Archive for June, 2008

It’s official: Change will happen to the Web

It’s official, and the ICANN board has voted in favor for the opening up of a whole new slew of domain name extensions that could in theory, have a major impact on the World Wide Web in the coming future. The board also voted for the allowance of non-English TLDs to be formed. In theory, [...]

Radical Changes coming to the Web?

The Web as we all know it could be radically altered soon, by some proposals made by ICANN, the domain name regulatory board. According to proposals which are being discussed in Paris, and which the results will be made known after Thursday, we may all see major changes in the way we think of Web [...]

Holding off on Firefox 3

If you’re one of those who haven’t downloaded Firefox 3 and planning on doing so, you might want to consider holding off for a while. Firefox 3 seems to have some issues and maybe more to come. You might recall the mania preceding the Firefox 3 Download Day; I haven’t even downloaded Firefox 3 to [...]

The perfect domain hacks

Domain hacks are created by adding a subdomain (SLD) to a top level domain (TLD) in order to create a word or name of some sort. For example, the popular social bookmark site, Del.icio.us is created using a subdomain del, and the US ccTLD, .us – del + icio + us. Domain hacks are an [...]

As the deadline for Windows XP nears

The deadline for Window’s XP is just around the corner, with June 30 being the final deadline before XP goes “off market.” Since there are still so many people who want XP to stay on, many people got a brief surge of hope, when Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer hinted at a possible extension past that deadline [...]

Online chess and hip hop

This must be one of the more interesting news in my RSS reader. Hip hop and online chess mixing together. Or more precisely, if you’re a fan of hip hop music, and you like playing chess online, then playing chess and getting your dose of hip hop; does that sound like fun? Well, that’s the [...]