Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Evercookie, how to make cookies that never disappear

Free desktop tools that aren't OpenOffice | Cursebird undergoes #&^@*^! makeover

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Evercookie, how to make cookies that never disappear
Ever since the Web went commercial back in the mid '90s, cookies -- HTTP's sorry excuse for connection persistency -- have been used, abused, vilified, and reviled. Read More


WHITE PAPER: NetApp

Unified Windows Storage Consolidation
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of a NetApp Unified Storage Architecture deployed in a VMware virtual server environment with a goal of simplifying, protecting, and consolidating physical servers hosting Microsoft applications. Read More!

WHITE PAPER: Citrix

EMA Report: Customer Satisfaction with ADC Vendors
Enterprise Management Associates report – "Customer Satisfaction with Application Delivery Controller Vendors" -- shows how Citrix NetScaler beats F5 and Cisco in customer satisfaction! Discover why Citrix is superior in 16 out of 21 categories and tops the competition in Presales, Tech Support, Product, Technology and Overall Business Value. Read now!

Free desktop tools that aren't OpenOffice
These free and open source applications for Windows, Linux, and Mac desktops put power into the hands of users without taking from their wallets. Read More

Cursebird undergoes #&^@*^! makeover
Warning: This post about very NSFW language contains mildly NSFW language Almost two years before CBS and William Shatner sanitized Twitter's hilarious "Shit My Dad Says" into a less well received "$#*! My Dad Says," Richard Henry's Cursebird was unapologetically entertaining those who find coarse language an underappreciated art form. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Citrix Solution Center NWW PAN IDG

Load Balancers are Dead
When looking at feature requirements in front of and between server tiers, too many organizations think only about load balancing. However, the era of load balancing is long past, and organizations will be better served to focus their attention on improving the delivery of applications. Read now!

Top reason for Facebook unfriending: Too many useless posts
The No. 1 reason why friends dump friends on Facebook is when they get fed up seeing too many useless posts, according to new research out of the University of Colorado Denver Business School. Read More

Microsoft IE browser share dips below 50%; Google Chrome rises
Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has dominated the Web browser market since blowing by Netscape in the late 1990s, last month fell below the 50% market share level for the first time in years. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Blue Coat Systems

Delivering Faster Applications to Any User, Anywhere
This guide looks at the specific issues behind application performance problems and how to resolve them within a WAN Optimization environment. Read More

Google Street View gets grisly
Google sure does capture a ton of interesting stuff when it sends Street View cars around the world. Sometimes its 360-degree cameras pick up a disturbing image or two. Read More

Microsoft updates SQL Server 2008 with new SharePoint integrations
The new SQL Server service pack has support for up to 15,000 database partitions, updates to reporting and management tools, and integration with SharePoint 2010. Read More

Skype for Android app now available for download
Android smartphone owners can now download a free Skype client from the Android Market that will let them make voice calls over mobile data or Wi-Fi connections -- except in the U.S., where it will work over Wi-Fi only. Read More

4 ways Google's URL shortening service can win
The Google URL shortening service Goo.gl, that allows you to transform long Web addresses into short easy to remember links, was opened to the public Friday. Read More



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Ig Nobel honors world's wackiest researchers: 2010 winners
The 20th annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded Thursday night for "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The prizes commemorate the world's funniest research, and sometimes the world's biggest villains (BP is a winner this year). Here's a list of the 2010 prizes.

Eight hot commercial space projects
The recently passed NASA Authorization Act of 2010 was generally seen as a huge nod toward developing commercial space projects. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the authorization "launches a commercial space transportation industry." Indeed there are a number of interesting commercial space projects underway.

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