Category: Internet Stuff

Good news for those who are looking to find free hosted cron job website, I just the website for you. http://cronjob.de, is a German website which offers you free cronjob services for your website.

The downside is your cron job script must be accessible via web (it supports web cron job only) and to avoid server busy, your cronjob can only be executed by 5 minute apart as opposed to 1 minute in normal cronjob. Another note, the website is in German only, so hope you can cope with the german language when using cronjob.de.

For a free service, this is a bargain because I’ve came across websites that offers hosted cron service with a fee of USD10-USD120 per year!

But as for me, I prefer to use cron from my shell to execute automated tasks. If you are hosting a website, ask your webhosting provider for a shell and makes sure there REALLY supports cron, it makes your life far more easier.

Hi there,

I want to present you with SplogSpot website. SplogSpot is a service which keeps database of splogs. What’s splog? Splog is a spam blog, which often contains text stolen from other websites and a high numbers of affiliated or advertisement links. Splogs like other form of spams, degrades web quality and usefulness.

How to use splogs? for an average user, you can query SplogSpot search engine to search for splog, or even your own blog whether it is listed as splog or not. For webservice provider, you can integrate SplogSpot API in your system, to weed out splogs from your service.

How can this help you? Well, we all know that spams are annoying, even for spammers themselves. So this is a way to help the internet community to control splogs from menacing the web. So, if you had a great spam+blog website, just submit it to SplogSpot.

After acquiring blo.gs, Flickr and Upcoming.org, Yahoo takes a step forward and acquired del.icio.us too. Del.icio.us, a popular online bookmarking service has about 300,000 registered users and 10 million shared links. Following the buy-out, del.icio.us will most likely be integrated with the existing Yahoo! Search, expanding its search horizon to blogs and news sites.

On the other hand this might be stale news, but I write it anyway since it’s Sunday (few visitors), Adobe has successfully acquired Macromedia Inc, making it one of the largest owner of popular software products, the Macromedia website has been updated to reflect the acquisition. The word “Macromedia” is dropped from it’s former products like Dreamweaver 8, ColdFusion MX 7, Flash Media Server 2, Fireworks 8, etc, making the word “Macromedia” merely a history.

ProgrammableWeb, this website features a very long list of Web APIs that you can use for your applications. I personally was impress by the compiled list. Ranging from popular names like paypal, amazon and blogger to lesser known names like (at least to me!) voo2do, wsrelator, findory and JotSpot, totalling 125 Web Services listed there.

The list can be useful for those out there who are building web services or planning to use one, as it can provide you with resources and references on implementing your own services.

Whoa, seems I have a quite a few of freebies invitation to pass around right now, and they are :

Gmail
Gmail is a free, search-based webmail service that includes more than 2,500 megabytes (2.5 gigabytes) of storage. The backbone of Gmail is a powerful Google search engine that quickly finds any message an account owner has ever sent or received. That means there’s no need to file messages in order to find them again.

30Gigs Email
30Gigs.com started off with the idea of creating a “All in one” site for the webmaster and avid computer users. Combining personal file storage, GD2 signatures and anonymous email all in one service, which would be free. Our main goal is to increase our space even further, to 50 gigs, or maybe 100 as time goes on. 30Gigs.com is still in a very heavy beta, and if you are a member, please help us to make it the best mail server there is. We will be offering a section for personal file storage (up to 30 gigs) and a GD2 signature maker to keep your email safe from spam robots. We also offer a unique feature, which allows you to send a email from any address you want. This is very usefull if you have multiple accounts linked to your 30Gigs.com account, and want to send a email from john@otherservice.com so you dont confuse the sender. Any further information can be addressed to support@30gigs.com.

And finally,

MsjBox
MsjBox is one of the best shoutbox that I ever use personally, created by a fellow Malaysian, Mr Junaidi. Msjbox spots many functionalities that can’t be found in most of the shoutbox free services. Some of the most nifty features are :

• IP logging/blocking
• Color Customization
• Easy Installation
• Message Limit (flood control)
• Popup replyfunction
• Invitations
• Auto-refresh
• Extended Smilies
• User Avatar
• Multipage shoutbox functionality
• Easy to use control panel
• Easy to remember BBCode-like shortcuts

So please contact me if any of you folks want to be invited to use the services.