Yahoo! Web Analytics launched as a private beta
Yahoo Web Analytics when launched for public, would be Yahoo!’s answer in the competitive Free Web Analytics market. Yahoo! Web Analytics tools are based on IndexTools, which was acquired by Yahoo! in April this year. As a private beta, Yahoo web analytics are only available to previous IndexTools customers and selected Yahoo! Small Business hosting [...]
Create annotated website screenshots with Fireshot
Don’t like Print screen for taking screenshots of web pages? Not happy with regular screenshot programs available for your OS? Try Fireshot, a Firefox extension to take web page screenshots, add some minor editing touchups and annotate the important parts.
Linux kernel is now 17 years old
On October 5th 1991, Linux Torvalds sent a message to the newsgroup comp.os.minix titled Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-ATÂ (original announcement now archived at google’s usenet archive). That was about 17 years back when all that was required for a free GNU Operating System project was a bootable kernel. Today after contributions from thousands of [...]
Find out where is your username registered
People never run out of truely whacky ideas really. Want to quickly check out which social/email/blogging site is your username already registered at? Move over to http://usernamecheck.com, enter your username and hit the “?” button. A background process queries almost over 50 social networking, photo sharing, social bookmarking, blogging and twitting websites and reports where [...]
EveryDNS.net - the best Free DNS hosting service provider
When you register a domain and start a website, you’ll definately need a stable and reliable DNS hosting service provider. The easiest place to find a DNS hosting service is to ask your domain registrar or your web hosting provider. When i my personal blog, i signed up for DNS hosting service at my registrar, [...]
Flagfox - Display country where the website is hosted at
Flagfox is a nice little utility for firefox that instantly displays the country where the website you are viewing is located. Flagfox sits in the browser’s address bar or status bar and silently queries its GeoIP database and displays a small flag of the country where host is located. On clicking the icon it performs [...]
Netflix launches API for its vast movie subscription service
Netflix announced the public availability of its API service from 1st October. Netflix is a U.S. based movie and video content subscription service which rents DVDs of movies and TV episodes for a small monthly subscription fee.
In an official blogpost announcing the Netflix api, Adam said:
Why are we doing this? Because we have limited resources [...]
Microsoft SearchPerks! Win prizes just for searching the web
Okay, let me ask a simple question. What was the last time you used Microsoft Live Search to search the intarweb? Now would you use it as a daily use search engine if Microsoft gave you “perks” just for searching the internet. As simple as that?
Announcing Microsoft SearchPerks. Sign up before December 31, install a [...]
Google India launches SMS Channels - Free SMS for your group
Google India launched a new service from its labs - named Google SMS Channels, it allows people to create SMS based channels for following up with updates. A Google SMS Channel can be hooked on to a blog, a regular RSS feed or to Google groups mailing list. Its also possible to manually send SMS [...]
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