Adobe opens Lightroom to outside developers
June 28, 2007
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Closely following the release of Photoshop Lightroom 1.1, the latest version of its digital photograph management software, Adobe has new announced that it now plans to let outside developers add their own plug-ins.
At the moment Lightroom 1.1 […]
Google launches Desktop for Linux
June 28, 2007
Google has launched a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux.
Google Desktop was launched in 2004 for Windows machines and there is also an enterprise version, but it has never before been available to Linux users.
It is a desktop search application which provides a text search tool for a computer. A […]
UK businesses slow to reduce carbon footprint
June 27, 2007
According to the Green Technology Initiative, UK businesses are not taking appropriate measures to reduce the carbon footprint of their IT activities and many are pursuing unsustainable IT strategies.
Information Technology accounts for approximately 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions, but in its recent Green IT Awareness Survey, the Green Technology Initiative found that over […]
Microsoft boosts Windows Live service
June 27, 2007
Microsoft is enhancing Windows Live with photo sharing and Web-based hosted storage.
The new services will initially only be available to pre-selected testers.
Windows Live Photo Gallery beta is an enhanced version of the Windows Photo Gallery that is built into Windows Vista. It will also work on Windows XP machines.
It extends Windows Live’s […]
Fitting Technology to SME Needs
June 27, 2007
‘Life On Demand’ is a term that epitomises the way our personal and business lives are heading in 2007. Today, companies make millions giving people the products and services to do any number of things on demand.
Drugs exist which promise not only to let you sleep when you want, but also wake up at […]
Google Adsense offers rounded corner ads
June 27, 2007
Google has announced that it’s Google Adsense contextual advertising program now offers ads in a rounded corner box.
Previously, ads were served up as squares or rectangles with sharp angular corners. However, now ads can be selected to have rounded corners.
The aim is to allow Google Adsense ads to blend in more suitably with websites which […]
Google to add mail migration to Google Apps
June 26, 2007
Google is rumoured to be ready to release mail migration to Google Apps this week - in order to help encourage companies to integrate more of their data over to Google’s servers for storage.
Email clients which support an IMAP interface will be able to use this new feature, which will then allow a user’s emails […]
Jupiter Research predicts two-tiered net
June 26, 2007
In a new report, Jupiter Research predicts that Internet Service Providers could start charging some websites for faster access to customers.
Although this would generate increased revenues for ISPs, Jupiter warns that it could also create a “two-tiered internet” which might alienate consumers and increase the complexity of broadband service provision.
As the moment ISPs […]
Paypal to get new website design
June 26, 2007
With Paypal having recently moved to Luxembourg, and with Google Checkout chasing on their heels, Paypal are now applying a new redesign to their website.
Interestingly enough, after their last redesign in September 2004, it seems Paypal are going retro, with their new design reclaiming the silvered login box that used to help define their site […]
IBM and Sun develop pentaflop computers
June 26, 2007
IBM has developed a new Blue Gene supercomputer which will be able to process up to three quadrillion operations a second, or three petaflops.
In real life situations, the Blue Gene/P, will be able to operate continuously at more than one petaflop.
The Blue Gene/P wrests the title of most powerful computer on earth from the […]
EU to assess search engine’s data retention policies
June 25, 2007
The Article 29 Working Group, a panel of EU data protection official, are extending their investigation into search engines’ data retention policies.
The Working Group, led by Supervisor Peter Hustinx, targeted Google in May 2007 and now plans to write to a number of Google’s competitors to request details about the information they keep.
The […]
Google aims to be carbon-neutral by 2008
June 25, 2007
Search engine Google has partnered with international environmental organisation The °Climate Group, in order to take forward its aim to become carbon neutral by 2008.
Google, with help from The °Climate Group, plans to reduce its energy consumption, increase its use of renewable energy and offset any additional carbon consumption through accredited schemes.
Google is understood […]
Moderator Guidelines
June 24, 2007
The following is a standard set of guidelines I post up in my forums for new moderators and supermoderators to reference.
The guideline provides specific technical information on vbulletin moderator tools, but the principles can apply to any forum.
Importantly, I always create a private section for staff to access, which comprises at least a Staff Room, […]
Google extends Pay-Per-Action ad engine worldwide
June 22, 2007
Google has opened its Pay-Per-Action ad beta, an optional extra to AdWords, to non-US advertisers.
Pay-Per-Action, which was launched in the US in March, doesn’t charge an advertiser unless an ad generates an action on their website, such as a sale or registration.
This means that they only have to pay when they get results. […]
Dell reduces preinstalled software
June 22, 2007
Dell Inc. has responded to complaints on its IdeaStorm blog about the amount of software it pre-installs on new computers.
The company now plans to give customers more control over software during the purchase process.
Dell.com customers who buy an XPS system, Inspiron notebook or Dimension desktop can now select to have no software preinstalled […]
Microsoft to enable Vista for Google search
June 21, 2007
In a filing with the Justice Department, Microsoft has agreed to allow both computer manufacturers and individual users of its Vista operating system to select the default search application. At the moment it is locked into Vista’s instant search function.
Microsoft will change the search feature as part of the first service pack to Windows […]
Safari supports enhanced browser colours
June 20, 2007
Apple could lead the way to making the web a more colourful place with its new Safari browser.
Safari, which is now available in beta on Windows, supports different ways of encoding images to those provided by browsers such as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. This can mean richer, deeper colours.
Mozilla’s forthcoming Firefox […]
Searchboth.com brings together Google and Yahoo!
June 19, 2007
Searchboth.com, a new site from IdeaLabz and the Toll Free Yellow Pages, delivers search results from both Google and Yahoo! in split-screen format.
When a query is typed into the site’s search box, the site displays results from Yahoo! on the left side of a browser and results from Google on the right. Each browser pane […]
Demand spreads for Dell PCs with Linux
June 19, 2007
Over 20,000 people have signed a petition calling on Dell to offer Linux-based PCs outside of the US.
Dell PCs pre-loaded with the Ubuntu Linux distribution have been available in the US since May, as a result of pressure from visitors to Dell’s IdeaStorm Web site.
The IdeaStorm forum is now hosting several motions calling […]
YouTube launches Adobe tool for online editing
June 18, 2007
YouTube, the popular video sharing website, has launched a Web-based editing tool with Adobe branding.
The tool, known as ‘remixer’, allows users to create more professional-looking videos by splicing together video clips, photos, music, graphics and other media.
Similar tools are already offered by Photobucket and Yahoo Video. Photobucket launched an Adobe-branded editor in February, […]