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Facebook connects with twitter

The social network Facebook, which claims 250 million members, a new feature that allows users to hold a public page (Marks, artists, organizations, etc..) Automatically transfer their content to the site of micro-blogging Twitter. The updates to their Facebook page and will be published directly on their Twitter account. However, messages will be shortened, Twitter allowing the posting of messages within a limit of 140 characters.

Blizzard announced “Cataclysm”, the new expansion World of Warcraft “

The Blizzard Entertainment announces the development of a disaster, the latest extension of the famous online game, World of Warcraft.

Even without the release date, this is expected to be the best seller than the previous release of ravaged world of Azeroth by the return of the dragon Deathwing.

Unlike the previous extension The king’s anger Lich, Cataclysm will not offer to subscribers of World of Warcraft a new continent to explore. Followers of the saga gaming rediscover the kingdom of Azeroth remodeled following the cataclysm caused by Deathwing. This new vision of the world will cause new quests to undertake and the emergence of two races. Goblins, cunning and intelligent, will join the Horde forces while the ranks of the Alliance enriched the savage Worgen, kinds of werewolves.

The new add-on adds five extra levels to the game, bringing the total to 85. Techniques and unprecedented talent and the emergence of a new profession, archaeologist, will complete the lists.

Since its emergence in late 2004, the role-play multiplayer online World of Warcraft reign on global sales PC. Opus has more than eleven million subscribers across the planet and its extensions are breaking records. The latest, The wrath of the Lich King, has passed 2.8 million copies during its first day marketing November 13, 2008, becoming the PC game the fastest-selling in history. The add-on would then take over The Burning Crusade that was found in January 2007 to 2.4 million policyholders in its first day out.

The popularity of World of Warcraft will soon exceed the boundaries of video game and arrive on the big screen. American director Sam Raimi will proceed to its completion after the fourth installment of Spider-Man, which begins shooting next March.

Nokia Launches its netbook

The Finnish phone maker Nokia, world leader in mobile communications, announced Monday the launch of its first portable computer, the Booklet 3G. This mini-laptop follows the current trend of netbooks providing a comprehensive tool to surf the Internet at home or traveling.

Lightweight (1.25 pounds) and compact (screen 10 inches or 25.4 cm), Nokia 3G Booklet allows you to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or via mobile broadband 3G/3G.

It is equipped with Intel Atom processor and runs under Microsoft Windows. Its battery stand by up to 12 hours.

In the first netbook, Nokia also has an integrated webcam, a memory card reader, an A-GPS, and embeds the mobile services brand: Nokia Music Store, Ovi Suite, etc.

Nokia announces price and availability of 3G Booklet on  September 2 of this year.

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How to add your blog into Open Directory Project

The Open Directory Project is a web directory of Internet resources. A web directory is a bit like a huge research library. The directory is arranged by topics arranged in a hierarchical order, the widest to the most specific. The ODP is maintained by community editors who evaluate sites for inclusion in the directory. They are our experts and all proposals are evaluated by an editor.

We pay great attention to the quality of the ODP. We are not a search engine and build pride in being extremely selective. We do not accept all sites, so please do not take a refusal of your site for harassment. Our goal is to make the directory as useful as possible for our users, not to ensure it contains all or even most, sites that could be described and is not more to make it a promotional tool for the organizations listed.
To keep the ODP a smooth operation and to help us in our editorial choices, we have established rules on proposed sites. We may refuse, delete or modify the proposals that violate these rules or that we think, in our sole discretion, that the corresponding site should not be included in the directory. We can also reject, delete or block other sites that we believe to be associated with a user who violates these rules.
We advise you to spend a few moments to assimilation of these rules and stages of proposal for a site before you start. Failing to understand and follow these instructions, you run a great risk that your proposal rejected.

