Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Anyone who's installed AVG 8 probably knows about the new AJAX powered browser plugin called "Linkscanner". AVG installs it as a plugin / Browser Helper Object in any browser it recognizes and then it will scan all of the links on SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages) looking for viruses ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Any blogger that's made the move from WordPress 2.3.3 to the new 2.5.x can tell you that the Admin panels have been drastically changed. I've seen a lot of talk about it and there's people landing on two sides of the thing.
One set of people clearly prefer the new ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Say you're a blogger that has enough knowledge to use WordPress, write & edit posts, upload a plugin. You're not a coder so instead of spending a lot of time learning how to write code, you use a widget-ready theme and use widgets for everything you need to put ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Here's something interesting, something on slashdot VM
Enables 'Write-Once, Run Anywhere' Linux Apps, we're liable to see Linux native apps that can be run on any machine that has this virtual machine installed. In a way it reminds me a lot of Java Virtual Machines, but in spite ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
This is something I never understood. Why would anyone use a cellphone to look at a website????
No thanks!
New Tools Help Create Cellphone-Friendly Web Sites
David Kesmodel from WSJ writes "New low-cost tools are making it easier for companies to register and build Web sites designed for cellphones, the Wall Street Journal ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Microsoft's David Cross was quoted as saying: "The reason we put UAC into the platform was 'to annoy users. I'm serious." This gem popped out at the 2008 RSA security conference
The apparent purpose of one of the most annoying "features" that any software maker has ever included in a ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Now that Vista SP1 is out and people are deciding whether or not to upgrade, here's one tiny bit of good news (well, good if you're a vista convert, otherwise it's pretty much "who cares?").
With SP1 it's still possible to buy the "upgrade edition" and install it on any PC ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
We it hasn't been out very long and already Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is being welcomed *almost* as un-enthusiastically as Vista itself has been. Apparently, next to Vista itself, the service pack is turning out to be one of the most UNwelcome software packages to come out of ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Here's something that I have to wonder why anyone bothered to do. It's called "Project Fred". The site itself describes it as:
an entirely pointless program which counts the number of keys you press and the number of times you click your mouse, and uploads these totals to the ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The response by Comcast's to recent inquiries by the FCC have apparently gotten some people in Washington to wake up a bit and at least open the way to some new talk about the subject of Net Neutrality.
Rep. Ed Markey, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, ...
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