Ever find a file online with a file extension you aren’t familiar with? Whenever I find myself in this boat, I find FILExt is an invaluable resource.
FILExt has thousands of file extensions in its database. A file extension, if you don’t know, specifies which type of file a file is by add an extension like .doc to the file name. Many operating systems now hide these by default but can easily be made visible.
I’ve never found an extension FILExt doesn’t have. Users contribute file extensions to the site in order to keep it up to date and full.
Often, but not all that often, FILExt doesn’t provide much information on a certain format however it will generally provide information on which company makes the software which produces that format providing a good starting point to opening an alien file format!
Heck! It has 3 possibilities for what a .bob file could be!
Tags: tips
I’m going to admit it. I’m tired of Web 2.0. I have a few sites made in the Web 2.0 era which I’ll frequently use but I no longer follow new start-ups. Why? They’re boring!
The bubble’s going to pop… and soon. VC folk are going to stop funding every single typical social network that Joe Bloggs copies invents.
When will it be? When will start-ups stop popping up many times a day? Will it stop with the constant growth of the Web? Don’t all good things come to an end?
Tags: web 2.0
First OiNK, now Demonoid.
Extremely popular private tracker Demonoid has shut and my downloads lie half complete.
Demonoid’s homepage simply says:
The CRIA [Canadian Recording Industry Association] threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.
This is one of many large torrent sites to have been forced to shut/limit their activities. Torrentspy no longer operates inside the US, The Pirate Bay has shut several times, OiNK was closed by police a few weeks back and the heaven of BitTorrent, Suprnova, hasn’t existed in its original form for a few years.
Demonoid, you served me well. RIP.
The only question to ask is who will close next? My money’s on Mininova…
Webby’s World does not condone piracy but understand P2P can be used legally
The Apple iPhone was released today in the UK. I hadn’t got any hopes up as I knew how expensive the contract would be and I realised that the chances of unlocking an iPhone permanently are near zero due to the fact Apple fixes unlocks via. updates.
A good friend of mine was anticipating the iPhone launch but hadn’t been following developments of its release in the UK as much as myself. She didn’t know that including the contract, an iPhone would start at £900 (about US$1,900 or €1300) and whilst this does include 200 mins and 200 texts monthly for 18 months she thought it was still pretty costly.
It’s interesting how Apple Store UK fails to mention the contract on their homepage yet mentions a fairly generous pricetag of £269 and the phone’s 8GB of memory.
One of Apple’s key markets are students and teenagers who are surely unlikely to be able to afford to splash out a minimum of £35/month for a minimum of 18 months. I wonder what Apple’s motivations behind contracting their phones are… the consumer would no doubt be much happier if they were unlocked!
My friend realises that a price nearing £1000 isn’t worth it for any phone, regardless of how cool it is. When you add into this the fact that the iPhone lacks 3G it seems even more of a rip off…
I think it’s also worth noting how the British consumer is being charged more than Americans. The total cost for an American iPhone with a 2 year contract (entitling 450 mins and 200 texts) costs US$1900… a British contract for 18 months and less than half of that amount of minutes costs the same amount!
Apple need to remember who their market is, especially outside the land of freedom fries and other Americanisms, and not lose touch with the consumer by solely pursuing profits as they blatantly have done with the contracting of the iPhone. I won’t be getting an iPhone due to its hefty price tag in addition to its lack of 3G (whilst 3G isn’t widespread in the UK, it certainly can come in useful!).
Tags: apple, iphone, o2
- People leaving comments on websites? Sound familiar? No, I’m not talking about MySpace’s comment function but rather a good old 90s guestbook!
- Auto-playing music? Reminds me a bit of Angelfire…
- Non-valid HTML… 123 errors on their homepage alone!
- Nested tables… no explanation needed!
- Hotlinking… why don’t MySpace provide a better way to store images than hosting them at external sites!
- No use of tagging!
Care to add any more?
Tags: myspace
