Commentary: A person who works with total focus has an enormous advantage over a workaholic who's “multi-tasking” all day, answering every phone call, constantly checking Facebook and Twitter, and indulging every interruption.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Big Blue urged to open Notes and Domino
Ian Tree, the chief architect at IT consultancy Hadleigh Marshall Netherlands b.v. of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has some free advice for IBM's Software Group: Take the Notes/Domino groupware stack open source with a community-developed programming model. The idea is to keep the Notes client and the Domino server relevant.
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EETimes.com - Server makers get Goooogled
Rackable, a system integrator that built Google's first 10,000 systems, launched a so-called CloudRack in late October, geared for big data centers. Early next year Rackable will ship for the enclosure its first 12V-only motherboards with two servers per board.
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Free Social Utility For Time-Based Relationships
This is how it works: you sign up for a TimeXchange account and create a new project, select your role in the project and then indicate if you are working by yourself or on a team. If working on a team, you can invite other users, indicate what level of control they have (can they approve timesheets, can they see budget and billing information),
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Smartphones drive mobile markets
The last 12 months has seen the launch of iconic devices such as the iPhone 3G, Google G1, Blackberry Storm and Nokia N97.
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Top web applications
Web application always make our work easier but selecting the right web application is a tough job so here is the list of few top web application which will make your work easier and are very handy
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Learn the Identity of people screwing with your network
HOT News really. Don't you wish you knew the people who were fiddliing with your network. Enterprises, regardless of size, are increasingly realizing that their computer systems are vulnerable to as many security threats from within the company as from outside of it. Find out about this new technology called "identity-based UTM"
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All I wanted this year was the best smartphone ever
This year, all I really wanted for the holidays was the perfect smartphone. Not too much to ask for, right? You'd think, but all I ended up with was constant swapping between 3 (or more) devices, hoping to find some balance of features that worked for me.
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Blue Spruce, IBM's Next Generation Browser Platform: Review
ReadWriteWeb was given an exclusive first look at Blue Spruce at the Web 2.0 Summit, where we sat down with IBM's VP of Emerging Internet Technologies, Rod Smith, for a "show and tell" of what IBM claims will be the next evolution of the browser. What's more, it's fully open standards based - so it is squarely aimed at challenging the proprietary-
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Nintendo Wii to Have Video On Demand
Nintendo and Dentsu shall use the environment surrounding the Wii so that living rooms with Wii-ready TVs would become more of a fun area for communication among families and friends.
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20 Excellent Websites for Learning Ajax
Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a technology that allowsfor for highly-interactive and responsive browser-based applications.By leveraging the XMLHttpRequest object, seamless communication withthe server can be achieved for a smooth and dynamic user experience.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
iPhone claims high-ranking spot on Flickr
The iPhone has risen to prominence on Flickr, rivaling most SLRs in popularity. These statistics from Yahoo cover the last 12 months.
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25 Resources to Get You Started with PHP from Scratch
PHP is a scripting language that is perfect for developing dynamic web pages and applications. You may be a PHP ninja, or perhaps you don't even know what PHP stands for. However, if you plan on or are involved in any kind of web development, you are bound to run into this fantastic and easy to learn web language.
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12 Blogs To Help Designers Learn Web Development
It is rare to find a talented web designer that is just as proficient at web development. Obviously, one can be successful at specializing in design only, but a web designer can only benefit from having a better understanding of what is going on behind the scenes.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Make Your Copy Dance
Writing copy for the web is completely different than writing an article or report. Web surfers seem to have a very short attention span. I would fill my web pages with content and wonder why my visitors stayed on my site for an average of 11 seconds. Oh, Google loves it, but no one else did. After reading the posts on this blog I now know why.
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BlackBerry vs. iPhone - The Smart Phone Battle Rages On
Research In Motion (RIMM) and Apple (AAPL) continue their smart phone battle for the hearts and minds of consumers, according to the latest ChangeWave survey.
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Scrapplet: Powerful Social Web Canvases
There are a few sites out there that let you aggregate your entire online presence into a single place, but for the most part they offer little control over the way your information is actually presented. Today sees the launch of Scrapplet...
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App Developer Strikes E-Book Deals With Major Publishers
ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has concluded deals with a number of major publishing houses, and is in talks with several others, to produce newly released and best-selling e-books as applications for the iPhone and iPod touch.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
Improve your jQuery - 25 excellent tips
25 tips and shortcuts, from beginner to advanced to make you a better jQuery coder.
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25 Free Computer Science Books
There are lots of great sources of information available online, but nothing really beats the depth of knowledge that you can find in a book. Below is a selection of 25 of the best free computer science books that I’ve found online, with a brief description of each one
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work With Screen Readers
The Communication Technologies Branch of the United States National Cancer Institute (part of National Institutes of Health and Department of Health and Human Services) has been conducting usability testing with people with disabilities, specifically blind and lowvision users, to
* understand the relationship between accessibility and usability
* understand how blind and low-vision users work with Web sites
* develop research-based guidelines for accessibility and usability
* assess the usability of specific Web sites for blind and low-vision users
http://www.redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html
* understand the relationship between accessibility and usability
* understand how blind and low-vision users work with Web sites
* develop research-based guidelines for accessibility and usability
* assess the usability of specific Web sites for blind and low-vision users
http://www.redish.net/content/papers/interactions.html
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Future of the Internet Mobile
A survey of internet leaders, activists and analysts shows they expect major tech advances as the phone becomes a primary device for online access, voice-recognition improves, artificial and virtual reality become more embedded in everyday life, and the architecture of the internet itself improves.
http://pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp
http://pewinternet.org/PPF/r/270/report_display.asp
Monday, December 15, 2008
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OpenCalais
We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais.
Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.
http://www.opencalais.com/
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