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Does WordPress Scare Away Your Clients?

wpcandy — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:18 +0000

WordPress is a great CMS to use with clients, but it can sometimes get a little intimidating, especially for the non-techie user. In this article, Dan talks about the difficulties he faces in using WordPress with clients, and suggests a few solutions to overcome these obstacles.

A crumbling tower: Sony lays siege to the 360's weak spots

Tyme — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:03:59 +0000

Microsoft is feeling Sony's heat when it comes to hardware sales in the US, and the 360 continues to falter worldwide. How to fix these things is a complicated question, but Ars is ready to point out Microsoft's main weaknesses, things that need to be shored up yesterday.

Trailer for EverQuest 2's next expansion, "The Shadow Odyssey"

evansims — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:41:49 +0000

The MMO's 5th expansion features several new zones, a whole slew of new dungeons, new deities, new Heritage quests, a new loot system and more. The expected release date is November 18th.

Tempest in a Mobile Phone: Protecting Your Geo-Privacy

Tyme — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:46:55 +0000

The next great privacy tempest seems like a yawner: What will happen with the data gathered by social networking or personal information services that track where you and your friends are?

Injured? Horsing Around With Stem Cells May Get You Back in the Saddle

Tyme — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:01:38 +0000

Doctors might soon be able to regrow injured muscles, tendons and bones without invasive surgery, simply by injecting a person's own stem cells into the site of an injury. Veterinarians are already doing it with injured horses, and research into human applications is well under way.

Many Fail to See the Humor in ‘I Am Rich’ for the iPhone

Tyme — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:25:20 +0000

Last week, an application turned the iPhone into a megaphone to proclaim: “I Am Rich.” That is the name of a downloadable program that promised to do nothing except signal to the world that its buyer was wealthy enough to have spent $1,000 to download an image of a multifaceted ruby.

Seems like the people who bought it had a different understanding of what the app did....

Google: Our AOL investment is ‘impaired’

Tyme — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:33:17 +0000

Google in an SEC filing on Thursday said that its $1 billion investment in AOL is “impaired.” That’s short hand for saying Google bought a lemon.

Getting your Own Data out of Google Servers - How Easy is that ?

Tyme — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:06:01 +0000

I was looking at the export options available in various Google services that would let me save data out of Google data centers on to the local hard drive and here’s a quick summary of how things stand so far...

Google Won’t Let Search Startups Grow Too Large

Tyme — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:07:25 +0000

Czech search engine, Seznam is on the block for $1 billion, according to reports, and Google may be in the hunt for that country’s most popular search engine. And while it wouldn’t surprise me if Google did acquire Seznam to shore up its international influence, it points to a key issue that shouldn’t be overlooked: Google is so powerful and so rich that the chances of a small search engine growing to challenge its prowess are becoming smaller with each passing day.

Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?

Tyme — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:37:23 +0000

Google on Thursday rolled out improvements to its ad network and will add DoubleClick tracking across its sites. Google also made it easy to opt out of its double dose of cookies with one click. The larger question is whether users will choose to go cookie free.

Matt Harding Dances at Yahoo - so does Yang

Tyme — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:47:42 +0000

Yahoo recruited the Internet dance sensation Matt Harding to perform with employees, from chief executive Jerry Yang to the cafeteria staff, in a music video that shows there's at least a little joy in 'Hooville.

Your iTunes Library Anywhere? An iPhone No-Brainer For Apple

Tyme — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:55:02 +0000

Want to take your whole iTunes music library on the road -- even the stuff that doesn't fit on your 8-gigabyte iPhone? Apple is supposedly on the case: According to AppleInsider, a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office details a new version of Apple's iPhone software that could give you access to your home computer's iTunes library, over the air, from anywhere.

Warner Music says game makers need to pay up

Tyme — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:58:05 +0000

Record company CEO says licensing fees paid to the music industry by game companies are "far too small."

Ubisoft sues over Assassin's Creed leak

Tyme — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:59:19 +0000

Publisher believes disc-replication firm responsible for 700,000 pirated prerelease downloads of its PC action game.

E3 needs "excitement" of Leipzig - Ed Boon

Tyme — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:00:29 +0000

Mortal Kombat creator mourns LA event's loss of "glitz" and "spectacle".

MySpace Fills Out Advertising, Marketing Ranks

Tyme — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:49:23 +0000

MySpace today announced a spate of appointments among its senior advertising and marketing ranks designed to shore up engineering, business development, advertising, marketing and customer-care divisions.

What Marketers Can Learn From Twitter's Stumbles

Tyme — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:50:17 +0000

Any fast-growing brand that's seen its infrastructure quiver under the weight of widespread customer demand should look for a lesson on how not to do things in Web 2.0 darling Twitter.

The Service Is a Victim of Its Popularity -- and Its Unresponsiveness Is Costing It Fans.

QuakeCon 2008: Doom 4 re-announced, Rage detailed

Tyme — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:51:41 +0000

Keynote sees horror game "officially" revealed...again; Carmack confirms open-world driving game too big for two Xbox 360 discs, prompting lower-grade graphics; no Quake 5 in the works.

