GitHub... the next Sourceforge?

"In other words, what makes GitHub special is the social aspects. With so many high profile projects already on board, it's easy to imagine GitHub could be the next SourceForge."

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Drupal - Best CMS I have ever seen

Drupal is an open source Content Management System (CMS). Few weeks ago I discovered Drupal and have started loving it. Lots of grate sites have developed using Drupal. One of them is Ubuntu.com. It is also used by new Sun HPC portal. Watch the following interview of Scott Mattoon, Chief Architect, US Western Region, Sun Microsystem, INC.

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Nokia Tube to take on Apple's iPhone

The colourful, multi-functional Apple iPhone has proven itself as an instant hit in the high-end phone market all over the world thereby challenging other mobile handset makers like Nokia to come up with such products. Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacture has announced to launch a new iPhone like product named ‘Nokia 5800 Tube’...

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Adobe Releases Media Player 1.0, Launches Adobe TV

Today, Adobe is releasing the 1.0 version of its Media Player (AMP) software to the public. The player, which is an offline Flash video manager comparable to the Veoh player, was first released as a beta on the Adobe Labs site last September. AMP runs on Adobe's cross browser Adobe Integrate Runtime (AIR).

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Slax - your pocket operating system

Slax is a modern, portable, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

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Free Unlimited File Hosting

FileAdded is a free large file sharing service. Store your file on our fast dedicated server. When another service give you limited download limit, FileAdded gives you unlimited download limit.

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Justin.tv is hiring Python Hackers

The site is growing every week, and just signed a contract for a 2gbps in the colo.

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IBM and Linden Lab to create enterprise-safe virtual worlds

IBM is announcing a partnership with Second Life producer Linden Lab today to create an enterprise-class version of Second Life behind a corporate firewall.

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Facebook Launches Translations for Everybody

Want to help Facebook translate their site into over 20 languages? Now you can! While it’s not in every language (still missing Hebrew and perhaps a few others), the applications is now available to the general public. Previously the application was invite only. Some have suggested that this mean an imminent launch in multiple other languages.

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Mollom: new FREE anti-spam filter for websites.

Latest from Drupal founder Dries Buytaert. Features include spam filtering, detailed statistics, image and audio CAPTCHA challenges, high-availability infrastructure. Drupal integration provided, API available for other applications.

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File Qube - Free online storage

Great service to store and share files online. 150Mb file size limit, members can upload files up to 500Mb. File Qube powered with ajax multi-file uploader, web-based file manager, sharing widgets and more. It's really simple to use, runs as smooth as a desktop application and looks really cool! Ah, and it almost ads-free ;)

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Don't Fear Failure, Learn from it

Whether your own mistakes or those of others, there's lots to learn. Unless you are extraordinarily lucky, you will experience failure just as I have. Treat it as an education rather than a disaster and you'll be that much stronger for it.

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Picking a Platform: 5 Issues to Consider

presenting 5 dynamics that you should consider when picking a platform.

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Chris Pirillo Starts Large Scale Community CMS Project

The project would also be committed to best practice in DataPortability with OpenID, OAuth and even support for OpenSocial: The bottom line is freedom and flexibility - the freedom to choose, the freedom to grow, the freedom to leave (and take your profile data with you, or easily transfer it to another system). The flexibility to add features

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Create PHP Based AJAX Web Applications With Ease - Symfony F

Symfony is a free web PHP frameworkIt is very powerful tool to create web2.0 applications filled with rich AJAX effects.

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Nokia Nseries PC Suite graduates from Beta Labs | IntoMobile

"(...) The 300+ MB heavy suite is actually a collection of applications (Nokia Lifeblog, Content Copier, Nokia Application Installer, Nokia Multimedia Player, Nokia Music Manager, One Touch Access, PC Sync, Nokia Photos, Nokia Map Loader) that "seamlessly link your Nokia Nseries multimedia device and your PC."

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See The World's Lightest Cell Phone

The Guinness World Records named the Modu phone as the lightest cell phone in the world. At just 1.5 ounces and 2.8 by 1.4 by 0.3 inches, the Modu is a full ounce lighter than the already miniature Pantech C300. Without a doubt, it's the tiniest cell phone I've seen outside of Zoolander.

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HP UMPC 2133 specs revealed - april 7 launch ?

here is what hp throws in the umpc market .

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The 25 Most Valuable Blogs

25 most valuable blogs according to 24/7 Wall Street.

