Archives for the ‘Internet’ Category

30 simple applications builded in 30 days!

Back in 2006, a bright programmer (http://twitter.com/theSoftwareJedi) decided to start a project called “An App A Day”. The project target was to build a simple application and released within a day (sometimes the application was released after few minutes!). The project was kept alive for 30 days, utilities released on the project blog and are still available for download until today [...]

Web Music Selection (Vol 1)

This is another music related post on the bog sphere! I need to share with your my experience as web radio listener. Usually I spend hours working in front of my computer and the web radio is a good way to enteirtain myself. I prefer Shoutcast based radio stations because I can quickly streams with my [...]

Alternative to – a site that helps free software

I’m a fan of free and open source software. Free software is great nowadays and I think that its possible to do almost everything by using free and open source software. The main question is “which software I have to use to replace a commercial product?”. The answer is simple: “just go to AlternativeTo.net “. The site AlternativeTo [...]

Dropbox II

After a quite big period using Dropbox and checking similar services  on the  web I’m coming  back with a new review: There is already a  review for this service which describes the features but if you want an animated guide go to http://www.dropbox.com/tour and watch the animated presentation. Dropbox rocks! Really! Its the most complete file backup and synch [...]

Congratulations Mr Geiss

My favorite media player software is Winamp… and this seems to be so typical. I’m addicted to use lot of free Winamp plug-ins and get new features on this awesome player. Ten years ago I experienced for the first time the great graphics of a special visualization plug-in for Winamp called “Geiss”. This great piece [...]

SIAA – A 90s style video for idiots!

To say things straight: SIIA thinks that people, especially students and young people, are idiots! there is no other way to explain their new stupid video about piracy!   Check out what Dvorak says about: http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/09/12/would-this-goofy-video-stop-you-from-pirating-music/ and more on techtonic shifts: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2009/09/10/need-to-appeal-to-teens-here-s-a-hint.aspx

Sumo Paint – A web based image editor

The site SumoPaint offers a great online application. Sumo Paint is a close to complete web based image editor. You can open it in seconds you an load images from your computer edit them and save them back to computer. The interface offers a complete set of tools such brush, line tool, crop tool, magic wand and many many [...]

Farmville

  Addicted!  I rarely use and play internet based games. I prefer to spend my time to something more creative. When I first tried Farmville I was just curious (curiosity killed the cat). After few tries and lot of visits on the Farmville interface I admit it: “I’m addicted to this game”. Is not and [...]

Joompla Holes (limbo.baywords.com)

Recently I received a phone call with bad news about my (greek) site. A friend in the other end of the telephone line informed me about a defacement of my site. Yes. Some Turkish-something “Hackerz” or better Script Kiddies attacked on my joompla based portal! Thats really bad. However I started laughing, cause I run [...]

Dropbox (limbo.baywords.com)

The site http://www.getdropbox.com comes with a really impressive service. The Dropbox (cross platform) service can synchronize, update and store the files between two or more computers ever between MAC, PC or LINUX based computers. The service can even check the files or the folders for changes and keep a history (with a restore previous version [...]