Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd is launching a
new high-end version of the BlackBerry aimed at its core base
of business users, but it hopes the sleek device will also
catch on in the broad retail market.
Poker for Mac are a hard to find on the internet. Few companies create Mac compatible online poker software thus limiting the establishment of sites running on Mac compatible poker games.
A good relief is that, one website called Mac Poker Online sees the needs of some poker lovers but using a Mac computer. For those [...]
Hi,Many of you must be using be using Internet in your phones. You can heavily reduce your phone bills by making voip calls using mobile voip application. As these companies say, " if you already pay for internet data plans, why to pay more for making calls". EQO is a free voip application that can reduce your phone bills. In order to use EQO you need have a mobile data/internet plan on your phon
Fancy a new iPhone from AT&T but hate the fact that you’ll have to pay for voice service that you just won’t use? Well, whether you’re hard of hearing or just plain averse to talking to other human beings, AT&T has a new text messaging-based for the iPhone. Dubbed the Text Messaging Accessibility Plan [...]
More than 300 people ran riot and destroyed an award-winning garden after they responded to a campaign for a mass water fight on social networking website Facebook. With the country basking in its recent spell of fine weather, hundreds descended on the Millenium Square garden in Leeds following a listing on the popular website.read more | digg story
On the heels of yesterday’s “Data Availability” announcement from MySpace, Facebook has just announced the launch their own initiative to allow users to port their profile data to other web sites. Here’s what will be included in Facebook’s version according to a post on the company’s developer blog: Trusted Authentication Users will be able to connect their Facebook account with any partner website using a trusted authentication method. Whether at login, or anywhere else a developer would like to add social context, the user will be able to authenticate and connect their account in a trusted environment. The user will have total control of the permissions granted. Real Identity Facebook users represent themselves with their real names and real
Facebook will add more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several US states have announced. The news follows a similar announcement from MySpace after the social networking site was involved in a sexual predator scandal last year. The changes include banning convicted sex offenders from the site, limiting older users' ability to search online for under 18s and a task force will be created to better verify users' ages and identities. "Social networks that encourage kids to come to their sites have a responsibility to keep those kids safe," North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper said. "We've now gotten the two largest social networking sites to agree to take significant steps to protect children
More than 300 people ran riot and destroyed an award-winning garden after they responded to a campaign for a mass water fight on social networking website Facebook. With the country basking in its recent spell of fine weather, hundreds descended on the Millenium Square garden in Leeds following a listing on the popular website.read more digg story
When the third service pack for Windows XP went gold, News.com reported that the upgrade process would be a "quick, painless" affair for most users. Not always so, according to InfoWorld, which says SP3 drew "hundreds of complaints" from users within mere hours of its release on Windows Update earlier this week.Indeed, a quick look at Microsoft's official Windows XP message group shows a considerable number of threads about numerous problems with SP3. Users claim the update has caused their computer to crash, fail to recognize external drives, enter reboot loops, or stop booting altogether. InfoWorld quotes one user who calls himself "Doug W." as saying, "After three attempts [to install XP SP3] with different configurations each time, System Restore was the only way to get me out of deep
Windows XP SP3 users can’t uninstall Internet Explorer 7 Jane Maliouta of Microsoft has stated in a blog post that Internet Explorer 7 users on Windows XP Service Pack 3 would not get the option to uninstall the browser and move back to Internet Explorer 6. Users can however install XP Service Pack 3 with Internet Explorer 6 installed to keep that as their browser on the operating system.
LOS ANGELES — Social networking site MySpace says it will soon enable users to quickly share profile data with other sites, including Yahoo and eBay.
MySpace, a unit of News Corp., aims to save its users keystrokes and allow them to export their photos, videos and lists of friends.
Sites that can receive the MySpace data also [...]
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — Facebook, the world’s second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.
Facebook and officials in 49 states and the District of Columbia agree to safeguards to protect young users.
The changes include banning convicted [...]
