Applications

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 [...]



Hyper-V Embedded In Microsoft Server 2008

Mar 19th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Applications, Microsoft

Server virtualization has been isolated from the mainstream IT and Datacenter vendors for quite a while. In fact Vmware’s enormous success can be attributed to the lack of competition from any of the top tier software vendors. Only after Vmware captured majority of the market share that Citrix and Microsoft started scrambling to get in [...]



Wordpress 2.5 Arrives

Mar 18th, 2008 | By Shamim | Category: Applications, Internet, open source

Wordpress development team has announced the new release candidate of the Wordpress blogging platform. The 2.5 release does not have a slew of new features. This release is focused on user experience and how to make it easy for everyone to use Wordpress. By default the blogging platform hides away the unnecessary and advanced [...]