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Friday, February 13, 2009

Keyword Tool

Use the Keyword Tool to get new keyword ideas. Select an option below to enter a few descriptive words or phrases, or type in your website's URL. Keyword Tool Tips

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When Agile Projects Go Bad

Your software development projects can benefit from Agile - assuming it's really what's used. Learn about the sins that have been committed in the name of "Agile."

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Simplest Drupal iPhone App | Zivtech

http://www.zivtech.com/blog/simplest-drupal-iphone-app

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Video to iphone

Episodic and they’re building tools to help video publishers program their content throughout the web.

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Walking tree, smart mobile, bad chickens

My first pod cast with Ian explains how to be smart about being elctronically mobile,
Patrick Rubie sights land whales,
Walking trees cross Ian Woolf's path,
while unhealthy chickens get peckish.
Presented and Produced by Ian Woolf

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Saturday, February 07, 2009

Microsoft's SkyBox site live, branded My Phone? - Engadget Mobile

Starting the notes killer phone sync site... All we need is iPhone and
nokia connecters

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/02/06/microsofts-skybox-site-live-branded-my-phone/

Friday, February 06, 2009

We Don’t Need No PM Methodology

http://blog.brodzinski.com/2009/02/we-dont-need-no-pm-methodology.html

JAJAH to Transform iPod Touch Into an iPhone

JAJAH has announced a new application that would potentially allow users to turn their iPod Touch into an iPhone. This will be a white-label app for wireless companies interested in selling a low-cost, WiFi-only VoIP service plan along with the app.

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Mobile Restaurant Ordering (Finally) Hits The App Store

In the last week, a pair of new iPhone applications have appeared on the App Store that put the menus of hundreds of restaurants at users’ fingertips.

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How Google Made The New Gmail Buttons With Just HTML/CSS

The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS, which was a key factor now that Gmail has themes.

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Google: Latitude "coming soon" for iPhone | iPhone Central | Macworld

http://www.macworld.com/article/138635/2009/02/latitude_iphone.html

Rhomobile's open source mobile application framework

Rhomobile's open source mobile application framework Rhodes lets you quickly build mobile interfaces to enterprise applications. These are true native device applications: They work against synced local data and take advantage of device capabilities such as GPS and PIM access.

http://rhomobile.com/

set-up-push-email-contacts-and-calendar-on-your-iphone-for-free

http://lifehacker.com/398526/set-up-push-email-contacts-and-calendar-on-your-iphone-for-free

https://services.mail2web.com

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

One-Click iPhone App Cracker Released to the Public | TorrentFreak

http://torrentfreak.com/one-click-iphone-app-cracker-released-to-the-public-090201/

Monday, February 02, 2009

Turning Ideas Into iPhone Applications

http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/11/turning-ideas-into-application.html

Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Great Internet Video Lie

Internet Video. Its the salvation for content creators everywhere. Its the end to dependence on the big bad meanies, the cable and satellite companies. Right ? Hell no. The concept that “over the top” video creates a valid business alternative for content creators is as misguided an internet business myth as there is.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

sync google calendar with iphone

just setup my iphone to sync with google calendar http://nuevasync.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Rejected App Podcaster just got ACCEPTED by AppStore

Remember ‘Podcaster’ app that was rejected by Apple last year? Well this app has been ACCEPTED by Apple.

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Netflix Announces Q4 2008 Financial Results - Yahoo! Finance

looking good

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Social media more popular than porn

According to Hitwise, more Brits now visit social media sites such as Facebook than adult sites. The trend began last October.

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Motorola: layoffs for the Windows Mobile developers

Motorola seems to be walking further and further from Windows Mobile. The American mobile company has officially confirmed the lay-offs of 77 employees that worked on the development of devices that used Microsoft’s Mobile Operational System.

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Web-connected TVs expanding entertainment offerings

Web-connected TVs expanding entertainment offerings

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Monday, January 26, 2009

The Tools Google Uses Internally

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-03-12-n39.html

Sunday, January 25, 2009

iPhone developer: App Store rewards "crap" apps

"The goal of my app was to create a tool for people to annoy others...The end product was Sound Grenade, which is a really terrible app, one button turns a sound on or off, period. For 20 minutes' work, I thought it would be interesting to take the ride."

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...And Other Fancy Stuff: HTML5 vs. Flex for RIAs (Ignite Style!)

http://otherfancystuff.blogspot.com/2009/01/html5-vs-flex-for-rias-ignite-style.html

Can Windows Mobile Get the Magic Back?

Mr. Lees, the senior vice president in charge of Microsoft’s cellphone software, stopped by recently to drop hints about what will be in the next generation of Windows Mobile that will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month.

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New system automatically figures out where to send e-mail

A prototype e-mail system being tested at Stanford University later this year will radically change how users specify where their messages are supposed to be delivered. Called SEAmail, the system allows users to direct a message to people who fulfill certain criteria without necessarily knowing recipients' e-mail addresses, or even their names.

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Nokia E75 QWERTY - High Quality Pictures

Here are some new pictures of the Nokia E75. The Nokia E75 has a back cover with a metallic mirror feel along with a 2.4 inch screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, QWERTY Keyboard, Dual keypads, HDSPA, and WiFi. Enjoy

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Preview - Part 1 - All About Symbian

Announced at Nokia's Remix event in London, at the beginning of October, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is a mid-range, music focused phone, running S60 5th Edition on Symbian OS 9.4, with a 3.2 egapixel camera, integrated GPS, WiFi and HSDPA connectivity, and a 3.2 inch touch screen.

