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- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange Pronounced "ask-ee," it is the built-in binary code for representing characters in all computers except IBM mainframes, which use the EBCDIC coding system....
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- Unicode To Html Entity Converter (exe)
- HTML and especially PHP documents may be saved in either Unicode of ASCII. Sometimes, ASCII is preferred. This program converts the special characters that ASCII cannot save between Unicode and HTML Numeric Character Reference format. How it works: when converting from ASCII to Unicode, the program replaces all numeric character...
- Tags: HTML, Unicode, ASCII, General Computing
- Software downloads 2008-04-08
- CharProbe (exe)
- CharProbe allows you to easily find and automatically copy ASCII Codes, HTML Codes, Virtual Key Codes. You can also export custom tables to TXT or HTML. Includes tool used to convert between decimal, hexadecimal, octal and binary numbers. You can get ASCII code of any character and virtual key code...
- Tags: HTML, ASCII, CharProbe
- Software downloads 2007-02-05
- Magic ASCII Picture Convert (zip)
- Magic ASCII Picture Convert is an easy to use application that will take an image and process it to create an html file of the original image. an HTML file of color-coded text characters, that when combined, resemble an image. It is an ASCII Art Photo. And the html files...
- Tags: HTML, ASCII, Image, Magic ASCII Picture Convert
- Software downloads 2006-04-10
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- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- iPhone hits another security speedbump
- Apple's ongoing struggles with poor security-related design choices have extended to the iPhone. According to security researcher Aviv Raff, everyone's favorite mobile device is vulnerable to two separate security weaknesses that expose millions of users to phishing and spamming attacks. [...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Image, Spamming, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Welcome to the Data Cloud ?
- 'The Cloud' is increasingly prevalent in tech conversation these days. Stalwarts of the space such as Amazon and Salesforce go from strength to strength, whilst titans of an earlier model such as Larry Ellison and even Steve Ballmer now seek to appropriate the meme. New blogs like CloudAve play a...
- Tags: Web, Data, UKOLN, Channel Management, Internet, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Lenovo ThinkPad SL400
- Take the ThinkPad R series, remove the internal roll cage and the TPM chip, add dedicated GeForce graphics, an HDMI port, and a glossy lid, and you get the ThinkPad SL400. This 14-inch laptop is Lenovo's play for small business buyers, trading in enterprise features such as the aforementioned security...
- Tags: Notebooks, Lenovo ThinkPad, IBM ThinkPad, ThinkPad SL400, lid, Lenovo Group Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- Velocity 103
- We've seen plenty of Windows Mobile devices in our day, and at times they all start to blur together--same story, just different packaging. However, back at CTIA Spring 2008, a new company called Velocity Mobile caught our eye, impressing us with a fresh approach to the user interface. Recognizing that...
- Tags: Smart phones, Keyboards, Cellular phones, Monitors & displays, Handhelds, Velocity, Velocity 103, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- End the spectre of science for sale
- End the spectre of science for saleOr Not[i]He will graduate from high school next spring, an honor student, and cost me a fortune at some elite college.[/i]Depends on what he really wants to study. There are some world-class universities that are also shockingly inexpensive, even for out-of-state students. ...
- Tags: NIH, democracy
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Panasonic Viera TH-58PZ800U
- The big-screen HDTV arena is still owned by rear-projection models, but with every passing year flat-panel versions, especially plasmas, fall in price and become attractive targets for folks seeking massive home theater pictures. But prices haven't fallen far enough yet for most people, so for the foreseeable future big-screen plasmas...
- Tags: Quality, TV & Home Theater, TVs, plasma, Panasonic, Panasonic TH-58PZ800U, THX Display Certification
- Product reviews 2008-10-03
- Enterprise 2.0 and business collaboration
- Update: I hit "publish" before the article was completely finished, so I've added some images and updated some links. I can't pull the post without it leaving a trail behind it, so I may as well just own up now and say, "whoops, sorry". GroupSwim Collaboration, in...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- HP to jump into smartphones. Why?
