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Convert Microsoft PowerPoint to Adobe Flash for Free with iSpring

April 9th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

Sometimes creating Flash presentations can be a real pain in the bum, especially if you don’t actually own a copy of Adobe Flash.
iSpring Free, formerly FlashSpring, provides a way to create Flash movies for free directly Microsoft PowerPoint. Using iSpring Free allows you to keep all your visual parameters and animation effects, while making a [...]

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Disappearing content panel in SugarCRM

April 7th, 2008 by dcouper · No Comments

We have just done a clean install of SugarCRM 5.0 on a linux server. Once the install was complete and all of the correct permissions set, we opened up Sugar and could not see any of the contact fields for editting or viewing.
We initially thought it would be permissioned based problem like we have had [...]

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Crayon Physics Deluxe - Draw your own solution

April 3rd, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

This is one of the coolest games that I have seen for a long time, and lately I don’t have much time for games.

The game that you see in the video is called Crayon Physics Deluxe, and it is unfortunately not yet available. You can register your interest on their web-site though and be informed [...]

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SP1 Update for Vista

March 19th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Microsoft claims this Vista update will improve stability, security and performance. It also warns that the Update could cause some software to malfunction, including some security software like the anti-virus from BitDefender and Trend Micro. The other programmes that may be affected by this update are:
BitDefender AV
Fujitsu Shock Sensor
Jiangmin KV Antivirus 10
Jiangmin KV Antivirus 2008
Trend [...]

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Tags: Applications · OS & Servers · Security · Technology

Untangle - Firewall, router, spam and content filtre

March 18th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Untangle has been advertised as a reliable Open Source replacement for the rock solid Sonicwall.
Untangle has all a small network needs to cope with today’s demands, it can work as a Gateway/Router, DHCP server, SPAM Filtre, Virus Filtre, VPN server, Web Content Filtre and more.
Untangle is based on the Debian Linux and comes ready to [...]

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Tags: Applications · Networking · OS & Servers

Internet Explorer 8 Beta

March 16th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

IE8 Beta has been released specially for developers and web programmers. It comes with some interesting features:
* IE7 Emulation
* Developer Tools for debugging, with similar functionality to the Firefox Ad on  (mentioned just as a reference not as a comparison).
*  IE8 activities - Providing quick access to external services from any webpage by sending information from the page to another application or fetching external information related to data on [...]

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Tags: Applications · Programming · Web Browsers