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Take Anywhere scanner

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:00:02 GMT

clipped by: Rocafella
clipper's remarks: About time this device came along .Good Bye to printed pictures....

Scan Anything, Anywhere, with this super-portable hand-held scanner

One of those spy-gizmos that never seemed to make sense to us was the chewing-gum size camera capable of snapping pictures of the enemy plans in any lighting condition and were somehow able to withstand the rigors from the crushing deep-sea depths and its angry mutant sea-bass to the vacuum of space with giant space-lasers. Bloody unlikely. Nothing short of a flatbed-scanner would be able to get accurate representations of these plans. Firmly entrenched in our techie-dismissals, we found it difficult to enjoy the rest of the movie.

Marc Benioff: From assembly programmer to software magnate

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:20:55 GMT

clipped by: rmowery

Clip Source: www.news.com

Marc Benioff: From assembly programmer to software magnate

In this Super Techies interview, I talk with Marc Benioff about his career in the software industry. Benioff is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce.com, which has led the business software-as-a-service revolution with its CRM-based platform. Salesforce.com is expecting to reach the $1 billion revenue threshold in its 2009 fiscal year, ending January 31, 2009.

In the interview, Benioff discusses his early work developing games for the TRS 80, Apple II, and Commodore 64, and his turn as a summer intern at Apple in 1984, coding in assembly language for the Macintosh.

Benioff also shares what he learned working alongside Oracle founder Larry Ellison during his 13 years at the company. In addition, he outlines the origins of Salesforce.com, which he started in 1999, and offers some insight into his aggressive marketing strategies and recipe for business success.

Tags: benioff, marc benioff, salesforce, entrepreneur, super techie

Plugin to Auto Update Wordpress

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:23:22 GMT

clipped by: cc_chapman
clipper's remarks: This is awesome. Especially the fact that it does do backups before it does the update.

Clip Source: laughingsquid.com

The WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, created by Keith Dsouza of Techie Buzz, is one of the best WordPress plugins ever written. It makes upgrading WordPress quick and super easy, letting you know exactly it is doing on each of the 5 steps.

It it does a backup of both your files and database, grabs the latest version of WordPress, disables and then re-enables your plugins and even puts your blog into maintenance mode during the upgrade.

Tags: update, plugin, wordpress