Cristina Zainea 17 posts - Visit blog

AXIGEN Powers the Largest Portal in the Middle East

October 31, 2007

Bucharest, October 30, 2007 – AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional messaging solution vendor, announces today it now powers the largest portal in the Middle East. Maktoob.com (http://www.maktoob.com) has chosen the AXIGEN Mail Server to manage the email accounts of over 4 million...

tags: AXIGEN  mail  server  mailserver  Linux 

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AXIGEN Announces 2 Million EUR Investment

November 14, 2007

Bucharest, November 14th, 2007 – Gecad Technologies, AXIGEN Mail Server developer (http://www.axigen.com) announces today the first round of investment from a consortium of important venture capitals and technology companies such as Global Finance, 3TS-Cisco Growth Fund III and others. The...

tags: AXIGEN  mail  server  mailserver  Linux 

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AXIGEN Mail Server on the Brazilian Market

November 23, 2007

Bucharest, November 22nd 2007 – AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com/), the professional mail server vendor, announced today its first partnership agreement in Brazil with the LNX-IT company (http://www.lnx-it.inf.br/)

The Brazil based company LNX-IT offers its customers high-end messaging and IT...

tags: AXIGEN  mail  server  mailserver  Linux 

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AXIGEN Doubled its Partner Network in 2007

December 05, 2007

Bucharest, November 27, 2007 – AXIGEN, the professional messaging solution vendor, announced today it has closed more than 100 commercial partnerships worldwide. Throughout 2007, the company doubled its distribution channel, significantly increasing its geographical coverage. \"We started with...

tags: AXIGEN  mail  server  mailserver  Linux 

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MailRadar - Your Favorite Email Community

December 13, 2007

MailRadar.com is a new Linux oriented community dedicated to sysadmins and IT professionals. Its main goal is to provide unique information and surveys about email messaging and mail servers. Additionally, it aims to offer its community members a range of free tools to help them determine the...

tags: email  community  mail  server  linux 

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Inter Engineering to Distribute AXIGEN in Balkan Countries

January 18, 2008

Larissa/Bucharest, January 15, 2008 - Inter Engineering (http://www.inter-datasecurity.com) and the Romanian vendor Gecad Technologies (http://www.axigen.com) announce their strategic partnership to distribute and provide support services for the AXIGEN Mail Server product range in Greece, Cyprus,...

tags: axigen  interengineering  linux  messaging  mailserver 

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Emails in Numbers

January 25, 2008

The article analyzes the results of independent tests performed by PC Magazine Romania comparing the AXIGEN Mail Server against two open source alternatives, Sendmail (with Dovecot) and Postfix (with Cyrus): We thought of conducting a comparative performance study for three solutions that cover...

tags: email  mail  server  emailserver  linux 

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AXIGEN Closes New Partnership in Italy

January 29, 2008

AXIGEN, the professional mail server vendor, closed in December, 2007, a partnership agreement on the Italian market with the Exent company (http://www.exent.it). The Italian company specializes in custom designed software development and in Internet content management systems. Exent is backed by...

tags: email  community  mail  server  linux 

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AXIGEN Makes Its Way into New Zealand

January 29, 2008

AXIGEN, the professional mail server vendor, closed a partnership agreement in New Zealand with the Web HAD company (http://www.axigen.co.nz). Web HAD Limited aims at offering the best IT solutions using the best IT practices to New Zealand companies. They specialize in secure communications, web...

tags: email  community  mail  server  linux 

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AXIGEN Mail Server 6.0 Beta, Now with Groupware

February 15, 2008

AXIGEN has released yet another version of its messaging solution: AXIGEN Mail Server 6.0 Beta. The new release introduces a set of fresh features focusing on groupware and advanced collaboration by enabling folders, calendars, contacts and tasks to be shared between users. A glimpse of the...

tags: AXIGEN  mail  server  mailserver  Linux 

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Parallels & AXIGEN Announce Integrated Mail Server Solution

February 21, 2008

Renton, WA, and Bucharest, Romania, February 21st, 2008 - AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional mail server vendor, and Parallels (http://www.parallels.com), worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software, announced today the launch of a strategic technological partnership,...

tags: AXIGEN  mail  server  mailserver  Linux 

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Integrating the AXIGEN Mail Server with Mailarchiva

March 04, 2008

Here is a white paper describing the integration of the AXIGEN Mail Server with the Mailarchiva archiving solution. It explains the benefits of the integration, how it pro-actively addresses the issues arising for businesses of all sizes that work towards complying with IT Governance standards and...

