Thursday, July 9, 2009
Follow Your Twitter Feeds In A 3D Manner by Twitt3D
In order to read the updates, you would have to navigate around using your mouse, spacebar and (up, down, left & right) arrow keys. You can also see which of your friends have more followers based on the spatial layout of their tweets. Although the experience is pretty wonderful and interesting, but I personally find it hard to click around and view them in a decent manner.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
iTheme Techno Blogger Template | MagzNetwork Blog Design
iTheme Techno blogger template is the beautiful template with Mac OS interface design, and beautiful mini icons. Originally, this theme is designed by Nick La.
By downloading and using this template, you agree to the following terms:
- You may NOT resell this theme
- A link back to N.Design Studio, Magznetwork, and Agus MU must be retained in the footer (either modified or unmodified)
- You may use this theme for personal or commercial projects
- You may modify, translate or distribute
Please read the instruction carefully if you don”t want to get any problems.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTION
- Download and extract the zip file.
- Login to your Blogger Dashboard
- Go to Layout > Edit HTML
- Upload XML Template file (DO NOT copy and paste the code directly to template editor box)
- PLEASE DO NOT PREVIEW YOUR BLOG. Go to Layout > Page Element. WHY?
- Edit “Top Menu” widget. Add at least one link, for example you can make a link to your blog homepage with “Home” anchor text
- Edit “Archives” widget. Chose “Flat List” Style and “MM YY” Date Format style, for example “February 2008″
- Edit “Recent Posts” widget. Change Feed URL to
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
- Edit “Recent Comments” widget. Change Feed URL to
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
- Go to Settings > Formatting, choose TIMESTAMP FORMAT style: “Wednesday, Januari 30, 2008″
- Finish. Preview your blog to see the result.
Release History
- 19 Feb 2008: 1.0, initial release, Agus MU
- 25 Mar 2008: 1.1, fixing sidebar drag & drop bugs in IE6
- 22 Jun 2008: 1.2, adding post author feature, adsense inline ads support, and page elements support in main content area
- 16 Jul 2008: 2.0, inline comment form & post rating support
- 21 Oct 2008: 2.1, host the images using my pro photobucket account, remove drag&drop sidebar feature, add header image upload feature
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
My date icon doesn”t work. It only displays “undefined”. What’s wrong!
Come on…!!! Did you read my installation instruction? Go to Settings – Formatting, choose TIMESTAMP FORMAT style like this: “Wednesday, Januari 30, 2008″. Make sure that you change Timestamp Format, not Date Header Format or Archive Index Date Format.
Where is the drag&drop sidebar?
Sorry, i have to remove it because i have problem with the javascript file hosting.
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Do not provide the direct download link nor upload onto other servers for your own share (Please link to this page instead – we also deserve some traffic!). If you want to spread the words, just link to this page.
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
Abak Softwares releases new version 7.0 of its time, billing and project management software.
A new Abak Dashboard has been added providing management with a quick and comprehensive view of key information required to manage project time and resources, presented in a user-friendly interface.
Abak's new Resource Planning Module enables the scheduling of employees on multiple projects. Schedules can be planned by employee, by day and by hour. The new feature also enables management to compare scheduled versus actual hours spent on any given project in order to determine the man-hour profitability of each project. In addition, management can easily assess the actual availability of each employee facilitating the assignment of resources based on project requirements.
To accelerate the billing cycle while reducing paper consumption, companies are now able to generate and send invoices via email. Email text accompanying the invoice can be pre-set or customized for each individual invoice, based on client billing preferences.
Version 7.0 now includes integration with Simply Accounting, adding to the extensive list of major accounting systems already supported such as ACCPAC, QuickBooks, Avantage, Fortune, 1000/Acomba, and Virtuo.
Integration with Simply Accounting is also accomplished via ASCII.
