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Windows 7 beta is out, not officially. It looks really. I installed it on an old laptop with 1GB RAM. I am also using old wireless card, had to install xp driver for it and it worked. Laptop response time is really good with on board video card. I am going to jump to windows 7 from xp.

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update: 3/1/2009

Wireless doesn’t work after Broadcom driver update for Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card, widows update. Had to reboot the laptop 3 times.

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iCodeBlog is an excellent site for iphone programming tutorial. You need mac hardware to use iphone sdk or you can use your own x86 hardware to create a hackintosh. You can find all the information in InsanelyMac forum. I found Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition book to be a great intro to Cocoa. The book is well organized, very readable, and has good examples. After reading this book, you’ll be able to start writing applications in Cocoa.

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Data warehouse market got a jolt today. Microsoft today announced that it intends to acquire DATAllegro Inc., a provider of breakthrough data warehouse appliances. According to industry analyst this will trigger data warehouse vendor consolidation. This is a great move by MS after the sad saga of MICROHOO. DATAllegro acquisition buys Microsoft is new visibility and credibility in the DW market. DATAllegro was one of the first-mover vendors in the DW appliance market, and, though it has largely been out-developed, out-marketed, and out-sold by Netezza in this segment, still has considerable mind share, more

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Your personal information is a valuable commodity to Phorm and to your ISP. By harvesting  the information you divulge every time you surf the internet, BT alone expect to make an additional $170M annually. The increase of data-mining, profiling of you and your surfing habits is a worrying trend, on a global industrial scale. And if they can do it without your legal consent or knowledge, so much the better.

This is just the beginning. There are many similar ambitious commercial and government partnership ’services’ in development, corrupted by the prospect of massive profits. In this climate, protecting your identity and safeguarding the interests of your family is paramount to your security and quality of life. Private companies that disregard your rights and record your personal and detailed online surfing behavior is tantamount to them putting CCTV cameras in every room of your house. It appears we can’t stop your ISP tracking and selling your surfing behavior but one solution could be to make the data they do collect absolutely worthless to their clients. more

Technorati Tags: phorm, antiphorm, Data pimping fight-back, Signal to Noise

This is real world nikon D60 sample by dpreview user Cotropitor.  Photograph was taken  with  AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85 f/3.5-5.6G ED VR lens.

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This is a technology blog, but I had to post this story. This is sweet revenge against NEP. In one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history, New York shattered New England’s unbeaten season 17-14 Sunday night as Manning hit Plaxico Burress on a 13-yard fade with 35 seconds left. So long cheaters NEP. more

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Nikon is planning to replace Nikon D40X DSLR camera with Nikon D60. This camera will have liveview, CMOS, 12MP, and AF motor. Nikon D60 looks like an D40/X and the KIT includes a 18-55/VR. Further a anti dust system or something similar will be offered. Interesting google search result of Nikon D60 battery.

Technorati Tags: d40x, D60, d80, d90, digicam, dslr, nikon, production, rumor, rumors