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 | [URL="http://www.facebook.com"]Facebook[/URL] has decided to kill off its virtual gifts. According to a report from [URL="http://mashable.com/2010/07/08/facebook-gifts-rip/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29"]Mashable[/URL] nobody is saying why, they're just cutting it out. I'll tell you why. Because it was a rubbish idea, poorly executed. OK, rephrase: as a standalone idea, it sucked. As a component of something else … |
 | Microsoft and Apple haven't had a great time of it recently with mobile consumers. For Microsoft, the market roundly rejected the Kin, which just about anyone who follows the cell phone market knew would happen. Meanwhile, Apple is taking it on the chin about how they are handling the iPhone … |
| | Apple had a great week last week when it launched the iPhone 4 to much fanfare. [URL="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/29/business/la-fi-iphone-sales-20100629"]1.7 million units[/URL] reportedly flew out the door in the first three days alone setting sales records. People [URL="http://www.pcworld.com/article/199761/hundreds_wait_in_line_as_iphone_4_goes_on_sale.html"]waited in long lines[/URL]; reportedly longer lines than for the iPad debut or the iPhone 3G … |
| | Hello; I recently started having a problem on my Dell E1505 laptop running Windows XP-SP3, where multiple internet browser windows start opening by themselves ramdomly. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm using IE8, Firefox or AOL Browser, the problem keeps happening. There are times where it won't happen for … |
 | Have you ever wanted to write your own code to create software for the Mac, iPhone or even the iPad but have never actually programmed on a Mac platform? Great, then this new book by Tim Isted is for you. Tim has been coding for the Mac for 15 years, …  |
| | APPLE sold a record 600,000 in pre-orders in a single day last week, and BGC analyst Colin Gillis expects Apple to set a record for being the first company to sell a million smartphones in a single day. iphone is currently in the third position in terms of market share … |
 | According to the Associated Press article, "[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100706/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_technology_consolidation;_ylt=Aue.2rGwfTjg.EXFBurPtDIjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTMwZ2I5cjU2BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzA2L3VzX3RlY190ZWNobm9sb2d5X2NvbnNvbGlkYXRpb24EY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA3RlY2hjdXN0b21lcg--"]Tech customers question industry's takeover spree[/URL]," large technical companies have absorbed smaller tech companies to the detriment of their customers although these tech "sponges" say they're doing it "for their customers." How can there be such a disparity between the reality of customer pain … |
| | I recently opened internet explorer for the first time in a long time, and I haven't been able to close it since. It opens up in the background and for whatever reason turns down the volume on my machine. Whats even more bizarre is that it is in the Processes …  |
| | Last week was a tough week for Apple followers as we were bombarded with a slew of stories that sounded dire, but upon further examination maybe weren’t so bad (or maybe they were). Confused yet? You’re not alone. Let’s look at three stories from last week that illustrate this issue. … |
| | 1 at first my comp's firewall kept turning off and lagging insanely and if it did, it would "not send error/send error" thing would pop up everywhere, and while doing nothing, like as if i was typing in notepad, avast would pop up and block a "trojan horse" or malware, … |
| | I recieved an Iphone 2g and wanted to remove all the content inside it. So i went to remove all content and data, and it told me it will take two hours. Whilst it was charging on my laptop, I let it progress until i saw that it was loading, … |
| | The news - or rather unsubstantiated reports - that Apple is developing an online, cloud version of iTunes can be no surprise to anyone. The surprise, in the light of [URL="http://www.spotify.com"]Spotify[/URL], [URL="http://www.sky.com/songs"]Sky Songs[/URL] and other competitors is that Apple hasn't made a move before. You could actually argue that the … |
| | I have an 80GB iPod Classic (the one where the first screen is split with left half menu and right half cover artwork). I started having this problem after I resetted to factory settings from iTunes. It seems like the screen is zoomed in or something, like instead of seeing … |
| | Apple released [URL="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/02appleletter.html"]a letter[/URL] this morning explaining its infamous iPhone 4 reception issues. I encourage you to read it and then come back. The letter is so bizarre to me I thought at first it was joke or a hoax like Steve Jobs' [URL="http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/01/steve-jobs-calm-down-email-is-a-hoax-says-apple/"]"Relax, It's a Only a Phone email[/URL]." … |
| | My computer keeps redirecting me.I not too smart at all this stuff but i do have this log file. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4 Scan saved at 4:40:47 PM, on 7/2/2010 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 SP3 (8.00.6001.18702) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe …  |
| | Microsoft got some good news this week when new data showed they had gained market share on rivals Firefox and Chrome last month. It might very well be a temporary data glitch, especially when news came out today that [URL="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/070110-ibm-employees-use-firefox.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2010-07-01"]IBM was recommending that its 40,000 employees use Firefox[/URL] instead of … |
