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Some new and interesting softwares from Portableapps.com:

1. Keepass Password Safe portable, a nice password manager tool
2. Task coach portable, a nice task coach tool.
3. Filezilla portable, a nice ftp client software.

Using the best browser on earth, Firefox. You can get additional information about any documents opened by Firefox.

Just click Tools-> Page Info. A window will emerge, and you’ll see many infos.

You see all about Metas used, type, Cache source, render Mode. You may also find Encoding, Size, Referring URL, Modified and Expire.

If your web page contain form or links, you can also see form, links, media and security informations.

Tags: firefox, mozilla

Many methods to create barcode, but i prefer using font. U can download the font here. By using font, u may create barcode practically on every applications that run on Windows, eg: MS Word 2007, MS Word 2003, wordpad, notepad, etc. But the barcode you will create only the code 39 since the fonts available on the Net is Code 39. I have browsed for UPC fonts, but it was unavailable, most of it were commercial, or malware.

Tags: barcode, how to, code 39, upc

You can use AT Command to let your cell phone send or receive SMS message. But the problem is not every manufacutrer has similar AT Command.

This is AT+CNMI commands from many cell phone manufacturers that can be used to make an SMS Server using java.

NOKIA : AT+CNMI=1,1,0,0,0

MOTOROLA : AT+CNMI=3,1

Siemens : AT+CNMI=1,1,2,2,1

Modem GSM Siemens : AT+CNMI=2,1,0,0,0

Tags: AT Command, SMS Server

Microsoft is offering a Free unlimited installation and compatibility support for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). The support from Microsoft for SP1 will be valid until March 18, 2009. You may contact via Chat and e-mail. And this service is available only in the United States and Canada. Check the details here.

Just knowing from browsing, another RSS reader app that is free (but i don’t know whether this app is open source). This app is an application developed to retrieve web content via RSS format (a format that can be used to broadcast web content easily, an xml based content).

It has a very easy-to-use multi-window interface and it can be skinable. It also includes XSL stylesheet support for web elements. Other feature is a Ticker bar that provides a new item notification, or for constant streaming of RSS database.

You may also sort your channel list into smaller groups and tag/categorize favorite items for faster access. You may also search items by it’s attribute, or doing a text search of all your items.

Interested? you may download this software from many sources, here, here and here.

This software also supports Import/Export of OPML channel lists as well as drag & drop channel-adding from many browsers.

Nowadays, laptops are pervasive. Since laptops are small and are always transported everywhere. It’s frequent to see laptop stealed or lost. In case your computer lost, try this open source tool to help you track and recover lost and stolen laptop.

It’s name is Adeona. It was developed by University of Washington , computer science department.

You may download the software from here and read the documentation.

Tags: how to recover stolen laptop

Here’s the steps:

1. Make a backup of your database on SQL 2000
2. Then move the backup to the new SQL Server 2005 server
3. Perform a restore in the SQL Server 2005.
4. The database will be up instantly.
5. Set the compatibility level of the new database that is created in SQL 2005 so that it match SQL 2000 before performing the restore process.

PS:

1. But remember that You can’t backup database on 2005 and restore it to 2000 since there is no backward compatibility works.
2. Do not forget to map the user to the database too.

Tags: sql server 2000, sql server 2005, microsoft, sql server

There is a new security improvement on Internet Explorer 8. It was built above the base of fishingovogo filter that was used in the IE 7.

This will makes IE 8 can do threats screening tighter and can detect malicious sites more thoroughfully by using it’s new filter method, the SmartScreen.

Tags: internet explorer 8, IE8, browser, microsoft

Just read an interesting statement here about the richest person in the world. It was stated that Bill gates is no longer the richest man in the world. The most richest person in the world now is Warren Buffet.

Is this an indication that software industry’s peak performance is already past? The second richest man that doing business in software industry is the oracle’s founder Larry Ellison in 14th position.

Well, time that will answer….

Tags: richest man in the universe, richest man, forbes richest man, forbes, software industry, software, business