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On April 10th Microsoft Program Management announced Internet Explorer 8 distribution in Automatic Update of Windows. The update will be optional on the opt-in basis with the options to Ask Me Later, Install and Don’t Install. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the fact that iPhone + Skype make a working platform for many smart people from various industries, official Skype app for iPhone is still nowhere to be found. It has given ground to Nimbuzz, IM+, fring and all the others trying to find hacks and linkages in between these two. The following How-to is no different in its ways to bring Skype Voicemail to iPhone. Read the rest of this entry »

Paul Neave, London-based interactive designer, has launched a truly great Flash website to put his ventures on display. Very nice minimalist design, easy to use and functional.

Paul Neave has been on Flash for over 10 years both with Neave.com and for design agencies in Manchester and London. Visit Neave.com.

Gmail, world’s leading free webmail by Google is undisputedly the best product of the kind on the market today, yet again, once it comes to corporate requirements, it fails in a number of aspects.
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Even though Safari makes a perfect platform for web development due to the strict standard policies practiced by WebKit core developers, you still can’t do without developer tools on it. While Mozilla Firefox has a superb Firebug extension, WebKit has Web Inspector. Read the rest of this entry »

If you run English Flash CS4 on a non-English system you might have noticed that Flash components installed with Adobe Extension Manager don’t turn up in Components panel anymore. It’s another bug vs feature situation by Adobe. Read the rest of this entry »

During the development of any portal site one should consider basic wording in the critical parts of the hierarchy, e.g. the main branches of the site appearing in site paths. Since these matters can be most confusing at the times, Search Engine Optimisation techniques can come to rescue.

In this case it’s the casino site that deals with funding possibilities of various casinos and poker rooms with a link to eWallets. The wording possibilities are payment method vs payment option vs deposit method vs deposit option.
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A new version of obfuscatr email obfuscation widget introduces support for + addresses (e.g. john+newsletters@company.com). Somewhat a forced update by obfuscatr users, it is still a minor update and does not add much to the latest release of 1.1.0 introduced by Flashbit precisely a year ago. Read the rest of this entry »

There are times you need to share some sensitive data with associates or mates that you don’t want to share to anyone else or leave any possibilities for others to open and read/copy. One possibility would be to use password protected packing like ZIP or RAR. But that wouldn’t be flexible in terms of further editing which is why macheads use DMG. Read the rest of this entry »

In recent years many of us have converted to Macs and still doesn’t know how to use some of the gems of the platform. Creating disk images for sharing your stuff with people on the same platform is just one of them.
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