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Google extends personalised search to all
Google now intends to deliver customised search results even to those searching its site without having signed into a Google account. Read more »
NZ location for Linux.conf.au 2010
This year, Linux fans "marched south" for Linux.conf.au (LCA) in Hobart. Last week, conference organisers told delegates that they would be heading overseas to Wellington, New Zealand for LCA 2010. Read more »
Google adds OAuth to gadget mashups
Google has adopted the OAuth web-authentication standard, an open standard for controlling privacy, for its gadget platform. Read more »
Google's changes rely on guinea pig users
Google is using users as crash test dummies to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search website — both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces. Read more »
Google presents new sandbox for Web gadgets
Google has invited programmers into a new sandbox that will let them test out significantly expanded possibilities for Web gadgets, small applications that can be hosted on the company's iGoogle personalised home page. Read more »
Mozilla releases fifth beta of Firefox 3
Mozilla released its fifth beta version of Firefox 3 for Windows and the Mac on Wednesday, bringing a handful of improvements in ease of use to the open-source Web browser. Read more »
Machines to terminate human intellect
Machine intelligence will catch up with that of humans and begin to overtake it in the next two decades, a visionary scientist has predicted. Read more »
Yahoo road tests new personalised search
Yahoo has quietly introduced a new search portal called Alpha that allows users to query multiple search engines on a single page. Read more »
Discovery Channel switches to Silverlight in a flash
International Web development firm @www has built a new user interface for TV broadcaster the Discovery Channel using Microsoft's Silverlight -- the software giant's challenger to Adobe's Flash. Read more »
Welcome to iGoogle
Further clarifying its customisation strategy, the search giant enhances personalised home page product, renaming it iGoogle. Read more »
Features (23)
10 things you shouldn't do when working with an upset customer
Nobody likes dealing with an angry user, but it comes with the tech territory. Here are a few ways to keep things from going from bad to worse. Read more »
Seven aspects of a great user experience
The spotlight at this year's Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne was on user experience. Andy Budd, a designer and developer at Clearleft in the UK, contributed to the theme of the day with his presentation -- "Designing the User Experience Curve". Read more »
Getting to know ColdFusion 8
In the final interview of our MAX07 series, we talk with Tim Buntel, senior product marketing manager ColdFusion, and discuss the release of ColdFusion 8 Read more »
Client-side programming with Atlas
In this column, we survey the Atlas architecture to get a better understanding of how you may use it in your development work. Read more »
Performing text calculations in FileMaker
FileMaker, long considered a toy by -serious" developers, is ideal for rapid development and includes many tools to help build useful apps fast. Read more »
Developer spotlight: Dr Jeff Pobst
Builder AU recently caught up with Dr Jeff Pobst to talk about the future of software development on Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console. Is it just about games? Read more »
Mac OS X on x86 tested
Steve Jobs might not approve, but Apple's latest operating system can be installed on any x86 hardware. How well does it function? Read our preliminary labs test to find out. Read more »
Dive into .NET with Web Matrix, part 1
Need to create an ASP.NET application without forking out for Visual Studio? In this series we'll show you how to get started with the free ASP.NET Web Matrix tool. Read more »
Use the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations
RenderX's rendering engine, XEP, provides the "missing link" between XML technology and traditional publishing formats and platforms. Read more »
Architecting a CMS in ASP.NET
ASP.NET offers a wide range of integrated functionality to support in-house content management system solutions. We discuss the basics of tiered CMS architectural models. Read more »
Blog (6)
XP stays on life support for longer
-- This week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »
The Portal of the Future
-- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »
Be a hero, get a Meego: IT Fund for kids competition.
-- Support the IT Fund for kids and you could win from an entertainment pack worth over $1,000! Read more »
Microsoft's Web strategy at Tech.Ed
-- This week I'll be stepping back into the official Builder AU team to cover the annual Microsoft Tech.Ed developer conference that is being held just down the road from the CNET Australia offices in Sydney.
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Here's to the next step!
-- By now you can probably see the new look Builder AU Web site. Not bad, don't you think? Read more »
Email freed to find its new vocation
-- Springdoo.com is a free service that lets you talk your emails. Anyone can now easily send talking emails in their own voice, without typing. Read more »
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