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Free EvJO Digital Photo-Image Resizer Software

Here's another free digital graphics package for you to try out, EvJO's "Photo-Image Resizer." As long as they're free you might as well download the program and give it a whirl. It might prove to be just what you need, and if so, you can spend your software money on somet...

Batteries Get Stimulus Grants

VentureBeat pointed out last week that $2 billion worth of federal grants were being awarded to battery makers in the near future. Grants will run between $100 million and $150 million. The deadline to apply for a grant was yesterday. From the article: Candidates for the money are required to p...

ROI Measurement and Misunderstanding

So I have a question for the audience: when you are measuring ROI on SOA projects, are you looking at just the SOA team production, or do you look at secondary effects? That's assuming you look at ROI on your SOA projects at all; apparently 40% of companies engaging in SOA projects don't....

The Genius Visa

© Keith Allison You've probably never heard of the genius visa. Les than 10,000 people a year are allowed into the U.S. on it. People who are at the absolute top tier of their field in the arts, athletics, sciences, education, or business. Its formal name is the O-1 visa, and BusinessWeek...

You can lower your mortgage interest rate -- BEFORE you take out that loan

The average mortgage interest rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan last week was still below 5 percent. Historically, that's an amazing rate. That doesn't mean, though, that there aren't a whole lot of borrowers — or soon to be borrowers — who don't want to l...

Happy Parents = Happy Children?

© Phil Romans Can happiness be hereditary ? A new paper published in the journal Bioscience Hypotheses proposes the theory that it might. In his article in the latest issue of Bioscience Hypotheses, Dr Alberto Halabe Bucay of Research Center Halabe and Darwich, Mexico, suggested that the ho...

1957 年款 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa

官方新闻稿： MARANELLO, Italy, May 17 /PRNewswire/ - RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby's made history at the Ferrari factory in Maranello today as a 1957 Ferrari 250 TR, chassis no. 0714TR sold for € 9,020,000 at the third-annual Ferrari Leggenda e Passione event to set a new world record...

Cordotz Prove That Little Things Can Make A Big Difference

My desk is a cable nightmare. At any given time, I have at least five devices plugged in, five USB connections flowing, and a few sound and video cables. More than once, I have unplugged the wrong device only to lose data and scream. Cordotz appear simple, but I think they would make a world of ...

Pandemic preparation in the IT department

© The Pug Father It's too early to say whether or not the swine flu will rise to pandemic proportions; so far, as is their wont, news media seem to be blowing the disease all out of proportion and public health agencies have reacted defensively so as to avoid any accusations of under-reac...

The Panic of 2008-09

The financial crisis is more than just a global recession. It's a Panic, according to Kevin Warsh , a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In a speech to the Council of Institutional Investors, Warsh compares the conditions to the Panics of 1837, 1857, 1873, 18...

Save Money with Self-Employment Taxes

© chadmiller If you want to save money on income taxes, then a great way to do it is through self-employment. Having some kind of business of your own enables you to deduct some of your expenses. If your business is in your home, then this will allow you to reduce some of your regular bills, ...

Cloud computing killed your future

Derrick Harris, posting on GigaOm yesterday, postulates that the introduction of cloud computing to the IT industry will put a lot of information workers out on the streets in the same way that the automation of manufacturing work in the seventies and eighties lead to the permanent destruction of ...

More Ways To Get Money to Reduce Debt and Save Money

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5168521 When it comes to needing more money to make ends meet, there are a number of other ways you you can do this. Reducing your debt to zero and saving money can be accomplished. It may take some hard work, but it is possible. Here are a couple of them...

Give a Tucker Enough Space and it Will Overwhelm You

Sometimes you really have to view a car in the metal to appreciate its true style and personality. I've seen Tuckers before but only in museums or on crowded auction floors. At the Palm Springs Desert Classic , a Tucker was displayed on the lawns of a golf course, with enough space that on...

