Applications

How To Rotate Banners With OpenX

Apr 17th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Applications, How To's, open source

OpenX is an open-source ad management platform. I wrote an overall review of OpenX (aka OpenAds) in my last post which discusses the benefits of the platform and also points out some of the cons. One of the most important uses of OpenX is rotating banners. Banner rotation is very easy with OpenX. But unless [...]



Photoshop Goes To The Web

Apr 8th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Applications, FREE, Internet

Everyday a few more applications move to the web. Image editing has seen above average trend in moving the service online. Picasa, Flickr, Image Shack have pioneered the online image editing and sharing market for quite a while. Adobe has arrived late to the game but is trying to muscle in with Photoshop Express. Photoshop [...]



Expression Web Revolutionizes Web Design

Apr 4th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Applications, Microsoft

Microsoft FrontPage had reined for several years as the primary website authoring tool in Microsoft’s portfolio. But FrontPage has been replaced with Expression Web which is geared towards the general population and Sharepoint Designer which is aimed at professional corporate web-developers. On a recent project I had the misfortune of choosing between the 2 products. [...]



Yahoo Messenger Now Comes With Embedded Video

Mar 21st, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Applications, FREE, Yahoo!

Embedding videos to a blog or website is one of the most prolific activities of the Web 2.0 era. Videos make the blog more interactive and increase the time a visitor spends on a website. These benefits and more have seen the rise of internet-video giants such as YouTube and Yahoo! Video which is quickly [...]