| Google Drive vs. SkyDrive |
| After years of rumors and whispers, Google finally released its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage service in April, combining Dropbox-like synching abilities and a PC client with the company's Google Docs service. |
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| Amiga – Mixing It Up |
| The first piece of music I shall make you aware of is a very unusual one. 'Dweller' has created a piece of music called 'Memories of a Turbo Challenge'. Essentially it's a piano arrangement of Barry Leitch's theme from the Lotus Turbo Challenge game (one of the most remixed pieces of Amiga music ever). |
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| Java Networking : java.net.URL |
| A URL has several components. The first component denotes the protocol to use to retrieve the resource. In the preceding example, the protocol is HTTP. The second part, www.yahoo.com, is the host. |
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| The New Domain Names (Part 2) |
| Integral to the ICANN process is a seven- month objection period, which commenced on 'Reveal Day'. You may be surprised to know objections are not limited to other applicants. |
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| The New Domain Names (Part 1) |
| The domain name system is managed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organisation established in 1998 with a US government mandate to "Improve the Technical Management of Internet Names and Addresses." |
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| MobileMe Gallery after iCloud |
| With MobileMe and iPhoto or Aperture, you could quickly and easily publish a gallery of selected images to share with friends, family, colleagues or clients. Not so with iCIoud, or at least not to the same degree. |
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| Iweb And Its Replacement (Part 3) |
| All you need to do is enter your text, using a visual word processing environment, and either drag in your images or add them using the familiar OS X media panel. You don’t need to understand any code, but if you are familiar with HTML and CSS you can design your own templates for a truly unique site. |
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| Iweb And Its Replacement (Part 2) |
| WordPress is available as a free download from wordpress.org for installation on any server running PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5. This covers the vast majority of consumer-level hosting deals, and many ISPs offer the app as a one-click install option from your domain control panel; it takes about five minutes. |
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| Iweb And Its Replacement (Part 1) |
| If you’ve been publishing iWeb sites to MobileMe, they’re going to disappear on 30 June. You need to either republish each site to a web server hosted elsewhere, or, if you can’t do that because you no longer have the original iWeb document, retrieve your files from your MobileMe account now. |
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| Apple Extends An Olive Branch In The Dying Days Of MobileMe |
| Apple has extended its offer of 20GB of free iCloud storage for MobileMe subscribers until 30 September. MobileMe, the online syncing and storage service that preceded iCloud, is due to close completely on 30 June after a year’s notice and Apple is stepping up its attempt to persuade users to switch to iCloud while there’s still time. |
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| iCloud and Snow Leopard |
| Optimists will point to a much-circulated System Preferences screen grab, of which MacRumors has a copy at bit.ly/HlfRtl, which suggests Snow Leopard is set to gain iCIoud support with an upcoming 10.6.9 update. That would be great, but if the rumour turns out to be incorrect, you’re going to have to look for workarounds. |
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| This Will Be The End Of Me |
| Yet by the time its replacement, iCloud, was revealed at WWDC 2011, MobileMe had come to underpin much of the everyday Mac and iOS functionality that users relied on. Besides email , it synced contacts, calendars, bookmarks and more. It hosted online photo galleries created in iPhoto and websites designed in iWeb. |
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| Password Hacks Raise User Fears |
| The passwords that had been decoded were immediately invalidated by the company, and LinkedIn emailed users whose accounts were affected to explain how to change their passwords. |
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| JavaScript Patterns : Essentials - for Loops |
| A problem with this pattern is that the length of the array is accessed on every loop iteration. This can slow down your code, especially when myarray is not an array but an HTMLCollection object. |
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| JavaScript Patterns : Essentials - Minimizing Globals |
| JavaScript uses functions to manage scope. A variable declared inside of a function is local to that function and not available outside the function. On the other hand, global variables are those declared outside of any function or simply used without being declared. |
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| IIS 7.0 Manager Customization and Extensibility |
| IIS Manager is not just an application, but rather an extensible platform that developers can use to plug in their own features to manage custom settings and applications. Developers can change the UI, remove existing features, and add new administration features. |
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| IIS 7.0 : Using Command Line Tools - Working with Configuration |
| You can specify multiple parameters to set multiple configuration attributes of a section in a single command. You cannot specify each parameter more than once, however. Due to a bug, if you specify the same attribute more than once, the last value takes effect. |
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| IIS 7.0 : Using Basic Verbs: List, Add, Set, Delete |
| Most Appcmd objects support the basic set of verbs: List, Add, Set, and Delete. These verbs operate in a fairly consistent way across objects, which makes Appcmd easy to use after you get a feel for how these verbs work. |
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| Java EE 6 : New features introduced in Servlet 3.0 (part 1) |
| Java EE 6 includes a new version of the Servlet API-Servlet 3.0. This version of the Servlet API includes several new features that make servlet development easier. Servlet 3.0 also makes it easier to take advantage of modern web application techniques such as Ajax. |
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| Web Blocking |
| The spectre of website blocking found its way back onto the news pages again recently when BT announced it had implemented a court-ordered block on the Pirate Bay website. |
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