December 2008
Building a business on the back of a closed development platform like Facebook, Twitter, or the iPhone? You may want to reconsider unless you can get certain guarantees from the platform owner.Read More
Because working from home means that your work and personal living spaces are right on top of one another, telecommuters and freelancers typically face unique challenges. So here are 12 tips to help... Read More
Adobe today is releasing AIR 1.5 for Linux, available for immediate download from their site. More important than a release for a third-place OS, this represents a broader strategy by Adobe to make... Read More
The Search Cloudlet plugin for Firefox provides an interesting take on search engines' suggestion features, and gives us a way to narrow down search results in an easy, visual manner.Read More
Keeping track of your billable hours is an essential task for any freelancer. But tracking time can itself become a time sink. In this post we present a round up of 4 web applications that each... Read More
Think Twitter is just for wasting time chatting to friends and strangers? Think again. There are all sorts of creative uses for Twitter out there, and we've assembled ten of our favorites in this... Read More
Speeding up your site can often be as simple as configuring your web server to make the best use of your visitors' browser cache. If you don't know where to start to do that, you're in luck -- Wayne... Read More
Should social networking profiles really be considered a legal extension of your real-world residence? An Australian judge seems to think so. What are your thoughts?Read More
It has been difficult for developers to budget for Google App Engine without knowing how it compares to other cloud hosting platforms in terms of cost. Today, Google hinted at how their upcoming... Read More
As someone who writes about the so-called second version of the web for a living, I think I've held onto the Web 2.0 term as long as I could. But today, "Web 2.0" has officially jumped the shark... Read More
With the release of Internet Explorer 8 comes some exciting new features, and we're getting in on the ground floor. If you're running IE8 Beta 2, you can install these cool new add-ons right now. Use... Read More
Long dismissed as a "toy Java IDE", NetBeans - Sun's open source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) - has really grown up in recent years. No longer is it just for Java, either: for web... Read More
In this year's "Most Trusted Companies for Privacy" survey, tech companies did quite well. But not Google, which fell all the way out of the top 20 from #10. Facebook, meanwhile, jumped in at #15.... Read More
At an event in San Francisco today, Yahoo! announced a broad expansion of their open strategy. Perhaps most compellingly, their 275 million user strong Yahoo! Mail application has been turned into... Read More
