Is Two Factor Authentication the new standard?

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Banks have been using Two Factor Authentication for a long time now. Some banks require entering a token during login, others only need it for money transfers. In the recent months, with growing cases of user account hacking, many online services are implementing Two Factor Authentication. The popular ones are GMail, Dropbox and Amazon AWS…. Read more »

ProjectFlow makes project tracking simple

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It can be pretty hard to keep track of all the projects with different tools. If you are not very tech savvy then tracking systems that require you to create tickets/tasks, add them to milestones and assign people to them which updating status for them, can be a little too much to do. ProjectFlow is… Read more »

Google wallet – where the future of NFC lies

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NFC or Near Field Communication, has been catching a lot of heat. There are ventures by groups like BlackBerry and Bank of America or Google and MasterCard that are working on NFC solutions. So what is NFC? Its a way of electronically transmitting data (payment information in this case) to a receiver or the POS (Point of Sale) system… Read more »

Postbox out of beta, for $39.95

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Postbox is a feature-rich version of Mozilla Thunderbird. I had done a complete review of features of Postbox previously here. Postbix has finally come out of beta after 16 beta releases and is stable now. However, Postbox 1.0 is not going to be a Freeware and comes for US$39.95 for a license. If you want… Read more »

OpenID and Facebook Connect

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I really wanted to write this post from a long time. But with lack of Blogging time, I was covering more of current issues. I just read about Government sites implementing OpenID and even Facebook is doing it, so I said I will write this post at once. There have been similar posts over the… Read more »

A Twitter cartoon

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I was browsing through YouTube and found a really nice Twitter cartoon. Its for all Twitterers as well as Non-Twitter aware people. Just take a look…

Gmail gets the “Undo send” feature!

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Have you sent an E-mail and regretted the next moment that you hadn’t ?? This happens a lot of times. Sometimes, when you miss a point in the mail, or forget to attach a file or even send a mail to the wrong person. Well, we all have wished for an “Undo send” feature, but… Read more »

Boxee gets updated, adds Hulu back

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Boxee has just updated its application and added a few updates. Hulu had stopped allowing content to be viewed in third party apps and Hulu support broke in Boxee. However, this version of Boxee fixes that. This time Boxee is pulling content from Hulu through RSS. Besides fixing hulu, Boxee has introduced AppBox. Its their… Read more »

Google releases QuickSearch for Mac

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Quicksilver is a free application launcher that we all love. Its the first app that Mac owners install on their Macs. Today Google is released a new search-and-launch application called Google Quick Search developed by Nicholas Jitkoff, the developer of Quicksilver. Google Quick Search not only searches Google, but also AddressBook contacts, Applications, Documenst, Music… Read more »