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Posted in March 31st, 2008

Blowing Off Steam  (11)


  • Personal Update
  • The Family/Friend Geek
  • The Proverbs of Life
  • Knowing the rules to call into play
  • Tribute to a loved man
  • Don't judge a book by its cover
  • Common Sense
  • Customer Service
  • Society's Rules
  • When a Rival becomes a Peer
  • Cranky CEOs

Check This Out!  (45)


  • The Best Firewall in the world!
  • Set Up Space-Saving, Permanent Gmail and Reader Tabs in Firefox
  • Five Best Free System Restore Tools
  • 15 Killer Google Chrome Features You Might Not Know About
  • I'm back!
  • All My Movies Review
  • Toshiba Offers Lightweight Notebook With 128-GB Solid-State Drive
  • Time Warner Cable tests metered Internet service
  • Google Is Sure You're a Sloppy Typist
  • How-To: DIY Outdoor Wireless Access Point/Repeater
  • PHP6 Is Around The Corner
  • Google Makes Street Views Useful With Directions Mashup
  • Tesla Motors opens doors to the rich and famous
  • Knowing the rules to call into play
  • Drawing a Character, Character By Character
  • 992 Days Projected Until IPv4 Exhaustion
  • Organize your family's essential information in case of an emergency
  • Wix Clicks Mix Pics, Flicks
  • Learn About Learning Curves
  • Reading The New York Times in Google Earth
  • Video: Serious Design and Coding Advice from Rapper Poetic Prophet
  • Compiler Has Been Nominated for a Webby Award
  • How To: Slipstream your XP installation
  • A good idea?
  • If a Programming Language Was a Boat, What Boat Would it Be?
  • Windows XP Gets a Life Extension on Low-Cost, Low-Power PCs
  • More Ways to Expose One's Mundanities
  • A New Tool Offers a Little Help with Regular Expressions
  • New Tutorial Site for Budding Web Builders
  • Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Available As Free Public Beta
  • Microsoft's Office Doc Format Wins ISO Approval
  • Google to Shutter Its Free Search
  • No Joke: Google Apps Go Offline
  • April 1 is the Annual Day Without Google
  • In Honor of Mozilla's 10th Birthday, JWZ Recreates Web of 1994
  • Adobe Releases AIR For Linux, Sees Better Linux Apps on Horizon
  • Hey Guys, Check Out My Burrito
  • Beat Traffic From Your Desk
  • Apple Opens Aperture to Third-Party Photo Editing Tools
  • Street View Images Coming Soon to Your Favorite Google Maps Mashup
  • Photoshop Express: All Your Images Are Belong to Us
  • Mozilla's Asa Dotzler on Firefox, Fighting Bloat and the Problem with Democracy
  • Yahoo Unlimited Mail Fills Up
  • Customer Service
  • Accessing Open Webcams

Education  (7)


  • Five Best Free System Restore Tools
  • Teach Parents Tech
  • Lessons Learned From Visiting Google
  • Following Success of Windows on Netbooks, Microsoft Extends Windows Offering to Nettop Devices
  • How-To: DIY Outdoor Wireless Access Point/Repeater
  • XP on OLPC Like Fish on Bicycle, But More Crash-Prone
  • IT + PM = Excellent Career Move

Funny  (1)


  • The Best Firewall in the world!

Green Tech  (24)


