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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
In late August 2008, Oracle announced the Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, a new
component of Oracle Fusion middleware and the first free Eclipse 3.4 "Ganymede" environment
to support their WebLogic Server 10g Release 3.
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
If you're the owner of a web site, or interested in web site design or
maintenance or traffic analysis, here's a pictorial snapshot that shows some
things to look for. Included are some current trends, including the state of the Browser Wars
just as the upstart Google Chrome browser appears.
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
On 26th August 2008 Mozilla Labs introduced Ubiquity for Firefox, described
as an experiment into connecting the Web with language, and at first sight it
appears very promising.
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
The pie-in-the-sky hype surrounding "Web 2.0" seems to have enticed some
organizations to the honey pot with less than impressive results. Buzzwords
abound: is Web 2.0 the same as Web Services or SOA, and does Web 2.0 have to be
implemented using AJAX techniques? Where are we now with all this, and where's
it all leading?
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Saturday, 30 August 2008 |
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Should we already be thinking about leaving all our desktop system cares and
woes behind and take supposed advantage of what cloud computing is tempting
us with?
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
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In this iTWire podcast, Derek Austin of Nuance Communications Australia
outlines the history of speech recognition, tells us why Dragon
NaturallySpeaking 10 is even better than previous releases, and points us in the right
direction to
take advantage of its advanced features and make our lives easier.
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Adobe Reader 9, part of the Adobe Acrobat 9 package, seems to have omitted an
important user interface feature that was present in earlier Reader releases,
making its usability worse rather than better. I hope this wasn't part of a
nefarious plan by Adobe Systems, but just an amazingly clumsy oversight!
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
MyVitalAgent is a free PC utility that can help you to keep an eye on
Internet traffic. At a glance, you can monitor activities such as FTP, e-mail
and Web sites visited, via a nifty graphical user interface. Here's a summary of
MyVitalAgent, together with a Flash video demonstration.
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
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One of the brightest stars in the firmament of the Web is Wikipedia. Whether you like it, distrust it, actively contribute to it or just make use of its vast knowledge resources, there's no doubt whatsoever that Wikipedia is a great boon. And you'll be hitting it hard in your quest for today's TechWords answers!
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Tuesday, 05 August 2008 |
Here's another iTWire TechWords puzzler in a series based on technology themes: vendors, products(hardware and software), services, architectures, protocols, and the like. This one is centered around IBM Lotus Software products.
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Sunday, 27 July 2008 |
Here's our second iTWire TechWords challenge, this one being the first of a
series based on technology themes: vendors, products (hardware and software),
services, architectures, protocols, and the like.
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008 |
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Here's our latest iTWire initiative, the very first edition of our interactive crossword
puzzle. We hope that it gets the blood corpuscles flowing through your grey
matter and provides you with a little light diversion from the daily grind.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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Forget the iPhone, it's just another phone. ... As for me, I just
can't get enough of Wordle. If after reading this you also become a Wordler, I hope I
haven't gotten you into trouble by diverting too much of your time.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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SkypeOut enables you to make inexpensive voice calls from your PC to the
switched telephone network, to destinations anywhere in the world. Some people
think that the call quality is inadequate. I used to think this too,
especially for calls originating within Australia, but my attitude has changed
since then.
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