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The soon release of DupeFree Pro’s version 2 prompted the need for testers to work with an early version of the software. Being in it’s final stages of development, DupeFree Pro is looking for those willing to try out the new software and provide feedback. Participants will be asked to try out the software and discuss any improvements and bugs.

DupeFree Pro is a program useful to writers, that tests for word count, keyword density and duplicate content online. If everything goes to plan, the first version available to the public should be available in 6 to 8 weeks. To become a part of the team of software testers, simply submit a ticket stating why you should be a tester, your Windows operating system and how if ever you’ve used DupeFree Pro in the past. DFP v2 is initially going to be compatible with the Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7

Those chosen to participate in this project will be offered a very special deal when DFP v2 is released publicly as a thank you for any time and effort. As well as getting a copy of DupeFree Pro v2 to play with, testers will get access to a private forum area to communicate with DupeFree Pro and other beta testers. This will be the central area for logging in and working on bugs and issues. Please note this is a closed private beta with a limited number of slots availible, and DupeFree Pro is looking for users who really make use of the current program and who want to help shape v2.

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Update: I recently applied to be a tester for the new beta version of DupeFree Pro and have been accepted into the private beta group! The programmers are now finalizing a beta version ready for the group and I’m hoping to have access to it and the private forum before the end of the week.

CodeRepair’s score is much like today’s date, 10/10/10; a 10 in quality, 10 in search engine optimization, and a 10 in advanced coding. Perhaps in commemoration to binary code, today could be a great day to launch a new custom CMS website design, or even start writing on a new blog.

Learn how to count to 1,023 in binary on your fingers. Hug your computer and digital devices because without binary they wouldn’t exist. Make a note on social media websites that today is 10/10/10 and perhaps a great day to get married because you’ll always remember the anniversary.

Shatter based GreenPois0n jailbreak for fourth generation Apple i-devices such as iPhone 4, iPod touch 4G, and iPad are ready to release at 10:10am GMT today. Jailbreaking is a process that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to run any code on their devices, as opposed to only that code authorized by Apple. Those not supported include the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and the iPod touch 3G.

Greenpois0n is a multi-platform jailbreak for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. It uses the SHAtter exploit, and is a very simple and easy to use GUI jailbreak. An exploit is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that take advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behavior to occur on computer software.

Start a podcast, join a new social media website, or write on a new blog. This day only comes around once every century, so make sure to do something and make it count. Do you have a small business and want a website to promote yourself? Contact me today for some great ideas to get you more customers and sales through traffic online.

What is considered the most inexpensive laptop has recently been developed by the Elite Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Kapil SibalKapil Sibal, the HRD minister of India, unveiled this cheapest laptop with a price tag of 1,500 rupees ($35) in July.

This tablet PC is expected to be available in the market by the year 2011 and can do everything your desktop can at a price lower than the cheapest cell phones. The device has combined features of the iPad and tablet PC and can even be run on solar power. This Linux-based touchscreen computing prototype is equipped with an internet browser, 2 Gigabytes of RAM, media player, video-conferencing capability, wifi connectivity and USB ports. The intent behind the new computing device is to give the students a better education and technical skills needed to boost India’s economic growth, with the first users expected to be university students.

This news of such an inexpensive laptop could increase who gets online now due to such a low price almost anyone could afford. Browsing on tablets may display slightly different than on a desktop or laptop computer. Due to my practices in web design, a website design by CodeRepair would appear properly on such devices as well as those STILL yet to come in the future.

Google Instant Results is a new feature automatically integrated with Google now to make our lives easier. Perhaps you noticed on your last Google website search that results began showing up as you typed your query. The news of this added feature has made web design related research much smoother for me.

Google Instant search is changing search engines with faster, more accurate search results. Your website search streams results in real time as you type each letter, therefore giving you the power to scan matches as you complete the search. Google has stated this predictive search could increase productivity at work by saving an average of 2 to 5 seconds per query.

