Archive for July 8th, 2007


Jul 8

Live Earth Global Concerts Reach More Than 10 Million Online

A landmark audience of viewers from around the world has united at LiveEarth.MSN.com to experience the excitement of today’s Live Earth concerts and to confront the threat of global warming. As of 3 p.m. EDT, MSN had received a total of more than 10 million video streams and has the most simultaneous viewers of any
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Jul 8

Asus Overclocking Championship 2007 – First Day Event Report

On the 7th of July 2007, enthusiast overclockers from all over Asia and Oceania gathered in Singapore for the ultimate overclocking showdown, the Asus Overclocking Championship 2007. We have teams from China, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and last but not least, Taiwan. Every team is issued with a set of standard hardware and from there, each
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Jul 8

PlugInstaller Plugin

PlugInstaller is a plugin-management plugin that eliminates the need to download a plugin archive, upload it to your FTP server and unpack it manually. With PlugInstaller, you can easily enter a plugin URL (e.g. directly from a plugin repository website like the WordPress.org plugin repository) within the admin interface which is in turn automatically downloaded and
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Jul 8

From A to Z… 50 Silverlight Applications

If you've installed Silverlight on your machine and want to see it "do" something, click around the fifty links below to explore. Some of these samples require the Silverlight 1.1 alpha release (Windows install / Mac install), so if you get an error, try installing the 1.1 release. (Incidentally, the 1.1 alpha release contains
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Jul 8

The White Lies ISPs Tell About Broadband Speeds

In a recent PC Magazine article, writer Jeremy Kaplan did a fantastic job of exposing the true Internet access speeds of the large consumer providers. Here I would like to bring an issue about one of the leading ISP (MTNL)of India, Delhi. MTNL, the ISP claims 256 Kbps upload / download stream
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Jul 8

iPhone coming to Canada

We may not know when, where, or how, but we do know one thing. The iPhone is coming to Canada. That is, of course, if you trust Best Buy (we won't blame you if you don't). The big box retailer has set up an information page on their Canadian site, giving Canucks the option to sign
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Jul 8

Link Previews With Interclue

Interclue is a Firefox extension that adds more information about a link when you hover over it. It's not that annoying as the famous Snap tooltip and it certainly provides much more information about the page. As you can see in the screenshot above, you need to
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Jul 8

Windows Vista: 10 Things – Finding photos in Photo Gallery

In continuation of Windows Vista – 10 things series post, this one highlights, the most universally applicable and beneficial developments in Windows Vista:  the addition of Photo Gallery.  Millions of digital cameras (~100M, to be precise) are sold annually and if you have a cell phone, you likely have a camera in it as well.  All
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Jul 8

Improving Flex Interaction with AJAX

Comtaste Consulting have an interesting post on creating an ObjectManager to improve the Flex interaction with Ajax or JavaScript where they evoke different issues and limits to access Flex from JavaScript. In the post, Francesco recommended using Flex Ajax Bridge, which is included in Adobe LiveCycle Data Services 2.5, allowing to make your ActionScript classes
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Jul 8

Google File Search

Web pages are useful, but if you've ever wanted to find a specific file on the web, you noticed it's not very easy. Fortunately, search engines like Google could be used for this tricky task.Sometimes people create a web site, put some files in a directory, but forget to add an index file. So
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Jul 8

Novell to SUSE users: Don’t worry about Microsoft’s stand on GPLv3

Novell will continue to ship the complete version of its Linux enterprise server even though Microsoft is attempting to distance itself legally from the new General Public License (GPL) v3 open source license. Novell also assured customers that they would continue to be protected from Microsoft patent claims regarding any open source software, including components licensed under
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Jul 8

ImageControlSize Plugin

Image Control Size lets you have more control over your thumbnails.
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Jul 8

aggr Plugin

aggr allows you to place the contents of an RSS feed into your pages or posts. It is a deeply modified version of the Aggregate plugin of Rob Miller (I also used an idea of Michael Jolley).
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Jul 8

WildCharger for RAZR and iPod Nano Announced

WildCharge has finally announced their first production unit—the Motorola RAZR. For $89.99, you get the starter bundle including charging pad and phone adapter. The adapter is really a back plate replacement for the RAZR that has a "charging arm" that plugs into the phone. In other words, wires
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Jul 8

Nintendo Training Video

The following video has been “leaked
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