Archive for July 25th, 2007
Jul
25
Brand Owners on Web Offensive from Red Herring reports that Yahoo, Dell, Coca Cola, Hilton and others have joined together to fight cybersquatting. The companies formed a collation against cybersquatters named Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse.
Cybersquatters purchase domain names that are similar to trademark names, such as yahooemail.com and hilt0n.com. Some use that traffic
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Jul
25
Microsoft is talking about the future again, but why about a product three years out when customers are clamoring for more immediate information about Vista? As widely reported on Friday, a slide presentation from Microsoft's MGX (Global Exchange) sales conference revealed that Vista's successor, codename Windows "7," would be available in approximately 3 years. While Windows
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Jul
25
PDF Explorer is a PDF file management software and image extraction tool. It allows you to easily gather and add all your pdf files to a database file, that displays an overview of Filename, Title, Subject and Author. You can then search through all the files, view them, batch rename them and more. PDF Explorer can also scan within ZIP files and more.
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Jul
25
I haven't been a real big fan of Microsoft's PR machine post-Allchin. It seems like as soon as Jim left and Windows Vista was released, the heavy-hitters at Microsoft went on vacation, and the second string PR people have been running the show ever since.
For example, last week Microsoft stunned the blogosphere by continuing the Windows
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Jul
25
Web site owners are being advised to lock down their web servers after anti-malware vendor Sophos reported a huge increase in the number of infected web pages from legitimate sites on the internet.
In its biannual Security Threat Report, the vendor found 49,629 new pieces of malware, 24 percent more than during the second half of 2006,
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Jul
25
Microsoft on Wednesday said it will pipe advertisements into a slate of popular sports video games from Electronic Arts, including its best-selling Madden football franchise.
The deal, which also covers EA's Nascar, Tiger Woods golf, NHL hockey and upcoming Skate skateboarding games, is a significant win for Microsoft as it tries to build an early lead over
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Jul
25
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, it is similar to MP3, but lossless. The project consists of the stream format; libFLAC, which implements reference encoders and decoders, flac; a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode .flac files; and input plugins for various music players.
FLAC has the following other editions available: FLAC
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Jul
25
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. YSlow gives you:
Performance report card
HTTP/HTML summary
List of components in the page
Tools including JSLint
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Jul
25
Here are a few ways in which the newer reports can help you spend your marketing budget more efficiently.
1. Run a Search Query Performance Report. This helpful new report can show exactly what queries your ads have been displayed for. For example, if you are bidding on “blue widgets No Comments » - Posted by DG
Jul
25
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 is the next version of Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003. Configuration Manager 2007 contributes to a more effective IT department by enabling secure and scalable operating system and application deployment and desired configuration management, enhancing system security, and providing comprehensive asset management of servers, desktops, and mobile devices.
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Jul
25
Open Contacts is an address book program with CRM features providing unified, flexible and intuitive interfaces for you to manage and lookup contact info of individuals and organizations. It displays only data fields with data. You can seamlessly customize what can be stored in your address book.
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Jul
25
After two thousand hands and countless "flops", "rivers", and "turns", two elite poker players have narrowly defeated a formidable computer opponent. The result means that, while chess world champions have fallen to computers, humans still hold sway in poker, a game where psychology plays a huge role.
Phil "The Unabomber" Laak and Ali Eslami took on Polaris,
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Jul
25
Hot on the heels of EMI / Apple's iTunes Plus offerings, and Amazon's DRM-free music store, comes news that the industry media-providing MusicNet service will be making a 1-million-song outlay of EMI and indie tracks to its waiting corporate partners, sans DRM.
So what does this mean for us? Well, clearly the DRM-bucking trends that have
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Jul
25
Dark colors is a 2 column light on dark theme that features 3 different color layouts (blue, red, and green) selectable via javascript. The theme is standards compliant (XHTML + CSS), widget ready, and can be used without any additional downloads or plugins.
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Jul
25
The updated version of the very popular simply basic wordpress theme, simple foundation is a minimal, widget ready, 2 column theme that’s xhtml strict and css valid.
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