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Entries for August, 2008

Your Most Popular Stuff Must Go On Mondays

An idea for a killer post just pops in your head. You perform a quick Google search to check if someone wrote about it in the past, but no one has. Cool! You spend some days researching and writing the post, and then editing it to make sure it is bullet proof.
Now the question [...]

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TechCrunch Got Redesigned

If you head over to TechCrunch, one of the largest blogs (and websites for the matter of fact) in the world, you will see that they just released a redesign.

There are many interesting things to notice on the facelift. First of all they have migrated to excerpts on the homepage. I have been an advocate [...]

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Refresh Your Grammar

As a blogger you probably know how important it is to write clearly and correctly right? Well, understanding the basic grammar rules is in turn essential for that purpose.
Now if you don’t remember what are conjunctions, prepositions, verb moods and the like, don’t worry! Over at Daily Writing Tips we compiled a nice summary [...]

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Featured Freeware: WebMynd

This Firefox extension takes a stab at solving a common Web problem: finding again that which you had found before. WebMynd adds two very useful functions to your browsing: site-by-site recording of where you’ve been, and integrating your history and Delicious bookmarks into specific Google searches. It’s the Back button with brains.

The site-by-site recording creates [...]

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Why can’t they fix the Flash/Firefox bug?

Latest: Adobe’s John Dowdell has a thoughtful critique of this post that also expands on the nature of the bug.

An annoying and long-lived bug is preventing some users from viewing Web videos. There’s a workaround, but for many, the cure is as bad as the disease.
The bug is that Flash videos don’t play for [...]

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Get remote file access, management on your iPhone with Sugarsync

Sugarsync, a pricey but excellent file-syncing and backup solution has a new iPhone application that’s downright cool. It gives you access to all the files stored on computers linked up to your Sugarsync account. Better yet, it provides instant–and I do mean instant–updates when a file has been touched by you or another user [...]

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First Look video: Photoshop CS3 (Mac)

Photoshop CS3 for Mac is still your top choice if you’re serious about image editing. Loaded with features for color-correction, photo enhancements, filters, effects, and layer management, Photoshop is the pro-level image-editing software to measure all others by. If you’d like a closer look at some of the features Photoshop CS3 has to offer, check [...]

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Exploring Internet Explorer 8

Robert Vamosi and I discuss the new features and browsing capabilities of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 and how it stacks up with other browsers. The new release brings IE up to par with Firefox, Safari, and Opera, and even pushes Microsoft a little ahead of the competition in a few areas.
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IE 8 beta gives [...]

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Accounting on the go: Quickbooks for iPhone and Blackberry

Quickbooks, one of the leading accounting packages for small businesses, has just released web interfaces for Blackberry and iPhone. The iPhone version, seen to the left, sports a very slick UI and allows easy, at-a-glance access to all of your financial information, entered into Quickbooks Online.
At first glance, the web app provides a simplistic [...]

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IE 8 beta gives other browsers a run for their money

Don’t count Internet Explorer out just yet.

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8. If anything, this release brings IE up to par with alternative browsers such as Opera, Apple’s Safari, and Mozilla’s Firefox in terms of security and features. It also pushes Microsoft a little ahead of the competition.

The user [...]

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