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            <title>App of the Week: Synergy 1.4</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Synergy is a tool of incredible use for those who use multiple computers in the same house. If you need to switch between multiple computers, it can be annoying when you have to switch between multiple keyboards and mice to use them all. Synergy offers a solution, provided your computers are networked, for sharing the keyboard and mouse connected to your primary computer with other computers.
Your primary computer, which would be the computer from which you intend to control other computers, ca [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Software/App-of-the-Week-Synergy-14_8551.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <author>kshitij.sobti@9dot9.in (Kshitij Sobti)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:50:41 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Amazon Releases New NoSQL Database, DynamoDB</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the scale of web applications is expanding, an increasing number  of websites are breaking away from the mould of SQL-based databases and  adopting something different. Amazon till now has been offering a database called SimpleDB for such people, but now they have a new offering, called DynamoDB.
DynamoDB is based on Amazon engineers's own experiences with  developing non-relational database based websites that needed to be  scaled. It also aims to improve over their older NoSQL service Simp [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Amazon-Releases-New-NoSQL-Database-DynamoDB_8548.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:18:14 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Facebook Announces New Apps for Timeline</title>
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After mixed reactions from users, Facebook has now declared that it's here to stay by opening up new apps for Facebook timeline.
According to Carl Sjogreen, Product Manager at Facebook, &quot;We recently launched Timeline to give you a way to collect and rediscover your most important 		moments. Starting today, you can choose from more than 60 new apps to add to 		your timeline and express what you love.
Some of the new timelines that are available include Foodspotting,Foodily, Ticketmaster, [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Facebook-Announces-New-Apps-for-Timeline_8536.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <author> (Nash David)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:42:25 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Developing a Simple Application Using LINQ [Part 4]</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This is an article continued from Developing a simple application using LINQ [Part 3]. In this part we will be looking at where we can use specific datatypes instead of using the &quot;var&quot; keyword, the Count(), Sum()and First() method.&nbsp;Continuing from the previous article, we create the third function.
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This function lets you take a closer look at different statistics
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PopulateProductStatistics()&nbsp;- In this function we will recover different statistics(products f [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Features/Developing-a-Simple-Application-Using-LINQ-Part_8484.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <author> (Sanket Chaukiyal)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:43:53 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Microsoft Details ReFS, a Successor to Their NTFS File-System</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Microsoft is making a rather large number of architectural changes with their upcoming Windows 8.  Metro changes Windows at the UI level, Windows Store will change how  apps are distributed, and Storage Spaces change the way storage is  managed. Now Microsoft has detailed ReFS or Resilient File-System, a new  file-system being introduced in Windows 8 server versions that aims to  eventually replace NTFS.
NTFS is rather old and has a huge arsenal of features, some of which  are used a lot while  [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Storage/Microsoft-Details-ReFS-a-Successor-to-Their_8518.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <author>kshitij.sobti@9dot9.in (Kshitij Sobti)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:50:09 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Tizen's Future Gets Brighter, Samsung to Merge it With bada</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Samsung has been supportive  of Tizen from the get-go, but now it seems to be taking a rather major  step. They are merging their home-grown mobile phone OS, bada with Tizen.
With the convoluted road behind Tizen, its future had been uncertain  till these announcements. Just recently, less than a week ago, the release of Tizen's source code and SDK was announced.  This alleviated some of the worries about the project but was still far  from being its salvation. Even though Intel is behind it, i [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Mobiles-and-PDAs/Tizens-Future-Gets-Brighter-Samsung-to-Merge_8497.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:52:44 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Firefox Add-on SDK 1.4 Released; Changes Coming to Add-ons in Firefox 10</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mozilla has just released the latest update to their Firefox add-on SDK, a toolkit created for a number of reasons, most importantly to make it simpler for Firefox add-ons to maintain compatibility with future Firefox releases, and to make it easier to code Firefox add-ons in general.
For web developers looking to create add-ons for Firefox, the Firefox add-on SDK enables creating Firefox add-ons using web technologies; JavaScript, CSS, and HTML. It was always possible to create add-ons before  [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Firefox-Add-on-SDK-14-Released-Changes-Coming_8467.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:27:48 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>App of the Week: DropIt 3.9</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Organizing the files on your computer is       tricky business. Not that the act itself is difficult, just moving /       copying file from one place to another; but you are walking a fine line in       terms of saving. One one hand an organization system makes it easier and       saves time while trying to locate files later on; on the other hand if you       spend too much time organizing, then you're not saving much anyway.
