April 2008
55 posts
Melbourne IT Acquires Versign DBMS For $50 Million →
Melbourne IT has acquired Versign’s Digital Brand Management Services (DBMS) division for $50 million.
DBMS offers a portfolio of digital brand security services, including domain name…
JAJAH Lands 97 Million Yahoo Users →
VOIP provider JAJAH has just got a welcome boost via a deal with Yahoo that will see JAJAH power premium voice on Yahoo Messenger.
Under the deal, JAJAH will provide its proprietary…
Email Large Files Quickly with Gmail and Box.net →
Do you want to transfer some big files over the Internet using Gmail?
If the file is not an exe and less than 20 MB, you can send it as an email attachment in Gmail. Else upload the…
How to Skip the Installation Delay for Firefox... →
Weblog Daily Gyan points out a simple about:config tweak that disables the installation delay for new Firefox extensions. As you may know, Firefox tries to protect you from malicious…
Read RSS Newsfeeds In Style With “Times” →
From Google Reader to NetNewsWire to Vienna, RSS readers have become somewhat of a commodity, with all of them providing a similar feature set and the same approach to getting your fill of…
Read RSS Newsfeeds In Style With “Times” →
From Google Reader to NetNewsWire to Vienna, RSS readers have become somewhat of a commodity, with all of them providing a similar feature set and the same approach to getting your fill of…
New in Google Docs: Insert Videos, Edit CSS →
There are so many updates at Google Docs, that you’ll need many hours to explore them and start to use them. You can now access your browser’s contextual menu by pressing Shift while…
View your presentations and spreadsheets offline,... →
Posted by: Andrew Chang, Marketing Manager Our initial offline rollout is complete. Done. Finito. You should now see an “Offline” link in the upper right hand corner of Google Docs. When we…
Bought a new iPod Touch today. This device is awesome.
Windows Sales Way Down, Microsoft Loses Money →
Here are the meaty bits in the cold platter of numbers that is Microsoft’s quarterly earnings report. Windows sales are way down (the client division, which makes Windows, saw sales drop by…
Google Spends $70 Million A Year on Free Food →
Silicon Alley Insider guesstimated that Google spends about $70 millions a year in U.S. offices for the free food program that Google offer to its employees. The free food program covers…
Facebook Versus Gmail Web-based Chat [Lifehacker... →
A few weeks ago Facebook promised to start slowly rolling out chat, and it just hit my account today. (If it’s enabled for you, check it out in the lower right hand corner when you’re…
Put Facebook Chat in Firefox Sidebar & Talk... →
Like Google Talk, you can also run the Facebook Chat application from Firefox sidebar.
The advantages are that you need not open your Facebook homepage to see a list of friends that are…
Sony buys Gracenote for $260m →
Filed under: Portable Audio
You remember Gracenote, right? They’re the company that some years back kinda sorta misled everybody that populated the CDDB with data by selling the whole…
Music Down Under →
Nokia just announced that their Music Store is now available in Australia. Cool. But there’s a big music-related announcement in London tomorrow (Tuesday) - so there’s much more to come. I’m…
The Original Messenger Bag Might Still Be the Best →
While we are adorned with the latest and greatest in trendy, designer messenger bags, J.Crew has recreated and rereleased the original. Modelled after the U.S. Postal Service’s standard bag from…
Auto Healther Does Complete Body Massage,... →
Remember the massage pants? Well, automated massage seems to have taken a step further on from those with the Dainichi Auto Healther Reiz DZ-270: it’s a robo-table that can massage you from…
Web 2.0 Expo: What to watch for →
On Tuesday, the Web 2.0 Expo invades San Francisco. The largest Web 2.0 conference there is — the organizers are expecting 7,000+ attendees — will inhabit the Moscone exhibit hall…
HTML OnMissingImage →
Scenario: you need to display a bunch of images but you’re not 100% certain that they exist. Solution 1: If the images are hosted in the same server you can loop over their physical path display an…
Stacked Cup Is the Leaning Tower of Coffee Breaks... →
Jack Loftus via Gizmodo shared by 5 people Why drink Joe from a normal mug when you can tease coworkers with this hilarious gravity-defying fused three-cup stack day after day, and…
The Time Machine Screensaver →
Filed under: Design, Fun, Macintosh, Freeware
Sure, you make fun of the chintzy Time Machine animation when you’re out to sushi with your geek friends, but secretly you…
Free Alternatives to the MacHeist Bundle [Mac OS... →
Every now and then, a web site called MacHeist packages up a handful of popular Mac shareware and offers the entire bundle for a significantly discounted rate. Despite criticisms…
Following Email Etiquette →
In Simplifying Your Information Intake, we looked at strategies to reduce the amount of email you need to deal with, and how to deal with what’s left much faster. Anyone who undertakes the…
Mean Jelly Beans →
You may have already seen this, but there’s a new product called Bean Boozled with two sets of identically colored-jelly beans: one that’s a traditional jelly bean and one that’s truly nasty. See…
The next big Apple product is a... a... well, it's...
