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ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking : Messaging (part 2) |
A message will primarily be made up of the subject and its body. In addition to that we will need to know what type of message we are sending so that we can do some more fancy things in the UI down the road. |
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ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking : Messaging (part 1) |
Messages are the core of any messaging system. Generally, a message would contain details on the sender of the message, receiver of the message, and other metadata about the message, subject, and body. |
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Zipcloud Online Backup - The Backups Are Simple |
Remember those Apple ads that said "There’s an app for that”? ZipCloud is an online backup service whose motto may as well be a variation on that theme. The basic service does exactly what you expect, backing up your files to their secure Amazon S3 backend via the Internet. |
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How To Use Skype To Help Your Business |
SKYPE IS SO popular that some people use its name as a verb. Yet more people use Skype only for making free voice calls, and for occasional video chats. That’s a shame, because Skype is a powerful business tool. A Skype-powered videoconference can take the place of a business trip, not to mention the free Skype-to-Skype calls you can make to overseas suppliers and clients. |
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5-Minute – How To Filter Spam in Apple Mail |
Spam is everywhere, but with modern email, you can smartly combat this problem. Built into every Mac is the ability to filter out the spam from your Inbox. Apple has made this a relatively simple process with the Mail application, but we'll show you the ropes in this how-to. |
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Amazon Isn’t Just For Books Anymore... |
While we’re used to Amazon -the massive online retailer that we all know, and some love - providing a huge array of products, you may be unaware that it also provides a range of tools and services aimed at the IT market, too. |
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The Benefits Of A Technet Subscription (Part 2) |
Although the word ‘evaluation’ sticks in the throats of many a reader, consider this: if you were to buy Windows 8 Pro, along with Office 2010 for your computer, then the overall cost to you would be in the region of $480. Should that package then turn out to be the wrong choice, it would be money ill-spent (although you can refund it), but the time taken to install configure and test would have been wasted as well. |
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The Benefits Of A Technet Subscription (Part 1) |
The best way to gain experience with a particular piece of software is to actually roll up your sleeves and get stuck in. Installing it multiple times, trying out different installation combinations, setting the product up, customising it and getting used to its common features will give you more experience than could ever be garnered from the pages of a book or magazine. |
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How To Find The BEST DEALS (Part 2) |
Most hardware sales websites have a special discount, clearance or outlet section, which is used to get rid of stock that can’t be sold as new for one reason or another. The products in them aren’t necessarily second-hand (although they might be, particularly if they’re described as ‘open box’), but they are cheaper, and usually by a significant amount |
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How To Find The BEST DEALS (Part 1) |
Looking for bargains, as with any human endeavour, is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. In this case, the latter normally occurs when you’re crammed into crowded shops fighting over marked-down goods in the January sales. |
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How To Make The Most Of The Second Hand Market (Part 2) |
If someone mentions buying or selling goods second hand, it’s a safe bet that your brain will go straight to thinking about eBay. It’s not hard to see why: the website has been around longer than most and has crushed the competition over the years with its wide range of content and reliable system of sales. |
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How To Make The Most Of The Second Hand Market (Part 1) |
The fast pace at which the computing industry moves means that there’s always a new and desirable piece of technology just around the corner. A bigger monitor, a better graphics card, a more powerful CPU. The fast turnover may be the bane of those who like to stay on the bleeding edge, but if you’re content to have a more mid-field system, it has a huge advantage. |
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Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 : Caching Application Data (part 1) - The Cache Class |
The Cache class is exposed by the System.Web.Caching namespace and is a new entry in the set of tools that provide state management in ASP.NET. The Cache class works like an applicationwide repository for data and objects, but this is the only aspect that it has in common with the HttpApplicationState class, as we’ll see in a moment. |
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Twitter On Trial |
It’s difficult to remember a time before Twitter. Though the micro-blogging service is still relatively young, the Internet and our daily lives are awash with words like ‘tweet’, ‘tweeters’ and ‘trending’. |
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Group Test: Web Browsers (Part 2) : Internet Explorer 10, Chrome 23 |
Internet Explorer 10 shipped as part of Windows 8. In fact, there are two versions of the web browser: one is on the Start screen and the other runs on the desktop. The Start screen app is very different and has a touch-enabled interface that you will love or hate. The desktop version of IE10 will be available for Windows 7 by the time you read this, at least in preview form, if not the full release version. |
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Group Test: Web Browsers (Part 1) : Firefox 17, Opera 12.10 |
The pace of development of web browsers is incredibly rapid, with new versions coming along every few weeks. Firefox 16 was released a month ago, 17 will be released next week, 18 will be here in January and there’s talk of 19 not long after that. Wow! In the hope of reviewing something that might actually still be around when you read this, on test is Firefox 17 beta. |
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Html 5 : Text Tags and a Little CSS3 - The Fundamentals |
When you’re organizing a Web page, the links should be organized into a navigation system that’s easy for those looking at your Web page to use. In the page shown in Figure 1, the link is broken up by the graphic and seems to be part of the text rather than part of a navigation system. |
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Should You Have Mobile Web Designers? |
Forrester Research (www.forrester.com) predicts that 1 billion consumers worldwide will own smartphones by 2016. Of these, 350 million will be employees using their devices in a work-oriented capacity. It isn't surprising, then, that Forrester expects business spending on mobility to double by 2015. |
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