real life, to select music according to your mood.Ranging from Dark to Positive and from Energetic to Calm.

Make ringtone from web

Want to have customized ring tones for your cell phone but don’t have the technical knowledge of softwares to do it? No problem. Folks at ToneBee.com makes creation of ring tones fairly easy and you can even do it online. By signing up as member (it’s free), you can then create your own ring tones in 3 steps:

Upload your mp3.
Create ringtones with editing tools.
Save it to phone.



ToneBee ring tone maker runs on credit basis. That means you will have to purchase credits to create your own ring tones. However the site is currently offering free ring tone making for a limited period of them. You will not want to miss this.

Feature List
Create a ringtone from locally stored MP3s and CDs.
Set the start and end time for your ringtone.
Maximum ringtone length is 30 seconds.
Nothing extra to install or download.

It also have a facebook's apps & facebook's note

Orkut comes to Symbian

Now, Google has optimized Orkut for the Symbian Series 60 (3rd edition) phones. This means that all you guys having Symbian 60 phones, including the popular Nokia N-series and Samsung's SGH models can login on to Orkut without downloading any special client.



Google has also added a bunch of new features including photo uploads, picture galleries, click-to-call, and quick friend search.

Yahoo's Fire Eagle

Yahoo's Fire Eagle stepped out of closed beta for all to use. Fire Eagle is essentially a location broker: it provides location information through devices and services and makes them available as a platform. Developers can then tap into this platform and integrate the location information into their software. One could, for example, make a social platform which tracks the location of its members and lets one friend know where another in.




As you might imagine, a service such as this throws up a lot of privacy concerns. Imagine being able to be tracked by a boss, or colleague, or your better half... To that end, Yahoo has offered a range of privacy options to the end-users. There is also a double opt-in method for the service itself -- you need to sign in to Fire Eagle itself or to a service that integrates the location-aware platform. Moreover, every end-user can choose to expose levels of his or her locations: either an exact location, or a general area information, or a complete information blackout -- which deletes the user's footsteps from the system completely.


Quite a few services and sites have already integrated Fire Eagle into their offerings. Check them out here

iPhone 3G Pricing Out Foe INDIA

Everything about the iPhone 3G launching in India is known. Everything but the price.



Well, that's about to change now as we've received official pricing for the most-awaited phone.

The 8 GB version of the iPhone 3G will cost Rs. 31,000, while the 16 GB version will cost between Rs. 36,000 and Rs. 37,000.

These prices are not inclusive of the plan these phones will come bundled with.

Customers buying the iPhone will have a choice of plans to choose from, so stay online with us to get those details soon.

Bird nest stadium in your hand

If you thought the Bird's nest stadium was awesome, you can now have a miniature version of it right in the palm of your hands.



Now you can have it in the form of an mp3 player and it is supposed to be an official and legit thing. The maximum capacity you can get is around 4GB. It's kind of a clever design however it doesn't seem to have a very good finish. If your interested you might want to scout some grey market areas where you probably would find one.

Gadjet for your blog

Today I notice that Google ad gadget on their blogger layout page. They removed their "ad page element" from layout section.





Its a great opportunity to make beautiful your blog with this gadget. They ad a search box to quickly find your favorite g. it has 2 part one the basic & other categories. You can submit your own gadget Try this.more...

Google Olympic

Google unveils a 2008 Summer Olympics landing page, a clearinghouse for various GOOG tools that are tracking the events in Bejing.



See a Google Map of medals, YouTube video highlights, Google News headlines, a 3D video tour plus Sketchup models of the venues, and add an iGoogle gadget that tracks medal counts to your Google homepage. How are you following the Olympics this year (or are you)? Tell us what you think before the opening ceremonies tonight in the comments.



Thanks Google Blog & Dylan Casey Product Manager

Twitterfone - Full Audio Interface For Twitter

Twitterfone, an audio service by Twitter, has now become a full audio interface. When launched in May, Twitterfone allowed users to only post voice messages by calling a phone number and recording the message.



With the latest update, users can actually listen to the first 10 messages, reply to those messages and record message - all for free. The service converts the audio message into text and posts it to the users' Twitter account along with a link to the audio file.

Thanks Michael Arrington

iPhone app for $1000

In what is surely a poke at the powers that be -- software developer Armin Heinrich, has released an application for the iPhone that does pretty much nothing, for a low, low price of $1000.



The application is nothing but a display of a glowing red ruby, and is called I Am Rich, clicking on the little i in the corner of the app is supposed to bring up a secret mantra to "help you to stay rich, healthy, and successful". As Harry McCracken, of Technologizer, who brought us this story puts it: "Unless Heinrich decides to hand out reviewer's copies of I Am Rich, I may never learn what that mantra is."

Thanks Harry McCracken

Futuristic tokyo bicycle parking tower

Its a new bicycle garage for 9400 bicycles. Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, Tokyo underground station could bicycle parking bicycles. 9400 volumes were up units with a total cost of 70 billion yen. Workers are very happy to work there. look this video.

Mouse made for INDIA

Catering to its Indian patrons, Logitech has announced the launch of its Tri Color optical mouse in time for our Independence Day.




The new mini optical mouse that adopts the colors of the Indian flag is a simple plug-and-play device and comes with an all-terrain optical sensor. The mouse also has Logitech's integrated cord wrap feature that enables the user to wind the cord neatly into the mouse for easy packing.

