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IE, Outlook, Word get critical bug fixes
2007-10-09 22:06:00
Microsoft Corp. has released six security updates for its products, fixing critical flaws in Word , Outlook Express, Internet Explorer (IE) and the Kodak image viewer that ships with Windows.Microsoft Corp. has released six security updates for its products, fixing critical flaws in Word, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer (IE) and the Kodak image viewer that ships with Windows.The updates, released Tuesday, fix nine bugs in Microsoft's products. In addition to the four critical updates, Microsoft also released "important" fixes for the Windows SharePoint collaboration software and in the Windows remote procedure call (RPC) technology.Nine updates is one less than originally expected. Last Thursday, Microsoft said it was planning to fix an unnamed flaw in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 that could be used for "spoofing." That update was not included in Tuesday's patches.Microsoft pulled this Windows patch because of a "quality control issue," the company said in a statement. I...
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Google Delivers Ad-Supported Video Clips
2007-10-09 22:02:00
Google's AdSense is now offering ad-supported clips from selected YouTube video producers.Web publishers that participate in Google Inc.'s AdSense ad distribution network will now be able to make money by offering ad-supported video clips from Google's YouTube video sharing site.For advertisers, the program opens their video-based ads for distribution across the AdSense network, instead of being limited to the YouTube site. Meanwhile, video producers get a chance to generate revenue from their clips.The video clips will be delivered within "a customized, embedded player that's ad supported," Google announced on Tuesday. Not all YouTube videos are fodder for the program. Google is working with specific video producers that have agreed to participate, including TV Guide Broadband, Expert Village and Ford Models, the company said.Google will deliver ads that are related to both the content of the clip and of the Web site. Ads will appear as banners on top of the video window, as we...
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Sony Announces Low-End PS3
2007-10-09 21:55:00
Low-end 40GB version of the Sony PlayStation 3 will launch on November 11 for $341. Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. is launching a new, cut-down version of the PlayStation 3 in the hopes of boosting sales of its gaming console.The new version will go on sale in Sony's home market on Nov. 11, a year to the day after Sony launched the first PS3, the company announced Tuesday. It will be priced at %39,980 (US$341).Sony had already announced last week that the new console will also be launched in Europe, Australia and some countries in Africa and Asia on Wednesday this week. North American launch details are yet to be announced.The cut-down model has a 40G-byte hard-disk drive, as opposed to the 60G-byte drive on the current high-end model, and doesn't have the ability to run PlayStation 2 software. The number of USB connectors has also been halved, to two. In Japan the console will be available in two colors: clear black and ceramic white.Sony hopes the cheaper version of the PlayS...
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Card Backup Automatic to Laptop
2007-10-09 21:50:00
Komputer jinjing (laptop) bagi kalangan pebisnis dan profesional sekarang sudah menjadi perlengkapan kerja standar. Bahkan, menurut satu penelitian, 60-70 persen data perusahaan tersimpan dalam mobile workstation dan komputer jinjing. Padahal perlengkapan kantor bergerak itu biasanya tak menjadi bagian dari solusi backup rutin perusahaan.Berpegang pada realitas itu, Rover Technology Fusion, perusahaan penyedia solusi teknologi yang berkantor pusat di Tampa, Florida, Amerika Serikat, meluncurkan Rover SPARC (secure personal automatic replication card). Peranti keras berwujud kartu flash USB seukuran kartu kredit ini merupakan solusi backup data portabel, yang dirancang khusus untuk bekerja dengan peranti lunak IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files yang terdapat di dalamnya.Rover SPARC yang memiliki kapasitas simpan 2 gigabita ini dapat mem-back up secara otomatis file elektronik, termasuk dokumen Office dan surat elektronik. "Rover SPARC menyimpan banyak versi file secara r...
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Handphone multi touch from Sharp
2007-10-09 21:45:00
Mungkin nama Sharp memang tak sementereng merek-merek telepon seluler lain di telinga Anda. Namun, perusahaan ini sering membuat terobosan di bidang ponsel. Sharp adalah pembuat ponsel pertama yang menggunakan layar LCD TV serta ponsel pertama dengan kamera terintegrasi.Nah, di pameran elektronik Ceatec, yang digelar di Chiba, Jepang, pekan lalu, Sharp memamerkan sebuah ponsel serupa iPhone buatan Apple, yang menggunakan antarmuka multisentuh. Seperti halnya iPhone, penggunanya dapat membesar-kecilkan ukuran foto atau meluncur ke kanan-kiri dengan sentuhan dan colekan jari.Bedanya dengan iPhone, ponsel Sharp ini tak hanya dapat digunakan dengan dua jari, tapi juga mampu mendukung penggunaan tiga jari. Di pameran tersebut, Sharp menyertakan sebuah aplikasi musik untuk menunjukkan manfaat input tiga jari di layar ponsel. Dengan aplikasi itu, pengguna dapat memainkan kord dari tiga nada yang dipijit secara simultan. Ponsel ini memiliki layar yang sekaligus berfungsi sebagai sensor opti...