Ben tells us NBC shows like "The Office" and "30 Rock" are selling on the Zune Marketplace for $2 per download, but if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch you can watch these two shows for free on the iPhone optimized NBC website. Silicon Alley Insider says full episodes of these two shows are available to iPhone users in unprotected Quicktime format and without advertisements, which ...
Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims. But hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images. The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images.read more | digg story
In the early days of the internet the generally held belief was that the web would be dominated by a few huge companies such as AOL, Yahoo, MSN and Excite (RIP!), who aggregated huge amounts of information within the walls of their site. It was ... but things are changing!
From within the AT&T iPhone Plans page, you’ll notice a small box near the bottom of the image above starting with “INCLUDED FEATURES”. From within the box, you’ll also notice it states “Access to AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots” and other not-so-story-related-important things.
Cool! If you live within the United States of America and get a chance to [...]
James Senior, a Microsoft UK blogger, has put up on his blog about an impending change to Live Maps in the UK. Don’t worry, we’re not going to see the farce that happened last time! The changes that will be coming are as follows: If you visit the URL you will get to Live Maps UK. If you go to maps via then you will get to Multimap. If you go to maps via then you will get to Multimap. So at least now if you go to maps.live.com you’ll actually be going to the site you wanted to go to in the first place. James also posts the official statement for this move: We recently announced the integration of Multimap into Live Search in the UK and will start to route users directly to the Multimap service from MSN UK and Live.com from 9th May. This release is part of our l
There was an error in our last rollout of new code for SocialSpark that affected the ability for new users to create avatars. A fix was released that corrected a problem where corrupted image uploads did not hang any following...
'Don't believe all the hype' of 802.11n, says one CIOLAS VEGAS — Higher-speed Wi-Fi in the form of 802.11n access points and related hardware began rolling out in earnest in the first quarter of this year, and the next-generation technology became an important topic at the Interop trade show this week.But some IT managers at the conference are still skeptical of the local-area wireless technology, saying they have not seen the purported transmission speeds and worry whether 802.11n gear will be truly supported by Power over Ethernet (PoE)."Don't believe all of the hype" of 802.11n, said Jorge Mata, CIO at the Los Angeles Community College District, which has been testing 802.11n access points from Cisco Systems Inc. "It's not anywhere near the increased speeds" that are advertised, Mata
DAISY XML is an Add-in that has been developed by Microsoft and will work with Office Word, this new piece of software will make things easier for blind and print-disabled individuals to create documents and content.
Microsoft Corp. today joined with industry and advocacy group leaders worldwide to launch new software that will make it easier [...]
Security experts at Trend Micro have warned of a Google AdWords phishing attack designed to steal sensitive information.
Victims of the scam receive an email notification informing them that their last AdWords payment has not been successful and asking them to update their payment information.
The link displayed in the email body appears to be legitimate, but [...]
The Microsoft Zune team has officially become “region control” extremists. First, they locked down the Zune Originals site with geographic IP blocking so you couldn’t even fantasize about the cool and stylish new Zunes if you didn’t live in the United States. If that wasn’t enough, they’re also blocking enthusiasts from populating their Zune Card with play lists. Now comes a third restriction which hides the Zune Marketplace in the latest version (2.5) of the Zune software. If you installed version 2.5 of the Zune Software and you don’t live in the United States, this is what you see. There is no “Marketplace” button in the menu bar. After some digging around, I’ve found a quick and dirty, but effective, workaround anyone can
The Microsoft Zune team has officially become “region control” extremists. First, they locked down the Zune Originals site with geographic IP blocking so you couldn’t even fantasize about the cool and stylish new Zunes if you didn’t live in the United States. If that wasn’t enough, they’re also blocking enthusiasts from populating their Zune Card [...]
PC users love the visual realism that high-performance graphics processors give their PCs, but would rather do without the noise and power consumption typical of modern entertainment and gaming PCs. Starting today, however, they can have the best of both worlds, thanks to the new NVIDIA® platforms based on the company’s Hybrid SLI® technology. These [...]
