Archive for December, 2006

It has become even easier to store your files online. There are multiple services available online already for files hosting but the new DivShare that was only presented yesterday has a number of advantages that many users will find helpful. DivShare can be described as a “simple” file host: a user only needs to make minor [...]

LiveJournal is a hosted blog solution from SixApart, the same company that also provides TypePad, Movable Type, and a new offering called Vox. SixApart???s web site indicates the focus ??? TypePad and Movable Type being offered for professional and business blogging, Vox for personal blogs ??? and LiveJournal for a community of bloggers. Not surprisingly, [...]

Every artist needs recognition. Recognition can be hard to achieve and sometimes only comes post-mortem. But if recognition is difficult to get, evaluation and rating of work of arts are much easier to find. And wile in the precomputer days only a few people could afford showing off their paintings, novels or poems, Internet has [...]

There are so many RSS feed readers available nowadays. What makes or breaks them? I think the answer is the unique features they provide. It doesn’t matter if they are web- or desktop based. The most important aspect is whether or not they give us an excellent experience while we use them.  I have come across an [...]

  Social networks are growing stronger and stronger with time. People solve various problems in social networks – both commercial ones (like sharing expertise among professionals) and personal – boiling down to looking for like-minded people and communicating with them. Yesterday a new social network was launched. The name is FYGO. This network is focused [...]

1&1 Internet Inc. lifetime free Internet hosting account is about to expire. For most of you who have no idea who 1&1 are or that there even was such a thing as a lifetime free Internet hosting account, not to worry, this isn’t life shattering news. The reason why I mention it is because it [...]

I’ll be honest. I didn’t like CollectiveX when I gave it a glance. It looked like one of those businesses you come across and think: “They don’t quite get it.” And that feeling hasn’t completely gone away, but it’s diminished after a decent look-see, and it’s certainly due some respect for punching out a product [...]

P2P files sharing used to be the talk of the town.  If you’ve been wandering the net long enough, chances are you have already used P2P files sharing to get certain software or tools from some stranger. P2P is a term dubbed to describe the peer to peer files sharing phenomenon that is still making [...]

We’ve all done it. We’ve gone with the biggest and brawniest – the Walmarts, the Microsofts – instead of looking to those in their shadow to find what we’re looking for. Even right now, I’m writing this review in MS Word, perhaps the most ubiquitous processor out there. I could very well achieve a fine [...]