TechSmith today released Camtasia Studio 5.1, a free upgrade that makes this essential screencasting tool all the more useful for iPod and iPhone users.

Camtasia Studio 5.1 includes presets for both iPhone and iPod touch so you can render screencast videos for these devices in a single click without having to worry about video formats and screen dimensions.

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"Certainly the enemy of my enemy is my friend, which makes Google my best friend"

While there’s plenty of buzz surrounding the Google Apps - Salesforce marriage, Zoho CEO has made an interesting revelation today.

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Dubai Port Trust authorities have held two ships suspected for cutting the undersea fibre optic cables that disrupted Internet services across Middle East, Asia and North Africa.

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A baby girl, with two faces and a single head, was born in an Indian village last month - she drinks milk with two mouths and blinks her four eyes at the same time.

Forget the hack, Google Docs now lets you export presentations as PPT files in addition to supporting the PDF format. You can also view your Google Presentations offline in the web browser using the Google Gears extension.

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Remember Yahoo! Newsglobe - a project that would let you read news headlines from across the world on a rotating globe.

There’s something on similar lines now from Google - its a new layer on Google Earth that displays latest news stories from the New York Times for any geographic region in the world.

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The wait is over. Matt just released the final version of WordPress 2.5.

"The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages."

Here are the upgrade instructions.

If the web address of your blog contains the term "blog" (like blogs.nytimes.com or *.blogspot.com), men and women working for the United States Air Force will not be able to access your blogs.

In a strange move, the US Air Force has cut off access to all external websites that contain the term "blog" in the URL. The official argument is that blogs aren’t legitimate media outlets and therefore, shouldn’t be read at work.

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Google Sites, based on JotSpot wiki software, will be available any moment inside Google Apps - this new Google service lets you create and edit websites without learning HTML. The Google Sites home page is live already but not yet available from Google Apps dashboard.

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A recent report on Click Fraud suggests that the maximum number of invalid clicks on Pay Per Click ads originate from India. And this is not the first time - its widely believed there there exists a large “work from home” crowd in India who want to generate “quick cash” by clicking Google AdSense ads.

During a recent trip to Google Hyderabad for BarCamp, I met someone who explained me the whole modus operandi of these secret ad clickers.

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