Articles tagged with 'Technology'

Dubbing itself “The free website monitoring service that doesn’t suck”, it does what it claims. No fancy hi-tech stuff, just plain simple website monitoring. Don’t get us wrong, in this case, simple is good.

Signing up takes a minute or less. Log in, add your site and you’re done - seriously, there isn’t anything else to do. Basically, the system will email you if your site is down; additional alert options such as RSS feed and Yahoo Widget are also available. No statistics whatsoever. We just love the down to earth approach and this is one of the sites that even your grandparents can use

Websites to monitor : 100
Monitoring frequency: every 10 minutes
Alert options: Email, RSS and Yahoo Widget

visit Montastic

Today, Google hosted a developer day for 5,000 developers worldwide at San Jose convention center. The highly anticipated Google Gears - an open source browser plugin which enables the creation of offline web applications via Javascript - was unveiled.

From gears.google.com
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:

• A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
• A database, to store and access data from within the browser
• A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

Following the 31 Malaysian Tech Blogs post, we wondered if there’s a way to view all the blogs’ feed as one instead of subscribing to 31 feeds. Long story short, here’s our Frankenstein creation :

Zhongg Feed Digest
URI is at: http://www.zhongg.com/scraper.php http://feeds.feedburner.com/MalaysiaTech

(subscribe to the feed to have a look)

With the infinite number of websites on the Internet, how do you differentiate your site? What separates the men from the boys is precisely 1.0. While silly Web 1.0 boys are playing with their paintshopped .bmp images on tables, the Web 2.0 men are braving the wwwilderness, armed with bright oversized fonts and unspeakable names.

Does your site have what it takes to be truly Web2.0? Find out now! Zhongg proudly presents 2 tools that will show you just how Web2.0 you really are - www.certifyr.com and web2.0validator.com.

Today’s linkfest is close to home (that’ll be Malaysia). I scoured the Internet, far and wide to bring you my virtual neighbors. A large portion of them were picked up from Technorati

So here they are, 31 Malaysian technology blogs that you may or may not know. Each is unique and the blogs vary in languages and focus. The list is ordered roughly from blogs with high ratio and amount of tech articles to the low ratio ones.

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