Bittorrent goes to Content Delivery Through CDN
Well the Word that you are all used to hearing by now, Torrents will no longer be only associated with Illegal content obtained from sites like Mininova and Pirate Bay. Now the parent company i.e. BitTorrent is trying its hand at delivering content of Big Media Companies through the Bittorrent Protocol. Bittorrent DNA (Delivery Network Accelerator) as the new CDN (Content Delivery Network) will be called, will aim to provide big media companies and online Video providers, to reduce the Bandwidth costs with P2P information sharing technology. The basic principle... Read The Rest →
AWN – The Super Sexy Dock for Linux
If you are a Mac OSX fan, I am sure you love the dock functionality of OS X. We have docks for Windows like Object Dock etc. but so far none of them have come up to terms with the OS X Dock. Well finally Linux has a dock, that I believe is a lot more better than the dock in OSX. I am not a Linux user, and I still use Windows XP as my default OS, but with every passing day, i am itching to try out Ubuntu.... Read The Rest →
Applists – Gets the Best out of iPhone
If you are an Apple iPhone fan, and have been stuck at the very limited choices of third party apps, then worry no more, because Applists has come out with a new version of its Web Based App List, that you can comfortably browse through the Safari Web Browser. What stuck me the most is the intuitive interface that Applists 2.0 has. A Lot of detail has gone into each and every icon and text that you see on Applists.
[How-To] WordPress 2.3 Tags in Windows Live Writer
Well, I just upgraded from WordPress 2.2.3 to WordPress 2.3. After Upgrading, Ultimate Tag Warrior no longer works, so I am using the built in Taxonomy system in WordPress 2.3. Before I could add tags to my posts via Windows Live Writer, my favorite desktop blogging client, but after the WordPress Upgrade that no longer works. I went searching around the internet, and found the solution that I was looking for and here the steps that I took to be able to post tags from Windows Live Writer. First of... Read The Rest →
Planning to Upgrade to WordPress 2.3? Read This!
Well After a lot of thought, I have finally upgraded dailyApps over to WordPress 2.3. While the process was not as easy as it normally is, but it wasn’t as scary as what I read from others experiences. I Had some requirements for dailyApps before upgrading, and everything but one, that is colored tag clouds remained was satisfied. I spent about 5hrs coding up a quick and dirty plugin to display colored tag clouds, borrowing heavily from UTW and my minimal PHP coding skills. After doing that, the result was... Read The Rest →
Thieves, Pizza and more in the new Firefox Ad Campaign
Mozilla has launched a new ads campaign, which will go live anytime soon i guess. The new ads are basically flash videos that are too good and I instantly fell in love with them. The New ads are meaningful as well as funny. Well if you don’t believe all that I say, all you need to do is, right click on the flash videos below and click play. The first Ad focuses on the Security, while the second one on the extensibility of Firefox. In the First ad a couple... Read The Rest →
Gimme – Desktop Organizer for Linux
Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer for Linux. It’s designed to allow easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and other things you use every day. Gimmie can be run either as a stand-alone application or added as a GNOME Panel applet. Gimmie uses an innovative tabs-based approach to categorize everything on your computer. Not just the applications you have installed. You can quickly find friends, documents, computers on the network, notes, music, and just about everything else in a few clicks.
Download IE7 Legally From Microsoft
Well Microsoft has removed WGA Validation for IE7 Installs, allowing users to download and upgrade IE from IE6 to IE7. By Removing the requirement for WGA Validation, I’m sure Microsoft is looking for deeper penetration into the browser market. The IE7 Browser will be available from today on Windows Update for Windows XPSP2, x64 Server and Windows 2003 Server.
Linux Gets Prettier for all those Windows Fans
Well If you have been itching yourself to switch over to Linux and didn’t like the UI that Linux currently has, then time has finally arrived for you to switch over to Linux in the form of an amazing distro of Linux called Vixta ( I’m pretty much sure Microsoft Lawyers are working on Trademark Infrigement case as I speak). Well the aim of Vixta is pretty much simple, and this is how it reads : Vixta.org is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed to be user-friendly and eye-catching, similar in... Read The Rest →
Disable WordPress Version and Plugin Update Checking
If you are a WordPress 2.3 User, and you want to disable the feature of Update checking, that has been requested by the WordPress community for ages now. If you are a person who is concerned about the privacy, then I suggest you check out these plugins that will prevent the checking for updates. Disable WordPress Core Update Completely disables the core update checking system which is a new feature in WordPress 2.3. The plugin prevents WordPress from checking for updates, and prevents any notifications from being displayed in the... Read The Rest →
