If you are curious about the new release of Delphi and C++ Builder 2009 you can get your own trial from the codegear site. Look at this post of Nick Hodges for installation and license :
http://blogs.codegear.com/nickhodges/2008/09/11/39124
Request your license and iso here http://cc.codegear.com/Free.aspx?id=26043
Soon Firefox 3.1 will be released. One of the most important feature what this new version will bring is the "Private browsing mode". After Internet Explorer is launching this feature in it's new beta and the new Google Chrome is coming with this option, Firefox need to have it.
This feature is in Firefox bugzilla from 2004 (Bug 248970) when Apple announced that option in his browser Safari.
Probably Opera it will have this soon, but until now they doesn't announce anything regarding that.
This feature will disable saving of cookies, links and other cache when you browse with "Private browsing mode" feature on.
Amazon just lunch a new offer from today until 30 September. Customers getting costumes and accessories by 50$ or more from a single merchant can save $10 plus free shipping.
Probably almost everybody knows how to create a iPhone wallpaper from a photography, but I found this facility online in one of my favorite sites: Celebrity Wallpapers.
They added some time ago a a new feature on their site: Creating online iphone wallpapers from the already existing wallpapers from this site.
Just go on http://wallpapers.photo4everyone.com and choose a car or a celebrity wallpaper. After you choose the wallpaper click on "iPhone wallpaper" from the left menu then just move the marquee on wallpaper to choose the part of wallpaper what do you want it on your iphone. On your right side you will have the preview of the wallpaper.
Some samples (the wallpapers are watermarked because are linked from the photo4everyone.com site):
Microsoft just comes out with a new paper about web ranking at SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) in Singapore.
If you are curios to read the paper just go here
http://research.microsoft.com/users/tyliu/files/fp032-Liu.pdf and get it !
The idea behind of this paper is simple: Voting and visits. If you get visits and votes then you will get a higher rank. The idea is not so bad, but I don't understand how they will implement that safely. In my opinion they have 3 options:
1. To return to the search page and vote the link what you just visit
2. Integrate in Internet Explorer a voting mechanism (like stumbleupon plugin)
3. All the pages are loading with in a frame and the top frame contains the voting mechanism.
4. Microsoft employ some people to do that.
Let's comment out this implementations:
1. If the user find the information what it looks after, is a very big chance to never return to search engine and vote it.
2. Is a very big chance for lot's of users to never vote this because they don't care about that.
3. This is not a viable solution because then MS can track your every movement.
4. Is a waste of time and resources.
From the paper:
The reasons that BrowseRank outperforms
the other algorithms are as follows:
1) Creating inlinks, which can hurt PageRank, cannot hurt BrowseRank
so much, because the link information is not used in BrowseRank.
2) The performance of TrustRank can be a ected by the selection
of the seed set and the determination of the seed distribution in the
link graph. For BrowseRank, seed selection and seed distribution
determination are not necessary.
Large Hadron Collider is ready and tomorrow is the day of the day ... or the last day on Earth (Not really ... only in 21 October the particles will collide). In this night I will get laid (Is a good excuse for my wife to have sex), smoke, drink and laugh with my friends ... because is possible to be the last day and tomorrow will be the apocalypse. Don't be sad because will be a fast death. Anyway I selected some user comments from Internet what they think about that. Enjoy !
Boston.com
It looks like Half life:)
awesome. where can we sign up to be the first person to jump into a black hole?
Hope there's not a cable loose somewhere...
hope the world gets sucked into a black hole, then god will look down upon these scientists and say *its not that easy now, is it?*
Posted by: Brandon Louis 3:51pm today
Black holes are good. They destroy greenhouse gases permanently. No more global warming.
Posted by: The Inconvenient Truth 3:50pm today
Don't worry folks MacGyver aka Jack O'Neil has ordered Samantha Carter to find a way to make this black hole go away. You all know how good looking and smart she is, and even if she fails the Asgard still owe us a favour.
Posted by: The Inconvenient Truth 3:46pm today
This all sounds like a James Bond movie minus the Casino full of pokies
Posted by: daniel of melbourne 3:16pm today
Relax! Everyone knows the world will end on December 21, 2012....well according to the Mayans anyway.
Posted by: Greg of Melbourne 2:47pm today
This mad beast starts up at 5pm EST tomorrow. Yay! I get to go to work for 9 hours, then at home time, the universe collapses!
Posted by: mog 2:46pm today
Woo hoo! Does this mean I may not have to cook tomorrow night?? Bonus!!
