Firefox

Writely is a web application which allows you to create, edit and share documents online. The application allows you to upload from Word, publish on the web and even post to your blog. I recently got hold of an invite to beta test this nifty tool. If you would like to try it out, please leave a comment below with your email address. Right now, the beta release is by invite only.

Yes, Google's Services are very cool, nice features, we all love them. But think more about them, think about the search engine itself. Google is tracking every step you do on the internet. First they watch on you while searching for interesting stuff, then they track you (with AdSense and with Analytics) during your visit on a site you found as a search result. They get your credit card information on Google Checkout, they get your personal information an contacts on Orkut, they get your other contacts on Google Mail, they get your letters on writely and your calculations on spreadsheets. Oh don't forget about your interests on Google Movie Search and Google Music Search... and your contributions and searchs on Google Groups. Whew! That's heavy!

I use low-cost (but full-featured) hosting accounts for storing media files. I found an exceptional deal… The company is called Blue Host (link is a coupon code for free setup). They provide 15GB of storage space and 400 GB of monthly transfer. They support Ruby on Rails, PHP 5, plus (and this is the big deal) you can have SSH access. I also looked into GoDaddy’s web hosting which is slightly better if you just want disk space and bandwidth.

The good thing about the project is that they are trying to create a platform of sorts - people can write their own plug-ins. The API is already published. What this leads to is a kind of social networking where you contribute info and get info back ... really cool stuff and the extensibility makes it even more cooler!! Now only if there was deeper integration between Onfolio, CB, Live and some of the other services ... And not just MS ones, think integration with Blogger, Orkut, Flickr, del.ici.ous ... now if each of these services could start exposing APIs, there would be a huge market for clients that would give an aggregated experience across these services.

Using a proxy software in our computer. There are almost 100 Free software proxies in http://www.download.com. Among them ‘Proxy+ 3.0′ is most popular among the users. There are two types of Proxies HTTP proxy and the CGI proxy. I think the HTTP proxies are faster than the CGI ones.

If you want your firefox browser faster and more faster .. you can try this trick .. i dont know if this trick can called ‘hacked’ firefox, but just try it and all works!

Gestern wurde die Release 2.0 Beta 1 des Firefox freigegeben. Auf Lifehacker.com gibt es Screenshots.

YouOS er et “operativsystem” som kører i browseren, og i et Windows-lignende interface har implementeret omkring 100 populære Web2.0 programmer, som f.eks. Writely, ThinkFree, Google Calender, Google Spreadsheets og mange andre web-applikationer.

Sorry, but I must interrupt this very enjoyable 1950’s commercial for soap to remind you that there is more to life than AJAX. Man cannot live by AJAX alone, and my AJAX lies over the ocean, and…and…never mind. Sure I love AJAX, but I am so sick of everyone making such a big deal about it. To me, AJAX is a great tool to provide extra functionality and a bit of eye-candy. That’s it.

Today I set out to develop a simple proof of concept: a Wiki developed in Ruby on Rails using Subversion as a repository.

It’s nice to see almost 40% of German netizens using Mozilla Firefox - free software - for their browsing needs.

Did Steve see this coming? If so, he is moving awfully slow with the movies, and BitTorrent is moving full steam ahead.

An interesting approach to reduce the response time while dealing with 3rd party data can be found here as a W AJAX pattern.

Ruby on Rails es un entorno de programación para aplicaciones web que ha revolucionado la manera de desarrollar, gracias a las facilidades que ofrece a los programadores.

They asked advice from a comedian, a girl who’s own video became a hit and professional viral marketers. They posted their video on YouTube, created a Gmail account and a MySace page to track interest.

FreeBSD, Gentoo, OpenBSD, and Ubuntu Server (in that order) all failed to install. Still the same issue with the video and ethernet hardware. It didn’t seem to matter what config I tried. I was near wits end when The Dodger suggested SUSE 10.1, so I pop open Bittorrent and download the installation media, we pop in disk one, voila, it just works.

Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0 and above, BitComet 0.63 and above) and peer exchange.

I had an idea for a a Google Maps Mashup so I set about going about it yesterday thinking it was going to be pretty straight forward. Turns out I had to learn a bit a bout Ajax which was good/bad. Anyways so I had bits of my mashup working and I couldn’t for the life work out why a piece of code wasn’t working the way it should… half a day later it clicks…. the variable wasn’t global!……. argh……………..

A guy on the Gentoo forums was giving away invites to Writely. For those of you who dont know, Writely is an online word processor designed to be used in your web browser. The plus of this service is all the files you work on are saved online, and best of allyou can invite folk to view and edit your documents with you. This sort of program is to me extremely usable, as I like to have folk read over what I’m working on for fics as I work.

