Troubles for Technorati – Stops Indexing Blogs
Well things aren’t going so well in the Technorati Land. First of all they are facing immense competition from Google Blog Search and now they are having troubles with their Indexing Systems. The posts that I publish here on dailyApps haven’t been getting indexed on time for almost the past week. I wrote an email to the Technorati Support team but they haven’t got back to me so far. I wonder what is going on over at Technorati, of late they have been facing a lot of problems with their... Read The Rest →
Windows Update Brings Thousand's of PC's to a Standstill
The latest series of Windows Updates have wrecked thousand’s of PC’s worldwide bringing them to a standstill. A lot of server administrators are furious over Microsoft for doing this and preventing the job from being done for the companies meaning higher expenses for them. Well this time around Microsoft decided to automatically install a resource hungry application called Window’s Desktop Search on computers worldwide. This slowed down corporate networks bringing the network to a standstill. What is more important is that all this happened even though administrators had configured their... Read The Rest →
Hack Attack : Install Leopard on your PC in 3 easy steps!
Update : 2 : If you are looking for a guide to Dual Boot Windows Vista and Mac OSX Leopard, please follow this guide Hack Attack : Dual Boot Leopard and Windows Vista. The Dual Boot Guide is a comprehensive guide and it should work for most of you with a little bit of hard work. Update : 1 : There is a newer version of this Hack that you might want to check out. Its much more simpler and can be done by almost everyone. The newer hack also... Read The Rest →
The Pirate Bay to Bring Back OiNK!
The Pirate Bay continues to impress me. First they got old skool Torrent Tracker Suprnova back up and running and now they plan to do the same to OiNK which fell dead last week. The Piratebay plans to call the replacement to OiNK! as BOiNK which i guess means a bigger and a better OiNK. BOiNK is an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid. The replacement will be released within a week and should be available on the BOiNK.cd... Read The Rest →
Webrunner now becomes Prism – A Mozilla Labs Project
If you have read about our previous review of Webrunner over here at dailyApps then I am sure that you would have noticed that Webrunner has a lot of potential to do well for productivity freaks like me. Well Mozilla took a step in the right direction and has updated Webrunner to a new version and has decided to call it by a slick new name "Prism". Well Apart from a new name, Webrunner aka Prism has also added a host of new features that should make Prism an exciting... Read The Rest →
Flickr to get Online Photo Editing Tools
According to Techcrunch Flickr will very soon be getting basic photo editing tools from Picnk, that happens to be one of the most popular sites that edit photos. This when implemented would mean that Flickr users get a host of ways to edit their photos. I am sure that will be a great hit with the users, since the current photo editing tools on Flickr are limited to Image rotation and cropping. Picknik on Flickr would mean, I can edit photos using the powerful Picnik photo editor and edit my... Read The Rest →
Ssshhh! OiNK Admin Speaks
Well I am sure you have read about the shutdown of Oink by the IFPI and BPI a few days back here on dailyApps. Well there were quite a lot of questions that raced through my mind and after spending endless hours on the Oink IRC, i could find a few answers to the questions that were literally burning my head. Here are a few answers that I lifted directly from the IRC logs from here. I am posting the chat transcript for you all to read and ponder upon.... Read The Rest →
Google Updates Pagerank, Shocks Many Leading Publishers
Google is definitely upto something here. A Major Pagerank update has been dished out and a lot of popular blogs have been hit the hardest with the update losing quite a bit of Pagerank in the process.. General theory is that the drop in Pagerank is due to sale of Text Links on these sites, but I don’t think that is the reason for all this. Take for example Problogger which was PR6 and now its PR4 or take Copyblogger which was also PR6 and now is PR4. Both of... Read The Rest →
Operation Firefox – A New Take on Spread Firefox
Mozilla has come up with yet another initiative to take Firefox to the masses. The latest campaign coming from Mozilla is titled as "Operation Firefox" an initiative that takes to marketing Firefox in the traditional way by putting up large sized banners in public places. In brief: The goal is to post fifty 3½-feet (~1 meter) wide Firefox logo stickers in some very visible areas around the world. Participants must be residents of the US, Canada, Japan, China and New Zealand though. Well here are some more details about the... Read The Rest →
Yay! GMail finally gets IMAP
Thanks to DownloadSquad I discovered that my Gmail account finally has IMAP Access in it. IMAP allows you to read and send mail just like POP does but albeit in a much better way. IMAP will allow you to read mails from a variety programs and the most important thing is that all the mails that you read say in your iPhone, the same mails will be marked as read when you check your inbox in Thunderbird.
