The MoFuse Grow interface carries a lush pastoral theme, and stays true to its word with a straightforward field for pasting a copied RSS link. Another link ushers bloggers to a partially-emulated view of a stripped-down mobile site that, in turn, takes you to a full emulator with navigation and appropriately rendered images. Back on [...]

Still plowing through Van Lindberg’s excellent book on open-source software law, and he discusses a court case that I somehow missed in three years of law school.
Hmm….While I believe Microsoft made its protocols available for public inspection due to pressure from the European Commission, the effect on developers is very similar to the IBM [...]

- HTTPs and FTP with SSL/TLS: Accessing the NAS drive from the Web is made more secure, even on the entry-level NAS models.
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Synology)

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Synology)

First of all, DSM is a Linux-based application preloaded within the NAS device as a operating system that you can access and control via Internet Explorer 7 or
Firefox. As the front-end user [...]

I work for a major Fortune company, and we’re in the process of putting Oracle on a “sunset” list of restricted vendors. No new applications are allowed on Oracle, the only approved vendors are Sun/MySQL and Microsoft/SQL Server.
Others? Is open source chipping away at the bloated price structures of traditional software vendors? (Yes, Savio, I [...]

Another application developed for the iPhone allows soldiers to take a photo of a street sign, upload it, and immediately receive intelligence on the local area, such as water and sympathizers. Because new recruits are already familiar with how the iPod and iPhone work, it’s also easier to train soldiers on loading content, the report [...]

It’s easy to tell someone to update their drivers, but it’s not so easy to do, especially if the device is more than a year or two old, and the hardware vendor has abandoned it. First, you have to search the vendor’s site for the latest driver for that specific model, and after you find [...]

Here are the rankings (last year’s ranking in parentheses):
Who has the best soccer team on the planet? At least, at the national level (since we all know Arsenal is the best club on this planet). Argentina.
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1. (1) Argentina
2. (2) Brazil
3. (3) Italy
4. (4) Spain
5. (5) Germany
6. (6) Czech Republic
7. (7) France
8. (8) Portugal
9. (9) Netherlands
10. [...]

“Most in-home displays take information from the outside meter, but because ours are networked devices and because we’re talking to the utilities’ back office, we know what the price plan is and we can present it in dollars and cents,” he said.

Tendril's in-home display can show how much a home is spending on electricity at [...]

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New Line Cinema)
As if troubled movie rental company Blockbuster didn’t have enough to deal with already: an angry Facebook user has taken issue with its participation in the social network’s controversial Beacon advertising program, and is pursuing legal action.
Then Dolan reported on the not particularly scandalous list–no Debbie Does Dallas to be found–in an article [...]

The service is not free, and uses a credit system that charges one to three 5 cent credits per video uploaded, transferred, watermarked, and tracked. If you’re a videographer looking to get a video out there it’s not a bad deal when you think about how much your time is worth.

In case you’re already entrenched [...]