- HP to jump into smartphones. Why?Been in the smartphone market for a couple yearsActually, HP has been making Windows Mobile Smartphones for a couple of years now with their iPAQ 6000, 500 and 900 series. The 500 series was actually a device that looked more like a phone than a...
- Tags: Smart phones, Handhelds, Compaq iPAQ, smart phone, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- HxD Hex Editor (zip)
- HxD Hex Editor provides tools to inspect and edit files, main memory, disks/disk images and their structure, using a simple and modern interface. You can employ it to analyze big log files, patch ROM files for emulators, repair disk structures, validate data or search for game cheats. Features of HxD...
- Tags: Disk, Mael Horz, HxD Hex Editor
- Software downloads 2008-10-03
- Sony Bravia Internet Video Link (DMX-NV1)
- The moment Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link (also known as the BIVL or DMX-NV1) was announced last year, we knew the product would face an uphill battle. What could Sony's proprietary video streamer offer that you can't already get from Apple TV, Xbox 360, Sony PS3, Vudu, or the Netflix...
- Tags: Video on demand (VoD), Corporate communications, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Cable, Broadband Internet, BIVL, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-10-02
- Dell Inspiron 1525-139B
- Note: This review is part of our Holiday 2008 Retail Laptop Roundup, covering specific new configurations of popular laptops that can be found in retail stores.Dell's Inspiron 1525 is an excellent mainstream choice for basic computing, especially because the direct-from-Dell version is highly flexible, offering extensive configuration options. For those...
- Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Dell Inspiron 1525, Dell 1525, Dell Inspiron, laptop computer, Intel Pentium, Dell Computer Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-10-02
- A great reason to jailbreak: tethering
- A great reason to jailbreak: tetheringNokia: No Jailbreaking Required[url=http://www.opentoanything.com/]Open to Anything.[/url]So much so, in fact Nokia has put Symbian into open source.What kind of smartphone doesn't allow you to tether?If you ask me, that's just dumb.Here's a [url=http://www.dtschmitz.com/dts/2008/09/nokia-n95n96-still-the-best-smartphone-of-all.html]link[/url] to one of my articles listing some of the things you can...
- Tags: 3G, INTERNET, Engineering, Cellular phones, WIRELESS, great reason, Nokia Corp., Apple iPhone, battery
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Obama releases iPhone campaign tool
- Obama releases iPhone campaign toolSay what you will about his politics but this manis on the ball. His fund raising via the web has been a smashing success. Now this tool for the iPhone. He knows what he's doing. He's not arrogant he's confident.Pagan jimDoes it...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, tool, McCains, Obama, Apple iPhone
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messages
- Chinese monitoring Tom-Skype messagescheaper solutionJust get the logs from NSA, or run a joint operation...viztorThe U.S. does the sameIs there really much difference?Zillions of warrentless wiretaps. Deep packet inspection on the backbones.Getting search records from search companies for U.S citizens.U.S. laws broken repeatedly.Who are we to call the kettle...
- Tags: Tom-Skype, Chinese monitoring, Tom-Skype message, monitoring
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband room
- Android sucks oxygen from mobile broadband roomany other Carriers?So Far it's only T-Mobile. There's all this hype, and I don't work/live in a major city. T-Mobile has the fewest towers in the country and is barely rolling out their G3 network to the major metropolitan areas. ...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, mobile broadband, mobile, oxygen, Qt Extended, OpenMoko, phone, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- The cost of doing business in China: Privacy
- The cost of doing business in China: PrivacySo does the US !The only difference is, in china's case, you know and in US, you don't (or atleast most people don't). They even hijack all the data that flows through pipes of ISPs and make a copy and put analyzers on...
- Tags: SECURITY, Skype Technologies S.A., fundamental human right, big deal, human right, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
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