The Mobile News Network, powered by the Associated Press, helps you keep up-to-date with what’s happening anywhere, from your hometown to your favorite locale.
Personalize the network to meet your needs. Choose from entertainment and sports, to election coverage and finance news — all the news is at your fingertips. The Mobile News Network is [...]
10.9 British internet users, or approximately a third of the UK’s online population, use online banking services, according to a new report by comScore. Britain’s most popular online banking brand is the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), whose online financial services were accessed by 2.9 million unique customers in the first month of this year. The majority of these visitors (2 million) were customers of NatWest, which is owned by RBS. The most popular individual bank is Lloyds TSB, with 2.8 million online customers in January. Lloyds was also the most frequently visited online banking service with an average of 6.8 visits per customer. Other leading online banking brands include the Halifax Bank of Scotland with 2.4 million customers, HSBC with 2.3 million, and Barclays Bank with 1.7 mi
You may have noticed some of your Messenger buddies with a little “i’m” icon next to their name in your buddy list. If you do, you’ll know that your friend is participating in the i’m Initiative and raising money for social causes. Here on the Hotmail team, most of our office signed up right away when the i’m Initiative launched in 2007 – we use Messenger so much to communicate at work that we figured we should put all of that typing to good use. Now, we’re going to have to sign up all of our Hotmail accounts! What is the i’m Initiative? The i’m Initiative is a Microsoft program where Microsoft shares a portion of their advertising revenue for everyday activities – sending IMs and emails. Hotmail and Messenger have ads, li
Before Microsoft spent its days seeking Yahoo’s hand in cold, calculated marriage, the company was occupied with other things. Like building - and patching - Windows Vista. And working on a really, really expensive and mostly-unnecessary touch-sensitive tabletop. The company was also operating an adjunct program atop its Live Messenger and Live Hotmail services, meant to help a list of 10 organizations - American Red Cross, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, National AIDS Fund, The Humane Society of the United States, NineMillion.org, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Sierra Club, Unicef, Stopglobalwarming.org, and Susan G. Komen For The Cure - devoted to social, health, and environmental causes. The project began in March 2007. They called it, very simply: i’m. The idea
Reuters - Egypt has asked mobile phone companies to
block service to anonymous subscribers as a public security
measure, and at least two firms have begun efforts to comply,
Egyptian officials and mobile firms said on Monday.
Update:Header has been changed to correct a typo, Convergence-->Covergence( THX Yossi Ben Hagai!.)Covergence Session Manager, CSM, is designed help move Enterprise VoIP or Ip Telephony applications and solutions to move from disparate "VoIP Islands" in to a focused management methodology. Everyone is excited about bringing in Unified Communications solutions to their enterprises or providing such services to enterprises. But very few are focused in managing the applications once the solution has been deployed or while being deployed. I myself have come across bottlenecks in edge services, even on Internet2 network where bandwidth is not a problem (at the moment). It could be a single router in a large network that throw in the hammer.The statement;“Covergence Session Manager provides su
Europe : Motorola announced an array of applications
from ecosystem partners available now on the MOTO Z10 mobile device (
left ), taking the mobile experience for consumers to a whole new
level. MOTO Z10 is a 3G device based on the Symbian OS and UIQ platform
that offers a complete, pocket-sized, mobile film studio in a unique
ergonomic kick slider design.
Leveraging the strength and momentum of Motorola's developer ecosystem,
the MOTO Z10 comes pre-loaded with a selection of software, content and
applications which further enhance its capabilities -- from displaying
full feature films to capturing, editing and sharing high-quality video
clips. In addition to the applications pre-loaded to the MOTO Z10
device, hundreds of applications and content titles have been developed
and made availa
ComputerWorld is announcing that iPhone users have just recently taken over the number one slot when it comes to browsing Flickr on a mobile browser, taking over the Nokia N95’s previous record.
