Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
UVLayer is a new application that works on Adobe AIR. The service revolves around a video player and sharing tool, letting you search for clips across the web, and share them with friends with drag’n'drop capabilities. Once you’ve downloaded Adobe AIR and the UVLayer application, you can login ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Voting closes today on the 2008 Bloggies, that venerable weblogs award show we'll be attending in March with hopeful bells on. See, Lifehacker was nominated for four Bloggies—Best Computers or Technology Weblog, Best American Weblog, Best Group Weblog and Weblog of the Year—and while we're feeling a bit ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Facebook is using their marketplace feature to create a place for application developers and the companies that need them to connect. If you’re a developer of Facebook applications, you can post a resume of sorts, while if you’re looking to have an app built, you can describe your project ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
If Thunderbird's your main email application and you've got thousands of messages stored on your hard drive, they may be hogging more space than you think. Writer and T-bird user Cory Doctorow says: Don't forget to occasionally run File -> Compact Folders. I did so yesterday and reclaimed ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
In addition to a unique and experimental debate coming up this Saturday, MTV is teaming up with Flixwagon for an experiment in crowd-sourced journalism. While most of us will be tuned in to Twitter (assuming it’s up and working) for the latest election results from Super Tuesday, MTV is sending ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Firefox only (Windows/Linux): Firefox extension AutoSaveTextToCookie saves everything you type in text boxes to a local browser cookie with every keystroke so that in the event of a browser crash or inadvertent tab close, you won't lose your precious words. In my tests, it worked just as advertised, making this ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Wolves hunt in packs. Lions hunt in prides. In both cases, they do it because it lets them tackle bigger game.
The same concept applies in sales. While teams aren't for every situation, having the team tool in your company's repertoire offers important advantages to its sales efforts.Continue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Personality assessments are widely used as part of the pre-hire recruitment process, as well as to help select existing employees for new positions or projects within a company. But how can a business know that personality assessments actually contribute to proper selection, retention and ongoing morale of employees?Continue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
IP-based video security is scalable, flexible and can be controlled from any computer. And those are just a few of the benefits. Businesses are rapidly dumping analog video-surveillance gear in favor of highly flexible and more reliable IP-based systems.Continue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
As Facebook scrambles to find credibility beyond the who-knows-who-from-college niche it stole from Friendster and grown-up MySpace users — roundly criticized as the "Big Brother" broadcast network — the youngsters running the site may have finally found something that's actually useful to people without betraying their trust for the benefit ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Like it or not, people judge you by the way you look, and how well you're dressed matters on the job. If you want to look like a million bucks on a budget, career advice columnist Penelope Trunk says a great tailor is key. Buy a just-barely-okay suit and take ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Google has just reported earnings for its most recent quarter. Revenue for the company totaled $4.83 billion, a 51% increase from the same period last year. Of that revenue, $1.64 billion came from ads on third-party sites, via AdSense. This compares to the 8 percent revenue ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
One year ago, you power tweaked Windows Vista to your satisfaction.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Brightcove is one of the most widely used video services for online distribution with a joint, centralized branding location that can be utilized as a web-based channel for any of its clients. So it comes as no surprise that premium cable channel Showtime is working with Brightcove to stream ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Live! This Saturday! At the Colosseum! Hillary vs. Obama vs. Ron vs. Huckabee! That’s right, a four-way cage match for the White House! The ticket buys you the whole seat, but you’ll only need the edge!
MTV and MySpace are collaborating this Saturday to put on what has to be the ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The How-To Geek weblog steps through how to use Word's find and replace feature to handle formatting the same way it handles text. Click in the blank Find box, and then you can use the regular keyboard shortcuts to specify specific formatting. For instance, if you wanted to replace all ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Safeguard your data with the Encrypted File System (EFS), a new AIX 6.1 security feature, and get a comprehensive picture on the configuration of EFS and its usage. EFS can store the content of a file in an encrypted format at the file system level. If you’re new to EFS, ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The Future of Web Apps conference comes to the East Coast for the first time this year, taking place Feb 28 - Mar 1 2008 in sunny Miami. FOWA brings together web visionaries to discuss the technologies, platforms, and business models that will launch the next generation of successful ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Widgetbox has just closed its Series B funding, getting an additional $8 million from Sequoia Capital, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, NCD Investors, and private investor Michael Dearing. From the looks of it, the funding will go towards the development of new products, and the express expansion of its revenue-sharing ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
FlyBack is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive. From the FlyBack project page: "FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup tool based on rsync. It creates successive backup directories mirroring the files you wish to backup, but ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Zazzle’s setting up shop in Zwinktopia, the virtual land of the Zwinky’s. There’s a new kiosk where you can purchase Zazzle merchandise, customized with your Zwinky avatar. You can even pick out the clothes your Zwinky wears, and choose from your existing outfitContinue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Before I owned my first Mac, Quicksilver was the application that made me wish I did. Luckily, slowly but surely, Windows developers began building apps intended to successfully attain that Quicksilver-for-Windows statusContinue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Leopard only: A lesser-hyped feature in Mac 10.5 is Web Clips—the ability to turn a section of any web page into a Dashboard widget. We're not huge fans of gadgets and widgets around here, but Dashboard Web Clips can be a big timesaver, because it lets you check several ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Chris Williams from The Register has penned a fairly critical piece about the state of social networking, based on some recent data from comScore that shows user engagement (the amount of time people spend on a site) falling at a number of leading sites including MySpace and BeboContinue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A brief interview with Fortune Magazine reveals that Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, along with CEO Eric Schmidt, made a pact shortly before the company’s 2004 IPO to stay at the company for at least 20 years. That means that we’ve got at least 16 years left ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Three years ago today we launched Lifehacker onto the internets like a little boat of productivity set a sail in a sea of distraction, procrastination, and interruption. Thanks to you, our loyal passengers and deckhands, we've turned this tugboat of efficiency into a grand cruise ship, serving up ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
There has been a under sea cable cut in egypt due to which asian people are having lots of problem getting internet.they are having slow download speed,sites are loading very slow.its affecting the work of many organization and people.