 | Hello there! I'm a student who has just finished my 1st year of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. My main language at present is predictably Java, but over summer I want to learn Python. Glad to be joining what looks like a cool community! Name: Steve Nickname: Ste/Lolecule … |
 | i went to college to be an engineer, came out 6 years later with a degree in discrete mathematics, & have since worked as a software developer in a corporate IT shop. i'm considering retooling once again, this time towards something like what i suppose people mean by industrial engineering. … |
 | Hey everyone. I'm having trouble getting my DCHP server working. I have a Mac G5 with Fedora 9 installed on it. It has two NICs, one is the onboard Apple NIC (eth1), the other is an Intel (eth0). I'm trying to get it to where eth1 has outside access to … |
| | According to recent [URL="http://blog.quantcast.com/quantcast/2010/06/may-mobile-os-share-north-america.html"]reports[/URL] the Android operating system has an impressive 19.9% share of the US mobile web market. That's still some way behind Apple iOS on 58.8% but the iPhone has been around for a lot longer. It should come as no surprise, then, that Yahoo! wants to get … |
| | As Woot said today “Holy crap!”, as they signed an agreement with Amazon for $110 Million(do you think that includes the $5 shipping?) I am not sure if this agreement has anything to do with the $4 Million Amazon gave Woot a little over 2 years ago. The original deal … |
| | Do you guys know of any way to create a presentation on a website WITHOUT showing load bars? Background info: it is about photography website where someone after seeing full size picture could click to view it in a room setting. Right now my developer created a presentation where full … |
| | This month sees the 75th anniversary of one of the cornerstones in the IT industry and it's name is neither Apple nor Microsoft. In 1935 the Fuji Tsushinki Manufacturing Corporation was founded in Japan, although you will probably know it better by the name it adopted later: Fujitsu. [attach]15619[/attach]Quite apart … |
 | Hey guys, I was working on embedding image using the object tag with quicktime. i was succesfully embed it [COLOR="Red"]but it seems like i cannot display the playback controls (like "play","pause","stop" etc)[/COLOR]. Here's my code: [CODE] <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="478" height="383"> <param name="src" value="movie.mov" /> <param name="autoplay" value="false" /> <param … |
 | After the rundll error message (c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\dlcctime.dll) began, I could not print on my Dell924. I uninstalled my printer. When I reinstalled, only the scan, fax, copy appear to be installed. The actual "printer" will not install. I "can" scan and copy (don't use fax feature). I have Norton Internet Security … |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]15613[/ATTACH]Many iPhone users had a great deal of issues with AT&T since iPhone4 (which is 3G) was released last week. I don't want to get ahead of myself here but [URL="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-29/verizon-wireless-said-to-get-iphone-in-january.html"]Bloomberg Business Week is reporting[/URL] that the iPhone will be available through Verizon Wireless come January 2011. It is not … |
| | How many people enjoy their service with AT&T? <Peers out into audience holding hand over his eyes> Not many, not many. And AT&T just seems to keep getting more unfriendly all the time. Recently they announced data caps just before the release of iPhone 4 (see [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story287711.html"]New AT&T Data Plans … |
| | Someone posing as Apple head honcho Steve Jobs on Twitter has managed to fool a major UK newspaper into reporting that the [URL="http://www.apple.com/iphone/"]iPhone 4[/URL] would be recalled after posting a Tweet which said "We may have to recall the new iPhone. This, I did not expect". The Daily Mail website … |
| | Is it true that, if you speak up for GNU/Linux on the Desktop, you get flamed? I just had a virtual conversation with someone who claims that this assertion is fact. I've never experienced this anti-Desktop Linux sentiment or maybe my memory has failed me. I don't think the Linux … |
| | To get down and dirty in mobile phone competition, [URL="http://www.nokia.com"]Nokia[/URL] [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65N20Y20100624"]decides[/URL] to take on Apple and Google by adopting the Linux [URL="http://meego.org"]MeeGo[/URL] platform for its new N-Series phones. Back in February of this year, [URL="http://www.intel.com"]Intel[/URL] and Nokia [URL="http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1384419"]teamed up[/URL] to create the MeeGo mobile phone platform. This bold move allows … |
| | Many a gadget freak has claimed 'I would kill for an iPad' over the last few weeks, but as the world officially goes iPad crazy ask your self this: would you die for an iPad? That's the rather serious question being asked as the Chinese factory where the iPad is … |
| | [URL="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/23/hp-goes-nutsie-for-melodeo-pays-30-million-for-music-streaming-service/?utm_source=SNSanalytics&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=Tech+News"]HP purchased streaming music service Melodeo[/URL] today for $30M. Big whoop you might say, but if you look at this purchase in the context of other recent purchases including [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/hp-buys-palm/"]Palm[/URL] earlier this year, it shows a clear pattern. HP wants to be a playah in the mobile market and they … |
