Archive for the August, 2006
Aug
27
Site24x7 currently in it’s beta stage —”is a hosted web site monitoring service that helps webmasters ensure their websites or blogs are up and running at peak performance.”
The site24x7 servers make HTTP or HTTPS requests to your website or blogs at regular intervals of time and check if your website
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Aug
18
Gmail shows more links in the navigation bar from the top left corner. If you use Picasa Web Albums and Google Spreadsheets, you'll see links to these services. There's also a link to "all my services". Google has yet to find a way to make it easy to move from one service to another. One idea
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Aug
21
Google has released Mac Notifier for you to be updated about the events from Google Calendar. The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.
The Google
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Aug
26
Here's yet another new Windows Live service that Microsoft is launching. Known as "Windows Live Essentials" – not to be confused with Office Live Essentials – the new service will bundle e-mail, instant-messaging, security services and other Windows Live entities, plus Windows Live Dashboard – into a "seamless whole." Microsoft
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Aug
25
Amazon Web Services are readying their latest service called EC2 which will allow users to setup and run servers and computing capacity in the cloud. Users of the service can setup a server instance which is hosted with Amazon, and then access and use the servers they setup just like
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Aug
20
Danny Thorpe, on his blog has announced “the beta release of a new kind of web component: the Windows Live Contacts Gadget!”.
What's it for? — “The contacts gadget is client-side JavaScript that enables end users to use their Windows Live
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Aug
27
This download contains a standalone version of the Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Release Notes.Continue…
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Aug
29
Co-branded Windows Live services will bring Verizon Online DSL and Verizon FiOS Consumer Broadband customers more personalized Internet experiences.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE “VZ”) and Microsoft Corp.(Nasdaq “MSFT”) today announced an expanded alliance in which Verizon will offer its consumer DSL and FiOS Internet customers a co-branded suite of Microsoft® Windows Live™ services to help them enjoy
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Aug
29
Podango! is a Podcasting service with a dieffernce, instead of providing one show per channel, which may be sporadic in it’s quality and delivery schedule — it provides multiple, handpicked podcasts to listeners via “one convenient podcast station (go!Station).
“Go!Stations mean spending less time looking for great quality, relevant podcasts and
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Aug
25
Sinppet from IEBlog — We are currently locking down IE7 for shipping and I wanted to give an update on the CSS work that went into IE7. Chris originally outlined our plans for IE7, and we listened to a lot of feedback (blog, connect database, conferences, our WASP
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Aug
30
With 7.5 Million* monthly visitors and over 400 Million photos to explore, Webshots is the world's largest photo sharing site.
Webshots has been relaunched with “new interface and features”. The first change is about photo uploading —”Free accounts will able to upload 1,000 photos + additional
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Aug
21
Check out “what does your browser say about you?” Manoj — “I often tend to judge people based on the type of browser they use. Believe it or not, the choice of your favorite browser reveals a lot about your personality.” Read full article…
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Aug
22
Zooomr is a photo sharing application focused on helping you explore photos from the inside out no matter what language you speak.
Zooomr has launched a number of new features yesterday, the most noteable is “Portals”, which links zoomable pictures inside of each other (see video). They have also introduced
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Aug
30
Google is adding another feather to it’s “Google Books” service called “PDF downloads” of non-copyrights books. Using Google's Book Search service, Web surfers hunting titles like Dante's "Inferno" and Aesop's "Fables" will be able to download PDF files of the books for later reading, to run keyword searches or to print them on paper. Up to now,
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Aug
18
If you constantly receive messages you'd like to ignore from the same persons or Gmail's spam filters aren't too good for you, it's time to create a blacklist. How to do that in Gmail?
1. Go to Contacts, click on Groups and create a new group (let's say "Blacklist").
2. Click
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