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  • May
  • 10
  • 2008

Yugma

Yugma is a free web conferencing service that enables people to instantly connect over the Internet and to collaborate using any application or software, using both Windows and Mac. Online collaboration is great solution for businesses that need to share information with their employees and clients, regardless where they are located..

Tap into brainpower across the globe in real-time with Yugma's interactive brainstorming tools

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  • May
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Charles Arthur explains how to make the most of Twitter | Technology | The Guardian

Real-time micro-blogging is gaining in popularity. If you're wondering what's the point, here's our guide

Twitter.com obviously. You don't need to sign up; you can watch the flow of messages from a particular user at their username (eg Guardian Technology's, which is at twitter.com/guardiantech). However, Twitter only becomes useful…

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  • May
  • 07
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35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

An overview of 35 established or rather unknown ' but useful source code-editors; youll probably find usual suspects, but youll also find some rather unknown alternatives which are definitely worth considering when choosing an optimal source code editor.

Vim (all)Vim (Vi IMproved), first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer, is a legend. It is a highly configurable console text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi…

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  • May
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Test: Does your ISP slow down bittorrent traffic?

Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all over the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions, with Comcast as the prime example. Thanks to the Glasnost project, you can now test wheter your ISP is one of the bad guys.

I don’t my ISP does anything. But back here in India the speeds are very slow anyway. Currently the max plan they have is for 2 mbps unlimited. 8Mbps costs a lot and have to pay for additional bandwidth.

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  • May
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Introduction to Opera Dragonfly - Opera Developer Community

Opera Dragonfly is Opera's all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective mechanisms for web standards debugging and problem solving without slowing down the browser.

Now try selecting the DOM tab and selecting a web site - the display will change to show the DOM of the selected site in a typical expandable/collapsible view, plus Styles, DOM Attributes and Layout tabs on the right hand side, which I'll…

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  • May
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25 WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

WYSIWYG-editors are often criticized by real coding ninjas for bloated, dirty and not standards-complaint source code theyve been producing over the last years. However, WYSIWYG-editors become much better recently. Some of them even produce valid and elegant code.

To make a long story even longer, during this time of learning HTML I was working for an online advertising company that wanted to branch out into building sites for some of their clients. I was tasked with the job since I had build a few sites at…

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  • May
  • 06
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Top 5 Open Source tools for web developers

Top 5 Open Source tools including Kompozer, Piwik, OpenX and Quanta. Article includes descriptions and information on these, including links to several others.

I'm always surprised by how few people doing advertising-driven things on the web don't know about OpenX, a free, open source ad server that serves more than 30,000 customers. OpenX recently secured $15.5 million in second round…

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  • May
  • 05
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Electricity Around the World

Wonder what kind of converter you'll need to charge your iPod when you're abroad? Wonder no more. This chart tells you what each country uses for electricity so you can come prepared with the right stuff.

This stuff is provided for the personal use of travelers on the Internet. Original sources have been cited. This site is not responsible for the accuracy of this information. - S.K.

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  • May
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Twitter Can Be Liberated - Here’s How

Over the last few days a number of popular bloggers have complained, loudly, that its time to ditch Twitter and move to a decentralized version of the service that wont go down every time usage spikes…Chris Saad, co-founder of DataPortability and founder of startup Faraday Media, thinks he knows one way Twitter can be decentralized effectively.

I read blog posts and comments about twitter’s scalability problems for a while now. What i keep wondering is how come no one is looking at the traditional ways the software industry is scaling large scale data distribution issues. Look…

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  • May
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Check if Compiz will run well on your Linux

Compiz works perfectly on most hardware that has good drivers - however, problems do exist and sometimes it may not work so well with your computers graphics card. Depending upon the kind of drivers and support, Compiz may not work at all, or it might throw up errors when activated.

Just in case something seems to be incompatible, you’ll get a clear report on what’s wrong. You’ll get descriptions which will help you to understand the real reason why Compiz wouldn’t run well on your…

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  • May
  • 04
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Make Windows Genuine by a simple trick - Nokiasoftware.net

I was skeptical at first but this simple registry hack really works! It turns a previously non-genuine Windows XP installation into a genuine installation with all the ensuing benefits.

This is a discussion on Make Windows Genuine by a simple trick within the Pc Applications forums, part of the Applications/Softwares category; BEFORE Right click your desktop and select new text document. Open that document and paste the following…

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  • Apr
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Google School: Filter Google Results by Date with a URL Trick

Add this “&as_qdr=d” to the end of a Google search to get a drop down box to show newer items first. Lets you choose past 24 hours, 1 week, 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, or past year.
You can also add this–javascript:window.location+=”&as_qdr=d”;–as a bookmark to automatically add the string to your search.

Google can reorder search and news results from the last day, week, a few months, or entire year by adding a small string to the end of the search URL. Just add this string—&as_qdr=d—to the address bar and hit enter….

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  • Apr
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OS X-Like Widgets with Screenlets on Ubuntu (3rd Update) | Tombuntu

KDE 4, Windows, and Mac OS all have some sort of desktop widgets. Your Ubuntu desktop can also, using Screenlets. This post will guide you through installing and using Screenlets on Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04.

Get more Screenlets The Get more Screenlets button in the Screenlets Manager opens Firefox to a website that no longer exists. Here you can download new Screenlets. Also, GNOME-Look.org has a Screenlets category with a large selection….

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  • Apr
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Touch Up Your Pics - Wired How-To Wiki

For the lazy!

1. Choose the Magnetic Lasso tool (c) and set the feather to 12 px (pixels). Trace a boundary around the shiny patch by clicking to establish anchor points. Click on the starting point to close the loop. 2. Hit Ctrl+C…