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Panasonic Extends Plasma TV Half-Life to 42 Years
2007-08-08 21:29:00
One of the major criticisms of plasma TVs, especially earlier ones, has been the limited half-life. The half-life is the point where the picture has degraded to half of its original brightness. Although the TV can still be used, this is generally felt to be the end of the useful life of the TV. In general, current plasma TVs have a half-life of 60,000 hours, whichs translates to 25 years at 6.5
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Buy It Now, PayPay It Later …
2007-08-08 20:53:00
eBay’s payment arm, PayPal, is going to start offering financing terms. So you can now Buy it now, but Pay for it later. Ebay Inc’s PayPal said on Thursday it would offer credit financing with General Electric Co’s GE Money Bank in a bid to win new users and improve business for merchants that use its service. Source: Reuters PayPal is trying to make sure it keeps market share over Google

Microsoft Releases Vista Performance, Compatibility Updates
2007-08-08 20:28:00
Microsoft has officially released two updates improving the performance and reliabilty of computers running Windows Vista . The updates address issues with memory management performance, hibernation and sleep-mode, gaming and HD video playback compatibility, and many more. They are available in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Full Story
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How To Build A Tin Can Waveguide WiFi Antenna
2007-08-08 08:32:00
click on image to enlarge Got no dough for a commercial WiFi antenna? Looking for an inexpensive way to increase the range of your wireless network? A tin can waveguide antenna, or Cantenna, may be just the ticket. This design can be built for under $5 U.S. and reuses a food, juice, or other tin can. I am not an
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Vodafone chief exec doubts iPhone impact
2007-08-08 08:27:00
Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin said Vodafone had nothing to lose from missing out to a rival network on an exclusive deal for Apple’s much-hyped iPhone. He said: “We have a handset
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16 Methods for Getting Free Advertising
2007-08-08 03:47:00
1. Place copies of your circular on bulletin boards throughout your community, such as in coin-operated laundries, grocery stores, barber shops, etc. Concentrate of Fridays and Saturdays when shopping increases. 2. Check with local newspapers. Before going to press, many smaller newspapers have space left that needs filling.. Your ad may be just the right size to
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AJAX HelpDesk Sample Application
2007-08-08 03:38:00
Extensive use of all Telerik controls – HelpDesk illustrates how to combine our award-winning components to deliver elaborate UIs. You can view messages in a Grid, filtered by a selection from a Calendar, a Treeview, or a Combobox. HelpDesk also allows users to reply to or compose messages with a rich text editor opened in a separate window.All-out AJAX-based tool – The application simulates
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Apple Breathes New iLife Into New iMacs
2007-08-08 03:34:00
Apple revealed a refreshed iMac line Tuesday, emphasizing sleeker design with an aluminum-finished frame, a thinner body and an ultra-thin keyboard. Power has also been upgraded with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors. Apple balanced its hardware features with new software offerings in the iLife line as well as new capabilities for its .Mac service. Full Story
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Lenovo to Load Linux on Laptops
2007-08-08 03:24:00
Lenovo and Novell have partnered to deliver Suse Linux pre-installed on certain models of notebook PCs. The computer maker follows rival Dell in becoming another major manufacturer to offer some models with Linux out of the box. The move comes as many enterprises have begun to consider how, when and even if they're going to move to Microsoft's Windows Vista. Full Story
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Microsoft PlayReady technology now supported by Nokia S60 and S40 device pl
2007-08-07 03:19:00
Redmond, WA -- Building on their existing collaboration around mobile entertainment, Nokia and Microsoft Corp. have extended their cooperation to include support for Microsoft PlayReady(TM) technology into the Nokia S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms. PlayReady is a new content access technology from Microsoft that makes it easy for content owners and service providers to deliver virtually
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AT&T Expands Wi-Fi Access in Europe
2007-08-07 03:15:00
London -- AT&T Inc. announced today that it has made available to its customers over 9,000 new Wi-Fi locations in the UK, Germany and Nordics through an agreement with The Cloud, one of the largest Europe an public Wi-Fi provider.The expansion is part of AT&T's global expansion programme which will accelerate the delivery of global IP services and solutions to business and multinational companies
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Getting your forum site to perform well with AdSense
2007-08-07 00:05:00
When Amit Kumar co-founded MegaGames Forum in 1998, Google Inc. was being run from a Menlo Park garage and AdSense didn’t even exist yet. Fast-forward 9 years to 2007: Amit still runs MegaGames Forum just as a hobby, but he earns enough revenue through the AdSense program to run a dedicated server and continue growing his site. Amit wasn't so successful with AdSense right from the start. When he