The Google search engine even gives you the option to turn Instant off if you’re uncomfortable with it. If you don’t have Google Instant Results yet it should be available to you soon being Google intends to make the feature available to users across the globe.

I’ve been hearing a lot about viruses spreading on Facebook and seeing it personally from friends who have been infected on the social media site. Recent infections on Facebook are growing “virally”, pardon the pun. Review these tips and advice to avoid potential problems on the social media website.

You normally get one of these viruses from a friend who was unknowingly infected. They could come from a simple message, or a “video of you”. These viruses can take your personal information to log into your account and cause you to spread them to your circle of friends as well.

The most recurring one, called the “Koobface”, gives you a link to a video with “you” in it, and when you attempt to play it, you get an error message saying you need to download a file to update your Adobe Flash software. Now this “flash_player.exe” file contains the malicious Koobface code.

Another bit of advice involves keeping an eye on and adjusting your privacy settings in Facebook. There is a new privacy setting on Facebook called “Instant Personalization” that shares data with non-Facebook websites and it is automatically set to “Allow.” Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > Instant Personalization > Edit Settings, and uncheck “Allow”. If your Facebook friends don’t do this, they will be sharing information about you.

Just a heads up to keep alert and watch what you click on. Some of the applications on social media websites can spread infections as well. Personally I’ve always stayed away from game applications such as Mob Wars and Farmville, but proceed at your own discretion. There’s always going to be a threat of some kind somewhere, but the point is to be educated about it to avoid headaches in the future.

Cell phones have evolved from huge, heavy, bulky, awkward mobile devices into the slim, light, handheld touchscreen smartphones we see today. They are thought of as handheld computers integrated within a mobile phone that are capable of using literally thousands of online applications. Such applications allow the user to watch movies, check email, Skype, connect on Twitter and Facebook, enable GPS, check weather conditions, access music, and so much more.

These handheld devices come in many varieties, shapes and sizes. Some of the most popular handheld devices include the iPhone, Blackberry PDA and Motorola Droid, and often come equipped with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, spanning varieties such as handheld PC’s, palmtops and PDA’s. Some of the most popular brands include Nokia, Motorola, Sony, Dell, Sharp, Verizon, LG, the Apple iPhone, and T-Mobile Sidekick. From the smaller palmtops and handheld PC’s, these electronic devices bridge the gap between notebooks, netbooks and tablets.

Many people get Android and Droid confused. Droid is a phone created by Motorola sold by Verizon and Android is a cell phone operating system created by Google. The Droid has Android 2.0 installed on it.

One of the newest versatile Android tablets is the Dell Streak. This versatile Android tablet comes in a 5, 7 and 10 inch. This handheld device sits between smartphones and larger notebooks and tablets commonly used today.

To justify it’s existence, the Streak needed to excel over other smartphones and provide a rich multi-media experience. Staying a step ahead of cutting edge technology is the only way for a mobile device to survive. Keeping current and informed about how high tech devices can simplify your life may be advantageous to you.

Next month Microsoft will launch the beta version of Internet Explorer 9 with accelerated HTML5. The intent of this software giant’s next-generation web browser is to allow “a more beautiful web that feels native on Windows,” says Microsoft.

IE9 will be available in a public beta release for the first time on September 15th, 2010 at Microsoft’s event in San Francisco. Microsoft formally releases the new version at its “Beauty of the Web” event in hopes to wow people and fend off any competition from such rivals as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

IE9′s integration of HTML5 with full hardware acceleration is clearly a first step and it is good for Microsoft to be behind HTML5 – Al Hilwa, Director of Applications Software Development at the International Data Corporation

IE9′s features are based upon using the power of the whole PC to achieve the greatest websurfing experience. Internet Explorer 9 began from the premise of the internet delivering HTML5 experiences which feel more like a native application than a website. If you are still using Windows XP and would like to use Internet Explorer 9, you’ll need to upgrade to Windows Vista or Windows 7 in order to run this browser.

