Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

EzyDVD to offer movie downloads

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

EzyDVD is set to release its latest offer; movie downloads, via ezydownloads. There isn’t a lot of information as yet other than the service is based on the reeltime service.

The company is also seeking ISPs to not include  it in their download caps, as Telstra does with its Bigpond Movies. You can subscribe via the site for further updates.

Firefox 3 is here!

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

If you hadn’t already heard, Mozilla has released the final version of its web browser Firefox, 3.0! Though most of us have been running the betas and RCs for some time its good to see it official. It comes just in time to take Opera 9.5 and  the social browser Flock 2 beta (now based on Firefox 3).

Internet Explorer better bring something new to the table with version 8 if it plans to keep its place on top.

Note: Download Firefox 3.0 and help set a world record for the most downloaded program, in one day!

Update: Over 7.5 million copies were downloaded within the 24 hr period. This didn’t include updates or ftp traffic. Also get your very own official download certificate HERE.

What’s that font!?

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Ever seen an image and wanted the font in it? Well that is where a handy feature at MyFonts.com called WhatsTheFont comes in handy.

All you need to do is save the image, upload it and let the site anaylze the word. It will then display a list of matching fonts.

Ebay vs… TradingPost!?

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Yes you read correct. Trading Post have positioned them selves to directely compete with Ebay.com.au with the unveiling of their latest feature; auctions. There are not thousands of items to bid on, with most still in the traditional buy it now format.

I think they will be worth watching though, as the market starts to look for alternatives after the Ebay-Paypal changes in recent months… Did I mention they are free to list with!? Win win.

Search misspelled Ebay auctions

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Most Ebayers know that misspelled items tend to sell for less… in some cases far less. As no one knows how to find them or be bothered trying alternative spellings and with or without “-” etc… Well there is helpful site called AuctionBloopers that can help you out. It searches all the known misspelled variations of any known word on Ebay (including ebay.com.au).

Ask.com buys reference sites

Friday, May 16th, 2008

It looks like Ask.com is trying compete with the bigger players by providing a more specialised search. This will be made possible by integrating its latest acquisitions; Thesaurus.com, Reference.com and Dictionary.com.

As it stands, Ask.com makes up only 5% of the market share according to Comscore with only 22 million hits a month placing it in 5th spot.

Firefox 3 RC1 released to testers

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

FirefoxFirefox 3 is one step closer to release after Mozilla distributed the first release candidate of its latest browser. It was made available to around 1.2million testers with no date yet on public release.

On Mozilla’s developer blog they comment on this being the final release if no bugs are found and if so more RCs to follow. Here is hoping it is clean!

If you can’t wait then download RC1 here.

[Update] You can now download the RC via the software update in Firefox.

Guess the Google - Today’s time waster

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Guess the Google game

This is a guessing game by Grant Robinson based on his project, Montage-a-google. You are given a montage of pictures and have to guess what keyword they have in common.

Start guessing NOW.

Also have a look at his original project mentioned above which creates a large montage of google images based on your keyword.

Need to access a blocked site at work or school?

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

IByPass is a proxy bypass site that claims to be able to help you access any site at work or at school including your favourites; MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Google News and Gmail! There are also a list of alternative mirrors to use if their default site also happens to be blocked.

iByPass.net

Email big files

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

This is ideal for those situations where you are away from your computer and you want to send somone (or yourself) a large file without any fuss. These guys will let you, without signing up, send a file upto 100mb by just typing in the destination email and uploading the file. Couldn’t be easier!

MailBigFile.com