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Gitar Kaus Oblong
2007-10-06 08:32:00
Australia tidak hanya merupakan tempat bersemayam grup-grup band rock yang melegenda, semacam AC/DC dan INXS. Negeri ini memang mencintai musik. Lihat saja, sampai-sampai para ilmuwannya menciptakan kaus yang bisa bermain musik.Yah, baru-baru ini insinyur dari lembaga ilmu pengetahuan nasional Australia, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), berhasil merancang bangun prototipe kaus oblong lengan panjang yang membuat pemakainya bisa bermain gitar meski tak memiliki gitar. Tak perlu lagi berat-berat menggendong gitar listrik, seseorang dapat menciptakan suara gitar yang bising dan ngerock.Pada bagian siku kaus oblong itu dipasangi sensor-sensor gerakan. Jika si pemakai berlagak seperti gitaris sungguhan, sensor-sensor pada baju itu akan mendeteksi pergerakannya.Pergerakan lengan kanan akan diasosiasikan sebagai perpindahan chord (kunci) gitar, sementara pergerakan lengan kiri akan diterjemahkan sebagai kocokan gitar. Lalu sinyal-sinyal yang dihasilkan s...

Media Center Penganut Linux
2007-10-06 08:24:00
Ingin menyaksikan file video yang baru diunduh dari YouTube di layar lebar TV definisi tinggi yang ada di ruang keluarga? Anda mungkin membutuhkan komputer media center. Komputer ini bisa menyalurkan semua file multimedia yang tersimpan di hard disk ke TV.Untuk memilikinya, Anda harus merogoh kantong agak dalam. Harga satu unit komputer media center tak kurang dari Rp 6 juta. Syukurlah, Neuros Technology (http://www.neurosaudio.com/osd/info.asp) memberi alternatif yang lebih murah. Anda bisa mendapatkan kemampuan media center dengan bujet kurang dari Rp 2,3 juta.Perusahaan yang bermarkas di Chicago itu meluncurkan peranti yang dinamakan Neuros OSD. Neuros mengklaim produknya sebagai peranti media center embedded pertama yang berbasis Linux . OSD merupakan kependekan dari Open Source Device.Seperti juga komputer, OSD memiliki standar terbuka, bisa diperluas, dan fleksibel serta menggunakan peranti lunak yang dapat dimutakhirkan. Jadi produk ini bisa berevolusi dan tumbuh sesuai dengan...
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Ponsel Proyektor
2007-10-06 08:04:00
Suatu saat nanti, telepon seluler benar-benar menjadi peranti pembunuh peralatan elektronik. Lihat saja sekarang, selain berfungsi sebagai alat komunikasi nirkabel, ponsel bisa memutar musik dan video; memotret dan merekam gambar bergerak; berinternet dan mengirimkan surat elektronik; serta menayangkan acara televisi. Tak lama lagi, ponsel juga akan menggantikan proyektor yang bisa dipakai untuk presentasi atau memutar film.Proyektor itu ukurannya tak lebih besar daripada meterai sehingga muat masuk di dalam ponsel ukuran standar. Di ajang pameran industri nirkabel internasional, CTIA Wireless 2007, di Orlando, Florida, yang dibuka pada Selasa lalu, Texas Instruments (TI) memperlihatkan prototipe Pico, ponsel berproyektornya.Pico pertama diperkenalkan TI pada awal tahun ini di acara Consumer Electronics Show 2007. Kala itu, hanya kalangan terbatas yang bisa mengamatinya. Prototipe kali ini sudah berwujud produk, meskipun ponselnya palsu, proyektornya bisa berfungsi. Tak seperti di C...

