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Apple iPhone 3G S
Reviews The iPhone 3G S isn't as big an advance as the iPhone 3G was from the first-generation model, but Apple's latest handset is still a compelling upgrade for some users. It's faster, and we appreciate the new features and extended battery life.
Tags: Battery, Apple Inc., Feature, Smart Phone, Apple iPhone 3G, Cell Phone, Video, GPS, Internet radio, photograph
New Firefox 3.6 beta aims to cut crashes
News Third beta imposes new restriction on how third-party software can interact with it. And feature called Resource Package could speed up Firefox 3.7.
Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Web Page, Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., Beta, release candidate, Mozilla Firefox, performance
Google set to promote Chrome extensions
News One of the standout features of Chrome 4.0 is customization through extensions. Google appears on the brink of launching a gallery to showcase them.
Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Google Inc., Web Browser, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, Apple Mac OS, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox
Space controls evenly across an Access form
Techguide Access offers a handy command that makes it easy to give your forms a more polished look. See how equally spacing controls can improve the effect.
Tags: Building Block, Document, Feature, Goto, F5 Networks Inc., Figure E, Figure B, Figure C, Figure D, Microsoft Excel
Agile project management: Estimating the unknown
Techguide Rick Freedman explains why estimation in an agile environment is not as mysterious as many project managers think.
Tags: Project management, IT project management, NEC Corp., Feature, Project, Project Management Institute, Rick, Environment, Carnegie-Mellon University, technique
Chrome gets Mac deadline, extensions foundation
News Google has revealed its goal for releasing Mac OS X and Linux versions of its browser. Also, cutting-edge Chrome sports early work to enable extensions.
Tags: Web browsers, Software engineering/development, Feature, Google Chrome, Web Browser, Google Inc., Web Page, Apple Macintosh, CSS, Linux
Employ refactoring to write better code
Techguide Discover Visual Studio add-ins that bring refactoring--the practice of making code cleaner and clearer without affecting the functionality--to the Visual Basic community.
Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Feature, Code, Developer, Extreme Programming, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, development environment, Visual Studio IDE, Refactoring
Will HTML5 bring about better markup authoring?
Techguide HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address and the features that might be most contentious.
Tags: Web browsers, Feature, Specification, Web Browser, Google Inc., Author, Browser Company, W3C, Web Application, HTML5
Google to let users test new Gmail features
News Beginning Friday, users can try out 13 new Gmail features the company is considering.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Feature, Google Inc., font, e-mail, product manager, Mountain View, blog, California
Rickroll virus attacks iPhones
News The 'ikee' worm replaces the infected device's background picture with an image of Rick Astley.
Tags: Mobile platforms, Viruses and worms, Twitter Inc., security consultant, F-Secure Corp., Sophos Plc., SSH, Graham Cluley, Password, Virus Attack
What Windows 7 means to security admins
Techguide Windows expert Greg Shultz reviews the most significant differences in Windows 7 that will affect the role of security administrators, including changes to UAC, the new AppLocker, and BitLocker To Go.
Tags: Security, Data security, PC security, Windows 7, AppLocker, NTLM Authentication Protocol, Microsoft Corp., Windows 7, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Windows Vista
Wikipedia to add editing safeguard for the living
News New feature to be deployed soon on a test wiki assigns an experienced editor to sign off on changes to articles on those who are alive and well.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Data Management, Wiki, Wikipedia, Server, New York Times Co., job, spokesman, Web 2.0
Google Translate now helps with pronunciation
News It's one thing to translate a word, but it's another thing to know how to correctly pronounce a word written in an unfamiliar character set. Google Translate just added that feature.
Tags: Service level management, Google Inc., English, Language, Service level management
Chrome extensions arriving in developer version
News The top-requested feature in Google's browser is now enabled by default--though only on the Windows version for developers.
Tags: Web browsers, Extension, Apple Macintosh, CSS, social bookmarking, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Programming, Microsoft Windows, Linux
Zap unwanted formatting in Word
Techguide You can spend a lot of time formatting content in a Word document and then even more time trying to get rid of it!
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office, Customization Tool, Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel 2010, Excel 2010, October Sale, C, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Microsoft Excel 2007
