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  • How to Optimize Network Management

    admin
    19 Nov 2009 | 3:28 pm
    This post was sponsored by LANsurveyor. We’ve worked with the folks at SolarWinds many times in the past. They have excellent products to help you keep your network running in tip-top shape (as their own community will attest). LANsurveyor is used by network engineers worldwide to map their networks in mere minutes. According to SolarWinds Head Geek, “getting to know” your network is the first thing you should do when managing any network – and the best way to do this is to discover, map and document it and everything connected to it. If you’re a network engineer, you are…

  • How Can Companies Hire Social Media Directors?

    Chris
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:59 pm
    I came across an interesting link today while browsing Twitter. The author writes about how companies who are new to social media are failing miserably when it comes to writing job descriptions for their newly-created social media positions. He goes on to say he used to blame the companies themselves for writing poorly-constructed ads. Then, he realized that it isn’t the company’s fault at all. They don’t know what they’re doing, remember? They are new to this whole social media scene, and may not even know what it is they are looking FOR, exactly. How would you…

  • How to Have a Chris Pirillo Live Gadget on your Windows Desktop

    Chris
    18 Nov 2009 | 3:19 pm
    Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed We’ve uploaded several awesome screencasts lately. All of you are sending in informative and high-quality tutorials for us to share with the world. It’s not too late for you to get your screencast on our channels, you know! Get busy and create something wonderful! Gabriel is a fan of our live stream, and has come up with a simple tutorial to show you how to add a gadget on your desktop to make tuning in to my stream even easier! With just a few clicks, you’ll have a widget right on your desktop for our live stream. It…

  • Create Your Own WordPress Themes

    Chris
    18 Nov 2009 | 2:30 pm
    Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you have a blog, you have a theme. Chances are, you downloaded a theme off the web somewhere. It’s okay that you don’t know how to code your own customized theme from scratch! Very few people are capable of doing this. You want your blog to say “YOU”, but you don’t want to pay a designer a ton of money to accomplish this. It’s a good thing Artisteer now makes it simple for you to create and customize your own WordPress theme with just a few clicks of the mouse. Everything and anything you can…

  • Be Still My Beating Geek Heart

    Chris
    18 Nov 2009 | 1:37 pm
    Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This is a plush beating heart. Why would you want one? Uh, probably because it’s cool! It has realistic beating sounds, which can soothe a baby… or yourself! This could just be the hottest new item for that impossible to buy for person on your holiday shopping list! What will our friends at ThinkGeek come up with next? Your friends will be oddly fascinated by the beating heart. You can snuggle up with it if you want, and not get all messy and icky. You could give one to your girlfriend (or boyfriend!) to show them that they…
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  • What is an Eye-Fi?

    chris@pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo)
    17 Nov 2009 | 6:28 pm
    Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I used a digital camera to take a photo of the chat room, and then had it automatically transferred to my Flickr account. I could just as easily send it to my Facebook page, or any other account that is supported by the Eye-Fi. The picture was transferred wirelessly over my home network from the camera directly to my desktop… and then right to my Flickr! Using the Eye-Fi SD card, it is a snap to upload photos without having to go through several different steps. The Eye-Fi comes with a handy little reader, since you may not have…

  • How to Convert Cassettes to MP3

    chris@pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo)
    15 Nov 2009 | 4:02 pm
    Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed One of the first pieces of hardware I ever remember lusting after was a cassette player. I was pretty young back then, and a cassette player was innovative! As I got a little older, making “mix tapes” for girls you liked was all the rage. I enjoyed being able to record things, and play them back. These days, we take audio and video recording for granted. Back then… it was really high tech stuff! I still have several of my old cassettes. I want to start archiving those memories into MP3 format, so that I can save them.

  • How to Surf

    chris@pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo)
    14 Nov 2009 | 4:35 am
    Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Most of you know that I am an experienced surfer. I’ve been at it since about 1994, through various platforms and browsers. Yes, I’m an Internet surfer! I’ve never gotten on a physical surfboard, or been on one in the water. However, I did get my own custom surfboard today, courtesy of LeapFish! How cool is this thing?! The folks at leapfish just recently re-launched their site, dedicated to bringing you a single, connected, multi-media experience for both searching and sharing traditional and real-time content. Of…

  • 10 Things to Do in Florida

    chris@pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo)
    14 Nov 2009 | 2:55 am
    Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This is the last in our series of travel videos – for now, at least. We have uploaded quite a few of these in the past several months. Each one is full of the places that you – the community – think we should visit if we should ever travel to your hometowns. This last installment is a list of places you don’t want to miss if you ever happen to find yourself in Florida! Daytona Beach – This is likely one of the most famous beaches in the US. It’s a beautiful stretch of sand, with so many different…

  • Downtown Hawaii Skyline

    chris@pirillo.com (Chris Pirillo)
    14 Nov 2009 | 1:47 am
    Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The skyline in Honolulu is absolutely beautiful during the late evening. Isn’t that view amazing?! The reason I recorded this, though, is to get all of you involved. I want to have everyone record a short video response for this post, and show us your skyline. You can live in a city, a small town, or even out in the country. Take a short video and show us what it looks like in your neck of the woods just before sunset!
 
