Windows 7 ISO Verifier to be packed with Windows 7
A blogger and developer Long Zheng has created a small application designed to verify that a Microsoft Windows 7 image download is not modified.
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Mobile Apps Changing the Future of Air Travel
It is a vision that airline passengers could see become reality within the next 12 to 18 months, according to Jim Peters, chief technology officer at airline IT supplier Sita. One of the key areas, which will be the secret sauce, is making use of context.
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Open Web Tools Directory
There are an immense number of tools that have been created to help web developers. Unfortunately, you might never know this; there’s no central index of these tools. It turns out that keeping up with all the development in this space is really difficult–even for folks like us who have been tracking it every day for years.
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Microsoft opens Hohm to energy monitoring
Microsoft opened up its Hohm Web application on Monday to U.S. users, a site that gives people a starting point for cutting home energy use. The "brains" behind Hohm's energy-efficiency recommendations is an existing database that Microsoft licensed from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy. That means much of the basic information on how to save money on energy bills has been available for some time from the Energy Department and other sources, if in a disjointed and less attractive form.
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CSS Form Designer to be Released Next Week!
This week our developers offer you a sneak preview of the soon to be released CSS Form Designer. Don't miss out the cool video to find out how easy you can design amazing CSS forms just with Drag & Drop.
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PHP 5.3 Released
The PHP development team has released PHP 5.3.0. This new release has some major improvements and includes a large number of new features.
Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references and much more.
For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.
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Eclipse Galileo Released
The Eclipse Foundation announced the release of Eclipse Galileo, the simultaneous release of 33 projects, including the venerable Eclipse JDT. For component developers, the Galileo release also adds the latest OSGi Declarative Services to the standard Equinox runtime, which is included in the RCP client.
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First Beta of YUI 3.0 Released
This release takes YUI 3 out of its preview phase and brings its APIs to a near-final state. For those intending to implement YUI 3, the 3.0.0 beta 1 release is a good place to begin the transition. If you’ve been working with the latest preview release, George Puckett has provided a comprehensive 3.0.0 beta 1 changelog to guide you. We look forward to hearing your feedback as you begin working with 3.0.0 beta 1, and we’ll work hard to address that feedback as we prepare for a GA release in the coming months.
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Double the YouTube: Now you can upload 2GB videos
Fans of YouTube should be happy, since they have just doubled the size of uploads for users from 1GB to 2GB. The change counts for regular account holders, no fancy account status needed. According to the company, the increase is to compensate for users’ HD uploads.
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