The web has just become… instant!

It all started with… Google Instant and soon after that other instant web apps just keep popping up… iTunes Instant YouTube Instant Bing Instant Twitter Instant I don’t even have Google Instant turned on… come on people don’t let the web design go beyond usability.

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WordPress 2.9.1

After over a million downloads of WordPress 2.9 and lots of feedback from all of you, we’re releasing WordPress  2.9.1.  This release addresses a handful of minor issues as well as a rather annoying problem where scheduled posts and pingbacks are not processed correctly due to incompatibilities with some hosts.  If any of these issues [...]

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Send Google Chrome as a Christmas gift

Google has put up a cute little site called GiveChrome.com, which can be used to send Google Chrome browser as a Christmas gift to your friends. It definitely a great way for introducing someone new to the Google Chrome browser. Have fun!

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Facebook – New Privacy Settings – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Background Facebook has recently announced that it reached 350 million users. Most users are sharing their real personal information, like birthday, home address, email address, family etc., with their friends only, or simply with everyone. All these important personal information have to be protected some way, and users should have complete control over who can [...]

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Facebook – How to hide or unhide games like FarmVille from your News Feed

Currently Facebook has about 350 million users! And the popular Facebook game FarmVille has about 69 million users! Therefore if you happen to be a Facebook member, who doesn’t get involved with games, you might be getting a little bit annoyed with all those status updates. Moreover, the Facebook News/Live Feed provides valuable information and [...]

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Google Image Swirl – now in Labs

Google Image Swirl is an experimental interface from Google for searching images. Image Swirl expands on technologies like “Find Similar Images” and “Picasa Face Recognition” to group similar images together and build hierarchies out of these groups. The interface is showing similar images together in groups/clusters, and you can easily navigate and explore other relevant [...]

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Google Fast Flip – read news fast!

Google Fast Flip is the latest experiment of Google Labs. Fast Flip as its name suggests, is a brand new fast way of reading the news online. With Fast Flip you can rapidly browse articles sorted by popularity, category or source. Here is a screenshot of the main Fast Flip page: Here is a screenshot [...]

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WordPress – 2.8.4

Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password [...]

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To follow, or not to follow, that is the Twitter question

Twitter is one of my most favorite services on the Web. Every time I receive an email informing me about a new follower, I have to give an answer to a not so simple question: To follow, or not to follow, that is the question! Well, today I designed a flow chart diagram, which helps [...]

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Gmail chat – how to type words in bold and italics

Today I have been typing on Gmail chat, and by accident I have found out how to type a word in bold. With a bit more of a search, I have also found out how to type in italics, and also strikethrough a word. Here is the cheat sheet: Bold: Surround the word with asterisks, [...]

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