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Even Microsoft says IE6 must Die!

December 1, 2009
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Stephen Shankland over at CNET informs us that Microsoft is actively urging IE 6 users to upgrade. (If they allowed Windows 2000 users to upgrade to IE7 they wouldn’t be in this mess. They created their own monster in my opinion.)
Microsoft has begun a campaign to actively urge users [...]

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Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics

November 24, 2009
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Stephen Shankland over at cnet writes:

Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up instead.
The technology in question is hardware-accelerated graphics and text using interfaces called Direct2D and DirectWrite that provide an easy way to [...]

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Customize MediaWiki into Your Ultimate SMB Collaborative Website

November 22, 2009
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Can’t convince the boss to shell out some bucks for Sharepoint server? Oh what’s that…He doesn’t trust Google with company resources? Ok well, you still need to figure how to set up a collaborative website/cms/wiki whatever you want to call it. In this case we will use the term “wiki” because that is the solution [...]

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Pulse 2.1.2.4 Open Source Computer System Management Now Available

November 21, 2009
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Pulse 2 helps organizations ranging from dozens to 100 000+ heterogeneous computers to inventory, maintain, update and take full control on their IT assets. It has been designed to handle 100 000+ computers spread on many sites.  It supports heterogeneous platforms such as MS Windows, GNU/Linux (Mandriva, Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu., etc.), Mac OSX, HP-UX, IBM [...]

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10 Applications that can help you with Personal Information Management

November 9, 2009
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Lets face it, Post-It notes are great and convenient for jotting down notes, ideas, todo’s etc. But at the same time they can really suck and become totally impractical (when it comes to trying to find that one post-it). Personal Information Management (PIM) is very important to me.  Any given day I can have up [...]

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RackTables, a nifty solution for datacenter/server-room asset management

November 8, 2009
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Racktables is a nifty and robust solution for datacenter and server room asset management. It helps document hardware assets, network addresses, space in racks, networks configuration, etc.
Lots of system and network administrators come to the point where they have to maintain quite complex documentation of the racks, devices, links and network resources they have in [...]

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Mozilla’s Thunderbird Team looks toward the cloud with Raindrop

November 6, 2009
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For almost all of its existence, Mozilla Messaging has been known for Thunderbird e-mail software with the traditional view that a person’s PC is the center of their computing existence.
Now, though, the Mozilla Foundation subsidiary’s scope is expanding beyond the confines of the computer under your desk or on your lap. In the near term, [...]

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Google Chrome 4.0 graduates to beta status

November 3, 2009
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More people will get a chance to try out bookmark synchronization with Monday’s release of a beta version of Google Chrome for Windows.
Google introduced the bookmark sync feature for the developer-preview version in August, but now it’s also in the better-tested beta version, Chrome 4.0.223.16. However, there’s still no Chrome beta for Mac OS X [...]

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