Tuesday, 7 April 2009

Monday, 6 April 2009

25 Rare Wordpress Templates 2009

I searched for many hours and collected like 100 Wordpress Templates.

Then I finally chose the Best Templates among all of them and have now came up with 25 Free Premium Looking Wordpress Templates that are really nice and unique.

Check it:
http://www.tutzone.org/2009/02/free-wordpress-templates.html

Inside A Google Data Center

Google provided a look inside its data center operations at the Google Data Center Efficiency Summit held Wednesday in Mountain View, Calif.

The presentations included a video tour of a Google data center, which showcased the companys use of shipping containers to store servers and storage. Each of these 40-foot data center containers can house ...

Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs3Et540-_s

Debian get FreeBSD Kernel

Today Debian gets one step closer to really becoming 'the universal operating system' by adding two architectures based on the FreeBSD kernel to the unstable archive.

Link source:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/04/msg00001.html

20 Useful PHP jQuery Components Tutorials

Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology.

This post is made up of the best 20 PHP + jQuery Components and Tutorials that you will likely need in many of your projects, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure.

The full story is here:
http://www.noupe.com/php/20-useful-php-jquery-tutorials.html

Microsofts second Laptop Hunters commercial

The second installment of Microsot's Laptop Hunters commercials went live today, and if you though our actress friend Lauren lit a fire, well, get ready for Giampaulo, who professes to be "technically-savvy" and calls the MacBook Pro he looks at "so sexy," but ultimately rejects it because he wants to pay for "computing power," not the "brand."

Read the full story here:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/04/microsofts-second-laptop-hunters-commercial-giampaulo-buys-an/

Sunday, 5 April 2009

The 7 Time Saving Firefox AddOns To Make Your Lives Easier

As we all know that Firefox is the fastest growing popular web browser and its growing more and more every day.

There are lots of ease provided by the firefox and this is the main reason for its popularity. You can easily find lots of free download able extensions and add-ons that are available on the internet for firefox.....

From:
http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/04/04/the-7-time-saving-firefox-add-ons-to-make-your-lives-easier.html

Stock art website with stolen art suing original artist

Stockart.com sent artist Jon Engle a bill for $18,000.

Other than the price, the unusual thing was that the bill was for images from several of his own designed logos. Now, the company is threatening to sue and even destroying the artists reputation by contacting his clients and informing them their logo may be stolen work.

Link:
http://www.jonengle.com/2009/04/accused/

Yoga for Conception

Useful info here for struggling parents. "Does it take long for your baby to go to sleep? Do you (and your child and your partner) get stressed at night-time? Does she cry as soon as you leave the room?"

Check it:
http://fitnessreleases.blogspot.com/2009/04/yoga-for-conception.html

TMobile Germany Banning Skype for IPhone

We in the US love to complain.

Take this week's introduction of Skype for the iPhone. The mobile VoIP client appears to be a pretty solid offering, letting you not only chat with your Skype buddies, but also make voice calls--as long as you're using ...

Read the full story here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/139827/tmobile_skype.html

GNOME 30 To Get GNOME Shell Zeitgeist

Only a few days ago, we ran an article on the future of KDE and GNOME, and which of the two had the brighter future based on their developmental processes.

Barely has that discussion ended, or the GNOME engineering team comes with a pretty daunting plan to introduce a fairly massive reworking of the GNOME interface for GNOME 3.0 (2.30).

Check it out here:
http://www.osnews.com/story/21242/GNOME_3_0_To_Get_GNOME_Shell_Zeitgeist

Saturday, 4 April 2009

ATT backs down will allow video streaming

Looks like the uproar over AT&T's recently-tweaked wireless terms of service banning video streaming and p2p activity has caused some hasty rethinking in Dallas.

Source:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/atandt-retracts-new-terms-of-service-apologizes/

Linux An Overview Of FLOSS Email Clients

Everybody uses email as one of its primary communication means; Free Software desktop users are no exception.

In this regard, email clients play a central role in the way we work and generally live in the Internet. These last years have seen some relative decline in the usage of email clients. The use of standard, more mature web technologies such

Check it:
http://www.nuxified.org/article/overview_floss_email_client

Google Is NOT in LateStage Talks to Acquire Twitter

While the news that Google was in late-stage talks to acquire Twitter, which TechCrunch reported last night, certainly sounds exciting, it isnt accurate in any way, according to a number of sources BoomTown spoke to close to the situation.

From:
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090403/sorry-to-get-you-all-a-twitter-but-google-is-not-in-late-stage-talks-to-acquire-the-hot-microblogging-service/

The Music Code

Useful info here for struggling parents. "Does it take long for your baby to go to sleep? Do you (and your child and your partner) get stressed at night-time? Does she cry as soon as you leave the room?"

From:
http://entertainmentreleases.blogspot.com/2009/03/music-code.html

ATT tweaks wireless TOS to forbid streaming filesharing

Looks like AT&T's taking some aggressive steps to manage network traffic now that it's offering subsidized netbooks - the carrier updated its data plan terms of service last night to specifically single out and prohibit "downloading movies using P2P file sharing services, customer initiated redirection of television or other video or audio signals.

Link:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/03/atandt-tweaks-wireless-terms-of-service-to-forbid-video-streaming/

Unplug the Internet No President should have this power

The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced in the Senate would allow the president to shut down private Internet networks.