officials says it will be fixed in 2 weeks but that too ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Yahoo Finance posts a list of common-but-easily-missed tax deductions that stems from an interview with the head of the IRS, who said that he imagined millions of people were over-paying each year because they didn't factor these 13 items into their returns. Some are the kind that most any accountant ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The CyberNet weblog follows up on their previous tip for creating quick-kill shortcuts for individual programs in Windows by expanding the idea to an automated batch file that kills off a bunch of programs at once. The batch script is smart enough to skip any apps you don't have open, ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
RealSimple has a nifty compilation of tips for cooks who like to make authentic recipes but don't necessarily have an entire afternoon to prep a meal. Some common gourmet actions, like draining yogurt or tying off roasts and whole chickens, can be skipped or simply reduced into simple shortcuts. To ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Amazon has announced the acquisition of Audible, one of the biggest online providers of audio content, including audiobooks, radio and TV programme, and audio versions of magazines. Audible.com offers over 80,000 programs, and its roster includes audiobooks from authors such as Stephen King, Thomas Friedman, and Jane AustenContinue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
If you like the idea of online bookmarking but don't necessarily care about the "social" or tagging aspects of sites like del.icio.us or Digg, Instapaper is the site for you. Rather than adding browser buttons or relying on specialized icons to add web pages to your story queue, you simply ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
CNET's Worker's Edge blog compiles the options and buttons that need pushing to change the default "Save As" location in Microsoft Office programs, dating all the way back to Office 97 apps. Some versions make it pretty obvious where the setting is, but, just to make you work for it, ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
KickApps, a Web platform development company that provides tools to a variety of clients - from individuals to big businesses (spotlight partners include ABC Family, The CW, and <a href="http://wwwContinue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
What’s this? Plenty of Fish is doing something somewhat innovative? The very successful , “no-gimmicks” dating site run by one man in his apartment is not known for its great user interface design, or even for its feature set. So it’s a noteworthy thing when we find ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Tax rebates, year-end bonuses, mail-in savings—they're all just money coming in, but the difference in labels can have a serious impact on what we do with it, according to a Harvard researcher quoted in today's New York Times. In a study, half of the participants were given $50 and told ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Meebo is adding an API to Meebo Rooms, as well as launching what it calls the Meebo Network so partners can share in revenue from advertising.
While Meebo already had an API and offered Meebo Rooms for integration with <a href="http://mashableContinue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Two years ago, you made your iPod self-sustaining and learned how to play its tracks on a computer without iTunes.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Although many BitTorrent users will testify that The Pirate Bay is not, and has never been the best BitTorrent search engine/tracker around, it’s definitely the most prominent one. Besides being “just another torrent site,” The Pirate Bay has been a vocal opponent of the entertainment industry’s practices, sometimes bordering on ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Well, mainly. It also takes some other factors into consideration, like Google’s PageRank, and the presence of ads and sponsors (although I’m not sure what’s that got to do with anything), but the main criterion for ranking is the number of RSS subscribers (taken from FeedBurner) and recent changes in ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The Web 2.0 Marketplace is a place to list Web 2.0 and “New Media” websites for sale, job offers, consulting services, Facebook development services and more.
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
New Web 2.0 services await; all you need to do is grab your free invites over at Mashable Invites!
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Want all your Mashable goodness in a handy tabbed Netvibes module? You’re in luck! Grab the gorgeous new Mashable multi-feed module for your Netvibes page and get Mashable news, beta invites, marketplace listings and the latest social networking buzz in one place!
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A mark of a truly successful product is the fact that folks love it so much that they’ll unnecessarily begin hacking it up so they can extract every last drop of functionality from the service as is humanly (machine-ly?) possible. That is the case with the newly minted memetracker ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Windows Server 2003 includes all the functionality customers expect from a mission critical Windows Server operating system, such as security, reliability, availability, and scalability.read moreContinue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The mid-session panel on the first day of DEMO typically consists of individuals that are using technology for their research purposes. This year was no exception. The two individuals that participated in the panel were Dr. Steven M. Barlow, Professor, SPLH, Programs in Neuroscience, Human Biology, and Bioengineering ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
MG Siegler is one of the self-proclaimed “B-Listers” of the tech blogosphere, along with Louis Gray, Frederic and Steven Hodson. These guys were intrigued by Dave Winer’s suggestion a few months ago that perhaps <a href="http://wwwContinue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
MG Siegler is one of the self-proclaimed “B-Listers” of the tech blogosphere, along with Louis Gray, Frederic and Steven Hodson. These guys were intrigued by Dave Winer’s suggestion a few months ago that perhaps <a href="http://wwwContinue Reading....
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
More than 80 Mashable fans turned out for our first FlashMashMeet in New York on Tuesday night. It was an awesome evening of networking and chatter with the Web 2.0 elite, with a more intimate feel than our larger events. Mucho thanks to those people who turned up ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
More than 80 Mashable fans turned out for our first FlashMashMeet in New York on Tuesday night. It was an awesome evening of networking and chatter with the Web 2.0 elite, with a more intimate feel than our larger events. Mucho thanks to those people who turned up ...
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