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Nokia’s Very Own iPhone: N98 Concept

This great concept starts with denial from Nokia, as it seems we’re not going to see this phone getting released. Too bad that N98 has to remain a Photoshop image, since we’ve yet to see a decent touchscreen rival branded Nokia for that over-hyped iPhone. The list of specs of this N Series swan song goes something like...- 7.2 MP ca

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Samsung Anycall Haptic Phone. IPhone better watch your back!

Samsung's latest introduction, the SCH-W420/W4200 is a slender, iPhone-like handset with a 3.2" touchscreen, a lively user interface, and the kind of force feedback that the LG Prada phone could only dream of.

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Top 10 MP3 Players (Flash-Based)

These are the top flash-based MP3 players today, but ratings and rankings can change quickly due to pricing and technology changes, so check back frequently for the latest info.

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Biggest Unix Cheat Sheet

A collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users.

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Techmeme: Amazing Tech News Aggregator Without the Blog Spam

Quick load time? Check. No blog spam? Check. Good RSS feed? You better believe it. Really great supplement to Digg's front page for ther latest tech news and information.

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What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 -

The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions.

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Aptana: open source IDE for iPhone

In an AjaxWorld Conference this week, Aptana had one of the more impressive presentations on how easy it is to develop Ajax applications for the iPhone.They presented open source Aptana Studio IDE. It is a full Ajax development environment and it is available as a stand-alone as well as an Eclipse plug-in.

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Kiss Microsoft Project Goodbye!

If you use Microsoft Project, you might want to seriously consider three alternatives that run completely on the Web. In addition to supporting more contemporary features right now, and getting updated with even newer gadgets more frequently than Microsoft can muster, these products, being completely Web-based, offer much more robust collaboration

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Wacky Apple patent application shows dual-screen 'iPhone 2.0

ok i have said my next phone should be a candy bar sized phone, that will open up from the side not the top. also needs nipples for the keyboard when it shows on the screen.

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iPhone crushing LG LH2300 announced with 800x480 resolution

LG loves to bring drama to the mobile arena. When it comes to iPhone competition you can now add the LG LH2300: 3 inch 800×480 touchscreen, 3G enabled device to the list. The LG LH2300 packs more resolution than the iPhone as well as 3G connectivity, T-DMB mobile TV receiver, Bluetooth 2.0, microSD and a sleek design. To ma

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All New Tech Support Forum Uses Videos To Fix Your PC

A brand new tech support forum actually helps you by making custom videos for free to help you solve problems with your computer and computing related needs. Great site that hopes to help many certainly worth checking out. Having fixed many issues with computers via the standard forum I found having a support video to show me is so much better.

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New IBM Software Brings Web 2.0 to Mobile Phones

IBM announced that the Lotus Expeditor software platform is extending desktop computing and Web 2.0 capabilities to mobile phones.

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Nokia 3555

The launch of this phone was delayed due to U.S gov . T-mobile officially announced that the infrastructure of it’s 3G network is ready and will be online until Q2 of this year . Nokia 3555 looks like 6555 design and includes a TFT screen of 262K colors , and a second display with 98 x 65 pixels resolution .

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Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload

These days, it seems everyone has an opinion about how to deal with information overload, especially when it comes to email management. There are numerous methodologies, best practices, tips, and tutorials available, but are any of them really effective? We'll explore that question as we delve into the top _ email management methodologies.

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HTC Calls Android Phone "Dream", Feels LIke One Already

More details of HTC's Google phone are emerging, it seems. The handset is to be called "Dream", will be touchscreen and have a large QWERTY keypad. So, what else do we know? And, more importantly, when is it coming out?Well, the HTC handset is around five inches long and 3 inches wide with a keypad that either slides or swivels out to make

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9 MySpace Apps Worth A Look

MySpace has launched their initial platform applications, and we’ve picked out nine of the initial crop to give you a sampling of what they’re bringing to you. So, prepare for the onslaught! By the way, if you thought MySpace pages were already crowded enough with various things, it’s about to get a whole lot worse!

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Komodo Edit: An Open-source Scripting Environment

ActiveState announced the release of Komodo Edit 4.3 last week, the first version of the cross-platform programming tool to be distributed as open source. Komodo Edit is now tri-licensed under the MPL, GPL, and LGPL, just like Firefox.

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The Psychology of Human Misjudgment

A pretty interesting article........

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Web 3.0 Demo The Future WebTech will bring Cross-Linking

This is a sample. Push buttons on the right to see what we can do with our technology.How works Cross-Linking right now @Web2.0?