Με την εξάπλωση των dsl γραμμών στην Ελλάδα [ γιατί στο εξωτερικό καλύτερα μην το θίξουμε .. εκεί έχει εξαπλωθεί εδώ και πααααάρα πολύ καιρό η μόδα ] πολλοί, αν όχι όλοι είναι αυτοί που προτιμούν την φιλοσοφία των torrents για το download μεγάλων αρχείων ( νόμιμα, παράνομα δενγνωρίζω...ο καθένας κάνει τις επιλογές του emoticon).

Esta herramienta te permite usar tu cuenta de gmail como espacio en el web, simula un drive que se encuentra en my pc o my computer que dice gmail drive y alli arrastras o pegas los archivos y despues te manda el e-mail con los datos adjuntos a tu cuenta de gmail en la web, de alli le reenvias el correo a quien quieres que tenga el archivo.

The dutch justice department has released information about the arrest of 2 webmasters that where running torrent sites in the Netherlands. According to the justice department bittorrent is the most used system for copyright violation. Releases4u.com and Shareconnector.com are currently under investigation. What this could mean for other torrent sites that are based in the Netherlands is uncertain since there is no law that forbids torrent sites.

Blue Dot is obviously going to be a lot like del.icio.us. You put a little bookmarklet in your bookmark bar and then when you find an interesting page you click it to add the page to your links (called dots, on Blue Dot). The difference is that Blue Dot really takes advantage of the whole Web 2.0 thing and gives you a nice AJAX-ey window that floats over the current page as seen to the right. This is a theme that you’ll find throughout the Blue Dot site: good use of Web 2.0 technologies to better accommodate the users, and it really helps to distinguish them. Another cool thing is that it will automatically grab images from the site you’re linking to and use them to label the link.

Flex is another deveopment environment for the web. It provides the same advantages of AJAX, enabling the develoment of interactive, modern web applications but without all the portability problems of Javascript.

i downloaded some extensions today that make my life ‘online’ so much easier. I have a gmail notifier, some gmail space where you can drag an image to a gmail ftp server & it’ll not only save it on the server but it’ll e-mail the image to your gmail acct, say if you want to save something for later.

If that's the case, perhaps Richard Stallman should rewrite the GPL so that it doesn't (rather effectively) hinder small, grass-roots, free software development and distribution projects. Perhaps he ought to use his influence to stop the Free Software Foundation from using the clauses already in the GPL as an excuse to bully small free software development and distribution projects with its legal heft. MEPIS wasn't the only distribution targeted: also take note of the threat of legal action looming over other projects such as Kororaa Xgl LiveCD. John Andrews of Damn Small Linux reportedly agrees with the estimation of MEPIS' founder Warren Woodford that a great many small Linux distribution projects are at significant risk, and new projects are considerably less likely to spring up in the evolving legal climate of the "free" software community.

Seems like the developers of WordPresss made such a solid product that they are finally getting paid for it, good for them. The price seems relatively reasonable for an enterprise level blogging solution, to boot. I am wondering how they understand the term “customizable”? I will assume that virtually all of the corporations interested in the Automattic support service will want a Multi-User platform. Yet, WPMU for the open source community is still in the nightly stages, and from my last go-round with it two months ago it was no fun to play with at all - is the Automattic support service rolling out a packaged version of this? -as well as top notch support?

I’ve been following with interest the Mark Pilgrim Apple->Free Software Switch. Time for more bullet points!

FootieFox es otra extensión que, como Joga Companion, sirve para mantenerte al tanto de los resultados del Mundial… pero no sólo del Mundial, también de más de 18 ligas europeas y varios campeonatos internacionales, algo interesante pues el fútbol no se acaba con la final del Mundial. La extensión avisa los goles con señales audiovisuales, anuncia los resultados en una parte de la barra de estado de Firefox y tiene varias otras funciones.

La pregunta estará rondando por vuestra cabeza ahora será: ¿Qué acontecerá si coloco algún código de esos, ahora, en un HTML para probarlo con mi bonito Firefox? …

However, some level of tiering already takes place. Many ISPs actively limit traffic on Bittorrent and other P2P networks. Though this is mostly out of necessity since such applications eat up a great deal of resources, it might be a sign of what's to come.

Google recently bought Writely, the online word processor. Microsoft is also moving in this direction and will be offering a lot of their software as online applications. Over the weekend, I was searching for a good word processor for screenwriting and I discovered ScriptBuddy.

When I’ve explained Flexcar to people, I’ve sometimes heard the response, “You mean the car might not be there when I need it?” expressed in the exact tone of voice people use when they say, “Store my documents online? What if I’m not online?” Like Flexcar, Writely (which I’m using right now, just for fun) could change its software or its terms of service on me, and all I could do is complain to Google. (Now serving #3923804. Your estimated wait time is three geological ages.)

Hace no mucho comentaba acerca del lanzamiento de GoogleShpreadSheet, el cual junto con Writely eran una gran combinacion para llevar la oficina a donde quiera que vayas. Sin embargo, ninguna oficina esta completa sin la posibilidad de realizar presentaciones.