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Cool new Web 2.0 Internet sites and startups (List #1)
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/cool-websites/cool-new-web-2...
With so many cool new web sites popping up every day, it’s impossible to write about each one in depth, so I’m coming out with a weekly roundup of some of the more popular ones that I have found! This way if you’re interested in checking out the latest cool Web 2.0 tools and services, you can quickly browse through the list.
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Tags: cool web sites, Web 2.0, startups
How to find good ideas and content for your blog
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/blogging/how-to-find-good-id...
Here’s a quick tip for bloggers trying to find new ideas and content their blogs. If you’re trying to write a blog full-time, one problem that can crop up and make you feel like quitting is the inability to find something new and interesting to write about.
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Tags: blog content, blog ideas, content
25 useful Greasemonkey scripts you should take a look at
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/25-useful-grea...
If Greasemonkey sounds like some kind of porn movie to you, then you definitely need to read this post. Greasemonkey is an add-on to the Firefox browser that allows you to customize the way a web page is displayed by using small bits of JavaScript code.
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Google demolishes New Orleans - again
http://www.theregister.com/2007/04/02/new_orleans_demolished...
Google has moved with something approaching lightning speed to replace images of New Orleans on Google Earth which had apparently airbrushed the effects of hurricane Katrina from history.
The good burghers of the Big Easy were none too happy with a recent Google Earth and Google Maps update replacing previous candid images of the city's destruction.
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$9.99 for a Text Message? No Way, Say Parents
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/56571.html
About 13.5 million kids ages 13 to 17 own a cell phone, according to M:Metrics, and text messaging -- using abbreviated sentences punched in from the keypad that appear on the cell phone screen -- is wildly popular. Billing disputes over premium text services have spawned several class-action lawsuits.
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Start-up Zimbra takes Web e-mail offline
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6170118.html?part=rss&tag=25...
E-mail software company Zimbra on Sunday is set to release an early version of Zimbra Desktop, Web e-mail software that will run online and offline.
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Oracle sues SAP for website espionage
http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/22/oracle_sues_sap/
Oracle sued SAP, alleging employees with the German firm passed themselves off as Oracle customers so they could engage in the wholesale theft of proprietary Oracle support materials.
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Rating is Everything
http://things.co.il/blog/324
Spotback allows instant rating and tagging for everything. I’ve installed their slider (below) and their sidebar widgets, and it looks quite good. Anyone can tag, rate and see relevant posts from other places.
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Tags: spotback, widget, rating, tagging, blogs
Monitoring Network Latency With Smokeping (Ubuntu 9.04)
http://www.howtoforge.com/monitoring-network-latency-with-sm...
This guide shows how to install and configure Smokeping on Ubuntu 9.04 to monitor network latency. SmokePing is a deluxe latency measurement tool. It can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a longterm data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up to the minute information on the state of each network connection.
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Tags: smokeping, latency, network, monitoring, ubuntu, rrdtool
Xen Cluster Management With Ganeti On Debian Lenny
http://www.howtoforge.com/xen-cluster-management-with-ganeti...
Ganeti is a cluster virtualization management system based on Xen. In this tutorial I will explain how to create one virtual Xen machine (called an instance) on a cluster of two physical nodes, and how to manage and failover this instance between the two physical nodes.
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