tags: whitepaper  integration  axigen  mailserver  mail 

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AXIGEN Releases New Version with Groupware Functionalities

March 12, 2008

Bucharest, March 11th, 2008 – AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional messaging solution vendor, announced today the commercial release of the AXIGEN Mail Server 6.0. The new version is designed to effectively address the requirements of both collaborative enterprises and service providers...

tags: axigen  mail  server  groupware  linux 

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Combating the Increasing Cost of Email

March 13, 2008

Introduction Today, email is absolutely mission-critical. Communication and collaboration keep your business running. Email and electronically enabled collaboration have become so embedded in normal day-to-day operations that many businesses simply could not function without them. These services...

tags: axigen  mail  server  linux  messaging 

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Take Advantage of Groupware and Collaboration Features Today

April 18, 2008

We are once again happy to share a special AXIGEN offer with you: Enterprise Edition v6.0 is now available with an eye-catching 30% discount. The Enterprise messaging solution targets businesses with elaborate user hierarchies and managing one or more offices and features Groupware, Personal...

tags: axigen  mail  server  mailserver  email 

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AXIGEN and MailArchiva Team to Offer High End Messaging and

April 23, 2008

Houston, USA, and Bucharest, Romania, April 21st, 2008 – AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional messaging solution vendor, and Stimulus Software (http://www.mailarchiva.com), vendor of the MailArchiva email archiving system, announced today the closure of a partnership aimed at integrating...

tags: Axigen  mail  server  email  emailserver 

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The AXIGEN Mail Server Brings Emails To Your Mobile Phone

May 05, 2008

Bucharest, May 5, 2008, AXIGEN (http://www.axigen.com), the professional messaging solution vendor, announces today the release of a new version, AXIGEN Mail Server 6.1. The new beta release allows mobile phone users to access their mailbox through the Mobile WebMail interface. In a world where...

tags: AXIGEN  mail  server  mailserver  Linux 

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 Brent Evans 12 posts - Visit blog

Google Stalking - Find Map Location by Phone Number

July 23, 2007

Using Stumbleupon I ran across an excellent mashup of Google Maps and a phone number exchange service that allows you to input most U.S. and Canada prefixes and it finds the...

tags: google  maps 

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Tag Your Music Files with MP3Tag

July 23, 2007

As your digital music collection grows, keeping your music organized by tagging (labeling) your music becomes more and more important....

tags: itunes  mp3  howto 

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Measure Your Run or Bike Ride with Gmaps Pedometer

July 28, 2007

Take Google Maps and add to that a tool that tells you \"How far is it from point A to B.\" This is what the Gmaps Pedometer Mashup does. If you walk, run, bike or swim this is an...

tags: google  maps 

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Roll Your Own Flickr Clone - Hosting Your Photo Site For Fre

July 31, 2007

While I know the masses (myself included) use and love Flickr, Zooomr and Picasa Web Photo hosting sites; there are some of you who want a photo site that is uniquely yours....

tags: flickr  photos  Review 

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Slashdot Tries to Be Digg with their Firehose

August 21, 2007

For quite a long time, slashdot has been outplayed by digg and even reditt as a social tech news site. Slashdot made their site too difficult for a story to make it to their...

tags: Technology 

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PhotoShop Elements Free Filter Plugin

August 21, 2007

Do you own PhotoShop Elements, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or Photo-Paint? Want a free but powerful plugin that lets you convert your digital photos look by applying...

tags: photoshop 

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Find The Right Font - 10,000 Free Fonts

August 21, 2007

Looking for just the perfect font for that document, but don\'t know exactly what you want? Want to avoid the spam and over-done ad sites that happen to have fonts as well? Well...

tags: fonts  tools 

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Free Easy Photo Editor - Photobie

August 21, 2007

Looking for a free, but still powerful...

tags: photos  tools 

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How To Edit and Add Video Clips to Powerpoint Presentations

August 21, 2007

Another Teacher Tech Article for you. This is for anyone who would like to edit a video clip from a video file or from a DVD and add that video clip to your PowerPoint...

tags: howto  tutorial  powerpoint 

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Photo Slider Game for Flickr

October 10, 2007

Just last week I highlighted a bunch of great games using flickr, a photo sharing site.  Well today I bring you another neat flickr game - this one is a photo slider game.  The game created by noviKorisnik is simple yet fun and works by taking any photo on flickr and then scrambling the...

tags: flickr  games  hack  photos 

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Get a Free Cushion Remote Jacket for Your Wii Remote

October 10, 2007

Do You own a Nintendo Wii Game Machine? Nintendo is giving away free Wii Remote Jackets for anyone who owns a wii remote.  Why you might ask? Well I\'m thinking it has something to do with lawyers worrying about people being still not attaching the wrist strap to their arm and not holding the...

tags: deals  games  technews  Wii 

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Getting Gouged by Geeks?

