TAKBlog is another blogging tool which is done by Iranian for Iranian. Their problem now is this: a USA host is making trouble for them because of Iran, USA relation issues. I wish their problem to be solved as soon as possible. I remember what this GoDaddy did toward us two years ago around domain names! Let's praise not to see aliparvaresh.com not to be taken out one day by someone else!

This Iranian IT website has posted a news around Trillian blocked by Yahoo! Though the problem has been solved by respectful Trillian team the day before yesterday. Are you forced to post a news everyday!?

nsh is a tool to run .NET source files like script files. Via ISerializable.

Horrible!

"A 12-year-old Iranian boy has been killed in a rare attack by a marsh crocodile, reports say." Read More . . .

Everything today is around Google!

"The dot.com sector is now more "rational" and a better place to do business than during the boom years, according to the founders of the Google search engine site." Read More . . .

"First, component failures are the norm rather than the exception. The ?le system consists of hundreds or even thousands of storage machines built from inexpensive commodity parts and is accessed by a comparable number of client machines. The quantity and quality of the components virtually guarantee that some are not functional at any given time and some will not recover from their current failures. We have seen problems caused by application bugs, operating system bugs, human errors, and the failures of disks, memory, connectors, networking, and power supplies. Therefore, constant monitoring, error detection, fault tolerance, and automatic recovery must be integral to the system." PDF File. Via Boing Boing.

Lockergnome says, new Google toolbar is out.

"nGallery is a FREEWARE, OPEN SOURCE implementation of a image gallery written purely in managed .NET and C#. nGallery provides a solution to store and display your image galleries on your own Web site, as well as providing means for customizing and extending nGallery to your own personal likings." Read More . . .

Nice one by IT-Analysis which is published on The Register.

"The number of active Windows Server 2003 sites more than doubled since July, according to the U.K.-based Internet services and research firm Netcraft. One in 20 of those Windows Server 2003 sites migrated from Linux, Netcraft found." Via Lockergnome.

"A year after its launch, the computer-generated aggregator is still taking flak for how it defines news. But Krishna Bharat has had the satisfaction of seeing growing acceptance of his news site. In a Q&A with OJR, he explains how things work behind the screens, and why he calls the site "a force for democracy."" Read More . . .

What do you think of them? Are they genius? If they are, then why are they using it in the wrong way? If you found its anwer, you will know why there exists so many terrorists! Read More . . .

Another beta release for FeedDemon. Simply: it is wonderful.

Read yourself and see how lovely life is becomming for us!

"CAMBRIDGE, U.K.--One of the world's largest scientific societies has barred researchers in certain countries from publishing in its journals and receiving member benefits. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers says it has taken these steps against scientists in Iran and four other so-called rogue nations subject to U.S. trade sanctions to ensure that IEEE staff stay on the right side of U.S. law." Read More . . .

Thanks to Hoder for making such website. We need more real English content about Iran from Iranians.

Here, Scott Hanselman says what to install onver your Windows box to feel safe. Firewall, Anti Virus, Anti Spam and Anti Spyware.

"Google is the king of search. There, I said it. It's good to be king, but, as Netscape learned, it's often hard to stay king. Microsoft is making rumblings it intends to launch its own search engine and join this battle. Google and Yahoo! should be concerned." Read More . . . Via Nick Bradbury.

Here you will find how good it is.

Reason: Child Safety. Is that the real reason?

Here is the most awesome monitor in the world. It has a resolution of 6400x1200. Via The Galactic Patrol.

Do you remember old days?

"A story I like to tell about Chris Gulker, the San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994, and the Web.. I had just started using the Web in the fall of 1994. I was awe struck. Somehow this was just the thing I was waiting for and I didn't even know. Then I heard about the newspaper strike. I bet they can use a website, I thought." Read More . . .

Here you can watch a room of one of the biggest hosting companies. What seems strange is a that they use same cases, CD drives (which must be used for OS/software installation) and floppy drives! I will talk about this hosting company more in detail later.

Kentc is the one who loves Outlook and hates it. See why!

You know, these guys are going to use Linux as a base for Iran OS because they say if we join WTO, we have to pay for other countires softwares. For sure we have to pay, but what I don't understand it the usage of a national OS! They can easily download a kind of BSD or Linux and enjoy their time, then what can be the usage of a national OS? They say because Windows is not secure, we going to have a national OS which will be more secure. Let me tell you one thing, we haven't even released a good software which can be useful for all Iranian users, then what are we talking about!? I will talk about this topic more later in detail.

"Moreover Technologies, which provides aggregated business information for clients such as the UK government and Microsoft, has launched a search tool aimed at allowing corporations to tap into the consumer data generated by the anarchic world of Web logs." Read More . . .

Nice guide. Go and read it yourself and start making one yourself after drinking the juice and washing it out! Via Slashdot.

I read many forums which are based on vBulletin. Was wondering if there is any hack for them to give you RSS feed or any script which can be installed by webmasters to give out RSS feeds.

"Trillian 0.74 users can update their copies of Trillian to the newest Yahoo! and MSN protocols to remove the recent upgrade messages. You must be using 0.74 to use this patch. Trillian Pro 1.0 users can find patches in the Members area and 2.0 users are already up to date." Via Lockergnome.

You wanna see whats going on in each SVCHost process? Run this: tasklist /SVC /FI "IMAGENAME eq svchost.exe". Via Tristan Cartony.

Here it is. Via Scripting News.

Simpsonsmath.com: a guide for teachers to engage math-o-phobes with animated fun. Via MetaFilter.

Here you will learn how to do it.

Jesse Ezell teaches how to create a web site for IIS using C#. But how to prevent it? Isn't it dangerous specially for hosting companies?