  • Fisker Automotive files legal counterattack in Tesla suit
  • Green energy needs to be more than just clean
  • Riding the wireless network to the smart grid
  • Tesla Motors opens doors to the rich and famous
  • Electric sports cars from Europe delayed
  • Small wind: Mariah Power lands cash for spire-shaped turbine
  • Study: In Texas, wind power beats natural gas
  • Agilewaves dashboard displays green building's health
  • Is the silicon shortage in solar ending? Tea leaves mixed
  • John Doerr: Not nearly enough money going to green tech
  • Cash in trash: RecycleBank gets hefty funding
  • Ousted Tesla exec was behind gas-electric car idea
  • Transmission supplier sues Tesla
  • Firefox Logo Spied in Deep Space!
  • Killing the oyster pack
  • Taming the power pack sprawl: photo contest highlights mess under desktops
  • Coskata CEO explains how to get to $1 a gallon ethanol
  • Green in the boardroom: the environment tops utilities execs' concerns
  • Here come the bite-size fuel cells
  • Bob Metcalfe's EnerNet embraces 'global warming bubble'
  • Smart grid investment heats up
  • Mapping the U.S. carbon footprint
  • Report: Climate change will threaten beer production
  • Office Depot trying to demystify green, recycling

How-to  (13)


  • Set Up Space-Saving, Permanent Gmail and Reader Tabs in Firefox
  • Five Best Free System Restore Tools
  • Teach Parents Tech
  • How-To: DIY Outdoor Wireless Access Point/Repeater
  • Knowing the rules to call into play
  • Download Google's Help Files for Offline Access
  • Organize your family's essential information in case of an emergency
  • Keeping Hosted Data Secure from Its Host
  • Get Your Word Docs on the Web Without HTML Bloat
  • WiFi Predator
  • HyperTerminal for Vista
  • How To: Recover Activation Key from Windows Registry
  • How To: Slipstream your XP installation

IT Administration  (42)


  • First 'stable' Wine puts Windows apps on Linux
  • (Un)happy in Your Work? Tell It to Glassdoor
  • Lessons Learned From Visiting Google
  • Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
  • FTC Starts Formal Probe of Intel
  • Windows on the brink of collapse?: A decade of bloat threatens to crush Microsoft's cash cow
  • Is Microsoft Stuck With a Norwegian Herring?
  • To Have or Have Not: Fibre Creates a New Digital Divide
  • Facebook, Google Square Off Over Who Controls Your Data (Hint: It's Not You)
  • Wine Headed For a 1.0 Release. Finally.
  • PHP6 Is Around The Corner
  • Coming This Summer: Fly the Wi-Fi Skies
  • The Clouds Part on HP's Computing Strategy
  • Let's See Microsoft Innovate Its Way Out of This
  • VIA Launches Beta Linux Support Site
  • Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus Vow to Encourage Open-Source Drivers
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Causes Problems With VMWare Tools, Open Source to the Rescue
  • Woopra Lets You Stalk Your Users
  • The News in Filesystems
  • Microsoft Pulls XP Update Due to a Last Minute Software Glitch
  • 992 Days Projected Until IPv4 Exhaustion
  • Keeping Hosted Data Secure from Its Host
  • Zoho Sheet Adds VBA Macro Support For Power Users
  • Google Docs Update Adds More Offline Features
  • Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
  • Windows XP Update Adds Features From Vista
  • JavaScript 2 in the Works
  • D-Day: Still No Word From Microsoft
  • Version Control Begins At $HOME
  • Why Microsoft Won't Extend Windows XP's Lifespan
  • Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today
  • Get Ready for Hardy Heron With the Ubuntu Cheatsheet
  • Piwik Offers an Open-Source Web Analytics Package
  • Google's Stock Rises 20 Percent for a Record 1-Day Gain
  • Community Cries Foul Over Sun's Possible Plans For MySQL
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade Coming April 29
  • Safari Update Fixes Serious Security Flaws
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Release Candidate Available Now
  • HyperTerminal for Vista
  • EMC Snaps Up Storage Also-Ran Iomega
  • Watch Your Database Threads
  • Is Cheaper Better?

