The all new FutureBazaar
Posted on | January 5, 2009 | No Comments
FutureBazaar was under maintenance for the new year weekend, but its back on new year with an all new reworked interface. Product navigation is easier, so is searching and narrowing down for what you are looking for. The eshop was offline for a sometime while they transitioned their systems from SAP to popular ATG e-shopping platform.
Starting your own TLD
Posted on | December 29, 2008 | 2 Comments
Have $185,000 lying around? If ICANN’s latest plans come through, you may just be able to start a new Generic TLD registry. After about an year of discussions between ICANN, U.S. Government and the community, US government has called the new gTLD plans a real stinker. Read more
We have a new logo!
Posted on | December 28, 2008 | No Comments
I sat with Kamaleshwar till 3AM to get a couple of logos designed for this logo-less site. We came up with two logos, one in warm shades of brown (human color) and the other in shades of Blue and Grey. I think the bluish one gels more with the current css theme.
Manage your todos in Gmail
Posted on | December 10, 2008 | No Comments
The guys at Gmail labs never sit idle. This week they launched a much needed feature in Gmail. Now you can manage your Todo list in Gmail itself. For a simple and personal todo list, there’s no need to maintain that spreadsheet or signup for Tadalist.
Amazon launches Cloudfront - its own CDN
Posted on | November 26, 2008 | No Comments
I may be the last person to write about it. A few months back Amazon pledged to launch its own Content Delivery Network (CDN). And now they are ready with Amazon Cloudfront. Like all Amazon’s cloud services product offerings, this one too comes without any contracts or monthly commitments. Just pay for what you use.
Gmail gets themes support
Posted on | November 20, 2008 | No Comments
Google added themes support for a select batch of Gmail users. I logged in a while back to find out gmail inbox in a strange shade of blue, with a notice at the top informing about new theme control panel in Gmail settings area.
Store moons and asteroids in Hotmail
Posted on | November 9, 2008 | 1 Comment
Why does Microsoft or their services become butt of jokes every time? I logged in to my Hotmail account today (to keep it alive, of course) and was greeted with a service message informing me about the new cleaner, customizable UI and how it is up to 70% faster than before.
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Meet Windows Azure: Microsoft’s cloud services platform
Posted on | November 4, 2008 | No Comments
The next big thing in computing we are hearing these days is “cloud computing“. Every computing infrastructure vendor is announcing their range of “cloud services” offerings, or is charting their strategy to offer one. A couple of days back at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), Microsoft announced their plans about Windows Azure - An internet scale services platform hosted in their data centers.
According to a 2008 paper published by IEEE Internet Computing “Cloud Computing is a paradigm in which information is permanently stored in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on clients that include desktops, entertainment centers, table computers, notebooks, wall computers, handhelds, sensors, monitors, etc.”
[Halloween] Google is scared of Zombies
Posted on | November 1, 2008 | No Comments
Google, the most popular search engine has huge computing resources available at its disposal. Google’s bots and spiders crawl the farthest reaches of interweb in search of more and more content to munch on — but when it comes to zombies eating their brains, they don’t want to take any chance. Google.com’s robots.txt directive currently doesn’t allow zombies to access its /brains.
Google’s language translation bots
Posted on | October 30, 2008 | No Comments
In the older days, there was Altavista Babelfish, now known as Yahoo Babelfish for translating peices of text or websites from one language to another. It worked for me as i was able to register for an email account at GMX.net - a german portal and an email service provider.
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