Posted by: Rona of Melbourne 1:49pm today
Reno. -> RE: End Of The World In 9 Days? (CERN) (1/9/2008 8:26:05 PM)
Stupid mortals. Play Half-Life, then we'll talk.
armageddonbride -> RE: End Of The World In 9 Days? (CERN) (1/9/2008 7:23:59 PM)
Reckon if I asked really nicely, they'd reschedule for the 14th? [X(]
Dead_Faerie -> RE: End Of The World In 9 Days? (CERN) (1/9/2008 7:21:32 PM)
Noooooooooooooooo!!!
Not before I move up to Manchester!!
# tacitus Says:
August 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Nah — not a black hole — a wormhole allowing the evil hordes of the Hell dimension to invade Earth.
A much more entertaining way to die, don't you think?
# MIchael Says:
August 17th, 2008 at 3:21 am
Hey,
i read through all the posts, must say some of you people have brought such a big amount of creativity into this conversation.
I live in Switzerland and will count on my country for not sucking up the whole universe!
I wish everybody a "HAPPY WAITING".
Best regards from Switzerland,
Michael
# Marco Says:
September 8th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Man I dont care
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This article is the second part from a serie of 2 articles about glassfish and liferay. I hope you will find this articles very useful. First article is here.
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In the last days I tried to install and configure a Glassfish and a Liferay cluster for a client. From what I see in Internet is a lot of "old" documentation for Glassfish / Liferay clustering and nothing related to latest versions of Glasfish / Liferay (glassfish v2ur2 and Liferay 5.1.1), and I know this documentation also will become old in some months :) . So I intend to write (as best as I can) a very simple documentation about how I manage this to work and what problems I found trying to do this.
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I just found this site what it claims it found the first version of Photoshop (probably is the first comercial version). 
But surfing the web I just discovered an image from the version 0.63 :
I interact with Photoshop at version 3 when they just added a new extraordinary feature: layers.
Probably some people laugh ... but then was a very important feature ... a feature what changed the image editors programs forever !
In Technorati you have 2 modalities claim a blog:
1. Quick Claim
2. Post Claim
1. In "Quick Claim" you will need to give the username and password to Technorati (Not Recomended)
2. In "Post Claim" you will need just to add a link in a post from your blog. Technorati Profile
Simple ... no ?
Apple announced their new iPhone model at the WWDC Keynote on June 9th.The second generation of iPhone will be available worldwide after launch. The good news is the price ... it will cost just 199$, but also the phone is superior in hardware and software. It have 2 hardware new "accessories" : 3G and GPS ... that means it will be a GPS manufacturer killer (in my opinion).
Steve Jobs give us some details about software what will run on iPhone 3G and the most important updates are: eBay and blogging application, BlackBerry-style push-email, security, parental control.
A nice feature in security will allows users to wipe the memory of their device remotely if it is lost or stolen.
Also the popular game Super Monkey Ball computer game from Sega will be available for iPhone 3G.
iPhone users will also be able to view Word documents or Keynote presentations, on their phone, but not edit them.
The new iPhone have an improved new battery / power source.
Standbay 300 hours
2G talk 10 hours
3G talk 5 hours
Internet Browsing 5-6 hours
Video 7 hours
Audio 24 hours
Can be recharged from computer USB and it have a Lithium-Ion battery
Steve Jobs says :
Great performance, great battery life
I was strongly impressed by a new directory what I discovered this days: DoFollow Sites. Is not just a simple directory, but also have a lot of NEW (for me at least) features:
1. You can add tags to your site
2. Write comments
3. Add RSS or atom feeds
4. Boost your site displaying it on the first page (for 30 min at least but is more than nothing)
5. You can vote sites.
In other words is building a small community about DoFollow Sites. What is a dofollow site? Is a site what doesn't have "rel=nofollow" on it's anchor tags and are hunted sites by link building community.
After 12 years of perfect working, my Kenwood car amplifier, is dead. It was a bad day for me ... but I found a new one at a reasonable price:
Is named: Pioneer Car GM6300F 4-Channel Power Amplifier and is working perfectly. Now I'm again happy :) !
Features:
• 60-Watts x 4, at 4 ohms output power
• 60-Watts Dynamic Power at 4 ohms
• 75-Watts x 4 at 2 ohms output power
• 150 Watts x 2, at 4 ohms Bridge
• Peak Music Power - 600-Watts
The price is just 112$. Is cheap for such a great amp.
This thing is going to kill us all.