Archive for January 3rd, 2009


Jan 3

Wikipedia raised $6.2 Million funds for 2008

The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the immensely popular Wikipedia online encyclopedia, just announced that it has reached its fundraising goal for 2008, which will allow the foundation to cover its operating expenses for the current fiscal year, ending June 30, 2009. Overall, a total of 125,000 donors gave over $6.2 million during 2008, though
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Jan 3

CatholicGoogle: Google powered Catholic Search Engine

CatholicGoogle is a Google powered Catholic search engine that provide an easy to use resource to anyone wanting to learn more about Catholicism and provide a safer way for good Catholics to surf the web. It produces results from all over the internet with more weighting to given to Catholic websites and eliminates the vast majority of unsavoury content,
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Jan 3

Get lifetime private VPN from VPN 4 Life

VPN 4 Life is a new web service that offers a lifetime of private and anonymous – secured, dependable and fastest VPN access for a one-time fee of $50. Their mission statement is to “free the world from ISP monitoring, government restrictions, and capitalism’s growing influence on the Internet.” The company is currently running a special promo for first 100 customers
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Jan 3

Google Chrome Bookmarklets

Google Chrome Bookmarklets are small pieces of javascript code that will provide add-on support. To use the bookmarklets listed below, just drag and drop the link onto your bookmarks bar in Chrome.
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Jan 3

Microsoft advises to patch server vulnerability as new attacks surface

Microsoft advised organizations to apply a patch for a vulnerability in the Windows Server service. The company reported earlier that a new variant of the Conficker worm has surfaced to target the flaw. "We encourage all customers to apply our most recent security updates to help ensure that their computers are protected from attempted
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Jan 3

Live Framework Walkthrough Guides

Here’re Live Framework walkthrus that help you playing around with building some demos and samples: Walkthrough Resource Model and Feeds; Walkthrough MeshApp; Walkthrough Extending the Resource Model; Walkthrough DotNet Toolkit.
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Jan 3

Cherple offers Free Instant Messaging with U.S. mobile phones via SMS

Cherple is a new web service that lets anyone with an internet connection across the globe carry on a two-way text conversation with any U.S. mobile number for free. It works much like Google’s new Gmail SMS service launched last month. How it works: First you’re required to
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Jan 3

Microsoft ‘pay-as-you-go computing’ patent rejected

Microsoft's patent application for a usage-based PC model has already been rebuffed by the US Patent Office, according to a letter disclosed today. Given to Microsoft a few days before the requested patent became public, the notice rejects Microsoft's submission for being at once too broad and too familiar. The tendency to use
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Jan 3

Mount disc images as Windows drives with WinCDEmu

WinCDEmu is an open-source CD emulator for Windows that allows mounting CD/DVD images by clicking at the image files in Windows Explorer — both Windows XP and Vista. Once installed, you can mount ISO, CUE, BIN/RAW/IMG file formats as well as SMB network shares and includes a workaround for Windows cache
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Jan 3

Evolution of Windows Media Center – Video

Microsoft has published a 2-minute video that revisits some “interesting” interfaces from WebTV and briefly shows off WMC in Windows 7. See how Windows Media Center has evolved over the years, and get a sneak peek of where it is heading in Windows 7.
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Jan 3

Activating “Bells and Whistles” on Google Mobile App for iPhone

Google had released the Google Mobile App for iPhone with Voice Search and My Location, but missed a hidden feature in the App, named “Bells and Whistles.” In fact, no one noticed it, which is why Google blogged about it. To activate the bells and whistles button, you need to go to the “settings” area in the app and then keep on flicking the page up, over and over again, until you see the button show up.
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Jan 3

WHS Task Viewer for Windows Home Server

Anthony Uwadia’s WHS Task Viewer allows you to view and manage all running tasks on your home server, from within the Windows Home Server console. Just like the Task Viewer on your home computer, all currently running tasks are displayed along with their memory and processor usage.
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Jan 3

WordPress Plugins 01/03/2009

Recently Popular records hits to any post or page on your site by any user who isn't logged in, then allows you to display the most active ones for your defined time period on your sidebar.
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Jan 3

OnTheFlyUnzipper for Windows Home Server

OnTheFlyUnzipper is a Windows Home Server add-in that allows you to automatically unzip files that are downloaded, uploaded remotely or copied/moved to a WHS folder that you designate for this  purpose.  It can expand zip and rar file types.
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Jan 3

Google Android running on Asus EEEPC 1000H Netbook – Android-based netbooks likely by 2010

You thought Android was for mobile phones, right? VentureBeat has installed Google Android mobile operating system on an Asus EEEPC 1000H running on Google’s mobile operating system Android. It took about four hours of work to got the netbook fully up and running on it, with nearly all of the necessary hardware you’d want (including graphics, sound and
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