http://yasser.hastalent.net One more blog for the world Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:51:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everyone who runs a website has a few things in mind. First they want visitors because you don't want to have a place that no one reads or uses at all. And after that most people want to make a little money of their websites. It is always obvious how ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/06/19/how-the-50-best-websites-make-money/ Today was the big launch day for Firefox 3. Everyone seemed very excited to download the new version. But when you went to check out the website early morning you found out that it wasn't available until 1pm. But at some time between 11am and 1pm the website crashed and ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/06/17/firefox-3-released/ The rumored 3G iPhone from Apple has been expected by many but no one knew if the phone itself would change. Today some pictures started popping up around the internet. TechCrunch has a picture of a packet that shows the new iPhone in colors and with a front camera making ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/06/07/new-3g-iphone-pictures/ It seems like Time Warner has officially decided to test metered internet in Beaumont, Texas. For those of you who don't know...people "use" a certain amount of internet every day that could be measured just like your phone minutes. Time Warner is planning on putting limits on the amount of ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/06/06/metered-internet/ CNET has this great article on some of the most famous websites of back in the day that went bad. Everyone calls it the bubble effect; a website grows popular until it reaches a certain point, like a bubble, and then it explodes and it is over. Some of these ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/06/05/the-dotcom-bubbles/ Seeing that it is around that time where most students start thinking about applying for college; I am going to talk about my process and what I think worked and did not work for me. The best way to make an impression on a school is through your SAT scores. Every ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/06/02/applying-to-college-sat/ TechCrunch just announced that Facebook has made an interesting move in making there platform open source. It is available for people to download and use under their copyright rules. As far as competing with Open Social then it is a smart move since you never want to stay back in ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/06/02/facebook-platform-available-to-public/ The big buzz going around is the upcoming release of Firefox 3. According to some reviews people say that it is a new amazing experience. They have found ways to solve some of their memory leaking problems also known as the firefox memory hogger issue. I hope this would be ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/06/01/firefox-3-making-the-buzz/ It had been a long time since I have been curious with how certain technology works. Tonight I discovered simple tricks of how to send text messages from websites and how to send emails through text messaging. It all works with SMS Gateways, which are paths or "doors" that enable ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/05/31/sending-text-messages-from-a-website/ I was just reading an article about Netflix's new box where you could watch movies on demand. In the same way Apple TV and other products work; you could download movies and videos to watch on your television. The obvious difference is that Netflix is known for their wide range ... http://yasser.hastalent.net/2008/05/31/netflix-player-movies-on-demand/