Here are a couple of really cool Web 2.0 logos designed by Utom. They can be downloaded from his blog Utombox in both PNG and ICO formats and are distributed free. Thanks to Utom for the RSS icon which I’m using on my site now. He’s even got a bunch...
What is it? NetMeter is a free, lightweight network bandwidth monitoring utility that sits in your system tray and continually keeps track of the amount of data flowing through your own system’s network connection. It’s highly customisable and shows neat graphs of your current download & upload speeds. The graph...
This article recently posted by my friend Mahesh in his blog Splat, expresses grave concerns over this shocking bill called Orphan Works Act (2006) that might actually allow US citizens to legally steal copyrighted works by others around the world. The bill which was introduced on May 22nd, 2006 in...
In my earlier tutorial titled Creating OpenSearch Plugins for Firefox (adds to the QuickSearch bar) I taught you how to write a basic OpenSearch XML format plug-in that can be used with both Firefox 2.x and IE7. The demonstrated example consisted of creating a plug-in that searches through Invision Power...
Meccano, the French model construction kit maker is set to introduce a Wi-Fi controlled called Spyke at the Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas (January 8th – 11th, 2007). The robot which sports a webcam, runs on rubber treads that might even enable it to climb stairs (depending on the power...
A brief introduction This tutorial will attempt to explain in a simple manner how to create an OpenSearch plug-in for Firefox. These plug-ins appear in a drop-down menu in the Firefox Quick-Search bar (located right of the URL/Address bar) and help you perform quick searches across various search engines without...
A couple of weeks back I’d written about two SEO/SERP analyser extensions for Firefox namely … SeoQuake SEOpen Recently I came across another great extension called SearchStatus that offers similar functionality as the above two with a twist… in the sense that this one offers something that neither of the...
ICANN, the key overseer of the internet is reanalysing a proposal to create a .xxx top level domain that would clearly demarcate pornographic sites from the rest. While the use of the proposed domain would remain voluntary, any site abiding by this new nomenclature will be subjected to a new...
WordPress version 2.0.6 was released a couple of hours back. It consists of quite a few security updates and an upgrade is recommend on the double. What’s new: The aforementioned security fixes HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog...
If you didn’t know, clicks on AdSense Ads can be effectively tracked and recorded providing us with further insight into the inner workings of AdSense. Google Analytics provides us with really useful tools to track AdWords statistics, but totally lacks any tool to work in conjunction with AdSense. However, there...