* First step – Preconditions
*Second stage – pre Search
* Step Three – Choose a category
* Step Four – Proposed Site
* Update your website
* Inclusion of your site in the portals and search engines using ODP data
* Choice editorials
* Blog Review

Determine whether a site may be a proposal to the ODP:

* Do not submit mirror sites. These are sites that have identical content but different URLs.
* Do not submit URLs that have more or less the same content as other sites you have already registered in the directory. Sites with an overlap of content are not useful for users of the directory. Multiple proposals from the same site or similar sites can lead to exclusion and / or elimination of these and all affiliated sites.
* Do not disguised proposals to move the same URL more than once. Example: http://www.dmoz.org and http://www.dmoz.org/index.html.
* Do not submit a site whose address redirects to another.
* The Open Directory has a policy not to accept sites whose content is illegal under U.S. law, for example child pornography, defamation, materials that infringe the intellectual property rights, and any material encourage, solicit or sanction any illegal activity (such as fraud or violence).
* Do not submit sites “under construction”. Wait until the site is completed before the offer. Sites incomplete, containing opinions “Under Construction” or graphics or broken links are not good candidates for the directory.
* Submit pornographic sites to the appropriate category from the “Adult”.
* Offer English sites to the appropriate category from the homepage (dmoz.org) and those in languages other than English or French in the appropriate category of World.
* Do not submit sites consisting largely of affiliate links.

VisualLookout 5.0 – Prevent yourself from intruders

VisualLookout is a program specifically for people wishing to prevent intruders to access their computer and access confidential data such as logins, passwords and bank identifiers. The operating principle is very simple. VisualLookout identifies all IP addresses that try to connect to your computer and notifies you of any intrusions. In addition to let you know if a malicious person planning to harm you, the software also offers effective protection against spyware and other malicious software.

Password Cracker – restore your passwords

Whenever you create an account on the website, it asks for a username or login and a password. So when you play to give different names and different passwords for each account, it is quite easy to forget.

Password Cracker is a tool to restore your passwords. It was created to prevent you from breaking your head to remember all your passwords. It works on all browsers even IE.

VMware takes SpringSource

VMware has announced the acquisition for 420 million dollars, SpringSource, publisher of open source solutions for developing web applications, including Java environment. Founded 5 years ago, SpringSource employs 150 employees. Fort green light shareholder SpringSource, VMware hopes to finalize the transaction before the end of the quarter.

SpringSource will provide expertise in developing and deploying applications within the data center industry, including in the cloud computing environment of internal and external organizations. VMware SpringSource work including the development of a Paas (Platform as a Service) integrated easy to deploy and administer in the data center of the company or from a supplier infrastructure cloud. This platform can rely on vSphere, the operating system for cloud computing environments from VMware.

“Today, modern environments are moving towards a world applications and modeling of data [data-centric] propelled by the platforms of cloud computing and virtualization,” justifies Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware, “The combination of SpringSource VMware and capitalize on this trend and positions us at the intersection of the most important forces in the software market – virtualization frameworks and cloud computing.”

With the acquisition of SpringSource, VMware is therefore positioned in the field of Paas. A contract valued at $ 15 billion in 2016 according to analyst Forrester Research. VMware intends to occupy the land investment by Microsoft with the arrival of Azure, its operating system for cloud computing expected in November. The subsidiary of EMC frota is also the main actors of Paas and SaaS (Software as a Service), as SalesForce.com and Google AppEngine. VMware will also play the card Sun Microsystems (pending acquisition by Oracle) helping developers to port their applications on Java environments cloud.

A strategy that Rod Johnson, SpringSource leader summed up on his blog: “A solution that will deliver a platform as a Service (Paas) built around technologies you already know, which can reduce costs and complexity. A solution built around an open middleware technologies and portable that can run on a traditional Java EE application server in a conventional data center and Amazon EC2 and other cloud extensible environment and the VMware platform. “In short, it is a product suitable for all situations that should answer most of the choice of architectural firms. It is now been developed.

VirtualBox – Emulate your PC

VirtualBox allows you to completely emulate a PC. It’s like having a second PC in a single window.

This is useful for testing other operating systems without repartitioning and safely (e.g. Repartition Linux), for safe navigation or to test software without the risk of an operating system unstable.

You can create as many virtual machines as you want, and install all operating systems as you want it. It is possible to define – for each virtual machine – how much memory it has, hard disk, if it has access to USB ports, the network, sound card, etc.

VirtualBox contains a disk manager that allows you to create virtual disk as .vdi files which appear as real discs in virtual machines.
This allows you to “create” at will of the disks, without ever having to repartition your hard drive.

You can also directly use ISO images of CDs and DVDs, which can test Linux distributions without having to burn them. Icing on the cake, VirtualBox RDP server has an integrated, allowing you to start a virtual machine on a computer, and use this virtual machine from another computer. 