| | I know it sounds crazy but the Linux Desktop isn't dead, it's just pining. It's pining for the correct platform--a tablet computer. And, I'm not referring to some cheap imitation tablet that will merely satisfy a few observers and nerdlets who use Linux. I'm thinking of a tablet computer for … |
| | That's right, free. And if it's free, it's for me. Software promoter MacHeist is my new best friend, and for the next five days is giving away [url=http://www.macheist.com/]nanoBundle[/url], a package of six Mac OS X applications including the highly-rated Twitterrific, which normally sells for US$15. In all, $154 worth of … |
| | Apple has apparently shipped 3 million iPads. You'll be aware of that because you read the papers, the blogs, the press releases - and Apple is brilliant at telling everyone when it has a hit (I don't remember getting so much information when it was pushing the Newton). No doubt … |
| | Hi, My VirusScan pops up with an alert anytime I try to start a Microsoft Office 2007 program, such as Word, Excel or Powerpoint. (For example, the pathname shown by the VirusScan Alert is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\EXCEL.EXE::GetProcAddress). It doesn't do this with anything else, web access etc. are fine. It … |
| | Ok, Not sure if you require specs, but a few main ones are; Dell XPS M1530 Windows Vista 32-bit This problem started a few days ago, i can honestly say i don't have a clue how it started. I lent my laptop too my brother one day... day later suddenly …  |
| | Hi, I am trying to use strtok()..the idea is to split the text in tokens seperated by ";" as the delimiter. The text is in two parts like: apple;mango (apple being the first part and mango being the second I want to split into). The code I'm using: [CODE] #include<stdio.h> …  |
| | Does anyone know how to do the input focus fade in and fade outs that is seen at Apple's mobile me website at [url]http://www.me.com[/url]? I would love to implement it in my own login box.  |
| | A friend's computer. He downloaded a bunch of crap in an attempt at antivirus protection. Clicking on malware popups. He paid money to RegTool. Can someone please assist this aspiring PC/Security nerd in cleaning his dirty logs? :) It would be greatly appreciated. I am currently running Microsoft Malicious Software … |
| | I got a gloating email today from those awfully clever folk at Wolfram Alpha which informed me that the iPhone app version of the '[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4111.html"]Computational Knowledge Engine[/URL]' popped up on the App Store What's Hot list. What's more, they positively gushed at how they were "pleasantly surprised" to see the … |
| | The long-awaited iPad, the tablet computer from Apple had its coming out party this afternoon and for a while, I wondered if the event was even worth watching. For the first half hour, Jobs droned on about web pages, video and email like they were some fantastic new phenomena we … |
| | Adobe Systems, Inc. the San Francisco-based software company, that has been heavily criticized recently by Apple, Inc CEO Steven Jobs, [URL="http://www.macworld.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=3227682&blogid=14"]announced yesterday[/URL] they were releasing a mobile version of Flash, starting with Android cell phone OS. Adobe states in the press release that Flash is already one of the top … |
| | A few days ago I was reporting that people were [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story291008.html"]unable to buy an iPhone 4[/URL] even if they were an existing customer. It gets more complicated. The story now is that O2 and other UK carriers are accepting orders only from people who are existing customers. (Except me, as … |
| | Dear All, I'm developing a small Java application which will use Espeak to speak certain text. Now I pass the test as command line argument [I]$espeak -s 50 "a for apple"[/I] It works perfect on command line Now in my program, I've used [I]String cmd = "espeak -s 50 \"A … |
| | hi all, i am trying to connect an old apple monitor (this one: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Color_Display"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Color_Display[/URL]) to my ph dv6000 laptop. i've got all the adaptors i need to make it work with a vga cable (14 pins, no 9th pin), but the colour is coming out all red tinted, and when … |
| | Let me get one thing straight: the [URL="http://www.apple.com/iphone/"]iPhone 4[/URL] is undoubtedly a beautiful device. It's due out in the UK next week - stop giggling - and I would very much like one. The problem is that although ordering started on Tuesday, I've been unable to order one. This is … |
| | i recently got a mac, i have a HP scanner thats a piece of junk but i need to install it anyway. it is osx compatible. i have the install disk. the hp site doesn't seem to help. can someone give me detailed instructions. i'm lost.. thanks in advance :rolleyes: |
| | Politics makes strange bedfellows, and so does business apparently. In the wake of Google's frontal attack on Apple at I/O recently, and this week's reports that [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5552152/google-hq-throwing-out-windows-in-favor-of-os-x-or-linux"]Google was dropping Windows as an OS [/URL]choice throughout its company, it seems that Apple could be running into the arms of Microsoft for … |
| | Steve Jobs of [URL="http://www.apple.com"]Apple[/URL] has declared that [URL="http://www.microsoft.com"]Microsoft[/URL] Windows is in terminal decline. No really, that's what he's said at the [URL="http://allthingsd.com/d/"]All Things Digital[/URL] conference in LA. And he's had backing from people like Dreamworks, who now access the Internet through an iPad. OK, we'll take it as read that … |
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