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  • How to Optimize Network Management (Chris Pirillo)

    19 Nov 2009 | 3:28 pm
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  • How Can Companies Hire Social Media Directors? (Chris Pirillo)

    18 Nov 2009 | 3:59 pm
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  • How to Have a Chris Pirillo Live Gadget on your Windows Desktop (Chris Pirillo)

    18 Nov 2009 | 3:19 pm
    ... a gadget on your desktop to make tuning in to my stream even easier! Read more on How to Have a Chris Pirillo Live Gadget on your Windows Desktop… What Technology of Today Will be Obsolete Tomorrow? What Does Windows 7 Bring to the Table? Windows 7 – How Soon Should You Upgrade? Best Buy and Windows 7 Changes in Our IRC Network Channel Windows 7 eBook Heaven on Earth – Geek...Source : Chris Pirillo (subscribe)Explore : iTunes

  • Create Your Own WordPress Themes (Chris Pirillo)

    18 Nov 2009 | 2:30 pm
    ... CNN.com ! Do You Need a Better Blog Search Tool? Create Your Own WordPress Themes is a post from: Chris Pirillo Create Your Own WordPress Themes is a post from: Chris PirilloSource : Chris Pirillo (subscribe)Explore : iTunes, Open Source, Software, Twitter, WordPress

  • Chris Pirillo Video: How to Convert Cassettes to MP3 (PC Pitstop)

    18 Nov 2009 | 1:46 pm
    ... hardware. The folks at ThinkGeeksent me something that will help me do this easily… Related posts: Chris Pirillo Video: Easy Way to Edit Video Most video editors suck. I don't mean the people who... Chris Pirillo Video: Having Problems with Win XP SP3 Sometimes, it's easy to upgrade to the latest and greatest... Video – Ask the Pros Answer from Chris...Source : PC Pitstop (subscribe)Explore : MP3
 
 
 
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  • Motorola Droid A855 Phone for only $150 + Free Shipping!

    usrbingeek
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:18 pm
    WOW, act quick to save 50% on the new hot Motorola Droid Cell Phone with Verizon Wireless service. For a limited time and while supplies last, order the Motorola Droid A855 Phone (Verizon Wireless) from Amazon.com for as low as $149.99 shipped! (Up to 50% Off with new service plan.) The first Android-powered phone for Verizon Wireless, the 3G-enabled Motorola DROID smartphone offers a full package of powerful mobile connectivity–from easy access to all your social networks and viewing of full Web sites to spoken turn-by-turn directions thanks to the new Google Maps with Navigation Beta…

  • Up to $200 off Data Robotics DroboPro 8-Bay USB 2.0/FireWire 800/iSCSI Storage Array

    usrbingeek
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:20 pm
    If you act quick, you can save up to $200 off the best backup solution. With a DroboPro, two drives can fail at the same time and your data is still protected. Plus you can use any size SATA drive as unlike traditional RAID arrays, they don’t need to all be the same size drive. For a limited time and while supplies last, order the Data Robotics DroboPro 8-Bay USB 2.0/FireWire 800/iSCSI Storage Array DRPR1A21 from Beach Camera via Amazon.com for as low as $1,299.87 shipped! DroboPro is a storage array that manages itself. DroboPro is a rackmountable/desktop eight-drive storage array that…

  • Why Microsoft Should Underwrite nVidia

    the oracle
    20 Nov 2009 | 9:50 am
    With the recent announcement of Google Chrome OS, many are wondering what Microsoft should do about it. Though doing nothing might work, it is doubtful that the greater market will see it that way. As rough and slipshod as Chrome OS might be today, we know that the Google development cycle never stops, unlike the fitful stops and starts of the cycle of Microsoft. But something developed by nVidia could be the savior for Microsoft in the netbook scene. the ION platform, which is an nVidia solution on a chip that melds with an Intel Atom processor fixes many of the shortcomings of the Intel…

  • HDTVs - Both LCD & Plasma Popular - But What Happened To DLP?

    Ron Schenone
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:18 am
    I read an article yesterday at PC World about how to buy a new HDTV this holiday season. I read the description between an LCD and Plasma sets, read the reviews about different models and brands, when I recalled the DLP sets. These sets were popular a few years ago, but were not even mentioned in the review. Samsung had been the major company that produced the DLP sets. I recalled about 4 years ago, my buddy Denny buying a Samsung DLP and so did my middle daughter and her husband. In fact the kids bought one of those 65″ sets that set them back about $4k when they bought it. So I took a…

  • New PC Maker, Origin, Debuts Desktop and Mobile Computers

    the oracle
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:58 am
    It has not been a good time for makers of custom PCs, as the economy makes all but the most mundane of purchases look extravagant. Also, there hasn’t been lots of talk about the cottage industry of high performance computers since the purchase of Alienware by Dell. Though Alienware still survives (barely), Dell seems to be much more interested in pushing out interesting choices with the Dell XPS moniker. Other manufacturers, like Falcon Northwest are also around, but they are not putting out splashy double page ads with pictures of glossy custom paint jobs right now. So imagine how odd…
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  • BREAKING NEWS: New UK Internet Laws set to Stay

    David King
    The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement, without proof or evidence or trial), as well as a plan to beat the hell out of the video-game industry with a new, even dumber rating system (why is it acceptable for the government to declare that some forms…

  • What are your thoughts on the BlackBerry Storm 2?

    TechJohnson
    I recently bought this phone and I was wondering what everyones thoughts were on it. I personally am loving the phone...

