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Friday, April 30, 2010

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April 30th Links: asp.NET, asp.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010 .
Refreshing an asp.NET AJAX UpdatePanel with JavaScript: Scott Mitchell has another nice article in his series on using asp.NET AJAX that demonstrates how to programmatically trigger an UpdatePanel refresh using JavaScript on the client. ...

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April 30th Links: asp.NET, asp.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010 .
Refreshing an asp.NET AJAX UpdatePanel with JavaScript: Scott Mitchell has another nice article in his series on using asp.NET AJAX that demonstrates how to programmatically trigger an UpdatePanel refresh using JavaScript on the client. ...

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Thursday, April 29, 2010

mobile



Official Google mobile Blog: The New Image Search for Android and .
When you do an image search, we find that it is typical that you will look through many pages of search results. So in the redesign of Google Image Search for mobile, available today for iPhone 3.0+ and Android 2.1 devices, ...

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apple



apple posts thoughts on Flash
apple has posted their Thoughts on Flash, signed by Steve Jobs himself, which echos a lot of the commentary that you've probably already read on why apple isn't supporting Flash on iPhone OS devices, and why they plan to block apps that ...

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

youtube



New youtube Player
The player recently tested by youtube is now live for everyone. youtube's redesigned player has a lot in common with the new youtube interface: it's simpler and more subtle. Controls fade out if you don't move your mouse, the progress ...

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nokia



nokia E72 gets white paint option, firmware update - Engadget
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more direct competitor to the BlackBerry businessphone hegemony than nokia's E7x series. It's therefore quite logical.

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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Update Metadata and Cover Art in Windows Media Player 12 - How-To Geek
If you use Windows Media Player 12 in Windows 7, you may notice some of your media is missing information when displayed in the library. Today we look at how to edit and update metadata and cover art in WMP 12. ...

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Top WordPress hacks of early 2010
The first months of 2010 have been extremely prolific in terms of WordPress hacks. In this article, I have compiled 10 new WordPress hacks that you should definitely add to your library.

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Monday, April 26, 2010

DIY



DIY Day with Underwriters Laboratories
Welcome to DIY Day! Are you ready to share your latest project and maybe win a fabulous prize? Well then, stay tuned, because we're giving away a handful of $50 Home Depot gift cards this week! I am so excited (and.

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Offshore asp.NET Application Development | Addicted 2 Web Design
Microsoft's Active Server Pages (asp).Net program permits web developers to design and develop dynamic web applications, web sites and other web related.

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Sunday, April 25, 2010

youtube



Top 10 youtube Cover Songs
If there's one thing youtube has always been good for, it is as a platform for the common man to express himself. That is the very basis of its user-generated %26ldquo;broadcast yourself%26rdquo; roots.Music is one medium in which we do this partic.

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apple



apple Resigns From Chamber Over Climate - Green Blog - NYTimes.com
apple became the latest company to resign from the United States Chamber of Commerce, citing climate issues.

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Saturday, April 24, 2010

mobile



T-mobile Garminfone In The Wild | Android Community
Looking for a better navigation experience on your Android device? Garmin's entry into the Android game may the device you've been waiting for. this phone.

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hacks



Wife hacks Husband's Car Forum Account, Divorces Him With It .
An Acura forum member posted an idiotic screed about his wife's jealousy of his car, an Acura TL. His wife found it, hacked his account and used it to divorce him.

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Friday, April 23, 2010

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Boost Netbook Speed with an SD Card %26 ReadyBoost - How-To Geek
Computer Help from your Friendly How-To Geek. ... Home � How-To's � Reviews � Games � Shopping � Forums � Login / Signup � Windows 7 � Viruses %26 Spyware � Vista � XP � Office � Firefox � Other � Linux � Desktop Fun ...

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nokia



nokia Needs to Step on the Symbian 3 Gas Pedal
nokia is still on track to deliver its vastly overhauled smartphone operating system in Symbian 3 in the second half of this year. With increased competition worldwide and competitors maturing their own platforms, nokia needs to step on ...

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

DIY



Video: A DIY iPhone-Controlled Car With Virtual-Reality Driver's .
Want to read more articles like this, plus tips and tricks, home hacks, DIY projects, and more? Subscribe to Popular Science and enter to win $5000! 4 Comments. link to this comment � StephenD.Alverez. 04/22/10 at 4:59 pm ...

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howto



How to Fix the McAfee Restart Debacle on Your Machines - Malware .
Reader Max Buser's company was hit by the bad McAfee update earlier today. Here's how they got everything working again:

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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

youtube



Popular Hitler 'Downfall' parodies removed from youtube; company .
Hitler 'Downfall' parodies removed from youtubeNEW YORK %26mdash; Adolf Hitler, for years a vessel of frustration in a popular Internet meme, has been quieted.

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apple



Google Purchases Startup Linked to apple's P.A. Semi Chip Division .
In another interesting twist in the relationship between Google and apple, peHUB reports that Google has purchased startup firm Agnilux, a San Jose company founded by a number of defectors from PA S.

