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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
Near-final Thunderbird 3 due next week
News Coming in the next version of Mozilla's e-mail software: easier setup, better search, a tabbed interface, and if all goes to plan, a richer world of add-ons.
Tags: Web browsers, E-mail servers, Google Inc., E-mail servers, software, Web Browser, Web browsers, Mozilla Thunderbird, Messaging, Mozilla Corp.
Norton AntiVirus 9.0 for Macintosh
Product Reviews Norton AntiVirus 9.0 for Macintosh
Tags: Word macro virus, LiveUpdate, Norton Co., Apple Macintosh, antivirus, Symantec Norton AntiVirus, virus, Symantec Corp., virus definition, disk
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
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
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, security consultant, Twitter Inc., F-Secure Corp., Sophos Plc., SSH, Graham Cluley, Password, Virus Attack
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 Chrome 4.0 graduates to beta status
News There's no Mac OS X or Linux version yet, and extensions are disabled, but a significant new version of Chrome is heading to a broader audience.
Tags: Web browsers, Web sites, Google Inc., Security, Web Page, Web sites, Web Browser, Apple Macintosh, Google Chrome, performance
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
Alterna-browsers Firefox, Chrome get quick fixes
News Just eight days after a previous update, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5 introduces fast fixes for three bugs, one of which was critical. Google Chrome has also been updated for security and stability.
Tags: Web browsers, Browser, Google Inc., Browser, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5, Copy Image Feature, Security, Web Browser, Web browsers, Apple Macintosh
Use WSRM for resource provisioning in Server 2008
Techguide Improvements to the terminal services functionality in Windows Server 2008 are vast and feature rich. The Windows System Resource Manager allows policy-based allocation for memory and CPU resources.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Infrastructure/architecture management, provisioning, Policy, Ohio, Rick Vanover, Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server
