Microsoft Direct X is an advanced suite of multimedia application programming interfaces (APIs) built into Microsoft Windows; operating systems.

Direct X provides a standard development platform for Windows-based PCs by enabling software developers to access specialized hardware features without having to write hardware-specific code.

This technology was first introduced in 1995 and is a recognized standard for multimedia application development on the Windows platform.

Rank Widget is a tool to check your blog's Google PageRank, Alexa Traffic Rank, Technorati Blog Rank & Yahoo Search InLinks, then show them on your Blog.

• Google PageRank is a measure of the relative importance of a web page on the internet. The numbers rank from 0 to 10.
• Alexa Rank is a very famous tool used to rank web site traffic.
• Technorati Rank is assigned to your blog when you claim it at Technorati. It's based on the number of blogs linking to you.
• The 'InLinks' (aka. backlinks) is a number of webpages pointing to your site. It's based on Yahoo! search.

A great tool for website promotion!

RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts.

An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) document (which is called a "feed" or "web feed" or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be piped into special programs or filtered displays.

Here is a list of free RSS Feed Icons for your adding into your blog/site!

ShareOnAll offers free services to share your files over the biggest share-servers in Internet. You should only once to upload onto our server and in 10-15 minutes it will reuploaded onto share-servers that you can choose yourself.

They offer the following share-servers :

The Striding Man has changed little since his creation in 1908. Today this personification of The Johnnie Walker brand is recognized the world over. He is an expression of our constant striving to create exceptional whisky blends.

In recognition of the centenary, the house of Johnnie Walker presents its international award winning Black Label blended scotch whisky in this Anniversary Edition.

This unique black glass bottle has been decorated with The Striding Man using real gold - John Walker & Sons, ESTD. 1820.

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers.

It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl.

Browsershots : When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser.

Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

Test your web design in different browsers