Jan 14, 2008 by Cristi
If you live outside the US and love listening to online radio, you might remember Pandora, probably the greatest free online service where you can listen and tune your music to your taste. Well, as Pandora is now only streaming to US-based listeners, what are people outside to do? Head to globalPandora, where you can listen to it without a problem (at least for a while, because we're ...
Jan 8, 2008 by Cristi
Got an e-mail in my inbox this morning from Pandora with the thing all UK-based users of this service have feared: Pandora will stop streaming to the UK as of January 15th. They have been forced to isolate everyone except the UK for a while, in hopes they might still be able to work out a deal. I guess it did not work out.
Oh well, there's always Last.fm ...
Oct 30, 2007 by gary
Mac OS X Leopard comes with a built-in web server (Apache) and with PHP version 5 (5.2.4 to be precise). This makes OS X a great web development platform out of the box and it comes. While there are 3rd party Apache/PHP/MySQL packages like MAMP, XAMP it isn't hard to get the native PHP and Apache working.
There is a great article on this here.
Oct 24, 2007 by Cristi
Seems Google's on a roll to give gifts to good nerd-kiddies this season, and they started early. Following the recent Gmail storage space increase, now we get the long-awaited IMAP support. The support pages have been updated and although not everyone has the feature yet, I am sure it won't be too long. This is obviously a lot better than POP3 as you don't have to sync mail ...
Oct 13, 2007 by Cristi
I can finally relax (for a while at least). My Gmail account had reached 98% at one point and e-mails kept coming in, I had to delete my old 'has:attachment' e-mails. If you're in the same situation, you can stop and catch your breath. Gmail is speeding up their storage increase counter to offer more space for regular users as well as those part of the Web Apps ...
Sep 19, 2007 by Cristi
Everyone hosted on Layered Tech's network, you better rush to your site / server and change your root password! According to this post by LayeredTech president, Todd Abrams, "the support database was a target of malicious activity on the evening of 9/17/2007 that may have involved the illegal downloading of information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and server login details for 5 to 6,000 of ...
Sep 12, 2007 by saxxonian
Do you need strong, virtually unbreakable passwords for your network? Have you been wondering how to create them without blindly hacking your keyboard and praying that no one else does the same? Jokes aside there is an easy way to get the job done!
Perfect Passwords is a web based tool to generate "a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to ...
Aug 28, 2007 by Peter
For those who have access to a server and maybe an FTP account or even an IM client transferring large files is usually not a big problem. If you do not have any of these tools you could give www.transferbigfiles.com a try. All you have to do is select the file you want to upload and put in an email address. After the file is uploaded an email is sent to the ...
Aug 24, 2007 by Cristi
Ever had to sit down in your favorite whois search engine and type domain names one by one, in search of the best (and available) domain for your new website? Well, check this out: Vandelay Website Design has compiled a quick list of online tools that help make this chore a pleasure. My favorite on that list is Instant Domain Search, that displays availability information as-you-type.
Aug 20, 2007 by Cristi
Litepost is the newest web-based e-mail service to hit the oh, so crowded landscape. What's new, you ask? Well, the authors claim it is "simple to use", "uncluttered", "web 2.0". Free registration is now open and after signing up for an account, I can say it is downright simple. Litepost does not rely on folders or labels, like other webmail clients do, but rather (and here's where the ...
