Compfight now sports a new design

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Compfight, is an AJAX-powered website that allows easy and quick searching of Flickr images. It has now undergone a revamp in its design, and looks more modern now, moving away from the sparse interface that was present before.

In my review of Compfight, I had noted that Compfight featured a very minimalist interface with just a text field and a couple of buttons and options (reminding me of Google), hence loading very quickly (inspite of the numerous scripts required for AJAXed search).

Is Google experimenting with font options in AdSense?

Google AdSense does not have options for modifying font type, size or color. However, there have been reports of Google testing different font types for AdSense, live on various blogs. I managed to grab a screenshot of one such test - two different fonts on three ad units (two boxes and a skyscraper), all on a single page.

Google testing different fonts in AdSense
Google testing different fonts in AdSense? (click image for a larger view)

The above screenshot was grabbed from Torrent Freak, a popular the most popular blog about torrents and file sharing.

BlackBerry Bold to compete with Apple iPhone

RIM (makers of BlackBerry range of handsets) launched BlackBerry 9000, aka Blackberry Bold smartphone. Aimed squarely at Apple’s iPhone, Bold supports the much-hyped 3G networks, integrated GPS and Wi-Fi. RIM also said that BlackBerry Bold can run more sophisticated business software, thanks to faster hardware.

BlackBerry Bold 9000 BlackBerry has been preferred by business customers throughout the world, thanks to the superior business capabilities. However, with smartphones getting increasingly sophisticated, personal devices like iPhone has business features to rival BlackBerry. In fact, ever since its launch, iPhone has gnawed away at Blackberry’s share in various markets, notably USA.

Toshiba R500 - competitor to Macbook Air or gymnast?

Toshiba Portege R500 Ever since Apple came out with the Macbook Air ultraportable notebook, competitiors have tried to mimic Macbook Air in terms of size, weight and features (in comparable form factors). Lenovo’s X300, Toshiba’s R500 etc. were some of them.

Checking out Toshiba’s Portege R500, the form factor, flexibility(literally) and weight(1.7 kg pounds) of the ultraportable are impressive. The flexibility of R500 is incredible, if the official video on YouTube is to be believed.

IZArc2Go - portable version of IZArc archival software

Shortly after our review of the free IZArc archival tool, Aseem asked whether there was a portable version that does something similar to IZArc.

In fact, there is a portable version of IZArc itself. It is called IZArc2Go. The clunky name apart, it is similar to IZArc in all aspects. Most features of IZArc have been integrated to IZArc2Go too. Perhaps the only features that are missing in the portable version is Explorer shell integration and association of file types (both of which requires registry entries which cannot be done by a portable app).