Archive for July 22nd, 2008
Jul
22
Remember the open source community touting the 'OpenMoko' neo1973 handset as their answer to the proprietary Apple iPhone throughout last year. Well almost a year has passed and there has been quite some movement on the device, but unfortunately it is neither looking like an equivalent to the iPhone, nor an iPhone killer - as
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Jul
22
SanDisk said that Windows Vista is not optimized for solid state drives, delaying the delivery of optimized drives until next year.
Solid state drives (SSDs) are used instead of hard disk drives in select high-end notebook PCs today such as the Apple MacBook Air and Toshiba Portege R500. The next generation of SSDs
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Jul
22
The Internet engineering community is adding a feature to IPv6 that the upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol was supposed to eliminate. One of the design goals for IPv6 was that it would rid the Internet of network address translation (NAT), gateways that match increasingly scarce public IPv4 addresses with private IPv4 addresses
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Jul
22
Ascender Corp announced its support for the Embedded OpenType format for font embedding on the Web, and launched a new website to promote other browsers to support it in addition to Internet Explorer (which has had EOT support built-in since 1996).
At the same time, Ascender Corporation and its collaborators in the typographic
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Jul
22
In what is proving to be one of more problematic product launches since the G4 Cube, Apple is now admitting some MobileMe users are unable to access their e-mail accounts. AOL's unofficial Apple Weblog said that it had been receiving reports of MobileMe subscribers unable to access their e-mail accounts, reportedly for as long as
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Jul
22
Microsoft has a referral program called “Microsoft Affiliate”, that currently offers two products, “Windows Live Toolbar” and “OneCare”.
Windows Live Toolbar is free and Microsoft will pay you $1 for every successful installation on a computer based in US. You can promote the Toolbar on your blog either through banner ads or regular text links. In
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Jul
22
A Circuit City page which lists the new Xbox 360 60GB model states the following - “Upscaling DVD Player: With an HDMI cable (sold separately), watch your favorite DVDs in near high-definition using the upscaling capabilities of Xbox 360.” They have slapped an August 8th release on the new box, reports maxconsole. No Comments » - Posted by DG
Jul
22
Want to synchronize installed Skins and Scripts! Both Skins and Scripts folder can be found in C:\Program Files\Messenger Plus! Live.
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Jul
22
The new Microsoft hypervisor will reach most companies through the inclusion in Windows Server 2008 but this doesn’t grant that it will be deployed and tested. So Microsoft is figuring out ways to build confidence in the product without obliging the potential customers to become early adopters.
One of these ways, unnoticed so far, seems pretty brilliant:
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Jul
22
In the part 1 of this series post, we’ve discssed “pre-checklist, and WordPress MySQL database backup” procedure. In this part, we’ll complete everything that we’ve in checklist (see Part 1).
Let’s start on the job: Before, we proceed to backup /transfer WordPress installation — first I had configured, my new mt (gs) Grid-Service account. For all mt subscribers, your
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Jul
22
Hamilton “Hammett” Verissimo, the founder of the open source Castle Project is joining as a program manager on the Microsoft Extensibility Framework (MEF) team. Verissimo will continue to work on Castle “as much as I want,” he blogged on July 16. “So nothing changes.”
The Castle Project has been working on “a simple set of tools to speed
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Jul
22
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Jul
22
OpenDNS, a San Francisco based DNS service provider, launched in mid-2006, as a free tool to speed up web surfing and protect users from phishing and other malware sites.
OpenDNS isn’t exactly a sexy service. Users have to do some basic configuration of their computer to get it going, and once it’s running they
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Jul
22
WordPress For iPhone App version 1.0, that works on both WordPress.com as well as WordPress.org blogs has officially been released, and is compatible with the iPhone as well as the iPod touch. This application requires iPhone 2.0 software update to function.
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Jul
22
Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) was down on July 20 for more than eight hours, affecting sites like SmugMug, Twitter, Centernetworks, and many of Amazon's own sites, and the company is still investigating the cause of the problem. The Amazon Web Service Health Dashboard shows that the Simple Storage Service and Simple Queue service experienced
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Security Firm RSA attached -- the underlying cause of RSA's SecurID gaffe was the recently-reported zero-day vulnerability found in Adobe's Flash Player.