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Amazon invests in music service
2007-08-06 23:13:00
San Francisco (IDGNS) - Amazon .com has invested in an online music service, in advance of launching its own digital music store. The online retail giant invested an undisclosed sum in Amie Street, a company that runs a Web site that sells music at varying prices based on demand. Artists upload their songs to the site, and the first few customers can download the song for free. As demand grows,
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ASP.NET and Ajax - using XmlHttpRequest
2007-08-06 22:54:00
If you are not interested in using the AJAX library offered for ASP.NET, but would like to feature small amounts of AJAX functionality on your pages, you can do this easily with some javascript and a receptive page. I only use AJAX in small doses on web sites - mainly to improve the user-experience. Typical instances will involve retrieving a full record
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NewsManager V3
2007-08-06 22:51:00
Own a turn-key web site just in a few minutes! Furthermore get it with the feature of well-developed news portal that is special for your newspaper! It can be used for any kind of websites from local to general news portals. Dynamic image and title showing gives news manager an aesthetic view. Your authors can publish their articles and your editors can add news with the help of editor and author
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GkNScripts TextAds Light
2007-08-06 22:47:00
TextAds Light is a powerful text based ad management system for web sites. You can publish ads like google adwords. It shows 4 ads on a block. Download

GkNscripts Banner Lite
2007-08-06 22:46:00
Banner Lite is a simple banner management system. You can publish different types of banners easily. Also you can track banner statistics, add customers. Download
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AJAX and Classic ASP
2007-08-06 22:29:00
Using the xmlhttpserver object in javascript to request an asp page containing script to output text.Generic cross-browser js function to create an xmlhttpserver object. Full Story
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Creating CSS Friendly Websites with ASP.NET 2.0
2007-08-06 04:37:00
One of the features of ASP.NET 1.0 was its adaptive rendering capabilities that allowed for the markup rendered by an ASP.NET web page to be appropriate for the visiting browser. In short, when an ASP.NET page is visited its Web controls are rendered into markup that is sent down to the browser and displayed. The markup generated by the Web controls, however, depends upon the browser being used
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ClickHeat | Clicks heatmap
2007-08-06 04:04:00
ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. Features - Low logging activity: a very few function calls to log a click, no server load rise should be noticed - A keyword is used to define the page upon Javascript code load, allowing you to group same pages. - Screen sizes and browsers are logged, making possible the tracking of liquid CSS layouts (
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Wi-Fi Hotspots Continue To Pose E-Mail Security Risk
2007-08-06 03:54:00
Following news that security experts at the Black Hat conference demonstrated another method to compromise e-mail accounts when accessed over Wi-Fi, Symantec's Javier Santoyo said the issue continues to remain a problem. "And I would expect most, if not all, of the e-mail vendors will soon start offering secure logins," Santoyo said. Full Story
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Web Services Security: Beauty and the Beast
2007-08-06 03:51:00
Lately, corporate interest in Web services has been rising -- and justifiably so. The advent of this new way of building applications promises to almost magically allow organizations to exchange information within their own systems with partners and customers. While the potential benefits are noteworthy, these capabilities raise new security issues for many enterprises Full Story
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Back-to-School: Buying a Windows-Based PC
2007-08-06 03:40:00
It's back-to-school time, so getting the right laptop computer is on a lot of people's to-do lists. Here we concentrate on Windows -based PCs in the $800-to-$1,000 range. You can spend less than a grand and get great quality laptops; $700 can get you a decent setup. Just about any laptop will do for getting facts off the Internet and compiling an A-plus class report, but most students want more
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Can personal aircraft beat gridlock?
2007-08-05 22:30:00
The greenest way to drive might soon be to fly, if personal aircraft advocates have their way. The Cafe Foundation, a nonprofit group of flight test engineers, on Saturday will kick off its first NASA-sponsored contest of personal aircraft vehicles, or PAVs, which is being held at the Charles Schultz Sonoma County Airport in California. The goal of the challenge will be to test the fuel
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Get your free Net phone calls here
2007-08-05 22:05:00
The price of home phone service has dropped 30 percent since 1999. Surely, say the analysts, that trend line will eventually plummet all the way to zero. Surely, thanks to the Internet's ability to carry your voice, landline phone calls will soon be free. Already, dozens of calling services promise to slash your residential phone bill by exploiting the Internet. And yet nobody has yet
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