http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/featured-timestamp.html Tech support, programming, web development, and internet marketing community. Forums to get free computer help and support. http://www.daniweb.com/forums/dani-images/misc/dani/logo.gif http://www.daniweb.com http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3548.html It's been a year since Amazon released its Linux-based Kindle Ebook Reader into its online store and currently more than 200,000 people have purchased one. Are you going to join the fray at almost 400USD or wait for my bombshell? I suggest you wait. There have been several articles surrounding the little Kindle lately but the most interesting one is on ZDNet titled Kindle Economics. It's a good article but I think there's a better way. Amazon needs to revamp the Kindle into a more reader friendly sized device, perhaps a 9x6 inch screen (The entire Kindle is only about 7.5x5 inches). I like... IT Water Cooler Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:32 CST khess http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3548.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3547.html I don't know the extent to which this story has crossed the shores to America, but our local friendly far-right political party the British National Party has had details of its members published on the Internet. I'm not going to rehearse their arguments for them - you know the sort of thing, compulsory repatriation for immigrants, jobs for the British at the expense of anyone else who lives on our shores no matter how long their family has been here - we all know the types. I'd have loved to have seen their faces when Obama was elected as the most powerful person in the world. OK, you get... IT Water Cooler Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:01:27 CST GuyClapperton http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3547.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3546.html It's happened at last. Someone has come unstuck because of the contents of their blog. And, relief of reliefs, it's not me. I should explain. Among my activities as a journalist I offer media training - coaching for people who're about to talk to the press. Not how to spin or lie, but how not to be intimidated, how to stand your ground and get your message out there as well as answer the journalist's questions. It's not always as easy as it sounds. One of the questions I often get asked is: what about bloggers and other new media types? They publish what they want without any fear of any... IT Water Cooler Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:50:23 CST GuyClapperton http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3546.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3542.html More news on the economy, this time from Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth at a speech today at The Detroit Economic Club. He told the Club that it is "pretty clear" the U.S. economy is in a recession, adding there will be “no recovery until the housing market stabilizes around the middle of 2009.” "We won't see a real turnaround until the core problem, housing, reaches a bottom, stabilizes and turns the corner. Lewis calls for a $500 billion economic stimulus plan from Washington, primarily to help homeowners behind on their mortgages. "I can't promise the pain won't get any... IT Water Cooler Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:43:05 CST Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3542.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3539.html "Jerry, how can we miss you if you won't go away?" Such was the refrain from Yahoo investors for months on end, who could only watch helplessly as the company lost $20 billion in value under the reign of Jerry Yang. Sure, it's not all Yang's fault. The economy cratered at a time when Yahoo could least afford it and Google's ascent to the top of the web search engine mountaintop didn't give Yahoo a lot of room to maneuver. But tell that to Yahoo shareholders today, many of whom are ecstatic - or whatever passes for ecstatic these days -- as the news of Yang's imminent departure as CEO of... IT Water Cooler Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:36:09 CST Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3539.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3538.html In a report on enterprise open source usage released this week, Gartner research director Laurie Wurster stated in rather strong language that companies could face a big intellectual property issue because they are using the software without understanding the IP implications of the licensing language. But is she exaggerating the danger and is there less complexity with open source licenses than with proprietary ones? What's The Matter Here? According the Gartner press release announcing the survey results, Gartner found that 69 percent of companies surveyed still have no formal policy for... IT Water Cooler Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:50:02 CST Techwriter10 http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3538.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3537.html When cornered by their wife, men sometimes say the most ridiculous things in order to wiggle out of trouble. However, blaming your iPhone for giving the impression you are having an affair has to rate as one of the best excuses ever. According to a posting in the Apple discussion forums a lady called Susan became suspicious of her husband in the infidelity department. Looking through his stuff, she claims that she "took my husband's i-phone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo account)." OK, well, fair enough. Sounds pretty... Coffee House Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:28:34 CST happygeek http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3537.