Direct Connect (DC++) hubs are quite popular for sharing data among logged in users, especially so in residential college networks. A DC++ client is obviously required to tap into such hubs, with the most popular options being the official DC++ client, Strong DC++, and Apex DC++. While all of the above...

UPDATE: In a recent move to streamline itself, Google has shuttered the entire Labs unit, which includes this particular bot. If you’re a regular Google Talk user, here’s a useful chat bot that you should add to you chat list now – the Google Talk Guru, straight from the Google Labs. You can “friend”...

imgur is one of my favorite image-sharing webapps, thanks to its sheer simplicity of uploading and sharing screenshots. The service also provides an API, which is used by a quite a few desktop tools and browser extensions (makes me like it even more). While the desktop uploaders for imgur are pretty...

Twimbow is a new web app in town, that lets you manage your Twitter profile in a new way. Lets see what it’s got in store to compete with well established rivals like Seesmic Web, HootSuite, and Brizzly. For a start, Twimbow is colourful. With the exception of Brizzly, most Twitter clients (desktop...

…Generally speaking, creating an actual 360 degree view effect requires you to snap photos of the same object from numerous closely spaced angles, arrange them all together in proper order and queue them in a fast slideshow mode. And if you do happen to have a bunch of such photos lying around, you...

Now that I’m writing for Guiding Tech, I feel like I should post snippets of my published articles on PC Tonic. Here’s the latest one, and it’s about Bookmarklet Combiner – a web app that lets you combine multiple bookmarklets into one. … bookmarklets share the same problem as regular bookmarks...

Web applications often lack the flexibility provided by their desktop counterparts. Although they’re designed to offer a unified and pleasing experience to most users, they don’t have those configuring options that would otherwise allow you to tweak the app to suit your needs. Let’s take Facebook....

A collage is a complex photograph made by cutting and joining a number of other photos. For example, you could take all your graduation photos and make a graduation hat shaped photo collage from it! Excited? Have a look at all the collage making tools we’ve mentioned below. First up is Picasa, the...

I’m possibly the only Indian on Earth and Mars, who hates cricket. I loathe the sport, just about every form of it. So when I came to know that this year’s IPL would be aired entirely on YouTube I was like, duh. I don’t even know when that league starts! Update : Okay apparently IPL starts today....

Typing fast makes Mackenzie feel powerful. While you may not get quite the same feeling when using your keyboard, there’s no doubt that typing fast is an immensely useful aid for the computer folk. Now, I’m not the one who you should be approaching for typing tips – I’m a two-finger-typist and...