As promised, here’s a guide to getting started with your own .za.net/.za.org domain. This guide assumes you already have hosting setup and are going to be using the domain to point to your hosting server. Step 1 The first step in any kind of domain registration is of course the domain name itself. You need [...]

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Firefox is without a doubt the future of the internet browser. This however doesn’t mean that IE will disappear completely – as much as most web developers wish it would. It has happened to most developers where you get your new app running peachy in Firefox, but the second you open it in IE you [...]

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Seeing as I haven’t posted anything for a couple of days, I thought I would make one post with all the things that have caught my eye. Maximize Firefox without extensions Gmail hacks for better spam protection 7 of the best designed sites on the web 60 AJAX/Javascript resources for professional coding 3 ways to [...]

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There are a bunch of tools available that help you track down a free internet hotspot, but LifeHacker has two we think are worth a look at. The first is the newly published Free Wi-Fi/Hotspot Finder Google Maps mashup which will show you the closest hotspots based on the location you type in – allowing [...]

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Source: WikipediaVeriSign has raised the .com and .net registrar prices by another 7% this year (as they did last year); and it seems the trend will continue – “VeriSign is jacking up prices for the .com and .net domains for the second year running, increasing both by the maximum 7% allowed under its exclusive contract [...]

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There is a great article at arstechnica about using Bittorrent to roll out patches to 6500 machines. You can read more here. The peer-to-peer protocol allows PCs to download most of the updates from each other—the remaining servers are mostly needed to send out the first few copies and then coordinate the up- and downloading. [...]

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“The latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird may still only be in beta but already the user community have started creating an extensive set of viable Exhchange killers. One such example is the latest mashup between Thunderbird and Google Calendars, providing bi-directional syncing of calendar information from both the client and internet. How long will it [...]

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My previous news post on the new age of P2P (Speed Up Your P2P) has been getting some interesting traction from search engines and the like, so in that stead I’ve decided to post a little more on the concept behind Similarity-Enhanced Transfer P2P. First off, our basis of understanding of what SET hopes to [...]

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P2P is a good thing – whether you hate it or love it, its almost definitely for some illegal/legal reasons. I’m talking about the idea and the potential business benefits and network benefits in a bandwidth strained world. No matter how you look at it, it’s a growing and strong technology, and scientists at Carnegie [...]

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Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM “Announced on the Gaim mailing lists earlier today, the Gaim project is being renamed. This follows a lengthy and, unfortunately, secret legal process with AOL, which also prevented any code releases except betas. The project will now be known as Pidgin IM. Development is being migrated off of sourceforge.net [...]

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