Archive for September, 2005

Yahoo! Mail
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Gmail has been my webmail client of choice for the past year or so. But thanks in part to Jeremy’s comments on the new Yahoo! Mail and his recent webmail-only challenge, I figured I would give Yahoo! mail a shot. For the most part, I am agnostic about email providers — I [...]

Yahoo! Music Unlimited Review
Monday, September 26th, 2005

This post marks the return of a series of articles that review online music services, such as EMusic, the iTunes Music Store, Napster, and more. The fact that almost 2 years have elapsed in between reviews indicates that market has gradually stabilized. Has it done so for the better? No, not necessarily. [...]

Unto.net DNS issues
Saturday, September 24th, 2005

My doman registrar and DNS host has been battling a DoS attack for the past couple of weeks. The attackers seem to have the upper hand today, and most people won’t be able to resolve the unto.net domain. It’s partly my fault for not setting a secondary (or rather, relying on their secondary [...]

OpenSearch 1.1, Internet Explorer 7, Web 2.0, and the point of it all
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Microsoft’s Chris Wilson was the first to publicly reveal one of the projects that I have been working on. During his presentation at the Professional Developers Conference, Chris announced that Internet Explorer 7 will use A9’s OpenSearch to integrate third-party search engines directly into the browser. You can read the details over on [...]