Archive for June 21st, 2007
Jun
21
It's not the blockbuster that some industry analysts envisioned, but Yahoo Inc. has sealed its first deal under new Chief Executive Jerry Yang. Hoping to deepen its appeal to hard-core sports fans, Yahoo is buying Rivals.com, a Web site that provides extensive coverage of collegiate athletics.
Financial terms of the acquisition to be announced Thursday aren't
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Jun
21
Employee flux is typical, especially in large companies. But Google just lost two top engineers to Benchmark Capital. The engineers, Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, were part of the popular Google Maps application, amongst others. They each received a Google Founders’ Award in 2006. Now, they’ll be EIRs, or Entrepreneurs in Residence at Benchmark,
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Jun
21
Now you can easily add search results from Google within your WordPress search results page. The More from Google plugin adds the required fields to your search form and outputs the required XHTML and Javascript to display Google's results within your WordPress search results page.
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Jun
21
Textile Live Preview (AJAX Version) adds a realtime preview to your comment field. It allows commentators to preview what their comment will look like, with Textile support and everything.
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Jun
21
The Skinner Plugin adds skin selection and editing to WordPress for Skinner compatible themes. The Skinner plugin is based on the Theme Selector and Theme Editor that are built into WordPress, giving them the the same level of functionality, look and feel.
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Jun
21
Getting bored with the default yellow icon for your folders in Windows Explorer? Here's a few 3D folder icons in different colors which has a similar design with the default folder icon in Windows Vista, minus the interactive feature which able to display preview the contents inside the folder
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Jun
21
New version adds support for new ATI and Nvidia graphics chips. VistaAeroSwitch has been well received and is even about to appear on Italy's PC Professionale magazine cover disc shortly.
There's been a little bit of confusion with some users thinking they can use this tool on Windows Vista Home Basic. Please note that despite some rumours
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Jun
21
Emprise Corporation have just announced today the immediate availability of Emprise JavaScript Charts v1.0. EJSChart is a pure JavaScript charting library which utilizes the <canvas> element and VML to provide cross-browser compatible, interactive Web 2.0 charts.
EJSChart takes web charting to a new level by incorporating such features as automatic
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Jun
21
Wooed by compelling application ecosystems, performance and cost, several large enterprise Linux customers have begun slowly migrating back to Windows Server, eWEEK reporting has found.
The migrations come after a quarter in which Windows Server revenue grew faster than Linux revenue—the first time that has happened since research company IDC started tracking Linux server spending in 1998.
Recent
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Jun
21
It has finally arrived, the much-talked-about 10.4.10 update. People were wondering which would be first, 10.5 or 10.4.10, over a year ago, but with the Leopard delay announced earlier this year, there was no longer any real doubt. Other than being the tenth update to Tiger, there is nothing of particular interest about this update.
The Mac
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Jun
21
Google announced via a press release that they expand the Google Pay-Per-Action beta program to include beta testers around the world. As of today are willing advertisers and publishers outside the United States able to participate and apply for a beta account. Quote:
“Starting today, advertisers in the beta will see an alert in their AdWords
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Jun
21
Microsoft continues to strive for a more effective connection with the IT Pro community. The Windows Client team in particular is focused at getting to the heart at how to assist IT Professionals with issues related to the desktop and deployment. They would like to better understand how to support you as a user group leader
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Jun
21
TweakVista is a utility that enables users to optimize the performance and behavior of Windows Vista. The program has been designed to allow both casual, non-technical users to safely use it as well as contain a host of advanced features for power users to dig into the internals of Windows Vista.
The feature-packed utility includes features such
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Jun
21
The Internet may be referred to as the "information superhighway," but a better analogy might be an enormous, hulking Tootsie Roll pop. Check out this colorful new Internet map (click the image to enlarge) from physicists at Tel-Aviv University in Israel and you’ll see what we mean. It’s a
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Jun
21
Microsoft will soon clear up the murkiness surrounding its plans to allow partners use System Center management tools to deliver managed services, a company executive said Wednesday.
System Center Essentials 2007, which launched in May, allows IT administrators in midsize companies to manage clients, servers, hardware, software and IT services from a central console.
By installing
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Random From The Microsoft Readies System Center Managed Services
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The BBC's technology programme Click has exposed a security flaw in the social networking site Facebook which could compromise privacy. Using a simple malicious application could - May23Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Game Trailer Released [Video]
Activision has just released the first gameplay trailer for "Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3."The trailer shows a ton of spectacular action set pieces with - Oct28Prism & Silverlight: Taking Sketched Code Towards Unity – Part 1
This’s part 1 of a series of screencasts illustrating some of deas found in "Prism" or "Composite Application Guidance" from Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications in a way that lends itself to testability and modularity. - Mar06Microsoft readies Vista tools update
Microsoft this Friday or next Monday morning plans to offer an update to its Visual Studio 2005 development environment to tackle issues with building applications - Apr19.NET Framework 4 RTM migration issues when upgrading apps from .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
“With the release of .NET Framework 4, it’s relevant to talk about migration issues you might run into when upgrading your applications to