Try Custom Embroidered Clothing by Zazzle October 31, 2008
Posted by Masroor Khan in Technology.Tags: clothes, Custom Clothing, Embroidery, Embroidery on Clothing, Online Garments, zazzle
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Zazzle has added a new feature to it’s online custom-clothing business –
embroidery on clothes. This move could definitely put it ahead of its
competitors as this appealing feature puts embroidery on shirts, likely
to draw a large number of new customers. The embroidery gives a lasting
look to the clothes, as it doesn’t wear-off because its sewn into the
clothing. The function is as such that after selecting a suitable logo
or design, users upload their image to Zazzle and choose the size they
prefer it as, on their pieces of clothing. Zazzle then feeds the image
to its automated sewing machines, after which a computerized system
does most of the work. Though a team of human workers then manually
ensure that every design matches the users images. The average price
range is $10-$20, depending on the number of stitches required.
[via TechCrunch]
China bans 10 online video sites; gives warning to 17 more October 31, 2008
Posted by Masroor Khan in Technology.Tags: ban, Cina, Internet, Piracy, shutdown, video sites
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The Chinese government has banned 10 online video sites and has warned 17 others. The sites banned were accused of violating the regulations. An interesting thing about these sites is that none of them were banned due to piracy. The charges on the sites include the display of horrific, inappropriate and violent content, running a service without permission, etc. The sites warned includes 12 video sites and a game service provider. Among the warned sites is VeryCD, which is the country’s largest eDonkey indexing site.
[via TorrentFreak]
Google Morphing into a Global Social Network ? October 31, 2008
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Google services, searchable by Google’s Search Engine. In a statement acknowledging the move, Google said:
Recently, we added the ability to search all public profiles created by users. If a user has checked the ‘Show full name publicly so people can find you’ box on the profile edit page, their profile is a publicly accessible Web page and is indexed in search results.
Although Google is framing the move as a way to make the search engine more contextual, it also has the potential to turn the search giant into a global social network unlike anything that we have seen till now.
[via CNET, startupwire]
Motorola tries fitness plans; boots 3,000 employees October 31, 2008
Posted by Masroor Khan in Technology.Tags: motorola
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Motorola is on the roll this time and it has got nothing to do with a brand new cell phone, rather an announcement about cut down in employee strength. The reason shouldn’t come off as a surprise and is simply being taken to save around $8oo million in expenses next year.
Surprisingly enough out of the extra expenses it plans to cut out, $600 million will be saved from the cell phone business alone. The effect is the number of employees cut short by 3,000; 2,000 of these are from the cell phone section. This would take over all layoffs in the last year to 13,000 if the rumor is confirmed as Motorola didn’t point out at such cut backs during their presentation.
[via Silicon Alley Insider, startupmeme]
LinkedIn Apllications : More Professional Plus Dynamic October 31, 2008
Posted by Masroor Khan in Technology.Tags: linkedin
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Linkedin.com one the largest networks for professionals and helping to find better jobs. As well, you can input your resume and if any company searching for you they will catch you for the right posts. Also, you will get in touch with your co-workers in same networks or share your present jobs and so on.
Recently, LinkedIn Officially announced about LinkedIn Applications, they said, “over 30 million professionals on LinkedIn to communicate, collaborate, and share information even better than before.”. Also this will help to get better jobs in preset job markets
On the initial updates they enabled nine LinkedIn Apps and on the apps page, they said, “LinkedIn Applications enable you to enrich your profile, share and collaborate with your network, and get the key insights that help you be more effective.”
How actually nine apps makes your professional and showing that you’re better then any others? How it will makes the difference?
About this matter Readwriteweb’s Rick Turoczy said,
- Prove you’re more well-read than any of the other candidates with Reading Lists from Amazon.
- Share your portfolio pieces with potential employers or store that coveted letter of resignation with the file sharing of Box.net Files.
- Put that girth of presentation material on your machine to work for you with Google Presentation and SlideShare or use the apps to take a “creative” approach to pitching a new employer.
- Huddle Workspaces? Online job interviews. ‘Nuff said.
- Show off your acerbic wit and unique insights with Six Apart Blog Link (which supports a variety of blog formats) or WordPress applications that bring your latest blog posts into your profile.
- Well traveled individuals – or those who are willing to go where the company tells them to go – are always in demand and with My Travel by Tripit you’ll be able to show the lengths – literally – to which you’re willing to go.
- LinkedIn even offers their own application – Company Buzz – that will help you determine the most appropriate companies for your to pursue.
Before to connect your wordpress blog or to share your slideshare’s or any apps you have to ensure that it will show your expertise and makes your more professional otherwise it can be hurtful. Whenever, you’re going to add an apps you should setup that properly as because the app’s action should be visible to your profile pages.
[via opengiga]
Microsoft office available on internet browsers October 30, 2008
Posted by Masroor Khan in Technology.Tags: microsoft, microsoft office
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Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. These will be “lightweight versions”, but Microsoft told us yesterday that they’ll still have rich functionality and will be comparable to Google’s suite of online office applications.
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The apps will enable users to create, edit and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents through the browser. The apps will work in IE, Firefox and Safari browsers (no word on whether Google Chrome will be supported). Update: Microsoft clarified in an email that these apps will use HTML and AJAX, but also Silverlight components.
