- Why HD movie downloads are a big lie
- There's a lot of buzz lately about the delivery of HD TV and Movie content over the Internet with shows like Lost being delivered by ABC.com and other video download services with XBox360 or iTunes. I even have friends and colleagues telling me that...
- Blog, 2007-05-31
- Most managers die with their mouths open
- Great leaders ask lots ofquestions. They've figured out that their success depends on it. For a while it seemed that thiswas widely accepted; however lately I seem to be running into moreexecs who are concerned they will look dumb if they let their...
- Blog, 2007-06-01
- Shopping for Windows Vista software and drivers
- We're just now passing the four-month mark since WindowsVista was officially released. So it's at this point that you would expect tofind an abundance of software and device drivers on the market thatare specifically designed for Windows Vista....
- Article, 2007-05-31
- Tuning the Linux kernel for more aggressive network throughput
- The Linux kernel and the distributions that package it typically provide very conservative defaults to certain network settings that affect networking parameters. These settings can be tuned via the /proc filesystem or using the sysctl program. The...
- Blog, 2007-06-04
- 17 photos of what Microsoft Surface can do
- Get a look at Microsoft's newly-announced multi-touch computer interface in this gallery of 17 photos of Microsoft Surface.Surface is currently aimed at consumer products in the hospitality and retail space, but could this new interface eventually...
- Blog, 2007-05-31
- A quick reference guide of HTML tags and their attributes
- Creating documents in HTML or with HTML tags is a common task for many IT professionals these days. This colorful quick reference download will save you time and aggravation when you are trying to remember the syntax of a certain HTML tag or...
- Download, 2007-05-31
- CSS 101: Styling the cursor
- CSS allows you to control the appearance and layout of every aspect of a Web page -- this includes everything from fonts to margins to the cursor. That's right, beginning with CSS 2.1, you can easily control the cursor used when a user browses a Web...
- Blog, 2007-06-04
- Images: A room with a Google Street View
- Perusing images on the new service has quickly become a new favorite way to waste time--and to unearth some unexpected urban sights....
- Image galleries, 2007-05-31
- Why Google loves developers
- Millions of people use Google's Web services every day. Now the search giant wants to actively recruit the geek elite of software programmers. On Thursday, the company will host its first Google Developer Day , attracting 5,000 people to 10...
- News items, 2007-05-31
- How to automatically configure Windows Vista to log you on to a Standard User Account
- Here is a simple tip to automatically login a user.Click on the Start orb and type netplwiz (Advanced User Accounts Control Panel) in the Instant Search Field.On the Users tab, uncheck the Users must enter a user name and password to use this...
- Blog, 2007-05-31
- Google Gears is in motion, but can it compete with Microsoft?
- It looks like Google is taking a step in the right direction in order for the company's Web-based applications to truly compete with Microsoft's desktop applications. With Google Gears, users will be able to access Google applications even when they...
- Blog, 2007-06-01
- iPhone minus 26 and counting
- The CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes hosted an advertisement tonight (Sunday) revealing a June 29 sell date for the iPhoneThe ATT front man for iPhone hinted earlier that Google apps will be available for Apple's handset. Eric Schmidt of Google hinted at...
- Blog, 2007-06-03
- Is VB.Net a deadend language?
- Let's leave out all debate as to whether or not VB.Net is a quality language or not. For a change. What I do know, is that while Microsoft pays a lot of lip service to the idea that VB.Net is a good "glue" language, they do not seem to provide it...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2008
- Microsoft has announced that the next version of Visual Studio, previously known by the code name Orcas, will now be formally known as Visual Studio 2008. Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 will become available later this summer and will include a new...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- A (slightly) prettier multi-select
- I think multi-select lists are perfectly functional--just hold down the Ctrl key while clicking your mouse to pick multiple items from the list. You know what I'm talking about, a multi-select like this one:Check your favorite fast food: McDonald's...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- ASUS and Intel slaughters OLPC with Eee-ase
- ASUS and Intel have actually created an alternative for Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) called the "Eee PC". The difference here is that the ASUS Eee PC is actually something that looks usable and perhaps even desirable for...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- Advice for a tech whose job is being outsourced to India? What IT specialties are hot right now?
- TechRepublic member dannyHK, a support tech from Hong Kong, recently posted:"I am having my job outsourced to India. Is there such a thing as a career in IT anymore or is it a cheap, value-less, commodity now? Should I look at another area? Seems...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- New study says that offshoring is freeing up more money for new IT investments
- Info-Tech Research Group has released the results of its study on U.S. IT spending. The Canadian researchers expects that IT departments will increase spending from $840 billion in 2006 to $884 billion in 2007, a rise of 5.24%. By 2010, Info-Tech...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- Use the revised OWASP Top Ten to secure your Web applications -- Part 7
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.The seventh installment in the 2007 OWASP Top 10 series takes a look at broken authentication and session management vulnerabilities. Tom Olzak explains the nature of this weakness followed...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- Complexity climbs for cellular companies contemplating configuring Cupertino's cellphones
- Yahoo's picked up a report from a Britblogger suggesting iPhones require more than usual from mobile operators. That blogger, nicknamed Telebusillis, linked to three iPhone video ads appearing, then relayed a mobile phone retailer reported in a...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- Hide shared folders with Windows XP Pro's Net command line tool
- By sharing a folder in Windows XP Pro, it usually means thatyou want network users to be able to find and access the folder in the MyNetwork Places tool. If you want to share a folder with only certain users, youcan use the Net command line tool to...
- Article, 2007-06-06
- A David to TiVo's Goliath: Mythbuntu
- Tivo, after eight years in the red, has been inching towards profitability, with cost-cutting the key this quarter. But, everyone wants a piece of time-delay digital video recording. Cablecos, DirecTV and Echostar's DISH Network sell house...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- Yahoo: One hit, one error and one high fly ball...
- Hit: Yahoo's new no-fee API ('Panama') is available to all businesses, not just major firms and advertising agencies. This isn't new news, it's been leaked for weeks, but it is good news to everyone, I feel, for public and well-documented systems...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- Mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack
- There's a great variety of attacks and hacks that black hats can perpetrate on your network. Fortunately, you can prevent most of them using an assortment of security measures.However, a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) is an entirely...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- Google Assessment - Patching is critical to web server security
- In a recent blog post, the Google Anti-Malware Team wrote that Microsoft IIS servers account for 49 percent of all web sites hosting or distributing malicious code. This was based on an examination of approximately 70,000 domains that have either...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
- Google acquires PeakStream: Tweaking the Web giant's need for power processing.
- FeedBurner, Panoramio and now PeakStream, Google is at its acquiring best again. This time however, it's a strong move towards acquiring a firm that directly feeds to the Web major's requirement, core server-processing power. The start-up firm...
- Blog, 2007-06-06
