9Rules, one of the most popular blog networks, officialy opens for submissions tomorrow on August 6th, 2008. The submission round starts at midnight EST and ends at 11:59pm EST.
As many of you would know, 9Rules only recruits some of the best blogs on the Internet and to get into 9Rules helps a blog get more traffic as well as perfect branding.
Apple has finally pushed the new iPhone Firmware 2.0.1 to iTunes. The new firmware will fix minor problems in the iPhone and iPod Touch related to slow feedback and keyboard lag.
The original iPhone 2.0 Firmware made a lot of applications crash and hopefully this bug will also be fixed in this new firmware.
Feedburner is no doubt the most popular online service tool used by bloggers to track their feed statistics such as subscriber count, popular posts etc but this does not put curtains over how easily the Feedburner system can be manipulated.
Previously there have been hacks that could be used to increase Feedburner subscriber count illegally but a recent hack published by TheNextWeb beats them all.
Ubuntu Linux fans have their hopes high for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex as it will feature a complete new user interface and a stylish new brownish-black theme which we have already witnessed in some of the screenshots for the Alpha build.
Canonical is planning to surpass Mac OS X in the next coming two years but without a revolutionary change in the Ubuntu GUI it is close to impossible. Will has made a good attempt by designing some of the best mockups of Intrepid Ibex ever and with such a design, Ubuntu can easily take over Mac OS X soon enough.
Kiobo is a new social browsing solution that lets users discover new websites based on their interests by learning from the sites they visit. It has got a unique user interface much different than other social browsing solutions like Me.dium and also lets user share the websites they like.
The web service runs on flash and primarily has two parts, one is the main GUI which shows a live social graph of other users discovering and sharing new websites and second is the sidebar which shows your browsing history interests.
If you are sick of installing third-party software and extensions to block all phishing and porn sites then OpenDNS might be the best solution for you.
OpenDNS is world’s largest, free and fastest-growing DNS service provider. Apart from providing custom filters to block phishing and porn sites, it also provides a fast DNS service which makes your Internet connection faster by considerably reducing the latency.
If you have been using Ubuntu for long, then Synaptic Package Manager might be one your favorite applications as it allows you to manage, download, add/remove various packages and applications in bulk.
Unfortunately, Windows does not come pre-installed with any such application which allows user to download and manage various other softwares. However, QWinApt can do the same job for you on Windows that Synaptic does for Ubuntu users.
Microsoft is trying its best to give Windows Vista users the ultimate computing experience. Therefore they have just released the official Windows Vista Performance and Tuning Guide which brings tips and tricks for Vista right from the creators.
The guide focuses on performance improvements on a single computer, but also takes a look at some of the tools used in enterprise environments to help make performance tuning manageable on a much larger scale.
Believe or not but old methods and techniques used to access blocked websites such as web proxies, proxy tools and Hex converters are of no use anymore as the ISPs have become more vigilant than ever.
However, using a service called WebToMail (discovered by Blogote), users can still get access to blocked web pages directly via email.
Even though Gmail features one of the best spam prevention, detection and anti-spam technology, it still sometimes fails to differentiate between the good, the bad and the ugly.
Realizing the fact that no technology is 100% accurate or fool-proof, the Gmail team has introduced a new filter called ‘Never send it to Spam’ which can be used to prevent mails from being auto-marked as Spam in Gmail.
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