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The final version 1.1 of Firefox was previously set for a March, however it seems a bit unrealistic according to the current schedule. It will be released “a little later than originally planned”, an exact date isn’t given yet though speculation is, it will be around June. In addition, there will be a series
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When did you optimize your MySQL last? The OPTIMIZE TABLE command should be used after deleting a large part of a table or after many changes were made to a table with variable-length rows (tables that have VARCHAR, BLOB, or TEXT columns). Deleted records are maintained in a linked list and subsequent INSERT operations reuse
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There are many reasons why Firefox is a great browser, one of them is its extensions feature. One of its most popular extensions is the Bookmarks Synchronizer (now at version 1.0.1). This extension lets you connect to an FTP/WebDAV server and synchronize your cross-computer bookmarks, notes and to-read lists. So you can keep
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This is so old, it’s worth repeating.
You know you are from the Bay Area when…
1. You make $100,000 a year, yet still can’t find a decent place to live.
2. Your commute time is 45 minutes and you live 5 miles away from work.
3. Stop asking how much things cost but, ask “How long will
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Apple’s iTunes music store has sold more than 250 million songs so far. Now it’s selling at a rate of more than a million downloads per day.
Pretty amazing hu? The music industry is starting to feel really foolish. It’s the movie industry turn to be stupid again, and you’d think they learnt the VCR lesson
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Silicon Valley Watcher reports that Google is about to unveil a completely revamped Adwords/Adsense program to counter inroads from competitors. Google is planning to release a public API for AdWords.
It seems like, about 1800 Google marketing people from its offices around the world were at an internal sales conference at a secret location
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Who remembers ASCII art? Probably not many. How many people are still using ASCII signatures? Probably even less. With modern email clients and webmail, ASCII signatures can hardly exist anymore. But if you’re still looking for a cool ASCII graffiti or signature, you can check the ASCII Generator. It can generate numerous styles and fonts
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Just stick your keyboard sensitive finger in there and let the voltage shock you.

Some of us are more frantic than others regarding the safety of our computer systems. Part of keeping a Windows system clean and safe is to reinstall it every several months to make sure there are no trojans, spyware and other evils. But everyone who did this install knows what kind of a hassle
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Nokia has no intention of shutting down the N-Gage

It seems like Sun is finally about to unveil its open source version of Solaris or at least talk some more about the project.

Conspiracy theory lover or not, you must see it.

Just yesterday I mentioned a company installing Mini Macs in cars, and now we find out how easy it is to disassemble the Mini Mac.
It seems like some people do not see the potential of having a Mac (or any other PC) in the car. The fact that it’s possible to play games
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Sony has admitted that the firmware update for the its new Portable handheld that surfaced over the weekend is real.

It’s now official the nofllow HREF attribute is now in use.

A new mobile phone software coming from Toshiba allows users to control a PC from a mobile phone. The n
Toshiba’s New Ubiquitous Viewer software gives anytime access to PCs from mobile phones

Cnet news runs a story about the New York based Classic Restorations, a car restoration company, which laid out plans to install the Mac Mini in car dashboards.
There are many things you can do with a Mac in your car, like logging in to home or other networks via Wi-Fi, playing music, movies or games.
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Trackback Spam has just started to be an increasing problem to WordPress users. Many WordPress blogs began receiving Trackback spam during this month and the numbers are only growing. Truth is I’m a little surprised it took spammers that long to think this method up, but I kept my mouth shut.
Spam Karma, one
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I’m no big gamer. Rarely, I play some strategy games. My favorite genre, turn based strategy, is almost non existent. Aside from the prominent Warlords IV, no other big game came out (that I know of) recently. As real time strategy started to flood the market about 7 years ago, I gave up and
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The guys at The HBX Networks UNIX Community Group found a bug in the gmail system which allows users to hijack random messages that may contain passwords, purchase orders or other sensative information. This was done by mistakenly altering the ‘From’ address field of an e-mail sent to the service, and finding another
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From this month on Microsoft will not support Windows NT 4.0 anymore. This month is the last month that hotfixes and patches will be released. Security fixes will only be released to Microsoft customers with Custom Support Agreements. These agreements are still available for customers that need them and can be obtained by contacting a
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As I mentioned before there are many vulnerable web systems out there simply because developers are not aware of the most basic precautions when developing in this environment. One basic but critical element is the handling of inputs.
Here are some basic but critical rules for handling input in PHP

When receiving a value from a
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Yahoo officially launched Yahoo Desktop Search, after announcing it in December. It’s powered by X1 Technologies, yet another search company to come out of the Idealab incubator. The initial beta release is essentially a Yahoo-branded version of X1’s current beta software. But Yahoo tells us the software will evolve over time to become more integrated
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McAfee released SiteDigger 2.0, a free tool aimed at finding vulnerabilities in websites. It looks for information about a Web site’s security by sending specific queries to Google’s Web database. Such searches can turn up easily exploitable flaws and sensitive information, including credit card numbers and user account information. The free service should help Webmasters
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Good news to Sony PlayStation lovers. Game publisher Take2 announced that it would make a portable game based on its smash “Grand Theft Auto” game series. GTA for PlayStation Portable would be ready around the time the new Sony device is launched in North America and Europe, tentatively set for late March.
Grand Theft Auto
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Now I’m really going crazy here. As you, my faithful readers know, I use Firefox and Thunderbird for my surfing and mailing needs. But as it goes, at work there are various corporate policies. So on our windows desktop machines we use Outlook for mail. With all my support to open source I still do
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The move toward open source is growing every day. Now that we surf the web using Firefox and read our mail with Thunderbird. It’s time to move another (even if less used by the masses) protocol/use toward open source. This is the FTP client. A rising star in that field is the Filezilla.
FileZilla is
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If you run your blog or web site on a hosted server, you are probably limited to a certain amount of bandwidth per month. An easy way to lose all of your bandwidth is if someone decides to hotlink an image directly from you instead of downloading it to their own site. This has been
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Brad Jasper, the founder of Blog Catalog, has launched a new website about weblogs, Blogosphere News. The concept is really simple, Blogosphere News is a website which covers all the latest happenings in the Blogosphere.

I don’t know when NetRemote was publicly introduced but no one can say it wasn’t long overdue. It turns a Tablet PC, PocketPC, or a laptop running windows into a 2-way remote control.
Using NetRemote and a WiFi enabled Pocket PC or any networked Windows computer, you can have full control of your digital media
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Wired published an interview with Jeff Bezos,CEO of Amazon, with some interesting information on how he approaches the market. The interview seems a little short on content but it does show an important side of Jeff Bezos, in that he knows what the customer wants and what will drive sales. He also explains why
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