Technology

Recently my company gave me a laptop to use for work. It was riddled with SpyWare and AdWare. The instant I fired up IE the Virus and SpyWare would trigger up and redirect me to some random ad laden web page requesting me to download even more SpyWare. Since reinstalling the OS was not an […]

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 […]

George Ou who writes for the security column at ZDNET did an analysis of security for Mac OS and Windows using data from impartial Secunia. The Results maybe pretty surprising depending on what your views are regarding MAC Vs PC. I am personally not surprised but I certainly didn’t expect such a big difference. I […]

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 […]

Apple is the new Microsoft or so they say, 2007 has been a great/bad year for Apple. I am seeing a lot of Apple bashing taking place place, grow up people its just a company. Though I admit it is one of the most tight lipped closed company. Lets see where they seem to be […]

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 […]

One of the very few apple ads that I completely agree with. One of the Biggest screw ups with Vista are the various different version.

The Window Live Messenger Team has launched a web based Messenger widget that can be embedded in blogs and website. This is similar to the widgets provided by meebome.com and plugoo.com. But unlike meebo and plugoo which are flash based this widget is javascript based. Using this widget even anonymous users who visit your blog […]

Apple you suck. Here’s Why

I have more than 900 Songs from iTunes in the last 1 year and I can play it only on an iPod or using iTunes on a PC I can’t play them on my Phone or portable music player.
I wanted to buy a Mac Book Pro, I decide to check the […]

After my recent frustrating experience with various web hosts I decided to write an article after some of my readers requested me to. My focus is on web hosts that provide shared hosting since and does not cover buying or using Dedicated hosting, since Shared Hosting is the most commonly used web hosting.
There are three […]

Well its been a really fun and frustrating two weeks for me. Fun because I completely disconnected myself from the computer and Internet. No RSS Feeds, No blog posts, No IM. I went to to Bangalore last weekend with Sagaro and Sid to attend DCamp an UnConference on Design and Usability at Yahoo India, and […]

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 Dennis Bjørn Petersen from www.thebetanews.com and I’m helping Arpit out, while he is working on his Wordpress Theme.
Several sites and news media are talking about the cheap laptop from the Swedish company Medison. The company are selling the laptop for $150 through their website www.medisoncelebrity.com and you pay with your creditcard. Medison is […]