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Mint.com Your Free Online Personal Finance Software
Over 1 million people already use this online money management and budgeting software today, and adding over 3,000 users every day. Mint.com is tracking $50 billion in transactions, $15 billion in assets and has identified more than $100 million in potential savings for its users.
Software: Mint
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OS: Web , Mobile
License Type: Free
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Windows 7 May Get Family Pack Discount by PC World: Yahoo! Tech
Microsoft may be introducing a Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium, with a shared license for three computers in the same household. The license details in the latest build of Windows 7 have the following clause under ‘Installation and Use Rights': "If you are a ‘Qualified Family Pack User,' you may install one copy of the software marked as ‘Family Pack' on three computers in your household for use by people who reside there," according to ZDNet's Ed Bott.
The Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium would fall in line with similar licensing Microsoft already has for the Home & Student Edition of Microsoft Office 2007. There's no word on Family Pack pricing yet, but Bott's guess is that we'll see a Family Pack with a $189 price tag. Although he doesn't explicitly state this, Bott suggests that a price of $189 would be used since it undercuts by $10 Apple's comparable Family Pack that gives you five OS X licenses for $199.
That may seem reasonable, but I'm doubtful since I don't see why Microsoft would feel the need to compete with Apple on boxed software. When you buy a copy of Windows you can throw the OS on almost any computer with enough horsepower, but OS X requires a Mac. Yes, I know all about the Hackintosh community where you install OS X on a Windows machine, but PCs running OS X is not a big enough market to cause Microsoft concern.
Let's face it, when you buy a boxed copy of OS X, you are installing the OS on a Mac not a Dell. People simply aren't going into a store and weighing the pros and cons of buying OS X or Windows software. Sure, when it comes to buying a new computer there's a big rivalry, and in those instances people are weighing the pros and cons of a Mac versus a Windows machine. But when it comes to a software upgrade or fresh install, the type of computer you have at home has already made your software choice for you (unless you're switching over to a Linux build, of course).
The other problem is a $189 Family Pack undercuts the $199 price tag already established for the standalone version of Windows 7 Home Premium. What are they going to do, have Best Buy interrogate you to make sure you're really going to use the cheaper Family Pack for one household? What is more likely, in my view, is that anyone who buys a Home Premium edition of Windows 7 will automatically have three licenses, just like with the comparable edition of Microsoft Office 2007.
There would probably be widespread abuse with that pricing model since it would encourage single people and students to split the $199 cost three ways. But then again, that's a great way to put your new software within reach of almost everyone, and it also gives XP and Vista users a bigger incentive to make the switch to Windows 7. I can imagine a lot of people talking it over and saying, "66 bucks each for the new Windows? Sure, why not?"
Of course there's also the possibility that Microsoft could pull the Family Pack clause before Windows 7 officially hits store shelves on October 22. But as former PC World editor-in-chief Harry McCracken points out on Technologizer, people have been waiting for a Windows Family Pack for a long time. So the Family Pack in Windows 7 Home Premium Edition is most likely on its way, but how Microsoft will structure Family Pack pricing is anybody's guess.
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PC makers Now offer China Internet filter by AFP
Several PC makers said Friday they were voluntarily including China's controversial Internet filter software in new shipments despite Beijing's decision to postpone making it mandatory.
The government had been set to introduce the Chinese-made "Green Dam Youth Escort" programme but announced the delay hours before its implementation on July 1.
Customer service staff at PC makers including Taiwan's Acer Inc and China's Haier Group said they were nevertheless installing or packaging the software with all new PCs -- but added it was easy to uninstall.
"You will find it with our PCs, as the state has requested. But ... you can easily find a patch on the Internet to uninstall it," one of Acer's service staff told AFP on the phone, asking not to be named.
Beijing has said the software was aimed at filtering out pornography, but computer experts found it was also programmed to suppress politically sensitive material, prompting criticism at home and abroad.
Lenovo, China's biggest computer maker, did not immediately reply to questions on Green Dam, but the official English-language China Daily newspaper said the software was included with the firm's PCs.
