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UsernameCheck is for the users who are akin to subscribe to every service that comes in the internet every few weeks or months, and tries to secure their customized their usernames. And if one day that service becomes popular, you will have your very own unique and cool username all for yourself. How it works is pretty simple. All you have to do is provide your preferred username and the program will then ping around 45 services available and then return with a result of whether that name is available to all the services that it has pinged. It will say either taken or available. Its that simple. If the name you typed in is taken, it can not tell you whether the owner is you or anybody else. It just works in Firefox. Hopefully developers can come up with an update so it can work across different platforms.
November 24 2008 | Information | No Comments »
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Mozilla Firefox is a open source web browser created and managed by the Mozilla Corporation
which had a 20% share on the total internet browsers as of 2008 and ranking 2nd. Firefox features are tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager which can be pause, and an integrated search system. Add-ons are also available like themes, multimedia player and other more which are made by other programmer and it’s continoue to grow and evolve everyday. Firefox can runs on different kind of Operating system like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and many more. the current stable release version is 3.0.3 which was released on September 26, 2008. Many webside are view best using Mozilla Firefox and it’s restore session features great.
August 09 2008 | Application and Community and Definition and Download and E-mail and Information | No Comments »
Firefox may seem very popular nowadays and is being used by majority of the population but according to survey, it indicates that almost 75 percent of people who use browse the internet still use Internet Explorer. If you are not a FireFox fan or that you are part of the 75 percent Internet Explorer users, you might as well check out the plug in that you must absolutely have, the IE7Pro. The said plug in powers up Internet Explorer with several of the features and functions that were once narrowed to other browsers in the net like a session manager, mouse gestures, prefetching and a lot more.
May 29 2008 | Information | No Comments »
One of the best features of Flicks is its Camera Finder which lets you see what other people’s shots look like by using a particular model. This can be really helpful in figuring out if you basically need to get some new hardware or if you need to take a photography class. Video host Vimeo is a manual process that has a way to view which camera a user has although it is only through tags. If Flickr can find a way to make metadata more of like the equation, it could certainly produce some of the charts and graphs more appealing. Metadata for video clips though are all over and that could be the problem.
May 15 2008 | Information | No Comments »
The idea of Researching in libraries or even just visiting libraries is not appealing for students of our generations now a day especially when researches are done in traditional libraries. Most of the students now a day prefer libraries that offer variations when it comes to research and studying as well as getting information the need in the fastest way possible.
Libraries now a day offers improve functions that traditional libraries offers such as web version of readers advisory and creation and provision of access to local information taken in new life on the internet. If there are improvements, there are also new features that traditional libraries cannot provide. Examples of these are e-journals, “My Library” Personalized Interfaces, Newsletters, Blogs & Wikis, Site News & Evaluation, Virtual Tours, Web forms and Special Collections & Online Exhibits.
April 26 2008 | Information | No Comments »
Bullying not only occurs in playgrounds and schools but also in the internet as well. Cyberbullying is the use of information technology such as e-mail, instant messaging and chat rooms to harass someone. This is rampant because a bully can hide his or her true identity and thus makes it difficult for someone to trace and reprimand them. This can include acts like threatening, insulting, racial and ethnic teasing, gay bashing, infecting user’s computers with viruses and flooding an email inbox with spam. You could deal this by limiting the times you are online, not opening e-mails from someone you don’t know, not responding to threats, changing email addresses and Internet Service Providers and tracing the source. You could also report it to the police if necessary.
April 07 2008 | Information | No Comments »
A live demo of mobile WiMAX was successfully presented by Motorola at a sold out trade show in Singapore this week, not long after it announced completion of a successful trial of the technology in Thailand.
Show-goers taking a bus tour at the WiMAX Forum Congress Asia reportedly experienced Web browsing, video conferencing, and other wireless applications while moving past Motorola 400 access points (APs) along the route, with mobile hand-off between the APs. Motorola provided backhaul to its facility in Singapore over its wireless IP equipment.
Meanwhile, at the end of March, Motorola announced completion of a mobile WiMAX trial, conducted in Thailand with partner UIH under government permission, to help assess WiMAX as a way of boosting Internet penetration rate that currently stands at only 15% in Thailand.
April 05 2008 | Information | No Comments »
A bulletin board system (BBS) is an internet application that allows sharing and exchange of files and messages on a network. This is similar to the bulletin boards found on offices and homes. Before the World Wide Web arrived, the BBS was the primary kind of online community. It could be accessible from a dial-up modem, Telnet and the Internet. It is text-based but recent versions have a graphical and interactive user interface. Most BBSes talk about a particular topic and some discuss general topics. Despite the advances in internet technology, the BBS is still used in some parts of the world up to this day.
March 22 2008 | Information | No Comments »
The Internet. Now that you are used to it, a group of researchers would like to take it away from you. For good.
According to the (admittedly) small group — the Internet we use today is obsolete and needs a new face to give it new life before it dies and takes all of us with it.
Time magazine reports Dipankar Raychaudhuri, a Rutgers University professor, who is currently overseeing three different projects aimed at killing the Internet as we know it now, as saying the time is ripe for a new and better version.
The Internet works well in many situations but was designed for completely different assumptions. It’s sort of a miracle that it continues to work well today.
March 20 2008 | Information | No Comments »
At Microsoft’s Mix08 conference for web designers and developers earlier in March, the firm showed off its developments and coming attractions, including a new focus on standards in Internet Explorer and an update to its Silverlight platform for browser-based applications.
“The internet is reshaping and transforming Microsoft’s existing products and services,” said Microsoft’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, speaking at the conference. However, this is nothing new; Microsoft founder Bill Gates expressed similar sentiments in 1995, in a now-famous memo titled The Internet Tidal Wave.
More than a decade later, making sense of the web remains Microsoft’s biggest challenge. Ozzie’s keynote was too vague to be truly compelling, but Mix08 was nevertheless the launch platform for some significant new elements in Microsoft’s internet efforts.
March 15 2008 | Information | No Comments »
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