This release puts pressure on existing browsers for Mac OS X, Mozilla, Safari and Opera to implement their own versions of the Google Gears application space in order to compete with Google.

Also a simultaneous release of Linux version of Chrome is a welcome sign of Google focusing on all operating systems, rather than sticking to the most used and popular ones.

Even though still in beta, Chrome promises to become a fresh and innovative way to use the Internet on Mac OS X.

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Gmail is a fantastic email tool for personal and corporate use. One of the biggest drawbacks has been the inability to use the system offline the way you could with Outlook or Outlook Express. That has all changed with the introduction of Gmail Offline. Here is how to enable it.

Once this feature is activated, you can use Gmail as a regular service even when you are offline.

You can compose, star, delete, etc when you are offline, all of these actions are stored on your local computer and once you are connected to the internet these actions are synchronized with the Gmail server.

To enable this feature, log in to your Gmail account (personal or organization);

1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
   

1. Click Save Changes and Log out of your Gmail and restart your browser.

1. After your browser reloads, you’ll see a new “Offline0.1″ or a green beaker link in the upper right-hand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don’t already have it.

The rest is automatic and will be seamless. However, please NOTE!!! that this is an experimental BETA feature an will most likely come and go until it is finalized, so please be patient.

From Google’s Blog:

“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.”

We here at GoITExpert will be following closely the development of this new goodness out of our beloved Google and hoping that it truly does become an ideal replacement for overbloated Redmond OS.

Also,  we would to coin the term CHOSOS as a special nickname for the Google’s new CHrome Open Source Operating System.

Cheers,

Editors of GoITExpert.com

The Azure solution has been designed to help developers deploy web-based services centred around Visual Studio quickly and easily by not having to worry about the infrastructure costs or overhead that are typically associated with application delivery.

Once a you are ready to deploy you can select how many nodes you want to use in the Microsoft cloud of computing power, you reserve a those nodes and pay for just those node.  As your web service becomes more popular, you can log in to the management web site and increase the node count with just a few clicks.
Windows Azure pricing is based on how much storage, bandwidth and computing time an application uses.

Visit the Windows Azure Community Technology Preview

Read the Microsoft Press Release

The Microsoft service is playing catch up to the Amazon.com service that has been around for quite some time, called Elastic Computing Cloud (Amazon EC2).

The major difference that pushes Amazon.com’s solution ahead of Microsoft is the fact that it is no based on one solution.   With just a few clicks you can deploy a Linux, OS X or a Windows solution with prebuilt images. 

Amazon’s solution is priced according to how much storage (cheap), bandwidth (not as cheap) and computing time (relatively cheap).
To use Amazon EC2, you simply:

• Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing your applications, libraries, data and associated configuration settings. Or use pre-configured, templated images to get up and running immediately.
• Upload the AMI into Amazon S3. Amazon EC2 provides tools that make storing the AMI simple. Amazon S3 provides a safe, reliable and fast repository to store your images.
• Use Amazon EC2 web service to configure security and network access.
• Choose which instance type(s) and operating system you want, then start, terminate, and monitor as many instances of your AMI as needed, using the web service APIs or the variety of management tools provided.
• Determine whether you want to run in multiple locations, utilize static IP endpoints, or attach persistent block storage to your instances.
• Pay only for the resources that you actually consume, like instance-hours or data transfer.

You can read more about Amazon EC2 here.

I’m not going to comment on the quality of the images, you can determine that for yourself.  You can go straight to Yahoo Images by clicking here.   You can also search for multimedia files such as videos.

As you type a search in the box, an AJAX like box pops up and autocompletes your search based on the keywords in their database.

It is a nice addition and I’m sure Google will follow suit soon.

According to the recent news coming out of the Sillicon Valley, Oracle is going to follow ]]> http://www.goitexpert.com/databases/oracle-to-offer-hardware-for-their-database-servers/feed/ 0 http://www.goitexpert.com/disaster-recovery/domplayer-3wplayer-fix/ http://www.goitexpert.com/disaster-recovery/domplayer-3wplayer-fix/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:38:00 +0000 admin http://www.goitexpert.com/entry.cfm?entry=DomPlayer-3wPlayer-Fix Recently a bunch of hose bags have been upping files on Torrents sites that require a “special player” to see the video.  This player is full of spyware, Trojans, viruses and crap!  Often the video is still the original, or decent quality.  Here is how to decrypt these videos and watch them without this crap special player.

