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Pay As You Go
A construction firm busts through piles of invoices with pro forma statements issued once a month.

Elgan: Your car — the ultimate 'mobile computer'
You may hate Windows Vista, laugh at the Zune media player and completely ignore Windows Mobile, but Microsoft seems to be making all the right decisions about its Windows for Cars product, called Microsoft Auto.

Microsoft to limit capabilities of cheap laptops

Microsoft is launching a program to promote the use of its Windows OS in ultra low-cost PCs, one effect of whic...

Microsoft grows DAISY for blind computer users while Adobe wilts
The DAISY XML format, an accessibility standard in development for years, has gotten a big boost by virtue of Microsoft developing a DAISY plug-in for Word. But if the big document-authoring players are getting on board, where's Adobe?

Sun's JavaOne show re-dubbed 'VomitOne' after stomach bug hits
Thousands of attendees at this week's JavaOne conference in San Francisco have been exposed to a norovirus that can cause an upset stomach and flu-like symptoms, according to the city's health department.

Future IT in health care: Printers that make drugs
Microsoft chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie talked of the possibility of using printers to make drugs and mobile phones that diagnose illness.

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Download Oracle SQL Developer 1.5
This new production release provides a multitude of new features, including support for integrated version control systems, CVS, and Subversion.

Download Oracle JDeveloper 11g Technology Preview 4
This Technology Preview release includes a full development environment for Java EE 5 as well as new features for AJAX developers, including new ADF Faces Rich Client components.

The Oracle Fusion Developer's Guide to JavaOne 2008
Chat up JavaOne Rock Star Cameron Purdy and SOA guru Dave Chappell; see the Thomas Kurian keynote (and Oracle-led sessions on JPA, RIA, and more); and get free passes to a special showing of "Iron Man" - just for starters!

Creating Oracle Coherence Caches in Oracle JDeveloper
Learn how to create and configure an Oracle Coherence cache in Oracle JDeveloper, step by step.

Technical Article: Authorizing Access to Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Data
Authorizing access to individual data objects based on spatial and temporal references is a complex task. Read this case study to learn one feasible approach.

New Best Practice Centers: Oracle Fusion Middleware for Apps
These new Best Practice Centers for E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, and Siebel provides technical hands-on content designed to help developers and technologists get started creating SOA with their apps today.

Technical Article: Build a Google Talk Client Using Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client and the Active Data Service
Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema explains how to build a rich Java client that fully integrates with Google Talk, step by step.

Download Oracle Clusterware for Linux
Oracle Unbreakable Linux support customers at the Basic and Premier support levels can download and deploy Oracle Clusterware at no additional license fee or support cost.

Introduction to Grails Development
Learn how to build a simple Grails app using Oracle JDeveloper as your IDE, from Oracle ACE Director (Oracle Fusion Middleware) Harshad Oak.

Technical Article: Invoice Processing in a Service-Oriented Environment
Explore a process integration scenario implemented using Oracle Enterprise Service Bus, step by step.

Download Oracle Application Express 3.1
This new release contains several new features including declarative BLOB support, enhanced report printing, custom themes, and a runtime-only installation. Check out Interactive Reporting, especially!

AMD unveils low-power Opteron processor
AMD Monday unveiled five quad-core processors that promise to help boost the energy efficiency of data centers.

Global Dispatches
Microsoft has broken ground on a $280 million, two-building R&D campus in Beijing, China; and Telstra was awarded a $153 million telecom pact by the Australian defense department.

Swarming spy bots that share information being built for military
The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a $38 million contract to build insect-size, flying robots that can be used by soldiers in combat.

The 10 most important technologies you never think about
You may not spend much time considering Unicode, XML and digital signal processing, but you couldn't get through your day without them.

MySpace embraces data portability
MySpace has launched a program that will allow users to share their data with other Web sites, including eBay, Photobucket, Yahoo and Twitter.

