One day I had a dream. I was getting bugged every time I wrote a blog post, every time I sent an email, every time I wanted to host an image online. I had to search for a perfect image host. Photobucket was cool, but required signing in. Tinypic was also good, but I was bugged by the heavy pages, and short image life span. Other image hosts either prevented hotlinking, or were too slow and sluggish. At last, I ended up making my own image host under my own server.

One day I had this dream. I so wanted an image host which was quick, displayed minimal ads, respected my time, allowed embedding in blogs, did not require a hundred fields to get started…

And one day, my dream was realised. Ladies and gentlemen, put your eyes together forrrrr…

fumpr

Fumpr, which claims to be the world’s fastest photo storage, loads in .046 seconds. It has a logo, a file upload field, a button, two huge buttons, a small banner and some text. Its as simple as browse, open, upload, and you get URLs for different purposes (link to share with friends, embed code for forums, blogs etc.)

Fumpr in action! (this image hosted at Fumpr too!)

I tried it out, and I’m fascinated by the performance! Uploading images in no longer a pain! Your images are stored for ever. And the file size limit is a generous 7.5 MB. Your images also remain private - no one will be able to see them unless you share the URL.

Nice combination eh? Fumpr team, if you’re reading this, a few suggestions -

• Multiple image upload
• Firefox plugin
• Wordpress plugin
• Possibly personal galleries?

Waiting to see more innovations from the Fumpr team I recommend that you give it a try Thank you Fumpr!

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Hello all,

Today is Download Firefox Day! So please help create a world record by downloading Firefox 3.0 today

Its a 7.8 MB download, but it is the safest browser ever made. So go ahead and be a part of the world record by downloading Firefox today. Switch from your previous browser, or maybe update your Firefox from v 2.

To see the people around the world who will create the record (including yourself ) visit the Mozilla World Map.

Cheers! And good luck Mozilla!

Hello there dear pursuer!

I’m kind of nostalgic right now, so I’ll start of in the traditional grade 12 letter writing style…

I’m writing this letter blog to inform you that Spread Firefox, the Mozilla Firefox website, is organising a Download Day in order to achieve a world record by having the maximum number of people download Firefox 3 on that day, and to request you to participate in the same.

Mozilla aims to have 5 million downloads in a single day, when the first stable version of Firefox 3 is completed. Though the exact date is not known, it is expected to be sometime in June 2008. You can pledge your support, and your download, at the Download Day website. The Mozilla team will inform you via email about the exact date of the event. By participating in the event, you will not only be part of a world record, but you’ll also help make the web, and your computer, a safer and secure place. If you’re a bit hyperactive, and if you don’t have much activities to poke your head in to, you can also take up the cause in your school/college/office/locality and make a bash of the entire event (hey, yet another reason to have beer! ) . If you’re on Facebook, go ahead and add the event to your calendar! Mozilla is venturing in to fields yet unraveled through Firefox 3, which boasts of a lot more secure and safer system and interface. (see more below)

I once again hope that you will Pledge your support for this programme, and help make the open source effort a huge success!    

Yours faithfully,    Mohan K.

Well, yes, that a lot more balderdash. But coming back to the point of the post, this is awesome oppurtunity to support the Mozilla Firefox movement. And of course, if you’re not a Firefox user, this is a splendid time to switch!

Why should you choose Firefox 3? Tristan Nitot says it all!

Ten reasons to choose Firefox 3 over your obsolete browser

Safer browsing

• 1 - Proven security track record, with more frequent, transparent updates, so that you use a safer browser
• 2 - malware protection to be protected against unwanted downloads such as viruses and trojan horses

Better browsing, with thousands of improvements

• 3 - Awesome bar, so that you can find places you’ve been before with a couple of keystrokes
• 4 - "Save on exit" so that when you launch Firefox, you’re immediately ready to surf, with last windows and tabs open
• 5 - Remember passwords without a dialog box, so that you decide to save the password after you’ve logged-in
• 6 - New download manager, users can pause a download and resume it later, with a search box to easily retrieve previous downloads
• 7 - Customizable: change the look and feel (themes) and add features (extensions) to Firefox through the built-in add-ons manager. More than 5,000 community-built extensions are available for free!

Better performance

• 8 - Fastest on complex Web applications, such as GMail so you are more comfortable, even on old machines
• 9 - Uses less memory than any other browser, so you’ll get more mileage out of your computer
• 10 - Moving the Web forward by supporting advanced Web standards so that the Web keeps evolving and benefits users in the long term.

Hey hold it! I know it sounds cool, but hold on buddy! Don’t download the beta yet… (damn, I just let slip that there is a beta download option! ) Try to hold off until the Download Day, so that you can contribute to creating history!

Talking about history, its time for me to vamoose and be history for the time being, so adios amigo! I’ll catch in a short while, with my next radically interesting (boring) blog post

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Hi all,

I know its been a loooooooong time since I blogged. It was predominantly due to 2 reasons - one, too much work at college, and two, cut off from internet access at my residence.

I don’t know how long this stage of my life will continue, but till then, a short update from my side…

> Netvibes launched Ginger…. (www.ginger.netvibes.com) Awesome new interface, and a social network like features

> 2 new proxy sites which work quite good against college proxies - PageMod, and Unfiltersites.

> Barcampbangalore in the planning stage

> Blogathon India in the planning stage. Dates announced. Proud to be the person who proposed the idea

Well thats it folks. Very soon, you can see me back in force in the blogosphere. I shall also be restarting my first blog, Witness Times, as a personal blog.

Cheers!

Hello all,

One of my blogging pals forwarded this YouTube video to me, and I thought that it conveyed a very important message, rather than just being hilarious. Go ahead, and watch it, and scroll down for my comments, and after reading, please do add your own comments.

Yes, I know it was damn hilarious. It was fun to relate to most of the stuff said in the video, and glimpse back like baboons and exclaim "Oh my God, thats pretty amazing true!".

But did you get the final point? The video, like many of its predecessors, are questioning whether Web 2.0 is a bubble which could just break like that. From what we’ve seen so far - the rapid expansion - it could certainly be a bubble which could break at any moment. But how could it break?

Either, something major like a 9/11 could happen again, bringing about a paradigm shift of technology and cause the bubble to burst. Or, Web 2.0 might give way for something more radical and dynamic. Or even a massive discovery in terms of hardware could bring about a shift.

What do you think? Is what we see and use everyday, Web 2.0, a bubble? If so, what will cause it to burst - economy? War? Development? Technology? Post in your comments through the comments field.

Adios until ma next

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