Networking  (39)


  • First 'stable' Wine puts Windows apps on Linux
  • (Un)happy in Your Work? Tell It to Glassdoor
  • Lessons Learned From Visiting Google
  • Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
  • FTC Starts Formal Probe of Intel
  • Windows on the brink of collapse?: A decade of bloat threatens to crush Microsoft's cash cow
  • Following Success of Windows on Netbooks, Microsoft Extends Windows Offering to Nettop Devices
  • Is Microsoft Stuck With a Norwegian Herring?
  • Time Warner Cable tests metered Internet service
  • No technology limits for Via's Nano chip, unlike Intel Atom
  • Shuttleworth Proposes Synchronized Linux Releases
  • To Have or Have Not: Fibre Creates a New Digital Divide
  • Facebook, Google Square Off Over Who Controls Your Data (Hint: It's Not You)
  • Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money
  • How-To: DIY Outdoor Wireless Access Point/Repeater
  • XP on OLPC Like Fish on Bicycle, But More Crash-Prone
  • Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is Out
  • Wine Headed For a 1.0 Release. Finally.
  • PHP6 Is Around The Corner
  • Coming This Summer: Fly the Wi-Fi Skies
  • The Clouds Part on HP's Computing Strategy
  • Let's See Microsoft Innovate Its Way Out of This
  • VIA Launches Beta Linux Support Site
  • Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus Vow to Encourage Open-Source Drivers
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Causes Problems With VMWare Tools, Open Source to the Rescue
  • IT + PM = Excellent Career Move
  • Bountii: Find the Best Deals and Earn Money Doing It.
  • Woopra Lets You Stalk Your Users
  • The News in Filesystems
  • Microsoft Pulls XP Update Due to a Last Minute Software Glitch
  • 992 Days Projected Until IPv4 Exhaustion
  • Keeping Hosted Data Secure from Its Host
  • Zoho Sheet Adds VBA Macro Support For Power Users
  • Google Docs Update Adds More Offline Features
  • Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
  • Windows XP Update Adds Features From Vista
  • JavaScript 2 in the Works
  • D-Day: Still No Word From Microsoft
  • Version Control Begins At $HOME
  • Why Microsoft Won't Extend Windows XP's Lifespan
  • WiFi Predator
  • Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today
  • Get Ready for Hardy Heron With the Ubuntu Cheatsheet
  • Piwik Offers an Open-Source Web Analytics Package
  • New Tools Hint at an iGoogle Social Network
  • Google's Stock Rises 20 Percent for a Record 1-Day Gain
  • Community Cries Foul Over Sun's Possible Plans For MySQL
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade Coming April 29
  • Safari Update Fixes Serious Security Flaws
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Release Candidate Available Now
  • Banks May Be Screwing You, But Their Websites Rock
  • HyperTerminal for Vista
  • Ethics and walking the line
  • How IT can save us from recession
  • EMC Snaps Up Storage Also-Ran Iomega
  • Microsoft-Yahoo Proxy Fight Seems Likely
  • Online Sales Expected to Rise, Defying Lousy Economy
  • A good idea?
  • Windows XP Gets a Life Extension on Low-Cost, Low-Power PCs
  • Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
  • Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor?
  • Microsoft to recommence pushing Vista SP1 prerequisite
  • Microsoft to deliver first Live Mesh beta in late April
  • Yang hits back at Ballmer; mentions antitrust concerns
  • Ballmer tells Yahoo board: Get off the pot
  • Microsoft weekend roundup: The’no’s’ have it
  • Windows 7: The delivery-date speculation continues
  • Microsoft blogger publishes Silverlight 2.0 timetable
  • Microsoft: June 30 Windows XP cut-off set in stone
  • Microsoft: XP SP3 RTM date a typo
  • Black Hat Europe, Day 4 (Finally): Early wake-up calls always lead to long days
  • The next big thing? Crimeware-as-a-service
  • Taking ownership of content
  • Microsoft readies Vista, Windows Server 2008 critical patches
  • Apple patches 11 QuickTime flaws
  • Adobe claims to have known of Flash issue prior to CanSecWest β€˜08, patch is on the way
  • β€œHow do I?” videos for security
  • Microsoft Will Appeal Ruling in Patent Suit
  • Microsoft Threatens to Go Hostile on Yahoo
  • ISP Contracts Curb Users' Rights
  • Watch Your Database Threads
  • AT&T Wanted Unrestricted Spectrum
  • Feds Lift Ban on IBM Contracts
  • EBay Would Be Nuts to Sell Skype
  • Trademark Dispute Pits Apple vs. The Big Apple
  • Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person
  • Computer Waste Heat to Warm Swimming Pool
  • Small Business Lessons, Part 1
  • Bi-Monthly Treasure Hunt
  • Go to class to mingle
  • Is Cheaper Better?
  • Society's Rules
  • Accessing Open Webcams
  • When a Rival becomes a Peer
  • Inaugural Post

