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Opera developing voice-enabled browser

Not only does it incorporate a screen-reader to read the contents of web sites, but it will respond to a usder's voice to fill in forms, navigate and call up web pages - for example, say "Get AP" and the browser brings up the Web page for The Associated Press. Read More

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Foundation Dreamweaver MX 2004

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In conjunction with the publishers, friends of ED, we're giving away five copies of this book to registered DMXzone members. That's cooler than Jack Nicholson smearing ice-cream on The White Stripes in a freezer. In the Winter. On Pluto! We review the book here.

All you have to do to win one of these lovely books is contribute a short tip or answer in the Request a Tutorial Section, then email us with the URL and the answer to this tie-break question: What is chapter six called?

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MM release Dreamweaver Updater

Macromedia have released an updater: All users running the English version of Dreamweaver MX 2004 7.0 should apply this updater, regardless of location or operating system.  This is what MM say is in the new update:

Performance improvements

The update fixes various performance issues reported by some users, such as when typing in pages with nested tables, switching documents, or launching Dreamweaver.

Stability improvements

The update fixes several bugs that caused Dreamweaver to crash, such as in certain circumstances when working on ASP.NET or JSP pages in Design view, or when applying bold or italics to text after applying a color style to the text.

Timelines

The timelines feature, available in Dreamweaver MX but not in Dreamweaver MX 2004, has been restored.

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Happy 10th Birthday, Spam!

The first Spam message was posted 10 years ago today, reports ContractorUK. Last month, 62% of all email was spam, reports Brightmail, with the USA responsible for more than half of that. Read More

Good News: Microsoft not changing IE.

Good news indeed. The proposed changes to Internet Explorer to force the dialog of doom every time rich content is required have been indefinitely shelved by Microsoft. Read More

Audacity 1.20 released.

Audacity is an open-source, free sound editor for Windows, Linux or Mac OSX.Great for manipulating sound effects for Flash movies etc if you don't have access to expensive sound-editing suites for full-time, professional use. You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal. Read More

Search Engine Wars

Yahoo! announces that it will mine the "deep web", estimated at 550 bllion documents usually only accessible through a site's own proprietory search - things like academic databases, phone directories and the like. Google currently indexes 4.2 billion pages, but is currently undergoing criticism that since the "Florida update" in which many sites found their ranking plummeted, their results are full of spam. Certainly, for non-power users, results are becoming less useful. Typing in the name of a hotel that you want to stay at (maybe you want a streetmap or a phone number) results in endless pages of hotel booking services before you actually find what you're looking for. Similar google grumbles abound. I love Google for its speed, clean interface, and the way it kicked other Search Engines into raising their efficiency, but I the Yahoo! initiative is to be welcomed for introducing some competition, which has been lacking in the last couple of years.

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Microsoft tries to contain Windows source code leak

Microsoft is taking steps to stop its leaked Windows source code spreading widely on the internet, using the messaging systems in file-swapping networks to alert people sharing the code that what they are doing is illegal reports the BBC Read More

Windows Source Code leaked on net

Neowin has the scoop. The security ramifications of this are massive.

 

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Googlehackers find secret information

"Googlehackers" find secret information. A shock-horror report claims that Google is somehow complicit in the fact that search-savvy users have unconvered a military document listing suspected Taliban and al Qaeda members, people's medical records, bank account numbers, students' grades, and the docking locations of 804 U.S. Navy ships, submarines and destroyers. It's more the fault of web masters incorrectly posting sensitive data, like this government subcontractor who posted the names, birthdays and daily whereabouts of hundreds of New York children. In reality, the amount of sensitive information carelessly left around is amazing. Try the random personal picture finder, or a search on resume.doc, expenses.xls, or similarly titled documents on Kazaa. No use in blaming Google if you post inappropriate pictures of yourself on the web, or leave your bank accound details in Kazaa's shared directory.

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