October 10, 2007

CBC News Ran This Expose Story on Getting Gouged By Geeks.  It highlights the quality (or lack thereof) of the various in-home geek services such as Geek Squad, Firedog and others and how they can take advantage of those less-then-tech-savvy people who call on them to help them with tech help...

tags: technews 

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 liquid 10 posts - Visit blog

Software manager in OpenSuse 10.3

July 25, 2007

The software management for OpenSuse 10.3 is in heavy development. Compared to 10.2 zmd was dropped, leaving yast and zypper. Both work now...

tags: software  Linux 

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New tools in Ubuntu land: build service, eBox and TimeVault

July 25, 2007

Ubuntu announced that they will feature their own build service soon. Also, the next Ubuntu version is supposed to have a default installed server management web interface, eBox. In the...

tags: Ubuntu 

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First rpm.org-RPM version released

July 25, 2007

Recently the first version of rpm.org’s RPM tool was released. While it is only a minor version (4.4.2.1) this release is a milestones because it is a coordinated release...

tags: Fedora  linux 

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Short Howto: key bindings in shells

July 27, 2007

This short howto explains how to figure out which key binding is connected with which key.

I just read a post about zsh and once again was curious about the possibilities and the...

tags: programming 

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Blogs about Spam tools and Bot nets: PandaLabs and F-Secure

August 14, 2007

I came across the blogs from PandaSoftware and F-Secure which both report about recent developments in the Spam and Bot net world. The blogs give a good insight into the world behind the daily Spam flood.

The blogs can be found at f-secure.com/weblog/ and...

tags: blogs  security 

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New search and search-and-replace bars for kate

August 14, 2007

Kate was on of the first KDE applications that took over the search bar idea from Firefox. Now the developers sping outlined an idea how to create a search-and-replace bar as well.

The main problem with the usual search bar is that it does not offer search-and-replace functions. This...

tags: Screenshots  KDE 

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OpenSuse 10.3 Beta 1 with improved boot time

August 14, 2007

OpenSuse 10.3 Beta 1 was released recently. Now first results of the boot time improvements are available.

Earlier this year OpenSuse’s Boot Time group was formed to improve the boot time of future OpenSuse versions. Quite soon they developed the plan to not rework the basic...

tags: opensource  suse  linux 

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Package management abstraction with D-Bus

August 21, 2007

Richard Hughes recently proposed to use D-Bus to abstract the package management solutions for Linux. He implemented the abstraction in the “PackageKit” layer and showed a...

tags: RPM  Novell/SUSE  yum  Screenshots  Fedora 

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Short Tip: Convert Ogg Vorbis file to MP3

December 05, 2007

In case you have an ogg vorbis file and need to transform that to a MP3 file (for example for mobile phones or crappy mobile audio players) the...

tags: mp3  Linux  Multimedia  tips 

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Wuala: store data online, and share them if you want

December 05, 2007

Wuala is a mixture of a classical online storage solution and a file sharing application: you can share your data with logged in users...

tags: Linux  Screenshots  Security  Technology 

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 liverpool chamber 10 posts - Visit blog

Top tips for reducing waste and saving money

June 27, 2007

All businesses produce waste - arranging for the disposal of these and complying with legal requirements can be costly and time-consuming. Reducing your waste is about being efficient. It means that you use less, spend less & get more out of what is used. By increasing efficiency in this way,...

tags: environment  business 

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Free eBook For Creative Entrepreneurs

June 27, 2007

A free ebook looking at creative entrepreneurs and maximising creative talent alongisde business best practice is now available online. T-Shirts and Suits, A Guide to the Business of Creativity is written by David Parrish, an international business advisor for creative people. The book is a...

tags: business  entrepreneurs 

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Working With The Web - Social Networking

July 10, 2007

We've looked previously at accessibility, usability and writing for the web. These are all important considerations that go towards building a better website. But what are the ways that you can, as a business, successfully interact with the web as whole? How can you use other websites to boost your...

tags: SocialNetworking  tips  technology 

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Crime Prevention Opportunity For City Centre Retailers

July 10, 2007

A successful crime fighting initiative pioneered in London could be brought to Liverpool for 2008 with the city’s retailers support. Peter Jones, Head of Liverpool Chamber’s Business Crime Direct Team, explained: “Although crime in the city centre has reached a 10 year low in total crime, this is...

