Internet Applications Guide

Bing – Microsoft’s Yahoo and Google Search Competitor

Not quite, the new search engine may have some of the innovative concept of the cloud behind it, yet as with any other computer software, it’ll take time for the fruit to ripen (and knowing Microsoft, that’ll take a while). Microsoft has long been searching for an answer from the threat Google has been shadowing them with in the area of online advertising, a field totally ruled by the later search giant. They have tried on several occasions (heard they’re at it again) to get hold or control of Yahoo yet they have fallen short of their bullish tactics and failed to get at it fast. continue reading »

May 07 2009 | Application and Information | No Comments »

US Government Taking Cyber Security Seriously – AT LAST!!

Seriously enough hey have named one of the world’s best hackers, Jeff Moss, aka “Dark Tangent” as an adviser to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber-terrorism task force to battle his own people. He is responsible for the creation of one of the biggest and baddest hacker groups the world over who flock year after year to Arizona to discuss the world’s fate as they continue to create malware and other online threats. He is seen as a genius yet he might be in trouble with his old buddies for turning his head towards the government and swearing to help protect it from attacks is quite new. hackers rarely make themselves known though some of them have been caught, the ones we encounter each and everyday as we surf the net remain anonymous to us. continue reading »

April 07 2009 | Information | No Comments »

Twitter Hailed as the Next Evolutionary Step

Celebrities love it and just about anybody else on the planet too, Twitter has become a big name in the social net and the micro-blogging service is being seen as the next model for the coming evolutionary step of the internet. The new form of the internet can have thousands upon thousands of companies with servers and software, forming the cloud, all having programs that allows people to interact, blog and do just about anything they could do today, simply faster. No bog monopolies and no single entity in control (well, that might not be entirely true for Google does have the biggest set of data centers the world over and it is THE search engine), on the net who says this and that with all of us in tow. continue reading »

March 07 2009 | Application and Community and Information | No Comments »

Staying away from clutter

Sure, we understand if you find the newest internet application cool. Internet applications are very useful tools in making your internet use better. But having to many put you in danger of having too much clutter that you stop knowing which is which and which goes where.

The first thing you should ask yourself is whether or not you need a particular internet application. Try to list down all the applications you have and sift through them in terms of their perceived usability and utility for you, as well as the frequency of your actual use. If you can make do without the ones at the bottom of the pile, don’t hesitate to dispose of them.

Cleaning up your internet application makes for better organization of your information without having you juggle constantly between one application and another.

February 18 2009 | Information | No Comments »

The Clouds – Internet Application’s next Home

Many of today’s internet apps are being targeted for use on the cloud where data is synced and stored for retrieval anytime of the day, wherever you may be. A good sample would be the famed Apple MobileMe system which is a way to synchronize data from all your apple gadgets all over the place saving them in the cloud allowing you to sync each and every device to keep them updated. may they be photos, videos, email and all the contents of your address book, all are saved up to the cloud where you can configure the system to save or sync them to all your devices at a specific time.
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January 11 2009 | Application and Information | No Comments »

Jjot: note (taking) worthy app

Being a blogger, you can’t help but take notes while surfing the web. It’s a great boon then, that Jjot exists and has given me a reprieve from taking my hands off the keyboards.

Jjot is a lightning fast sticky note web application filled with smart features like archiving, search, and sharing. Jjot is very easy to use and understand (which is nice when you’re tackling any new web application), but what really stands out about Jjot is its speed. Everything you do on Jjot is satisfyingly snappy, which is so refreshing in an age of bloated web apps. Granted, Jjot’s speed might not be enough to make it stand out in the already overcrowded online note-taking and todo applications, but it’s on my good list.

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December 25 2008 | Application | No Comments »

「Drop.io」を使ってみよう

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オンラインのファイル共有サイト「Drop.io」は新しく使いやすい性能をもち、 それにより、保存フォルダへのファイルの追加や削除の際にTwitterを利用した更新が可能になりました。 Drop.io のシステムには「drop」と呼ばれる保存領域が存在します。Twitterをプラグインした後、dropにログインすると、Drop.io のシステムがそこで生じた変更内容を随時警告します。 これは、総合的に非常に便利なツールです。 Drop.ioは特定のフォルダに指定することもでき、追加や削除したものの全ての公開を避けることができるため、プライバシーの保護にも役立ちます。 この機能はDrop.ioのサポートするすべてのファイル形式で適用可能です。適用可能なファイル形式の中には留守番電話の伝言なども含まれ、これはDrop.ioの無料の録音機能を利用することで可能となります。 Twitterを使用した投稿を好まない利用者は、SMSを介した報告機能を購買することもできます。警告先の番号をプラグインすることで、追加があるごとにリンクを送信します。 またdropごとにRSSフィードも存在します。

December 13 2008 | Imp @ja | No Comments »

UsernameCheck is Watching You!

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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 »

iGoogle and the giant widgets

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iGoogle, which is Google’s personalized home page has a new update where widgets on the page can now be viewed in the newest canvass view. It simply enlarges the widget to the full iGoogle window. Sixteen new and updated widgets that are promoted by Google currently support the said feature. Currently, there are around 40,000 widgets available in iGoogle. It has not stopped on displaying standard small widgets. Whats new also is the fact that the larger views will not be restricted of ways to earn from them through monetization schemes. Developers can certainly do whatever they see fit for the pages. But in the smaller view, Google does not allow advertising and other direct profit generating schemes. iGoogle’s widgets were written in the Open Social platform. So there must not be much of a problem running this on the portal page.

October 07 2008 | Application | No Comments »

Drop.io your Tweets

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Online storage company Drop.io, has a new yet simple feature for its users, allowing them to use Twitter to post updates every time they add or remove files from one of their storage folders. Drop.io system is based on folders or what they call “drops”, so after plugging in your Twitter, log-in to any of your drops and it will alert you the changes every time. It is quite a useful tool altogether. You can assign it to a specific folder and still keep a little privacy not exposing everything that you are putting or taking out. The feature works with any file type which the Drop.io supports, including messages left by phone using it’s free voice recording tool. Users who would prefer not to use Twitter to broadcast can also subscribe to alerts via SMS.You can plug in any numbers you’d like to alert and it will send out a link every time one is added. There’s an RSS feed per drop as well.

September 28 2008 | Application | No Comments »