TechnoMagicians Blog

Well, I’ve been a long time Bloglines fan for ages but once again it seems to be having problems updating feeds. This is nothing new in the last month or so as pointed out by the x-cofounder here. I’ve been forced to checkout Google Reader and so far am liking it. At first I thought […]

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I haven’t had the need to search for anything recently in Google Groups but was doing so today and stumbled upon this. The results not only showed entries in Google Groups (usenet newsgroups and Google Groups) but also posts from a ton of other random forums around the net. Not sure how new this is […]

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Great, 9 days after I purchased my iTouch, Apple announces a new one. I should be able to return mine however to get the new one. In my previous post I mentioned the only negative I had about the device, however in the meantime, I found another very annoying problem with the device. And that […]

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Writing this from my new iTouch. Really nice device as one would expect from Apple. The only negative I have to say about it so far is that it only supports one running application at a time. To me that is just about unacceptable. For instance if I start an IM application and then switch […]

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I really don’t know why a lot of the tech community and others look up to “hackers”. I had to write this due to the recent report that the MySpace cofounder, Tom Anderson, was arrested in the 80’s for hacking into a Chase Manhatten Computer system. There is nothing impressive about this at all. Breaking […]

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It is amazing how telco‘s treat their customers. For the last few years, various connectivity providers sold “unlimited” data plans when the reality was the plans weren’t unlimited at all. Many providers are now changing the plans and instituting more clear caps, but it still seems a bit ridiculous to have marketed unlimited data plans […]

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Image via Wikipedia Zemanta is an interesting tool that works with a bunch of blogging and social networking sites. It will work as a firefox extension or plugin and provides related image, article and links as you type up your blog post. Basically just writing this to see what it will suggest. The only thing […]

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I’ve used mailinator for ages. Noticed recently that they have a thing called Talkinator. Very much like BlogChat. Here is a sample of it:

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Another interesting mapping service called uMapper to create embeddable flash maps. Checkout Boston and directly south to the Vineyard. You can click on the marker, line, and polygon to get the info popups:

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MapChannels have all kinds of tools to create embeddable maps on your own website. Here is just one of many examples of maps you can create. This one combines a Google Maps view with a street view and a Microsoft Virtual Earth bird’s eye view. This view is a bit squeezed here due to the […]

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