Networking Links  (1)


  • HyperTerminal for Vista

Networking News  (48)


  • (Un)happy in Your Work? Tell It to Glassdoor
  • FTC Starts Formal Probe of Intel
  • Is Microsoft Stuck With a Norwegian Herring?
  • To Have or Have Not: Fibre Creates a New Digital Divide
  • Coming This Summer: Fly the Wi-Fi Skies
  • The Clouds Part on HP's Computing Strategy
  • Let's See Microsoft Innovate Its Way Out of This
  • 992 Days Projected Until IPv4 Exhaustion
  • Windows XP Update Adds Features From Vista
  • D-Day: Still No Word From Microsoft
  • Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today
  • Get Ready for Hardy Heron With the Ubuntu Cheatsheet
  • Google's Stock Rises 20 Percent for a Record 1-Day Gain
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade Coming April 29
  • How IT can save us from recession
  • EMC Snaps Up Storage Also-Ran Iomega
  • Microsoft-Yahoo Proxy Fight Seems Likely
  • Online Sales Expected to Rise, Defying Lousy Economy
  • A good idea?
  • Windows XP Gets a Life Extension on Low-Cost, Low-Power PCs
  • Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
  • Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor?
  • Microsoft to recommence pushing Vista SP1 prerequisite
  • Microsoft to deliver first Live Mesh beta in late April
  • Yang hits back at Ballmer; mentions antitrust concerns
  • Ballmer tells Yahoo board: Get off the pot
  • Microsoft weekend roundup: The’no’s’ have it
  • Windows 7: The delivery-date speculation continues
  • Microsoft blogger publishes Silverlight 2.0 timetable
  • Microsoft: June 30 Windows XP cut-off set in stone
  • Microsoft: XP SP3 RTM date a typo
  • Black Hat Europe, Day 4 (Finally): Early wake-up calls always lead to long days
  • The next big thing? Crimeware-as-a-service
  • Taking ownership of content
  • Microsoft readies Vista, Windows Server 2008 critical patches
  • Apple patches 11 QuickTime flaws
  • Adobe claims to have known of Flash issue prior to CanSecWest β€˜08, patch is on the way
  • β€œHow do I?” videos for security
  • Microsoft Will Appeal Ruling in Patent Suit
  • Microsoft Threatens to Go Hostile on Yahoo
  • ISP Contracts Curb Users' Rights
  • AT&T Wanted Unrestricted Spectrum
  • Feds Lift Ban on IBM Contracts
  • EBay Would Be Nuts to Sell Skype
  • Trademark Dispute Pits Apple vs. The Big Apple
  • Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person
  • Computer Waste Heat to Warm Swimming Pool
  • Inaugural Post

Security  (35)