tags: events  news  crimenfighting 

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Fun - Bloxorz

July 10, 2007

Today, for your entertainment and edification, we have a fiendishly addictive game - Bloxorz. The aim is to move the block around the grid, using your...

tags: games  entertainment 

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Climate Change Northwest Website Has Now Launched

July 28, 2007

Climate Change Northwest is the new regional website which explores the opportunities and challenges that a changing climate presents to England’s Northwest. The website is the first point...

tags: Environment  News  England  climatechange 

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Liverpool FC.TV Take On New Home Ground At Matchworks II

July 28, 2007

Award winning property developer Urban Splash today announced LiverpoolFC.TV, a joint...

tags: Business  News 

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Dealing with a Short-Term Sickie Culture

August 21, 2007

The Problem It is the age-old problem of the employee who is regularly absent with a variety of different ailments. You know the impact that this can have on the workforce if this allowed to get out of hand which, sadly, it can where management fail to deal with it firmly but fairly. The...

tags: business 

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Tell Your Story & Gain Free Publicity

August 21, 2007

Here’s a chance to get your company some free publicity in the business section of a national newspaper. Jeff Randall of The Daily Telegraph is on the lookout for businesses to contact him. He is investigating ‘Real Business In Brown’s Britain.’ The aim is to cut through official hype and...

tags: business  UK 

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Portable Apps - Take Your Computer With You

August 21, 2007

USB memory sticks. Loads of us have them, and quite right too. They are an ideal way to easily move data around. But did you know they can also be used to take your...

tags: Flexibleworking  internet  Technology 

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 Bruce Benidt 9 posts - Visit blog

A Suprising Legal/ Communications Strategy. A Hint of Honest

July 02, 2007

A business group being sued is acknowledging that they are part of the problem over which they’re being sued. It’s amazing. Ocean-going ships bring invasive species into the Great Lakes in their ballast water. It’s been a problem for years, and results in destructive non-native species like the...

tags: crisis  media 

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Everything I Know About Business I Learned From the Car Guys

July 02, 2007

Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers run a hell of a business. They do the Car Talk show on National Public Radio each weekend, they’re a hoot, and I’m thinking of modeling my business on theirs. The show turned 20 years old this past weekend, and it shows no sign, now that it’s out of its teenage...

tags: Fun 

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Par Excellence

July 02, 2007

How well do the spun spin? That’s the non-legal question on the table as the Star Tribune and Pioneer Press squabble in court over former Pioneer Press publisher Par’s preposterous paper pilfering prank. To the drive-by observer, Par Ridder’s defense comes across as “sure, I stole your property,...

tags: PR  Media 

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Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

July 10, 2007

“What I got to do to make you want me?
What I got to do to be heard?
What do I say when its all over?
Sorry seems to be the hardest word It’s sad, so sad
It’s a sad, sad situation
And it’s getting more and more absurd
It’s so...

tags: politics  PR  media 

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On ’What Women See When They See Hillary’

July 28, 2007

I recommend the July 2, 2007, Nation cover story on “What Women See When They See Hillary” by Lakshmi Chaudhry. In this analysis, Chaudhry says much of the “Hillary-bashing” currently being done is coming not from “conservatives,” who still rankle at the...

tags: Politics  Media 

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The Epidemiology of Viral Videos

July 28, 2007

The folks in advertising and PR agencies who have the best clothes, most piercings, deepest Bennifer knowledge and most current urban slang like to deliver lectures to those of us in janky Dockers about how we still don’t “get” the power of viral videos. The mainstream news media is, like, so...

tags: PR  Politics  Media 

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America: A (Nearly) Equal Opportunity Employer

July 28, 2007

When will the first woman, person of color, Mormon, septuagenarian or gay be hired by the American voters to be their President? While the road is steeper for some, suveys show the road is technically open to almost all Americans. According to a 2007 Gallup survey, most Americans would vote for...

tags: Politics 

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“Is Racism Worse than Womanism” in America?

July 28, 2007

Ellen Mrja ellenm53@gmail.com posts this anecdote: Eileen writes to the SRC: I have both Hillary 08 and Barack 08 buttons on the visor in my car. Recently I picked up my friend’s 10-year-old boy from his baseball game. After buckling up and settling in, he asked, “Do you want Hillary or Barack...

tags: Politics  Media 

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The BBC, the Queen and Ethical Lapses

August 17, 2007

(Kris Morril is a former student of mine who has been a journalist and now runs her own PR/media consultancy in London. She’s a very bright woman, who, despite that, has been reading our blog. She mentioned ethical issues in journalism in the UK and I asked her to give us her thoughts — and here...

tags: media 

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 Bernard Oh 8 posts - Visit blog

