Archive for October 3rd, 2008
Oct
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Google has released Picasa 3.0 Beta for Linux with improved Linux desktop integration. For instance, it now uses your preferred file manager, and you can use your preferred email program to send photos directly from Picasa. Picasa even integrates with the camera detection features in Gnome and KDE, so your desktop environment will ask you to
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Oct
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OEMs have been given an additional six months to sell PCs running Windows Vista with the ability to downgrade to Windows XP using an accompanying recovery disc. Partners originally had up until January 31 2009 to provide the Windows XP Professional recovery media with machines running Windows Vista Business or Windows Vista Ultimate. Now they have
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Oct
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Alvaro Videla has released Firesymfony for Firebug extension — an alternative to Symfony’s built-in web debug toolbar and the firesymfonyPlugin for symfony. This release move all the data from the toolbar to Firebug, and will remove the toolbar from the page html.
The extension can be downloaded from the mozilla add ons web site. The symfony plugin is available as a pear
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Oct
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Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP as Microsoft was going to stop supplying Windows XP media after January 31. However, the company now says it will offer the discs through July 31, giving the option a six-month extension. PC makers will also be able to sell the factory downgraded machines online as well.
In a statement provided
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Oct
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You can set up your targetable custom channels (or ad placements) by selecting the 'Allow advertisers to target this channel' checkbox on the channel creation page to enable advertisers target their content to your audience directly on a CPM or CPC basis.
In addition to AdWords advertisers, these campaigns also makes your content available to Google's internal sales teams,
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Oct
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Jason Gambert has filed a trademark claim for the term “SEO” (Search Engine Optimization) with the US Patent and Trademark Office, which has roiled the SEO community and SEOMoz and others have moved to challenge Gambert’s claim. Bob Heyman writes that Jason Gambert’s claim of coining SEO in 2007 is patently spurious. Here’re links to various posts
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Oct
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After two months lab testing of Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX in the areas of performance, compatibility, management and security, VMware ESX took home our Clear Choice award because in our performance and qualitative analysis of the hypervisor and the first tier of management tools offered by each vendors it showed depth and maturity while Microsoft’s Hyper-V’s components
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Oct
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Nate Koechley has announced YUI 2.6.0 final, which introduces a new features like: Carousel Control, offers the Paginator Control for general use (it was previously bundled with DataTable) — allso includes more than 450 total fixes, enhancements and optimizations, graduates eight components out of “beta,” and now ships with more than 290 functional examples.
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Oct
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Microsoft is holding a developer kitchen on the Redmond Campus, November 10-13, 2008. This conference will focus on building Access 14 applications using our latest builds. We are looking for Access developers to share with us early feedback on the product before the Beta release.
What is a dev kitchen? This conference is designed for a small
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Oct
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The 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube) is the first touchscreen Symbian S60 phone from Nokia—a surprising fact considering how prominent touchscreens have quickly become over the last few years. And instead of rolling out the new touch-specific S60 Fifth Edition on a flagship N-series phone, Nokia has decided to position the 5800 as a music phone for
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Oct
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The Social Gaming Network (SGN) has released two free games for your iPhone: First, “iGolf for iPhone” — aWii-like golfing game, that has been downloaded more than 900,000 times. iGolf is an accelerometer-driven game that sets you on a virtual driving range. From there, you choose
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Oct
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Microsoft announced rolling out Windows Live Hotmail Wave 3 to users, but even after a week, we couldn’t see the new version, though some users reported seeing it, we had posted few screenshots of the new version. But some users that got the service, realized that they weren't so lucky after all, because of problems with
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Oct
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Nintendo has announced a release of its popular touch-screen handheld game system the “DSi” in Japan on November 1st for ¥18,900, ($179/€130), everywhere else sometime in 2009. The most celebrated feature of the DSi is its dual-camera setup. One is mounted inside the clamshell, and the other on the outside. With these 640 x 480 “eyes”
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Oct
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Backgrounder is a Mobile Substrate-based extension to iPhone/iPod Touch's SpringBoard application launcher that allows applications to run in the background (applications are normally terminated upon suspension).
The hack allow you to hold down the home button when you quit an app to have it continue running in the background. Considering this is homebrew software, it’s probably trivial
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Oct
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Yahoo! has introduced “Search for a Cause” with the non-profit organization Susan G. Komen as part of Yahoo!'s Breast Cancer Awareness Month initiative. Search for a Cause is built on the SearchMonkey platform that’ll direct affiliate commission for popular shopping sites like Amazon, HP and REI.com, if users click "Shop" and complete a purchase to Susan
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Random From The Yahoo! Search for a Cause: Part of Yahoo!’s Breast Cancer Awareness Initiative with Susan G. Komen
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This update improves Multi-Touch trackpad responsiveness and performance when running Windows XP and Vista using Boot Camp on MacBook Air (Late 2008), MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008), and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008) computers.