  • What will be updated in the Macbook Pro?

    Hans Johannsmeier
    I've heard there will be performance upgrades announced early next year for the Macbook Pro's. Does anyone have an idea of what these will be? And considering I'd like to get one at a bargain, should I go ahead during Black Friday, or wait until the announcement next year? Thanks for your opinions.

  • Best Webcam?

    James Maltby
    I'm looking to get a new web cam. I was just wondering what all your favorite web cams are? It seems every time I get a web cam its so crystal clear then like 6 months to a year later it has turned to crap even if I've never dropped it.. I don't understand why it gets all fuzzy.

  • building a computer

    Ryan wallace
    we all know that different computers are made from nearly the same thing hard drives, fans etc. but some have different brands of hardware, The thing is that ive always wanted to be able to build a computer and sell them on like dell, acer etc, the thing is that i know the parts i need but dont know where to get them at the price dell etc are getting them. could you please tell me the companies that design the best hardware parts and at a cheap price that acer etc buy at. p.s. i would like you to know that ive gave up my life for this to hapopen
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  • MAC or PC

    Deamo
    Hi everyone, This is Deamo98 here asking everyone here, What should i pick MAC or PC and why. This is just question not an arguement, I have also posted a video on YouTube "(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvELnJmvVoo)" Feel free to answer the video either here or YouTube also feel free to video responce all comments and opinions are fully appreciated, Thank you for your time. Deamo98

  • My thoughts on Google Chrome OS

    Alfred Esbjörnson
    So, I watched the Chrome OS conference video that Google put up yesterday and I've been reading a lot of peoples responses. But, before I jump into that, I'd like to write about my own thoughts about the OS. When Google Chrome, the browser, was released I wasn't too impressed. I enjoyed using Firefox and having tried Chrome I decided to stick with Firefox. Nowadays I use Google Chrome mainly because of the look and feel of it, but also because of the speed. I think that the thing about Google Chrome is that it did a lot of the things Firefox did but it did it better. An example of this could…

  • Chromium OS compiled - VMWare image made and available for download

    Joshua Warren
    Chromium OS compiled - VMWare image made and available for downloadthanks to jmmL athttp://ubuntuforums.org You have to log in with your gmail account Download links and all the info on this at the following url mentioned before. Chromium OS compiled - VMWare image made and available for download Enjoy!

  • Microsoft finds security flaw in Google Chrome Frame

    Dmitri
    Back in September, when Google launched the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users, Microsoft immediately warned that the move would increase the attack surface and make IE users less secure. Now comes word that a security researcher in the Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) has discovered a "high risk" security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass cross-origin protections. Here's the explanation from Google's Matt Larson: * Severity: High. An attacker could have bypassed cross-origin protections. Although important, "High" severity issues do not permit…

  • Hello, where r u???

    Lan Anh
    U r a woman, i think that posted the question of the day that which real tv show u like best or something like that. Sent to my mail by Geek update mail. I signed in to answer yr question b/c HA HA HA, i like that one. Now, here i'm and have searched that question but coudnt get it. I remember that u maybe live in Hawaii and u look kind of Japanese woman. Lan Anh.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  • The Geeks and Tech of Mad Men

    3 Nov 2009 | 11:32 am
    This device isn't a spaceship, its a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards... It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. Its not called "the wheel", its called "The Carousel". It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and then back home again to a place where we know we are loved."~ Don Draper doing the presentation for the Kodak Carousel slide projectorI love this scene from AMC's show Mad Men Season 2 not only because it shows Don's genius with advertising and presentation, but it really shows the impact that technology can have on our lives and families.

  • My Uncle The Spy (Part III)

    26 Oct 2009 | 11:15 am
    "That last catch was swell Neil!"A young guy in a letter jacket opened the door of the old bar in the industrial section of Trussville, Alabama. "Yea, but it was your great block on that running back that cleared the path!", Neil Self said as they all paused in the open doorway. Neil had always been stocky, tough looking, and also fast, a combination that was usually deadly to the opposing team in the game of high school football. Tonight he wore his letter jacket just like all the other guys. "Ladies first!" Neil jokingly said as he shoved his friend inside the dimly lit room. It was a…

  • My Uncle The Spy (Part II)

    25 Oct 2009 | 1:57 pm
    Outskirts of West Berlin, West Germany10:37 pm August 30th, 1961The stench of diesel exhaust filled the air. It had snowed the day before and the streets were still icy. Smokey clouds of CO2 puffed out of the exhaust pipes from the convoy of US Army supply trucks that sat idling on the old cobblestone streets. A few yards ahead, a blockade of spiraled razor wire and torn up streets impeded the movement of the trucks filled with vital humanitarian supplies for the recently over run Communist East Berlin."What's taking so long?" Sargent Neil Self muttered to himself as he sat in the cab of the…

  • My Uncle The Spy (Part I)

    21 Oct 2009 | 9:56 am
    "(Important) families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground."-- Francis BaconSo it was with my uncle Neil...He passed away a few years ago of a heart condition (that seems to run in our family) and I couldn't make it to his funeral that day for some insignificant reason or another. I've always felt bad for not going and not getting to see him the last few days of his life (but more about that later). Then before my aunt passed away last year of Parkinson's she gave our family some of the few remaining possessions that my uncle had kept around for a few years stored in a back…

  • Is Steampunk Dead?

