Automattic Acquires Gravatar
I am sure you have all seen some pretty avatars floating almost all over the web in countless blogs, forums etc… It was made possible thanks to efforts of Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatars), but offlate Gravatar seemed to have scaling issues with its amazing rate of growth. This is when it became an automatic choice for Automattic to acquire. Automattic with its vast experience with Server scaling and architecture thanks to Akismet and WordPress.com are going to be of tremendous help to Gravatar. If you haven’t noticed here are some... Read The Rest →
The Wait is Over : Ubuntu 7.10 is Here
Well the wait is finally over, Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) was released just a few hours ago. Ubuntu has changed the way we perceive Linux. Ubuntu has taken Linux to new levels taking it beyond geeks to a lot of normal people like you and me. In its 3 years of existence Ubuntu continues to grow as the biggest challenge to Microsoft domination in the Operating System market. Well today marked the day when another version of Ubuntu labeled as Gusty Gibbon present itself. Gusty has brought a lot of... Read The Rest →
Apple Announces a Real SDK for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Alas! Apple has finally done what we have all been craving for the past 4 months. Steve Jobs today in his usual open letter style announced the arrival of 3rd party apps to the iPhone. Well Apple plans to release a SDK(Software Development Kit) in February 2008 which is quite far away right now and I bet its got be February 26th this time around. Well this bodes well for a lot of iPhone users all over the world. For the first time you will be able to apps like... Read The Rest →
Google Analytics Announces Exciting New Features
The Google Analytics blog today made some important announcements today for which we have been waiting for a quite a while now. In addition to the new features that will be rolled out soon, Urchin Stats which provides the backend for Google Analytics which Google had acquired back in 2006 will be released with a new version 6 that will bring Urchin on par with Google Analytics. Urchin Stats is a standalone package that you can install on your website without depending on Google Analytics. Being a corporate stats package,... Read The Rest →
Dev Team Announces anySIM for iPhone
The Dev Team is at work again. anySIM has been upgraded to support the latest iPhone firmware 1.1.1. If you are a person who has been dying to get your iPhone unlocked but don’t want to buy iPhoneSIMFree (60$-100$) then you can get anySIM for free from the dev team.
Leopard is coming on October 26th
Well finally its decided! Mac OSX Leopard will indeed launch on October 26th as was predicted by a lot of people in the blogosphere. Well it will cost you a 129$ for a single user licence and 116$ for the student licence. And those of you who are looking to purchase Mac OSX Server Edition, then hang on because it releases on the same day i.e. 26th of October. Well Leopard has been one of the most awaited Operating Systems of the year and its got over 300 new features... Read The Rest →
Zune 2 Software Leaked in Windows Update
It looks like the guys over at Microsoft are having a hard time reading this blog. In the past couple of days I have been writing about hacks or leaks about Microsoft software. Well this one just adds to the list. Well a guy called JJRules over at Zunerama Forums got his hand into the next update of Zune Software. He Writes “As part of Windows Updates on my laptop today, I installed an optional update called “Driver Update for Zune USB.” It actually installed a pre-release version of the... Read The Rest →
Windows Home Server OEM Leaked
Well the file sharers have done it again. The OEM version of Windows Home Server has been leaked on BitTorrent and is now available on all major Torrent search engines. Well I’m not going to point out the direct links to the torrent files here, but if you are really interested then you can search for the leaked version all by yourself. Trust me, its not that difficult. Well all you need to do is search for Windows Home Server on any torrent search engine like Demonoid, Mininova, PirateBay etc..... Read The Rest →
Firefox for the Super Geeks – WebRunner
Well if you are super geek and productivity conscious just like the way I am then I am sure you are going to fall in love with this amazing app developed by Mozilla, the same team behind Firefox. Well the app I am talking about is WebRunner, a standalone version of Firefox that is lightning quick and does not leak memory like its Bigger Brother does. But the catch is that WebRunner is Firefox minus all the bells and whistles (See Screenshot on the left). Well that means that WebRunner... Read The Rest →
Time Waster of the Day – Twingly
Well Technorati currently tracks over 108.7 million blogs and that number increases with every passing day. Well you can’t read each and every blog post that is published in the world can you? So if you want to pass some time reading some random stuff then Twingly is for you.. I downloaded Twingly and I have been using for almost a day now, and I must say that Twingly really is an amazing piece of software. To start off with, Twingly basically is a visualization tool, that allows you to... Read The Rest →