Update 2: For a contrary view on use of Silverlight, see Matthew Holloway’s comment below (comment #19), in which he says that “SilverLight apps on OSX and Linux are typically second-class citizens to SilverLight on Windows.”
The online versions will share the same names as their desktop counterparts (Word, Excel, etc), although unfortunately they don’t fully escape the awkward and confusing branding that Microsoft gives to most of its Internet apps. The collective name for these apps is “Office Web Applications”. To remind you, there is also an Office Online (a separate Microsoft site where users can download templates) and an Office Live Workspace (for sharing office files between desktop and Web – our coverage).
The “Office Web applications” will be available to consumers through Office Live, a service which has both ad-funded and subscription options. Business users will be offered Office Web applications as a hosted subscription service and through existing “volume licensing agreements”. There will be a private technology preview of the Office Web applications later this year.
Last month we ran a poll asking which word processing tool you primarily use. We got over 2,600 separate votes and a resounding 49% of people still use Microsoft Word as their main word processing tool. Its open source desktop equivalent OpenOffice got 16%. Google Docs was the best placed Web Office app, with 15%.
The results showed that there is still a big place for desktop Office apps. Nevertheless, with the announcement yesterday of Microsoft Azure – a so-called cloud computing OS – Microsoft is clearly serving a growing demand for browser-based office software. We expect these apps to become more full featured over time.
[via readwriteweb]
The iphone With Free WiFi At All AT&T Hotspots October 30, 2008
Posted by Masroor Khan in Technology.Tags: At&t, iphone
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AT&T just sweetened the pot for all of its iPhone subscribers. If you own an AT&T iPhone, you now get free WiFi access at AT&Ts 17,000 hotspots across the country, including at most Starbucks. Although just last summer AT&T teased customers with the same freebie service, only to put up a pay wall afterwards, this time it looks like the free WiFi is here to stay.
So if you live in a part of the country where AT&T’s 3G data network is spotty, you can now supplement that coverage with AT&T’s WiFi network. It is a nice a bundle. You want to go with the WiFi connection whenever you can get it, regardless.
But why is AT&T doing this? It’s not to seal customer loyalty. The two-year contract does that. Perhaps it is to make up for lapses in its 3G coverage, or simply to take some of the load off the 3G network so that everybody’s mobile Web surfing doesn’t slow down. I really don’t care. What I want to know is why isn’t there an AT&T WiFi Locator app in iTunes?
[via mobilecrunch]
Web Sandbox from Live Labs October 30, 2008
Posted by shhrukhali in Technology.Tags: microsoft, sandbox, windowslive
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The genius guys over at Microsoft Live Labs have released a solution for web developers to secure their web application content from hackers through isolation.
Today web gadgets, mashup components, advertisements, and other 3rd party content on websites either run with full trust alongside your content or are isolated inside of IFrames. As a result, many modern web applications are intrinsically insecure, often with unpredictable service quality. Live Labs Web Sandbox addresses this problem.
An increasing number of Web 2.0 applications incorporate 3rd party content. There are two common patterns: via direct script inclusion or embedded in an IFrame.
- Components that are included directly execute with full trust and can access private information elsewhere on the page and site. The site is subject to intentional or non-intentional bugs that could compromise personal information or degrade the web application’s quality of service.
- IFrames offer isolation but not complete security. Malicious code can try to install ActiveX controls, redirect users, interrogate your browser history, degrading the quality of service. IFrames also make it hard to provide an integrated experience and share data across components.
Web Sandbox from Live Labs enables developers to test their code by using the Sandbox provided here. In addition to this, they have a couple of sample codes in place for you to try and hack out.
[via redmondpie]
Microsoft PDC : Microsoft going Open with OpenID October 30, 2008
Posted by shhrukhali in Technology.Tags: microsoft, windows live, open id
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Yet another fabulous announcement by Microsoft today at the PDC is one of greatest initiatives according to me. This being the direct support of the OpenID platform amongst the windows live id platform.
Windows Live ID publicly committed to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.
You will soon be able to use your Windows Live ID account to sign in to any OpenID Web site! These sites being that of google, yahoo and many others building upon a bridge between the online world and providing a single sign on service, bring leverage to the user and rather not more frustration of remembering many id’s.
The Windows Live ID OpenID Provider (OP) enables anyone with a Windows Live ID account to set up an OpenID alias and to use that alias for identification at an increasing number of OpenID 2.0 relying party sites.
Here is a 3 Minute webcast about this initiative
Windows Live ID OpenID Provider Screencast from Angus Logan on Vimeo.
What do you, is this a good move by Microsoft? Leave your comments…
Watch out for more PDC coverage…
Use your Gmail account for Photo Storage and Sharing with Gphotospace October 30, 2008
Posted by Salman Naveed in Technology.Tags: gmail, Gphotospace, Photo Sharing Tool
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The Mozilla Firefox extension Gphotospace integrates with your Gmail account to give you storage space and sharing of photos. The app simply requires you to install and enjoy creating photo albums to save memories and share with your love ones. The process is as such that the extension upload the files to your Gmail account, while also resizing them, and you can then easily share those albums with the access of Gphotospace’s slick integration with Gmail. The service is free to use and runs only on Windows for the time being.
[via Life Hacker]