Sony Swivel HDMI Cables Prove That Little Things Matter

Sometimes I think there is a vast conspiracy between between HDMI cable makers and the makers of Band-Aids. I don't know how many times I have scraped or otherwise destroyed my knuckles trying to plug a HDMI cable into into a back to a PC, TV, or PS3. Sony, making a very small but important...

Obama's Tax Breaks and Outsourcing

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 204085 In a recent article published by the Gerson Lehrman Group, Obama's elimination of tax breaks for outsourcing was analyzed. The article states (and I agree) that there is a large difference between the elimination of tax benefits for a business...

Touchatag and Interactive Advertising Solution

Tikitag which is now known as touchatag (this sounds better) has got some enhancements which can prove effective in creation of pioneering one touch applications which can be used for connecting objects used everyday with online applications. A bunch of five new Touchatag business solutions ar...

More on complication

Not long after Google went goofy last Monday (although the issue, somewhat surprisingly, continued through the week), reader Shou'Shou brought my attention to the fact that Google has in fact made a recent move toward simplifying systems once again, removing the "Search the Web" ...

New Evidence Against Barry Bonds May Not Be Admissible

Federal prosecutors have hinted that they have evidence proving that Barry Bonds was involved with performance enhancing drugs other than those for which he is under indictment. However, this, and possibly other evidence previously obtained may prove inadmissible and do more to help rather than hur...

Android G1 Malware Should Have Been Avoided

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 7083370 There are very few die-hard fans of the Apple App Store approval process, but darn it if it just didn't prove itself useful. Over a the Android Store, where there is very little in the sense of approval process or quality control, malware was ...

Network Neutrality: The FCC Faces Off with Comcast

Let the battle begin... The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published " a sternly worded letter " to cable giant Comcast last weekend asking it to prove that it was not giving preferential treatment to its own voice-over-internet services at the expense of such rivals as Vonage. ...

SaaS Office suites; last in, first out?

IBM has thrown its hat in the SaaS office collaboration suite ring this week with the announcement of the online version of Lotus Notes, Lotus Live (aside: why does that redirect to a secure channel even if you slap an "http" on the front? People gotta encrypt their marketing informa...

RFID Hermes System can aid in diagnosis of dementia at early stages

Researchers at University of South Florida are working on something quite laudable. They are trying to figure out whether this RFID based system could be deployed as diagnosis tool for keeping watch on the movements of the patient. Labeled as Health Research Management and Evaluation System or ...

Executives targeted in trojan attack

At a time when most of us have finally become accustomed to big, bot-generated, impersonal attacks becoming the primary threat vector for malicious external attacks on corporate IT systems, it appears that some criminals are going old school and giving penetration attempts the personal touch aga...

The Effect of Satyam's Revelation

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5721341 As you've all seen by now, Satyam (one of the biggest Indian-based outsourcing companies) is in the midst of an earnings misstatement crisis. Like many other companies, Satyam was subject to substantial pressure to show results, particularly ...

Cartier Platinum Engagement Rings

Fine Diamond Solitaire Rings Cartier has always been the accomplice of the greatest love affairs. As ardent diamond experts, Cartier knows how to reveal their beauty better than any other craftsman . Through its technical prowess, it has always attracted the most famous people of all eras. I...

Are You LinkedIn? Why...?

Marianne Paskowski over at BusinessWeek took a look this week at the value of LinkedIn - and she concludes that, well, there isn't much value in it. At least not from a business perspective. In fact, Paskowski seems down right cynical about social networking in general. She says it isola...

It's Impossible To Diet This Holiday Season

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5058858 In my personal blog , I have been complaining about my weight. You see all my life, I have always been that chubby (fat) girl. But the thing is I have never been conscious about my weight since I turned 35 earlier this year. I've never dieted ...