AMD lays out plans for six-core and 12-core chips
AMD has disclosed plans to ship six- and 12-core chips as it continues to play catch-up with rival Intel.

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Seven Year Old Steals Car, Just Wait for GTA Blaming
When a 7-year old kid, obviously being well monitored, goes on a driving spree and smacks four cars (and more) that's actually pretty impressive. I mean, he couldn't even see over the dash and manages to keep going after four accidents? Kids got some skillz. That said, the interview in the video is unbelievable. "It's fun to do bad things" and he wanted to let his friend smoke are his reasons. His punishment according to him? Take away the video games for a weekend. One weekend. The car is almost totaled. I'm thinking he's a little more screwed than that. I'm sure someone will hear video game and driving spree in the same sentence and run with it.

Screw You Paramount
Thanks a lot Paramount. A week to the day you release Cloverfield on DVD, you announce it's coming on Blu-ray June 3rd. That's bullshit. Kind of convenient that you had no Blu-ray plans prior to today, and then suddenly, multiple recent DVD-only releases are getting the HD treatment. I want my $15 back for buying Cloverfield on DVD. We had damn well better be getting a coupon, rebate, or some solid exclusive extras. On the other hand, if you haven't seen Cloverfield, you need to. Don't expect the tired monster movie cliches. Expect one hell of a fun ride.

Blog It Facebook App Review Redux

Bryan Tighe, the app developer is helping me out. I think we have got it working.

The start of a new decade, my 30th birthday
Well, I guess you can say that I am still young enough to find birthdays exciting. I turned 30 on the 24th. So now I am older and wiser. HA. I am heading home for the weekend, to try and relax a bit. So see you all on Monday.

Mario Kart Wii in the House
See, Kotaku is not the only blog that can make useless posts about Nintendo and/or other publishers sending games and other swag in cool packages. This is by far the most anticipated Wii game this year for me, even more than SSBB. It is the same box you have seen, with the skid mark on the top. It also has a car freshener hanger that says "I ♥ Kart" which is pretty neat - so I am not going to waste time snapping photos. GolinHarris always come up with fun stuff. Of course I am driving home this weekend for my birthday, maybe I will take my Wii with me.

LinkedIn "your account is restricted" is not handled well

Lets be honest, LinkedIn is not the pissing contest that MySpace or even Facebook is. LinkedIn is about professional networking over social networking. I really like LinkedIn. I recently wrote a letter to customer service, and since I spent such a lot of time writing it, I figured I should post it here. You can read it in its entirety after the break.

New Intern & My Renewed Hatred of Windows

Friday our new intern started at the office, which meant Thursday I had to get Haley's old PC cleaned up and ready for the new guy to use. Its not that we wanted to give him a hard time, it's just that we don't have another Mac in the office.

There is a major difference between using a five year old Dell and a five year old Apple computer. I have a 1 Ghz PowerBook G4 that is seven years old and it does not behave as badly as this Dell. To make a really long story short, I spent half the day friday trying to get everything working for him to use Illustrator -- which I thought I had done Thursday before I left the office.

We then spent about a half hour and purchased a referbished iMac from Apple for $999. We looked on Crag's List and eBay, and finally decided on a Certified Referb from Apple. 

The Dell was going to need more RAM, a complete re-install of XP, and a lot of my time. In the end it was fonts that was the bottleneck that made us decide to get a Mac. We do not exclusivly work with OpenType fonts, so going between Mac and Windows would truely be a pain.

The intern is not a Mac person, but we will change that.

Since the "new" iMac is an Intel, I can get the Dell out of the office for good, installing Parallels and XP on it, as there are a couple programs we need Windows for. It arrives by Thursday, and I can't wait.

So to recap we got a new intern and a new Mac on Friday. 

KONAMI ID and Metal Gear Online

The Metal Gear Online beta starts on the 21st. And I am ready. But man the process to get here was a bitch! Konami sure could have made the process a little easier. First you must obtain a beta key. Then you need to go into Account Management to enter and download the 700+ MB beta.

