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Flash ways to avoid Flash (TM)

We sometimes get a design brief that says 'homepage must have Flash' on it. 'Why?' we ask, pointing out that Flash is a proprietary technology that is excluding an increasing percentage of the browsing public, including all users of iPhones and iPads. If all you want is some animated text, it's time to explore the more accessible alternatives.

Zimbra Virus Quarantine

How to push a message through that triggered a false-positive on Zimbra's Virus detection

Migration to Plone 4

How to upgrade to Plone 4

Plone Security Advisory Update

The Openia support team successfully protected our Plone clients from a potential security issue last week.

When ad words don't add up to much

Pretty slogans and brochure-speak are not your best friends when trying to direct search engine traffic to your website.

Security Advisory - Plone Vulnerability

 

Linux corrupt text console on Supermicro KVM Daughterboard

What to do if your text mode console doesn't show the correct graphics mode and the text is unreadable.

IOError: decoder jpeg not available

Moving a Zope instance made Plone sites lose image thumbnail generation. Seemingly odd PIL behaviour.

Google Wave is dead, long live Wave

Is the end of Google Wave the end of a new kind of communication, or just the end of the beginning?

Intermediate Certificates

The future of the Certificate Industry is one of increasing fragmentation, and we can no longer rely purely on the browsers to do all the hard work for us. What this means in practice is an extra step, and something called an Intermediate Certificate.

Google Android Now Leads Smartphone Market

Android takes Q2 smartphone market share lead in US with 886 percent year-over-year growth

Plone 4 is at beta 5

Progress in plone

Internet Explorer drops below 60% market share

 

Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx: A (free) Mactastic experience

 

Ubuntu Server primed for the bigtime

Next Thursday, Canonical will open the internet floodgates and allow end user downloads of Ubuntu 10.04 Server Edition, the latest and perhaps most significant release for servers in the British company's six year history.

Google to open source $124.6m video codec, says report

 

Google's open-source Flash-supporting tablet to take on Apple's iPad

 

Does Open Source Offer the Best Alternative For an iPad Killer?

While the world goes gaga over iPad, there is already a line forming of folks designing a better tablet. Will the iPad killer sport an open source base?

Friends of Ubuntu join hands for cloud watcher

 

IBM breaks the taboo and betrays its promise to the FOSS community