Archive for May 27th, 2008
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Amit has ported Stephane Caron’s prettyPhoto, a jQuery lightbox to WordPress platform called “akWpLightbox” —a WordPress plugin that helps you create a simple lightbox to be used with the images on the post. You can add your images as you do now and the plugin will take care of rest of the things.
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May
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Nick MacKechnie, Senior Technical Account Manager at Microsoft New Zealand has confirmed, that Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default. Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows us to help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of “write once, run anywhere”,
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May
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Bruce Schneier in this month's CIO magazine, publishes one of his best columns ever. "How to Sell Security" starts with a common-sense argument about the psychological dynamics of why and how we as humans respond to sales pitches. It ends with this astute observation about why some computer security companies can't help selling fear[...]
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May
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Search Engine Roundtable reports that, last week Google had delisted .info TLDs and blogspot.com results from its index for about 5 hours. Recently, Ryan Stewart's blog was also dislisted from Google.
Matt Cutts of Google explained in his email sent ot Ryan:
Hi Ryan, my name is Matt Cutts
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May
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Landslides caused by the Sichuan earthquake have blocked rivers and formed new, possibly unstable, lakes. Satellite images taken by the Taiwan's National Space Organisation (NSPO) show one such lake forming in Beichuan County, one of the areas worst hit by the quake. The top image was taken
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May
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One of the new technologies that Microsoft is planning to showcase at its upcoming TechEd U.S. conference is its social-bookmarking tool.
John Martin, Lead Evangelist for Server & Tools Online — as he describes it, “the group that manages the global MSDN, TechNet, Codeplex, and Expression websites” — blogged on May 23 about his unit’s plans:
“Next week
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May
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Last week at Remix Australia in Sydney and Melbourne, Windows Live Team announced, Microsoft's upcoming Virtual Earth control for Visual Studio 2008. Angus Logan, Senior Technical Product Manager from the Windows Live Platform team, presented an hour session on Windows Live.
[…]the ability to simply drag and drop the latest Virtual Earth map control onto your aspx page, set properties,
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May
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Haochi reports that he recently encountred, Google search result experiments of displaying optimized information about forum threads i.e. below the title, there's a new line with the following format:
Discussion forum: number of posts - number of authors - date of the first post
In a search for e.g. router vs modem, the top result from
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May
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Adobe on Tuesday gave users a look at what’s in store for the next versions of some of its Creative Suite (CS) applications by releasing free public betas of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Soundbooth on the Adobe Labs Web site.Anyone can download the new betas; however, for new customers, the software will only
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May
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Enhanced Links is a jQuery based WordPress plugin that allows you to get better control on how your links are listed. It provides a widget which lets you get more options than the default WordPress links widget (show image, description, etc.). The plugin can be used as Widget in sidebar, can be directly integrated in your theme, or you can call it in your posts using Exec-PHP plugin with following simple code.
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May
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Roger Halbheer, Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft EMEA: No, no. For sure. I am not going to give you advise how to hack – but look at this video: http://www.offensive-security.com/movies/vistahack/vistahack.html. I am always amazed about these kind of videos, which still surprise people. If look years back, we published the 10 Immutable
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May
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Tranquil PC have launched a refresh of their Windows Home Server range, replacing the previous T7-HSA and T2-WHS-A3 with two new models, the T7-HSAi and the T2-WHS-A3i.
So, what’s the “i” all about? At first glance, the systems looks the same on the outside, but inside, Trannquil have swapped the old model’s Via C7 based motherboard and processor
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May
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The Redmond company is constantly working to add superior 3D models of locations around the world to Virtual Earth, both in terms of sophistication and volume. At this point in time, Virtual Earth offers users no less than 250 complete cities "built" through an
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Random From The UltraCamX 216 Mega-Pixels source of images for Virtual Earth 3D Models
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