There are a couple of interesting news this morning regarding the Web Office field. Adobe is buying a company called Virtual Ubiquity, developer of buzzword, and online Word Processor that runs on Adobe Flex (Flash).
Microsoft is announcing an online file management service. It will probably look a lot like the Google Apps file manager. It […]

I checked today and, effectively, Pandora’s technical staff blocked the site for most countries. This is how the site looks like in Uruguay (click on the image to view in full size):

What to do now
There are articles on how to access Pandora from outside the US already. Basically, it tells you to use a […]

I am still trying to figure it out: Is Silverlight another big waste of money from Microsoft, or the next big bump on the road for Linux on the desktop?
Silverlight is Microsoft’s new cross-browser, ‘cross-platform’ plug-in for delivering multimedia and rich interactive applications (RIA) on the Web.
Doubtless, Silverlight will have advantages over its competitors (Adobe’s […]

Being an upgrades addict; I just had to updated the site from Wordpress 2.0 to 2.1.2.
It went like a charm, following Wordpress site’s instructions. It took 15 minutes, 14 of which were due to the deletion and uploading of files being done with the worst FTP client: iexplorer. I am downloading FileZilla at this very […]

Yesterday, while surfing the Web and blogging, I came aware that this site, as most of the sites I host with GoDaddy.com, Inc., were down. It took them over an hour to fix the problems, at least for my sites. We had an online discussion at the DigitalPoint Forums during the problem, where other […]