Archive for December, 2008


18Dec

Yonkly.com: Personalized Micro-blogging Networks

An interesting service that has just premiered, Yonkly is a solution that will let you come up with your very own social network. Not only that, you can also fully customize it and have absolute control over aspects such as monetization and so forth. It must be said that the service is quite well put [...]

17Dec

Fuzzmail.org: An E-mail Solution With A Difference

Fuzzmail is an online messaging solution that serves a specific function, namely recording the act of writing and making it the integral part of this application. That is, whenever you send a message through the site, the other person will be able to see how you typed it and which corrections and deletions were made. [...]

15Dec

Microsoft iPhone Apps: Just the Beginning?

Microsoft has arrived in the iPhone App Store. The company’s first official app, released today, has been a fun distraction for us this evening: SeaDragon Mobile lets you “View thousands of images over the air, quickly view massive gigapixel images, explore Photosynth collections in 2D, including your own, add your own PhotoZoom / Deep Zoom [...]

15Dec

Gmail Integrates Google’s PDF Viewer

If you receive a message that includes a PDF attachment, Gmail has a new option that lets you view the file without installing a PDF viewer like Adobe Reader. Until now, Gmail converted PDF files to HTML and removed images, so they didn’t look very well. The new option uses the PDF viewer from Google [...]

12Dec

Bitloot.com: Funding Open Source Projects

Are you looking for a way of funding a revolutionary project of your own? If that is the case – and provided it is an open source project – a visit to this website is the order of the day. Essentially, the site makes it possible to post ideas for projects to which people can [...]

12Dec

Remindr.info: An Easy Way To Remember Things

If you happen to have memory like a sieve, a service like this one is probably going to make your day. In general terms, Remindr is a service that will send you automatic notifications when a date you have set down beforehand comes around. The implementation of this service is quite simple in itself, and [...]

10Dec

Microsoft Releases Open Source Blogging Platform

Microsoft released an alpha version of its own open source content management system, Oxite. The source code for the software is available under the Microsoft Public License. While Microsoft mostly describes Oxite as a blogging platform, the Oxite team also points out that you could use it as a content management system to develop more [...]

10Dec

Android Rising: Sony Ericsson, Vodafone, and 12 Others Join Open Handset Alliance

Android just got stronger. The industry consortium behind the Google-developed mobile operating system, the Open Handset Alliance, just added 14 new members, including ARM, Garmin International, Sony Ericsson and Vodafone. The other new members are AKM Semiconductor, ASUSTek Computer, Atheros Communications, Borqs, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile, Teleca AB, and Toshiba. Read on [...]

10Dec

G1′s Android Web Browser in Action

last100 editor Steve O’Hear remarked that the bundled browser is “fast, renders the full web flawlessly (aside from the lack of Flash support), and does a fantastic job of re-flowing text when you zoom in on a specific part of a web page, therefore eliminating the need for horizontal scrolling despite browsing on such a [...]

10Dec

Private Browsing Comes to Firefox

Mozilla has just launched Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 for download. The most notable new feature is probably private browsing mode, which lets you browse without having any of your Web history stored locally. The developer who designed private browsing for Firefox has shared some details about how it works and how to use it. Read [...]