Upgrading to Visual Studio 2008, Use Caution

If you plan to upgrade to VS 2008 take care. Installation can be tricky if you are using the BIDS
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Get your own TV Show

Something like YouTube for live video, this site can turn web cam owners into video broadcasters.

Ustream is a platform that provides live interactive video for everyone. Anyone with a camera and an Internet connection can use Ustream to broadcast to a global audience.

Just go to the site, register and name your show and you get a web cam specific URL that can be viewed 24/7, best of all its free.

Senate approves 7 year Internet tax ban

The Senate has approved a 7 year extension to the ban on Internet taxation. The extension will prevent greedy state bureaucrats from imposing new taxes on internet usage; which could increase internet use fees by as much as 17%. GOP lawmakers want to make the ban permanent; saying it would spur investment in broadband internet access, Democrats forever in love with taxes of any kind, blocked the attempt

Free download teaches programming

Want to learn game development or OOP? A free tool called 'Alice' can help; According to the Alice.org site: "Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing.

Evil PDF Attacking IE7

If you are using IE7 on XP or Win2003, watch out! A PDF based trojan horse is exploiting a URL handling flaw in IE7 Read more

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Looking for free software? We found this site through Stumble!
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MS extends XP deadline for OEMS

Microsoft has announced it will give OEMs another six months to sell PCs with Windows XP installed. This means the new deadline will now be June 30 2008. Read more