  • First 'stable' Wine puts Windows apps on Linux
  • No technology limits for Via's Nano chip, unlike Intel Atom
  • Facebook, Google Square Off Over Who Controls Your Data (Hint: It's Not You)
  • Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money
  • How-To: DIY Outdoor Wireless Access Point/Repeater
  • ==A Million Little Markups==
  • Catch a Glimpse of Mozilla's E-Mail Future in Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1
  • Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is Out
  • Back to Basic: Microsoft Promises Visual Basic for Mac Office Suite
  • Wine Headed For a 1.0 Release. Finally.
  • VIA Launches Beta Linux Support Site
  • Bountii: Find the Best Deals and Earn Money Doing It.
  • Woopra Lets You Stalk Your Users
  • 992 Days Projected Until IPv4 Exhaustion
  • Organize your family's essential information in case of an emergency
  • Keeping Hosted Data Secure from Its Host
  • Quicktime Flaw Makes Windows Vulnerable to Attack
  • Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
  • Windows XP Update Adds Features From Vista
  • Free AVG Anti-Virus Suite Offers Improved Protection for Windows
  • Why Microsoft Won't Extend Windows XP's Lifespan
  • WiFi Predator
  • Client-Side Includes: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
  • Get Ready for Hardy Heron With the Ubuntu Cheatsheet
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade Coming April 29
  • Safari Update Fixes Serious Security Flaws
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Release Candidate Available Now
  • Blockbuster Sued for Facebook's Lack of Discretion
  • Is Captcha's Moment Passing?
  • Ethics and walking the line
  • Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
  • Rejoice!!! Scanless PCI is here!
  • Changes to British law will affect computer security industry
  • The next big thing? Crimeware-as-a-service
  • Accessing Open Webcams

Small Business  (18)


  • First 'stable' Wine puts Windows apps on Linux
  • (Un)happy in Your Work? Tell It to Glassdoor
  • Lessons Learned From Visiting Google
  • Following Success of Windows on Netbooks, Microsoft Extends Windows Offering to Nettop Devices
  • The Family/Friend Geek
  • No technology limits for Via's Nano chip, unlike Intel Atom
  • Shuttleworth Proposes Synchronized Linux Releases
  • Catch a Glimpse of Mozilla's E-Mail Future in Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1
  • Wine Headed For a 1.0 Release. Finally.
  • VIA Launches Beta Linux Support Site
  • Who Stole the Plans for iRobot's Battle Bots?
  • Watch Out, Martha, Here's Open Source Living
  • Community Cries Foul Over Sun's Possible Plans For MySQL
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade Coming April 29
  • Ethics and walking the line
  • Small Business Lessons, Part 1
  • Customer Service
  • Is Cheaper Better?

Software  (112)


