Month: December 2008

he Addonics NAS (network attached storage) Adapter is a convenient and economical solution for adding any USB storage devices onto your LAN (Local Area Network). Once on the network, the USB storage can be shared by any network user, just like an ordinary NAS device. When use in conjunction with Addonics Storage Towers or Storage Racks, a Multi-Tera bytes storage with various RAID capabilities can be instantly added to the LAN. With the NAS adapter, you can custom build you own NAS appliance with unlimited expansion and RAID capability using Addonics family of Drive Enclosures, Port Multipliers, and IO converters.
Come built-in with a USB 2.0/1.1 connection and a fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps connection, the NAS adapter supports both SMB (Server Message Block) and the open source Samba network protocols, allowing for cross-platform access of all shared data for most versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and various Linux distributions. For remote users who are not connected over the LAN, the N

Desktop Apps Made Easy
Titanium is the first open platform for building rich desktop applications.
* Open source
Titanium is licensed under the Apache Public License (version 2)
* Open web
Use standard HTML, CSS and Javascript to build rich desktop apps
* Open desktop
Run your apps on Windows, Mac and Linux (coming soon!)
* Open API
Add rich desktop capabilities to your apps using a simple Javascript API

Higher-Order Perl is about functional programming techniques in Perl. It's about how to write functions that can modify and manufacture other functions.

"Commencing this month, Microsoft will be providing every CPAN author with free access to a centrally-hosted virtual machine environment containing every major version of Windows."

Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework for developing large-scale Web applications.
Yii comes with a full stack of features needed by today's Web 2.0 application development. It is written in strict OOP and is easy to learn with its detailed tutorials. And its highly reusable components allows one to rapidly build up a Web application that is efficient as well as robust.

Truphone is a free application that lets you make international mobile
calls over the internet at incredibly low rates.

Courtesy of those clever people at Truphone

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