Instant Class Feedback from iPhones

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 6051265 A new iPhone application allows professors to receive instant feedback from all of their students. A teacher can pose a question and, instead of getting a single response, can view answers from all of the students in the class. The Wired Campus ...

Business opportunities opening for Apple

All the buzz today in the blogosphere is about Apple's calculated dissing of the Macworld Expo, a traditional venue for Steve Jobs keynotes announcing new Apple products or initiatives. Senior VP Phil Schiller will deliver the final keynote in Jobs' place at the upcoming 2009 event, afte...

Zoho announces SQL API

The quiet achiever of the SaaS world, Zoho, has announced a new service called CloudSQL offering direct ODBC/JDBC access to certain cloud-hosted data with common SQL syntax. The service will also be available as an extension to Zoho's existing WebAPI, which means it will be accessible not on...

Nokia Pulls Out of Japan

While it's easy to associate Japan as a land flourishing in all that is electronic technology, Finnish handset-giant Nokia has announced decision to pull out of the Japanese market permanently today. Nokia will not only cease selling phones in Japan but will also end marketing campaigns a...

Tim Geithner: crisis manager

So markets rallied with president-elect Obama selecting New York Federal Reserve Bank chief Timothy Geithner to head the Treasury. It's a significant choice because Geithner warned years ago that trouble was ahead. Three years ago, he warned about the risks in hedge funds and derivatives...

G20 峰会盘点

• G20 峰会盘点 • People Zapping • Pencake: E-cards With A Twist • Workstir | Mixing up the marketplace. • Is It Any Good? [The best product reviews] • Afinito - What do you love? • OhMyGas.com - find the cheap gas stations online • Mint 11: ...because membership has its privileges. • Au...

Amazon adds content distribution to Web Services options

Amazon Web Services today announced the release of Cloudfront , a poor man's global content distribution network deeply integrated with the existing Simple Storage Service (S3) offering from the company. Cloudfront is able to take content stored in the S3 system and replicate it globally be...

Free Online Digital Photography Course From iLearn

There are plenty of digital photography courses out there but which one is right for you? Well, when they're free, you can pick and choose until you find the right one, but you still have to invest time and effort to do that. If you stick to known high quality sources, and carefully review...

Auto Camping in a Ford Model T

Long before there was a motel in every town folks who traveled by car had to make do with whatever comforts they could carry in the primitive automobiles of the day. Normally that meant sleeping on the ground with, at best, protection from a canvas cover attached to the side of the vehicle. A few...

A Corner is Worth a Thousand Words

©2008 Matt Finley I've been riding motorcycles for many, many years. Longer than I've been driving cars. In fact, it is literally because of motorcycles (and an accident we had) that I married my best friend 14 years ago. Anyway, before I get side tracked, back to the topic. I recentl...

How Pro Photographers Get Models To Flash Their Best Smile

© ericmcgregor There are tricks of the trade in every business and photography has more than its share of them. I'm not much of a people picture taker these days, meaning I now take only a few hundred of them every year, which isn't really a lot during these digital camera days. Howe...

Introducing the Samsung C6620 Windows Mobile Smartphone

Samsung has recently launched its new windows Mobile 6.1 Smartphone known as the C6620 in Italy. The C6620 is a rather funky looking device that looks a lot different from traditional Windows Mobile Smartphones. It is available in two tone Wine Red, Apple Green and Navy Blue colors and will se...

Is Microsoft showing Google the legislative ropes?

There is an article in the Seattle Times this morning discussing the ongoing regulatory fight over the Yahoo-Google deal, a fight which the reporter points out would probably never have happened without some outside instigation, since the arrangement is merely as business deal rather than a co...

Yummi Glass Fashion Jewelry

Yummi Glass is Allison Overbeke's collection of exquisitely handcrafted glass jewelry . Ms. Overbeke is a rising star in the fashion jewelry world with her collections in the finest boutiques in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. The entire line of rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, and cuf...

