Archive for July 7th, 2007
Jul
7
The official AdSense blog —”welcomes Indonesian into the AdSense for search family. If you manage a site in Indonesian, you can now begin generating AdSense revenue by displaying search boxes on your pages.”
To put you in an Indonesian mindset, here're some interesting facts about Indonesia:
Indonesia is made up of 17,500 islands and is the world's largest archipelagic
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Jul
7
The iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone. It detects the iPhone’s User Agent and serves up the content with the special theme only to iPhone visitors, all other browsers will view your WordPress blog with your current theme.
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Jul
7
Microsoft's digital music player hopes to generate buzz with live performances from Common, Mos Def, E-40, Clipse, UGK, and others.
Microsoft is hoping some of the top names in hip-hop will generate some buzz for its Zune digital music efforts this summer.
The software giant is putting on live shows in Los Angeles, Chicago, and NYC under the
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Jul
7
This is a series of mockups, done by Mozilla UI designer Alex Faaborg, showing what a quick-command interface could look like in Firefox (jumping between tabs, searching, tagging); heavily inspired by the OS X app Quicksilver:
Here are some ideas I’ve had about how several different Firefox features could be designed using a graphical keyboard user interface.
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Jul
7
Amazon's British online store has preempted official announcements of the iPhone by listing the device through its online store.
Both 4GB and 8GB models have appeared on the company's UK website, giving local users the opportunity to sign up for notification about its release. The site also points to a December 1st release date
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Jul
7
Microsoft Corp. Thursday rejected the idea that its deal last year with Novell Inc. ties it to the new General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) and said it will not support any software distributed under the just-released open-source license. The Microsoft-Novell partnership signed in November 2006 featured promises to make Windows interoperable with SuSE Linux, a
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Jul
7
The Windows Command Processor is one of the long time surviving features in Windows Vista. It essentially delivers a window designed to mimic the old MS-DOS display for managing command-line instructions, according to Microsoft. Via cmd users can not only work with MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) commands, but also have an additional range of options
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Jul
7
After being acquired by Google a month ago, RSS provider FeedBurner plans to make its premium news feed management services available to publishers at no extra charge (manual activation will
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Jul
7
Yahoo representatives responded this afternoon to our requests for comment on alleged outages that were reported by multiple readers. The company has said that it was not actual downtime, but that sites like Yahoo News and Flickr were delayed by network carrier issues.
In the statement e-mailed to CNET News.com, Yahoo's corporate communications representatives said, "For a
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Jul
7
A press release from the Swedish Pirate Party is reporting that the Swedish police are attempting to block access to The Pirate Bay by reclassifying it as a child pornography site. ISPs would then be asked to voluntarily block access to all Swedish citizens.
The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the entertainment industry for
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Jul
7
If there was any doubt as to how MSN would pull off the live internet broadcast of the Live Earth concert series today, it has been cleared. Powered by MSN's Soapbox, the broadcast comes off really well.
As you can see right, the video is nestled nicely
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Jul
7
Since DDR3 memory technology is nowhere near wide availability yet, Asustek Computer, the world’s largest producer of computer mainboards, has decided to offer a motherboard with pre-installed DDR3 modules and specifically tailored heat-spreaders. The manufacturer suggested retail price of the novelty has not yet been announced.
Asustek’s P5K3 Premium/WiFi-AP mainboard comes with two 1GB of PC3-10666 (1333MHz)
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Jul
7
Yannick Stucki, an expert of Google Desktop, created a “Movies” gadget that “brings all the relevant information about the latest and most popular movies near you directly to your desktop.” Among other feature, one of the noted one is, it allows you to enter your location to get the popular movies in your area, ranked by Google. Video after the jump.
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Jul
7
FOX News now has the gall to officially and overtly refer to Giuliani as "Mr. 9/11"-- previously reserved for actual satire, like The Onion piece 'Giuliani to Run for President of 9/11.' Video after the jump.
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Jul
7
Google Code Search received a small update: Google indexes snippets from web pages and individual code files, not only repositories and source code archives. You can also submit links to archives, CVS or Subversion repositories to be included in Google's index.The ranking algorithms now favor class and function definitions.
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Random From The Google Code Search Improvement
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PC Decrapifier is designed to remove a specific list unwanted software in an unattended fashion. Before running, the user may select exactly what software should be removed. Currently, it is targeted for use on most Dell machines; however it will theoretically run on anything that has the software listed below. - Jun24Web Log Explorer 3.1 Beta 1
Web Log Explorer is a web server log analyzer that generates reports of any kind and displays them. The system of filters provides the ability to carry out deep analysis of visitor activity. It gives you activity statistics, file access statistics, and information about referring pages, search engines, errors, visitor countries, referring sites , you will get complete information about search words and phrases and more. - Dec21Cumulative Update #5 for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM Available for Download
Microsoft has pushed a cumulative update package for SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM to help you keep your system up to date. This package - Apr14OCS 2007 R2: Where to store Global Settings?
LCS stored its configuration in the Domain Naming Context or System Container. OCS 2007 added a choice to use the Configuration Naming Context or Configuration - Feb17Canadian Privacy Office investigating Google Buzz
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