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Plam Pre FAQ - Finally Apple might have some competition

Take that iPhone: Compilation of what's known about the Palm Pre. Can't wait to get my hands on one, enough to dicth the iPhone?

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The iPhone 3G could make mobile management legit, if only...

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=networking_and_internet&articleId=9110239&taxonomyId=16&intsrc=kc_feat

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

30 Excellent CSS Based Navigation and Buttons Tutorial

CSS is the most important part in modern standard based web design. Using CSS you can turn any web related nested stuff into a working design.There has been a lot of talk about CSS Work lately. Mostly designer creates the design templates, Photoshop Images or whatever and then developers have their turn to show their creativity.

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Social Media: Where is everyone Flocking???

There’s a new web browser that has hit the market and has my attention. Flock 2.0 is a web browser that was developed with the idea of Social Media junkies, like myself, in mind.

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Monday, January 12, 2009

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner: Free online tool for PC

Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC. Check for and remove viruses Get rid of junk on your hard diskImprove your PC's performance

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Estimating Lessons Learned in Project Management - Traditional - PM Hut

http://www.pmhut.com/estimating-lessons-learned-in-project-management-traditional

Project Status Reports Everyone Can Understand - PM Hut

http://www.pmhut.com/project-status-reports-everyone-can-understand

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Expo: iPhone applications not around every corner | iPhone Central | Macworld

http://www.macworld.com/article/138112/2009/01/iphone_expo.html?lsrc=rss_products_iphone

Banking on the Wiki Way: AboutUs Secures $5 Million

AboutUs, the wiki that's working to capture detailed information about every site on the Web, has secured $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Voyager Capital with a $2.5 million investment.

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The 10 Best Android Apps of 2008

Following only two months behind iPhone 2.0 (but at a significant installed-base disadvantage), Android still has a long way to go. But there is definitely some early potential. Here's the favorite apps of the year.

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The 10 Best Android Apps of 2008

Best Android Apps to Boost Your Mobile Productivity

You've already seen our hands-on review of Google's new mobile operating system, Android—so now it's time to take a look at what kinds of apps third-party developers have made available for the platform. The first phone running Android has been out in the wild for two weeks now, and every day new applications have appeared in the Android Market...

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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Best IPhone Apps: Communication and Collaboration

The iPhone 2.x software brings Microsoft Exchange support to the iPhone and iPod Touch. Look to the following Safari and native apps to connect with IBM Lotus Domino eMail; sync with Outlook calendar and contacts; share news, notes, and files with co-workers; and message without SMS charges.

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Gmail Notifr: Open Source RubyCocoa Gmail Notifier for Mac

Gmail Notifr is written in RubyCocoa and has these features:Support multiple accounts! (new!)Support Google hosted account.Check mail at a specified interval.Growl & sound notifications.Small & fast.No background daemon processes installed as Google's official notifier.Open Source & free!

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ASUS Eee PC T91 multitouch convertible Tablet PC is WOW

8.9 inch touch screenIntel Atom Z520GPSFM transmiterTV tuner1-inch thick, 900 grams

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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

2009: Products I Can’t Live Without

TechCrunch lists the products they can't live without. Great list! Found a few here I will check out for sure!

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Saturday, January 03, 2009

The secrets of planning a successful website

Many web designers give scant regard to planning. Instead, they steam on in, hoping no problems will rudely smash them in the face along the way.But as Andy Budd, creative director of Clearleft, notes: "Planning is integral to almost every project" In this post, Budd and other top creatives reveal their sanity-saving approaches.

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21 Factors that Influence First Impression for Your Website

Good information for you all to read. This list looks at 21 factors that will influence your visitor’s impression within moments of arriving at your site.

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37 Ultimate Resources And Inspirational Pieces For Designers

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we make a list of 37 incredible resources and inspirational pieces for designers.

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Friday, January 02, 2009

Project Management

http://projectmanagement.alltop.com/

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Work Ethic 2.0: Attention Control

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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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

Online galleries are go - Technology - smh.com.au

http://www.smh.com.au/news/home/technology/online-galleries-are-go/2008/12/29/1230399085342.html

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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Vatican-approved app for the iPhone

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/biztech/vaticanapproved-app-for-the-iphone/2008/12/23/1229794373131.html

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

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Filtering Twitter, One Tweet at a Time - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/filtering-twitter-one-tweet-at-a-time/

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

Monday, December 15, 2008

Slipstream - A Software Secretary That Takes Charge - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/business/14stream.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Sunday, December 14, 2008

MIT students build mobile applications in 13 weeks

we will see more and more use of mobile phones as work tools.

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Six indispensable CSS tips and tricks I use on every project | d\'bug

Six indispensable CSS tips and tricks I use on every project | d'bug

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11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers

11 Useful Open-Source Apps You Should Know About - Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers

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The Inquisitive Coder - Davy Brion’s Blog » Blog Archive » What It Takes To Be A Great Technical Lead

The Inquisitive Coder - Davy Brion’s Blog » Blog Archive » What It Takes To Be A Great Technical Lead

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99 Ways to Become a Better Developer | DeveloperZen

99 Ways to Become a Better Developer | DeveloperZen

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10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks › Yongfook - Web Producer

10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks › Yongfook - Web Producer

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My new IDE: NetBeans

My new IDE: NetBeans

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Mobile Distillery\'s Alembic and Celsius Coverts iPhones to other Smart and Feature Phones - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Mobile Distillery's Alembic and Celsius Coverts iPhones to other Smart and Feature Phones - WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

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Most Popular Android Applications For November 2008 | Digital Media Diva | Fast Company

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/