Microsoft recently announced a new operating system for the cloud called Windows Azure. Azure is a services platform that is hosted by Microsoft in Microsoft data centers around the globe and is completely scalable and affordable. Amazon.com also offers a hosted and scalable solution that they host. Here is the rundown on how to have reliable services without having to drop a ton of cash for your own servers, data center or infrastructure. [...more]
I think about everyone out there has used Google Images to search for images. It is a very effective tool an great to get search results quickly and easily. Yahoo Images has taken the bar up a notch. Yahoo Images has included an intelligent Search Assist Engine to aid in image search. Here is the rundown. [...more]
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- In a move the company is billing as its first foray into the hardware business, Oracle Corp. said Wednesday it will begin selling server computers that come with its database software pre-installed. [...more]
Recently a bunch of hose bags have been upping files on Torrents sites that require a “special player” to see the video. This player is full of spyware, Trojans, viruses and crap! Often the video is still the original, or decent quality. Here is how to decrypt these videos and watch them without this crap special player. [...more]
Openads 2.4 is the new stable version of the hugely popular Openads adserver. This new version gives you more control over your adspace, has a simple upgrade process and can serve billions of ads each month. OpenAds is 100% compatible with Google Adsense, Yahoo! Publisher, Advertising.com and many more! [...more]
Everyone wants to optimize their systems so they get a quick boot up time? What if there was a way to get a system to boot into Linux in 5 seconds with drivers ready to go – Internet Browsing in 5 seconds! Here’s the answer. [...more]
Songbird is a media player built on Mozilla technology that some people have described as the Firefox of media players. The reason for this is because of the growing number of plugins and feathers (skins) that can be applied to the player. It is a full featured, customizable music experience! [...more]
A new blip has appeared on the radar screen of Web Servers. Since late 2006 a new entrant has emerged in the Web Server market place and is steadily gaining ground and popularity. Netcraft’s monthly survey of Top Servers has shown a new entry into it’s Top Five Web Servers: lighttpd. [...more]
Google’s Application Strategy is coming into focus with the recent release of Google Gears, an open-source project with a new browser extension that lets Web applications run offline. With that rollout and the acquisition of browser security vendor GreenBorder Technologies, Google has accelerated its work on building—and helping IT build—truly useful Web apps. [...more]
The new DDR3 -- Double Data Rate 3 -- standard, gives a big performance improvement and should reduce power compared with to the DDR1 and DDR2 memory schemes, according to the standards group which made it. [...more]
