| Apple Extends An Olive Branch In The Dying Days Of MobileMe |
| Apple has extended its offer of 20GB of free iCloud storage for MobileMe subscribers until 30 September. MobileMe, the online syncing and storage service that preceded iCloud, is due to close completely on 30 June after a year’s notice and Apple is stepping up its attempt to persuade users to switch to iCloud while there’s still time. |
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| iCloud and Snow Leopard |
| Optimists will point to a much-circulated System Preferences screen grab, of which MacRumors has a copy at bit.ly/HlfRtl, which suggests Snow Leopard is set to gain iCIoud support with an upcoming 10.6.9 update. That would be great, but if the rumour turns out to be incorrect, you’re going to have to look for workarounds. |
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| This Will Be The End Of Me |
| Yet by the time its replacement, iCloud, was revealed at WWDC 2011, MobileMe had come to underpin much of the everyday Mac and iOS functionality that users relied on. Besides email , it synced contacts, calendars, bookmarks and more. It hosted online photo galleries created in iPhoto and websites designed in iWeb. |
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| Password Hacks Raise User Fears |
| The passwords that had been decoded were immediately invalidated by the company, and LinkedIn emailed users whose accounts were affected to explain how to change their passwords. |
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| JavaScript Patterns : Essentials - for Loops |
| A problem with this pattern is that the length of the array is accessed on every loop iteration. This can slow down your code, especially when myarray is not an array but an HTMLCollection object. |
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| JavaScript Patterns : Essentials - Minimizing Globals |
| JavaScript uses functions to manage scope. A variable declared inside of a function is local to that function and not available outside the function. On the other hand, global variables are those declared outside of any function or simply used without being declared. |
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| IIS 7.0 Manager Customization and Extensibility |
| IIS Manager is not just an application, but rather an extensible platform that developers can use to plug in their own features to manage custom settings and applications. Developers can change the UI, remove existing features, and add new administration features. |
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| IIS 7.0 : Using Command Line Tools - Working with Configuration |
| You can specify multiple parameters to set multiple configuration attributes of a section in a single command. You cannot specify each parameter more than once, however. Due to a bug, if you specify the same attribute more than once, the last value takes effect. |
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| IIS 7.0 : Using Basic Verbs: List, Add, Set, Delete |
| Most Appcmd objects support the basic set of verbs: List, Add, Set, and Delete. These verbs operate in a fairly consistent way across objects, which makes Appcmd easy to use after you get a feel for how these verbs work. |
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| Java EE 6 : New features introduced in Servlet 3.0 (part 1) |
| Java EE 6 includes a new version of the Servlet API-Servlet 3.0. This version of the Servlet API includes several new features that make servlet development easier. Servlet 3.0 also makes it easier to take advantage of modern web application techniques such as Ajax. |
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| Web Blocking |
| The spectre of website blocking found its way back onto the news pages again recently when BT announced it had implemented a court-ordered block on the Pirate Bay website. |
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| Tumblr : Behind the scenes |
| Tumblr is all about community and sharing: it’s a very easy platform for sharing not just words but pictures, music and video and, like Twitter, it allows you to repost things other users have posted, making everything feel very interconnected. It’s a simple idea, but a very clever one. |
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| Is It Time To Tweet? (Part 2) |
| Twitter launched in2006 and now has more than 140 million users across the globe. It’s fast becoming the number one way to make connections, publicise things, keep up with the news – even just to vent or share what you are having for lunch. |
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| Is It Time To Tweet? (Part 1) |
| It seems everyone is at it. But is Twitter for people with too much time on their hands? Or is it the best new way to communicate and keep up with the news? Jo Craven takes the leap and finds out |
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| Diaspora: The Better Facebook |
| New services like Foursquare have grown significantly from July 2010 to July 2011 whereas the established ones like Facebook have hardly grown after that. MySpace, once the most popular, has fallen quite dramatically. |
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