  • Five Best Free System Restore Tools
  • 15 Killer Google Chrome Features You Might Not Know About
  • All My Movies Review
  • First 'stable' Wine puts Windows apps on Linux
  • Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
  • Windows on the brink of collapse?: A decade of bloat threatens to crush Microsoft's cash cow
  • Following Success of Windows on Netbooks, Microsoft Extends Windows Offering to Nettop Devices
  • Is Microsoft Stuck With a Norwegian Herring?
  • Google Maps Adds Flash API, Photos, Wikipedia Entries and More
  • Shuttleworth Proposes Synchronized Linux Releases
  • Google Doctype: An Open Web Reference Guide
  • Facebook, Google Square Off Over Who Controls Your Data (Hint: It's Not You)
  • Back and Forward Buttons Are a Bad Paradigm
  • Google Is Sure You're a Sloppy Typist
  • Just Can't Get Enough of Addict-o-matic Search
  • Get Your Animating Fix at Obsessing.org
  • Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money
  • ==A Million Little Markups==
  • XP on OLPC Like Fish on Bicycle, But More Crash-Prone
  • Catch a Glimpse of Mozilla's E-Mail Future in Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1
  • Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is Out
  • Back to Basic: Microsoft Promises Visual Basic for Mac Office Suite
  • Wine Headed For a 1.0 Release. Finally.
  • PHP6 Is Around The Corner
  • The Clouds Part on HP's Computing Strategy
  • Let's See Microsoft Innovate Its Way Out of This
  • Google Makes Street Views Useful With Directions Mashup
  • VIA Launches Beta Linux Support Site
  • Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus Vow to Encourage Open-Source Drivers
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Causes Problems With VMWare Tools, Open Source to the Rescue
  • Bountii: Find the Best Deals and Earn Money Doing It.
  • Woopra Lets You Stalk Your Users
  • The News in Filesystems
  • Drawing a Character, Character By Character
  • Download Google's Help Files for Offline Access
  • Microsoft Pulls XP Update Due to a Last Minute Software Glitch
  • 992 Days Projected Until IPv4 Exhaustion
  • Broadband 2.0 Poised to Reshape Web, TV
  • Keeping Hosted Data Secure from Its Host
  • Zoho Sheet Adds VBA Macro Support For Power Users
  • Google Docs Update Adds More Offline Features
  • Quicktime Flaw Makes Windows Vulnerable to Attack
  • Wix Clicks Mix Pics, Flicks
  • It's Knuth to Me
  • Is the All-in-One Personal Website Headed for Extinction?
  • Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
  • Raising the Bar
  • CSS Variables: Coming Soon to a Browser Near You
  • Get Your Word Docs on the Web Without HTML Bloat
  • Windows XP Update Adds Features From Vista
  • Yahoo Connects the Dots with New 'Open Strategy'
  • JavaScript 2 in the Works
  • Inching Toward a Semantic Web
  • Microsoft Kills PlaysForSure, Screws Over Loyal Customers
  • Version Control Begins At $HOME
  • Free AVG Anti-Virus Suite Offers Improved Protection for Windows
  • Why Microsoft Won't Extend Windows XP's Lifespan
  • Client-Side Includes: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
  • Google's Keyhole Mapping Language is Now an Open Standard
  • Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today
  • Get Ready for Hardy Heron With the Ubuntu Cheatsheet
  • In Response to User Demand, Pidgin Forks
  • Watch Out, Martha, Here's Open Source Living
  • Piwik Offers an Open-Source Web Analytics Package
  • New Tools Hint at an iGoogle Social Network
  • There's An Open Source Software Census
  • Google Spiders to Start Crawling The 'Deep' Web
  • Community Cries Foul Over Sun's Possible Plans For MySQL
  • Easily Bypass Password-Protection in RSS and Atom Feeds
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade Coming April 29
  • Safari Update Fixes Serious Security Flaws
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Release Candidate Available Now
  • Blockbuster Sued for Facebook's Lack of Discretion
  • Is Captcha's Moment Passing?
  • Developer Preview Shows Off the GIMP's New Look
  • Six Apart's 'Blog It' Application Turns Facebook Into a Fire Hose
  • What's a Good Way to Programmatically Create RTFs?
  • Watch the Sunset From Google Earth 4.3
  • Reading The New York Times in Google Earth
  • Banks May Be Screwing You, But Their Websites Rock
  • Python Makes Robust Command-Line Tools
  • OOXML Provokes Riots in Oslo
  • Merger Mania Pits Microsoft, News Corp. Against Yahoo, AOL
  • HyperTerminal for Vista
  • Ethics and walking the line
  • Firefox Logo Spied in Deep Space!
  • Debaday Project Needs Your Help
  • Git Excitement Continues to Grow
  • Adobe Media Player Launches, A Buggy But Promising App for Desktop Video
  • Are You in the App Engine 10,000?
  • Ruby on Rails Moving Source Repository to Git
  • How IT can save us from recession
  • My Log Has Something to Tell You
  • Video: Serious Design and Coding Advice from Rapper Poetic Prophet
  • Google Says Sorry! You Search Like A Bot
  • Compiler Has Been Nominated for a Webby Award
  • Flickr Adds Video Sharing for 'Pro' Members
  • Firebug 1.2 Is in Alpha
  • Out to Launch
  • Microsoft-Yahoo Proxy Fight Seems Likely
  • Firefox Beta 5 Improves in Client-Side Regex Test
  • Opera Mini 4.1 Beta Released
  • Page Not Found
  • If a Programming Language Was a Boat, What Boat Would it Be?
  • Windows XP Gets a Life Extension on Low-Cost, Low-Power PCs
  • How Are You Feeling About Firefox 3: The Last Beta?
  • A New Tool Offers a Little Help with Regular Expressions
  • New Tutorial Site for Budding Web Builders
  • Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Available As Free Public Beta
  • Introducing a New JavaScript Mode for Emacs
  • Mozilla Releases Fifth (and Final) Beta of Firefox 3 Browser
  • Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
  • Rejoice!!! Scanless PCI is here!
  • Changes to British law will affect computer security industry
  • The next big thing? Crimeware-as-a-service
  • Watch Your Database Threads
  • Hey Guys, Check Out My Burrito
  • Mozilla's Asa Dotzler on Firefox, Fighting Bloat and the Problem with Democracy
  • ISO Approves MS Office 2007 Format

