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Do you remember Joost – the video streaming that promised to bring Television to your desktop? It made a big splash when it was launched. Joost invites were much sought after resource. But then something went wrong. People stopped bothering about Joost. No one wanted to download a separate piece of software to watch videos. [...]

There is only so much you can do with J2ME due to inherent limitations of the platform. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t any good applications for Java based mobile phones. Here are my top seven free J2ME applications: Opera Mini : This is a no-brainer. With about 16 million users Opera Mini is by [...]

Turnkey Website Templates are premium and one of the most sought after web resources. Turn Key Websites get their name from the fact that all you need to do is upload the scripts and install them in order to get started. So in order words you just turn the key and you are all set [...]

Ever wondered how much your website is really worth? Well here are five fun tools that attempts to figure that out : Glurk : Glurk bases your valuation on factors such as value of the domain name, Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Number of Incoming Links, Monthly Uniques, Monthly Pages, Years in Existence, Monthly [...]

User Account Control or UAC is one of the most annoying new features in Windows Vista (7 Steps to Delete a Shortcut! – give me a break). Microsoft has promised to tone it down in Windows 7, but you don’t need to wait for Windows 7 to make UAC more bearable. Norton has released a [...]

BoxedArt.com doesn’t need any introduction. It has the largest collection of Original Web Templates and is also one of the most well known. BoxedArt is a winner not only in quality and quantity but also in variety. It offers a wide selection of graphic products for a variety of needs. You can find templates of [...]

After a long break (in fact very long) I am back with another edition of Opera Bytes. Yesterday Jon Hicks formally joined Opera Software as a Senior Designer. He was a part of the team that developed the ubiquitous Firefox logo (it was created by Hicks based on a concept by Daniel Burka). He has [...]