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Hello! I've made an object in paint and saved with jpeg file type. The thing I notice was that after saving it with jpeg, pixels came out in the background. I don't want pixels because I will put this object in my presentation using macromedia director mx and I will …

I work in an area that's dominated by .NET and Microsoft - roughly 98% of the programming job postings I see (as few as they are, since everything is these recruiting and staffing firms) want .NET developers, and I only see the occasional job wanting Java (always requiring years of …

hi everyone... i have to begin a project in vb in a week... i have no experience with vb yet...i was just wondering should i start studying vb now or vb.net ? how similar or different are they ? because we'll be migrating to vb.net soon....

I've been wanting to become, or at least get on the path leading to the position of a Network or Systems Administrator for almost 3 years now. I've google searched everything I can about it, I've talked with a few admins and others in similar IT fields, I've read books... …

Amazon users this weekend noticed that a wide variety of books with gay and lesbian themes -- including [I]Heather Has Two Mommies[/I] and books on how to come out -- were reclassified as "adult" and consequently no longer given sales ranks, nor would they come up on search requests, even …

I want to get to GameStop and the overall video game market, which finally seems to be losing steam. But tech is going nowhere until we straighten the banking mess out and this week’s earnings report from perhaps the biggest bank out there - Citi – is being falsely touted …

Certifications? Okay im currently on a degree (Bsc Hons) course for Applied Computing, going into second year (of 4) I am wondering whether now is the time to be thinking about certifications and stuff? I am definitely wanting to work in IT after graduation. Any reccomendations if so? And tips …

some people think section 11.1 of the Google Docs TOS is the harbinger of the End of Days. other people say that's just mostly-meaningless legalese for Google to cover their own arses. then the first group says that the second group has drank the Mountain View kool-aid. the second group …

This is going to be a high-risk blog entry, I know. But I'm in the UK, it's 1 April at eight minutes past ten in the morning and so far we've had no reports of mass outbreaks of the Conficker virus. The BBC was suggesting it was all overblown in …

I have passed my MCSE exam. Now, I plan to take more certification exams, but I am confused. Can anyone tell me what's good for me now

It didn’t take long for CA to pay the price for the lower earnings outlook that popped up among Wall Street analysts last week. The stock fell 3% today after Jefferies analyst Katherine Egbert downgraded CA to “hold” from “buy”, and lowered her target price for the computer giant’s stock …

Firends Please post your opinion in Yes/No - Is India still an outsourcing king?

I'm a RSS grubber that can't feed enough RSS into my RSS aggregator. If you don't know about RSS, RSS is a great way to get news/articles from multiple sources. Here is a link explaining RSS with many RSS programs you may use to view feeds: [url]http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-10088_7-5143656.html?tag=rss[/url] This comes especially …

If you’re holding shares in Saleforce.com (StockQuote: CRM) it might be time to sell. So says Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Nemeroff. The analyst slashed his rating on Salesforce.com from “hold” to “sell” and says that the online sales giant’s current stock price of $36 is about $10 higher than his …

Hiii all, Their are some fields on the panel.But if you press tab key, it is not focusing the next text/field.I checked TAB sequence ,which is assigned sequentially to each field. I also checked TAB STOP property., Still it is not working. If any one knows the solution for that …

Are there any IT jobs that could be had with a quick 5-month online course that would result in some sort of certification that would allow me to enter the IT job market? It doesn't have to be a 60 plus grand a year career, but something the industry is …

Is it time to get back into the market? I don’t think so – if it walks like a sucker’s market, talks like a sucker’s market, and squawks like a sucker’s market, it’s a sucker’s market. Tech Ticker’s Aaron Task agrees. He says today that the U.S. still haven't dealt …

What are your opinions about implementing 3D into online store web sites? Could 3D improve product presentation in an online-store?

Hello. I am headed back to school this fall to work on getting my bachelors in computer science. In the meantime, I wanted to get my A+ Certification. I am seeking advice on what to study and practice. In addition, should I take an A+ Certification course at a local …

[I]Video killed the radio star. Pictures came and broke your heart. ~Buggles, Video Killed the Radio Star[/I] It turns out the old song was wrong. Video didn't kill the radio star and the internet didn't kill the newspaper industry. It was a failure to embrace new technology, to believe they …

This is my first year in computer science as a sophomore in highschool. I am learning a lot and am very ambitious about learning C++. i hope to eventually major in Comp Science and end up with a job programming software. I was blessed to have such a great teacher, …

A friend of mine an i were wondering the following If there is really a one in 20 million chance of and two files having the same MD5 hash in theory, would it not be possible to recreate a file from the MD5 hash itself? I understand the time involved …

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place, but I don't see any forum here that's more appropriate. Does anybody know about how the "brief passage" exception to US copyright law applies to code? For instance, let's say a somebody (not me) is giving a workshop on good programming practices …

Hello, I'm facing this problem since a long time and unable to resolve it.When I double click on my drive volumes(C:\,E:\....) in My computer Window it doesn't open instead shows some error i.e [B][U]Access is Denied[/U][/B] but when I right click on the volume (C:\,E:\...) and select open then I'm …

Hi This is a post to hopefully get some useful career advice. I'm new to this community however having looked through lots of posts on the forum it looks the best place to ask for advice. I'm 24 years old, currently living in Cumbria. I've am working as an Electronics …

I’m back from a timely and tropical Florida break, and now I’m tanned, rested and ready to talk tech stocks. Issue #1 is Research in Motion, a stock on the upswing (at $44 per share) on news that it plans to roll out a new, full-service TV feature in the …

hi everybody..i would like anybody who can help me give an idea of any project that can use bluetooth as it's main objective.i have a bluetooth microchip and i don't have any idea how to use it.so please help me ;)

My first job on Wall Street was on the equity options floor of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, running trades for Bear Stearns’ clients, mostly market maker and floor brokers trading on their own accounts or for affluent clients. Options are a tricky beast, and I don’t recommend that average investors …

What software can I use to build Flash without Adobe Flash? I can't afford $500+ for the Adobe Software and wonder if there are freeware / shareware available for doing flash sites?