But why spend time doing what the computer       can do near instant [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Software/App-of-the-Week-DropIt-39_8486.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:49:44 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Developing a simple application using LINQ [Part 3]</title>
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This is an article continued from Developing a simple grocery inventory- Part 2. In this part we will be looking at the different groups of controls on the &quot;Add/Delete&quot; tab, looping through retrieved results and the &quot;distinct&quot; method in LINQ.
Continuing from the previous article, we will now see the controls on the Tab &quot;Add/Delete&quot; of the tab control.
Controls on Tab &quot;Add/Delete&quot;
This tab contains many controls but most of them have similar func [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Features/Developing-a-simple-application-using-LINQ-Part_8483.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <author> (Sanket Chaukiyal)</author>
            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:38:45 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Google Ports Box2D to Dart</title>
            <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/devworks/feed/~3/qhTzb35eToM/Google-Ports-Box2D-to-Dart_8457.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Dart, Google's JavaScript replacement might not be released or even complete yet, but Google is already busy porting popular libraries and toolkits to it.
Box2D is a popular 2D physics engine library which is open source and disributed under the permissive zlib license. The library does the major bit of work in adding physics to any 2D game or software thats needs to emulate physics in 2D.
While the original Box2D library was in C++ it has been ported to a number of other languages including A [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Google-Ports-Box2D-to-Dart_8457.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:30:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mozilla Puts Firefox Extended Support Release into Action</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mozilla's rapid release cycle has been under a lot of scrutiny, not just because of the rapid releases, but also the short end-of-life periods each release would have. To the surprise of many, Firefox 4 ceased to be supported when Firefox 5 was released.
Mozilla decided to mix security updates and major updates, which means that while Firefox will receive minor  updates in case an issue is detected, or a security update is needed, once a new major release of Firefox comes out in 6 weeks, the ol [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Mozilla-Puts-Firefox-Extended-Support-Release-into_8456.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:08:50 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Tizen SDK and Code Released</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tizen has a rather convoluted history going back to a number of projects. Most recently, Intel abandoned their Meego platform which they were developing as a OS for all devices, Smartphones, TVs, Desktops, Notebooks, Tablets, and IVI systems in order to shift to Tizen. Going further back, Meego itself was the result of the merger of Intel's  Moblin project and Nokia's Maemo, which they used in the N900. Now finally we have a code and SDK release.
While Meego favoured the Qt toolkit for developi [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Tizen-SDK-and-Code-Released_8455.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:45:54 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Calligra Suite Beta Available for Windows</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org aren't the only open source office suites around. They are perhaps the only well know cross-platform free and open source office suites available; that is about to change.
KDE has its own office suite, called Calligra -- earlier called KOffice -- that happens to be an excellent software, and in many ways, particularly the user interface, it is better than the more popular LibreOffice / OpenOffice.org. Unfortunately, it has not been easily available for Windows til [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Software/Calligra-Suite-Beta-Available-for-Windows_8443.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:33:41 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Canonical Putting Ubuntu on TVs</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Canonical has big plans for Ubuntu, and they involve not only desktops and laptops, but also smartphones and TVs.

Linux for TVs isn't new; some television manufacturers already use versions of Linux in television sets and set-top boxes. Google too tried to offer an Android-based experience for TVs, which doesn't seem to have taken off much. Boxee, Roku, and TiVo all use Linux in their software for set-top boxes, and there are numerous Linux-based free and open source solutions such as XBMC an [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/TVs/Canonical-Putting-Ubuntu-on-TVs_8426.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:14:58 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>App of the Week: LiLi USB Creator 2.8</title>
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If you're looking for a&nbsp;Linux  distro to install, or simply love trying out different  distros, nothing beats the ability to boot Linux distros from a  pendrive. While ISO files for Linux distros are still rampant, many of  them are capable of being booted from a pendrive.
The advantages of booting off a pendrive are numerous, for one you  need not buy a new disc for each Linux distro you wish to try out.  Secondly, pendrives are much faster to copy to and thus boot from.  Thirdly, being [...] <br /><a href="http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Features/App-of-the-Week-LiLi-USB-Creator_8407.html" target="_blank" >Read the entire article </a>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:01:51 +0100</pubDate>
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