Launch the beta and you find out that a 1.01 update is required, this is about 600 MB more. This is an update before we have started the beta, mind you. It begs the question: why not make the 1.3 GB beta downloadable from the PS Store? The download of 1.01 was slow slow I left it go overnight to finish.

Now a KONAMI ID is required. You get this at the id.konami.net site. Good luck using it. It took me no less than six hrs. to successfully create my KONAMI ID. It would either time out the web browser, or it would fail with an error stating that the page had expired due to inactivity (even though I had just clicked NEXT to get to the next registration screen). I understand sites like this get busy but this is unreal.

Now for your KONAMI ID, you need to create two names, and two passwords. Think of it like a login name and pin. This is a little much for a bleeping beta.

Back in the beta you enter your Game ID (that would be the second name attached to your KONAMI ID) and your Game ID password. Now we wait for April 21.

For those casually looking to check out the beta, like my friend Juganawt, these rediculous hoops will not be jumped through. Bad move Konami. Bad move. 

iPower Hosted Site Hacked with .htaccess Modification
You can bet I will be posting this on Web Hosting Talk later. I already do not like iPower as a host. They suck, simply put. One of our last sites on iPower, one that was not on our iPower reseller, had been the target of a rather malicious and nasty .htaccess hack. Not only is it irritating that the site got hacked and iPower did not notice or inform us, when we called to tell them they did not sound one bit alerted to the seriousness of the issue. Really bad host. When asked if they could look into the log files, as I knew the exact date and time it happened, they said that would not lead to much. He would not even transfer me to a Tier 2 tech. I did not push the matter, as I was about to ring his neck. I had already fixed the problem and I could tell the tech was not concerned at all in the matter. As a matter of fact, he said a "hack" usually happens when a new or old web guy is involved. Well, I work for the old web guy and I am the new web guy, so I don't think so buddy. This was an genius little hack, some script kiddie must be so proud. They used RewriteCond statements in the .htaccess file to redirect all search traffic from about 20 different search engines to a porn site script that sent you to a random site, oh and 301 redirects to boot. There were also ErrorDocument scripts as well. Once I looked into the matter the first thing I noticed was the Index and the .htaccess files were modified on April 11. That means the site has been like this for six bleeping days. The most shocking thing to note here is that "this is not the first time this has happened to one of my client sites," as I am told by coworker. HUH? Needless to say I changed the password on the account and am moving them to our new reseller on Liquid Web. Hit the jump if you are interested in the code from the little hack.

Review: Six Apart's Blog It Facebook App

UPDATE: Bryan Tighe, the app developer is helping me out. I think we have got it working. 

It seems that there is an issue with MT 3.35 where it puts in extra spaces on the published page, even though if you login to MT and republish, things look fine again. The problem I was having (consistently) was that I had not changed my Web Services password from the default one. Once I did that, everything was peachy again.

So, I need to upgrade Breaking Windows to MT 4, and Blog It needs to support Categories. Then this will be a Facebook application that I would use on a daily basis.

Read full, original, review, after the break.

Blog It Test From Facebook
So Six Apart released this new Facebook app today, it is called Blog It. I know, how original. Well, it lets me post to my MT, WP, Tumblr, Twitter, Pownce, and of course Facebook mini-feed all at once.

It seems to do a good job, as I just sent my first post. The problem seems to be that is it taking line breaks and doubling them in the HTML coding. To be more clear, it looks like this:

P (text) BR BR /P for every graph I write. That is no good. So, I am using this as another test. My main blog is using MT 3.36, so I will have to test it out with MT 4 as well. I should also note that in the Blog It app in Facebook that I am using the 'Plain Text' Format. They have added Markdown already today which is nice. I hope they add TinyMCE or similar WYSIWYG soon.