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

mobile



New Report from Pew Internet: Teens and mobile Phones; Texting .
New Report from Pew Internet: Teens and mobile Phones; Texting Continues to Boom. From the Overview (also Includes Methodology Info). by: Amanda Lenhart, Rich Ling, Scott Campbell, Kristen Purcell. From the Summary: ...

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asp



asp.NET AJAX MultiHandleSliderExtender - Slide by Year and Month .
In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to use the MultiHandleSlider extender to select and display both the year and the month in a range. This control eliminates the need to use four DropDownlist controls to hold the range values and ...

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Monday, April 19, 2010

hacks



Theora on N900 Mozilla hacks %26ndash; the Web developer blog
Search hacks.mozilla.org. Go. Home � Articles � Demos � About � Home � Articles. Theora on N900. Older Article .... Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License v3.0 or any later version. hacks.mozilla.org: ...

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nokia



nokia and Citibank : nokia 5230 Promo - Paylite, Free MD-9 Speaker .
Purchase nokia N230 XpressMusic from now till May 31, 2010 using your Citibank credit card for only Php 1533.33 per month at 0% Paylite and take home a free nokia MD-9 speaker; ...

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

DIY



Make Your Own Modified Rubik's Cube - Fun - Lifehacker
The Rubik's Cube has long been a staple in geek culture%26mdash;but if you've already learned how to solve it, here's a way to make a new puzzle by doing some DIY modifications on the one you already have.

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hacks



KoC hacks
hi, where can i find a KoC dem hack (for soul) that works for the current version? thx.

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Saturday, April 17, 2010

DIY



The Top 10 DIY iPad Projects
So you have yourself a fancy new iPad, eh? Good for you. Now it's time to deck it out with all sorts of cool but expensive add-ons. You could either drop some good coin on official iPad accessories or take the more frugal route and make ...

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asp



Sending JSON to an asp.NET MVC Action Method Argument
This is where value providers, a new feature of asp.NET MVC 2, enters to save the day. Whereas model binders are used to bind incoming data to an object model, value providers provide an abstraction for the incoming data itself. ...

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Friday, April 16, 2010

nokia



nokia X6 Review
The nokia X6 is a music phone that aims to join the touchscreen device area of phones that Apple, HTC and only a few others have managed to make happen.

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youtube



youtube upgrade | TrendyTwits
Social Media SEOyoutube Upgrade Killed Adobe Flash Player Upgrade SiteSocial Media SEOPeople all over the web are reporting that youtube is forcing them to.

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Thursday, April 15, 2010

apple



apple's Greedy Ad Grab - iads - Gawker
apple's "iAd" program looks more sinister every day. It's not enough that Steve Jobs' company gets an exclusive cut of spending on iPhone mobile charges, apps, songs, movies and TV shows; now it wants the cream of mobile advertising, ...

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mobile



mobile High-Definition Link supergroup upgrades to Consortium .
The Nokia / Samsung / Toshiba / Sony / Silicon Image team hoping to bring a standard to the world of high definition outputs on.

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

howto



howto Dumpster-dive - Boing Boing
howto Dumpster-dive. Cory Doctorow at 8:26 PM April 13, 2010. Thinking about going digging for gold in the dumpsters around your town? Start with the FAQ at Dumpsterworld, the online community for skip-spelunkers: ...

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asp



asp.NET 4 Hosting for Windows 2008 Launched at Discountasp.NET .
Web Hosting news, articles and discussion on hosting related information and services. Get the latest and most relevant web hosting news and articles from the industry's most respected news organizations.

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

youtube



British Politicians Confront youtube, Warily - The Lede Blog .
Observers looking to be entertained by the British election campaign might hold out hope for what will appear on youtube in the next few weeks. But the official channels of the major parties are not the place to start looking.

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iPod hacks
The only thing better than an iPod is a hacked iPod. The simple and sleek design of the standard iPod is just asking for customization. For that matte...

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Monday, April 12, 2010

mobile



Mary Meeker: mobile Internet Will Soon Overtake Fixed Internet
Two overwhelming trends that will affect consumers, the hardware/infrastructure industry and the commercial potential of the web: mobile and social networking. Such a conclusion is hardly earth-shattering news to GigaOM readers, ...

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nokia



nokia teases 'everyone connect,' keep your hands to yourselves .
No idea what this is but the Twitterverse has an inkling that we'll see Ovi Maps integrated with nokia Messaging. Jury's still out on hardware.

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

DIY



DIY Tutorial Crams Accelerometer Into Your SNES Controller - DIY .
The classic SNES controller, often imitated but never duplicated, is borrowing motion controls from its Wii brethren courtesy this DIY hack over at Hackaday.

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apple



apple Scrubs "Google" Name From Safari Search Button In iPhone OS .
apple's move to ban Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone compiler elicited shrugs from Adobe and complaints from Adobe loyalists. Digging deeper into the OS reveals another, albeit less dramatic slight: apple scrubbed Google's name from the new OS's ...

