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Finding a good, professional phone system can be tough for web workers — landlines are rarely a practical option, and most of us don’t want our clients or colleagues hearing the same phone message that we use for friends and family on our cell phones. Phonebooth is looking to fill in that gap with a free phone system designed for freelancers,…
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SQL injection is a security exploit in which an attacker injects SQL parameters into a Web form, allowing him or her to send database queries and ultimately gain access. SQL injection is not a direct database problem but rather an application issue that indirectly affects your database systems. There are several web application vulnerability scanners to see if any input filtering or other SQL injection-specific…
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Last week we told you about how Chevrolet, a division of General Motors, was bringing an augmented reality (AR) marketing promotion to SXSW in Austin. Now General Motors is kicking it up a notch with some experimental technology that will bring the world of AR to car windshields and provide a heads-up-display (HUD) experience.
The new technology, still very much in the testing phase, uses an…
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As one of ReadWriteWeb’s iPhone users, I’m always looking for new applications to try out. Some get downloaded for a day and then deleted right away, others slowly inch their way closer to my homescreen. Even rarer are the ones that become actively used on a regular basis. Occasionally, we like to share our findings regarding our favorite new apps. (See, for example, last month’s…
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Site owners and professional bloggers use a variety of tools to assess the performance of their website. The number priority is to get as much traffic on the site as possible. To achieve this, the current traffic being received is analyzed statistically and graphically, search engine optimization tools are employed to generate material users search for, and various other applications are used.
GoingUp is a wonderful…
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Google Analytics offers site owners an easy and free way to gather highly detailed analytics about their websites’ visitors. A lot of people, however, don’t feel comfortable with the idea that Google can track their every move on the Internet. After all, even if you don’t use any Google product yourself, you will still send personal data about yourself to Google through programs like Google…
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I have to come clean and admit that I love freeware. Yes, I know that everyone likes getting something for nothing, but I’m talking about a lifelong addiction here. I think it started many years ago when I first started using BBS, then progressed to CompuServe and AOL. While most people were excited about hearing “You’ve Got Mail,” I was most thrilled about all…
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TraceWatch Real Time Web Stats and Traffic Analysis lets you keep track of the visitors to your website in real time with detailed statistics and deep analysis using an innovative user interface for Free and helps you make your website more effective. It can can be easily installed on any website supporting PHP and MySQL.
Requirements: PHP 5+ and Mysql 4.1+ Demo: http://www.dejkam.com/twatch/ License: License…
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Currently, your contacts live in address books that are distributed all over the Internet and your desktop. Because of this, chances are that you have numerous address books on the web that are often “inconsistent and disjointed.” Contacts, a new Mozilla Labs project, wants to put an end to this. The Contacts addon creates a local database for all your email and Twitter contacts that…
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At times it feels like the concept of cloud computing is as ephemeral as a towering cumulus cloud on a summer day. It passes by, changes shape and looks different to every person who views it. But like those clouds in the sky, there’s a lot of complexity out there, especially as it concerns how data is managed in a multi-tenant environment.
The issue…
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