I had written this review of Astahost for FreeWebSpace quite sometime back. Since Astahost or rather Xisto Corporation in general have been so benevolent and supportive of me, they definitely deserve a special mention. Way back in the beginning quarter of 2005 … As usual like everyone else, I was...
Arizona based Ten Ships has announced the first public beta of their all new product AjaxDNS, which is an Ajax framework … … for any systems administrator, support technician, or anyone that needs quick network and domain tools and analysis. The features offered are: Live DNS Whois Search IP Whois...
Giveaway of the Day is a brand new project that gives away free software – legally! Yup, that’s right. Everyday they pick a software from well-known companies and make a fully functional version available for download through-out the day. Those who are able to grab it during the allowed period...
According to a recent article on iTWire the blogging boom will reach it’s peak point in 2007 and level out. The blogging phenomenon is set to peak in 2007 and then level out at around 100 million, predicts analysts Gartner Group. The web is littered with 200 million abandoned blogs,...
With the much awaited official release of Firefox 3.0 Alpha our favourite browser has finally managed to pass the Acid 2 Test. Codenamed Grand Paradiso, starting from this version Firefox implements the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine and boasts heavily refactored reflow algorithms that improve Firefox layout functionality and resolve some...
When I first read about this my thoughts were – “Oh no..one more player in the already too crowded Web OS gang !!” How wrong I was ! This one turned out to be a transformation pack for Windows XP, giving you a complete Mac makeover. Visiting the site took...
Craythur is another new kid in the ever-mushrooming Web OS block. It’s heavily reliant on JavaScript/AJAX and primarily based on the Prototype and Script.aculo.us frameworks, which originated on the Mac. At the first glance it seems that this one is geared more as a Personal Information Manager rather than an...
Google’s at it again and this time with a much-needed patent search engine. It sports the same minimalistic interface that’s a trademark of Google and allows you to perform fulltext searches on a database of over 7 million patents and view the details of each patent along with all the...
I came across this terrific freeware tool called Sandboxie that can run almost any given program in a virtual sandboxed space and revert your system back to the original state it was in, once you terminate the program. For instance, when you surf using your favourite browser (Firefox/IE/Opera) – they...
A new limited edition mobile phone from Goldvish, the Swiss cell-phone maker has beat the Vertu collection to being the world’s costliest phone ever. If you thought that the Vertu was mind-bogglingly expensive, think twice. This particular collection called PLATO and referred to as “Le million” PIECE UNQIUE was awarded...