Online gaming is incredibly popular, with millions of players from all over the world participating. Not all games are like the hectic action games. There are plenty of very popular games such as online backgammon which offer a more relaxed pace suitable for everyone.
Online gambling is quite popular as well. A successful backgammon site is […]

For the last few years, the majority of traffic on the Internet was file sharing, or P2P. This would consist of traffic over things such as torrent, eMule, Limewire, and such. Now, your average HTTP page in a browser is back on top. But, it is not due to a sudden upsurge in people doing […]

Do you have a stack of CDs, DVDs, games and such that you do not use any more? How about trading them for ones you would rather have? But, finding someone to trade with can be a real hassle, especially if you are trying to find someone who has what you are interested in, and […]

There is no question that there has been an explosion in the number of blogs recently. These new blogs are on every subject imaginable, including weird things. I freely admit to being something of a geek myself, so finding blogs that are covering interesting or weird things is of a personal interest to me. […]

Please put your “Irony Detectors” in a safe place before reading further. They just might explode. If you believe in free speech online, read further.
India, like many nations in the world, has many deeply religious groups. Often times, these groups believe they have a monopoly on morality, to the extent that they believe theirs is […]

Remember that Photosynth tech preview that drew quite a bit of attention? Well, now the BBC has released a collection of Photosynth virtual tours to go along with their ‘How We Built Britain’ TV show. The portal to a variety of Photosynth virtual tours is available here. The screen shot above is me checking out […]

Mozilla Lightning is a calendar add-on for the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail application. Mozilla Lightning, more accurately, is an integration of Mozilla Sunbird, a stand-alone calendar, and the Thunderbird e-mail application. The integration of the calendar makes Thunderbird into more of a PIM(Personal Information Manager) than a standard e-mail application.
Lightning offers the usual assortment of features […]

Google’s latest offering, Google Gears, is making quite the buzz, and deservedly so. Much of the talk is centered around the technology itself. Google Gears is an open sourced framework for creating off-line web applications. Basically, it is a plug-in to web browsers which will allow the sharing and storing of local and remote data. […]

It didn’t take long for the new Street View feature of Google Maps to cause a stir. A user at Boing-Boing has posted that she managed to find her apartment. In fact, if provides a rather clear look into her window, and shows her cat minding its own business. She mentions that she is concerned […]

Google Maps has released the new “Street View” feature to the wild. With this, you can access a street level view of certain areas within the US. Apparently the Silicon Valley, Las Vegas, Miami, Denver and New York are available with this new feature. It appears to be a series of still images that are […]