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It’s not often that I get excited over an email client. Honestly!

However, since discovering RoundCube (or rediscovering as it were, because I had known about the project for about 6 months prior to becoming a convert), I just love how everything comes together on this open-source project still in 0.1-beta phase. RoundCube is an IMAP webmail client which has an AJAX-based user interface that is both user-friendly and responsive – not unlike GMail – and no redundant features, I may add. A quick installation guide of RoundCube on your server can be found here; here is another guide on installation for Site5 servers.

Finally, a good list of Web 2.0 softwares.

Ajax seems to be all the rage for web development right now. No, in case you were wondering, an Ajax is not some kind of cleaning kit that you use to clean your monitor or CPU case… 🙂

Ajax actually stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

If you are still clueless after the previous sentence, just think of Ajax as providing a set of tools which form the building blocks for interactive applications (think GMail) that you can access through your browser. This allows, for example, the “drag and drop” that we are so familiar on any Windows PC on a web page that you visit, and is certain to revolutionalize how we go about everyday tasks in the near future. It is already quite conceivable that an entire word processor that is responsive can be built as a web application thanks to Ajax. Well, Max Kiesler has posted a Round-up of 50 AJAX Toolkits and Frameworks. This is an impressive resource which hopefully I will get to explore more one of these rainy days.

Digital Universe is a non-profit website (four years in the making) and aims to be the most comprehensive online research storehouse. Apart from being yet another online encyclopaedia site, Digital Universe seeks to improve on the ground broken by Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia that allows anyone to contribute and edit articles which incidentally boasts 1 million articles in English on everything from art deco to nuclear physics. However, Wikipedia’s open system has also led to the publication of fraudulent articles and critics have charged that authors sometimes have undisclosed conflicts of interest. To counter this, Digital Universe pays top academics to create authoritative maps, articles, and provides links to third-party content related to virtually any scholarly topic.

What does all this mean to you and me – the general public? More and more information which is both more reliable and free! Can’t really beat that now, can you??

If you have ever spent any amount of time surfing the Web, you will no doubt be familiar with the suffixes “.com” and the “.org”. However, it seems that there are many, many more than these two: 264 Web address suffixes in use, to be exact. Here is a full list.

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I am a true believer in Firefox ever since I adopted it as my main browser less than a year ago – I gave up using Netscape around version 6 since it was just getting too clunky and unwieldy. Here is a list of some great recommendations for Firefox. The main extensions that I must absolutely have are Web Developer, SpellBound (a spell checker) and GMail Manager.