Restaurant tipping law to change

Tyme — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:56:52 +0000

Employers are to be banned from using tips and service charges to "top up" staff pay to meet the minimum wage, under government plans.

Every Bite You Take

Tyme — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:58:25 +0000

A hot dog from Yankee Stadium. Potato latkes from the Four Seasons in Manhattan. Sirloin steak at Applebee's. The jumbo cheeseburger at the University of Iowa Hospital. While it would seem these menu items have nothing in common, they're all from Sysco, a Houston-based food wholesaler. This top food supplier serves nearly 400,000 American eating establishments, from fast-food joints like Wendy's, to five-star eating establishments like Robert Redford's Tree Room Restaurant, to mom-and-pop diners like the Chatterbox Drive-In, to ethnic restaurants like Meskerem Ethiopian restaurant. Even Gitmo dishes out food from Sysco. Should you worry that one source dominates so much of what you eat?

Wal-Mart Warns of Democratic Win

Tyme — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:04:03 +0000

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to unionize companies -- including Wal-Mart.

Actor Morgan Freeman Critical After Crash

Tyme — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:17:12 +0000

Actor Morgan Freeman is being treated at a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after a bad car crash.

Freeman was air lifted to the Regional Medical Center at Memphis (The Med) in critical condition. A woman who was in the car was also taken to the Med.

Time Warner steps closer to AOL split

Tyme — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:44:46 +0000

Time Warner has taken a step closer to splitting up AOL's business, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Time Warner is expected to announce Wednesday that it has completed the internal process of separating AOL's dial-up Internet access business from its advertising business, the newspaper said.

Can 'Spore' meet its lofty expectations?

Tyme — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:47:02 +0000

Spore, of course, is the latest game from legendary designer Will Wright. And, as has been repeated more times than anyone can count, Wright's last all-new game, The Sims, became the best-selling PC game of all time almost overnight when it was released in 2000.

If all Spore had to deal with was that pedigree, it would already be facing huge expectations.

MobileMe drops subscribed calendar syncing

Tyme — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:52:59 +0000

Jon Gruber points a piece the troubling news that you can’t sync read-only iCal subscription calendars to your iPhone, as confirmed in Apple knowledgebase article TS1213. What’s worse is that Apple took this feature out of their US$99 subscription service, but it’s still available when you sync your iPhone (for free) with a cable. The problem is that they’re mutually exclusive so if you use MobileMe you lose the ability to sync subscription calendars.

McCain likely to let Obama choose VP first

Tyme — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:59:26 +0000

John McCain's extended circle is divided on whether he should announce his running mate in the days ahead — but the Republican is more likely to wait for Barack Obama to announce his choice first, according to advisers.

Kathy Hilton: McCain's Celebrity Ad: Frivolous, A Waste Of Money, A Waste Of Time

Tyme — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:01:08 +0000

I've been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses.

AT&T may hold on to exclusive iPhone deal until 2010

Tyme — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:02:39 +0000

In what may be a rare peek at negotiations between Apple and carriers, a prominent newspaper claims AT&T agreed to hefty iPhone 3G subsidies on the condition that it remained the lone US carrier for the handset until 2010.

Midori musings: Thoughts on a "post-Windows" OS

Tyme — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:16:28 +0000

The big excitement in Microsoftland this week has been further news of Midori. Midori is claimed to be Microsoft's "post-Windows" operating system—a new platform for the future. The SD Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents describing the company's plans for the new OS, and it says that Midori will be a commercial derivative of the Singularity project. Say hello to a cloud-computing-ready .NET OS.

Proof of the $199 Xbox 360 Rumor

Tyme — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:49:04 +0000

There it is (full size after the jump), according to VGChartz.com. (Thanks to eagle-eyed reader LoadedStatement). One of the site's members did a SKU inquiry on the 360 and got that screen, which shows the $199 price taking effect Sept. 7.

The 36 Best PS2 Games

Scrivs — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:38:02 +0000

With over a 1000 PS2 games available, it can be tough to know what to play. That's why GamePro has handpicked the 36 Best PS2 Games

Spider vs. Bee... BBC vs. National Geographic

Scrivs — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:38:53 +0000

When The Ranger was young he enjoyed greatly the diverting summer sport of tossing hapless invertebrates into spiders' webs and seeing the ensuing fight. Even today he's not above the odd experiment, just to see what happens. Of course, we all know what's likely to happen. That's why it's such fun.

Apple seeds developer tools for background-conscious iPhone apps

Tyme — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:30:43 +0000

Apple has equipped some of its developers with the tools needed to begin authoring iPhone applications that can receive data over the internet, like instant messages, even when they're not running.

IE8 Beta 2 getting heavy performance, crash-recovery tweaks

Tyme — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:47:22 +0000

The next beta of Internet Explorer 8 is due in August. Improved standards conformance is the headline feature, but there's more to a browser than how well it displays web pages. This week news has been released of some of the new reliability and performance improvements that beta 2 will contain.

Microsoft’s Mind-Altering Vista Experiment

Tyme — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:51:44 +0000

The software giant Tuesday unveiled a Web site called the Mojave Experiment, where unsuspecting people test an upcoming operating system – only to learn that it’s really Windows Vista. Why the shenanigans? Because most people think Vista is a dud.