June 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Not sure if red is the “in” design nowadays or is the new lucky color. But I love CNET’s red-colored/darker redesign better than the current (yellow) one.
Check it out below. (click the images for a bigger version)
CNET says it’s still a work in progress and will continue to update it as they see fit. Looking forward for the big push.
June 18th, 2008 4 Comments »
Get your own certificate here
June 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
Mozilla is dog slow today. Why? Because they’re launching Firefox 3 any time now.
Be a part of history. Download Firefox 3 today.
UPDATE: I just received an email (below) to tell me to start downloading. However, the whole Mozilla site right now is apparently under heavy traffic.
June 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Bots or zombies can secretly hijack your computer to send out spam or attack other computers through the Internet.
Be safe and install RUBotted now. It makes the Internet safer.
What is RUBotted?
RUBotted monitors your computer for suspicious behavior associated with Bots, a form of malicious software that can secretly take control of your computer for criminal purposes. Upon discovering a potential infection, RUBotted immediately prompts you to scan and clean your computer.
My computer is clear. Is yours clear? Check it now.
Operating System Requirements:
* Windows 2000 Professional (with the latest Service Pack installed)
* Windows XP Professional or Home Edition (with the latest Service Pack installed)
* Windows 2003 Server (with the latest Service Pack installed)
* Windows Vista (32-bit version only, with the latest Service Pack installed)
June 11th, 2008 4 Comments »
I’m probably one of the first early users to get access to Woopra’s beta couple of months ago. Quite frankly, I didn’t use it. I felt Woopra wasn’t going to be as good as what we currently use (Google Analytics). I even said to myself, “it’s just gonna be another Google Analytics with the same sets of data. What can they probably offer? What else is new?”
But as soon as I read about Woopra on CenterNetworks this morning, I gave it a whirl. I logged in to my Woopra account, copy/pasted the JS snippet on Mployd. I thought it would take some time for the data to funnel to my dashboard.
And so I tried to download and install the Woopra desktop application. To my surprise, data from the site is already crunching in!
Here’s a screenshot of the Woopra desktop application on my machine after I installed it.
See that? After 10 mins I’m already getting what I need to know from our visitors. That’s really neat!
And one cool thing about it is that it sits on my desktop/system tray for quick access. Woopra integrated a lot of awesome features into the app aside from analytics. There’s just too much to list them down here.
The Woopra desktop application is currently available in beta to Windows, MacOS, and Linux (note that Java is required to run the app).
We know that Google Analytics dominates the free web analytics space. I’d say Woopra can quickly become #2 with the added innovations to the app.
I’ve tried almost every single free web analytics app out there and Woopra is a breath of fresh air. I simply love it.
–aj
June 9th, 2008 No Comments »
At the height of WWDC, Twitter is down (11:00AM Central). You know why? Look at the birds. They are moving from different directions. And you don’t have to be a genius to figure out that 8 birds can’t probably carry a 90-ton whale? Err…
So what do you do now? Either go to Plurk, send your sentiments at Twiddict or just go back to real work.
–aj
UPDATE: 11:26AM (CT) They’re back up but real slow.
June 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Yes. This is my newest browser home page. Goosh (http://goosh.org).
This is a unix-shell-like interface for Google. If you are like me who miss the quick links at the upper left hand corner of google for reader and Gmail. Just type in “l gmail” for Gmail and “l reader” for Google Reader.
For more quick commands, use “h”.
I don’t think I’m going back to the google.com interface if goosh.org improves the speed. Recommended to all geeks!
Wtg!
–aj
April 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Ahh… the realities of a web soldier (designer/programmer/whatever you want to call them) - Internet Explorer. Just like a dream… Sometimes it’s a lot of fun and most of the time a nightmare.
So here’s a new tool to help us through the day aside from biting our fingers and pulling our hairs. IETester.
IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.
Multiple IE is cool but I didn’t have any luck installing it on Vista (*cough* $uckS *cough*).
Sigh, Internet Explorer. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. 
–aj
March 24th, 2008 3 Comments »
We all know that a lot of (if not most) web developers love using Firefox for development. Mainly because of its simplicity, community support and functionality to extend the browser using add-ons.
It is also not a secret that we know that 60% or more* of our web users are still using IE. Most likely, half of those are IE7.
Now, to even the game of preferred development browser (sort of), there is a new update for IE7Pro (version 2.1).
IE7Pro is an app to extend your IE7 installation adding lots of Firefox-like features which you (web developer) need.
The app might get you to use IE7 more for development. Really. Why? It packs tons of improvements to IE7 and extend it like Firefox.
Some main features includes
- Enhancement of IE’s Tabbed Browsing Capabilities
- Super Drag and Drop
- Mouse Gestures (ala Opera)
- Crash Recovery (yeah! we need this!)
- Save Page to Image
- Quick Proxy Switcher
- AD Blocker (finally!)
- Greasy monkey alike User Script
- Inline Search
- Spell Check
- And a lot more…
More screenshots after the jump.
So, do you want to give IE7 another shot? Or do you want to simply check out what IE7Pro can offer? If your answer is yes to any of those, then get the app directly here.
It might be worth your time.
–aj
*Based on sites I handle/d