Scott Rosenberg: "If u cn rd ths msg u r jst lke vryne lse!"

Here you go. Via MetaFilter.

It was held yesterday in Tehran university and I attended there for a minute only because I had to leave there soon. But do you think that we need a Farsi Linux? I don't think so. Since as you might have experienced reading horrible translated books, understanding them is time consuming and you should again learn what their real English expression was so you can understand and learn other materials from the 'net. Go and learn the English instead of wasting your time on a Farsi Linux.

What do you do when you have been away for a week and have not read many things that you should have read? I simply checked all previous ones as read, and started reading new ones from today. I am back!

"Intel's vision of the future of mobile computing is a hard drive with built in wireless. That, at least, is the concept the company chose to present to journalists at its Developer Forum, this week. The idea is simple: what makes any computer unique is the data held upon it, so all people should need to carry with them is that information. And while storage densities continue to grow exponentially, soon folk will have a lot of information to carry around." Read More . . .

"Iran was crowned and Hossein Rezazadeh set a new world +105 kg snatch record at
the 35th Asian Weightlifting Championships which ended in China Sunday" Read More . . .

Some problems during last days, but everything will be allright within 2 days.

Better to take care. Like one fake site recently about persianblog. Can't remember its URL.

"Cyber-criminals are netting millions of pounds by setting up fake websites that mimic well-established companies and persuading visitors to part with credit card details and personal information." Read More . . .

"Google's product search, Froogle has redesigned. New features include: sort by price, Grid View (the page becomes a grid of product images, just like Google Image Search), and a sidebar to make more advanced searching easier." Via Google Weblog

Now, Google is 5 years old. I remember, when I was using Altavista those days and someone sent me an email with a link to Google. It was 5 years ago, but don't know what day it was!

"Tehran Sept. 7 (Mehr News Agency) The renowned Iranian mountaineer Mohammad Oraz died this morning after twenty days of unconsciousness." Read More . . .

Those of you who don't know Farsi and want to see more pictures and get more information about Iran, you can take a look at AXBlog English Edition now. I have introduced AXBlog here.

According to Mehr News, an Iranian news agency, Iranian bloggers are seeking to establish a union for supporting them. A dentist blogger, in interview with Mehr News, says, we need more support from authorities for establishing a union. Another blogger who seems a computer engineering student claims that, after his blog has been hacked, he has gone crazy! He says we shouldn't let blogs to be restricted.

I hope someone starts establishing such a union so Iranian bloggers, specially Farsi bloggers which are far more than Iranian English bloggers, get more support.

Here you can find a list of current or past list of Microsoft employees blogs.

The Scobleizer says:

"Microsoft Research is working on a new videoconferencing app named ConferenceXP."

"Yahoo is running a story called 'Is Java Finished?' It provides a brief overview of the strengths and weaknesses of J2EE and contrasts them" Read More . . .

That's right, true usage of what you have.

". . . God invented the Internet for a reason, people - use it." Read More . . .

AXBolg is another successful project by Hamed Banaei. It is a blog in which its members post their pictures which are taken by cameras in Iran. He uses an small code which was used for Second News for image compression and image cropping/resizing before (It will come up soon, am I right Hamed?). I hope he improves it more (Specially an RSS feed which its description and image source would be included) and also add a possible solution to enter an small English description of the pictures so it can be useful for others too. We need more real content from Iran specially in English. I was waiting for a change in it's design so it doesn't kill your appetite! Previous one was horrible, that's why I talked about it a bit late. Congratulation Hamed.

Search the internet history since 1996. Via Anil Dash's Daily Links.

It should be possible using simple probability functions, but they should make it more accurate, their sampling data are not enough I think, because 80% of the times, it guesses right and thats not much, approximately 92% will be great. Via MetaFilter.

"The genger genie purports to guess the gender of an author by reading a sample of their writing. The program is based on an algorithm describe here, at nature.com."

"The open source community has moved fast to plug the gap left behind by the disappearance of RealPC and Microsoft's problems getting Virtual PC to run on G5 processors." Read More . . .

CVS 2 RSS, is an RSS feed of CVS checkins. Via 0xDECAFBAD.

Ever wanted to conver Virtual PC OS images to VMWare OS images? Try it. Via Sean Early.

Just try it, scroll down the page, you will see: "In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 9 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results." Is this the beginning point so Google censors data on the 'net or this is the last one? Via MetaFilter.

In response to security issues in recent weeks, Microsoft executives Mike Nash, corporate vice president of the Security Business Unit, and David Treadwell, general manager of the .NET Developer Platforms Group, conducted a series of conference calls with customers worldwide to provide an overview of the Blaster virus and Microsoft's response to the attack, a technical description of the vulnerability and its patch, and a discussion of what customers may expect from Microsoft moving forward. The complete audio and text transcript of one of these conference calls is available here.

I never thought SMTP could be replaced, but seems everything can be changed. I think AMTP can reduce number of spammers! Other than new ways of spamming... Recently I get some banners via my Y! Messenger. Funny!

"AMTP was published as an Internet Draft last week. It suggests using a 'Mail Policy Code' during the transaction to identify what kind of mail is being sent (administrative, personal, commercial, etc). Another plus is the use of TLS using x.509 certificates signed by a CA so you know exactly where the mail came from. Sounds like a solid plan...now to get a certificate signed for a decent price is the challenge." Read More . . .

"Here's a GUI tool that let's you choose which version (1.0 or 1.1) of .NET you want an ASP.NET site to run against." Via Sean Early and Adopter.

InternetNews.com gives an answer whether RSS can replace email newsletters.