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Amazon has defined its target countries or timing yet, but it’s coming.
My Coverage on Windows 7 (experimental)
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links for 2008-01-29
links for 2008-01-28
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The Pulse from LiveScribe can synchronize notes and audio recordings, but it can also use its combination of sound and written input to perform other tasks such as language translation.
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Placing an add to kill someone on the internet. Sigh.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. intelligence satellite has lost power and could fall to Earth sometime in February or March, a government official said on Saturday.
The official, who spoke on condition
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After years of fighting peer-to-peer file-sharing companies, the major record labels have decided that if they can’t beat them, they might as well join them — in one case, anyway.
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Windows only Free clipboard utility Clipdiary doesn’t have all the bells and whistles like cross-computer syncing of managers like Ditto
Weekly Software Pick: FileZilla [Win/OSX/Lin]
An FTP-client is one of the core needs of a web developer/designer, so it’s extremely important this shackle in the chain is as solid as possible. But why invest in yet another dedicated application? Most shells (Windows, Linux, Mac) do FTP in an integrated fashion. Dreamweaver has this functionality built in through their Site Management pane… But:
FileZilla is a free application and gets the job done just as its commercial siblings do. It’s UI’s simplicity is familiar, powerful and feature-complete.
- All major protocols supported (FTP, FTPS, SFTP)
- Multi-lingual
- Pause/Resume, also for large files (>4GB)
- Site Manager to save frequently used FTP-sites
- Drag & Drop
- Speed Limits are configurable
- Filename filtering
- Wizards
FileZilla is multi-platform with builds for Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Linux and Mac OS X (PPC G4 & Intel).
Recommended.
links for 2008-01-27
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Microsoft has released a new build of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to about 15,000 testers, lending credence to recent speculation that the final code release is fast approaching.
links for 2008-01-26
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The second step is the reproduction of life has been completed. Scientists have synthetically recreated a microbe.
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A first look at what Windows Seven might become.
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Solid-state drives are increasingly an option for laptop purchasers — but while manufacturers are pushing the option, few consumers are taking the bait.
links for 2008-01-24
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The name of the actor, who died tragically on Tuesday, awkwardly comes out as “Tom Cruise” in Google’s English-to-Spanish translator.
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The 4G-X version of Asus’ popular sub-notebook, coming to the U.S. sometime in the first quarter, will have Windows XP standard.
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The Zune is catching up on the iPod slowly but surely. Microsoft announces yearly updates to their social networking site, quarterly updates to the player’s firmware and user customization of the device. Great.
Weekly Software Pick: Notepad++ [Windows Only]
I’ve come to appreciate Notepad++ as a full-blown source code editor, whereas in the past it used to be a second-class citizen, somewhat. I kept it around because it operates and loads blazingly fast, especially handy when you don’t have the time to start Dreamweaver. Though Notepad++ is a lot more than a quick app…
It supports everything you’d expect from a well-seasoned code editor, amongst other features:
- Syntax Highlighting & Syntax Folding
- User Defined Syntax Highlighting
- Code Auto-completion
- Regular Expression Search/Replace
- Zooming
- Brace & Indent Highlighting
- Macros
- Integration into the shell
You should see Notepad++ as an all-round replacement for Windows’ built-in Notepad and a lot more. It supports a vast array of programming languages, yet is specialized enough to be used for web authoring, too: it’ll recognize nested languages effortlessly, e.g. XHTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript in one page.
Notepad++ is completely free of charge and subject to the GPL license.
- Hop over to Sourceforge and download Notepad++ for free.
- Visit this project’s homepage.