Vlad

DNS hosting

• ZoneEdit – free for up to 5 domains and reasonable queries. Useful as a back-up tool but could be used for primary nameservers too. Design does look a bit outdated.

Info and troubleshooting

• IntoDNS – web 2.0 design, very user-friendly – generates a full report on your DNS records health. Thumbs up to ElvSoft!
• RobTex – very detailed. I like the graphs it generates:

stackoverflow.com: Joel and Jeff‘s latest project opens up to public today (public beta). It’s a Q&A forum for programmers with a strong accent on usability and community driven ranking.

Vio has taken the time and tried to compare Chrome’s performance to today’s major browsers. He’s been using TaskWriter (Sety‘s latest product) as a benchmark and the results are quite interesting: Chrome is the speediest, but FF3 is very close:

Chrome Benchmark

AC Cobra, originally uploaded by bitsofreality.

On the Großglockner-Hochalpenstraße

Google stepped up yesterday with two launches: a web browser (Chrome) and updated versions of PicasaWeb and Picasa 3 picture management software. I won’t comment much on Chrome, except that it seems very fast and wheel-like scrolling up doesn’t work on my laptop’s touchpad… and I miss the dedicated search box (I really do).

But the new PicasaWeb features something really cool: face recognition. It will analyze all your uploaded pictures and find faces, then group them together and ask for you to assign names/persons. This is not new, Riya’s been doing this for some time already, right? Yeah, but my experience with Riya wasn’t the greatest and I found it almost unusable while PicasaWeb simply… just works.

That’s WOW in my dictionary! Read more »