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3527.html A typically eloquent contribution from my colleague Happygeek tells us a great deal about the games console wars. Xbox is outselling the PS3 but they're both being trounced by the Wii. So far so good, but my guess is that the Xbox will still be the long-term loser. And I'll tell you why - the PS3 isn't going to be a games console in its next iteration. That's my guess. You'll want a bit of evidence. First let's have a look at a release I received last week. HiFi manufacturer Denon is releasing what it's convinced is a good-value Blu-Ray DVD player. It costs £600. that's around $978. The... IT Water Cooler Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:18:45 CST GuyClapperton http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3527.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3530.html If you've been clinging to the interoffice email and calendaring capabilities of Microsoft Exchange as your company's last vestige of proprietary software, it's really time to consider giving up the ghost. Open source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange, Inc. announced recently it now offers its flagship product, Open-Xchange, as an appliance edition in addition to its server and hosting versions. Like Microsoft Exchange, it's got email, calendaring, document sharing, contact management, and a backup and recovery system. Unlike Exchange, however, it doesn't come with a hefty price... IT Water Cooler Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:23:29 CST Lisa Hoover http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3530.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3529.html Barrons has a great article today on how tech industry chief information officers and chief financial officers can't keep up with the free-fall in consumer spending. That's why we're seeing so many downward adjustments in industry revenue estimates that, right now, seem to be spread way out into 2009. The magazine is forecasting that with a strengthening dollar and the decline in consumer spending, the technology sector is looking at "multiple quarters of negative revenue growth." That scenario is more bearish than the one presented today by U.S. economists, who are predicting a recession... IT Water Cooler Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:02:38 CST Brian.oco http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3529.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3528.html Do you need to connect your Linux Desktops or Servers to Microsoft's Active Directory (AD)? If you do, now you can learn how to do it straight from the source at Microsoft's TechNet site in the article: Authenticate Linux Clients with Active Directory. Do you wonder why you'd want to do this? It may not be intuitively obvious but there are IT shops out there (maybe even yours) that use Windows exclusively because of Active Directory authentication. Linux is, or was, often excluded because of its inability to integrate successfully with AD. There are a few products like LikeWise Software's ... Tech Talk Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:02:19 CST khess http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3528.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3526.html Was anyone else really looking forward to being able to use the much hyped Google Voice Search feature for the iPhone? I mean, you could not move for news about the thing in the blogosphere last week, even the New York Times ran with a story about it and there was a tempting video demo doing the rounds. Who would not be seduced by the thought of bringing Star Trek alive and doing a Captain Kirk in the high street? iPhone: Google 'fish and chip shops' it is a dream come true for sad folk like me. Well, not quite true. Mainly because Google seems to have lost its voice on this occasion. There... Tech Talk Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:03:44 CST happygeek http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3526.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3525.html If you spend anytime online, posting in forums, discussing blog entries and getting involved in heated IM conversations then the chances are you have said it. Even Lisa and Bart Simpson have said it. Meh. We said meh! Now, meh is officially a word rather than just an online utterance. It has crossed that line between being a strictly US only interjection, a mostly online phenomenon, to being a word in the Collins English Dictionary. It means, as if you did not know, 'an expression of utter boredom or an indication of how little you care for an idea' and can be used as an interjection to... Coffee House Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:38:22 CST newsguy http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3525.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3524.html Google announced on Friday that it was adding on-demand indexing to its hosted Google Site Search product, giving customers the ability to instantly re-index a site after adding new content. This gives web site owners running Google Site Search much greater control over the indexing process than in previous iterations of the product where customers were forced to rely on a pre-defined Google algorithm to determine how often content got re-indexed, a method that proved problematic for customers who wanted to index whenever they added new content. Lot for the Money Nitin Mangtani - Lead... Web Development Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:19:35 CST Techwriter10 http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3524.html http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3523.html Facebook is many different things to many different people, but surely a social networking should be just that, social. Sure, there will always the odd group with a less than pleasant agenda, although usually these take the humour route rather than being downright nasty. So while an anti-Microsoft group might not be all hugs and flowers in intent, it is not in the same league as one proclaiming that members should 'Turn Gypsies into Fuel' for example. The renowned Paris-based anti-nazi organisation, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, recently had cause to write an official complaint to Facebook... Coffee House Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:30:58 CST happygeek http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry3523.html