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August 19, 2010 – Sydney, Australia – Anansi Web Development announces its latest iPhone web app project, Store Locator for iPhone, a powerful yet simple and easy-to-use Store Locator web app for iPhone users. Store Locator for iPhone offers a hosted solution for franchise owners and service providers who are looking to have a mobile [...]

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Dreamhost Easter Special is available for the week of Easter. Use promo code EASTER10 to get $60 off from one year or two year dreamhost hosting packages when you sign up before 10 April 2010. Promo code: EASTER10 — Hop to it and check out this awesome Easter Collection by ThemeForest. From egg-tastic audio, vectors, [...]

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Product Summary A handy little iPhone web app to calculate chmod permissions for files. Product Description Easy to use with a simple but pretty user interface, this chmod calculator is a useful utility for students, developers and system administrators.

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Ever since finding out about WolframAlpha.com, I’ve been playing with it and I must say it’s pretty amazing and addictive. WolframAlpha(tm) is a new type of search engine – or what they call “computational knowledge engine”. Rather than trying to explain what it is and what it does in words, lets have a look at [...]

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Enlarge screenshot That was a screenshot of one of my first homepages on geocities 10 years ago in 1999; the first year it was acquired by Yahoo! as their free web hosting service. As Yahoo! is closing down geocities after 10 years, I can’t help but feel a little sad. I created my first ever [...]

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This blog is now using Twitter Updater which automatically sends a Twitter status update to my Twitter account whenever I create or edit a new blog. Like they say, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. :)

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18- to 44-year-olds comprise half the Web population. Since 2005, the population segment that has made the largest online gains in the United States is the 70- to 75-year-old age group. While just over one-fourth (26 per cent) of 70-75 year olds were online in 2005, 45 per cent of that age group is currently [...]

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(January 12, 2009) Today in Washington, DC, experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime. These programming errors are categorised into 3 categories. * Insecure Interaction Between [...]

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Google introduced a new favicon again today. According to google, its warm and colorful new favicon is inspired by the work of a computer science student in Brazil: André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil, submitted the design that inspired our new favicon. His placement of a white [...]

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A FLAW has emerged in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser software which allows hackers to steal information from people’s PCs if they visit certain websites. Computer security experts only became aware of the issue when websites cropped up that were exploiting the flaw to steal user accounts for online gaming, which can then be sold [...]

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