Zune Second Generation
2007-10-06 08:01:00
Jakarta, Apple meluncurkan pemutar media kembaran iPhone, iPod Touch, yang memiliki antarmuka layar multisentuh. Nun jauh di Redmond, Washington, Amerika Serikat, kemarin, Microsoft juga mengumumkan pemutar media portabelnya yang baru, Zune generasi kedua.Untuk menegaskan kesungguhan Microsoft menggarap Zune, pendiri Microsoft, Bill Gates, turun tangan langsung saat mengumumkan dua peranti mungil baru itu kepada wartawan, di markasnya. "Kami sangat berkomitmen dalam hal ini," ujar Gates.Zune adalah kunci dalam rencana pengembangan bisnis digital hiburan Microsoft untuk 10 tahun ke depan. Sejak diluncurkan November lalu, Zune sudah laris 1,2 juta unit meski masih tertinggal jauh dari iPod yang terjual 100 juta unit sejak kemunculannya enam tahun belakangan.Nah, seperti apa Zune baru itu? Microsoft meluncurkan dua model, yaitu model berpenyimpan hard disk dengan kapasitas 80 gigabita serta model berbasis penyimpan memori flash dengan kapasitas 4 gigabita dan 8 gigabita.Model 80 gigabi...
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Kepsek Bukan Penguasa Tunggal
2007-10-06 06:18:00
Permendiknas No 19/2007 Mewajibkan Adanya Laporan PertanggungjawabanKepala sekolah tidak lagi menjadi satu-satunya pemegang otoritas di sekolah. Hal ini seiring dengan keluarnya Peraturan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional Nomor 19 Tahun 2007 tentang Standar Pengelolaan Pendidikan oleh Satuan Pendidikan Dasar dan Menengah.Dalam peraturan tersebut ditetapkan pengelolaan pendidikan berdasarkan prinsip manajemen berbasis sekolah dengan mengedepankan pola aktif partisipatif dewan guru dan orangtua siswa.Namun, peraturan yang dikeluarkan bulan Mei 2007 itu hinggga kini belum diterapkan. Sebab, sosialisasi ke sekolah-sekolah belum dilakukan secara efektif.Hal itu diungkapkan Koordinator Koalisi Pendidikan Kota Bandung Iwan Hermawan, Selasa (2/10) di Bandung.Menurut Iwan, dengan dikeluarkannya peraturan Menteri Pendidikan Nasional (permendiknas) itu, manajemen sekolah tidak lagi dikuasai secara mutlak oleh kepala sekolah, seperti yang selama ini terjadi.Dengan permendiknas itu, lembaga dewan guru...

National Environment Trust Newswire
2007-10-01 02:20:00
Briefing Reacts to President Bush's Climate Change SpeechIn a phone briefing on Friday, September 28 leading climate change experts from the U.S., India, and Germany reacted to President Bush's remarks at the Major Economies meeting on climate change. Briefing Highlights Global Impact of Upcoming Major Economies MeetingOn Thursday, September 27 in Washington, DC leading climate change experts from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, and the UK hosted a lunch briefing to discuss President Bush's Major Economies meeting on climate...Expose the Bush Administration's Fuzzy Global Warming SolutionsPlease urge your Members of Congress to lead the way on global warming by finishing the energy bill and supporting a carbon cap. President Bush's Major Emitters Meeting - A Parallel EventOn September 27 and 28, 2007 NET, the UN Foundation and the Royal Institute of International Affairs are hosting a parallel summit to President Bush's Major Econo...
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Hotspot Berbahaya?
2007-09-30 21:17:00
Saat ini, teknologi berkembang sangat cepat. Teknologi Informasi (TI) bahkan bisa dikatakan selalu mengalami perkembangan dalam hitungan hari. Salah satu yang kemudian menjadi tren dari perkembangan TI ini adalah mulai berkembangnya alat-alat komunikasi nirkabel alias wireless.Mulai dari telepon (handphone), hingga berbagai jenis alat komunikasi seperti jaringan internet pun makin jarang yang menggunakan kabel. Di mana-mana, terutama di mal dan pusat perkantoran, dengan mudah kita jumpai area hotspot yang menggunakan jaringan Wireless Fiedelity (Wi-Fi) untuk akses Internet. Tentu, hal ini memudahkan bagi kita yang ingin selalu terhubung di dunia maya.Namun, adanya teknologi wireless yang bekerja dengan gelombang radio tertentu, ternyata mengundang berbagai pertanyaan. Menurut beberapa penelitian, gelombang tersebut, mempengaruhi kesehatan manusia, utamanya otak. Meski begitu, penelitian yang membuktikan mengenai dampak ini masih terus berlanjut, ada yang mendukung, namun banyak pula...
