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“Converts PDF text quickly and accurately # Handles all fonts and languages (including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more) # Provides easy access to form data, document properties, and bookmarks”
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“Windows Mobile users don’t have to do anything to take advantage of the fix, the spokeswoman said. They should simply be able to properly receive Gmail messages on their phones now, she said.”
Monthly Archives: January 2008
links for 2008-01-30
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“Liberty Media Corp. took steps yesterday to seize control of IAC/InterActiveCorp from IAC Chairman Barry Diller, in a marked escalation of hostilities between Mr. Diller and his longtime backer, Liberty Chairman John Malone.”
links for 2008-01-29
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“…what’s significant here is that Facebook has publicly released something that is intended to extend the platform to the outside. The public is now aware of the possibilities to leverage Facebook outside of the main site and that is big news.”
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“With gDocsBar, you can drag and drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents.”
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“WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.”
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Doodle on Google!
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“researchers have quantified that surplus, they project that consumers saved $19 billion on eBay last year.”
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“monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.”
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“I analyzed his latest presentation and extracted the 10 elements that you can combine to dazzle your own audience.“
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“Dark Room is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, Dark Room is just about you and your text.”
links for 2008-01-28
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“With this stabilizer, you can hand-hold your camera with shutter speeds at least 3 stops slower than without it.”
links for 2008-01-26
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“Automated alerts are useful in all kinds of more serious use-cases and why use polling to monitor changed conditions when you can use an open source protocol that can make presence and real time communication scalable?”
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…for “Super Tuesday” (February 5) Google is doing something somewhat more ambitious over at YouTube — call it “Super Tubesday.”…
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“Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google’s programming models: MapReduce”
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WordPress performance tips
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“The Nielsen Company today announced the launch of Nielsen On Demand Reporting & Analytics, a new service that reports on video-on-demand (VOD) usage.”
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“A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess,” says the Rules of Thumb site. “It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark.”
links for 2008-01-25
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“When scaling from a single web server to multiple web servers, the typical practice is to put a load-balancing reverse HTTP proxy in front.”
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“The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it
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“Best Places to Catch a Bite in Downtown Newark”
links for 2008-01-24
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“press conference tomorrow with CEO Leslie Moonves and Last.fm co-founders Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel; no details but to announce “a new unprecedented serviceâ€â€”a video service, we’re hearing, likely mixed with social networking”
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En2ools are the bridge that will let you listen to iTunes and iRadio on your Nokia phone. We make our money by inserting ourselves into the deal between the provider and the user.”
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“But if Google.org did, and then ran the paper as a trust, well, that’d buy a lot of brand burnish amongst a very important set of influential folks, just as massive privacy and monopoly issues are rearing their heads”
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“A list of significant events leading to a Data Portability enabled Internet.”
links for 2008-01-23
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“The Winnipeg Free Press says that Floyd Landis is just a “bad memory” lost in the morass of the appeals process, but Rodney Harrison, who was suspended from the NFL for the first four games of the year for PED use, is going to the Super Bowl in glory. Fa
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“The channel, a subsidiary of Time Warner, will introduce HBO on Broadband starting this week to subscribers in Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wis., then spread the service slowly to other parts of the country.”
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“Essex County’s program will use sharpshooters to cull the herd on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Jan. 29 through Feb. 28. Sharpshooters will be in the field between 5 a.m. and 8 p.m. on those days”
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“Based on the popular and very useful mod_rewrite for apache, UrlRewriteFilter is a Java Web Filter for any J2EE compliant web application server, which allows you to rewrite URLs before they get to your code. It is a very powerful tool just like Apache’s
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“Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. The monitoring daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you specify using external “plugins” which return status i
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“The only real hope for the paper is what it could call a “strategic sale,” on mutually agreed upon terms that would enable the Family to say it held up the flame.”
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“…since its peak back in the Fall at nearly 750, Google has dropped to 584 currently, a 166 point drop (it’s dropped more in after hours, all the way down to 568).”
links for 2008-01-20
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Lock down your WordPress Install with these simple tips
links for 2008-01-19
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“I wanted to like this company with their super comfortable shoes. Instead, I’m left feeling like they don’t care about their customers and that they produce a shoddy product.”
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“This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts. It will explain how to easily let new users sign up for an account on your site using their OpenID URL and how to le
links for 2008-01-18
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“Facebook is interesting but Myspace is where the users are, still.”
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“The passionate worker doesn’t show up because she’s afraid of getting in trouble, she shows up because it’s a hobby that pays. The passionate worker is busy blogging on vacation…”
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“Charging per usage — and effectively penalizing high bandwidth users — may only serve to stifle the growth of rich media on the web, even as things like the new Apple TV and the unlimited Netflix streaming plan seek to push these activities into the ma
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“YouTube traffic has gone up 18% over the last two months, and Sony’s Crackle (formerly Grouper) has doubled from 1.2 million to 2.4 million users over the course of last fall, according to Nielsen Online.”
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“Oracle Corp. today announced it has reached a deal to acquire BEA Systems for US$8.5 billion, just a few months after its initial offer of $6.7 billion was rebuffed.”
links for 2008-01-17
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“Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.”
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“The Internet cloud, where the distributed and programmable network of services across the globe will serve all the data, resources and functionality we will ever use.”
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“According to Bill Gates, at week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the cloud is where he’s betting Microsoft’s future, as is Google, IBM and others.”
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“January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world’s fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 bill
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“You can either download a daily database export or use our webservices to directly access our data. This list of GeoNames web services in table format helps you get an overview over all GeoNames web services.”
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This sucks if it happens: “Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.”
links for 2008-01-16
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“This recipe is both sneaky and deceptively delicious.”
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“PipeBytes is a simple service which allows you to send a file to a friend.”
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“Google has raised the bar. If you misspell a word, it tells you. If you perform a search returning millions of results, they prioritize the results by showing you the most relevant page”
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“Chrysler LLC, the third-largest U.S. automaker, is shifting its television advertising dollars to live sports and the Internet and out of primetime programs as the Hollywood writers’ strike heads into an 11th week.”
links for 2008-01-15
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“EMI, the big music company, spends 25 million pounds a year “to scrap unsold CDs”. That’s about $50 million — a year.” “is stuck with a model designed for a world that has changed and gone forever”
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“It is not exactly a ring flash but rather a flash diffuser done with milk-jug, so it is practically free”
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“In this post I’ve found 10 DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks that put some of these lighting techniques within the grasp of the rest of us.”
links for 2008-01-14
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“And, perhaps even more amazing is that what those shoppers are going for isn’t even provided by Amazon: customer reviews. Nope, much of the valuable information on the site is provided by other people who write reviews, describe their experiences, and