    9 Sep 2009 | 11:48 am
    Victorian costumes, airships, steam engines, bizarre old yet modern weapons, fueled by a little magic or Æther... The awesome Steampunk subculture has been a part of my life since I played my first Myst game on PC and I watched The City of Lost Children wide eyed.Steampunk movies like Sleepy Hollow, City of Lost Children, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Army of Darkness (although more Dieselpunk) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen have always been some of my favorite movies. I am a member of steampunk groups on SecondLife, I read steampunk books, watch steampunk anime…
 
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  • Download the Google Chrome OS Virtual Machine

    GeekLad
    19 Nov 2009 | 9:24 pm
    Last week, Techcrunch reported rumors of the release of the Google Chrome OS. They stated that the info came from a reliable source, and indeed that source was reliable. Google had an event at their headquarters, and indeed provided new details and a demo of the Chrome OS. The Chromium Blog has some great videos that provide some additional information about Chrome OS as well. The Chromium OS source code is available for download (Chromium OS is the open-source version of Google Chrome OS), and you can compile and build it. It took some time, but I did manage to do this on my 64-bit Ubuntu…

  • Make Free Phone Calls with Google Voice, Gizmo, and Orgasmatron V: Google Voice Edition

    GeekLad
    1 Nov 2009 | 10:59 am
    Earlier this year, I had posted a hack for making free phone calls with Google Voice, Gizmo, and Asterisk. Since then, Google closed the door on inbound SIP calls and thus the hack no longer works. Fortunately a new possibility has emerged that makes it possible once again. Nerd Vittles has put together another great hack for making free calls with Google Voice and Asterisk: Orgasmatron V, Google Voice Edition. It makes use of an Asterisk Linux distribution called PBX in a Flash. After installing PBX in a Flash, you download and run the Orgasmatron V script, and you have a fully-functional…

  • 5 Reasons Google Wave Is Not Ready

    GeekLad
    24 Oct 2009 | 12:07 pm
    I was fortunate enough to receive an invitation into Google Wave shortly after the initial 100,000 invititations went out last month. Initially, I was a bit overwhelmed and did not really know where to begin or what to do. Bwana was kind enough to engage in a real-time wave with me, and show me around a bit. Afterwards, I began to see the potential. However, I think there are many reasons why Google Wave still is not ready for prime-time. Lack of Access Control Google Wave does not have any sort of access control for managing waves and wave participants: Anyone can be added to a wave by a…

  • Make Cross-Domain AJAX Requests with xdRequest

    GeekLad
    15 Oct 2009 | 12:03 pm
    xdRequest is an open-source JavaScript library that I’ve developed for making cross-domain AJAX requests. In this day and age, with web browsers becoming very fast and powerful, it has become quite possible to build web applications with much of the work performed by the client. xdRequest makes it possible to easily pull data from other sources and manipulate it all on the client-side. With xdRequest, you will no longer need to perform data extractions/manipulations from other sources on a server. It can all happen right in the browser. I had recently been fooling around quite a bit…

  • There Is No Undo in Google Wave

    GeekLad
    2 Oct 2009 | 9:17 am
    My good friend Bwana was kind enough to nominate me for Google Wave, and I finally received the invitation yesterday. With all the hype surrounding Google Wave, you may be surprised to learn that it still lacks one very simple piece of functionality that one might take for granted until it’s gone: Undo. There is no undo in Google Wave! Can you believe it?!? I’m not sure how Google could forget to include undo. I suppose it happened the same way that Apple forgot to include copy/paste on the iPhone. So what does the lack of undo functionality say about the product? It must really…
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  • 14 Reasons Your Site Is Evil

    Amber
    13 Nov 2009 | 3:14 am
    Image by Bull3t via Flickr Everyone loves a nice pretty website. The design pops on the screen and it invites you to settle in and enjoy the experience.  Often designers and/or their clients take two approaches to catch the viewers eye:  some choose sleek minimal ideas and others go hog wild with bright colors, animations and a deluge of information.  Many times the result ends up being too extreme in either direction and the poor web surfer is given a case of eye poisoning, but that is not the only issue to contend with.  There are articles that address similar things strewn about the…

  • You Remind Me

    Amber
    7 Nov 2009 | 8:21 pm
    Indeed.

  • Pushing Your Luck

    Amber
    6 Nov 2009 | 8:39 pm
    Image by programwitch via Flickr More and more television networks are having a harder time getting people to watch their shows.  Coupling this with the fact that there are many facets for the same data online, they are fighting an uphill battle when it comes to the attention of the average viewer. A quick tip: If people are actually watching your news show, don’t tell them to go check it out on your website. Your staff  are basically asserting that they are middlemen and therefore unnecessary.  Say it enough times during your scripted shows and people dump their cable/satellite…

  • Don’t Force It

    Amber
    5 Nov 2009 | 8:45 pm
    Image by luc legay via Flickr It is understandable that you want people to consume your content and then share it with all their friends.  It is also quite considerate of you to try your best to make the process easier, by adding sharing methods directly to your content. The “social” toolbars that are showing up with great frequency lately however, may not be the best route to take to accomplish this. Many of these toolbars are full of chunky code and just make a decent number of visitors  leave the site before it finishes loading.  Many of these toolbars are, for lack of…

