Saw this article from Digg.
Now Speedtest.net used to be a pretty boring site with your common speed stats displayed. But they’ve revamped the site including a pretty snazzy interface and comparison data.
If you’re wondering how your Internet connection matches up with the rest of the world (or if your provider duped you with all [...]

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Firefox 3, which is due out later this year, will probably contain a slew of new features. As as Firefox junkie, I’m all too anxious to get my hands on the final version.
As news has it, 3 will probably include features like offline support for Web applications. One thing they’re also looking at [...]

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Kids and computers go well with each other nowadays. And many software are really designed for them featuring kid-friendly intuitive interfaces complete with bulging buttons. Anyway, here’s a paint tool that’s designed for kids - Tux Paint.
It’s got enough features to keep kids interested ages 3 and up. It has paint effects, bucket [...]

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So Google has us all nuts with all of their services. And only someone nuttier would probably take score of everything and memorize each and every one of them down to search syntaxes and keyboard shortcuts.
So thank goodness for this guy who just made using Google services a tad easier - the Google Cheat [...]

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I’m not really a sound engineering but I like audio. I did a few mixes myself and done some voice acting. I still play the guitar when I can. And if there’s one thing that I’ve learned from all of that, talent is one thing, but equipment counts. I’ve done some personal recordings using [...]

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Google Desktop has been reported to have a flaw that no-gooders might exploit. It allows hackers to get into one’s computer, view files, and run unauthorized software. Recently, another attack has been uncovered. It’s called an anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning. It lets attackers access data indexed by Google Desktop.
Google Desktop hasn’t released an [...]

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Mozilla updated Firefox to address a total of 14 vulnerabilities in the browser. Three of which are flagged critical. However, it failed to address one bug that the memory corruption flaw that enables attackers to put in codes in vulnerable machines just by making users visit a malicious site.
Here’s the list of vulnerabilities fixed [...]

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Last time, I blogged about Google Apps to include Docs and Spreadsheets. In a press release, Google finally launches the business version of Google Apps.

10 GBs of storage per user – Offers about 100 times the storage of the average corporate mailbox, eliminating the need to frequently delete email
APIs for business integration – APIs [...]

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No YouTube Raids for the moment since YouTube’s down for maintenance. Since, I’ve been featuring some nice Photoshop tutorials and here’s another one for you.
This one features anime style coloring and rendering using Photoshop. Now, it’s quite nice to know how to render something from a sketch to a full-color pin-up like this:

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If you’re into design and graphics, check out YouTube. There’s a lot of Photoshop tutorial videos found there. Not as detailed as tutorial DVDs go but enough to do the trick. Here’s one showing how that aqua sphere effect is done. This one’s done using a Mac:

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And here they are: Applications that have earned the “Certified for Windows Vista” logo or the “Works with Windows Vista” logo.

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Here’s a nice Photoshop tutorial on creating a Web 2.0 style logo. I think the person’s using Photoshop CS2 here.

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Clutter in your PC is also one of the things that you should reduce. But in the rush of all the work that you’re doing, you seldom get to have the time to sort out all of your working files. Whenever I used to have tight deadlines with a lot of documents involved, my [...]

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Microsoft tries to encourage more users to switch to Vista by handing out aids to help out in the transition.
For those concerned with backward compatibility, they launched Virtual PC 2007. This would allow Vista to run alongside other OSes. Find out more about Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 here.
And to aid business deployment, Bill’s guys [...]

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There’s a good lot of freeware for hobbyists and special interest enthusiasts. For sky and star watchers out there, you might have seen/heard/used some of these 3D space simulators.
For this post, I’m featuring Celestia. It’s a space simulator that lets you view beyond our own solar system, even beyond our galaxy across over [...]

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