The graph above shows the statistics of all those who have uploaded at least one photo or video to their Flickr accounts via mobile browsers [...]
People that use the iPhone generally make more errors than standard QWERTY keyboard users, Yahoo! News reported.This gives the BlackBerry a great chance to win customers over and put some pressure on Apple.
Megarotic case: adult video sharing
During the past months, I let everyone speak about Megarotic and I receive a ton of e-mails. It time to let you know more about the result.
Megarotic got the worst customer service until you are a producer
They do pay but be ready to wait a [...]
Easy come, easy go: looks like that free WiFi for iPhone users could already be turned off, as apparently users are starting to get login screens instead of the free web access they so quickly came to expect. The only real question is whether the whole free iPhone WiFi was simply flipped on early, and [...]
Read your credit card agreement. In reality, not many credit card applicants take the time to read their credit cards’ Terms and Conditions in full. As a first time credit card applicant, make it a habit to read the fine print before signing up for anything. Why is it crucial to read the fine print? [...]
On Apr 18, the Google office in Belo Horizonte hosted a special event for some VIP guests: the orkut super users from the Portuguese Help Group. By bringing together these orkut experts and enthusiasts, we got some critical feedback about orkut and learned more about how they sustain our help community. Here's what they thought about it: "The invite was a surprise, a dream come true, which just shows how Google cares for its users and how it's always exceeding our expectations. The atmosphere in the office is so exciting that you don't want to find your way out. As if we were orkut ambassadors, we felt our voice was heard when brainstorming about suggestions and usability issues. We hope we have done a good job at representing millions of users who have orkut as their favorite websit
Shimla: An official spokesman revealed that The Shimla Road Users and Pedestrians (Public Safety and Convenience) Act, 2007 had come into force on 26-02-2008 and the Home Department of Himachal Pradesh seeks cooperation from all the residents of Shimla Town to implement this Act in letter and sprit. He said that the Act is aimed [...]
UPDATED: A new study on the good and the bad about Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry illustrates users have expanding feature expectations and aren't completely satisfied with either popular handheld mobile device.
UPDATED: A new study on the good and the bad about Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone and Research in Motion's BlackBerry illustrates users have expanding feature expectations and aren't completely satisfied with either popular handheld mobile device.
Ever since mobile phones got popular on the worldwide markets, researchers have been trying to find a link between their emitted radiation and brain cancer conditions. However, given the fact that the achieved results are absolutely irrelevant, anti-mobile phone groups started to pinch other sensitive chords: gonad cancer. The researchers' explanations would always detail on the fact that, while using the mobile phone, users get the device dangerously close to the parietal bone. Moreover, while holding it inside the pocket, the handheld device spreads radiation fields around, which could trigger miscellaneous conditions related to the crotch area. However, all the studies conducted by now omitted an essential aspect of using mobile phones: the device almost always rests in the pal
On Apr 18, the Google office in Belo Horizonte hosted a special event for some VIP guests: the orkut super users from the Portuguese Help Group. By bringing together these orkut experts and enthusiasts, we got some critical feedback about orkut and learned more about how they sustain our help community. Here's what they thought about it: "The invite was a surprise, a dream come true, which just shows how Google cares for its users and how it's always exceeding our expectations. The atmosphere in the office is so exciting that you don't want to find your way out. As if we were orkut ambassadors, we felt our voice was heard when brainstorming about suggestions and usability issues. We hope we have done a good job at representing millions of users who have orkut as their favorite web
AT&T is offering free Wi-Fi access to all iPhone users (and then some - see bottom of story) at select location. Select locations being over 71,000 Wi-Fi hotspots found all across the US of A. You are able to use this free service by logging in via a custom portal which AT&T is offering. A [...]
