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Adobe has recently launched a new software – “Muse“, an HTML based tool, which can be used to create and build websites. Very recently, it also launched a new design tool called EDGE. Muse is specifically designed for those who do not have any prior knowledge about HTML or JavaScript or CSS. This is perhaps [...]
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There are reports which say that Zynga, the largest maker of games on the Facebook, is going to file for an IPO. According to what the close sources and the media reports say, this is about to happen as soon as the present week, if not, then certainly by the next week. Although Zynga has [...]
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Are you not sure about how you spent half a day at the blink of an eye? Are you addicted to online games and social media? Well there is a good news (or a had one?) for you. You are going to get more addicted. Zynga has got a master-plan for that. Zynga acquired the domain [...]
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What do you make if it when Microsoft says it “loves open source” ? You realize you are on ‘Candid Camera’ !! “We love open source; We have worked with open source for a long time now” says Jean Paoli of Microsoft in a recent interview with Network World. The mistake of equating all open [...]
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Google has released a Web Application Security Scanner over at Google Code. This can be used to scan you site for possible security issues which might be lurking around. Skipfish prepares an interactive site-map for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. This scanner is easy to setup on an [...]
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I just came across a great tool for transcoding videos in Ubuntu. HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. They’ve also got Ubuntu installers which make it easy to install this available in a GUI and a commandline version. Using handbrake you can convert your DVDs [...]
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If you’re using Linux as your primary OS, here’s a useful too to check for broken links on your websites. gURLChecker is a simple tool to check for broken links on any website. It can work on a whole site, a single local page or a browser bookmarks file. If you’re using Ubuntu, it’s quite [...]
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Image by roland via Flickr Here’s a chance for you all to win a free license for Gravity, a native S60 Twitter client with a really slick interface. MyNokiaWorld is holding a contest to giveaway 4 licenses to Gravity. All you have to do is to tweet or blog about the contest or subscribe to [...]
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I’ve always wanted to know how the various opensource search engines performed when running head to head with each other. I’ve personally not had the time nor patience to setup such a benchmark. Luckily Vik Singh has done just that and blogged the results of the benchmark. He’s benchmarked the latest versions of Lucene, sqlite, [...]
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Here is a plugin for Gimp which gives you a “Save for Web” option in GIMP. This plugin gives you the option of preparing your images for the web by optimizing it, adding additional compression, stripping EXIF information from the images to reduce it’s size. You can preview the resultant image before you save your [...]
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