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Vista Resistance: Why XP Is Still So Strong
2007-09-28 21:08:00
Windows Vista is faIf you still don't see a need to upgrade, you're not alone-- many people are opting for XP even on new PCs. We'll show you how the Vista transition will become smoother.Windows Vista is facing stiff competition from an unlikely source: Windows XP. The six-year-old operating system is showing surprising strength more than half a year after the full launch of its successor. In April, Dell acknowledged continued XP demand and resumed offering XP as an option on new systems. In July, Microsoft chief financial officer Chris Liddell ratcheted up the percentage of OS sales the company expects XP to account for in fiscal year 2008 from 15 percent to 22 percent. Finally, in August, Microsoft announced an XP Service Pack 2c release that does nothing more than add new Windows XP product keys so the company can keep selling the OS to businesses through January 31, 2009.In addition, customers who purchase a Vista machine from Dell, HP, or Lenovo (among other vendors) can...
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Gmail's Zero-Day Flaw Allows Attackers to Steal Messages
2007-09-28 20:49:00
Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past--and future e-mail messages--to be forwarded to the attacker's own in-box, a vulnerability researcher said Tuesday.Accounts on Google Inc.'s Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past -- and future e-mail messages -- to be forwarded to the attacker's own in-box, a vulnerability researcher said Tuesday.Dubbed a "cross-site request forgery" (CSRF), the Gmail bug was disclosed Tuesday by Petko Petkov, a U.K.-based Web vulnerability penetration tester who has made a name for himself of late. In the past two weeks, Petkov has publicly posted information about critical, zero-day bugs in Apple Inc.'s QuickTime, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player and Adobe Systems Inc.'s Portable Document Format (PDF).According to Petkov, who declined to release details about the vulnerability, attackers can use Gmail's filtering feature to exploit the bug. An attack, he said, would start with a victim visiting a malicious Web site while also still...
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RIM Blackberry 8820
2007-09-23 21:19:00
The exterior of the new BlackBerry 8820 may look familiar. After all, the device has the same sleek black design as the BlackBerry 8800, which was launched earlier this year. The new phone has one important upgrade under the hood, however: Wi-Fi. This is the first BlackBerry with Wi-Fi support, and the addition is a welcome one, as it means the phone can provide wireless voice and data access over both cellular and Wi-Fi wireless networks. Like the 8800 and the more consumer-oriented BlackBerry Curve, the 8820 will be available from AT&T. Starting tomorrow, you can get the 8820 for $300 with a two-year service contract. In addition to Wi-Fi, the quad-band GSM phone includes support for the carrier's EDGE network--but not its true 3G HSDPA service. Easy Setup The 8820 can connect to 802.11a/b/g networks; connecting to my 802.11g wireless network at home was a breeze. I simply launched the Wi-Fi Setup wizard, selected my network from the list of available choices (you ...
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Hacked GOP Site Infects Visitors with Malware
2007-09-23 02:06:00
A Republican Party Web site has been hacked, and for some time it has been spreading a variation of the long-running Storm Trojan horse to vulnerable visitors, a security researcher said Friday.This is the first time that Storm has taken to the Web for its victims, said Dan Hubbard, head of research at San Diego-based Websense Inc. "The big news is that Storm has added infecting sites to its arsenal," said Hubbard.Storm debuted in January but only cracked the top malware lists early this summer, and has become infamous for its ability to adapt its infection strategies. "They have a knack for latching onto the latest newsworthy events and capitalizing on the public interest in them," Symantec Corp. researcher Hon Lau said last month. "And if no newsworthy events are happening at the time, then they will just make them up."Until now, Storm has infected users via files attached to e-mail or through links embedded in spam. The change noticed by Websense's scanners, however, means that...
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Flickr and Explorer Bar Expand in Image Search
2007-09-23 02:02:00
Building on our initial announcement of Flick r 's integration into Yahoo! Image Search earlier this summer, we've now expanded the integration to the countries, regions and languages listed below. You can now access many Flickr images when doing your Yahoo! Image Search from the following countries: Asia, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada , Cade (Brazil), Canada (in French), Swiss, Swiss (in French), Swiss (in Italian), Catalan, Germany, Denmark, Espanola, Spain, France, Indonesia, Indonesia (English), India, Italy, Malaysia, Malaysia (English), Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Sweden, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom & Ireland, Vietnam, New Zealand, Philippines (Tagalog), Mexico, and Japan. With this launch, Flickr metadata like title, tags and comments can be used to surface Flickr results on Yahoo! Image Search results pages, making many of the millions of photographs from the Flickr community available to Yahoo! Image Search users. For example, type in 'Tow...
