The Technic Alley

Have you thought of a feature or an application that you wished your PC or Notebook  supported? What if you could design it yourself?
WePC.com is a social network that was recently launched by Intel and Asus, aimed at giving users an opportunity to share their ideas and insights on future designs as well as vote [...]

Do you have a Picasa Web Album and would like to share it on your Facebook profile? You can use the Picasa Gallery Slideshow application on Facebook. Here is how to set it up:

Install the Picasa Gallery Slideshow application on Facebook.
Log in to Picasa and open the album that you want to create the slideshow [...]

In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell coins the term “maven trap.” Mavens are experts in a particular field who are always trying to help others with their knowledge. They are the kind of people you turn to for advice when you want to buy a car or a HDTV, book a trip to [...]

In my earlier post, I wrote about some interesting ways in which people are using  Twitter. But it appears like a lot many people are just addicted to it, or obsessed to keep adding updates all day with messages that really don’t have useful information (e.g  ”Oops spilled coffee,”  ”opened the window,” ”filled gas in car”). It [...]

It’s been a couple of days since I signed up on Twitter and started playing with it, figuring out why it’s becoming such a craze. My first impression was that it was just to keep in touch with family and friends — kind of like a personal whiteboard where you scribble a few things to [...]

When I set up my Google Reader,  I did not quite realize how much of a productivity tool it is. There are many  blogs and portals in several focus areas that I like to keep reading as part of my research for my work as well as personal study. Having them all nicely categorized and [...]

I read about Twitter recently and was wondering how it works. I signed up yesterday and have been exploring how people are using it. 
From what I have figured out so far, this looks interesting. You can keep posting updates about yourself, and can invite friends to join. You can also search for people by name [...]

You have probably stored hundreds of bookmarks in your web browser to store a list of websites and blogs that you liked and planned to visit regularly. That soon gets out of hand because it is really hard to browse through your bookmarks often and visit and read new posts in those sites. Is there [...]

I was trying to catch up with my pending mails in my Gmail account on Saturday night, and every time I was trying to “send” a reply, a math quiz would pop up and ask me to solve 5 or  6 addition/subtraction problems before letting me actually send the mail. I wasn’t quite sure what [...]

When you are researching something, you probably try searching on the web with Google or other search engines. But there are times when you really feel like asking someone who knows. Yahoo Answers is one good option for you to try. You can just post a question in one of the many categories that you [...]