Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

 

Hadoop: The Best Bet for Efficient Data-Parallel Processing

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Hadoop is the answer to the challenge presented by the availability of almost unlimited storage space for data, and emergence of very complex data. Hadoop is the best way to process the complex data w…

Chrome kills tracking cookies

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In response to pressure from Mozilla with respect to consumer privacy tools in browsers (that pressure itself induced by pressure from proposed Federal consumer protection regulations in the works i…

Android SMS bug sends messages anywhere

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An issue that is not getting a lot of play in the discussions of Android versus iPhone is an outstanding bug in Android that causes SMS messages ostensibly sent (and marked as delivered) to one spec…

Android Reader app arrives

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Well, sure, there have been plenty of Google Reader apps released for Android phones and devices already, including the excellent NewsRob application in both free and paid versions. And yes, often t…

7 Continents of Google Street View: Yes, Including Antarctica!

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Despite the privacy issues that has irked many countries regarding the Google Street View maps, it has already reached 7 continents and yes including Antarctica! (I wonder how the penguins reacted to …

Speed Up Search With Google Instant

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Google (as everybody knows by now), has become part of our daily lives. It is indeed one of the most popular knowledge bases on the Internet.

Now, it is making groundbreaking changes as it introduc…

Demand Generation Software Can Build Your Leads

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Leads generate sales, right? Time is money. It takes time to generate leads if you do it the old fashioned way (rifling through lists and flipping through files). Since time is money, the more time…

Hypertable installation guide.

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During the course of many months there were many people complaining about the difficulty of installing Hypertable on their machines, but the root cause of the problem was many sophisticated dependenci…

Taking Hypertable 0.9.2.1 for a ride.

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This is the first post in the series about tools and how you can leverage them to increase your ability to scale. In this post we're going to take a look how it is possible to store a large quanti…

Hypertable version updates and some more

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It has not been a long time since version 0.9.1.0 came out, and today we've got another patch release – 0.9.1.1 is out and ready to pick up here.

And as a Christmas bonus here's the link to a…