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Apple releases iTunes, Apple TV updates
Macworld - 1 hour ago by Philip Michaels, Macworld.com Apple released software updates for both iTunes and Apple TV on Thursday that address performance issues with the former and security issues with the latter. Apple: A Product Plateau? BusinessWeek Is Apple out of ideas? ZDNet LAPTOP Magazine - Duke Chronicle - CNN - The Argosy.ca all 42 news articles |
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Saving Internet Radio
PC Magazine - 1 hour ago Passing the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 may help reconnect us with an old friend: the radio. by Tim Bajarin When I was a kid growing up in San Jose, my trusty transistor radio was my first real companion. Internet Radio Lives To See Another Day CRN Web Radio Bill Passed New York Times Washington Post - InternetNews.com - ZDNet - DailyTech all 332 news articles |
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When It Snows on Mars
New York Times - 1 hour ago In arid lands where the sightlines are long, you often see a band of rain falling and evaporating before it reaches the ground. That is a virga. Lander May Record What Mars Sounds Like FOXNews Irked by DC's Lack of Snow? Mars Not Much Better Washington Post The Raleigh Telegram - InformationWeek - Tucson Citizen - Reuters all 935 news articles |
uni2ascii and ascii2uni provide conversion in both directions between UTF-8 Unicode and more than thirty 7-bit ASCII equivalents, including RFC 2396 URI format and RFC 2045 Quoted Printable format, the representations used in HTML, SGML, XML, OOXML, the Unicode standard, Rich Text Format, POSIX portable charmaps, POSIX locale specifications, and Apache log files. It can also convert between the escapes used for Unicode in languages such as Ada, C, Common Lisp, Java, Pascal, Perl, Postscript, Python, Scheme, and Tcl.
File-Picker is a program to display and choose files from your Web site. It supports multiple languages. It uses AJAX to allow the user to interact with the server without reloading the page. You can pick several files at the same time. Its visual interface looks like a file explorer.
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Starz deal adds more streamed movies to Netflix
The Canadian Press - 1 hour ago NEW YORK - From "Spider-Man 3" to "No Country for Old Men," Netflix Inc. is making another 2500 movies, TV shows and concerts available for instant viewing through a deal with Starz Entertainment LLC. Starz Gives Netflix Fans a Reason to Stream New York Times Netflix supposedly bringing Mac support by year's end Ars Technica CNET News - Reuters - Macworld - BusinessWeek all 154 news articles |
The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography
API provides a lightweight cryptography API in
Java, a provider for the JCE and JCA, a clean-room
implementation of the JCE 1.2.1, generators for
Version 1 and Version 3 X.509 certificates,
generators for Version 2 X.509 attribute
certificates, PKCS12 support, and APIs for dealing
with S/MIME, CMS, OCSP, TSP, OpenPGP, and TLS.
Versions are provided for the J2ME, and JDK
1.0-1.6.
Freeway is an advanced eCommerce platform selling services events, subscriptions, and products. It is backed up with E and SMS marketing, a CMS, and solid CRM features. The admin tool is AJAX-based.
AFS is a distributed filesystem which offers a client-server architecture, transparent data migration abilities, scalability, a single namespace, and integrated ancillary subsystems.
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Japanese Six-Month Hardware Sales: PSP Leads The Pack
PSX Extreme - 1 hour ago Everyone, say hello to the best selling video game platform in Japan for the first half of the fiscal year: it's the handheld that nobody thought could compete with Nintendo's DS; the PSP. Nintendo Unveils DSi Gaming Portable, But Not For US InformationWeek Analyst unimpressed by DSi GameSpot Shacknews - BusinessWeek - TechNewsWorld - Financial Times all 586 news articles |
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Skype slams Chinese partner over monitoring
Financial Times - 2 hours ago Skype, the internet communications service owned by Ebay, on Thursday accused its joint venture partner in China of keeping it in the dark about a censorship programme that involved the monitoring of politically sensitive terms on the service. China 'spying on Skype messages' BBC News paidContent.org - Skype's China JV Partner TOM Online Monitoring … Washington Post Computerworld - InformationWeek - The Associated Press - Reuters all 433 news articles |
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Nokia's Comes With Music gets handsets, release date
Ars Technica - 2 hours ago By Eric Bangeman | Published: October 02, 2008 - 10:10PM CT After much banging of the drum over the last year, Nokia has finally announced a solid release date for Comes With Music, as well as the first compatible handsets. Nokia answers iPhone's blows with its first touchscreen phone Apple Insider Suddenly, the iPhone looks really old TG Daily Washington Post - Financial Times - BusinessWeek - BetaNews all 509 news articles |
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Label suit against CEO of MP3Tunes dismissed
BetaNews - 2 hours ago By Tim Conneally, BetaNews "Big Four" music label EMI and fourteen affiliate labels sued MP3Tunes as a company and its CEO Michael Robertson personally last year for alleged copyright infringement. Judge dismisses EMI claims against MP3tunes founder Ars Technica Judge allows EMI to sue MP3tunes, not Michael Robertson CNET News MarketWatch - socalTech.com - IT Examiner - p2pnet.net all 21 news articles |
Anti-Globalism writes with this excerpt from AFP via Yahoo! News: “Seoul-based ‘free-to-play’ computer game titan Nexon on Wednesday blasted into the US videogame arena with a ‘Combat Arms’ online first-person shooter title that makes its cash from optional ‘micro-transactions’ by players. The game makes its money from players that buy animated helmets, outfits, emblems or other virtual items to customize in-game characters. To keep the battlefield even, players earn experience or advanced weaponry by skill so people essentially can’t pay for power. … Startups and established game makers including Japanese goliath Sony are venturing into the free computer game market, according to DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole. ‘It looks like it could be very big,’ Cole told AFP. ‘It’s one of the things everybody seems to be looking at. The challenge is it is a very new model and it remains to be seen whether customers used to a free model will be tight when it comes to actually spending money on it.’”
