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November 3, 2006

The real value of mature IT workers

Forrester’s report defends the capacities and knowledge of mature workers as company assets.
In opposition with the British press and blogsphere that have filled lately with commentaries about how the path of new technologies, in continuous transformation, needs young workers, in conditions to fight with the digital age; now Forrester’s report tries to finish with this […]

Filed by Tom at November 3rd, 2006 under Business, Business Blogging, technology, Internet, Small Business, Internet Business, Successful
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November 2, 2006

Download Windows Media Player 11

Windows Media Player 11 (definitive version), is already available to download. About the characteristics there is no much to say (there’s bookshop and online shop improvement). But what bring my attention are the very fresh and renewed design and the simple but elegant interface, which gives signs of what is going to be the next […]

Filed by Tom at November 2nd, 2006 under General, technology, Internet, Windows, Software, Web Services
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October 24, 2006

Official: Mozilla Firefox 2.0

After several days of rumors, the official version of Mozilla Firefox’s 2.0 has just thrown. And with this throwing, Firefox’s official site has given itself a little make over (see in the image below the new face of the official web).

Link: Download Mozilla Firefox 2.0

Filed by Tom at October 24th, 2006 under Firefox, wordpress, technology, Internet, Software, Internet Marketing
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October 23, 2006

CSS changes for IE7

The development team of Internet Explorer 7 have published a post indicating the “improvements” of the new browser. Useful improvements for the CSS design and that only work under the <! DOCTYPE> switch, this to preserve the compatibility with IE’s previous versions.
Between the changes, I find five essential ones:

Support of Min/max width/height (ideal for designs […]

Filed by Tom at October 23rd, 2006 under technology, Internet, Windows, Software, Information Technology, Css
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The simplest RSS feed reader you could create

UsefulCode have published two small php classes that allow us to have a RSS feed reader in our web site. Actually, I have been testing it and indeed it has several deficiencies and many if we compare it with a powerful class, as Magpie RSS.
Nevertheless, it’s so simple to put it in execution that is […]

Filed by Tom at October 23rd, 2006 under technology, Internet, RSS, Web Design, Tools
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October 1, 2006

The secret to Yahoo Answers succes

Even when searches, in Yahoo! are losing market in comparison with Google, to call people to create their own content really can give result.
Business 2.0 has published an interesting article about Yahoo Answers’s success, considered the second most popular site of information on Internet, only after the Wikipedia.
In June, Yahoo Answers had more than 12 […]

Filed by Tom at October 1st, 2006 under technology, Web search market, Web Services, Successful, Creativity, Yahoo
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May 7, 2006

Widgets PC

The widgets are tiny programs that offer useful and enterteining functions that go from the meteorological forecasts to the managing of the loudspeakers of the computer.

They are alike the pieces imantadas adhered at the edge of the icebox that they serve to take rapid notes or to have at sight a number of telephone. These […]

Filed by Tom at May 7th, 2006 under Business, technology, Open Source, Software, Widgets
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April 10, 2006

Using Technology to Manage Customer Loyalty

Don’t let your customer satisfaction research initiative collect dust on a shelf. Integrate technology with research to optimize the use of customer information.
The typical company spends 80% of customer research time and effort gathering information, and only 20% of that time using it. Companies conduct research to gather information, but it is only useful if […]

Filed by Tom at April 10th, 2006 under Business, technology, Information Technology, Tips
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April 6, 2006

Microsoft’s Windows arrives on Apple’s Macs

Is this a breakthrough for Apple or a betrayal of its own operating system? Click here to have your say.
Apple, the computer maker, today shocked its army of fans by unveiling software that will let its newest Macintosh machines run on Windows, the operating system developed by arch-rival Microsoft.
The watershed decision could help Apple to […]

Filed by Tom at April 6th, 2006 under Microsoft, Apple, technology
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April 3, 2006

Cell phones annoying but useful

ven cell phone users get irritated at others who yak on their portables about their personal business in public.
An AP-AOL-Pew poll found the offended don’t think they are among the callers who get on other people’s nerves.
Most cell users find their phones very useful, with half keeping them on all the time.

But almost nine in […]

Filed by Tom at April 3rd, 2006 under Business, technology, Phones
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