Internet

How to Setup Amazon S3 with CloudFront as a Content Delivery Network

18 nov 2008

When you configure Amazon S3 with CloudFront, a copy of your S3 files get cached in various Amazon servers spread across important cities in US, Europe and Asia. Thus files load much faster for end-users.

SEO Advice from Microsoft Office Live

18 nov 2008

Microsoft, in their Office Live Small Business blog, suggests website owners to participate in Link Exchange programs in order to boost their site rankings in search engines.

Comprehensive Popularity Analysis of any Web Site

17 nov 2008

URLMetrix is a site to quickly check all popularity indicators – Pagerank, Traffic Ranks, Backlinks, Bookmarks etc – for any web site. For instance, here is the analysis for labnol.org.

Computer Virus Activity Highest on November 24

17 nov 2008

Security experts at PC Tools have predicted November 24, three days before Thanksgiving, as the peak of virus activity for the year 2008. In 2007 as well, virus, malware and other malicious activity peaked on this date, as millions of users purchased gifts from online stores making it the best time to steal financial information.

Screen Capture Only the Relevant Portions of a Web Page with Kwout

17 nov 2008

Kwout, the online screenshot service, has released an interesting feature – Context Sensitive Kwout – that automatically detects the relevant parts of a web-page and skips the rest in the final screenshot image.

Simple World Map Generator

16 nov 2008

Simple Map Generator is a simple tool to create world maps using the Google Chart API. For example, here is a map of all cricket playing nations. Unlike the Google Chart API URL based maps, that can be intimidating to the casual user, Simple Map Generator has a simple UI which makes creating maps trivial.

Periodic Table of the Internet

15 nov 2008

Here is a list of the most popular Internet sites arranged as a Periodic Table (the one from your Chemistry class). Periodic Table of the Internet Click on the image for the detailed version of the periodic table.

Dilbert Files: Send Large Files without Email Attachments

14 nov 2008

Dilbert Files is a new file transfer service from Scott Adams that lets you send large files on the Internet without having to attach them in an email message.

Google Docs Users Spend Only 5 Minutes per Month on the Site

14 nov 2008

Compete says that, on an average, a unique visitor to Google Docs logs in to his/her account just on 3 days per month. And the overall engagement level is even worse because an average visitor is spending just about 5 minutes per month on the Google Docs site.

WordPress Downloads Cross the 3 Million Mark

13 nov 2008

WordPress self-hosted software has been downloaded more than 3 million times from the wordpress.org repository. I was lucky enough to watch this live when the ticker moved to that magical 3,000,002 mark.

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