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An interesting article giving an overview of the various character types under Unicode and what C#/dotNet provide.

EarthLink Runs VoIP Over Phone Lines There is one issue that plagues the VoIP market: bandwidth. By nature, the technology both transmits and receives a large amount of data that leaves little wiggle room for other services. Internet service provider EarthLink hopes to change that with its latest offering. Read more… Finally, something that makes [...]

If you’re looking for a new IDE, check out the Eclipse project which is an open-source java-based IDE that supports plugins for a variety of features and languages including PHPEclipse. This is an extremely robust application, tho I haven’t had much time to play around with it yet. I also found a program the other [...]

Incase you haven’t heard of “Open Source“, check out the Wikipedia description of it. I have recently been playing with open-source projects during the last few months, and as a programmer, I am thrilled at the concept of free software that is robust, easy to install, and (generally) easy to configure. I also love the [...]

Picasa is a terrific photo cataloging program from Google which allows you to catalog photos, create labels, manipulate your photos and share them with friends. Picasa has a Webpage Export feature where you can export selected images into webpage templates for gallery-style viewing, and it will automatically resize the images and create thumbnails for you. [...]

FireFox v1.5 has implemented a new feature called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) which is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML. Basically you can create cool graphics stuff with very simple XML code. Unfortunately it’s not a very widely supported technology, so you’ll need FireFox v1.5 to use it. People have [...]

Google’s War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out.

Well, I’ve successfully been running my computer without a virus scanner or a software firewall for over 6 years now without getting a virus or spyware infection. But I recently had to fix a friend’s computer and found a few good tools for this purpose. Spybot Search & Destroy (Donateware) — An essential cornerstone of [...]