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Scientists Report Severe Retreat of Arctic Ice
2007-09-23 01:33:00
The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, which retreats under summer's warmth, this year shrank more than one million square miles ? or six Californias ? below the average minimum area reached in recent decades, scientists reported Thursday.The minimum ice area for this year, 1.59 million square miles, appeared to be reached Sunday. The ice is now spreading again under the influence of the deep Arctic chill that settles in as the sun drops below the horizon at the North Pole for six months, starting Friday.The findings were reported by the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., and posted online at www.nsidc.org While satellite tracking of polar sea ice has been done only since 1979, several ice experts who have studied Russian and Alaskan records going back many decades said the ice retreat this year was probably unmatched in the 20th century, including during a warm period in the 1930s. "I do not think that there was anything like we observe today" in the 19...
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Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6
2007-09-22 23:53:00
by CPU, onemen Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager... Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a full-featured session manager with crash recovery that can save and restore combinations of opened tabs and windows.

Installing Lighttpd from source on Linux
2007-09-22 22:54:00
Apache is the world?s most popular web server and is a very good piece of software. It isn?t however, the only choice of free software and open source web server solutions and it?s easy to overlook lightweight alternatives to Apache. One such alternative is lighttpd. Here?s what its official site says about the project: "Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility ? all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it?s Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license." In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to get lighttpd up and running by compiling it from source. Yo...
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RouterConfigurator 2.32
2007-09-22 22:52:00
RouterConfig urator is the program that might be useful for all specialists whose job is connected with configuring the Cisco routers.The urgent problem for almost every system administrator is editing and tuning the configuration files, specified for the router. RouterConfigurator gives the user the unique opportunity to edit config files using the absolutely new way. download here

Proteus 7.1 SP2
2007-09-22 22:46:00
Proteus 7.1 SP2(incl. Electra Auto Router v1.5.6 & 3D models)What is Proteus VSM?Proteus Virtual System Modelling (VSM) combines mixed mode SPICE circuit simulation, animated components and microprocessor models to facilitate co-simulation of complete microcontroller based designs. For the first time ever, it is possible to develop and test such designs before a physical prototype is constructed.This is possible because you can interact with the design using on screen indicators such as LED and LCD displays and actuators such as switches and buttons. The simulation takes place in real time (or near enough to it): a 300 MHz Pentium II can simulate a basic 8051 system clocking at over 12MHz. Proteus VSM also provides extensive debugging facilities including breakpoints, single stepping and variable display for both assembly code and high level language source. The VSM architecture allows additional animated models to be created by anyone, including end users. Whilst many types of ...

Delete files securely with Shred
2007-09-22 22:05:00
Deleting a file is a pretty simple task, right? Whether you?re in a GUI or on the command line, it?s really simple to delete a file. Once you?ve deleted it, it?s gone. Except - no it?s not.When you delete a file, you just remove its index entry from your filesystem. You won?t immediately be able to find it, but the data is still there and could potentially still be recovered. If you have sensitive data stored on your hard drive, you might want to ensure that certain information is deleted permanently and make it extremely difficult to recover.Thankfully, most Linux distributions (and possibly some other Unix systems too) include a program called shred, which overwrites the file with random data before removing it from the index. This means that it becomes very difficult, if not impossible, to recover the file.By default, the shred command actually just does the overwrite and doesn?t unlink the file - remove it from the index. The idea of this is so that you can use it on whole parti...
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Learn More about Global Warming
2007-09-22 21:01:00
What is Global Warming ?The Earth as an ecosystem is changing, attributable in great part to the effects of globalization and man. More carbon dioxide is now in the atmosphere than has been in the past 650,000 years. This carbon stays in the atmosphere, acts like a warm blanket, and holds in the heat ? hence the name ?global warming.?The reason we exist on this planet is because the earth naturally traps just enough heat in the atmosphere to keep the temperature within a very narrow range - this creates the conditions that give us breathable air, clean water, and the weather we depend on to survive. Human beings have begun to tip that balance. We've overloaded the atmosphere with heat-trapping gasses from our cars and factories and power plants. If we don't start fixing the problem now, we?re in for devastating changes to our environment. We will experience extreme temperatures, rises in sea levels, and storms of unimaginable destructive fury. Recently, alarming events that are con...