Atlantis a new water based entertainment destination in Dubai

Dubai has a new attraction, Atlantis The Palm , a water based entertainment complex which boasts more than 1500 luxury rooms and suites, exclusive shops, cafes, restaurants and a selection of water themed attractions. © Dominic Sayers Aquaventure , is the water adventure park. You can take t...

Incrudo 8GB Flash Drive is Not for Me

There are two types of people in the world right now, those that are scared to absolutely freaking death by the current financial state of affairs , and the type of people that want the Incrudo 8GB flash drive. I am in the first group. Don't get me wrong, the device is sexy, it is sleek, a...

Introducing the Motorola Q11 Smartphone

The motorola Q11 Smartphone is the successor of the Motorola Q9 Smartphone and it has recently been caught on a video by the folks at Zumo. It comes with a fresher look and some impressive set of features and might prove to be a hit amongst Motorola's loyal customers. However with so much...

Frank Lampard gives a master class

Frank Lampard is one of the most talked about players of his generation. He has been runner-up in the world footballer of the year award and has long been regarded as one of the world's finest midfield players. His wonderful goal scoring and medal winning record with Chelsea, together wit...

RFID Needle Free Glucose Testing System Closer To Reality

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Jim DeLillo This is a device which every diabetes patient would like to own and if you ask me why then it would give them freedom from the pain caused by needle pricking. Developed by team from Gentag, GAEL and SAIC, this enables diabetics to keep a watch on the...

Blackberry Storm 9530 ready to take the world by Storm

Recently we have witnessed leaked images, docs and specifications of the BlackBerry Storm and all the leaked information points towards a device that might prove to be a huge hit amongst business and consumer users alike. The device also looks quite impressive in the leaked images. Here are t...

The Fall of Finance

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Felix Möckel For about the last ten years, many corporate decisions were guided by (or held up by) concerns raised by the finance department. Many of those "on the ground" were perplexed by these decisions - some of which included outsourcing otherw...

Ken Whisenhunt is a Fool

© theSuperStar While we understand the NFL is all about machismo and pride, there comes a time to put that away in order to consider the bigger consequences of a violent sport. And the first moron who needs to have this reminded to him is Arizona Cardinals head coach Ken Whisenhunt. Because o...

The Financial Crisis and Legal Process Outsourcing Conflicts

© Shyald While I've written about the effect of the financial crisis on general BPO and IT outsourcing services, I haven't yet discussed the potential for legal process outsourcing to move to center stage as a viable offshore alternative. Given the tectonic shifts in the financial mar...

HTC Touch HD vs iPhone 3G

htc recently launched its new Smartphone known as the HTC Touch HD (High Definition) that seems to be inspired by the iPhone. The HTC Touch HD looks and feels a lot like the iPhone 3G and comes with some powerful features. Such is the excitement of this new device that mobile pundits believe...

Blackberry Pearl 8220 Flip officially announced

The Blackberry Kickstart has officially been announced as the Pearl flip 8220 at the CTIA and it will be coming to T-Mobile in fall. It is being dubbed as a Blackberry device combining fun and functionality and it might prove to be a hit as it is the first flip/clamshell device by RIM. You ca...

NFL Fantasy Freaks - Week 3

© Jeffrey Beall Week 3 of the NFL season is upon us, as is the third week of fantasy football. Let's take a look at the single best match-ups for each position. QB - Jay Cutler, Denver Broncos : Cutler has been a phenomenon this season, with 650 yards, six touchdown passes and a passer ra...

Does a New Federal Law Question the Validity of Online Learning?

© Eleaf This August, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act became law. A clause in the new law mandates that accredited online colleges prove that each student completing coursework is the same student who is enrolled in the school. Now that they've had a chance to throughly exa...

Will the Instability in Pakistan Affect the Offshoring Market

6558983 Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Nic Taylor Although falling off of the front pages of the U.S. media, one of the things that worries me most with regard to offshoring is the recent instability of Pakistan and the threat that it poses to offshoring in India. Certainly, when combined wi...

