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2CheckOut prohibited and restricted products
16, May 2009I was just browsing for a new domain name to my latest SMS project at ProntoNames.com when I saw the old 2CheckOut banner. Several years ago I actually registered with them when online payment providers were a scarce sight and Paypal was the only other real alternative for the poor. I registered with 2CheckOut and [...]
Latitude & longitude weather API
11, May 2009While looking for a free and decent weather service API to display localised weather forecasts on tudomo‘s property details pages, I came across another blog describing how to get the current weather by using the iGoogle weather gadget API. The examples provided were mainly to locate the weather in a certain known city. My situation [...]
ip2.cc an alternative to hostip.info
21, Jan 2009I have used the API of hostip.info for long time to resolve IP addresses to country codes or country names. The web service has been hit by some severe downtime lately returning “500 – Internal Server Error” for any calls including both API and website page requests. As of now hostip.info has been down and [...]
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DNSstuff alternatives
11, Dec 2008In the past I used DNSstuff heavily, but since it went commercial I have tried to find useful free alternatives. I gathered this brief set of links and saved is a draft long ago, which I now have remembered to publish: http://network-tools.com/ http://dnsutils.com/ http://www.robtex.com/ http://clez.net/ http://serversniff.net/ http://w3dt.net/ http://www.intodns.com/
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