Google has release a version of its popular web browser Google Chrome for Mac OS X operating system. The release comes a year and four months after the initial windows release. Although in beta, reviews of the browser have been coming in on a positive note and many critics welcome the expansion of the browser [...] [...]
Gmail is a fantastic email tool for personal and corporate use. One of the biggest drawbacks has been the inability to use the system offline the way you could with Outlook or Outlook Express. That has all changed with the introduction of Gmail Offline. Here is how to enable it. [...]
The world’s favourite search engine provider has done it again. In the matter of months they have expanded into the new technology market, challenging Microsoft on yet another front. You had guessed right, Google has started work on their brand new Operating System. The new Google Chrome OS, is an open source operating system, OSOS [...] [...]
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. [...]
Mouseless Browsing (MLB) is a Firefox-Extension which enables you to browse the internet with the keyboard. The basic principle is to add small boxes with unique ids behind every link and/or form element. You just have to type in the id and press enter (there is also an automatice mode available) to trigger the corresponding action i.e. following a link, pressing a button or selecting a textfield. [...]
All the Web 2.0 technologies are great, and you can get an email account now when you buy a sandwich. But managing all these accounts can be a real pain, and keeping up with all the messages and notifications can be a real issue. Here is the solution. Digsby. [...]
LigHTTPd is one of the fastest web servers around. If you are running it chances are that you will need to enable SSL. Here are the instructions on how to install OpenSSL in LigHTTPd. Open Terminal and type; [...]
Three days before Google launched its Google Developer Day conference in Sydney, Australia, Microsoft revealed its latest bid to attract more developers to its .NET platform: Gadget vs. Gadget contest. In this latest battle for the computing platform of the future Microsoft has launched a contest to design and develop the coolest gadget for its new operating system Windows Vista. The contest is similar to Google's Summer of Code tournament, in which hundreds of university and college students compete for a top spot in this competition. Both software giants a looking at ways to attract new developers onto their own platform. However, Microsoft's bid involves the development of features for Vista platform only, while Google, with its Gears line up, is keen on grabbing the market share among all of the popular OSes out there. [...]
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Thursday that new top-level domain names (TLDs) for general use could be live by summer of 2008, and invited public comment on procedures for creating the new domains - the first since 2000. [...]
Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live™ Hotmail®, the successor to MSN® Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages. The most significant upgrade for Hotmail since it pioneered the webmail industry in 1996. [...]