In order to find out what version of Internet Explorer you are running, simply go to the ‘Help’ tab on your web browser toolbar and choose the option ‘About Internet Explorer’. To find out what version of Windows you are currently running, click on “Start” on your taskbar, type “run” in the searchbox, and in the run dialog box type “winver” and click OK. A window will display the exact version of Windows you are running and any service packs installed.

Post update: The IE9 Beta has been released and I’m currently using it. I like the new feel to it with the Windows Vista operating system, with a few subtle changes. Download Download Internet Explorer 9 now and enjoy a better browsing experience. Simply choose your language and Windows version then click download.

Search engine upgrades are becoming more prevalent in just these recent weeks. Yahoo’s gone to Yahoo Pulse, MSN has upgraded to MSN 9 2011, and Google even allows you to customize your homepage now.

It seems that these search engines are becoming more like social media websites since social media is the growing trend for the last few years, including MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Search engines are constantly making it easier to connect with friends and relatives online.

Yahoo! Pulse allows users to add photos, share links with contacts, and connect to social media websites and other sites across the web. There are even applications such as “The Video of the Day”, or you could create a blog to write on for your contacts to see.

MSN has recently upgraded to MSN Beta, allowing it’s users to share photos, add favorites and groups, and customize pages with animated display pictures signature sounds and custom scenes. MSN Hotmail allows you to scroll photos sent to you through email as an album. MSN even has a media player built right into its Hotmail now, making watching and sending videos through email so much easier.

Coderepair went from a 16 to a 95 grade score in under a year according to Website Grader. How did I do it, you might ask. Natural methods of search engine optimization helped my website to gain popularity online.

Writing articles gave me backlinks, or inbound links to my website. A website’s grade is partially based on how many inbound links point to it. Also by subscribing to websites that offer inbound links, I also raised my grade.

Another measure that is used to calculate a website’s score is the number of pages that a site has. By adding a blog post twice a week and adding pages to my resources section, I managed to get my site from 10 pages to over 400 in this last year.

Having an aged domain certainly didn’t count against me. Being this website started in April 2003 gives it a bit of authority according to search engines. So when faced with the decision of whether to build your website on an aged domain or to come up with a new one, I would build on the aged domain.

Build an online presence with a good reputation to promote your business. Use natural methods of SEO, write articles and blog posts often to get some inbound links to your website, and an aged domain never hurts.

“Everything’s going digital” seems to be all we’ve heard in the beginning of the 21st century, but now the digital world is evolving. An Apple or a blackberry no longer only applies only to fruit. C++ isn’t in orange juice, Java isn’t just a cup of coffee anymore, and having a bluetooth doesn’t mean you were drinking blue Koolaid.

We are living in exponential times. The things we worry about today including hackers, internet fraud, identity theft and cybercrimes in general weren’t even in existence 20 years ago.

Nokia manufactures 13 cell phones every second, and teens send an average of 2,272 text messages per month. 90% of the 200 billion emails sent every day are spam. The mobile device will be the world’s primary connection tool to the internet in 2020. 95% of the songs that have been downloaded haven’t been paid for.

The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper, and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand times smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965. So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, and what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years -Ray Kurzweil

The top 10 “in demand” jobs of 2010 didn’t exist in 2004. Therefore, we are currently preparing students for jobs that do not yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented yet, to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.

There are approximately 31 billion searches on Google every month, and in 2006 that number was 2.7 billion. The first text message was sent in December of 1992. Today the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the total population of the planet.

What we could write in 10 minutes with instant messenger would have taken a matter of months by letter 20 years ago. Predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.

The news is constantly presenting us with signs of the evolution of the “digital age”. As each generation passes the span that digital technology reaches grows more. Six year olds on an iPhone and our grandparents checking their email isn’t as uncommon as it was before. As the perpetual evolution of technology advances we discover that the future is here.

Information Credit: The information included is thanks to the “Did You Know” video series from youtube.com.