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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Blackberry Playbook launched to take over Apple iPad
Ok, I will make this a quick one because I know you must be super excited just by the title itself if you have not yet checked out this new baby. Yes, its unbelievable but true. Blackberry has unveiled what is being tooted as a possible winner over Apple’s iPad – its Blackberry Playbook.
Blackberry Playbook looks super cool in black and more powerful. It houses a 1ghz duo-processor which is better than iPad’s and also higher RAM. Among the many features some noteworthy are:
- Complete Flash & HTML5 support
- Plays 1080HD quality videos
- Multi-Tasking
- Dual Camera for Video-conferencing and taking pictures
- Enterprise support
- Touch-smooth
The most important factor now awaited is the price as only the Price can decide whether its going to make iPad, iFail. Let’s wait and watch. 
Check out the promotional video below as well.
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Quality Web Hosting is Affordable Again – SpeedHost.in
As a freelance web-designer, in my initial days one of the major concerns of all my clients was hosting their site. Designing and creation of website is mainly a one-time investment but to ensure that you have un-interrupted web presence, no server or bandwidth hiccups and more importantly fast website loading – the web host plays a crucial role. It is not just that the web hosting should be reliable & powerful but also cost-effective.
To ensure that I provide my client’s the best and that they never face web-hosting troubles I am always on the lookout for good hosting companies and various packages that suit individuals of different needs. During this search when I landed upon the review opportunity for an Indian company’s web hosting services, I grabbed it. And I am glad I did..
What’s SpeedHost.in?
SpeedHost.in is an Indian Web Hosting company which offers various packages for hosting your website. Along with hosting packages they also offer domain registration services. You can even become a reseller and set up your own hosting business. The company was founded in 2007 and is located in New Delhi, India.
About their website
Before I head to telling you about their service, let me walk you through their website. As a web designer, its the 1st thing that catches my eye and I was greeted by a simple yet pleasant looking site. The first thing I noticed was their tag line – “Low Cost Web Hosting Service All Over India” which makes it quite clear that their target customers are Indians looking for a low cost web hosting solution. Though a copy-writer can make this hit better, it does make its point. And the hosting packages featured go by this motto.
The design is a simple blue interface that sports a navigation with direct links to their various packages and services. Though this can have its own pros and cons, design wise it looks well placed. In the side-panel, right at the top they have featured a Security & Money-back guarantee which is something Indian users would love. Along with that, logos of various payment options & customer testimonials makes up the sidebar. The Footer is simple and effective. Overall, I would say the site is clean, usable and serves the purpose though does not give a feeling of a big web hosting player like GoDaddy.
What packages are on offer?
The packages are designed keeping in mind the regular user, Mango-people. There are packages which serve the basic purpose of every user. If you need to host one site, you can go for either Starter or Basic hosting. Upto 3 sites can be hosted with the help of Silver package or if you are someone like me then there is also an unlimited hosting package.
All the packages are feature rich and will enable you run any sort of site like a company portfolio or a blog or a e-commerce site comfortably. There are many applications like phpBB, WordPress, Drupal, etc which can be installed with the help of Fantastico. Along with that Database support and Email server. You can get your email ids as you@yourdomain.com and manage them easily. Apart from these there are tools to analyze web traffic & ftp service. Not going further on the techincal side, in a simple sentence – the service has all the features competitive to any of the other contenders. What sets them apart is their pricing and support. Also, according to their FAQs page you can get your web-hosting set-up within minutes of online payment.
If you are looking to host a single-website then I suggest Basic Web Hosting plan as it has better space and bandwidth options.
Reseller Hosting
Along with the various packages for the general user, the company has recently launched Reseller Hosting in India. This enables any user to start their own hosting business by reselling Speedhost’s webspace. You can design your own packages, price it accordingly and promote. Such a service by an Indian provider is rare at this point of time.
Online Chat Support
I did not take this up when I was discussing the design but it is crucial. Something that I really liked on the site was that they have integrated a Zoopim Live Chat feature which let’s you instantly chat with the company representatives and get your queries clarified. No more waiting for emails. 
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The prices and packages are among the best provided by an Indian web-hosting company and suit the needs of both a regular user and a business professional. The features are beyond expectations of one and match any other hosting company but what sets speedhost apart is their service & support with a long queue of satisfied customers.
If you are looking for an Indian web hosting company, Speedhost.in is a must try. It even appeals to my funda of “Why Pay More?” 
Learn FLEX in a week for free – Online Video Tutorials
With the emergence of web as the most powerful way of communication and sharing information, rich media has taken an important role. Developing and creating powerful applications is becoming difficult and very challenging. The needs of users change everyday and there are many ready to offer a lot for quite less. In such a scenarios, developers specially freelancers like myself need to constantly upgrade one’s skill to be ahead in the game.
Today many technologies have emerged that help one develop rich media application that just don’t look great but provide excellent user-experience. One technology growing in delivering this very challenge is Adobe Flex. Flex is an open source framework developed by Adobe to help developers create flash based application which run on any of the popular backend languages. It’s a smart way of creating application with both a stunning interface and powerful functionality. Earlier I had written a post from where you can download Adobe tools for free.
To promote Flex among developers and also get Adobe’s paid product “Flash Builder4″ an uplift, Adobe has come up with a free 7-day online training course that will teach a developer the basics of application development on FLEX. Anyone can download the required application i.e. “Flash Builder 4″ as a 60-day trial and try their hands on it. Though its clear that this is an attempt to promote their products and make more people FLEX-literate thus increasing their product sales, freelancers & developers are at gain. It’s always a good idea to upgrade ones knowledge across various various areas and have more skills to offer to your clients. The driving point for me is that I get to combine exceptional front-end & back-end to develop some applications I have in mind.
Someone has rightly said – “Learning should never stop”, so go ahead…click here for the ‘Learn FLEX in a week’ videos’. What more, ou can download all of them and watch online at leisure.