Hot – Macbook Air And iPod Touch Giveaway!
If the graphic above didn’t interest you enough, then read on till the end of this post. One of my favorite web forums WebMasterTalk recently merged with the Earners Forum owned by the Escalate Media. Due to this merge they are having a HUGE contest with over $25,000 in prizes. I just signed up for the contest and I thought I should let the readers of DailyApps know about such a great contest. Let me tell about the amazing lineup of prizes these guys have got :
Demonoid To Come Back From The Ashes
Finally one of the leading BitTorrent website of its times is rising from the ashes. Demonoid one of the leading private BitTorrent trackers was pulled down by CRIA in November last year. Deimos the admin of Demonoid has finally handed over the reins of Demonoid to a fellow admin whom he apparently trusts with the comeback of Demonoid. Deimos will not be the admin of Demonoid anymore because he is tied with some personal real life issues. Here’s the message he posted in the Subdemon forums : Hello Everyone, It... Read The Rest →
More iPhone Rumors – 3G Model Slated For WWDC Launch
Things are starting to heat up a little bit in the iPhone arena. The rumor mills are all active with buzz as to what new features the 3G model of the iPhone will bring. In all chances I believe that Apple will unveil the 3G version of the iPhone during this years WWDC. But if you can’t wait till June 9th, here are spicy bits for you to feast upon. Engadget got tipped off that the enterprise beta of the firmware has the "missing" magnifying glass-contact search feature that we... Read The Rest →
Yahoo Announces Search Advertising Deal With Google
Hot on the heels of the 3days ultimatum given to Yahoo by Microsoft, Yahoo is doing everything it can to subvert the deal. Yesterday it acquired analytics startup Indextools and today it has announced a search advertising deal with Google. Here’s the press release : Yahoo! Inc. , a leading global Internet company, announced today that it will begin a limited test of Google Inc.’s AdSense for Search service, which will deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo!’s own search results. The test will apply only to traffic from yahoo.com in... Read The Rest →
Nokia To Bring The Ultimate iPhone Killer
How many iPhone killers have we seen till date? Not many I guess. We could probably count them on one hand. Looks like Nokia is working on the real iPhone killer afterall! Codename "Tube" this advanced Nokia phone could probably outrun the iPhone is just about every department. Knowing the kind of high end devices Nokia makes, the "Tube" does look like the real iPhone killer. Based on a new Symbian S60 Touch-enabled users interface, Nokia Tube was presented "in a slide", during the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference held... Read The Rest →
Google Launches Amazon Web Services Competitor
Amazon has for long won the hearts of developers worldwide with its amazing services in Amazon S3, SimpleDB and EC2. Google finally has a noteworthy competitor up its sleeves to give Amazon some shakes. Google has just launched a preview release of Google App Engine. Here’s what Google has to say about the App Engine : Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.... Read The Rest →
ImageShack Starts Free BitTorrent Download Service
The extremely popular media hosting site ImageShack has just begun a free BitTorrent downloading service that allows you to download torrents straight from ImageShack servers, and later download them from ImageShack via a HTTP link. The Torrent download service is at the moment in a public beta, but nonetheless it works as advertised. Just point ImageShack to the torrent file either via URL or by uploading the torrent file itself. The download will begin immediately and once it is completed you can easily download the files to your computer. Services... Read The Rest →
Blogging = Stress, Says NYT!
This morning New York Times is running an interesting post titled “In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop“. The moment I read it, I was pretty sure that it is going to be the food for thought for the whole of the blogosphere weekend. Bloggers from everywhere are sure to post their opinions on the issues raised by Matt Richtel on New York Times. Matt believes that bloggers everywhere are on the edge of nervous breakdown, or a heart attack (points at Om Malik) or probably... Read The Rest →
New Mozilla Addons is Perfect… Almost!
Mozilla has finally lifted the curtains off Mozilla Addons that has a completely has a shiny new look and is simply amazing at the first sight. I’ve played around with the new site and it is a vast improvement over the previous version. The most important achievement is that Mozilla Addons is now available in 24 languages, but it is another thing that I won’t be needing them. The newest addition into the site is the Sandbox feature wherein the addons are in sort of beta until Mozilla approves them.... Read The Rest →
Webkit and Opera Defeat Pwn Acid3!
Looks like the browser wars are on again in full force. At the moment the latest builds of Webkit and an internal build of Opera have managed to score a full 100/100 in Acid3 test. The Webkit team has pushed itself hard to defeat Acid3 and have released a public nightly build that passes the test.It was Opera that achieved the perfect 100 first but Webkit followed up nicely helping fixing some bugs in Acid3.