A Silverlight-Powered Windows Form Designer within the Brows

July 02, 2007

NetikaTech has created an impressive Windows Form designer and an extensive catalog of Silverlight powered- Windows Forms controls within a browser with the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK. It looks almost identical to the...

tags: Silverlight  Visual Studio  Software Development 

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Mobile Phone Positioning to be Used in Beijing Olympics

July 02, 2007

As part of the medical services improvement for the 2008 Olympics, Beijing will adopt a mobile phone positioning system that can give the exact location of people calling about a medical emergency. The positioning system can tell the location of emergency callers within a radius of a few dozen...

tags: Academic  Australia  Research  Technology 

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Hello Kitty Sports Series Games Coming to Phone Near You

July 10, 2007

Nielsen Entertainmen Study (2006) found that among the roughly 117 million active gamers in the U.S. in 2006, more than half (56%) play games online, and that 64% of all online gamers are...

tags: technology  travel  mobile 

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Migrants Building Australia’s Next Generation

July 28, 2007

A new study by the University of New England suggests that migrants are generally healthier, better educated and more law-abiding than the average Australian born-citizen. “They’re (Migrants) very highly motivated for their children to achieve and many of the benefits of their...

tags: Australia  Globalisation  Research 

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Instant VB - C# to VB Converter

July 28, 2007

If you are looking for a reliable tool to convert C# code into VB code (2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008-beta), you should explore the Instant VB tool. Outstanding Features include: Evaluates all referenced assemblies and .NET projects in order to resolve external references more...

tags: VisualStudio  SoftwareDevelopment  Tips  Microsoft 

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Code Formatting Solution for Wordpress Bloggers

August 21, 2007

Jeff Powers from Fluxcapacity came up with a formatting solution for all those bloggers who wants to retain their original code snippets from their editor onto Wordpress blog. Problem The current Wordpress rich text editor (v2.2) losses the original code formatting as one navigates between...

tags: VisualStudio  SoftwareDevelopment  Tips  Wordpress 

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Beyond Search - Semantic Computing and Internet Economics: M

October 10, 2007

Microsoft Research is pleased to announce a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP): Beyond Search – Semantic Computing and Internet Economics. For full details, guidelines, and instructions,...

tags: computing  interneteconomy  MicrosoftResearch  Research 

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InkSeine: Inlined Ink Written Web Search Tool

October 10, 2007

I always found the ability to perform web search by highlighting key words on the web browser to be essential. This feature is a nifty time saver, which allows me to execute on my query and...

tags: Academic  Education  MicrosoftResearch 

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 Gautam Satpathy 8 posts - Visit blog

Reading A Book, How To Find The Time?

July 27, 2007

I read for pleasure. The information content is incidental as far as I am concerned. That is to say I don\'t go looking for books that will teach me something. Rather I read books that I want to read because they are fun to read. I would rather curl up with a pot boiler than read Jack Welch. That...

tags: Books  India  Thoughts 

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Tattoos For Geeks

July 27, 2007

Most Indians I know don\'t use Tattoos. Oh maybe the odd kid here and there trying to show how cool he or she is. But in general Tattoos is seen as a western thing that is...

tags: Geeks  Internet 

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Web2PDF - Convert Web Pages to PDF

July 31, 2007

Web2PDF is nifty service that is a snap to setup and provides a easy way to convert HTML web pages into PDF documents. And best of all it is free! With Web2PDF you can add a \"Save page as PDF\" button to your web page and allow users to convert you page into a PDF document with one click. It...

tags: Blogs  Free  Internet  Software  Tips 

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The World's Largest Gold Coin On Auction

August 06, 2007

One Hundred Kilograms , the size of a large Pizza!
Minted by the the Royal Canadian Mint, this gold coin has $1 million of Gold bullion, with Maple leaf on one...

tags: finance  gold 

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Spine-Worx - Back, Shoulder & Stress Reliever

August 06, 2007

This strange looking device is supposed to gently & quickly (Oxymoron?) guide misaligned vertebra in the middle and lower spine into their correct position, brining relief from back pain, tension & stress. To use it,...

tags: gadgets  health 

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file Locked or Cannot Remove USB Device? Unlock It

August 06, 2007

Most Windows users must be familiar with this dialog box.