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YouTube Seeing AdSales Stymied-Marketers' Attribution Fears?

YouTube, the largest video haven on the Web, is oft described as a potential gold mind - both for its owner, Google, and for the advertisers that tout products and services beside (or, now in some cases, inside) the playback window.

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ProBlogger.net Top? Create a Video Tutorial and Help Others

Video tutorials can be created simply with screen recorder software. This will only record your screen and your voice.By the way:What do U think about ProBlogger.net?

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24 Great Niche Web Design Galleries

CSS galleries can be a great source of inspiration, but if you’re looking for something in particular they can be a bit of a nightmare. Since niche galleries have a tighter focus it allows them to be more detailed. Below you’ll find a list of niche galleries, that focus on things from color schemes, to layout, and specific content types.

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24 Hours in the Life of IT Professionals

5:30 AM: Dragged to consciousness by alarm clock. Pulled out of wonderful dream where Vista desktop upgrade went without a hitch. 3:30 PM: VP of Sales stops in office to show off new iPhone. Wants IT to support it.

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Eclipse to stress component, runtime efforts

The efforts will be featured at the EclipseCon 2008 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. Conference highlights also include a presentation by an executive from Eclipse holdout Microsoft on Wednesday

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How the Mayan Calendar Works

For the people of ancient Maya, calendars were just as important to daily life as they are to people today. In this article, you'll see how the Mayan calendar came to be and the meaning behind each type of calendar the Mayans created.

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3 Powerful Offshoring Tips

Tips for creating and managing offshore programming teams.

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Best Tools for Mobile PC Users: Hotspot Hot Stuff

Uber-mobile bedouins rely on Wi-Fi to get their work done. Here, we share a comprehensive list of their favorite tools--from software to laptops and accessories--for working from public hotspots.

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Nokia N810

The countdown for CTIA started , after CES , CeBIT and Mobile World Congress, very important events of this year , now we have CTIA 2008. Looks like Nokia will launch a new phone called N810 .It might be just a rumour , but we will know for sure on 1 april , when CTIA starts. N810 will have WiMAX support , a very powerful CPU ...

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Must Know Shortcut Keys for Designers

A must know list of very handy shortcut keys for any blogger or designer that is serious about time…You must learn these shortcut keys!

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The Best Tools for Visualization

here are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best:

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Why Apple Will Dominate Next Generation Computing

Last week Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple Town hall meeting and announced the iPhone SDK. This powerful platform that Apple uses to create beautiful applications for MacOS and iPhone is now completely open. The enterprise and SDK solutions will go hand-in-hand to propel the iPhone to be THE handheld device of the future.

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Visualizing tagging behavior in Nicovideo [Nico Nico Douga]

Project Description:In Japan, Nicovideo (Japanese call this service Nico Nico Douga) is a known user generated content service similar to YouTube. Users in Nicovideo create new videos by remixing and adding new features to existing

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Another Touchscreen Phone But Wait, This One Has A Surprise!

Check out this concept mobile phone called the Mooon+. One too many “o’s” in there but I appreciate the clean design. It’s got that big gorgeous touchscreen, sleek design, sexy metal accents, and a digital camera. So what’s the big deal right? The mouth piece detaches and turns into a bluetooth headset.

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Acquia Unveils Roadmap to Commercial drupal

Acquia provided new details on plans to deliver a commercially supported distribution and value-added network services based on the wildly popular Drupal open source social publishing system.

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Google Calendar Sync

Want to use a web-based calendar but can’t because of syncing, or lack thereof? Google Calendar Sync was unveiled tonight allows you to sync your Google Calendar with your Outlook Calendar. The program works both ways and should prove useful for anyone who fancies having their Calendar data available wherever they are.

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20+ Free Web Design Ebooks And Guides

Even though there are plenty of books available in stores on almost all aspects of web design, you don’t need to spend a dime when you can get all the basic information for free. The following list of free web design ebooks and guides will get you started building accessible, usable, and useful web sites in no time.

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What Makes a Great Video Blog?

In case you hadn’t noticed, video is kind of a big deal on the interwebs, now. It may have put the thought in your mind to do a video blog or start adding videos to your current blog.

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Apple TV vs. Vudu vs. Xbox 360: Video Download Battlemodo

If you've been wondering how to compare the video-download options of Apple TV, Vudu and the Xbox 360, I think today is your lucky day.