The list of virtual machine created:

Memory configuration and type of operating system installed:

Network Configuration:

VirtualBox is free and open source, and versions are available for Windows and Linux.
VirtualBox is lighter than VMWare and simpler to use and offers almost all the functions of VMWare.

Note: For machines under another OS than Windows, please choose another version of these

Will the Chromium OS arrival start again the war of the operating systems?

In announcing a new operating system for 2010, Google does not hide its ambitions more competitive against Microsoft Windows.

While Microsoft still struggles (unsuccessfully apparently) want to fight Google in the field of online searching (with Bing and Live Search through the attempted takeover of Yahoo), Google’s strategy to encroach on beds Redmond seems to work.

Chrome OS has not meant, at least initially, to attack Windows head on his land: desktops and laptops (even if the OS will be installed on the desktop). With Chrome, Google targets net Book, the ultra portable machines with limited resources equipped with x86 processors (Intel Atom in most cases) and ARM. Chrome OS is perfectly suited to this platform while Microsoft has (beyond the Intel Itanium) never showed his desire to bring another OS on x86 architecture. This means that Windows XP or Windows 7 after it release could be ousted from the market of ultra portable if the OS does not provide a real added value to the use of NETBOOK.

Certainly, Google has not detailed its strategy. But if he applies the same tactic of openness and free license for manufacturers, the company headed by Eric Schmidt could force Microsoft to lower its prices drastically the risk of destabilizing the economic model of Redmond. The net Book comprises roughly 20% of mobile phones and the firm iSuppli expects 22 million in sales in 2009 and 31 million units for 2010.

We are not there, far from it. And Google’s intentions are less likely to seek to bite the dust on the net Book Microsoft to extend its visibility and therefore to advertisers and thus their income (the two not necessarily mutually exclusive). Certainly, Microsoft is the master of software, starting with its Office suite. But Google is precisely the map of the application on demand (SAAS) with an offer now sufficiently stocked to meet the major needs of users of communication tools, office, research, platform video. . It remains to verify that users are willing to rest on its services in the “cloud” even if Google develops solutions (Gears) to work offline.

Finally, Chrome OS is not yet available. The operating system will be built from scratch from a Linux kernel with the browser (Chrome, of course, used by 30 million people in the world according to Google) as the main environmental performance of web applications. These, says Google, applications are “traditional”, it works naturally on all other OS in the market since a browser. But with OS Chrome, Google’s gamble may succeed to make the web a platform application.

On the other hand, Google announced that Chrome OS will natively support the issue of security so that users do not have to fight against viruses and other threats from the web. What would be ideal (except for the publishers of security solutions)? Chrome OS, it will not be available until the second half of 2010. But, developed under a license open source code is available to the community that Google intends to rely in developing its OS. Now have to wait for the attack against Microsoft.

Firefox 3.5 reaches 1 Billion downloads

With more than 8 million downloads in 48 hours, Firefox 3.5 continues to carve Cruppers Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Less than 48 hours after its release, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 has surpassed 8.5 million downloads if one believes the counter in real time WORLDWILDE Firefox Download. A nice score even if Mozilla did not reach the performance achieved with Firefox 3.0 in June 2008, with 8.2 million downloads in 24 hours, had earned his navigator in the book of Guinness Book ever record equaled since.

According to the agency analyzes Stat Counter Global Stat, Firefox has gained 2% share in the U.S. market browsers since the launch of the new version. Firefox now holds 31.8% of the market in the United States and 30.7% in the world. “This new version increases the pressure on Microsoft Internet Explorer in the browser war,” says Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter leader. Redmond’s browser (versions 6, 7 and 8 combined), however, occupies approximately 60% of the market.

Eagerly awaited Firefox 3.5 is innovative in many respects. The most visible is a private browsing mode that erases the traces left by the user during mops online. The browser also offers a new management of windows and tabs with, among others, the arrival of a new button to add a tab. The integration of multimedia elements of HTML 5 can now happen plug-in (primarily Flash) to view videos (provided that the site visited has adapted its applications for the new language).

Invisible to the user, the major change in Firefox 3.5 is the arrival of Trace Monkey, the new JavaScript engine that accelerates the performance of online applications. This enables Mozilla to catch up on this issue on Google Chrome which has directed its office development on this feature.

With the advent of the online software on demand (SAAS), the performance of applications has become strategic for browsers that mutate to a runtime environment where the user is less dependent on its system operation to work, communicate, entertain, etc.