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 →
Google Talk Labs Edition Released
I wonder how many of you regularly use Google Talk anymore? Its been ages since the Official Google Talk client was updated. We’ve patiently waited for new features like Group Chat, New Emoticons to make it into Google Talk, but so far that hasn’t happened. Well the Google Talk team has just released a “Labs Edition” of Google Talk which is more or less same as the Google Talk Gadget, just that it is the desktop version of Google Talk Gadget. The Labs edition of Google Talk features notification for... 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.
How To Make A Cheap Lie Detector
Planning to have a party this weekend. I’m sure we all have visitors who love bragging about stuff they haven’t done or achieved in their lives. There can be nothing more funny other than catching them red handed lying. Obviously you wouldn’t want to embarrass them, so read on only if you want to have a good laugh. Well here’s a video guide that shows you to how to build a lie detector for cheap, that really works and is great for catching friends and your spouse red handed.
Who Said Marriages Are Made in Heaven? They're are Made on Twitter too!
Twitter really is proving to be a disruptive force in the way we think. The past two days people all over Twitter have been passing tweets about an apparent proposal by a guy on Twitter. I didn’t really feel that people would get engaged over Twitter but turns out that an engagement did indeed happen. Who is this geeky couple you might ask! Well Max Kiesler and Emily Chang made it official in the early hours of 20th March. Max really is a lucky guy because Emily responded within... Read The Rest →
Planning to Upgrade to WordPress 2.5, Read This!
With WordPress 2.5 to be scheduled to be released today (I’m not sure if it will make it today or not) the whole blogosphere is going to go crazy with reviews of the latest version of WordPress. Many users would invariably encounter problems while upgrading, so here’s a check list by Lorelle Van Fossen to make sure that the upgrading to WordPress 2.5 goes off smoothly. Let me cut out all the stuff and just list out the points here for a quick scan. You can read the full list... Read The Rest →
Acid3 Browser Test Now Live
Ian Hickson, the Google Employee was assigned the job of working on the next generation Acid test has completed his work and the Acid3 test is live at its new home http://acid3.acidtests.org/. The Acid test is a test which we all use to measure a Web Browser’s adherence to standards. Read more about Acid tests on this wikipedia page. Unlike the first acid test, which focused on the box model, and the second acid test, which covered a broad variety of basic HTML and CSS features, Acid3 covers 100 of... Read The Rest →
Smugmug Private Photos are for Anyone to See
Apparently the popular photo sharing site Smugmug has a huge security hole that could allow anyone with a bit of common sense to access private photos on Smugmug. The basic problem here is that Smugmug uses URL’s for public and private galleries in a way that can be easily guessed. And whats even more shameful is that the people behind the site are aware of this issue, but they seem to be too keen to say that this is intended behavior. If seeing private photos via publicly accessible URL’s is... Read The Rest →
And the Webster’s Word of the Year Award Goes to… ""w00t!"
Hot on the heels, Merriam Webster just crowned “w00t” as the online Word of the Year 2007. ”w00t,” a hybrid of letters and numbers used by gamers as an exclamation of happiness or triumph, topped all other terms in an online poll for the word that best sums up 2007. Merriam-Webster’s president, John Morse, said ”w00t” was an ideal choice because it blends whimsy and new technology. Although the double ‘o’ in the word is usually represented by double zeroes, the exclamation is also known to be an acronym for... Read The Rest →