When you rush legislation through Washington, like Congress did with the two financial sector bailout bills, you lose the right to complain when the outcome blows up in your face That means you Senator Chris Dodd, who actually inserted the language in the $170 billion AIG bailout bill guaranteeing the …

One more note on the solar energy piece I wrote about yesterday. Evidently, the bad news on solar energy has made its way across the country. According to Barclays Capital analyst Vishal Shah early today, two solar energy stocks have seen their ratings cut due to lousy demand for solar …

Now that the news is out on IBM’s proposed $6.5 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, analysts are in a lather over why Big Blue wants to make the deal. The Wall Street Journal originally broke the story, reporting that the merger “could help IBM in the finance and telecommunications markets …

The stock market is up about 10 points, trying to find some buoyancy after yesterday’s big 400-point gain. Traders credit two events for the quick market turnaround: Citi coming out and saying it actually made a profit during the last quarter and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announcing that the …

Amazingly, the 100 millionth Nintendo DS handheld video gaming console has been shipped. Since the original Nintendo DS launched way back in 2005, at least here in Europe, it has pretty much dominated the handheld market despite strong competition from Sony with the PSP. Nintendo tell me that, as of …

Many UK participants in Daniweb will be aware of the various social media that carry music. They will have been delighted by the free stuff that you can listen to on [URL="http://www.lastfm.com"]Last.FM[/URL], [URL="http://www.spotify.com"]Spotify[/URL] and [URL="http://www.youtube.com"]YouTube[/URL] - you can even get the Beatles on YouTube, which is pretty much unique among …

Tech employees are starting to take matters into their own hands, with some apparently not above kidnapping. Our story begins in southwestern France, at a soon-to-be-closed Sony plant where employees had suffered numerous layoffs. Frustrated with the aggressive pace of the layoffs, and the seeming arrogance among Sony execs in …

Rumors are rampant over a proposed Verizon-Nokia deal on a 4G mobile device, as equity options traders snapped up calls (options to buy a given stock at lower prices) in anticipation of a big run-up in Nokia’s stock. Nokia is trading at: $8.76, up a tick or two from the …

Hi folks, I hope this is the right place to post this. I'm about to start teaching a course in Operating Systems Theory. I'll have to cover from the basics (What's an OS, some history, hardware basics, etc) to the more complex and interesting stuff (threads, processes, memory management, deadlocks, …

When Warren Buffett talks, Wall Street – and Main Street – listen. And now he’s talking about the future of the U.S. economy. In a wide-ranging, three-hour interview on CNBC yesterday, Buffett said, “the economy has fallen off a cliff.” Noting people have "changed their habits", Buffett seemed very frustrated …

When you are the world's biggest PC maker, your problems tend to be on the large scale when they hit. Such is the case of what the US Consumer Products Safety Commission is calling the biggest recall in the history of the consumer electronics industry. The problem is that a …

Hi, I am working as a freelancer, unfortunately, i am working in private, so no site is watching my conversations and making sure i'm getting paid. I have been working with someone, and lately, I have been suspicious, i have done him big jobs and got paid very little, and …

Just wondering around and see which countries have most programmers :D

The Maryland Court of Appeals has reversed a lower-court ruling that a website must reveal the names of anonymous posters during a defamation hearing, and has issued guidelines for how such requests should be made in the future. The court ruling laid out the following steps in its [URL="http://mdcourts.gov/opinions/coa/2009/63a08.pdf"]decision[/URL]: [LIST=1] …

:confused: hi frands i am in final year information technology i need to give seminar on some new and interesting topic i have already given a seminar in third year on [B]Tele-immersion[/B] now i need any thing else could anybody out there help me by posting the name of some …

[URL="http://skype.com/welcomeback/"]Skype[/URL] is an excellent VoIP phone service for telecommuters or company employees who travel a lot. You can make and receive calls from your computer for free, and get a personalized phone number, voicemail, and other upgrades for a small fee. Skype announced a new fee-based feature this week, voice-to-text …

It wasn't that long ago that we were thrilled when politicians started using Twitter. Now we kinda wish they'd stop -- except for the one who has, it seems, actually stopped. President Barack Obama, who [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2689.html"]began Tweeting[/URL] during his campaign last summer, has fallen silent since Jan. 19 -- the …

Charlie Payne, sounding a lot like Revolutionary War pamphleteer Thomas Paine, says that we're in the 2009 version of “these are the times that try men’s souls”. Of course, the historical Paine once also said that those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the …

So the analysts are saying computers are going to decline in volume shipments this quarter, for the first time in ages. I'm not surprised. The circumstances are probably worse for the IT industry than they were last time this happened, in 2002. The people who make these things have made …

Hello, I am currently looking online for an IT related job. I am wanting to move from my teller job to something that involves computers and pays roughly the same or better than my teller job. Now, with that in mind I realize I may have to take a pay …

Hello I have a house in England, and there I had a broadband connection. Now in my home I had made small network with 2 desktop PC and 1 laptops. I had a, internet line is coming to modem and than going to wireless router(which is four ports) and 2PC’s …