The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), which allows developers to take web applications to the desktop and store data offline, is finally coming to Linux. Adobe announced today that the pre-release alpha version of AIR for Linux is available immediately on the Adobe Labs site. Adobe shipped the 1.0 version of AIR for Windows and Mac [...]
f you happen to type a web address on Google that doesn’t exist (e.g., google.com/yahoo, google.com/adsence), you are no longer shown the default 404 Error Page that says “The requested URL was not found on this server.” Since errors like 404 are like greek to most people, Google is taking a more user friendly approach [...]
The Password Meter web utility tests the strength of your passwords as you type it, scoring your password strength based on a number of positive and negative password attributes. The test measures your password’s number of characters, type of characters used, and the order of your characters. (Sequential letters or numbers, for example, equals weak [...]
Early reports Sunday indicate that Office Open XML (OOXML) appears to have enough votes to be certified an ISO standard. An official tally is not expected until Monday. As the votes come in from the 87 national standards bodies, so have a number of complaints of irregularities and strong-arm tactics in different countries, including Poland [...]
Wikipedia has announced that at “Thursday, March 27, at 00:07 UTC” the worldwide article count for all Wikipedias hit 10 million. The 10 millionth article was posted on the Hungarian Wikipedia and is about Nicholas Hilliard, a 16th century English goldsmith and painter. If you are a stats junkie, Wikipedia has an in-depth stats archive [...]
Want to make your email campaigns look more professional? HTMLEmailers can help. It’s as new website that offers a number of different mailer designs. All the templates are free to download. You can also get the straight HTML if you want. The designer offers custom layouts and designs as well, but for a fee. The [...]
Need some icons? You’re in luck, because FreeIconsDownload offers just that, royalty free icons which come in a variety of formats. Whether you’re looking for food icons, business icons, or simply amusing icons to decorate your homepage, FreeIconsDownload has got it. All their icons are conveniently categorized by type. The homepage showcases the latest additions, [...]
Just launched Zemanta claims they’re making blogging fun again. So just what do they have in mind? Basically, they take the effort out of blogging, by suggesting contextually relevant stuff—links, photos, and related content—which you can put in your blog making it even more interesting and traffic worthy. All you have to do is start [...]
Let the streetspotting continue! Google LatLong blog posted that Google added Street View support to 13 new metro areas. Google has been doing this a lot lately; this brings the total number of cities and areas with Street View support to 37. Street View imagery has also been expanded in 6 existing cities: Denver, Houston, [...]
If there’s one thing Apple users love to taunt Windows users about, it’s security. Mac owners giddily flaunt their lack of virus scanners and lack of worries in front of their PC comrades, whose machines look comparatively bloated with virus scanners, firewalls, and daily patch updates to fix the exploit du jour. Bad news for [...]
