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Archive for August 16th, 2006

Dzone: Digg for developers

16 Aug

Dzone
I found a new site for called  Dzone  today. Unlike Digg its focuses on programming, coding tools, processes and practices. The feature which made this site uniquely stand out among the other 100 digg replica’s is its ability to take “webshots” of the URL being linked which is shown as a thumbnail.

dzone fills a void which in a developers life which sites like digg and slashdot can’t fulfill because of their unfocused news items. Lately digg has been trying hard to develop more focused pages, but its no where close to what developers are currently looking for.

 
 

Flashy Speed test

16 Aug

There are tons of speedtesting tools out there. But here is one you might not have seen before. Its called speedtest.net. Whats cool about this site is that it allows you to test your bandwidth against multiple server in US and Europe instead of just one.

Speedtest1
 
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250 Web 2.0 APIs

16 Aug

This site programmableweb has a cloud of 250 apis. If you are into mashups, here are a few more APIs to play with.
API Cloud

 
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Create your own Web logo

16 Aug

Found this cool site today called msig.info which allows you to create logos for your own site in a jiffy. Checkout the new Techhawking logo.

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Google Talk

16 Aug

Google has released a newer version of Google Talk. This one allows you to leave Voicemails.
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File and photo sharing in Google Talk works like you’d expect: Simple, fast, and fun. Simplicity means that you can drag and drop one or more files directly onto a chat window. As soon as your friend clicks ‘Accept’, the bits will start flowing. When the transfer completes, the recipient can open the file or find it on disk with a single click.

File transfer is fast. Google Talk makes a direct connection to your friend’s computer whenever possible, enabling the fastest speed available. And even if your super-secure firewall won’t allow a direct connection, we’ll still get it there at a decent speed, because we’re nice like that.

Photo sharing is fun! When you drop up to 10 photos on Google Talk, smaller previews automatically appear right inside the chat window, so you can chat about them right away. The previews adjust to the size of your chat window, so just enlarge the window when you want to see more detail. To view the images at full size, or to save them for later, click the ‘Download Originals’ link.

 
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