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Saturday, April 10, 2010

howto



How to Analyze, Clean Out, and Free Space on Your Hard Drive .
Hard drive space is cheaper than ever, but as Parkinson's Law dictates, your data (and, let's face it, BitTorrent addiction) somehow expands to fill your space available for storage. Here's a few simple but effective ways to clean out ...

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apple



Dear apple, you're half-way there
In January you told apple what you wanted in iPhone OS 4.0. Did the development team heed your advice? Well, even though iPhone OS 4 is only in its first beta release, apple has already added 50% of the major features you wanted. ...

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Friday, April 09, 2010

DIY



DIY motion feedback MP3 player gets louder as you jump rope and do .
Music helps the weary exerciser work harder and, according to a hacker named Steve, the louder the music the more vigorously you work. So, he.

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mobile



T-mobile's myTouch Slide earns its FCC wings? - Engadget
Seeing HTC leak a shot of a product through a confidential FCC filing is about as rare as a confirmed yeti sighting, so you can.

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Thursday, April 08, 2010

youtube



youtube - Logging into the iPad.jailbreak style
Very early work on porting "Spirit" jailbreak by @comex to iPad ... Questions: http://twitter.com/MuscleNerd.

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howto



howto: Conquer a Chain Lock - You Will Need: 1 Rubberband .
howto: Conquer a Chain Lock (You Will Need: 1 Rubberband) |► Chain locks are hardly highly secure to begin with, but a fun MacGyver-style trick nonetheless. Add it to the lock picking vault. Crack a Master Lock - Mathematically, ...

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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

asp



New <%: %> Syntax for HTML Encoding Output in asp.NET 4 (and asp .
asp.NET applications (especially those using asp.NET MVC) often rely on using code-nugget expressions to render output. Developers today often use the Server.HtmlEncode() or HttpUtility.Encode() helper methods within these ...

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10 Google hacks To Make Life Easier
Brin and Page 10 Google hacks To Make Life Easier Google has proven itself to be the be-all and end-all of lifehacks. From Search to Gmail, Google has completely revolutionized how we live, work and interact on the internet. ...

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Tuesday, April 06, 2010

nokia



nokia E71 and E66 get free navigation, today | nokia Conversations .
GLOBAL %26ndash; You spoke, we listened: Free walk and drive navigation is now available for the nokia E71 and nokia E66. The latest version of Ovi Maps with free.

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youtube



Will Google's Episodic Buy Boost youtube? - DealBook Blog .
Google is bringing in some extra help for its youtube video service with the acquisition of another start-up, The Associated Press reported.

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Monday, April 05, 2010

howto



Compress Large Video Files with DivX / Xvid and AutoGK - How-To Geek
Have you ever recorded home video on a camcorder only to find the video size is enormous? What if you wanted to share a video clip on YouTube or another video sharing site, but the file size was bigger than the maximum upload size? ...

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nokia



nokia Vasco viral video ready, N8 flagship too? - Engadget
If you already believe the rumors that 'Vasco' is the codename for nokia's unannounced N8 flagship and that the N8 is the device pictured above.

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Sunday, April 04, 2010

DIY



HDD Reborn as Bench Sander - Hacks - Gizmodo
sending request. cancel. more about #hacks � Apple iPad Already Jailbroken � The Incredibly Shrinking Arduino Nano 3.0. read more: #DIY, #hacks, #sander, #tools, #hdd, #harddrives, #videos. add #hacks to my Fusion ...

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apple



apple contemplates head-mounted iPhone display, America cringes .
We're pretty sure this isn't an April Fool's joke, and we're pretty sure that it could be. Essentially an iPhone dock that sits on your.

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Saturday, April 03, 2010

mobile



Official Google mobile Blog: Google services on the iPad and .
We're releasing an experimental user interface for the iPad built on the Gmail for mobile HTML5 web app that we launched last year for the iPhone and Android devices. Those devices have large screens compared to other phones, ...

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Display '%26ndash;Select%26ndash;' in an asp.NET DropDownList - WebLog of Ken Cox
Display '%26ndash;Select%26ndash;' in an asp.NET DropDownList. A purchaser of my book writes: %26ldquo;I would like a drop down list to display the text: "-Select-" initially instead of the first value of the data it is bound to.%26rdquo; Here you go%26hellip; ...

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Friday, April 02, 2010

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Nicole Richie hacks Kim Kardashian's Twitter | Allie Is Wired
Nicole Richie hacks Kim Kardashian's Twitter. April 1, 2010 by Allie. Nicole Richie has been up to some fun and games for April Fools Day, by hacking into Kim Kardashian's Twitter account. It's a little scary that she knows how to do ...

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asp



Cleaner HTML Markup with asp.NET 4 Web Forms - Client IDs (VS 2010 .
One of the common complaints developers have often had with asp.NET Web Forms is that when using server controls they don't have the ability to easily generate clean, CSS-friendly output and markup. Some of the specific complaints with ...

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Thursday, April 01, 2010

nokia



nokia N900 controls a full size helicopter | nokia Conversations .
GLOBAL - Yes you read it right the nokia N900 has been caught controlling a life-size helicopter. Last week the handset was transformed into Niko the robot and.

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