The Logitech Tri Color Mouse is priced at Rs. 640, is available at all leading electronic stores and has a replacement warranty of 3 years

In-Dash Computer for Your Car

The Koreans are at it again! Korean company KNGT recently unveiled an "in-dash" computer for cars. Called the icom MK1, this is a full-fledged workhorse with all the bells and whistles you can imagine!



A 6.95" screen with a decent 800 x 480 resolution adorns the front. USB ports and WiFi are standard. It runs Windows XP Home. The two variants are offered with the option of a 40 or 80 GB hard disk and supports up to 2GB of RAM. A 1.6GHz Intel Processor does all the number crunching. The keyboard is an on-screen affair and it also comes with FM and Mobile TV support. There is also an Internet Map function a la GPS so you know where you're headed. Sweet!

thanks Grace Won

Nokia ovi live now

Files on Ovi has finally gone live. Launched in early July, the subscription based service lets you remotely access your computer to view, download and send digital content to anyone.



With Files, you can use your mobile phone to browse, search, download and send digital content stored on your computer from anywhere in the world.

According to the Ovi blog, a free 60-day trial period is available for new subscribers. But after the trial period, if you continue your subscription, the company will charge you for the service. The basic requirements for accessing Files on Ovi: a Windows XP or Vista computer, a mobile phone with Internet access, and a credit card to get started.

New video of iRiver Spinn

iRiver's sneak peek of its touchscreen media player Spinn at this year's Consumer's Electronics Show placed it in the favorites list of many. Finally, fans can now watch a video of the functioning deviceon YouTube



Also dubbed as "the hinge", fans consider the 3.2-inch entertainment device to be iRiver's answer to Apple's iPod Touch. Spinn's analog toggle wheel (placed on its right) makes it a one-hand device where users can "flip" pages by pressing the silver colored hinge.

Spinn's WQVGA screen features 480x272 pixel resolution. It also has Bluetooth 2.0, Flash 2.0 gaming, and Digital Media Broadcasting (DMB) (where available).

As seen in the video, along with music and video playback, the player also supports FM Tuner, text reader, voice recording, as well as a dictionary.

While the price and availability of this innovative product is not known, it is certain that iRiver's Spinn will be available in 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB capacities.

A new way of purchase

The sport of the moment would appear to be triathlon. Not only is it one event in which us Brits might do OK in Beijing, but it's the in thing for total body fitness and overall wellbeing.

Swimming, running and cycling, at a basic level, are things that most people can do (except me - the bike kept pulling me under...) and indeed you don't really need specialist equipment to get started.



But as the bug bites, which I'm assured by friends and colleagues that it does, with a vengeance, you'll be wanting to stock up on all the right gear.

This is the place to come for the best wetsuits, carbon framed bikes and of course the obligatory Lycra shorts and running shoes.

Go on, do something different this weekend.

All-screen concept clamshell phone

A cell phone concept design termed Plica by James Piatt shows what a phone with just a screen would look like.



This concept, which has dual touch screens and no physical buttons is a compelling idea and seems like the most logical way to solve the problem of having large screens while still maintaining a user interface. Maybe he was 'inspired' by the forthcoming V12 designs as well.

Thanks Andy Merrett

Moving balcony

For those of you who are always looking for the next luxury product to one-up your friends, you may be interested in the newest addition to Country Coach’s line of luxury motor coaches.



A high-end motor coach is the Rolls Royce of the RV industry. I’m sure you’ve seen those opulent homes on wheels that give a new meaning to the word “roughing it”. They have automated pull out sections that turn a semi-cramped space into a roomy and relaxing haven in the ummm… great outdoors.

But now you can add a private balcony to your list of amenities. Though I still like the awnings with your own private space outside, the idea of pushing a button and having your own veranda in about 20 seconds is pretty appealing too.

The Country Coach Veranda series has been designed to transform your living area into a luxury suite. At its core, the Veranda deck is a 4′6″ wide by 13″ deep steel platform on railings. By lowering the coach’s side wall, the space is separated from the interior by 12ft glass doors. These doors can be opened wide to expand the living space further.

As I’m reading the literature on the product I can see that the balcony deck can hold up to 3000 pounds of weight so you should be fine when you invite the local bear for a glass of wine on the balcony.

The steel deck is dual-layer and covered in vinyl so it’s easy to clean (or easier to clean because nothing about cleaning a motor coach is easy). There are also options you can add to your Veranda to customize it further. How about a LP stainless steel barbecue, or a 37″ high-definition LCD TV?

The luxury motor coach industry just reached a new level with the Country Coach Veranda. Now, if they can just find a way to get my retractable Pilates Reformer and spinning bike in there.

Orkut introdues 3 new theme

Orkut add 3 new theme for Indian user. One of them most awaited MTV Rodie's theme. Others 2 their classic Brown & Green theme.



You can Chang your theme here

Scrabulous now Wordscraper

Few days ego we post a topic about legal notice for a facebook's popular aps scrabulous. In what's turning into a cat and mouse game of legalese and fine print -- the Calcutta bros. behind Scrabulous have just relaunched their Facebook game as Wordscraper.



Changes made include using circle tiles, customizable boards, and different point values for letters. Our take on this mess is this: can't the two just get along? Surely Hasbro can license the Scrabble name to what is an able game engine? The why-not here could be that Hasbro had entered into a deal with Electronic Arts to produce a Scrabble online game; also available on Facebook. This was incidentally, just before Hasbro sued the boys behind Scrabulous.