Software Links  (19)


  • Five Best Free System Restore Tools
  • All My Movies Review
  • Wine Headed For a 1.0 Release. Finally.
  • Google Makes Street Views Useful With Directions Mashup
  • Get Ready for Hardy Heron With the Ubuntu Cheatsheet
  • There's An Open Source Software Census
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade Coming April 29
  • Six Apart's 'Blog It' Application Turns Facebook Into a Fire Hose
  • HyperTerminal for Vista
  • Debaday Project Needs Your Help
  • Adobe Media Player Launches, A Buggy But Promising App for Desktop Video
  • My Log Has Something to Tell You
  • Out to Launch
  • Page Not Found
  • A New Tool Offers a Little Help with Regular Expressions
  • New Tutorial Site for Budding Web Builders
  • Adobe Lightroom 2.0 Available As Free Public Beta
  • Mozilla Releases Fifth (and Final) Beta of Firefox 3 Browser
  • Watch Your Database Threads

Software News  (96)


  • Google Maps Adds Flash API, Photos, Wikipedia Entries and More
  • Shuttleworth Proposes Synchronized Linux Releases
  • Google Doctype: An Open Web Reference Guide
  • Facebook, Google Square Off Over Who Controls Your Data (Hint: It's Not You)
  • Back and Forward Buttons Are a Bad Paradigm
  • Google Is Sure You're a Sloppy Typist
  • Just Can't Get Enough of Addict-o-matic Search
  • Get Your Animating Fix at Obsessing.org
  • Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money
  • ==A Million Little Markups==
  • XP on OLPC Like Fish on Bicycle, But More Crash-Prone
  • Catch a Glimpse of Mozilla's E-Mail Future in Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1
  • Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is Out
  • Back to Basic: Microsoft Promises Visual Basic for Mac Office Suite
  • Wine Headed For a 1.0 Release. Finally.
  • PHP6 Is Around The Corner
  • Let's See Microsoft Innovate Its Way Out of This
  • Google Makes Street Views Useful With Directions Mashup
  • VIA Launches Beta Linux Support Site
  • Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus Vow to Encourage Open-Source Drivers
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Causes Problems With VMWare Tools, Open Source to the Rescue
  • Bountii: Find the Best Deals and Earn Money Doing It.
  • Woopra Lets You Stalk Your Users
  • The News in Filesystems
  • Drawing a Character, Character By Character
  • Download Google's Help Files for Offline Access
  • Microsoft Pulls XP Update Due to a Last Minute Software Glitch
  • 992 Days Projected Until IPv4 Exhaustion
  • Keeping Hosted Data Secure from Its Host
  • Zoho Sheet Adds VBA Macro Support For Power Users
  • Google Docs Update Adds More Offline Features
  • Quicktime Flaw Makes Windows Vulnerable to Attack
  • Wix Clicks Mix Pics, Flicks
  • It's Knuth to Me
  • Is the All-in-One Personal Website Headed for Extinction?
  • Massive Attack: Half A Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection
  • Raising the Bar
  • CSS Variables: Coming Soon to a Browser Near You
  • Get Your Word Docs on the Web Without HTML Bloat
  • Windows XP Update Adds Features From Vista
  • Yahoo Connects the Dots with New 'Open Strategy'
  • JavaScript 2 in the Works
  • Inching Toward a Semantic Web
  • Microsoft Kills PlaysForSure, Screws Over Loyal Customers
  • Version Control Begins At $HOME
  • Free AVG Anti-Virus Suite Offers Improved Protection for Windows
  • Why Microsoft Won't Extend Windows XP's Lifespan
  • Client-Side Includes: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
