Archive for August, 2006

Google Apps for Your Domain is a new free service from Google that includes Gmail (with your own domain name) with 2 gigabytes of storage, Google Calendar, Google Talk and Page Creator. I’ve just signed up for this service to test internally within our office. It’s very easy to setup (just need to change the [...]

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Bruce Schneier has an excellent article on What the Terrorists Want and how we should be fighting them.

I’d like everyone to take a deep breath and listen for a minute.
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not [...]

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Amazon’s new Astore allows you to create your own Online Store. It’s new Associates product, very easy to setup, allows you to create your store in few minutes by choosing any products that Amazon has to offer. You can link the store to your blog (it stays in amazon’s domain). It would be great [...]

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Allen suggests that mind is like a muscle and weakens if you don’t exercise it regularly. He offers very simple 10 ways to exercise our mind.

Regularly solve puzzles
Play a musical instrument
Paint, sketch or draw.
Learn a new language.
Learn how to juggle.
Play Chess, Backgammon, Checkers or even Go!
Play computer games.
Write!
Try amateur dramatics.
Travel.

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Desktoptwo is a Flash-based desktop suite. It’s got beautiful interface and has most of the basic application for daily use pre-installed. It comes with 1GB of free storage (you can buy more). It has email program, IM application, MP3 player, blogging client and OpenOffice. It’s in beta and not as perfect as your desktop but [...]

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SPEEDTEST.NET is a very interesting online tool that allows you to test your Internet Connection Speed, both download and upload. You can choose to test your Internet speed against servers located in different cities in US, Europe or Australia.

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This is what a Russian News Pravda is reporting.

Our world is on the brink of another world war. It will originate August 22nd in the Middle East. The prediction was presented not by Vagna or Nostradamus but by an American political scientist Bernard Lewis in the acclaimed publication of Wall Street Journal. He is a [...]

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Live-Share is a simple, fast and free file hosting and sharing service. I just got registered, it works well with firefox (doesn’t work with safari). Anonymous users are given 300MB and registered users get 500MB of free storage. It’s really simple to use, all you got to do is:

1. Select your file and press upload2. [...]

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This Multifunctional Broadrange Wireless Router from AUSUS is amazing. It’s a perfect one box solution for your Home Wireless Network, Internet Connection and Digital Media Storage. All this in a small box:

Wireless Router.
Storage Server with Raid-1 (mirroring) capability.
Built in FTP/Web Server.
Download master (can directly download to the device using Bit Torrent, FTP and HTTP).
Support for [...]

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Firewalls have become an integral part of all corporate networks. They’re the first line of defense against attacks from outside network (Internet) and also the point of control to make sure internal users (employees) are using the Internet as they’re supposed to. Recently the UTM (United Threat Management) Firewalls have become very popular. They’ve built [...]

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