Archive for the ‘ Web ’ Category

RackSpace Cloud Review

About 4 months ago I tried Amazon EC2 with Ubuntu image and found it somehow difficult to configure the server, especially if you are not familiar with cli. Making an ssh remote connection required downloading few encryption keys from amazon. Linux server images from amazon seem to not have root password, therefore private and I [ READ MORE ]

Google Voice for Android – Updated works with Google Apps accounts

When the first version of Google Voice for Android came out you could only use it with a Gmail account, the same account associated with marketplace. An update was released today that allows you to log-in with any other accounts as long as you have Google Voice, of course[ READ MORE ]

Testing Blog it feature from flickr.com

  • September 3rd, 2009
  • Posted in Web

Originally uploaded by @Twitter This was posted from flickr site through xmlrpc. Pretty good, I’m impressed. If you are wondering who the girl is, she apparently works at Twitter. This is why twitter is cool. Very photogenic[ READ MORE ]

Bing travel advice, not a good one in my case

  • August 17th, 2009
  • Posted in Web

I was looking to buy a ticket from Baltimore to Chicago and I thought I’d give a try Bing’s Travel section of search. They claim to know when it’s the right time to purchase a ticket. So the first advice was to wait, and I signed up to get updates on my email and here [ READ MORE ]

Bing’s Search Results

  • August 10th, 2009
  • Posted in Web

One tweet caught my eye and I had to take a look at it to see for myself. Benj Arriola over at Business OnLine posted that when you search “Microsoft” on Google you get more results than if you searched “Google” on Bing. While that is true I seriously don’t think that’s a negative thing, [ READ MORE ]