A Tokyo-based Sony spokeswoman told AFP the programme is on its China-made computers and customers can install it if they so choose.
"We have distributed it with our personal computers as a set-up file in the hard drive software," she said.
"The users can choose whether to activate the software or not. So it's up to the customers to choose whether to install it or not. But it's already on the hard disk."
She declined to speculate on how much longer Sony would keep installing the software, saying: "We cannot really comment on the future."
An official with China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which licensed the technology from two local software developers, told the newspaper Thursday that the delay of the directive was only temporary.
"The government will definitely carry out the directive on Green Dam. It's just a matter of time," the unnamed official was quoted as saying.
But Mao Shoulong, a professor of public administration at People's University in Beijing, said the issue was likely not yet resolved.
"I believe there is some dispute on the matter within the government and we will continue to see some indecision (by authorities)," Mao told AFP.
The unprecedented nature of the matter made it difficult to predict, he said, but added the government may abandon the software plan "if the backlash is very strong."
Some other PC makers said they are still discussing the matter with the government and are not installing the software without Beijing's final word.
US personal computer giant Dell said in a statement: "We continue our discussions with the Chinese government and are not shipping Green Dam software."
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Four Softwares Your Computer Cant Live Without
1) System statistics. Without a constant eye to performance and other parameters, you lose control. The operating system has built-in utilities for monitoring performance, and there are third-party solutions available as well. No matter the solutions obtained, it is vital that they be used for load balancing, prioritizing processes and traffic and other factors involved with performance.
2) Anti-Virus. New computer viruses and malware emerge daily, exploiting every possible operating system weakness. Anti-virus developers are constantly updating software for computer protection, and in today's operating environment both companies and individuals cannot function without it; to do otherwise is to leave yourself open to crippling attacks and financial loss. Most modern solutions also address adware and other threats such as worms. A robust anti-virus solution is a must for everyone.
3) Defragmenter. File fragmentation is a fact of life on all computers, and hence a defrag solution is a must. Nowadays, however, the selection of defrag technology is equally important. In today's frantic operating environments, finding times to schedule defrag is near impossible. Additionally, in between the runs that can be scheduled fragmentation continues to build and impact performance. The choice for today's computing is a fully automatic solution that runs invisibly, in the background. With such a solution, fragmentation is never an issue.
4) Firewall. The most significant threat to system security is that of hackers -- and there are hackers that toil day and night to find ways into systems for the purpose of stealing data. Today's firewalls guard against unauthorized access while permitting authorized access and communications, and make it possible to operate safely.
While there is other important software for the protection and stability of your system, the above are probably the most important examples, and the ones that individuals and (most importantly) enterprises cannot live without. It well behooves any system administrator to carefully evaluate the best solutions for their companies to ensure these important aspects are covered.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Google Launches New Open Source Sputnik For Javascript
For the most part, developers have used the standard SunSpider test that helps to measure JavaScript performance. Now Google is launching a new open source JavaScript measurement tool called Sputnik. According to Google, Sputnik has more than 5000 tests to fully qualify JavaScript.
"The goal is not that all implementations should pass all tests," Christian Plesner Hansen, Google Software engineer wrote in blog post."V8 set out with that intention and we learned the hard way that sometimes you have to be incompatible with the spec to be compatible with the web. Rather, we want Sputnik to be a tool for identifying differences between implementations."
JavaScript is a quirky thing and performance has lately been something that vendors have been competing on. Early on in Chrome's life, Google's claims of JavaScript superiority were challenged by Mozilla. Mozilla is after all, home to the creator of JavaScript -- Brendan Eich.
Actually running Sputnik is not as easy as running the current SunSpider suite. SunSpider is available online so any user can test their performance with a click. Sputnik right now requires a python install and getting it up and running will require a bit more work.
