Adobe’s edge over Microsoft to develop new software and technology especially in web application and development tools as well as mobile computing is quite prominent these days. This has led Microsoft to employ agencies to study their training methods.
Adobe has its training centers at Noida and Bangalore (India centers) which employ around 700 employees together, most of them working as product development analysts taking up various jobs related to this area.
A year long study and joint research at The University of Washington, The University of California, San Diego and University of California Davis, resulted in an Open Source Software to track down missing or stolen laptops. It is being seen as a boon for the government and business officials who have been facing loss of confidential data due to stolen laptops as well as for others who have converted their notebooks into photo and video storage areas.
Named after the Roman Goddess of safe returns, Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there’s no need to rely on a single third party.
Google’s YouTube got a dedicated channel to share tips and tricks on using their Mobile Phones — Mobile Tricks.
There are good bookmarking sites like del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia, but the geeks at tlbox have come up with a more developer, programmer, networking people friendly bookmarking system that works as an add-on for Firefox.
tlbox saves links and organizes them by category so it will be easier to find. You might bookmark with del.icio.us but as your bookmarks grow, it will become cumbersome to manage. For instance, you can instantly look up for CSS or Linux related bookmarks right away with tlbox.
tlbox integrates with Firefox (compatible up to Firefox 3). Once the add-on is installed, it appears as a dropdown menu much like your typical Bookmarks folder, except that it has a fixed set of iconized subfolders, ranging from .net to xml –basically categories that are relevant to computer geeks. There are even corresponding icons for the categories.
Via: Wisdom.
I’m a Mac user and use a Mac for almost all my computing purposes. However, most of my friends, family and relatives have Windows boxes and I tend to their computing shortcoming and play the “computer-guy” most of the times. I’ve always been fascinated by the nice articles of Windows Secrets and today, let me rephrase yet again another article they published recently — Nine must-have freeware apps rise to the top.
Author Scott Dunn believes that the “best freeware” lists published by Web sites and magazines frequently trumpet dozens of programs, but the results reflect the subjective opinions of just one or two testers. Thus, to find out the best of the lot, he compared roundups of “great” freeware conducted recently by four reputable publications to find the programs that were endorsed by at least three of the reviews. And the result is an awesome list of the Best Windows Freeware.
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The new WordPress 2.5, besides many other updates, comes along with a new SECRET_KEY in the config file. I’m sure like many other people, most of you might have missed that. Because, we were told not to change the config file.
define('SECRET_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here');
can help you with better encryption for user passwords in the database. So, try to have a rather complex and long “unique phrase”. WordPress suggest you to try out the perfect Password Generator.
While we’re at the new config settings introduced in WordPress 2.5, you can have a look at the way to increase the memory allocation to PHP in your WordPress Installation.
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512MB');
Increase PHP Memory to 512MB.
Read all the other settings of WordPress Config.
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UK’s Metro news have an article about testing a Super Spam Me test spearheaded by Internet Security Firm McAfee. This marks the celebration of the 30 years of Spam mails and accepting them, in-turn fighting them.
50 people will be given unprotected Laptops, new email addressees and 250 UK sterling on a credit card to claim the goodies on offer. During week one they will sign up for everything offered free, week two will be for downloading free music and week three will be for the get rich schemes on offer. The idea is called “Super Spam me” and celebrates the sending of the first Spam email 30 years ago by a Californian electronics company.
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I was reading a post from a friend on why some emails are never answered? It ignited a bunch of itches that have plagued my conscience long back on how can some people never care about their email etiquette.
I’m not even talking about Spam, but those emails that are irritatingly awkward, utterly kiddish –
I start this without knowing where this is going or what my conclusion will be from this, much like normal really. First things first could a computer think like I do and write stuff like this. Alternatively would a computer want to write like this but that’s beside the point. The theory is that the computer is only as good as the programmer so perhaps I could influence a computer but even this basic Word-Processor I am using tells me when I use the wrong grammar or make a spelling mistake so in the end probably could write, so that’s one failed point.
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