The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access.

Check it out here:
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Bill-Grants-President-Unprecedented-Cyber-Security-Powers-504520/

Friday, 3 April 2009

Digg to finally fix search screenshot included

Techcrunch has acquired a screenshot of the new and improved digg search that should be launching soon.

Get the low-down here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/digg-to-finally-fix-search-see-the-screenshot/

Full Security Scanner

Useful info here for struggling parents. "Does it take long for your baby to go to sleep? Do you (and your child and your partner) get stressed at night-time? Does she cry as soon as you leave the room?"

Check it out here:
http://computingreleases.blogspot.com/2009/04/full-security-scanner.html

MPAA President to be Thrown Out

MPAA chairman Dan Glickman is currently searching for another job.

The Clinton-era cabinet minister has been head of the MPAA for the last four and a half years, but will be replaced in 18 months time because of his lacking performance. By contrast, Glickmans predecessor, Jack Valenti held the office for 38 years.

Link source:
http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-president-to-be-thrown-out-090402/

Google uncloaks oncesecret server

Unusually, the search giant designs its own servers.

For the first time, Google unveils one publicly, showing a surprise built-in battery.

Get the low-down here:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html

Battle of the New 250 Graphics Cards

As part of their Spring Refresh, ATI and Nvidia release two new $250 graphics cards, the Radeon 4890 and GeForce GTX 275.

Check it:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2344294,00.asp

10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques

Focusing on the "less is more" mentality, this article presents 10 very simple and impressive design techniques that can drastically improve the performance and appearance of your designs.

Read the full story here:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/02/10-impressive-simple-design-techniques/

Thursday, 2 April 2009

Twitter fails the uptime test

Micro-blogging phenomenon Twitter experienced more downtime than any other social networking site last year, clocking up over 80 hours, according to new research from application delivery firm Akamai

Check it out here:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20090330/ttc-twitter-fails-the-uptime-test-6315470.html

Complete PPC

Useful info here for struggling parents. "Does it take long for your baby to go to sleep? Do you (and your child and your partner) get stressed at night-time? Does she cry as soon as you leave the room?"

Check it out here:
http://businessreleases.blogspot.com/2009/03/compete-ppc.html

Samsung introduces Mondi first WiMax Mobile Internet Device

[PICS] Called the Mondi, the touchscreen, pocket-sized device is designed for use on the Clear mobile WiMax network from Clearwire, Samsung officials announced on Tuesday evening.

The full story is here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9130847

30 NEW Adobe Illustrator Tutorials Neat Tips

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design.

However, its important to know what to do in order to powerfully use its tools and achieve certain effects. Lets take a look at some of the best and Fresh Adobe Illustrator tutorials weve found in the Web so far.

The full story is here:
http://www.noupe.com/illustrator/adobe-illustrator-tutorials.html

Hulu Begins Encrypting Content to Thwart NonBrowser Apps

It looks like Hulu's trying yet another ill-fated tactic to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers and off things like Boxxee -- TunerFreeMCE's Martin Millmore says Hulu's HTML is now encrypted at the source and then decrypted using Javascript on the client...

Get the low-down here:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/hulu-begins-encrypting-html-content-to-thwart-non-browser-apps/

Where Are They Now 25 Computer Products That Refuse to Die

These tech products and services may be forgotten, but they're far from gone.

How have these geezers managed to hang on for so long?

Check it:
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,162106/printable.html

Wednesday, 1 April 2009

Three Reasons Why Microsofts App Store Will Thrive

Microsoft's plans for its mobile application store just may change the way consumers look at apps and the Windows Mobile operating system.

Check it out here:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/162274/three_reasons_why_microsofts_app_store_will_thrive.html

Billion Dollar Charlie vs the RIAA

Ars sits down with "Billion Dollar Charlie" Nesson, the Harvard Law professor who's taking on the RIAA in federal court.

Winning his case would be great, but Nesson's thinking even bigger. He wants nothing less than a national, Internet-enabled conversation about copyright and damages in the digital age.

From:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/billion-dollar-charlie-vs-the-riaa.ars

15 Great CSS Galleries

An article showcasing 15 Great CSS Galleries, whether looking for inspiration or galleries to submit to this is a good source of info.

Source:
http://www.webdesignerhelp.co.uk/index.php/2009/03/15-great-css-galleries/

Helping Your Baby To Sleep

Useful info here for struggling parents. "Does it take long for your baby to go to sleep? Do you (and your child and your partner) get stressed at night-time? Does she cry as soon as you leave the room?"

Link source:
http://homeandfamilyreleases.blogspot.com/2009/04/helping-your-baby-to-sleep.html

72 Billion for broadband No thanks from ATTVerizon

Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. may have this response to the U.S. governments offer of $7.2 billion for high-speed Internet projects: Keep it.

Get the low-down here:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aXx.QVEa9vpM

FreeBSD developers life destroyed by squatter from hell

This is not a pretty story.

If you have a weak stomach for twisted tails of government witch hunts, justice gone wrong, and the bad guys winning you may not want to read any further. This is the tale of the Squatter from Hell. It is the story of Kip Macy, one of the top FreeBSD developers....

Link source:
http://threatchaos.com/2009/03/free-kip-and-nicole-macy/