Recently a bunch of hose bags have been upping files on Torrents sites that require a “special player” to see the video.  This player is full of spyware, Trojans, viruses and crap!  Often the video is still the original, or decent quality.  Here is how to decrypt these videos and watch them without this crap special player.

When you play the video you’ll be presented with a screen telling you that you don’t have the appropriate player and that you need to visit a particular website to get the player.

http://download.domplayer.com/

Once you download it, it will most likely say that you are not in a country that they can accept payment from!  Bullshit!

They then redirect you to another site.  The 3wPlayer.  This is the spyware laden piece of crap.

Often the files themselves are pretty good, it’s just the header information that is being incorrectly read.  There are two tracks for video in an AVI file and most player read one of them.  This player picks up the other one, making the file play a few seconds and the rest appear to be garbage.

You can download a utility from Wildman Productions that will remove the crap and allow you to play the video normally.

It is mirrored on our site here.

Once you download it, just simply run the file.

In the Input File click the browse button to locate the file.

Click corresponding button in the Output File section to specify where you want to save the file.

When you are ready click Convert.

In about 20 seconds your file will be repaired and you can play it in Windows Media, VLC, Quicktime….whatever you want!

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You can use HTML, Flash, Video, the formats are endless to support your advertising campaign. The Openads administrative interface lets you choose to enable or disable a campaign at any time and even schedule times and dates that an advertisement is displayed, and even target specific Geographic Territory with targeted ads.

Openads lets you run campaigns from many advertisers at the same time. By loading ad program tags into Openads, rather than directly on your website, you can run campaigns from many different sources side by side.  Openads supports Google Adsense, Yahoo! Publisher, DoubleClick, Advertising.com and many more.

There are several new and upgraded features in Openads.  Among them are;

Enhanced Power & Simplicity:
            Optimized delivery engine increases number and speed of ads delivered – Openads is now capable of serving billions of ads each month.
            Improved installation process makes new installations easy and upgrades on existing systems seamless.
            Better ad campaign prioritisation.
Easy Integration with Industry Leading Applications:
            Ability to track clicks sent to Google AdSense & Yahoo! Publisher Network
            Enhanced click tracking of Flash ads and support for backup GIFs
            Documented code for easy customisation
Enhanced Targeting & Campaign Management:
            Targeting statistics screen gives users a holistic view of ad campaigns to determine which are performing well or not meeting required impressions
            Direct selection allows publishers to specify keywords against tags, providing better targeting across the entire site
            Campaigns can be capped in the same way as a banner
            Zones can be capped in the same way as a campaign
            When there are no ads to be shown for a particular zone, ads are automatically grabbed from a linked zone
Improved Reporting
            Reports automatically generated at pre-set times when publishers, admins and advertisers need information
            Revenue maximized by tracking visitor behaviour from click-through to transaction and reports produced using real-time information
            Basic reports simplified, including graph creation

You can download Openads here;

http://www.openads.org/downloads.html

The newly-released Asus P5E3 Deluxe motherboard includes embedded Linux that can be booted in under five seconds. The embedded operating system also includes a stripped down Firefox browser and Skype, so within seconds of booting you can be on the Internet.

With a fast bootup speed of only 5 seconds, the ASUS Express Gate offers an optional Linux OS bootup that allows you to enjoy instant access to commonly used functions like accessing the Internet, VoIP, and Web emailing without entering the OS.

The Asus Express Gate is based on a flavour of Linux called SplashTop. With Splashtop your computer is ready to use seconds after you turn it on. Instead of waiting for a full boot, you have Web access in mere seconds. Chat, surf, play a game – all one click away.

Splashtop is a secure Web-surfing environment. You can surf the Web while staying immune to many of the attacks that plague Windows.

It also includes a range of plugins for popular music ratings sites and blogs that add to your music listening pleasure.  Songbird is not yet available in Ubuntu repositories yet but you can use this script to install it.

Download the script here.  Type the following commands in terminal;

cd ~/Desktop
chmod +x installsongbird.sh
./installsongbird.sh

And we are done!  That’s it. Nice and simple!  To launch Songbird go to Applications – Sound & Video - Songbird.

The first time you launch Songbird, Agree to the License.

Then select the music device support (if any) you would like and click ok.

Removing Songbird
If you wish to remove Songbird, download this script to your desktop and paste these commands in the terminal:
cd ~/Desktop
chmod +x removesongbird.sh
./removesongbird.sh