  • Google's Keyhole Mapping Language is Now an Open Standard
  • Get Ready for Hardy Heron With the Ubuntu Cheatsheet
  • In Response to User Demand, Pidgin Forks
  • Watch Out, Martha, Here's Open Source Living
  • Piwik Offers an Open-Source Web Analytics Package
  • New Tools Hint at an iGoogle Social Network
  • There's An Open Source Software Census
  • Google Spiders to Start Crawling The 'Deep' Web
  • Community Cries Foul Over Sun's Possible Plans For MySQL
  • Easily Bypass Password-Protection in RSS and Atom Feeds
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade Coming April 29
  • Safari Update Fixes Serious Security Flaws
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Release Candidate Available Now
  • Blockbuster Sued for Facebook's Lack of Discretion
  • Is Captcha's Moment Passing?
  • Developer Preview Shows Off the GIMP's New Look
  • Six Apart's 'Blog It' Application Turns Facebook Into a Fire Hose
  • What's a Good Way to Programmatically Create RTFs?
  • Watch the Sunset From Google Earth 4.3
  • Reading The New York Times in Google Earth
  • Python Makes Robust Command-Line Tools
  • OOXML Provokes Riots in Oslo
  • Merger Mania Pits Microsoft, News Corp. Against Yahoo, AOL
  • Debaday Project Needs Your Help
  • Git Excitement Continues to Grow
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  • Fisker Automotive files legal counterattack in Tesla suit
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  • Mozilla Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is Out
  • Wine Headed For a 1.0 Release. Finally.
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  • The Clouds Part on HP's Computing Strategy
  • Google Makes Street Views Useful With Directions Mashup
  • VIA Launches Beta Linux Support Site
  • Tesla Motors opens doors to the rich and famous
  • The News in Filesystems
  • 992 Days Projected Until IPv4 Exhaustion
  • Broadband 2.0 Poised to Reshape Web, TV
  • Zoho Sheet Adds VBA Macro Support For Power Users
  • Google Docs Update Adds More Offline Features
  • Who Stole the Plans for iRobot's Battle Bots?
  • Wix Clicks Mix Pics, Flicks
  • CSS Variables: Coming Soon to a Browser Near You
  • Windows XP Update Adds Features From Vista
  • JavaScript 2 in the Works
  • Inching Toward a Semantic Web
  • Microsoft Kills PlaysForSure, Screws Over Loyal Customers
  • WiFi Predator
  • Client-Side Includes: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
  • Google's Keyhole Mapping Language is Now an Open Standard
  • Cloud Computing. Available at Amazon.com Today
  • Electric sports cars from Europe delayed
  • Toshiba's Big Hit for HD DVD Flop: Profits Fall 95 Percent
  • Google's Stock Rises 20 Percent for a Record 1-Day Gain
  • Community Cries Foul Over Sun's Possible Plans For MySQL
  • Windows XP Service Pack 3 Upgrade Coming April 29
  • Ubuntu 8.04 Release Candidate Available Now
  • Blockbuster Sued for Facebook's Lack of Discretion
  • Is Captcha's Moment Passing?
  • Watch the Sunset From Google Earth 4.3
  • Reading The New York Times in Google Earth
  • Small wind: Mariah Power lands cash for spire-shaped turbine
  • Study: In Texas, wind power beats natural gas
  • Agilewaves dashboard displays green building's health
  • Is the silicon shortage in solar ending? Tea leaves mixed
  • John Doerr: Not nearly enough money going to green tech
  • Cash in trash: RecycleBank gets hefty funding

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