Some Little News

With Google calling out Facebook last week fortrapping your contacts, it seems like a perfect time to offer a solution for rescuing those Facebook contacts and their email addresses — sorry, still no phone numbers — and exporting them to Gmail or your other address book of choice.
To do this, you’ll need a Yahoo! account [...]

Shortening URLs is only useful if it is quick. If I have to spend more than 5 seconds to do it I just use the full web address. Goo.gl is the official URL shortening service from Google that only in this days implemented a graphical interface to provide its service.
My advice by the way is [...]

Well time is is a very simple web service that can help you to know the very exact time. For instance it detected that my PC is 0,8 seconds early! To me this little webpage was very handy when I needed to sync my clock, alarm clock, agenda, mobile, PCs…
Have a nice time!

Boomerang for Gmail is a Firefox / Chrome plugin that lets you take control of when you send and receive email messages. It works for Gmail accounts and Google Apps / Hosted Gmail email accounts.
Boomerang may be useful in many occasions, especially for me as a reminder! Yeah, some times while I’m buisy at the [...]

Google Maps API offer a lot of possibilities, especially with the new Javascript V3 API. Part of this are the so called services: geocoding, directions, elevation and places.
Elevation service allows you to get the elevation of a place given the coordinates or the place address. To use it within your google maps code, you just [...]

Bisogna ammettere che quando si tratta di scegliere un piano telefonico, ADSL, conto corrente ecc.. è sempre un gran casino! Ogni operatore/rivenditore applica mille condizioni, clausole, offerte e dettagli di cui ci si accorge sempre quando è troppo tardi. Ed ancor più difficile è poter confrontare queste tariffe in maniera rapida ed efficace.
E’ proprio per [...]

Faxator.com ti permette di inviare Fax gratis in tutta Italia con una semplice e–mail. Basta registratrsi, creare un documento (.doc, .pdf), e inviarlo all’indirizzo faxgratis@faxator.com.
Nell’Oggetto dell’e-mail si scrive il numero di fax a cui si vuole inviare il documento (per esempio 0212345678), si devono allegare 2 file all’email:

un certificato di sicurezza (fornito al momento [...]

BuiltWith Internet Technology Usage Statistics provides free information regarding the most popular technology used on the web across all technology areas including analytics, advertising, frameworks and website widgets.
It’s very interesting to see which technologies are growing, for example did you know that 30% of the websites using JS have the jQuery library?

Lo ammetto, non sono di certo uno esperto in materia, ma comunque finora ho avuto modo di provare diversi servizi hosting. Tra questi il famoso “Aruba” che qua in Italia va per la maggiore, perchè considerato molto economico, ma ecco tre semplici motivi per cui ve lo sconsiglio altamente:

E’ costoso. Sì, in realtà Aruba costa [...]

To me this seems to be the only useful application in facebook :). It simply shows you a list of all your past status messages, it’s pretty cool trying to remember the moment you set that specific status and why..
My status history