Technology

How to Tell a Company to Support FireFox

If a company you do business with still has not implemented FireFox support on its web site, send a polite yet determined request.

Dear [Company],

Web-Only Research: Convenience, Laziness or Ignorance?

I am repeatedly disturbed by people actually believing that they can in any way verify the authenticity of news online, or that they can do reliable research on the Internet.

Skype Shutdown Scare Emphasizes Need for Open Source

eBay's threat to shut Skype down over licensing disputes is a prime example of why everyone from corporations to users must think about open source.

Drupal Forks and Distributions

In the spirit of true open source, Drupal has its own forks or distributions, or whatever we want to call them.

Not surprisingly, when an open source solution is stable, flexible and powerful, it is bound to gain a large userbase and scores of developers who want to customize it. The best aspect of such tweaking is that the results are released back to the community. Let us look at some popular Drupal distributions today.

Elgg, MediaWiki, Drupal Overlap

As many developers have pointed out, Elgg and MediaWiki functions can be easily replicated in Drupal.

Zacker.org had a great article on the subject:

All Hail the Power of Drupal

The more I use Drupal, the more projects it becomes the solution for.

Drupal, Elgg, Moodle: A Powerful Learning Management System

Drupal and Moodle have always been top players in their respective fields of content management systems (CMS) and learning management systems (LMS), making the idea of integration a powerful one.

Tunes for the Day, January 20, 2009: Collide, Unsun

"Beneath the Skin" by Collide; "Destiny" by Unsun

Considering the importance of music in the subjects covered on this site, this feature has been long overdue. This will not be a daily  entry, as various commitments may interfere with regular updates, but I will try to expose readers to good music as often as I have a chance to.

New Composers: Sonart Has Lots of Loops for the Money

Sonart's subscription provides an affordable way to get a sound library starter kit.

Alesis SR-16 Is Still Relevant

Reports of the SR-16's death "are greatly exaggerated".

Your First DAW

Nobody says you have to spend hundreds of bucks just to produce your first song on a computer.

Music

Original compositions by this author

Nightwish Voices

Nightwish was not just Tarja, but Anette is just not Tarja...

SETI Gets Rick Rolled

Unexplained Internet phenomenon: why exactly is Rick Astley all over the Web, 21 years after his biggest hit?

Crossing the Finish Line with Drupal

Leaving with home-cooked PHP code and traveling with TYPO3 and Joomla, Drupal finally gets me there.

Adware Attacks

The battle is on to defend your computer

BusinessWeek has an excellent article that is definitely a wake-up call for many computer users who have not been aware of the extent of the adware/spyware problem. Unfortunately, preventive security measures are a quintessential fact of Internet life. If your PC is connected in any manner to the web, it is at risk.

A Massacre Ever So Enlightening

 A magical journey to another dimension in music

This Year, The Matrix Has Your Papers...

With technology finding its way into the grading process of papers, one wonders if convenience corrupts the sacred human evaluation process

It's All About The Substance

A millennia-old biological necessity of living beings is approached from the high-tech engineering angle

Instant Worms Through Instant Messages on MSN Messenger

The popular chat application is a culprit in spreading worms by exploiting users' contact lists

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