Or with this one...

tags: freesoftware 

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12 Ways To Stop The Telemarketers

August 17, 2007

Sure Shots Ways To Ensure You Are Not Called Again!
After the telemarketer finishes speaking ask them to marry you Ask them to call you at work and give them the number of the local ICICI branch manager Tell them that your agent handles all such things and give the phone to your 3 year...

tags: tips  tricks 

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Life's Little Instruction Book

August 17, 2007

This little list is not my invention. I copied it from en email sent to a mailing list at work. I loved it and I am sure you will too. Have a firm handshake. Look people in the eye. Sing in the shower. Own a great stereo system. If in a fight, hit first and hit hard. Keep secrets. Never give...

tags: thoughts  tips 

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 Petra Consulting group 7 posts - Visit blog

Marketing an Experience

July 25, 2007

Marketing Experiences, not Products. Customers don’t just purchase products or services. They experience them. I wrote last week about how my experience of getting my car repaired was about much more than how well those repairs were done. However, not many companies are focused on how...

tags: business  marketing  customers 

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Sales vs. Marketing - Who Wins?

July 25, 2007

Many companies have an unspoken war going on between sales and marketing. Sales complains because marketing doesn’t bring them any good leads. Marketing complains they feel like...

tags: marketing  customerexperience 

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Magic, Marketing, and Memes: Oh, My!

July 25, 2007

That Magical Reader Loyalty (NOTE: no spoilers here!) The Harry Potter series of books is a great example of reader/consumer loyalty. After all, they have stuck with Harry through 7 books, 199...

tags: marketing  customerloyalty  customerexperince 

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Growing Business the Old-Fashioned Way

July 27, 2007

Many companies spend a lot of time and money on attracting new customers to their product or service. Much of the marketing budget is spent on mass approaches such as advertising and direct mail. ...

tags: Customerloyalty  Customerstrategy  B2BMarketing 

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A Tale of Two Doctors

October 16, 2007

Can customer service make or break a sale? You betcha! We recently found ourselves in need of a “primary care physician” for my husband (he was very sick). Not familiar with the...

tags: Customerservice  wordofmouth 

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Customer Engagement Online

October 24, 2007

I have talked with many companies who tell me they aren’t sure if they want to start an online conversation with their customers. Cord Silverstein asks this question in his post...

tags: conversation  customerengagement  customerfeedback 

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Focus on the customer

October 24, 2007

I love finding other bloggers who share my Customers Rock! passion. Today, I have a collection of three great blog posts about customer focus to share with you. 1. Don’t Trash...

tags: BenYoskovitz  customercentricity  customerfocus 

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 thomas willingham 7 posts - Visit blog

Adding a Creative Commons License to Your WordPress Blog

July 18, 2007

I was...

tags: License  wordpress  CreativeCommons 

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Using WordPress.com App for Facebook

July 18, 2007

WordPress.com has come out with a new application, WordPress.com App for Facebook. I figured after I saw this post I would have to check it...

tags: WordPress  blogging  Facebook  Technology 

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Go Big or Go Home, Microsoft Blue Monster

July 23, 2007

First off, let me say that I am a fan of the Hugh MacLeod’s of Gaping Void Microsoft Blue Monster. But I also think that it is a little over the top. It is like Nike’s...

tags: branding  blogging 

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Don’t Forget to Get Back Up

July 23, 2007

My mother told me this story about a man she met when she was riding the bus home from work. My mother was riding the bus home from work, and was sitting next to this man...

tags: blogs 

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with Jeremiah Owyang: Using Technology for Customer service

July 28, 2007

How things Work with Thomas the Technical Mechanic. Part 1 of a conversation with Jeremiah Owyang, Director of Corporate Media Strategy with PodTech. In part 1, Jeremiah and I discuss using technology to manage information on the Internet for purposes of ensuring high quality customer...

tags: JeremiahOwyang  PodTech  VideoBlog  Technology 

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Alexa, Valuable Tool or Technical Stalker?

August 17, 2007

I have been looking into the Alexa.com, an Amazon.com company, lately. Alexa is a tool that reports on traffic to a site. To effectively get results from Alexa, a visitor has to download the...

tags: alexa  privacy 

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Channel 8 for Students

August 17, 2007

Microsoft recently released Channel 8, an informational site for students. Channel 8 was kicked off July 20th, with a video with Joe Wilson, Director of...

tags: microsoft 

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 Detangled 6 posts - Visit blog

Locate your visitors with social maps

June 27, 2007

Sure social networking creates a community among people but there is no location attached to those who you meet. Now, this new mash-up web 2.0 service known as Frappr! is out to popularize "social mapping." It creates a map that shows where your visitors are along with other details. "Frappr! Maps...

tags: blogging  web 2.0 

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Help save FREE internet radio

June 27, 2007

In my previous post I provided a link that discussed the issue going on now between free internet radio station and the RIAA. "One broadcaster (Accuradio) gives a practical example of what’s happening. He has a small webcast operation, and he manages to earn about $4000 yearly in advertising. He...

