http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious... Tue, 26 May 2009 23:10:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=116 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 ... http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=115 There are some amazing technology leaps happening… and as is generally the case, it is hard to understand at most times!  The following article explains a little about some new research done into the storage capabilities of DVD/Optical discs. At present, the DVD writers/burners etc we know use a ... http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=114 On a roll for battery evolution now.. this is again an interesting post that can radically improve the storage of power in lithium based batteries. The Canadian research team of done some interesting work with Carbon Nano Rods.. absolutely amazing, considering the size and arena that these guys are ... http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=113 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 ... http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=112 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://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=111 http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22504/?a=f http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=110 Basic? maybe.. but a handy script in T-SQL to remove duplicated records.(I'm just using an example "jobs" table.. change this to yours, otherwise the other tables are simplytemp tables for the purpose of storing duplications etc)/* First get a count of duplicates */select jobno, count(jobno) as numdups from jobsgroup by ... http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=109 Free...So is there such a thing as a free lunch?  well not really.. my experience is that you pay at some point.. however, given the vast array of free software and services out there, I thought I would share some that I use on a day to day basis.  To ... http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=108 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 ... http://highvibesites.com/techieferret/blog/?p=107