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10 Tips For Improving Your Appointment Setting Skills

Your appointments may be big group meetings, one-on-ones, or even job interviews. You may even be skipping the face-to-face aspect of meeting and be taking conference calls or using Skype. No matter what type of meeting you’ve scheduled, though, these tips can help you improve your appointment setting skills.

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Top 15 Concept Cell-Phones

Concept Phones are great, as they give you an idea about what designers can do when they don't have to be concerned about the mundane stuff. Here's a list of Top Ten concept phones that might or might not meet Realism.

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Text To Speech News and Blogs

No time to read the day’s news on your homepage before hopping in the car and rushing off to work? Check out what Pimp My News, a new text-to-speech service which converts your favorite news and blog sites into audio

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artists need only 1,000 True Fans to make a living

The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches. — But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators

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Microsoft's Silverlight goes mobile with Nokia

Nokia has signed up to use Microsoft’s Silverlight platform for its S60 and S40 mobile devices as well as its Nokia Internet tablets, marking the first mobile win for the Redmond giant’s rich media development framework.

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Google launches Google MOBILE Gears

Google is bringing offline apps to mobile phones - and this has nothing to do with Android.Google Gears, which allows developers to create apps that run on Firefox and Internet Explorer when offline, is supposed to launch later today under the name Mobile Gears.

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Microsoft new device manager software

Trying to keep up with RIM, MS is showing off their not yet released System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008. needs WM 6.1

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Hands-on with the 9-inch Eee PC

If you hadn't guessed from the headline, and as rumored just an hour ago, there's 9-inches of LCD on this thing. Actually, 8.9, but who's counting?

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Kevin Rose Can’t Keep Up With E-mail

He can’t keep up with it all, and wanted to come up with a way to stop offending people who he never gets back to by sharing some of his e-mail data with them.

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Microsoft's Greatest Hits: Top 5 internal e-mails

"Today, if you e-mail things around, it's very typical for the information to go far and wide," Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said in a 2003 address to a conference in Seattle. "The next thing you know, it's in the newspaper."

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Platform-as-a-service provider Rollbase launched today

Marketing its offerings as web-based software geared toward small- and medium-sized businesses. While the PaaS terminology conjures up images of Rollbase competing with something

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Trying to build the next BIG Web 2.0 Co.? Read this first!

An excellent post about what to do when all you have is an idea and no means to implement it yourself. You need more than just great web developers to make execution a success!

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Video Sharing Site CrunchyRoll Crunches Into $4.05 Million

CrunchyRoll recently removed all ads on the site and the blog post is worth reading. They are currently generating revenue from donations with badges for users who provide a donation

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11 Useful Email Addresses

"0. www@web2mail.com - Send an email with the URL of the web page in the Subject field (e.g. www.cnn.com) and you’ll soon find a copy of that web page in your Inbox. A perfect option when there’s no [WWW] Internet access in the area or access is restricted (for instance, you want to read the BBC homepage in China)."

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Nokia Shows Off Nanotech Mobile Phone Concept

Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the UK's University of Cambridge - has been put on show at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

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Hollywood and the internet - There will be blood

Hollywood is doing its best to ignore the internet. That is a big mistake. The internet may look unfamiliar and dangerous, but it could be the ultimate home-entertainment weapon. No trip to a thinly stocked retailer, no late fees, no waiting for a package in the post.

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12 Breeds of Client and How to Work with Them

There are loads of different types of clients out there and chances are at some point you’ll get to meet all of them. So let’s take a look through some typical clients and see if you recognise a few of your own in there! And the contractors

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8 steps to life change and success

Those who admire successful individuals and desire to achieve their own success want to know the steps they must take. There is no set path to success, it varies depending upon the person and the situations they face. However, these are 8 steps that you can walk to achieve a change in your life.

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Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding

In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. You definitely know some of them, but definitely not all of them. Some technique is missing? L

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Buying The DVD: Unhelpful And Unethical

These last few years P2Pers have got used to TV entertainment ‘our way’: de-loused, delivered efficiently in economical, good-looking codecs. Because we rarely turn it on, it’s been easy to forget just how cynical, unsatisfying and downright venal television, as a distribution medium, has become.

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Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

Many of the most successful web 2.0 companies understand this intuitively and it is reflected in their product management. Although they all have a general vision for their product, it does not spring full formed from their minds.

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51 Power User Ways to Reinvent the Windows Wheel

Forget what you think you know about Windows! Whether you use XP or Vista, these 51 tips and tweaks will give you a whole new OS

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12 Power Networking Questions

If you want to supercharge your in person networking skills, then these twelve questions are the foundational keys and the tools you will need to expand your network rapidly.