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Is the Google-Yahoo Deal Good for Marketers?
ClickZ News - 3 hours ago By Kevin Lee, The ClickZ Network, Oct 3, 2008 I've been quoted in the media as saying that the Google-Yahoo advertising agreement is a bad idea for marketers. Down to the wire on Google-Yahoo CNET News Kohl: Google-Yahoo Deal Poses Antitrust Threat PC Magazine MediaPost Publications - Reuters - The Associated Press - CRN all 317 news articles |
Punch-Out!! (Wii)
The Super Mario Strikers developer takes control of Little Mac’s future.
artgeeq writes “A recent local election in Washington, DC, resulted in 1500 extra votes for a candidate. The board of elections is now claiming that static electricity caused the malfunction. Is this even remotely possible? If so, couldn’t an election be invalidated pretty easily?”
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First Royalty Rates Set for Digital Music
New York Times - 4 hours ago By BEN SISARIO In a decision closely watched by the music industry, a panel of federal judges who determine royalty rates for recordings ruled on Thursday to renew the current royalty rate for CDs and other physical recordings, while setting rates for … Music royalty rates to remain at current level Macworld What's A Song Worth? Still about 9 Cents, and iTunes lives Washington Post Ars Technica - PC Magazine - CNNMoney.com - BusinessWeek all 463 news articles |
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Obama uses iPhone to win support
BBC News - 4 hours ago By Maggie Shiels US Democratic candidate Barack Obama is set to turn the iPhone into a political recruiting tool with an application aimed at getting the vote out. Obama camp offers iPhone app Computerworld Obama Drafts iPhone Users To Help With Campaign InformationWeek Macworld - The Associated Press - PC World - G4 TV all 110 news articles |
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7 blog news trackers compared
CNET News - 5 hours ago In many ways Wednesday's release of an updated front page to Google Blog Search has put blog news tracking into the limelight. Is Google Blog Search a Techmeme killer? No way. ITworld.com Google launches 'Google News for blogs' Computerworld Search Engine Land - Washington Post - PC World - Wired News all 45 news articles |
Sshpass is a tool for non-interactivly performing password
authentication with SSH’s so called “interactive keyboard
password authentication”. Most users should use SSH’s more
secure public key authentication instead.
The JumpBox for Moodle is a production ready installation of Moodle. Moodle is a course management system that allows educators to create online learning communities for their students. It has an open design with a large developer community creating plugins, themes, and modules. The JumpBox for Moodle is an easy way to get up to speed with Moodle and requires a minimal investment in time and money. It includes the JumpBox management tools and backup system to help make operations as simple as possible.
The JumpBox for Wordpress Blogging System allows anyone to be up and running with the Wordpress blogging platform in under a minute. JumpBoxes require virtualization software to run. They are self-contained instances that can be moved across OS’s and hosting environments, and because they work as a single unit, they’re perfect for offline development.
Visifire is a set of data visualization components powered by Microsoft Silverlight. It lets you create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, or just simple HTML. Visifire’s unique features are visually stunning animated charts, the ability to be embedded into any Web page in minutes, a tiny footprint (140 KB), and enterprise grade features.
MediaWiki is a Web-based collaborative editing environment. Originally built for the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia, it’s geared to support a large number of users and pages.
Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window
manager that also has PWM-style tabbed frames
which can contain multiple client windows. These
features help to keep windows organized and to
switch quickly between them. Ion was designed
primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive window
manager for users who prefer the keyboard.
F*EX (Frams’ Fast File EXchange) is a Web based service to send very big files from one person to another. The sender uploads the file to the F*EX server and the recipient automatically gets a notification email with a download URL. The files will be automatically deleted after being downloaded or after an expiration date. The F*EX server itself is installed on a UNIX system, while the recipient and sender only need an email program and a Web browser of any kind on any operating system. Sending to multiple recipients needs storage on the server only once.
The WiKID Strong Authentication System is a highly
scalable, secure two-factor authentication system.
It is simple to implement and maintain, allows
users to be validated automatically, requires no
hardware tokens, has a simple API for application
support (via Ruby, PHP, Java, COM, Python, etc.),
supports multiple domains, and supports
replication for fault tolerance and scalability.
It also supports mutual /host and transaction
authentication.
Quagga is a routing software suite, providing
implementations of OSPF 2, OSPF 3, RIP 1 and 2, RIP 3
and BGP 4 for Unix platforms, particularly FreeBSD,
Linux, and NetBSD.
Dice3DS is a set of Pure Python modules for
dealing with 3D Studio format (*.3ds) files. It
maps 3DS chunks into a hierarchical set of Python
objects; it’s a lot like how ElementTree works for
XML files. Dice3DS requires Python 2.4 or higher, and
Numpy. Note that it is not a wrapper for lib3ds.
