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Want to read a news article? – Well, we want you to see our ads first. by rodtrent

I don’t know about you…but, I really don’t care for the ad intrusion system employed by a lot of sites.  The following from InfoWorld is just one example, but I’ve seen this on a LOT of other sites...
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Google – champion of open standards, bucks the system and releases a “preferred” alternative to XML by rodtrent

Does this bother anyone else?  Google, one of the companies to complain about Microsoft not following standards, has developed their own alternative to an existing standard. http://www.myitforum.com...
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Fortune magazine’s “Best Company to Work For” raises in-house child care prices for employees by rodtrent

“There are many things about Google that are not great, and merit improvement,” blogged Sergey Solyanik, who recently returned to Microsoft after a stint at Google. “There are plenty of silly politics...

Facebook for Windows Mobile by rodtrent

…well, and for PocketPCs (but who has one of those any longer?)  FriendMobilizer , a free application for Windows Smartphones and Pocket PC's that puts Facebook into the palm of your hand. Get...
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Have you seen Adobe’s main page lately? by rodtrent

http://www.adobe.com
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Do *you* Yahoo? by rodtrent

John posted an interesting table showing how the various parts of Yahoo rank. http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgormly/archive/2008/07/03/what-s-good-about-yahoo.aspx I looked down the list and, frankly...
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Good riddance to Bill Gates… by Jim “Lynchmob” Lynch by rodtrent

Jim Lynch falls off his rocker, traveling beyond the speed of light, and heads straight into an industrial metal fan. Here he blasts Bill Gates for creating the technologies that he is using to write his...

Subscribing to an RSS feed is nuts! by rodtrent

I go to subscribe to a feed today and am smacked straight in the face with the following list of options… This is out of hand!  Someone should really reconsider how easy this technology is versus...
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My worst fears realized - PDF is now ISO 32000-1 by rodtrent

http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=5201&z=71 Please, please!  Someone step up and topple this doc format!

10 Useful Apps To Reduce Your Dependency On Google Products by rodtrent

Abhijeet Mukherjee writes the first of, in my opinion, many stories like this to come as Google is steadily becoming anti-cool. http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/06/10-useful-apps-to-reduce-your.html I...
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Maxthon Browser update available… by rodtrent

http://www.maxthon.com

Google turns adSense into potential smut distributor by rodtrent

How far is Google willing to go sell advertisements? Google and Creator of ‘Family Guy’ Strike a Deal While, “Family Guy” can be funny at times, there’s a part of the show that doesn’t sit well with me...

Google’s dominance on myITforum.com by rodtrent

Funny how Google’s piece of the pie looks like Pacman – either eating up the others or spitting them out.  BTW: It is interesting that Microsoft’s search is actually ahead of Yahoo.  It has been...

No longer using Firefox 3.0 by rodtrent

I uninstalled Firefox 3.0 – finally.  I promised someone I would try it out for a week, and I did.  But, I was seriously counting the days for when I could initiate the uninstall sequence. For...
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More on the Firefox effect on myITforum.com by rodtrent

So…Firefox 3.0 was released on June 17th.  And, while I’m not using Firefox 3.0 any longer (yes, I finally removed it from my computer – more about that later), it is interesting to see the Firefox...
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Hyper-V release in the news… by rodtrent

http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=5168&z=71

Microsoft Connect site maintenance planned this weekend by rodtrent

Maintenance Message: The Microsoft Connect Web site will be down for scheduled maintenance between 10am and 2pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) on Saturday, June 28th. The site will be unavailable during this...
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New Shaolin temple store underestimates it’s popularity? by rodtrent

The Shaolin monks in Deng Feng, China unveiled a very Westernized web site today, marking a growing desire in China to monetize all things Chinese. Unfortunately, it looks like the Shaolin monks weren...
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TechSmith officially launches Screencast.com out of beta by rodtrent

http://www.screencast.com/
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Superpoked to death by rodtrent

Stamp out SQL Injections by rodtrent

Microsoft has released (or co-released) 3 new tools to help eliminate SQL injections: UrlScan version 3.0 Beta, a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services...

Microsoft Urlscan Filter v3.0 Beta (x86) and (x64) by rodtrent

UrlScan version 3.0 Beta is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that Internet Information Services (IIS) will process. By blocking specific HTTP requests, UrlScan helps prevent potentially...
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Sunbelt warns of Facebook phishing… by rodtrent

From the Sunbelt blog. There is a phishing attempt going on against Facebook. Recipients may see something like the following: Concerned for your users? Read the rest… http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2008...
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Why Firefox 3.0’s Phishing feature is faster than Microsoft’s? by rodtrent

I posted the other day about how IE7 runs just as fast as Firefox 3.0 if you turn off the automatic Phishing check in IE. When Phishing is turned on IE7, IE7 contacts a Microsoft server somewhere to check...

Did you get your Ymail account? by rodtrent

Will the new Yahoo email domains be as hard soft after as the Google ones? http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=5128&z=71
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First Firefox 3.0 Security Vuln Reported by rodtrent

Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0
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LinkedIn doesn’t work in Firefox 3.0… by rodtrent

When trying to add someone to your network, the Firefox 3.0 browser just seems to recycle the invitation page, and never really does anything. It works perfectly in IE 7.
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Firefox 3.0 considerably faster than previous versions by rodtrent

From the time I click on the Firefox 3.0 application icon until my home page appears on my screen, it takes less than a second.  Performing the same action for IE7 takes about 3 seconds. Speed has...

The industry catches on to the ConfigMgr 2007 issue discussed last week by rodtrent

This post “ Microsoft Security Advisory (954474) – affects ConfigMgr 2007 ” is being picked up in the regular news streams today. At ComputerWorld:  http://www.myitforum.com/absolutenm/templates/...

84% of Chinese believe the Internet should be controlled and managed by rodtrent

Sounds like China is being run like a corporation or enterprise environment. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/776/china-internet
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