Its Time for Tata, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and Others to Invest!

© Emil Jacobs With the financial crisis hitting all areas of the US and global economy, it is becoming increasingly clear to this author that it is time for the large Indian outsourcers, such as Tata , Infosys , Wipro and Satyam , to step up to the plate and invest in the US economy. Wit...

Valhalla Cometh

Harrington Leads European Team The 2008 Ryder Cup begins next Tuesday. Three days of practice should have both teams honed for the head to head competition which doesn't begin until Friday. It's a pressure cooker and that's why it always serves up some of the best golf you can e...

Another Election Cycle, Another Round of Tax Lies

© zieak I've been somewhat watching the national conventions the last couple of weeks. They are bizarre affairs, where a bunch of people get on stage and tell you why their candidate is so strong and fearless and is going to bring change and turn the town upside down. Then the candidate ge...

Rutgers Closes Skill Certification Center

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Paul Hart Bad news for certificate seekers: Rutgers Skill Certification Center is shutting down permanently at the end of the month. For years, online learners have improved their resumes by earning skill-based certificates through this virtual program. For ...

Your Best Buy May Be Broken, So Take A Look First

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Todd Taulman Kimberly Palmer had an interesting post last week about a Best Buy customer whose TV came out of the box broken : So, as irritating as that would be, you would think that at least the store would exchange it for an undamaged one, right? Wrong. W...

Google Chrome Beta Browser available for Download

Google has announced its own open source web browser known as Chrome and the beta version will be available for free download on Tuesday September 2, 2008 in more than 100 countries. The chrome browser will be based on the same open source browser engine known as 'Webkit' that the...

Why is Outsourcing the Political Whipping Boy?

Underlying the angst over outsourcing shown by both the center-left and far-right factions of the US political spectrum is something greater that the concept of "sending jobs offshore." It is a deep-seated feeling that the "ownership society" - corporate management and shareh...

What Does Hypoallergenic Mean?

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Diane Diederich We often see it on hygiene and skin care products - hypoallergenic. But what does it really mean? Apparently, not much . In 1975, the FDA issued a regulation governing use of the term hypoallergenic, stating that a cosmetic product could ...

The Bag Makes You Pop

Oh yes, what I love about this site is that I hunt around for great accessories that I love to prove that whatever you choose, they make or break the outfit. Accessories are an essential and they do so much. My fave involves handbags. I love to dress very casual and laid back so I rely on my ac...

Mourinho has an opinion on Milan's new signing!

Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has fired a shot at his old striker Andriy Shevchenko by saying that he failed at Chelsea because he was too used to being treated like a prince at AC Milan. Mourinho, now manager at Inter, wasted no time in making his comments about his City rival's ...

Is it Halloween Yet?

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Don Bayley Here's a fun list of outsourcing horror stories from the annals of InfoWorld . While we can all get a little snicker at the misfortunes of others, the article contains some important lessons - lessons that in this day and age of rampant cost cutt...

Long Yet to Impress

© terren in Virginia There were many good performances when the St. Louis Rams defeated the Baltimore Ravens by the score of 24-10 on Saturday night. Marc Bulger threw the ball well, including two TD passes. Rookie WR's Donnie Avery and Keenan Burton also made good showings, combining for...

Bootstrapper's hall of fame: VA ventures

In a recent e-mail, Denise Aday confirms she has launched a new blog , a sign, it seems, that her virtual assistant business continues to move in new directions. But way back in 2006, Denise was just getting started after being laid off from a full-time job. We hope to have a lengthier conve...

10 Key Questions for Selecting a Continuous Availability and Disaster Recovery Solution

As fall approaches, IT departments are gearing up to make decisions about new technology investments and many struggle with how to evaluate the options. It's hard to separate hype and reality. Over the years, we at Neverfail have developed a set of questions to help customers determine what ...