If you are sick of Internet Explorer, Opera is a great browser. You can download a beta version of Opera 10 here I use Firefox and when I am building websites I need to make sure that they work well in IE and Firefox predominantly (due to their market share) But before Firefox came along, […]
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Well where there is idea there is generally a website. Currently in Beta, Skyecandy offers Speed video dating using Skype, their tagline reads \”The whole world can speed date for free\” But why start a service without looking for where the money is going to come from. Well a look at the costs under the
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I cam across WP Greet Box, looking for some kind of Twitter integration (of which it isn\’t really) Anyway, looked like a great way to interact with visitors and from a social point of view a great way to encourage others to network via RSS, Twitter, Facebook etc. By default the following are covered Delicious
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As robotics and programming get more and more advanced, the things these advances can be put against increases too. From simple algorithms / decision trees and problem solving to more intelligent programs to deal with Chess, draughts and black jack. Here is a great article on online poker and the things people are doing online
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A while a go I posted about Symantec and it\’s subscription system (Have Symantec lost faith in their own products?) Well it has now been reported that due to overwhelming feedback on a Stuff poll (over 97% were against) Symantec has backed down. Good news I say, as while Symantec have said that it was
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While these are not software problems (mainly because my attempts to downloaded were thwarted) these show a serious lack of foresight on the behalf of the behemoth. Problem 1 – If you run Firefox, you can download it I went to the download site, chose my country and operating system and waited for the download
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Here is a video from WebProNews about the new Google Friend Connect API More WebProNews Videos With this, it allows you to integrate many social style interactions (Comments, votes etc) into your site. Google have created some Open Source plugins for WordPress, Drupal and PHPBB. I will look at adding the WordPress plugin here and
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Just as a follow-up from the previous post, Symantec have released the removal instructions for W32.Downadup.C You can find them here The removal instructions are part automated using the Antivirus software, but also require the editing of the PC\’s registry and the usual system restore issues. It is the registry edits that mean these instructions
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I don\’t cover viruses here much, but after reading about this in a few places a few things stood out. This is an article from PCWorld that describes a notification from Symantec. Downadup is a virus that execute instructions from an infected machine. Apparently, the new variant is more hardened against anti virus tools (looks
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A great piece by Tom Pullar-Strecker from The Dominion Post talks about the auto debit of credit cards for renewals of their anti virus software. He even says Website TechWeb has quoted former Symantec consumer-group chief EnriqueSalem saying it was also one of several \’\’revenue-generating\’\’strategies to \’\’pump up the consumer group\’s bottom line\’\’. This makes
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