Here are all the short reviews(both good and bad) that this blog got from LinkReferral users. An exciting thing for me is that this blog did not receive any bad reviews at all. Here are all the reviews that this blog received for the month of April (listed on chronological order with the latest reviews first): - On 2008-04-28 08:13:11 Debbie wroteGood site actually spent a fair bit of time there and signed up. Great prospects!. On 2008-04-25 23:01:54 mecon wroteYou have a lot of information about ptc sites. It is well organized and laid out. It was very understandable and great information.. On 2008-04-24 15:05:08 Dawn wroteVery nice layout. Lots of good useful information.. On 2008-04-23 06:27:09 Linda wrotegreat site! I love ptcs! I
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When I read about this story I just had to post about it. Man, how come iPhone users in the USA get all the fun? Let’s just briefly touch on the AT&T voice/data plans before we get to the story in hand.
Americans have some amazing [...]
Orkut today brought out a light and zippier version of the site targeted at users who are accessing it on a dial up or a low bandwidth connection. Dial up users - in order to activate and use the Orkut site in its stripped down, low bandwidth version, you need to do the following: Go to Orkut ‘General Settings’ In the page, under ‘Low Bandwidth’ select ‘Show the low bandwidth version of Orkut’ Click ‘Save Changes’ You can now start browsing Orkut in your very low speed dialup connection. It’s really a big time saver too. Images will be missing, but can be loaded only upon request.
MacBook or MacBook Pro, Beyonce & Jay-Z, those are the computers the R&B superstars picked, and we won’t blame them for that choice!
More pictures of Beyonce and her MacBook after the...
Blog about Mac Computers, Apple Product and Design (from Photography, to Architecture). Embedded videos, apple commercials, photos, news, download links, a lot of tips and tricks, tutorials. Anything you need to make your Macintosh experience UNIQUE!
So, the rumors had been floating around that because of Starbucks’s switch to AT&T for their Wi-Fi provider (ditching former partner-in-crime T-Mobile), iPhone users would be able to surf the web without paying a single dime. But anecdotal reports are not enough to sate this blogger—I needed first hand proof....
Motorola, Inc. announced an array of applications from ecosystem partners available now on the MOTO Z10 mobile device, taking the mobile experience for consumers to a whole new level.
MOTO Z10 is a 3G device based on the Symbian OS and UIQ platform that offers a complete, pocket-sized, mobile film studio in a unique ergonomic [...]
BeamMe.info.com - Beaming Info To UsersWhat it doesAs a publisher you want all of the information on your site to be easy to access and you want users to have all of eth information they need readily available and fresh in their minds. BeamMe is a simple button that providers can place on their website so that users can save that information and have it instantly sent to their cell phone. Instead of having to print out the information such as the location or a store, event, etc.. or instead of having to look around for a pen and paper, users can just click on a button and get all of the information they need. Besides being extremely useful for users and a great way for providers to interact with users after they have been on the site, it is environmentally sound, let's stop wasting
According to reports from Macrumors readers, AT&T is now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. After joining the hotspot, iPhone users have encountered a specially formatted iPhone page requiring their mobile number to verify a valid AT&T account. Once authenticated, users can then access the Wi-Fi freely at any number of AT&T hotspots, including those at Starbucks and Barnes and Noble.
This news comes shortly after Starbucks' announcement that AT&T will begin replacing T-Mobile hotspots in their cafés.
While consumers are still not able to use the audio-visual features of Microsoft's instant messaging client for Macs, a new version adds support for AV for businesses. In order for businesses with Mac clients to be running Microsoft's Messenger for Mac 7.0 with video support, an organization must be running Exchange server and Microsoft Communicator. Video and audio chats will be available, as well as multi-party conferencing. Video and audio conferencing on the platform is something that the Mac Business Unit (BU) has been talking about for quite some time, in fact as early as 2006 in an interview with BetaNews. However, it said at the time adding the functionality would be a rather large project. Apparently it is still ongoing: Microsoft said that consumer video and audio chats are s
Back in November last year, deaf would-be iPhone users highlighted the lack of a data-only AT&T plan for the Apple cellphone, after the carrier began to sell a voice-only contract. Now, a mere five months later, AT&T have released details of their Text Accessibility Plan (TAP), designed for those who are deaf, hard of hearing, have [...]
