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Month: March, 2007

Y! Mail beats Gmail on storage

You must have known about Yahoo announcing Unlimited storage for Y! Mail. As a happy Yahoo Mail user, I am glad to see this move from them. Frankly, I didnt expect it from Yahoo. Interesting part is, this announcement comes 3 days before Gmail’s third Birthday where Google is supposed to bump up their storage to 3.5 [...]

My Video sharing woes

I created couple of videos recently and uploaded them to YouTube only to notice that the video quality is no where close to what I wanted. I then uploaded the same video to Google Video and noticed that it was even worse (is it because of the viewer size?). I then registered @ Revver, uploaded [...]

Embedding YouTube Videos in WordPress

If you are using the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress and tried embedding video, I am sure you know what I am talking about. Thats pain. This video I found in YouTube was very helpful. Just change to the basic editor and make your post embedding video. When I tried this in my other blog, it [...]

Google: Our Office suite is not an Office suite

At the Web 2.0 conference last year Eric Schmidt mentioned whatever apps they have (word processor, spreadsheet etc) are not office apps. To quote Eric Schmidt… We don’t call it an office suite. It’s not targeted at the [Microsoft] Office–we never made that claim. For many people, it would be just as easy to have [...]

GPhone Confirmed

First it was iPhone rumours that were confirmed and then now it is Gphone. According to Engadget, Google confirms that Gphone is under works and is targeting the developing countries. We know that Eric Schmidt is a board member of Apple and I wonder if this suggestion came from Steve to Eric to conquer the [...]