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Sun believe they will get around 1 billion users to their new Java App Store (currently named vector)… I guess everyone is getting into the “app store” mode, started of course (well from a famous perspective) by Apple – i.e. iTunes/iPhone App Store.
Nokia are releasing their own app store too… so this is what the [...]

With myfax you can send up to 2 faxes free per day which can be up to 9 pages long… you do not have to sign up, and it supports more than 170 file formats.  Obviously if you want to send something like a physical page, you will need to scan that in – bare [...]

An interesting article to start the day.  Research into Zinc Air Batteries seems to have some interesting aspects – including the storage rate which is 10 times more than of the standard Lithium batteries we know today.
I originally saw this post on KurzweilAI.net, and you can link to read more about this story here

Crazy but true (so I am told!).. quite amazing though, and given the rate of mobile growth, no wonder many social networks and internet companies in general are making all efforts to ensure the mobile market is covered.
So long for tradditional desktop browser development?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/04/india_adds_156_million_mobile_phone_users_in_ema_single_monthem-2.htm

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22504/?a=f

I decided, although I know you can partition say XP or Vista, to try Windows 7 the safe way.. using the FREE Microsoft Virtual PC.  I downloaded Windows 7 from MSDN, and configured a 25gb Virtual Machine with (currently) 512mb RAM.
It has installed successfully – a little slow of course with 512mb RAM, although that [...]

I only just discovered this today.. although if I use a local web server say IIS or Apache, I usually set the ports to 8080 or something.. mainly as I like to keep port 80 free for testing with Visual Studio etc.
Although I have needed to set IIS to run on port 80.. and found [...]

If you don’t already know, Google has been for sometime now, touting a mobile phone operating system called “Android”.  Essentially instead of say your usual Nokia interface/system that drives your phone with the menu/operations, Android does the same – but of course with some added differences.  Notably Android has most of the Google applications/widget interface [...]

Ok, these days everything is online.. and take for instance a club meeting group or something like that.  If you have spreadsheets, word documents etc, wouldn’t it be good to have just one version of the document online that:

Everyone (who has access) can see
With approved access, others could edit the document, and the new version [...]

Cloud computing, virtual servers and the like have started to be adopted as mainstream.  It’s true.. look around.  When you start to see big players like Microsoft getting involved (even though lots of other companies have been doing this for ages!), then you know the mainstream is really here for virtual computing. 
Amazon WebServices have [...]