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Pen Style Personal Computer

You might’ve got one of these “hard-to-believe” emails and wondered if this is true or is this a myth. Take a look at those Pen Style Personal Computer pictures.

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How To Manage Feature Creep: 8 Simple Tips

Feature creep (also known as scope or requirement creep) is the term used for additional requirements that get tacked on outside of the original project scope. Here's some essential ways to help you manage feature creep on your own projects.

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doubleTwist makes DRM-stripping, sharing easy as pie

doubleTwist is a new venture cofounded by DVD Jon, the hacker who made a name for himself by cracking a number of prevalent DRM schemes. Except this time, he wants to help out average Joes and Janes free themselves from the complicated world of DRM by making it as easy as drag-and-drop.

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A Futuristic Mobile Device Mockup ... Pretty Cool [PICS]

The idea behind this concept is exploit the internet ability in a mobile device. Touch screen, built in camera, scanner, WiFi, google map (hopefully google earth), google search, image search all in one slim device.

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BBC's iPlayer nukes "all you can eat" ISP business model

The UK’s largest broadcaster finally launched its online video streaming and download service on Christmas Day. Plusnet - an ISP - has provided a preliminary analysis of the traffic and the results should send shivers down the spine of any ISP currently offering an unlimited “all-you-eat” service.

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10 Apps To Have For Your Symbian S60 Phone

I have 5.. now to down load the other 5

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The Analog Cell Phone Timeline (PIC)

As of today, the analog cellphone is no more. Here's the complete timeline of its development, since Greece in 490BC to February 18, 2008, the day in which networks are no longer obligated to provide with analog cellphone coverage.

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Mysteries Of Computer From 65BC Are Solved

The machine was lost among cargo in 65BC when the ship carrying it sank in 42m of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. By chance, in 1900, a sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck and recovered statues and other artifacts from the site.

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Watch DVDs on your iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc. with HandBrake

So you just bought an iPod touch or iPhone and want to stock it with movies from your DVD library. There are countless commercial utilities that promise to rip DVDs, but I recommend trying HandBrake. This open-source (read: free) utility for Windows (download), Mac (download), and Linux converts your DVDs for viewing on iPods, iPhones, Sony PSPs

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Windows Live Hotmail program manager's e-mail hacked

Windows Live Hotmail's Lead Program Manager had his e-mail account hacked... repeatedly. Welcome to the dark and rainy side of cloud computing.

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Intel and Nokia working on seamless WiFi / WiMAX

Along with Nokia, Intel is developing a technology with which a person could continue listening to Internet radio or watching online video without a disruption in service.

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Modu LEGO-Like Cellphone System Video Hands-On

Modu is a very small cellphone that carries your personal data everywhere and you can plug into "jackets", which are specialized hardware modules that transform it into all kinds of things, like multimedia players, a full-fledge PDA with full QWERTY keyboard, gaming handhelds, GPS and whatever you want. Seeing the concept work is quite cool.

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samsung mini projector goes mobile in March

Samsung returns with a hot little accessory. The MBP-100 mini projector casts a 20-inch display from cellphones or presumably appropriately jacked portable media players of all kinds. No details at the moment but it's expected to hit S.Korea in March and hopefully go global soon thereafter.

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Really, We Don't Want to Join Your Social Network

Dude explains why incorporating social networking functionality into an existing business' website isn't that great an idea.

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Microsoft Buys Mobile Developer Danger

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has agreed to buy cell-phone software developer Danger Inc., bolstering the company's stake in the growing market for mobile device applications.

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Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1 iPhone killing QWERTY

It's here, the XPERIA X1 QWERTY from Sony Ericsson. SE's new XPERIA brand will focus on multimedia and mobile web communication. The X1 then, brings a 3-inch wide VGA (800 x 480) touchscreen display, 3.2 megapixel camera (with photo light), A2DP Bluetooth, aGPS, WiFi, and quad-band GSM/EDGE/HSDPA/HSUPA... I want one

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LG Phones First to Support the DivX Video Format

LG Electronics and video compression provider, DivX have announced that the LG Viewty camera phone (LG-KU990) is the first mobile phone with DivX Certification to natively record video in the high quality DivX format.

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Alltop Has All the Tops Stories, and Egos, Covered

Introducing Guy Kawasaki's latest startup, Alltop.

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U.S. Internet Users Viewed 10 Billion Videos Online in Dec

Wow...the numbers seem unbelievable!!!

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