Verizon Wireless’ customers have all the reasons in the world to be elated and pumped up for the reason that the ultrasleek Samsung Glyde will soon be set free in the American soil this oncoming month of May.First of all, the wireless handset brags a built-in 2 Megapixel Camera, 7.6 Mbps High Speed HSDPA connectivity, Touch Interface, Full QWERTY Keyboard, 2.8-inch color display, Internet Browser and Stereo Speakers to boot.
For users still unhappy using the Ribbon interface in the Office productivity suite, Microsoft has a new option: search.
On Monday, the company released an Office add-on called Search Commands that lets users type the function they are looking to do. After months of testing it internally, Microsoft is ready to give the public a chance [...]
If you don't mind having Signatures, Rules and all the other settings the same, this method works. From the user account that is already set up: Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT Locate the following 4 branches of the Registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Account Manager HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4\Wab File Name Right click on each branch above and select Export and save the REG files to your hard drive. For each account you want to have the same mail settings, log into that account. Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT. Locate the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities branch, right click it and select Delete. Next open Windows Explorer and locate t
After a long wait, orkut apps are live for Indian orkut users. Couple of months ago, Orkut announced the plans to launch apps for orkut very soon which they rolled out a month later for just one country - Estonia. That was enough for everyone to have a feel of orkut apps easily even if their respective regions did not have access to orkut apps (courtesy this hack). Today we began rolling out applications (apps for short) on orkut to everyone in India and will roll out apps to all orkuteers, in local languages, over the next few weeks.Apps are integrated directly into your orkut experience. When you log into your profile, you will be able to add up to 25 apps to your orkut profile. Your friends will see all the apps you've added, be able to interact with them, and can add any apps they li
Although it may not be the most exciting thing to do, it is important for broadband users to take the time to check the small print to their contract.
So claims moneysupermarket in which a recent study showed that some eight per cent of people state they not bother reading the terms and conditions of their [...]
The news shocks but normal: The Internet population in China hit 221 million by the end of February 2008, which outnumbered the figure in the United States to rank the first in the world. In this way, US loses their first place forever, coz China has a population more than 1.6 billion while US has [...]
If you are a Blogger/Blogspot user, you might want to check out. I managed to make my blog's template from two columns into three columns. I have also put a digg button because of the tip.Just sharing to you guys :) I hope you'll get something out of those tips. I'll be checking on that site again sometime for new tips.
Today AT&T and Starbucks officially announced that they have begun to roll out AT&T Wi-FiSM service to company owned Starbucks locations. Although the total conversion of all Starbucks locations will continue throughout 2008, every store in San Antonio has been converted to the new AT&T service.
Starting May 1st, subscribers of AT&T's home and business broadband services will receive complimentary wireless access at more than 7,000 participating Starbucks locations. No mention of complimentary access for iPhone customers was made in the announcement.
READWRITE WEB -- Apr 24 -- MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users this morning after launching it in public beta last March. In that time over 1,000 applications have been approved and added to the gallery and there have been over 2.1m application installs across the site.FULL ARTİCLE
UNIX for Programmers and Users (3rd Edition) (Paperback)By Graham Glass
Buy new: $72.8024 utilised and new from $44.75 Customer Rating: First tagged “unix” by R. Zaremba Customer tags: unix, book, unix programming [...]
China surpassed the United States becoming the world’s largest Internet using population according to the state media with 221 million Internet users. The China Internet Network Information Centre claims last year China had 210 million users, five million less than the U.S. With the Olympics being held in China this summer, the Internet has become one way of supporters to get their message out about the upcoming games.
When most companies are working towards making the web more standardized and interoperable, it feels as if Microsoft wants to take users back to the last decade when sites were specifically designed for and only one browser, in this case, Internet Explorer.
I only say this because Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has recently sponsored a climate-change [...]