tags: Lifestyle  internet  entertainment  people  blogging 

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Use gMail account as portable hard drive

June 27, 2007

I recently came across a wonderful program for Mac OS X. It is known as gDisk and it basically turns your gmail account into a portable hard drive. The program is provided as open-source freeware and works quite well. Once it is installed you run it and login to your gmail account through the...

tags: how to  gmail 

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55 Places to promote your RSS feed

July 10, 2007

It is commonplace now for bloggers and website owners to have RSS feeds to distribute the content that they provide on their site. Many people keep track of the number of subscribers (I know I do) and wonder...

tags: howto  tips  promotion 

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25 places to find and watch video online

July 10, 2007

I´m a video junkie who is always watching TV, recording television programming on DVR or watching videos online. I have found numerous websites that have videos for many different genres and of different...

tags: web2.0  Entertainment 

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Google´s Hidden Links

July 17, 2007

Today, I came across a few links on Google website that many internet users probably never knew existed. Some of the links are very useful while others...

tags: Google  search  Internet 

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Herr von Slatt Profiled on Wired News

July 02, 2007

Our pal Jake von Slatt gets the front n' center star treatment on Wired today, with an interview and a gallery of some of his work. Congrats, Jake! In the slideshow of projects, he includes a pic of an old radio he's currently converting to a digital music machine. Here's what he says about...

tags: gadgets  geeks 

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How To Buy a DMM

July 02, 2007

Thumbnail Guide to Digital Multimeters from Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots A digital multimeter (DMM) is an extremely handy tool to have around for any sort of electronics work, from testing to see if the current is actually off in your house, to finding out how much power is left in...

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And you thought your last cavity search was thorough

July 28, 2007

You know what\'s really, really sad is how much trouble this tote bag would really, really get you into if you tried to take it onto a plane. Remember the scene in Lily Tomlin\'s "The Search for Intelligent Life in the...

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Hacking the Defcon Badge

August 17, 2007

Being more of a hardware guy, I\'m always excited to see what hardware hacks are on display at Defcon (the annual hacking convention), starting with my MAKE colleague Joe Grand\'s Defcon badges. This...

tags: hacking  internet 

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Green DIY Project Contest

August 17, 2007

Instructables has teamed up with TreeHugger and Popular Science to create a Go Green! project contest. Grand Prize is a gorgeous Breezer Liberty commuter bike, first prize is a Solio Universal Solar Charger, and there are...

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Thomas Edwards' Touch Tech

August 17, 2007

Street Tech pal Thomas Edwards, of Dorkbot DC, has launched a website for his Physical Interactions over IP (or "Phy2Phy") project. The first piece he\'s working on is called "Touch" and it...

tags: diy 

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Baby Tip by Babble Soft

June 27, 2007

Many seasoned parents probably know this: When all else fails to calm your baby down (i.e., mylicon drops, gripe water, walking around the house a million times (with your baby next to your chest, in a sling, on your shoulder, or on your back), putting your baby on a running clothes dryer, standing...

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The 15 Step Plan to get ready for Parenthood

June 27, 2007

The Lactivist, Jennifer Laycock, recently posted an entry in her blog called Am I the Only One?" with a hilarious list of things her cousin sent her that outlines what people should do BEFORE becoming a parent called Thinking of becoming a parent? Try this 15 step plan first. Since we now know that...

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The cell phone as a baby monitor and a hand knitted iPhone

July 10, 2007

A few years ago, when the price of wireless airtime plummeted, wireless executives sometimes talked about customers who used pairs of mobile phones as baby monitors....

tags: technology  baby  smartphone 

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Tip on breastfeeding a newborn

July 10, 2007

Use TWO boppies. When I had my son in 2002, I received a boppy (breastfeeding pillow) at my baby shower. I really liked using it but discovered that I often had to put cushions or pillows beneath it to get our newborn son at a comfortable position for feeding. The cushions would slip out or...

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Learning how to properly swaddle a baby

July 28, 2007

Learning how to properly swaddle a baby can make life much easier in those first several weeks after your baby is born. When we were in the...

tags: swaddle  babytips  blankets 

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Darth Vader - Why is he so cool to kids?

July 28, 2007

I remember when I first saw Star Wars as a kid and as I recall Darth Vader was a bad guy so I’m always wondering why kids (including our son) wants to have Darth Vader stuff. Maybe it’s because the “new” Star Wars series shows Darth Vader as Anakin…making him more...

