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Waning power of record firms and radio has prompted creative explosion among bands, not least in how to reach their fans, say industry experts gathered in Brighton

Open-source Twitter clone

Beautiful & ornate calligraphy

Traditionally to install WordPress you would have to download the archive, extract it to your computer, upload over 600 files to your website, and then set up your databases, etc.

EasyWP takes all this pain an complexity out of installing WordPress by automating the whole process.

Easy WP is a single php file that automatically downloads the latest version of WordPress to your server, extracts the archive (on your server), and takes you to the built in WordPress setup process.

HIGH BANDWIDTH, LOW LATENCY, AND MULTIHOMING CHALLENGE THE SOCKETS API

a series of articles on building a Solaris-based ZFS home file server.

Here's a fun game… First, look up the most popular and critically-acclaimed books, movies, and music on Amazon. Click on "Customer Reviews," and sort them by "Lowest Rating First." Hilarity ensues! It's the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game!

The Hit List is my favorite task manager. Beautiful, simple, and powerful.

Very useful depth of field calculator for all cameras & lenses.

Good tutorial on creating a good looking custom UITableView.

A&R execs at major labels no longer call the shots and decide which artists should be promoted. Bloggers and social networks determine success now. Artists have more opportunity to connect with fans and let them spread the word.

Safari actually does support plugins. While the choice is nowhere near as extensive as that of Firefox, there is still a good variety of them to choose from.

IE6 is like an illness that just won’t go away, but we have the medicine. IE6 Update looks like IE’s Information Bar, but instead of offering your visitors an ActiveX plugin, it offers a browser update.

Apple is creating an ecosystem of the kind of customers I don’t want. With the ridiculous approval process leaving bugfixes to take over a week to show up, with prices being driven down to nothing by farting apps