So, Where did Ken go?
You may have noticed that I have not been posting much to Breaking Windows lately. I have not been online much lately, in all actuality. Well, other than work of course. I have been so busy with projects, I have decided that I will not be online until I get them under control.

This includes online gaming. My Xbox 360 is pretty pissed at me too (If you do not have a 360voice.com account, you may not understand). I am still here, just knee deep in web projects. That is not entirely a bad thing.

And if I could talk to my 360, I would piss it off even more because all I have been playing recently are Hot Shots Golf Out of Bounds and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue.

Ken Edwards, Radio Personality?

Yes, you read that correctly. I have been co-hosting a show for five months now. And as of last night, I  started to host it. I had a small issue, call it first time jitters - I forgot to tell the live listeners that we were going into the after show! Other than that, last night's show went really well, if I do say so myself. In other news I finally got our show listed in iTunes, though I am sad to say through no help of BlogTalkRadio.

I have also setup a Facebook and MySpace Group page for the show. So please join and listen live every Tuesday!

Stephen King: Videogame Lunacy
Must read material. It is really refreshing to hear his take on the subject, seeing as his books and movies are rather violent and all.

Xbox Mourning: Day 40
Today is the last day. As my Xbox 360 sits literally 15 minutes away in Maumee Ohio at the UPS station, lonely, lacking attention, and likely crying out for me, I await its arrival tomorrow morning. My 360 officially went through an Emo stage earlier in the week, and how now turned into pure, unadulterated hatred. Since no one told me I could set a vacation time to prevent the poor thing from going through this depressed period, I lost a 209 day playing streak. The sudden stoppage must have made my 360 feel abandoned. Soon you'll be home. Soon.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta goes native on the Mac
OpenOffice.org has released a beta version of its open-source application suite that doesn't require Mac users to install X11, a Unix windowing environment.

Microsoft grows DAISY for blind computer users while Adobe wilts
The DAISY XML format, an accessibility standard in development for years, has gotten a big boost by virtue of Microsoft developing a DAISY plug-in for Word. But if the big document-authoring players are getting on board, where's Adobe?

6 downloadable boot discs that could save your PC
When the worst-case scenario actually happens, downloading the right rescue disc can save your hide -- and your data.

IE-only marketing campaign skewed Firefox, Safari numbers
The browser share numbers Net Applications reported for the month of April were skewed by an IE-only marketing campaign, the company said today.

Adobe breaks silence on February's PDF bugs
Adobe is finally offering some details about multiple vulnerabilities in its popular Reader software that were patched in early February.

The Top 15 Vaporware Products of All Time
Here are the 15 best examples of products that never saw the light of day (at least in their originally intended form), plus some honorable mentions that we just couldn't ignore.

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Windows XP Users Safe for a While
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Firefox 3 RC 1 Code is Complete
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OpenOffice 3.0 beta Released for Mac OS X
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HP starts offering 2133 Mini-Note PCs with Windows XP
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Windows XP SP3 users warned over IE downgrades
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TechTarget IT Media Consumption, Purchase Intention Survey Reveals Predominant Role of Demo Software Downloads throughout IT Review, Selection Process
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M-Player for Mac: Fretlight guitar companion software
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Best. Photoshop tutorials. Ever
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SuperMegaUltraGroovy and Toastycode Announce TapeDeck for Mac OS X 10.5
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Word for Law Firms: Legal Extensions for Microsoft Word
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Windows Vista more secure than XP, says security company
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Vista as insecure as Windows 2000
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Vista as insecure as Windows 2000
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Investing Systems Software Makes 'Picking Winners in a Down Market as Easy as Point &
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602PC SUITE: Alternative to MS Office
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Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
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Can GIMP replace Photoshop?
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31 Days of the Dragon: We're Giving Away an HP Pavlion HDX9200 Notebook PC + Software + DVDs ($5500 Value)
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Firefox 3 RC1 now on tap for late May
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Hosted software development: an emerging market [interview and podcast]
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Windows XP SP3 upgrade spells trouble for IE
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The Choice command is back in Windows Vista
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Microsoft warns of IE 7 lock in XP SP3
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Adobe fixes Photoshop Express
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Inside Mac OS X Leopard
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Windows XP SP3 upgrade spells trouble for IE
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Symantec Patents 'Good' Worm To Correct Security Vulnerabilities
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Windows Vista more secure than XP, says security company
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IE8 to boost ActiveX security on Vista
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Fixed alternative for 'white space' networking gains a unique ally
While Google and Microsoft are pressing the FCC to give further consideration to "white space" networking devices that transmit in unused portions of the TV spectrum, a microphone company -- no less -- is trying to tip the balance.

