I have been meaning to make a section for the social networking applications scene, but it being so diverse, this category will hold everything new and cool I try out and let you know so you can check it out too, or not, if you do, please feel free to share your experience and opinions afterwards in the comments.
The latest application I came across is called Wakoopa, the three Dutchmen behind the app apparently wanted to make a bang on the software scene, so they came up with this brilliant idea to help people share whatever software they use and in effect discover new software online, how did they do that you may ask? well quite simply, by giving the user a small tracker application with a similar name, that apparently listens to the OS's task list, and reports it back to the mother ship. From there on, you can click on a software application name or the category its under to see who else uses it, and what others who use your app of choice use also, meaning, you get suggestions by user preference on related software.
The site UI alone is attractive enough to get you interested in the network, although it has a couple of minor glitches that require work, but I think its a great way to stay up to date software wise. On an entirely unrelated matter, software development is almost as crazy as the web these days, and frankly OS based software and distributed applications are so intertwined lately its hard to figure out where the client ends, and the server begins. This application however gives you a good edge on where you stand from the latest good software packages out there.
The web application is built on the ASP.NET 2.0 platform driven by a MySql database developed using Ruby on Rails.
Wakoopa provides a simple interface to access some of your data via
XML and JSON.
You can use this data to make your own widgets or integrate our service with other services.
So for all of you .NET developers out there, this site is a good example of using diverse technologies to build a powerful and hopefully scalable web application, time will tell regarding the latter.
As proof of how cool it is, I found out about a software Package called Synergy that actually helps you run multiple connected desktops using only one keyboard and mouse pad, now tell me thats not cool?
This is this week's Cool Web App, drop by next week for more.
Salam
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The web giant Google changed its Favicon two or three days ago, first I noticed it amongst their image search result pages, apparently retrieving results from upgraded servers, but today, and since I have Google.com as my homepage, I noticed the favicon (now a lowercase - blue - serif typeface) giving it a softer impression.
Old Google.com Favicon:
New Google.com Favicon:
I personally think its lame, I liked the old one, had more character, and a box, this one only has a gradient. We'll read about the reasons why, but for now, just look away.
Whats next for Google? sorry, couldn't come up with anything smart for that, I mean common, they only changed the favicon people.
Salam
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Hello World!
Finally I got my first blog up and running, this being my first blog entry, I would like to thank all the little people who helped made this possible lol.
No seriously, this entry is just an intro to a hopefully fun story I hope all of my friends will be a part of, this blog will be an entry point for all those projects I have been wanting to try out for a while.
You will find here everything I care for and enjoy in life, that will include my latest movie reviews which will hopefully begin with a couple of the box office's top ten of this week.
For those techies of you, I will be posting whatever I find cool and interesting during my never ending quest in web development and a couple of web design tricks I learn a long the way.
I hope you all participate in making this site much more than what I alone can add to it.
Salam
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