Tag: DLS

As yet another year slips quietly into the annual abyss, it's customary to take a retrospective glance at all that has happened. While history is surely nowhere near as exciting as the future -- especially as far as technology is concerned -- we can still learn a lot by looking back at the events of a year and analyzing, with perfect hindsight, what actually happened. After all, it is one thing ...

Most DownloadSquad writers and editors are avid Gmail users (well, Gmail or Google Apps email, which is essentially the same thing only with your domain). And since DownloadSquad is composed of such hard-core nerds, I was absolutely positive nobody would leave their Gmail completely stock-standard -- so I set out to discover what Gmail Labs features our guys use. And here are the ...

Amazon recently released its fourth quarter results, and the fact that developers joining Amazon's web services grows over 55% each year struck struck Larry Dignan. I didn't think that this many developers were into this feature as I haven't heard too much about apps that have been created. We wrote about wrote about Amazons S3 service when it launched in March 2005. The service allows developers ...

If you've ever tried searching for a particular post on Download Squad you might have found it a tad frustrating. Our built-in search engine was never very, er... good. But I'm thrilled to report that those days are over. Our talented developers have swapped out the old 'n' crufty search engine for some brand new hotness. The main enhancements are: It now does an AND search rather than an OR ...

Sue Polinsky isn't the only great new blogger we brought on this month. The other newest member of our team is Ian Smith, who brings with him his love of productivity and knowledge of "life hacks." You might already be familiar with Ian as the "Joe" behind Joe's Goals, a cool Web 2.0 goal-tracking app that I'm a huge fan of. Welcome to the team, Ian! ...

AllPeers has begun offering a public beta version of their Firefox file sharing utility. DLS originally dropped the news on AllPeers back in December while it was in development, and little was known about it then. Now the secret is out, and available for people to start using. AllPeers is a Firefox extension for easily sharing files with your contacts. Sharing files and folders is as simple as ...