That said, Google isn't looking at speed/performance they are looking at compliance with the ECMA-262 standard for JavaScript. That's interesting in that it will show where different JavaScript implementations are different - as opposed to just speed. While the current JavaScript hype is all about speed, perhaps with Sputnik in orbit, the next round of hype will be about compliance and standards.
*UPDATED* 06/30 - corrected references to Sputnik as a peformance tool - as per Google comment - "The sputnik tests are not a performance measurement tool -- they don't measure speed, only compliance with the JavaScript standard."
9:09 AM 0
Why Firefox Cannot take Features Of Google Chrome
Mozilla is set to release its new Firefox 3.5 browser as early as next week after a year of development.
The new release will include a number of new features, but don't expect to see many features that were inspired by the new arrival of Google on the Web browser scene with its Chrome browser.
Google introduced Chrome in September 2008 and included numerous new browser features like closer search engine access from the address bar and automatic updates. Firefox 3.5, which is currently at its third release candidate stage does not include those features and isn't likely too any time soon either.
The difference between the two browsers highlights the different views that Mozilla and Google have on what users want from their browsers.
Firefox 3.5 improves on the "Awesome Bar" address bar design that Mozilla rolled out with Firefox 3.
By default, it does not enable full search engine queries -- instead, Firefox (as well as Microsoft Internet Explorer) offers a separate search box in the browser. But, as it turns out, some form of search is accessible through the Awesome Bar.
"What a lot of people don't know is that if you type something into the location/Awesome Bar and no [location] matches come up, if you hit Enter, we run a Google search for that," Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's Director of Firefox, told InternetNews.com. "The reason why it is architected that way is we don't think that people expect that when they type something into their location bar that those words are being sent to a search engine."
Google integrates search into its the address bar, creating a location bar design it calls the Omnibox.While the Omnibox may behave like the familiar Google.com search box, the features have inspired some worries over privacy, with concerns about Google logging entries from users -- even if they never actually hit the Enter key to send a search to Google -- have been around since Chrome's first release.
Google's privacy policy on Chrome states that, "some Google Chrome features send limited additional information to Google."
One of those features is the Google Suggest feature that helps users with their search query in Chrome. Google blogged at the time of Chrome's release that logged data like IP addresses are captured by Google for only 2 percent of requests.
Mozilla's Beltzner, however, still has concerns.
"What you're seeing with our competitors is they are sending [address bar entries] off to their search engine and we think that is violating a privacy boundary that some people might not expect," Beltzner said. "We just want to make sure that it's clear. So we keep search on the Internet where you are sending things out, in the box on the right and local search in the smart location bar."
Google spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
Privacy and updates
Another key change from the status quo in Google Chrome is that it does not require users to manually update the browsers themselves.
When a user installs Chrome, they also install the GoogleUpdate.exe application that runs in the background of a user's system to keep Chrome up to date. It's a feature that enables Chrome users to be updated faster than users of other browsers, according to a recent study in which Google was involved.
The study found that that after 21 days of a Google Chrome release, 97 percent of users were updated to the latest version. Mozilla Firefox had 85 percent of users updated within 21 days.
But Mozilla said it prefers a different approach to rolling out updates.
"Chrome takes the philosophy that software should be like the Web and change and become better over time," Beltzner said. "I think what they'll find it is that it pens them in from making radical changes in their user interface. Unless those changes are announced, unless users have some warning that a change will happen, the general response you'll see is shock and fear."
Beltzner added that in Mozilla's view, users want to feel as though they have more control over their own software. With Firefox, users receive an update notification that they must click on in order to install a new version of the browser.
"We want to make security and stability updates painless to install for the user and we keep updating our mechanism to that end," Beltzner said.
Beltzner added that Firefox's developers want to inform users that Mozilla has made an update not because they want to pat themselves on the back, but because it feels wrong to change software on a user's computer without telling them why.
"This machine is a user's machine, and my right to put software on it, I think, stops at the point where they decide to take the software from me," Beltzner said. "I want to ship them a security update but I want them to understand why I've done it -- that's the philosophical difference."
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