  • I Can’t Jump Either

    Amber
    4 Nov 2009 | 8:10 pm
    Image by Getty Images via Daylife I have played video games religiously for years.  Any console that has come out since I was born (and one which was released right before), I have spent some quality time with one of its controllers in my hand. The funniest bit about all this gaming, is that up until the expansion of gameplay, I have been a pretty terrible player.  In the side scroller days I was doomed to not only just donating quarters to the cause, but I am also well aware of just how every one of those villains had that cackle when you fell off the cliff. I can’t jump worth a…
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  • Why You Need Anecdotal Evidence

    Roy Leban
    29 Oct 2009 | 11:44 am
    Have you ever heard the phrase "That's just anecdotal"? Usually, it's used to discount somebody's opinion about the way something should be. In UX terms, if you've observed a user, saw them have a problem, and want to respond to what you saw, you may have someone tell you it's just anecdotal -- in other words, you don't have hard, objective, statistical evidence, so forget it. But there's a contradiction here. There's a belief that, if you gather enough anecdotal evidence, it magically becomes hard evidence. You can even see this in the latest ad campaign for Windows. Millions of people sent…

  • Can UX Swing an Election?

    Roy Leban
    25 Oct 2009 | 11:23 am
    In 2000, the infamous "Butterfly Ballot" probably threw the election to George W. Bush, costing Americans more than a trillion dollars and who knows what else. Can it happen again? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. Right now, in King County, Washington, an abysmally designed ballot runs the risk of driving the state into the ground. The problem has two parts. First, the State of Washington is unfortunate enough to have an idiot named Tim Eyman who makes his living on proposing initiatives. He doesn't do anything else. Initially, he denied that he was making money off the initiatives that…

  • Does Tully's Want Customers?

    Roy Leban
    13 Oct 2009 | 10:47 am
    Suppose you want to go to Tully's. You know how this works. You just go to tullys.com and type in your zip code, perhaps your address, and you'll get a list of nearby Tully's. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work. Give it a try. Can't figure it out? Neither could I. It turns out that there is an entirely separate web site, tullyscoffeeshops.com for that purpose. And tullys.com does not contain a link anywhere to that site. Do they want customers? This is a surprisingly common problem. Usually, it's just sites trying to be too subtle, favoring conforming to some style sheet…

  • Does T-Mobile Want To Steal My Identity?

    Roy Leban
    11 Oct 2009 | 10:52 am
    It can be hard to tell real companies from scam artists sometimes. I got a call the other day from T-Mobile about my bill. They had overcharged me by $24 and I was late paying the bill because I wanted it fixed (and, in this economy, they call the day after it's due!). The discussion of why they would possibly think I wanted text messaging turned off on my account when I switched from a BlackBerry to a MyTouch is a topic for another post in the future The T-Mobile agent who called me asked for part of my social security number to verify that I was who I said I was. I refused. Hey, you…

  • Is Comcast Helping Scammers?

    Roy Leban
    10 Oct 2009 | 6:06 pm
    Comcast wants to fight scammers, but they're inadvertently going to help them. Comcast, like all Internet service providers, is directly impacted by so-called botnets, machines that have been hijacked by viruses and other malware to serve as robots in the service of scammers. The botnets are useful to the scammers because it allows them to send spam and launch attacks from many locations instead of a single location, which makes them much harder to catch and shut down. Comcast's idea is to inflict popup ads on their customers that appear to be compromised. which provide them with information.
 
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  • ReTweet Buttons on Posterous Blogs

    15 Nov 2009 | 10:15 pm
    Posterous has introduced ReTweet buttons that would make sharing posts on Twitter super-easy. To disable or enable the ReTweet button on your Posterous blog go over to your Manage page by clicking here. Then click on the Settings tab, where under the Look and Feel section click on More Theme Options. There simply select Enable Retweet Button.You can also add the retweet button and customize its

  • Driving In India : A Precautionary Tale

    6 Nov 2009 | 10:04 pm
    For the benefit of every Tom, Dick and Harry visiting India and daring to drive on Indian roads, I am offering a few hints for survival. They are applicable to every place in India except Bihar, where life outside a vehicle is only marginally safer.Indian road rules broadly operate within the domain of karma where you do your best and leave the results to your insurance company.The hints are as

  • Love, Sex And Poetry

    12 Sep 2009 | 10:18 pm
    "Love is not the greatest glue between two people. Sex is." - An Alchemy of Desire, Tarun TejpalLove has become a cliche,A reminiscent of the past.The greatest bond of them allIs not love but lust.I am happier than ever now,Your body has becomeMy daily bread.Love always had my limits set toA bottle of bourbon and,A piece of lead.[I promised myself not to write a poem on The Chronicles of R after

  • Label Clouds On Blogger!

    25 Aug 2009 | 10:24 pm
    Google has finally introduced Label Clouds on Blogger. Actually it's two features that they introduced yesterday, Label Cloud being one of them, Selected Labels being the other one. It was posted on Blogger Buzz by Wiktor Gworek, who is a Software Engineer with Google, who also posted a seemingly gibberish post, sans title, earlier on Blogger Buzz itself!Now about the new features, most of us

  • Digg Announces Reddit-Like Ad Platform

    4 Jun 2009 | 8:04 am
    Digg has announced it's own ad network - Digg Ads, a Reddit like ad platform that they plan to launch in a few months. The Digg Ads would appear alongside regular stories. The sponsored content would look similar to the regular Digg content except that they would be clearly marked as a sponsored listing.The ads would be linked to various stories, video trailers, independent product reviews – many
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  • Watch Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo Keynote - Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 Concludes

    O'Reilly Media
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:12 am
    Watch Tim O'Reilly at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York.Find news coverage and the latest photos and video, plus the full session schedule at the Web 2.0 Expo site.

