Microsft released the WinFS beta recently, surprising man MSDN subscribers who thought it was a long way off. Any MSDN subscribers out there who can comment on it and how well it integrates with Longhorn/Vista? Seen here.

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Yahoo isn’t going down without a fight. They are now offering an improved search technology which allows you to not only search messages, but also attachments. This is another instance where Yahoo is on top of the game, instead of Google. Everywhere else they are playing catchup. Competition is good.

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Looks like the rumors were true. Google Talk is now live and you can chat with your gmail loving friends with just about any Jabber supporting client**. They have their own client for windows that also works as a gmail notifier as well. The service just works based off of your Gmail address, so you [...]

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More on building a reusable camcorder from a single-use CVS camcorder. CVS Camcorder Roundup Make Your Own Dakota Digital Camera Cable with a Palm III HotSync cable. Here’s a HOWTO article on using a Palm III cable for this project, seen here. Robogumby has posted a A Dummies Guide to the CVS camcorder. MakeZine has [...]

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Google Maps Update (8 Mar 2009): Updated again to fix the constants broken by a change made by Google. Thanks to brian, who left a comment asking about the maps not working. Update (30 Jan 2007): Updated again to make a link in the popup actually open a new window. Did this by embedding a [...]

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C Source Search is a new tool that makes it easy to search for pre-written open source code that can help you do your project without re-inventing the wheel. Most of the code is GPL, so you won’t be able to use it in commercial applications (unless it is for internal use only). Also, the [...]

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If you are creating a web application and you need to have the ability to schedule resources (people, machines, Precious Moments figurines, etc) it can sometimes be a cumbersome task. With this drag and drop schedule you won’t have to worry about the end user making typos in an html form and causing more trouble [...]

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Keeping your system and data secure can be a daunting task, but there are a wide range of tools available to help with the process. In this article I hope to sort out some of these issues and suggest some good programs to help with your security needs. Required Software At a minimum, a PC [...]

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VMware With AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Red Hat and Others to Forge Open Virtualization Standards VMware will also be releasing some sourcecode, albeit only to a select few: VMware announced that it will provide its partners access to VMware ESX Server source code and interfaces under a new program called VMware Community Source [...]

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One of the top reasons Firefox (or Opera, for that matter) took off was that it squashed popup ads — grrr… I hate those things. But over the past few months, I’ve started looking down at the taskbar and wondering “when did I open three extra Firefox windows?” Nope, they’re popups. I thought Firefox was [...]

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