Open Source

My apologies since its been a while since I posted on this blog. My real life took over my online life, hence I was unable to dedicate anytime to this blog. A number of interesting events took place over the web while I was away. Notably Apple release the new and refreshed line of Mac […]

Did you know you can test drive Office 2007(Excel,word, IE 7.0 etc) from the comfort of your browser. All you required to have is JAVA and install a small Java Plugin take a look here. Unfortunately this works only in IE, but believe me it can work on any Browser that supports Java. I know […]

Rich Internet Application are the future of Web Based Applications and we have seen a number of competing technologies come up in the last year namely Silverlight, Adobe AIR and Prism. In the future we will see a tighter integration between desktop applications and the web. I couldn’t help noticing the similarities between XUL, Silverlight […]

Lets Start with PHP.net apache.org and w3.org, a quick look at the WayBack machine tells me these sites haven’t changed a bit since 2000(the Apache site is stuck with the same design since 1996). I can understand if these were small fledging projects but projects like PHP and Apache are massive and widely used. What […]

A few days back google announced OpenSocial, its so called open API for social networks. Box.Net today annouced the launch of OpenBox, a platform for developers to integrate their web applications into Box.net. And Bebo announced Open Media platform, a way for media brands to build a presence in the community with music and video […]

Microsoft has released FastCGI for IIS. Also did you know that PHP on IIS is about 10-15% faster than on Apache(Linux). Here a list of guides to installing Popular Open Source Php Applications on IIS. You can install IIS only If You have Windows XP Professional version. Here is a guide to installing WordPress on […]

Flock 1.0 has been officially released. For those of you who don’t know what Flock is, it is basically a Firefox based web browser. However, it has some amazing features that Firefox don’t have. Much of what makes Flock so special is it’s social networking tools. Some of the features of Flock are:

Instantly publish blog […]

Update: Looks like Opera also has inbuilt support for video in the upcoming release. Read the Comments below
While you might have heard of Flash, SilverLight etc which are proprietary application frameworks to create RIA(Rich Internet Application) and have been developed by Adobe and Microsoft respectively. But did you know that Firefox has inbuilt support for […]

I’m Nathan Chapman, Guest Blogging on Clazh from Pixl Design.
Adobe’s Creative Suite is one of the best productivity products of, perhaps, all time. And yet, does it really serve to be the perfect product for everyone?

With Adobe’s not-too-recent acquisition of Macromedia, the next release of a Creative Suite would be sure to include Dreamweaver, Flash […]

Update: Correct the Typo is 1.4.1 not 14.1 thanks to kanak 
A new version of ScribeFire, one of the most popular blogging Extension for FireFox has been released after a long time. Most of the changes are cosmetic. Here’s the list of changes. You can download it from the Official Mozilla repository for extensions. (You might […]

Update: Matt just nuked sponsored themes on the Wordpress Theme Viewers.
Sponsored theme authors had it coming, while I have nothing against sponsored themes, lately the quality of themes being posted on the Wordpress planet have degraded with most of them being sponsored themes. As someone who watches out for good looking theme I am sick […]

Flock has come out of beta and they just released version 0.9. It looks pretty neat. Blog editor still sucks (it spits out nasty html code) you can see whats new here http://www.flock.com/welcome and what’s new here http://www.flock.com/compare
Here is a brief list of new things in Flock.

MyWorld: a dynamic home base for all your […]

Wow I am completely blow away by the quality of these open source Icons released by Everaldo. In fact I can’t believe its Open Source. Designer are a selfish lot (includes me) we put in a lot of hard work and are very protective about releasing it for free. As I look through each Icon […]

Bas just released Plotr 0.2.0 an OpenSource JavaScript Charting Library. With some signification improvements.

Shadow drawing.
Real line charts.
Adding a legend.
Better usage of PrototypeJS.

Here’s an Idea I had, there is already a really cool Wordpress Plugin that lets you view your Google Analytics Statistics in your Wordpress dashboard called Wordpress Reports. While the Wordpress Report Plugin […]

Today morning when I logged into my computer and started Firefox for some reason it crashed. This has happened to me a number of times since I open too many tabs. The unfortunate thing is that after the crash sometime your settings and bookmarks are lost. Fortunately unlike Firefox 1.5 you can recover your setting […]