Google's Picasa sends its last 'Hello' on May 15
Obsolescence comes in many forms, one being the natural kind, the other planned. Then there's the suddenly, unexpectedly enforced kind, which is rarer but which reared its ugly head today with one of Google's more innovative, but old, ideas.

Google: Microsoft remains a strong competitor, even without Yahoo
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday that he still sees Microsoft as a potent competitor, even though its concerted and often acrimonious campaign to buy Yahoo now looks like it will pass into history.

Yahoo beta tests new search results concepts in India
When a query is entered on Yahoo's Glue Pages, search results -- whether text, image, or video -- all turn up on an organized single page. It's an idea that's turning heads, and it's showing up first on Yahoo's Indian domain.

Apple has Wii-like Apple TV controller under development
A patent filed in 2006 and published this week indicates that Apple is developing a game controller that would allow for control much like Nintendo's popular console.

Circuit City to open its books to Blockbuster, Icahn
Retailer Circuit City has secured Goldman Sachs to advise it on its future moves and confirmed it had received information on how a buyout by Blockbuster would be financed.

.MOBI registrar rescues mobile Web technology firm Mowser
The company responsible for the .mobi mobile phone Internet domain, dotMobi, has bought out a mobile browsing company that was on the verge of death just one month ago. DotMobi will immediately integrate Mowser's directory, search, and listings into the find.mobi service.

House bill would enforce ESRB game rating system
A bipartisan bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives Wednesday aimed at forcing stores to card minors attempting to purchase video games rated "Adults Only" or "Mature." It's not the first time such legislation has been tried.

Free AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots for iPhone still unofficial
AT&T "officially" posted information about free Wi-Fi hotspot access for its iPhone customers on Thursday, and summarily removed it.

Nokia: Mobile phone leader or 'Internet company?'
At Nokia's annual meeting yesterday, CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo vowed to change the business model of the world's leading mobile phone maker, to make it, in his words, "more like an Internet company."

Now part of CBS, Last.fm will get exclusive video
It's been almost one year since social music network Last.fm was acquired by CBS, and the site has opened "Last.fm/presents," offering original video content from prominent artists.

Microsoft: Don't expect a Yahoo deal, at least for now
A Microsoft executive has thrown cold water on hopes that the company would try again with Yahoo, and sources indicate the company has released its proxy slate of would-be Yahoo directors.

Microsoft to release Office 2007 SP1 via Automatic Update in June
Five months after the first service pack for Office 2007 was made generally available to customers, the company has determined it will be safe to provide it over its automatic update service.

Dueling approaches to net neutrality clash in US House
Should the FCC be the final authority deciding just what constitutes "net neutrality," and how ISPs should be punished if they fail to provide it? Or would you rather the matter be resolved in the federal court system?

65 nm GPU for Xbox 360 'Jasper' due in August
The latest update to Microsoft's Xbox 360 not only gives the console a 65 nm CPU, but a similarly-profiled GPU, enabling the whole unit to consume less power, and therefore run cooler and more quietly.

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Sharing Multimedia Files via Windows Media Player 11
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VirtualBox 1.6
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