Sometime today, StumbleUpon will register its five millionth user. (At the time of this writing, it is at 4,994,826 registered users). That number is kind of meaningless because it counts anyone who has ever registered for the Website-rating and discovery service, and who may no longer use it. StumbleUpon, which is part of eBay, does not disclose hread more | digg story
"Facebook announced Wednesday morning that its in-browser Facebook Chat feature is now live to all members, over two weeks after it first debuted to a limited number of users. It was clear that Facebook was concerned with the stability of the chat application, first debuting it on a Sunday when many members--not to mention tech bloggers eager to report any flaw or bug--might not be at their computers."[via webware]
To configure Samba on your Red Hat Linux system to use encrypted passwords, follow these steps:
1. Create a separate password file for Samba. To create one based on your existing /etc/passwd file, at a shell prompt, type the following command:
# cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
If the system uses NIS, type the following command:
# ypcat passwd |
Who are Cydia users? What is Cydia? Basically, Cydia is the other Installer.app. We’ve talked about Cydia on Touch Podium, here. ZodTTD is pre-releasing it to all Cydia users because the Cydia developer helped him in providing him with certain tools to easier develop.
ZodTTD will be rolling out his Cydia repository soon enough, releasing most, [...]
Bad news for those using Internet Explorer 4 or older.Paypal will block users with these browsers to prevent security breaches.They will first receive a warning and then they will have no access to the online payment site.You can upgrade to Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher for free, although download times will vary depending on your internet Connection.Paypal is also used by e-mail scammers pretending to be from the company.These people try to trick Paypal users into sending their username and password. Payapl never asks for username or password by e-mail.Only enter your Paypal information on web pages that begin with can spot hoax e-mails by holding your mouse over the link and checking how the address looks, or by looking at the e-mail it came from. In the case of Paypal, send these to
Bad news for those using Internet Explorer 4 or older.Paypal will block users with these browsers to prevent security breaches.They will first receive a warning and then they will have no access to the online payment site.You can upgrade to Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher for free, although download times will vary depending on your internet Connection.Paypal is also used by e-mail scammers pretending to be from the company.These people try to trick Paypal users into sending their username and password. Payapl never asks for username or password by e-mail.Only enter your Paypal information on web pages that begin with can spot hoax e-mails by holding your mouse over the link and checking how the address looks, or by looking at the e-mail it came from. In the case of Paypal, send these to
Asustek Computer Inc. on Friday confirmed that it will launch the Eee PC 900 in the U.S. on May 12, and will set $549 as the list price for the new ultralight notebook.
The Eee PC 900, which the Taipei-based computer maker unveiled last Tuesday, can be configured with either Microsoft Corp.’s Windows XP Home [...]
China vaults past USA in Internet usersUSA Today - 59 minutes ago"We use it every day for MSN, and I love playing games like World of Warcraft." The game is so popular that players can pay companies in China to play in …
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For introductory through advanced courses in Linux. Addressing the growing popularity of Linux in the academic setting, this text is based on the widely used book by these authors, "UNIX for Programmers." It applies to major inexpensive or free distributions of Linux, and documents the most commonly needed topics for both new and experienced Linux users and programmers (including over 100 utilities and their common options). Students will gain a solid foundation of understanding for the most often-used Linux utilities.Download Here
In the last year or two, I’ve started doing a lot of my monetary transactions via a little site called PayPal. I’m sure that if you’ve used eBay at all, you have yourself a PayPal account. Unfortunately for Mac users, if you use Safari as your primary browser, you’re going to have some issues accessing the site.Read more...
Even worse, some antioxidants may increase risk of death The vitamin industry has spent millions promoting antioxidants as a way to improve health but a new review of studies found no evidence that the nutrition supplements extend life. Worse, the review authors said that some antioxidants could increase risk for death.The reviewers call for more regulation of the nutraceuticals industry, but an antioxidant researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that call for stricter monitoring overreaches the conclusions of the review.The researchers looked at 67 randomized studies and found that supplemental antioxidants do not reduce mortality and that some — including vitamin A, beta-carotene and vitamin E — could increase mortality. The review combined evidence from more than 200
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Its very likely that you will never make a purchase as large as a home purchase. This is a very good reason to prepare for the process as much as possible. The home you purchase will depend very much on the amount of mortgage for which you qualify. As a first time mortgage user, [...]
