Archive for October 28th, 2007
Oct
28
Remy Sharp has gone through the jQuery and Prototype frameworks, which are probably the two closest to each other, and has done a side by side comparison of the frameworks by showing you how similar things work on both.
The presentation looks into the utility functions, selectors, DOM manipulation, DOM walking, events, Ajax transport, and browser detection.
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Oct
28
MediaPost reporting that Google wants to integrate the reporting features from all of its ad products to provide a "fully functional marketing dashboard". Google intends to connect the three pieces: search, display and offline advertising. "The more measurement you can put on this type of functionality the better, said Google's Tim Armstrong -
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Oct
28
Junk Registry files that hide inside your system will tend to slow down your PC or crash it sometimes. These junk registry files were left behind when you install/uninstall programs and you forget to clean them whenever they are no more in use. Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest and useful registry cleaning utilities
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Oct
28
Duane Nickull, Dion Hinchcliffe, James Governor have a new book on Web 2.0 Design Patterns which mixes in the Enterprise with the funky Web 2.0 crowd.
James and Duane have a little chat about what the book is about and the tension between the enterprise world and the simple Web. Video after the jump.
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Oct
28
Reports are spreading in our forums that Zune Marketplace seems to be delivering higher-quality album art with your song downloads. The result is crisper album art displays on the Zune player, and in Zune software on your PC.
So far no confirmation from Microsoft on this, but it
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Oct
28
There no doubt, Vista and Leopard are both extremely advanced, feature rich consumer operating systems. But way back in January when Vista launched we knew we had little choice but pit the two in a head to head chartngraph Thunderdome competition. We know we're not even going to
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Oct
28
Just over a year ago when hacker 2 Comments » - Posted by DG
Oct
28
Researchers have developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers' pockets within a few years.Thanks to a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale, researchers at Arizona State University say their memory is, bit-for-bit, one-tenth the cost of -- and 1,000 times as energy-efficient
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Oct
28
If the sweet, juicy, rumor friendly screenshots that we just received via our tipster inbox hold any water, then everyone can look forward to IPTV being part of the Fall update. Though, remember kids, this is all filed under the "rumor" tag...The two four screenshots
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Oct
28
At the Analyst Day event, Google revealed what we can expect from a new version of Gmail that will launch soon:
prefetching messages. When you load a page that contains a list of messages, Gmail will fetch them in advance so that
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Oct
28
Create visual stunning wallpapers from your personal photo collections. This Wallpaper Generator makes it easy to compose your most beautiful photos to stunning wallpapers for your desktop!Remember your last summer holiday a little bit longer, keep in mind your special moments, or think of your sweethearts. With the
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Oct
28
Can't get to Milan to see Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper?" As of Saturday, all you need is an Internet connection. Officials put online an image of the "Last Supper" at 16 billion pixels — 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera.The high resolution
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Oct
28
Over the past few days I've been doing a lot of research around the issue of the VPCs issued with VS2008 / TFS 2008 Beta2 expiring on November 1, 2007. I wanted to share my findings with everyone.
First, because it wasn't clear to me what would happen to the VPCs after November 1st, I've emulated
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Oct
28
Thierry Schellenbach has created a cross site Ajax plugin for the prototype framework 1.5.0. The cross site plugin simply allows you to do Ajax cross site remoting using the dynamic script tag method that other frameworks such as Dojo and jQuery have supported for awhile.
You can implement this by simply setting crossSite: true
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Oct
28
The creators of APE on Saturday denied that their application-enhancement framework is responsible for blue-screening Macs being upgraded to Leopard. Apple Inc., however, blamed the software in a support document advising users to delete APE from their machines.
Within hours of Leopard's Friday debut, users began reporting a "blue screen of death" that
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Random From The Leopard BSOD issued heats up
- Nov23Apple’s VP outlines iPhone App approval process
Phil Schiller of Apple, outlines the many reasons Apple keeps close tabs on which applications can be downloaded onto iPhone and iPod Touch. He also - Sep24SQL Azure Service Update 4 (SU4) Gets ‘Database Copy, Improved Help System’ and More! Features
SQL Azure SU4 is now live with three new updates:Database copy allows you to make a real-time complete snapshot of your database into a different - Dec14Video: Integration of Project Server 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010
This event is an introduction into Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server 2010 and their integration capabilities.Integration between Project Server and Team Foundation Server - Nov20GImageX (ImageX GUI) version 2.0.1 Beta
You may remember that back in the early days of my blog, I posted a tool that myself and fellow MCS consultant Jon Bennett (also - Dec10Microsoft won seven figure sum from distributor
Microsoft has won a seven figure sum from a distributor found guilty of selling tens of thousands of items of dodgy software. Netcom Distributors was found