Thursday, August 14, 2008

eBay Alternative Wigix Goes Live

Wigix charges no insertion fee, and any transaction less than $25 is free. search function is better than eBay's, providing results that are specific to the item, Wigix is community building and revenue sharing. When a member adds a product description into the Wigix catalog, he or she will receive a five-percent commission of transaction fees gar

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Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths

Besides the tweaks that simply don't work, some of them will actually cause your computer to run even slower, or worse. Let's examine some of the worst myths out there on PC performance tweaking, and debunk them once and for all.

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uTorrent 1.8 Released, Mac Version Coming Soon

After months of hard work and more than six months since their previous stable release, the uTorrent team has released version 1.8 of their BitTorrent client, with significant improvements and updates. Adding to the excitement, we were told that a public Alpha of the Mac version will be released in the next few weeks.

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19 Most Essential Open Source Applications

19 Most Essential and useful open source applications that you probably want to know to use in your daily life. Most of them are top of the list projects that have an open source industry leading popularity and many of them are not listed here but over all the list has variety of projects for every one of you.

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Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know

Beyond the basic methods, there are concepts that good software engineers know about. These transcend programming languages and projects - they are not design patterns, but rather broad areas that you need to be familiar with. The top 10 concepts are:

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Digg Lead Architect Joe Stump: How I Got Started Programming

Q: "What languages have you used since you started programming?" A: "I guess that depends on what you mean by 'used'. I've written substantial lines of code in C/C++, PHP, Python, Perl, ASM, BASIC, TI-BASIC, JavaScript and BASH. I've also done quite a bit of work in COBOL and MFC."

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No, your code is not so great that it doesn’t need comments

Code-commenting is so basic and so universal that every programmer, regardless of the language that they practise, thinks that they know all there is to know.I don’t believe that I’ve read a piece of code and thought “wow, this has far too many comments”. Unfortunately, I’ve had the opposite reaction all too often.

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CSS Layouts: 40+ Tutorials, Tips, Demos and Best Practices

The main idea behind CSS-based layouts is offering more flexibility and enhancing the visual experience of visitors. Some important tips and related key-factors can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about

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Ars Technica's Guide to Virtualization: Part I

Part I of the Ars Technica Guide to Virtualization provides an introduction to basic virtualization concepts, terms, and techniques.

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Google Research:All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broke

I remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us to write a binary search, and then dissected one of our implementations in front of the class.Of course it was broken, as were most of our implementations.Fast forward to 2006. I was shocked to learn that the binary search program that Bentley proved correct

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Monitor Who Views and Downloads Your Private Docs Online

This seems much better than emailing around a PDF and potentially having it leave the circle.

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