Atma Xplorer

Xploring Games, Computing, Photography

Site Changes and More

I’ll be moving to a new host in a few days (change that to now, if I’m lucky enough to find an open bank which I doubt since it’s a holiday). I’m getting


Software Review: Week 3

I’ve had my gmail accounts (I have 4) for quite awhile now and it’s feeling quite cluttered so I decided to take a look if the grass is greener on the other side,


MSNBC acquires Newsvine

MSNBC acquires Newsvine

I was new to the service (newsvine) so I was a bit surprised to see a post on digg about the issue as well as the new logo. MSNBC has acquired Newsvine, a socially driven


Microsoft launches Office Live Workspace Beta

Another Web service is added to Microsoft’s already long list of .Net integrated services with the brand “Live”


AdSense for Youtube Publishers

AdSense for Youtube Publishers

People who have been up to date with Google’s purchases have expected Youtube’s monetization for quite a while. I’m one of the pessimists on the idea thinking that static ads would be present


Western Union payment for Adsense Publishers

Western Union payment for Adsense Publishers

Things are finally looking up for Adsense publishers who don’t own a Paypal account. I logged in to check my earnings for the day and saw


WordPress 2.3 Features

I upgraded Atma Xplorer to WordPress 2.3 to test things out. I noticed a lot of stuff after the upgrade: An advanced toolbar to the WYSIWYG. If you’re still using WordPress’s Editor, you’ll definitely


Microsoft’s Virtual Earth

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth

Microsoft?s Stephen Lawler gives a brief tour of Google Earth’s future competitor, Virtual Earth. A short rendezvous through its hyperreal 3D cityscapes reveals a staggering amount of detail into focus. Even at the


Chris Brogan’s 100 Blog topics for YOU

Still getting eaten by a writer’s block and is your blog becoming stale and sour? Fortunately for you, Chris Brogan has posted a list of 100 interesting topics for YOU to blog about.


Relieving weekend boredom

Weekends are always the slowest days for me because there’s little to do and all my problems seem to popup at said time. Good thing I stumbled into Everyday Weekender. I found his topics


Free invites for Yahoo! Mash

Yahoo! has just launch it’s new web 2.0 social networking utility called Yahoo Mash. Mash accounts are only available through Invites and viewing of profiles require that you login to an existing Yahoo! account.  The


Blogger Play launched on Blogger.com

Blogger Play launched on Blogger.com

A new feature has been added to Blogger.com‘s interface. Dubiously (yes, the name is quite far from it’s use) named Blogger Play, it draws images from public and listed blogger hosted blogs


Save time with RSS

For internet-going people, frequenting to their favorite websites is fun, informative and to say the least, time consuming. Checking for updates on 20-50 sites is a daunting task that can take anywhere from an


Wikipedia deletes Shoutwire

Wikipedia deletes Shoutwire

The popular social news site get?s it?s entry deleted from Wikipedia?s pages. Even with a huge user base and it’s relative popularity, someone at wikipedia , Jaranda, deemed thought the site as


File Transfers with Meebo

File Transfers with Meebo

It’s the one feature that’s been missing with Meebo and now it’s finally here. All you need is a registered Meebo account (takes about a minutes or two) to be able to send files from


Free Online Photoshop

Free Online Photoshop

At long last, Adobe will now be offering a free, online version of one of their most powerful softwares. Dubbed Photoshop Express, the photo editor is part of the Adobe’s plan to to


The other side of Wikipedia

If you ever needed to learn about something about on the internet, there?s only two words that usually come into mind as your first sources of information, Google and Wikipedia, although chances are, those


Skype Worm Alert

It seems that a new worm is circulating in Skype’s network convincing fake Skype Instant Messenger chats while attempting to infect victims. Yahoo Messenger’s network is infected by a similar worm that sends


Blog Engines (Part 2)

If you’ve noticed, Part 1 is limited to closed-source blogging engines. I opted to separate the open-source list to give everyone a perspective of what they’ll be getting on both sides and help


Blog Engines (Part 1)

After reading a friend’s post on Host and Standalone blogs, I decided to do some research (mainly because I couldn’t play RF) on some of the blog engines available today. When you decide to start


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