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Gmail does 25MB attachments now

Not sure if you’ve realized but Gmail has raised it’s maximum attachment size from 10MB to 25MB. This is great, I don’t have to attach crappy low quality videos anymore.

Some people have commented that the 25MB limit only works with the the manual HTML upload tool and not the flash upload tool as it’ limits them to 10MB. I’ve personally tested this and the 25MB limits works fine on both. Could have been slow roll out of the code or something.

WordPress 2.8, a million downloads and counting

12 days after it’s release, WordPress 2.8 has managed to clock 1 million downloads.

As of today, the download count stands at 1,175,317 and counting. It’s pretty obvious that WordPress is the current blogging platform of choice.

Check out the WordPress download counter page to stay up-to-date with the downloads.

Have you upgraded to WordPress 2.8? Make sure you do…. go here.

Inspiring WWF ads

Those are just a few of the inspiring ads from WWF to bring awareness to us about what we are doing wrong. I got them from Abinesh and DeWebTimes.

We need to turn back the clock on nature and bring her back to here original state. NGOs like WWF can’t do it alone, all they can do is promote awareness amongst us in hope that we actually to the same by promoting awareness to those around us.

There’s only one earth, our home. Make sure you take good care of her and her children.

If predictions are right, by 2015 shit will hit the fan and we will price for 50 years of ignorance.

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC3 released

Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 RC3 is out. Download Firefox RC3

Hopefully it’s the last release candidate before Firefox 3.5 goes public. From what I’ve heard the release date is set for next week, start of July.

The video below, by Mike Beltzner gives a quick preview of what’s new and exciting in Firefox 3.5.

Also, check out the demos to see what Firefox 3.5 is capable of.

Take release candidate for a spin, you’ll realize it’s much faster compared to the previous versions of the browser. However, remember that it’s not the final product. Some extensions might not work and you might run into a few bugs.

Download Firefox RC3

Source: Mozilla Developer Center

OpenDNS hits 14billion requests a day!

The best DNS service on the net, OpenDNS, receives 14 billion DNS request a day now!! Yup, 14 billion hits a day!! At pick time they process about 200,000 hits/sec which is mind blowing.

A new location is planned for Amsterdam in a few months and also Asia hopefully. We need a location in Asia to speed things up. With our slow international links even OpenDNS can sometimew feel slugish. This could be the reason why companies here have yet to switched over.

The system status page has also been updated to include DNS requests per day now. See below,

I’ve been on OpenDNS for a long time now. I use it at work, home and while I travel. It’s easy, quick and gives me peace of mind to know that my nephew who’s 4 does not end up on wrong sites while he’s learning the internet.

I urge everyone to start using OpenDNS. It plays a key roll in keeping your internet experiense secure and safe.

To get started simply replace your current DNS server entries with the OpenDNS ones. “208.67.222.222″ , “208.67.220.220″ .

Source: OpenDNS Blog