Next generation USB plug will finally be smaller and reversible

Posted by Stanislav Furman on December 5, 2013
USB 3.0 plug will be smaller and reversible. Finally!

Porn website offers to help US government with ACA website

Posted by Stanislav Furman on December 3, 2013

Pornhub.com, a popular porn website, offered its help with "Affordable Care Act" website to US goverment. It was reported recently that ACA website could not handle its web traffic which is nearly the 800,000 daily visitors.

“It just came to me; our business is handling high traffic, we could definitely help” ,- stated Corey Price, Pornhub’s VP.

According to some reports Pornhub.com handles abour 1 billion visits per month, which makes it one of the TOP100 websites in the word (according to Alexa).


Google introduces "Google Wallet Card"

Posted by Stanislav Furman on November 21, 2013
Google introduces "Google Wallet Card"

AOL decided to shut down Winamp

Posted by Stanislav Furman on November 20, 2013
AOL decided to shut down Winamp

Motorola introduces new performant low-cost smartphone

Posted by Stanislav Furman on November 14, 2013
Moto G - a new budget smartphone from Motorola.

Aw! Google Drops Support for IE9

Posted by Stanislav Furman on November 12, 2013
End of support for Internet Explorer 9. Google finally drops its support for IE9.

PHP 5.5.5 has been released

Posted by Stanislav Furman on October 17, 2013

JIRA Junior. Project Tracking... for Kids!

Posted by Stanislav Furman on October 12, 2013

If you work in a relatively big IT company or team, you might heard about JIRA.

Guys from Atlassian came up with a new project called Jira Junior! Now kids can become project managers in primary school.

This is so funny and cute! :)


Samsung officially announced Galaxy Round with curved OLED display

Posted by Stanislav Furman on October 11, 2013
Samsung officially announced Galaxy Round with curved OLED display

Meet AMPPS - a good alternative for XAMPP and WAMP

Posted by Stanislav Furman on October 7, 2013

Meet AMPPS - a good alternative for XAMPP and WAMP  

For those who is looking for a good alternative for XAMMP or WAMP web server stacks. There is a very good option called AMPPS!

The listed number of provided features is impressive. Unlike the other solutions Ampps comes with over 300 PHP web applications, over 1000 PHP classes and libraries including Joomla!, WordPress, Magento, Dolphin and more. 

Very easy to install and manage services with the administration panel. You can easily switch PHP versions with only one-click action.

One thing to notice though... Despite the fact that there are several versions of PHP included, you cannot switch MySQL version which, to be honest, I don't find too critical.

Server configuration is also very straightforward using the web panel. If you mess up the configuration, you can reset it to default state which might be useful sometimes. :)

Also it is very easy to update! The app has built-in updater which makes life way easier when it comes to update Ampps.