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How To Promote Your Web Site With More Than Search Engines

August 27, 2007

How and Why’s Of Promoting There are three main problems when trying to promote your Web site. The first one is getting people to initially find your site in the first place. If they can’t find your site they can’t visit your site and you won’t get any visitors.The second...

tags: seo  marketing 

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Optimal Placement Of Ads On Your Web Pages

August 27, 2007

While many of the conclusions in the recent research released by the Poynter Institute where they analyzed how people view Web pages based on tracking eye movement are so painfully obvious that it’s embarrassing to read the article, the overall set of tips are well worth considering...

tags: internet  ads  advertising 

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The 5 Secrets PPC Agencies Don’t Want You To Know

September 07, 2007

Nearly three-fourths of companies that outsource their pay-per-click search marketing to agencies are dissatisfied with their results, and only 21 percent are completely satisfied, according to a Jupiter Research published late last year. What causes this dissatisfaction, especially for B2B...

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Helpful Tips on Optimizing a Web Site

September 07, 2007

After spending so much time and/or money on designing and building your site, now the real problem comes. It is not enough that you have built a site and just let it hang there. In doing such, its like throwing away the money and time spent on this project to trash. You are done with the easy parts....

tags: internet  webdev  seo 

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How to Avoid Being Blacklisted

September 07, 2007

A blacklist usually refers to a list of e-mail or IP addresses known to send spam e-mails or some other type of unsolicited messages. Such lists are currently used by mail servers for filtering incoming e-mails and blocking the ones listed, in order to improve mail security and integrity. The...

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This Blog is sponsored by a big mountain

September 14, 2007

Now is a good time to buy gear August is the right time to go and buy new gear cheap. Most stores have a end of summer sale to get rid of last years stuff to make room for this years. So get out early to get the best selections. Or use this link to find great web deals on back to snowboard...

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I said this before and I will say it again upadate,update,up

September 10, 2007

Update Your blogs often I know I said this and I tried to live by this it\'s hard with the amount of blogs I run. In the passed week and a half I lost page rank from not updating when I should have. This was a short time and this happened but I just got back up and on fire again. I know...

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bloggers read blogs too

September 11, 2007

To be a blogger You need to write about the topics love. But what happens when You have nothing to say. This could be a block or maybe You need info from others to inspire something in You. If You teach You must learn things change more then ever this day and age so You need keep informed so...

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Commercial Driver Training

September 12, 2007

My name is John I drive a front loader mixer that only seat one person so it was hard to train people in it. With this new blog I will train you for free how to drive a front loader cement mixer so you can get paid. You will learn from posts and video So you can gain the experience that you need...

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Quick blog

October 02, 2007

Starting a quick blog with Go daddy there are many blog hosts out there. If you want a quick blog backed by a great name then you need to check Out the go daddy\\\'s quick blog or podcast and get on the path to a better more productive life style. P.S start now Don\\\'t wait and be sure to...

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M&S Investment Gmbh, Irak promete beneficios a los pequeños

March 06, 2008

Zúrich - En alerta. Hace meses, en efecto, llegan tristes noticias respecto la escasez de crudo. Las reservas de combustible fósil que la naturaleza nos reserva, se están agotando. Acerca de esto los científicos parecen unirse en un coro unánime, mientras están en neto desacuerdo y dubitativos...

tags: Iraq  Irak  inversion  inversores  inversor 

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Mayor seguridad en Irak, mayor actractivo del Dinar

March 12, 2008

Zúrich / Berlín - Aunque las noticias desde Irak no son reconfortantes, el país de los dos ríos registra de cualquier modo progresos, especialmente en el campo socio-cultural y económico. Ciertas noticias lamentablemente no son divulgadas y no llegan hasta nosotros. No obstante esto, la...

tags: inversion  inversor  inversores  Irak  Iraq 

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El Dinar va a realizar los sueños de los inversores

March 18, 2008

Zúrich. La economía iraquí y el Dinar iraquí continúan su imparable escalada. Esta es la teoría del experto de divisa y Oriente Medio Michael Amram, considerando también factores como el aumento de la seguridad en el país de los dos ríos. La violencia en Irak está en disminución, las fuerzas del...

tags: inversion  inversor  inversores  Irak  Iraq 

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El Dinar va a realizar los sueños de los inversores

March 18, 2008

Zúrich. La economía iraquí y el Dinar iraquí continúan su imparable escalada. Esta es la teoría del experto de divisa y Oriente Medio Michael Amram, considerando también factores como el aumento de la seguridad en el país de los dos ríos. La violencia en Irak está en disminución, las fuerzas del...

tags: inversion  inversor  inversores  Irak  Iraq 

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