  • Asia Continues to be Facebook's Strongest Growth Region

    Ben Lorica
    20 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am
    With Facebook topping 330 million active users over the past week, the company's strongest growth region continues to be Asia. Over the last 12 weeks, Facebook added close to 17M active users in Asia alone. Since my previous post, the share of active users from Asia grew by 2% (to 13.5% of all users), and roughly 1 in 7 users now come from the region. With a market penetration under 2%, Facebook is poised to add many more users in Asia (and Africa).

  • Four short links: 20 November 2009 - Social Network Search for Morons, Bulking Up Bio Data, Better E-Mail, Better Standards

    Nat Torkington
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:00 am
    Introducing the Open Web Foundation Agreement -- Applying the open source approach to better standards. The Open Web Foundation Agreement itself establishes the copyright and patent rights for a specification, ensuring that downstream consumers may freely implement and reuse the licensed specification without seeking further permission. In addition to the agreement itself, we also created an easy-to-read "Deed" that provides a high level overview of the agreement. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

  • Health gets personal in the cloud - Google Health Beta and Microsoft's My Health Info

    Brian Ahier
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    Healthcare in the near future will be quite different than it is today. Web enabled technology is already changing the way medicine is practiced. As the digital nation comes of age we will see new opportunities, and new challenges, bringing healthcare in America into the 21st century. Health consumers will come to expect they will have control over their own health data. Having secure, interoperable access to clinical data will allow patients to partner with their care providers in new ways incorporating Web 2.0 principles.

  • Google Closure: A New Way of Developing in JavaScript - A Guide and Links to Google Closure's Mature and Complex JavaScript Framework

    Davide Zanotti
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm
    Every day million people make use of Google products and these products are written mainly using one well known language: JavaScript! What makes this online software stable, fast and responsive is a good use of the language and an excellent system of data compression and asynchronous loading. Today this power is available to everyone, since Google has released its magic tool under Apache 2 license.
 
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    O'Reilly: Newbooks

  • jQuery Cookbook

    O'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers

  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 One-on-One

    Deke McClelland, Colleen Wheeler
    Master the fundamentals of Photoshop Elements 8 with Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 One-on-One includes step-by-step tutorials, hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it's done first-hand in the video. Learn to use Elements faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.

  • The Social Media Marketing Book

    Dan Zarrella
    Take advantage of the phenomenon that is quickly becoming the most effective way to market brands, products, and services -- social media. This easy-to-understand book introduces you to social networks, blogging, and several other websites, and helps you plan and execute strategies with actionable advice every step of the way. Determine which networks fit your marketing program, and learn the techniques necessary to measure results and track return on investment.

  • Google Wave: Up and Running: Rough Cuts Version

    O'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Learn how to use and built extensions for Google Wave, the exciting new real-time communication and collaboration technology that unifies email, instant messaging (IM), wiki, and social networking functions in one integrated platform. With this book, you'll quickly learn about the Google Wave Client and how to use Google Wave's APIs to extend the platform and customize its functions and display.

  • SEO Warrior

    John I. Jerkovic
    Essential Techniques for Increasing Web Visibility
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  • Effective UI

    Jonathan Anderson, EffectiveUI Inc., John McRee, Robb Wilson
    Effective UI provides a complete roadmap to building groundbreaking software centered on user experience (UX) quality, how to get management support, employing product management strategies proven to deliver greater success, and how to manage the design, engineering, staffing, and business considerations that must be centered on the user's needs and working effectively in tandem all throughout the project. Effective UI is a guide for business and product, software professionals, and anyone else struggling to advance the cause of better UX and working to deliver on the promise of higher…

  • CouchDB: The Definitive Guide

    J. Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt, Noah Slater
    This book introduces you to Apache CouchDB, a document-oriented database designed to work with applications that handle commonplace information such as contacts, invoices, and receipts. In CouchDB: The Definitive Guide, three of the core developers gently explain how to work with CouchDB, using clear and practical scenarios. Each chapter showcases key features, such as simple document CRUD (create, read, update, delete), advanced MapReduce, and deployment tuning for performance and reliability.

  • Search Patterns

    Jeff Callender, Peter Morville
    Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. This provocative and inspiring book explores design patterns that apply across the categories of web, e-commerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and realtime search and discovery. Using colorful illustrations and examples, the authors bring modern information retrieval to life, covering such diverse topics as relevance ranking, faceted navigation, multi-touch, and augmented reality. Search Patterns challenges us to invent the future of…

  • C# 4.0 in a Nutshell

    Ben Albahari, Joseph Albahari
    When you need to look up the essentials of C# 4.0 language syntax and usage, or locate key information in the .NET base class libraries, this concise reference helps you find it quickly. C# 4.0 in a Nutshell thoroughly covers C# 4.0 programming as implemented in Microsoft's Visual Studio 2010, including new CLR 4.0 features such as dynamic typing and the PLINQ/TPL threading libraries.

  • Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

    Jonathan Stark
    With this Early Release edition, you'll get the entire book in its earliest form -- the author's raw and unedited content -- so you can take advantage of this content long before the book's official release. You'll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version. All of this for a fraction of the price of the printed book. It's a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have what you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this special Early Release ebook, you'll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and…
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  • Professional DevExpress ASP.NET Controls

    Paul T. Kimmel
    15 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
      Learn to use Devexpress ASP.NET controls, and get $250 worth of controls included with the bookDevexpress is a leading supplier of ASP.NET controls - the addins used in ASP.NET sites. Not only does this book show you how to make the most of them with Silverlight and Ajax, reporting, calendars, editors, and charts, but you also get actual controls worth $250 on the CD-ROM included with the book.Regardless of your level of ASP.NET expertise, this complete Read More...

  • Professional Ubuntu Mobile Development

    Ian Lawrence, Rodrigo Cesar Lopes Belem
    8 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
      Ubuntu Mobile is quickly being adopted by mobile device manufacturers and provides Web browsing, e-mail, media, camera, VoIP, instant messaging, GPS, blogging, digital TV, games, contacts, dates/calendar, and simple software updates on every mobile device. As the first book on Ubuntu Mobile, this resource is authored by one of the top experts for Ubuntu Mobile who shows how to implement solutions for original equipment manufacturers and independent Read More...

  • Safari and WebKit Development for iPhone OS 3.0

    Richard Wagner
    8 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
      The must-have reference for building and optimizing Web applications for Safari on iPhone 3.0The iPhone offers a compelling Web-based application development platform revolving around its built-in browser, Safari, which is built upon the open source WebKit framework. This must-have book serves as a hands-on guide to developing iPhone and iPod touch Web applications.Beginning with an introduction to Web application development for iPhone, this unique Read More...

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Problem-Design-Solution

    Erik Veerman, Jessica M. Moss, Brian Knight, Jay Hackney
    1 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm
      An authoritative guide to designing effective solutions for data cleansing, ETL, and file management with SQL Server 2008 Integration ServicesSQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the leading tool in the data warehouse industry, used for performing extraction, transformation, and load operations.After an overview of SSIS architecture, the authors walk you a series of real-world problems and show various techniques for handling them. Read More...

  • Beginning PHP 5.3

    Matt Doyle
    25 Oct 2009 | 9:00 pm
      Serving as a complete introduction to PHP 5.3, this book walks you through all the major concepts of PHP in a way that’s easy to follow, with plenty of code snippets illustrating each concept to aid learning. You’ll discover how to install and configure PHP 5.3, how to get started with simple programs, and the basic building blocks of PHP such as variables, operators, expressions, arrays, and objects. Coverage working with files, XML, and MySQL; building Read More...
 
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  • Google open sources the “Google Chrome” operating system

    Jonathan
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:24 pm
    It seems to be a week of big announcements from Google. This week has seen the unveiling of the initial codebase for the much talked about Google Chrome operating system. After having a read of the initial responses to Google Chrome OS, I’m somewhat surprised at the negative comments about it’s lack of functionality. People don’t seem to understand that Google Chrome OS is a targetted utility operating system – designed to run on lesser hardware, to act more as a terminal than a computing platform. The coming wave of tablets will be almost identical in feature set. Of…

  • Google launches the “Go” programming language

    Jonathan
    12 Nov 2009 | 3:19 am
    I can’t remember a “new” language appearing for quite a few years now; the last one of note was probably Ruby, or maybe Python. That all changed this week, with the announcement of “Go” from Google. The homepage for the project is here – http://golang.org/ Google have the following to say about “Go”; No major systems language has emerged in over a decade, but over that time the computing landscape has changed tremendously. There are several trends: Computers are enormously quicker but software development is not faster. Dependency management is…

  • Where are the good themes?

    Jonathan
    11 Nov 2009 | 12:02 pm
    I recently moved my personal and technical blogs to wordpress.com, and set them up with stock themes. It struck me while doing it that the available themes suck pretty badly. There is a route to make things a little more aesthetically pleasing, but it involves paying WordPress $15 a year, and then you only get to monkey with CSS. I guess I’m really wondering when the powers at WordPress are going to pull their finger out and add some nice, clean themes that work correctly for all cases. Every single theme seems to have one fault or another – usually to do with white-space between…

  • 30 More Google Wave Invites

    Jonathan
    11 Nov 2009 | 8:53 am
    It looks like Google are slowly ramping up the invites for Google Wave – a couple of weeks ago I received 20 invites (and gave them out randomly) – today I have received 30 more invites. If you reply to this with a good enough reason, I will consider giving you one of the invites

  • Why use Digsby? (NOT)

    Jonathan
    10 Nov 2009 | 1:06 pm
    I had an email this evening from the company that make the Digsby instant messaging client, inviting me to watch a video extolling the virtues of their creation. I wonder if the video will mention the crapware they install without asking to use your computer’s processor to do work for them? Yes, you can switch if off via a menu option, and it’s explained in the terms and conditions, which apparently makes it all fine. So if I put small-print under our front doormat explaining that I’m going to give you a stomach bug if you come in my house, that will be fine too?
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  • Sims 3 – Twilight: New Moon Trailer Machinima

    Nelson
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:01 pm
    The machinima team over at the Sims team have recreated the latest Twilight: New Moon trailer using The Sims 3. For machinima I’ve seen around the net, this looks really good. I mean, the lead actress has more different facial expressions and better acting skills than Kristen Stewart. (boom. face.)