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Google Notebook's Official Guide to Bars →
Posted by Nick Santos, Software Engineer, Google Notebook Today, it’s my pleasure to announce the opening of two trendy new bars on the Notebook home page. Uptown, we have the new editing…
Google launches 'Solutions Marketplace' for the... →
Not content to offer just applications and search appliances to businesses, Google has launched its Solutions Marketplace, a listing site for third-party add-on products to Google Apps.
Baby Girl in India Born With Two Faces →
A baby girl, with two faces and a single head, was born in an Indian village last month - she drinks milk with two mouths and blinks her four eyes at the same time.
CNN: The girl is…
Let Nemo Find Himself In The Labyrinth Aquarium →
If the dentist in Finding Nemo had owned a Labyrinth aquarium like this one in his surgery, all of his fish would have been happy to stay right where they were, Nemo would never have been…
Adobe Releases Media Player 1.0, Launches Adobe TV →
Today, Adobe is releasing the 1.0 version of its Media Player (AMP) software to the public. The player, which is an offline Flash video manager comparable to the Veoh player, was first…
Save your presentations to PowerPoint →
Posted by: Andrew Chang, Marketing Manager We believe you should be able to access your presentations however and whenever you want, in whatever format you need. In that vein, today we launched…
Firefox 3 Beta 5 Easter Egg [Easter Egg] →
Intrepid testers using Firefox 3 beta 5: type about:robots into the address bar to get a fun page of robotic references. Also, check out our Complete Field Guide to Testing Firefox 3. [
CushyCMS Beta Launch: Free Invites For TechCrunch... →
Stateless Systems (RetailMeNot, BugMeNot) has launched a closed beta test of hosted service CushyCMS.
CushyCMS is a fast, simple and free content management system that aims to make life…
Developers, start your engines →
Posted by Kevin Gibbs, Tech Lead, Google App Engine We just launched a preview release of Google App Engine, a way for developers to run their web applications on Google’s infrastructure. In the…
World is Witness →
Posted by Michael H. Graham, Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel Laureate and Founding Chairman of the U.S. Holocaust…
Yahoo Leaks: Tomorrow They’re Going To Write A... →
Yahoo leaks to Reuters that they’ll issue a letter tomorrow responding to Microsoft’s letter yesterday. In the letter, Yahoo is expected to very sternly reject Microsoft’s suggestion that its…
Swarovski Lighting, The 24/7 Mood Light For Your... →
Those marketing guys at Swarovski are quite the gadget whores - they’ll happily stick their crystals on anything and everything for a bit of promotion. But it isn’t always a bad…
Major Google Announcement Monday Evening: Is It... →
Google’s is hosting the second of their developer events, called “Campfire One,” on Monday (April 7) evening. Multiple people have forwarded email invitations to me for the event, where Google…
Hi Volt Antivirus Brings Unorthodox Safety Measure... →
We’ve seen awesome Tesla coil art many times before, and the latest addition to the catalog is no exception. With Christmas decorations, a vehicle anti-theft device and allied soldiers all…
Facebook Chat Launches, For Some →
We’ve received word that Facebook has released its much anticipated chat/IM application to a few unspecified networks. The “pre-launch beta”, as Facebook is calling it, started sometime last…
Google Email Uploader available →
The Google Email uploader allows users to import messages and contacts stored locally in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird into Gmail. Editions impacted: Standard, Premier,…
Dolby Digital Bringing Surround Sound to Nokia N95 →
Nokia’s N95 is already a multimedia powerhouse, and now it’s about to become even more of one. Dolby Digital has just announced that it’s bringing Dolby Surround sound to the robust…
Naubo mixes up Google News, Reddit and Techmeme →
Web news aggregator Naubo might be one of the unholiest unions I’ve ever seen. It could also be one of the best places for news junkies to get their fix. The service is an unabashed…
Find Out How It's Said at Forvo [Language] →
Find out how to say a word you’re unfamiliar with at web site Forvo. Aiming to one day have “all the words in the world pronounced”—including words in 23 languages—Forvo relies on users to…
Desktop Tower Defence Addiction? →
I think i’m suffering from Desktop Tower Defence addiction - I showed it to the guys in the office on Friday and i think we’ve been playing in every spare moment we have…. Don’t try it - you…