While I am in a stage of moving my blog to hosting on my own worpdress.org engine, as it is currently hosted on wordpress.com, I am looking out there for ways to add more functionality with new upcoming theme, as well tools that will help me to administer and track different feedbacks and statistics.
One of [...]
Often, the web browser that comes with an operating system is not set up in a secure default configuration. Not securing your web browser can lead quickly to a variety of computer problems caused by anything from spyware being installed without your knowledge to intruders taking control of your computer.
A drive-by download is a program [...]
It’s official - SourceForge.net has joined the OpenID bandwagon. SourceForge, the world’s largest open source software development website, is a little late to the party but nonetheless, it’s nice to see a leader of the open source community adopting OpenID and walking the walk.
OpenID is an open source, decentralized, digital identity user system which allows [...]
ThemesWiki.org is a new website designed to provide users with comprehensive, free guides for designing Web Themes and Templates. This site intends to ease the web design process by providing tutorials for a large number of systems at a common location.
It is often difficult to find a resource that is focused on providing quality, relevant [...]
WordPress 2.5 has officially been released. Along with the release is a refresh of most WordPress properties, including WordPress.org website.
WordPress 2.5, the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community, people just like you. The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin [...]
A great resource for Linux and portables:
TuxMobil is dedicated to Linux and Mobile Computers. It leads you to a lot of useful hands-on information, HOWTOs, and FAQs about installing and running Linux, BSD, Solaris and other unixlike operating systems on laptops, notebooks, handhelds, PDAs, mobile cellular phones, portable music and video players, GPS navigation [...]
In preparation for Firefox 3, Mozilla Add-ons recently underwent a number of important updates to support the new Add-ons Manager which tightly integrates with it to provide recommendations, search and install from a new Get Add-ons page.
With the necessary interfaces now in place, the Mozilla Add-ons team is working in visual updates to the site.
As [...]
OpenID was originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal (now owned by Russian media company, SUP), and, as the term states, the Light-Weight Identity, Yadis, Sxip DIX protocol that was proposed at IETF, and XRI/i-names. The OpenID Foundation was formed to assist the open source model by providing a legal entity to be the steward [...]
Somehow I missed a big nuacence that is being proposed by Nokia (!) to W3C consortium - probably the purest anti-proprietary standards body on the planet.
“The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, a group devoted to publishing web standards, recently moved to approve the Ogg video and audio formats for inclusion into the forthcoming HTML5 [...]
“Test on multiple browsers” has been a mantra ever since there have been multiple browsers to test on. Testing them all—especially these days—is impossible. But you can come a lot closer than you may think. In this article, learn a variety of techniques for cross-browser testing, from the very thorough to the quick and dirty. [...]
Several months ago Novell started the project named Banter. It’s being called the next generation collaboration client. Think of it as software that combines all of your online “Web 2.0″ services along with chat, video, and voice into your contact management system.
Banter’s focus is on collaboration with people. One method of collaboration is IM. Banter [...]
Asa Dotzler, Mozilla’s Quality Assurance leader, announced a preview of the Spread Firefox 2 site that will be the future home to all Firefox enthusiasts out there.
Uploading pictures to Flickr via its Web-based interface is a hassle, particularly if you have dozens of shots to upload. Linux users have a better choice, though, in the form of Kflickr, a simple application for uploading shots to Flickr that will have your family photos online in no time.
Kflickr is included in several distros, [...]
Joost, the compelling new on-demand P2P video service from the creators of Skype, has attracted considerable attention since the launch of its closed beta program. Last week, we offered 10,000 of our readers the opportunity to join in on the fun. I grabbed an invite myself so that I could put Joost to the test [...]
Applications using the LAMP (Linux®, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl) architecture are constantly being developed and deployed. But often the server administrator has little control over the application itself because it’s written [...]
The Java revolution, which started more than a decade ago, gains even more momentum with today’s announcement of JavaFX, a new Java innovation targeted at the billions of consumer devices and computers powered by Java technology. JavaFX is a new family of Java technology-based products that will help content providers create and deploy rich Internet [...]
Well, that didn’t take long. The latest version of the AACS DRM system has already been completely compromised, and this is a week before the disks that contain it actually hit the shelves.
Just in case you didn’t already piece it together, many (if not all) of the new HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc titles set [...]
Folding@home is program you run on your computer. It simulates how proteins behave and sends the results to Stanford University. The results are then used to research the causes, and possibly cure, for diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson’s.
Kfolding is an applet for the KDE panel. It provides a convenient [...]
It’s fairly easy to misconfigure your firewall if you don’t have strong technology expertise among your staff. Though with Linux (and BSD) deployed it does indeed get’s easier to protect your computers hooked to internet, it is still something you should seriously care about.
If you have a network and don’t have it firewalled, get [...]
BlogBridge is for true info-junkies who want a better way to wrangle all their RSS feeds from blogs and news into one pretty cool organizer.
If you are one of those who stays up to date with latest news and your favorite blog entries via RSS feeds, you may want to check out BlogBridge. BlogBridge [...]
If you never heard of Azuresu (which I am quite sure you did), here is a small intro: Azureus is a Java based BitTorrent client, with support for I2P and Tor anonymous communication protocols. It currently supports Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Azureus was started at Sourceforge.net mostly to experiment with the Standard Widget [...]
Mozilla labs is talking about plans to incorporate social networking into Firefox with The Coop. The idea behind The Coop is to allow users to keep track of their friends online. Users will be able to see their friends faces and by clicking on a friends picture get a list of their recently added Flikr [...]
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