Everybody loves to hate Microsoft. If you don't thrash talk about Microsoft or IE you are not considered a Uber Web Geek. Opera took upon it self to sue Microsoft by complaining to the European Commission and force them to follow web standards. And its the lamest thing they could do. At least some people have sense and are not taking sides.
Today we have taken a stand. Opera has filed ...
Update: Corrected the date when this campaign was started. Thanks to gurupanguji
Ask not what India can do for but ask what you can do for India.
Thanks to Bipin who sent me the video by mail. I quickly googled it and found that these are part of campaign that was started by Times Of India (A National Newspaper in India) on the Aug 15th 2007 called "LEAD INDIA" and "INDIA POISED". ...
After I blogged out my disappointment with the T-shirt I ordered from Design By Humans. I was contacted by one of the DBH employees who offered me a replacement T-shirt he was kind enough to ask me for a more detailed feedback as to why I was disappointed. Today I received the T-shirt and I love it.
I ordered the T-shirt titled Music.
Below is the feedback I sent to DBH
Most of ...
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 this because a while back I accidentally managed to get it to run on FireFox ...
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 and And Adobe AIR. A few common similarities that I immediately noticed are.
All of them ...
Have you ever been annoyed when you search on Google and click on a link that you find relevant only to find that you need to register to have access to the content. You might be wondering how the content in these sites are indexed when they are not actually viewable this is because these sites allow only the search bots to access the restricted content. I wonder why Google ...
Just a note I have updated my about page. I been meaning to write this for a long time, since I get quite a few emails from people who contact me about products/services/advertisement. This should give them a better idea what to expect from me before they contact me. This is also to reassure my readers about what they can expect from me and this blog. For people who are ...
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 about the w3c site? Would we be making pretty cross browsers sites if they hadn't ...
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 screwing up.
Locked iPhone and iPods. (Apparently according to Apple Safari is a SDK)
The lacklustre launch ...
Both Google and Windows Live has released their own 411 service. If you don't know what a 411 service please click HERE. There are demos for both Live 411 and Google 411. However, I think that Google 411 is better. Once again, like all other Google services, it is very easy to use. Whereas, with Live 411, you are asked to reply to what seems like a zillion questions. Both ...
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 content.
Readwriteweb author Marshall Kirkpatrick rightly questions is Google Exercising Leadership or Control? I happen to ...
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 IIS, there don't seem to be any extra steps involved in getting it to run ...
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 can send you an IM which will pop-up in your Windows Live messenger. See the ...
With this whole hype of the iphone, Mac OS X Leopard, new ipods and the new imacs, much of the attention is focused on Apple. Bad luck Microsoft! But has Microsoft released anything in past 6 months? The answer is 'Yes' and they are:
Windows Home Server 2008
New Microsoft Zune models
Halo 3
Windows Live services
Since the attention is focused on Apple, here are it's earnings, market share and sales:
On the Apple earnings ...