Content in its shift to become digital
We’ve recieved quite a few of what appears to be a new type of spam – and possibly phishing – email.
Starting “Dear Member”, the mail tries to trick you into thinking that you’ve registered for some sort of service – Ringtone World, Pet World, Poker World, you get the idea.
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We loved the Sony DSC-V3 camera released back in late 2004, and had hopes that the new H3 would be an upgrade to this fine camera, noting the increased zoom range (up to a whopping 10x) and a pixel count nudged slightly up to eight megapixel resolutions.
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The art of commenting to posts varies greatly in the quality of their execution – passing between the truly insightful to the utterly inane.
College Humor has create a fantastic video to demonstrate how the feeble end of the comment-scale would play out if used in a business meeting.
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Retail titans Wal-Mart have started offering digital music downloads on its Web site free of the copy-protection technology inflicted on most MP3 web sites.
Boasting thousands of albums and songs from major record labels like Universal and EMI Group, Wal-Mart’s service will let users download tracks free of any digital rights management.
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Mad for it photographers will be looking to put their grannies on eBay come October when Canon’s high end EOS-1DS Mark III full-frame digital SLR hits UK stores.
With a sensor capable of producing files that convert to uncompressed 16-bit TIFFs over 100MB in size, this camera doesn’t just raise the bar for photo professionals – it gives it an almighty boot skywards.
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With shoppers driven indoors and online by the miserable weather, UK online sales soared past £4bn in a month for the first time ever, according to latest figures from IMRG.
The online retail body reported that Internet sales have exploded over the last year, with this July’s figure of £4.2bn up a hefty 80 per cent from £2.34bn in July 2006.
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Following coverage earlier in the week of the updates to BB Edit and Homesite 5.5, here we look at the freeloader options.
If you’re keen to work in a text based environment but the wallet is only home to a few flapping moths, there’s loads of freebie HTML text editors worthy of a look.
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In part one of the review we looked at the basics, today we go further.
Working with contacts
Clicking on a search result takes you to the contact’s details and here the program really shows its worth: with one click you can call them, fire off a SMS, send an email from your preferred email client, schedule a meeting, edit their details or even see their address displayed on Google Maps.
Homesite 5.5 (Windows)
Windows users looking for similar levels of hands-on functionality might want to take a look at the long serving Homesite 5.5.
Although cruelly neglected by its current owners, Adobe, Homesite still rates as one of the very best HTML/web editing packages on any platform, offering a highly customisable editing environment backed by macros, projects, powerful search and replace tools and code-checking add-ons.
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TAKEphONE is a slick utility that turbo-charges the Treo’s contacts/phone applications and provides a lighting-quick way to access your address book and then call, email or SMS listed contacts.
Looking up a contact is extremely fast: just type in their initials and all matches will appear onscreen. Start typing in the letters of a first name or second name and matches will dynamically update and become available for clicking as you type.