  • Weekly Tech Wrap Up

    Sam
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm
    It’s that time again, time to review some of my cherry picked smaller stories of the week for those that might have missed them. This time round we’ve got an Adobe Flash update that doesn’t suck. OK, sucks a little less. Flash 10.1 beta was unleashed to the willing public with GPU video acceleration for certain Nvidia cards on Windows, but perhaps more importantly reduced CPU usage across all platforms. What does this mean? YouTube that doesn’t make your Mac or PC red-line that’s what. A step in the right direction Adobe, maybe Flash isn’t a lost cause after all. I’ve…

  • Hey kids! Santa’s on Twitter… and drunk

    Nelson
    20 Nov 2009 | 12:56 pm
    Santa has finally got around to creating his own Twitter account. But, it seems as though he is truly micro-blogging all his most inner thoughts and feelings this season. Apparently, he doesn’t give a flying fuck if you get coal or nothing at all. If you’ve asked for anything nice this year and you’ve done your very best to be a good person, you’re still screwed because Santa could care less about the list. [via Twitter]

  • Custom Halo LEGO Minifigs up for Auction – Toys for Tots Charity

    Nelson
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:49 am
    The creative LEGO minds over at Brickforge are auctioning off a full set of custom Halo LEGO minifigs for the Toys for Tots charity. These minifigs are custom made meaning LEGO doesn’t make these.  (But they should!) As of this posting, the auction the bidding is at $150 with 1 day and 4 hours left. If you want you own custom made full set of these bad boys, head on over to the auction page. [via model building secrets via Bricklink]

  • Your Friday Fix 11/20/09: Tegami Bachi

    James
    20 Nov 2009 | 6:55 am
    Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Supernatural AmberGround exists in eternal twilight, lit only by its artificial sun and its inhabitants scattered cities. In this darkness roam countless mechanical insects, named Gaichuu, keeping the population imprisoned and isolated within the safe confines of the cities. There are a few brave souls that will venture into these wastelands; chief among them, the Letter Bees. A Letter Bee is a mixture of adventurer, cartographer and postman. their duty is to deliver letters between cities in AmberGround, as well as map out new routes in attempts to reconnect…
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  • Eclipse Initializing Java Tooling Error on 64bit Windows 7

    Akku
    19 Nov 2009 | 12:09 pm
    Just a short note about an error I resolved lately. Eclipse Initializing Java Tooling hangs at 1% while eclipse uses a lot of resources while configuring org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.web.container … I’m on Windows 7, 64bit, 64bit JDK, running as non-admin. This error seems to have some connection to the installed plugins, or with the last exit of eclipse. I found a forum entry “on the internets” where one user said he just deleted the lock file in his workspace’s metadata folder. This didn’t work for me. Another user mentioned that you can delete or rename…

  • All the little things & This year of my life

    Akku
    8 Nov 2009 | 7:56 am
    (This is kindof a double post, as I’ve not posted real stuff for some time) Its very impressive how our life shapes with all the little things we learn. And its all those little things we change in our lives that makes everything a whole new experience. You think I’m on drugs? Nope, I ain’t! The most time of my life, I’ve been a logical person who had difficulties in understanding human nature and human behaviour. As a logical person, I advocated that no man should ever lie in no situation, and the world would be a better place. Teachers laughted, schoolmates laughted,…

  • TODO & GTD

    Akku
    29 Oct 2009 | 11:30 pm
    Image by koalazymonkey via Flickr So after about two weeks of using GTD-life-enhancement with “ToDo” on iPhone, Toodledo as online-synch I have some basic thoughts wheher this helped me. You can find the last post about this here: Why using ToDo-Lists and GTD?. GTD only > 2 minutes The first (logical rule) I came across is: never put something you can do in under 2 minutes on a ToDo-list. Do it instantly! This helps resolving loops like “Put the other item on the ToDo-list”, so I guess the rule was made by a computer scientist ;-p … no really: if something is…

  • Agilo Trac Error

    Akku
    29 Oct 2009 | 8:31 am
    I just installed Agilo from Agile42 on my Windows 7 machine at work. Trying to create a new user, I got the error message: “The password file could not be updated. Trac requires read and write access to both the password file and its parent directory.” To solve this issue, you must find the installation directory, right-click the subdirectory tracenv it, and choose Properties. In the Tab Security click “Edit”. Give “Users” and “Trusted Installer” all Permissions by checking the appropriate checkboxes and Apply the changes. Now your Local Server…

  • Why using ToDo Lists & GTD?

    Akku
    12 Oct 2009 | 10:21 pm
    First things I wanna put straight: I sometimes have issues keeping track of what I’m supposed to do, when to do it and in which order. Sometimes I heard about GTD on twitter or in blogposts, but when I tried to read into it I thought that I don’t really feel like learning another complicated system for stuff that I can solve with small slips of paper. I always wanted to use my iPhone for ToDo-lists, as I use it for everything else in organisation: contacts, calendar … so why not todo-lists? I feel that I can be doing things faster if I used some kind of organised approach to…
 
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