Vanilla, the popular-ish Open Source forum software from Lussumo, has announced that it’s to include sponsored links in each download as of the 19th of August.
As of yesterday, I’ve placed three plain-text links into the side panel of Vanilla directly below the “About Vanilla” information box.
Mark, the founder of Lussumo, justifies the inclusion of sponsored [...]
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Vanilla gets bundled with removable Adware
August 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments
Skype says Windows users triggered their downtime
August 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments
A few days ago, on the 16th of August to be exact, Skype endured its longest downtime in its history.
Skype’s tag-line is to ‘Take a deep breath’ but I hope it wasn’t taken literally by its 200 million plus users.
Is it even possible to hold your breath for 48 hours?
Skype’s Villu Arak explains [...]
Tags: Software · Technology
A Recommended Keyword Tool & Free Trial
August 16th, 2007 · No Comments
Richard Hearne, from Red Cardinal, this morning posted about his favourite keyword tool. The tool in question is Wordze and is available for free public consumption for the next 30 days!
In order to be accepted for the 30 free trial you must click on a subscription link in Richard’s post. This offer ends in four [...]
Check variants between geographical Google results with Google Globe plugin for Firefox
July 15th, 2007 · 5 Comments
It’s a long post title but it pretty much describes what Dave Davis’ Google Globe plugin does.
Dave introduces his plugin as being an
unobtrusive Firefox extension that allows you to see what the Google search results that you are viewing look like from different geographical locations
Google throws up different results based upon your IP address and [...]
Tags: Firefox · SEO · Software
Hello Safari, Welcome to Windows - Safari Beta 3
June 11th, 2007 · 13 Comments
I’m a bit shocked that this has happened before the iPhone and Leopard’s release but Apple have just released Safari Beta 3 on both Mac and Windows platforms.
Safari is the fastest browser running on Windows, based on the industry standard iBench tests, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and [...]
Tags: Apple Macs · Software
Multitext - Send SMS mesages from your Desktop.
May 21st, 2007 · 6 Comments
This is a short and sweet post to tell you about a free application I have being using quite a bit from work. The application is called Multitext and it is developed by a group of Irish lads.
The application allows you to send text messages from your desktop. It works with O2, Vodafone and [...]
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