The number of China's mobile phone subscribers in February grew by a record 9.46 million from the previous month, powered by reduced handset prices and user charges, the Ministry of Information Industry said on Monday.China had 565 million mobile phone users by the end of last month, up from 556 million in January and 547 million in December, the ministry said in a statement.The number of fixed-line subscribers fell 3.26 million in the first two months to 362 million by the end of February. The figure has decreased for seventh months in a row, according to the ministry data.China's two wireless operators signed up a total of 86.2 million new subscribers last year, with 68.1 million attributed to China Mobile.The nation's top wireless operator said in its annual report last Wednesday that h
Que el ranking de Alexa no es un método confiable para medir el tráfico de sitios de Internet no es nuevo, pero si con su nuevo cambio querían lograr mayor confianza en el mercado creo que van por el camino equivocado.Es cierto que empiezan a reconocer que “el interés en usar Internet más allá de la barra de herramientas de Alexa está creciendo”, aunque sea una obviedad es bueno que lo reconozcan realmente; y, de hecho, la idea de que “los usuarios “normales” son diferentes a aquellos que usan la barra y son heavy users (usuarios muy avanzados)” es real aunque contradictoria ¿quienes son normales? ¿los que NO usan la barra de herramientas? ¿el tráfico de un heavy user es tan importante como para “normalizarlo”?En definitiva van a comenzar a agregar datos de otras
MacHeist offers bundles of Mac software at substantial discounts. Their latest bundle is $49, and includes what looks like a lot of great software. However, Lifehacker put together an alternative, free, bundle of these applications. The free version doesn't include the games, but if functionality is more of what you're looking for, this post at Lifehacker should be helpful.
Found at Didn't You Hear? (where I get all my Mac info).
Free software on Whidbey Island.
If a business allows it’s users to install whatever software they choose and/or make configuration changes then they run the increased risk of the security of the machine being compromised. I recommend wherever possible businesses should refrain from giving end users administrative rights over the machines they use thereby preventing users from installing software (that [...]
Apple makes minor concession on pushing Safari to Windows users
Separates updates and new offers, but Mozilla wants more.
Apple Inc. has changed its software update tool for Windows users so that it separates updates for already-installed programs from offers to install new software.
Last month, John Lilly, Mozilla Corp.'s CEO, took Apple to task for using the update tool, familiar to Windows
It’s amazing how far a little communication can go…
I used to work in computer support, and to be honest, I hated it. Whether I hated it because I was bad at it, or I was bad at it because I hated it, I don’t know. But I do know that I would deal with my [...]
XP and Vista is garbage! All Microsoft products are junk and you perpetually wait for the promise of something better.That is OS X and a mac. It can run your Linux and windoze stuff if you have to. Microsoft cant build a good operating system that cant be hacked and Red Hat said it cant build a desktop OS.Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software maker. But you'd never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system. Unless it's someone running Windows XP, a version Microsoft wants to retire.Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered the Internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions recently.
Gizmodo busts Psystar. Says hoax. What did I tell you here on Tech5 from the beginning?
Red Hat drops plan for desktop Linux.
I complain about Windows and the registry.
Mark Zukerberg under fire once again.
New research group recommends Vista.
Law would ban US in-flight cell phone use.
Sun shutting down features to screw [...]
Written by Rami Taibah
Switching to Linux can be very daunting, most seasoned Linux users experienced that first hand. After all, at some point they were also “noobs”. However, the Linux community has excelled in making the switch for beginners as easy as possible by providing guides, howtos, tweaks, and general advocacy articles. When I first [...]
