We are faced with mounds of tasks everyday. We get through them and attack them and get them out of our way in different ways. And we forget some of them resulting in stress not just to us but even to people around us. Task Management tools aim at aiding this aspect of your life. […]
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Machinarium’s Experience With Non-DRM/Piracy, Offers Amnesty
DRM advocates tend to argue that they add anti-piracy protection to keep users honest with paying for the software or product. Machinarium is an amazing point and click adventure game playable on Windows, Mac or Linux. In an effort to prove a point, Machinarium developers – Amanita Design from Czech released the game without any […]
Firefox Extensions: Picks of the Week 09-03-24
We looked at the new Firefox 3.1 beta 3 features last week. Did you know Firefox 3.1 is being renamed to Firefox 3.5? While we wait for that to come out of beta, let’s look at a few cool Firefox extensions, shall we? Firefox Extensions of the Week About:Tab (experimental): Firefox 3.1 is going to […]
Typealyzer – What Type is Your Blog?
Typealyzer analyzes writing style in the blog based on text patterns, etc and determines the type of blog. Of course, naturally I put ShanKri-la to the test and we came out as
How to Overcome RSS Feed Overload?
Have you collected a lot of RSS feeds over time that you neatly categorized in folders? If you are like me, you hardly have time to visit some of these folders because to actually go through them all, you are going to need a few hours a day. And who are we kidding? RSS is […]
Mister Wong Comes to USA
I like competition because we, as consumers benefit directly from it. I especially like the new competition to del.icio.us, the popular social online bookmarking service. Mister-Wong.de has been hugely popular in Europe and I have been in their closed-beta for over a month. I was really excited because I have been looking for a better […]
Broadcast your skills with Sclipo
I turn to the internet to for learning a lot of things I am new to. Some times I look up tips or try to find a better way to do the things I do. You can read manuals after manuals and still may not get the hang of it, but if you watched someone […]
Would VaultPress Become the Best Paid WordPress Backup Solution?
WordPress.com blog users (free and hosted version) have enjoyed Automattic’s backups and not worry about their content getting lost. But, the self-hosted WordPress blog users have been left to using some custom solution via Plugins like WP DB Backup or custom backup scripts until now. Automattic has announced a WordPress.com branded solution called VaultPress for […]
Chinese Concept Train That Never Stops
I came across this video on Twitter last week and had bookmarked it. This Chinese concept bullet train never stops anywhere. That’s right! It never stops. Anywhere. The way they figure it is there is a compartment at the station where the passengers are loaded before the train arrives. And as the train passes the […]
Call of Duty: Blacks Ops Makes $1 Billion in 6 Weeks
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare may be the title everyone talked about last time around. Now, Activision’s latest title Call of Duty: Black Ops has made $1 Billion in sales in just 6 weeks since launch. This is an amazing feat only achieved by movie Avatar. Call of Duty: Black Ops is available on all […]
How to Backup and Save Your Delicious Bookmarks?
One of my favorite bookmarking service, Delicous, is shutting down thanks to Yahoo neglecting it and finally ditching it. We had a bit of a good news with Xmarks staying alive but Delicious is going away. I have a ton of bookmarks saved for a few years in delicious and started looking around for ways […]
3 Super Fast Dictonaries in the Internet
I have stopped looking up words in my Webster’s College Dictionary a while back. I used their online version for the longest time before I started using other super fast means of finding meaning for words in the internet. I have listed them in the order I have found and used them, Google being the […]
BuddyPress Get WordPress Single Install Friendly
BuddyPress is another awesome open source forum project that works great with WordPress MU. BuddyPress reached version 1.0 last year but it was friendly only with the multi-use version of WordPress – WordPress MU. Those with single installations of WordPress, like myself, were unable to use BuddyPress with the same ease as WPMU users. With […]
Start your browsing with HomepageStartup
Going to bookmarks to start browsing is so old. If you are a little savvy with your browser, you might have set up multiple pages to open as your home pages. (if not ask me how in the comments) If you use Opera for your browser, you will be all too familiar with the Speed […]
Which DNS Service Should You Use?
Google recently introduced Google Public DNS service. Last week, I wrote about what Google Public DNS actually means to you. If you are not aware of what it is I recommend reading that post before reading this further. With a couple of different options with DNS Servers now between your ISP’s default DNS server, the […]