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Installing Pidgin under Ubuntu Feisty
2007-09-22 19:58:00
Everyone?s favourite open source instant messenger application for Windows and Linux, GAIM, recently changed its name to Pidgin , and pushed out a new release - Pidgin 2.0.However, Pidgin isn?t in the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn repositories yet, meaning the new release won?t yet come through the software update system and won?t be available from Add/Remove Software.Ubuntu Geek has a post detailing how to get it installed. He uses a terminal-based install, but it?s also really easy to install it graphically and it really isn?t difficult at all. Here?s how to do it: First of all, go to Applications > Add/Remove, search for gaim and untick it to remove it (more detailed instructions on using the package manager). I had problems with the install without performing this step.Next, download the package here and choose to open it with GDebi Package Installer (this should be set by default).Once the download completes, simply click Install Package and provide your password. It will install and then ...

Mac OS X Tiger 10.4
2007-09-22 19:33:00
DescriptionMeet the worlds most advanced operating system. Again. Find what you’re looking for. Get information with a single click. Create. Explore. Share. Mac OS X Tiger makes it easier than ever to find, access and enjoy everything on your computer.Start a Revolution on Your DesktopMac OS X Tiger will change the way you use a computer. Breakthrough search technology, stunning graphics and media, unparalleled connectivity, an intuitive user interface and a virtual toolbox chock full of cleverly integrated features — all atop a rock-solid UNIX foundation — give you the most innovative, stable and compatible desktop operating system on the planet. Period.Find Anything, FastTiger introduces Spotlight, the lightning-fast search technology that illuminates every corner of your Mac, displaying results as fast as you type. Search everything on your system: Files, emails, contacts, images, movies, calendars and applications appear instantly. Just as you find songs on iTunes by name, artis...
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Apple iPod nano 2GB Black
2007-09-22 18:39:00
DescriptionTake everything you love about iPod and shrink it. Now shrink it again. With 2GB (500 songs) and 4GB (1,000 songs) models starting at $199, the pencil-thin iPod nano packs the entire iPod experience into an impossibly small design. So small, it will take your music places you never dreamed of.Believe Your EarsCall it astonishing. Unbelievable. Impossible, even. Then pick it up and hold it in your hand. Take in the brilliant color display. Run your thumb around the Click Wheel. Put on the earbuds and turn up your music. That's when everything becomes clear: It's an iPod.It holds up to three days' worth of music. It plays for up to 14 hours between battery charges. It displays the color album art for the song you're listening to right now. It carries your photos, podcasts and audiobooks. It syncs seamlessly with iTunes. It connects to a host of iPod accessories. Simply put, iPod nano is 100-percent iPod. And then some.Touch and GoiPod nano's Click Wheel puts music unde...
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Flickr goes international with seven new languages
2007-09-20 11:12:00
Flickr, the popular online photo-sharing site owned by Yahoo Inc., said on Monday it is moving to further internationalize its service by creating versions in seven major languages besides English. The three-year-old service, which was founded in Vancouver, Canada by the husband-and-wife team of Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, already sees more than half of its users coming from outside the United States. Flickr said it is set to introduce sites in French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese, with other languages to follow. A Japanese site remains in the works with independently operated Yahoo Japan Corp.. "These are the markets where Flickr is taking off already," Butterfield said in an interview. "Why are we only getting around to this now?" he asked self-mockingly. "There are two answers. One: We are stupid. Two: that we are late." As of April, Flickr had 24 million active monthly users, according to online aud...
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USB 3.0 To Bring Optical Connection in 2008
2007-09-20 11:07:00
Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008 , a revamp the chip maker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires. Intel is working with fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors to release the USB 3.0 specification in the first half of 2008, said Pat Gelsinger, general manager of Intel?s Digital Enterprise Group, in a speech here at the Intel Developer Forum.
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Taming the GIMP with KDE window-specific settings
2007-09-20 11:05:00
KDE?s window-specific settings feature gives you a fine level of control over the way windows behave. It lets you change settings such as minimum/maximum size, position, overlay, and transparency. The G IMP uses multiple windows to select tools, tool options, and other items used in the process of image editing. By changing the default behavior of the various windows used by GIMP with KDE?s window-specific settings, you can improve the GIMP interface.More?
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