This week, the BBC News channel's technology programme, Click, features presenter Spencer Kelly trying out the pre-release "candidate" version of Microsoft's latest operating system: Windows 7. Spencer and Computeractive's Tom Royal look at the new operating system's interface, including the redesigned taskbar - now called the Superbar, new methods for controlling on-screen windows, and the multi-touch functions for touch-sensitive screens. The final retail version of Microsoft's Windows 7 op... Read Full Story
AffiliateFuture, one of the UK's top affiliate networks, has today launched VeraciTag: a patent-pending cookie-less tracking technology. With some web browsers and anti-spyware software now blocking cookies, this new technology provides a more secure, privacy-protecting alternative for tracking affiliate sales. VeraciTag works by storing anonymous information in the web browser and can not be blocked, as cookies can. For merchants, VeraciTag offers a more accurate and reliable method of track... Read Full Story
Microsoft's Windows Internet Explorer 7 is the first major revision of the IE browser since 2001. Now out of BETA, the finished version is released today and can be download for free online. Internet Explorer 7 will also be the default browser included with Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system, due early in 2007. IE7's rendering engine and security framework have been upgraded, and new features include: multi-page tabbed browsing, page zooming, a new search interface, an integrated ... Read Full Story
The first version of Dreamweaver was developed by Macromedia and available for Windows and Mac in 1998. Macromedia were acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005. Dreamweaver has since replaced Adobe GoLive as Adobe's main web site design application. Adobe Dreamweaver offers a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) design interface that requires no knowledge of coding to use, along with the ability to directly edit code: supporting HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, PHP, ASP, etc.The lates... Read Full Story
Microsoft's Office 2007 for Windows PCs was released almost a year ago... Today sees the launch of Office 2008 for Apple Macintosh computers. Developed by Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit, Office 2008 for Mac OS X is available in three editions. Office 2008 Home and Student Edition includes the core applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the e-mail client and personal organizer Entourage. Office 2008 Standard Edition also has Microsoft Server Exchange support, and the Office 2008 Speci... Read Full Story
Facebook now has over 50 million members worldwide. Today sees the launch of Facebook Advertising and a new free social marketing service: Facebook Pages for Business, where you can create a public Profile (example: Webmaster Central) and share your business and product news with Facebook users. You can upload an unlimited number of photos and videos, display detailed information about your business, add links, create and syndicate content, and interact with users via the Wall, Discussion Boa... Read Full Story
New social networking site Yuwie, is the first to "share the wealth" with its members. Founder, Korry Rogers: "The whole goal of Yuwie is for people to get paid for what they're doing already. Yuwie users get paid every time they log on, send a message, upload a picture or invite someone to join." But, he insists: "I want people to join because it's a good networking site not because I'm paying them. I just think it's a cool idea to pay the users who are providing all the content." Source: BB... Read Full Story
To introduce new readers to PC Pro Magazine, Dennis Publishing have launched a trial subscription offer of 3 issues for £1 with FREE delivery to your door. For 13+ years, PC Pro's team of expert journalists have delivered in-depth tutorials, product tests, exclusive previews, analysis, advice and reviews, keeping readers up-to-date with all the latest computer hardware and software news. Each issue of PC Pro Magazine includes a FREE DVD with software, applications, games and utilities... Read Full Story
Google today announced their own Search Engine Optimization Guide at the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog. Aimed at helping webmasters with their website's performance in Google, the Guide provides "a wealth of search engine optimization information" based on "best practices... that could improve... crawlability and indexing." The Guide covers many SEO topics, including: title and description META tags, URL structure, site navigation, content and image optimizati... Read Full Story
In the past, we have covered the launch of Google's Webmaster Central and Microsoft Live Search's Webmaster Tools. Today, we explore Yahoo! Search's Resources for Webmasters... Your site might already be in the Yahoo! Search index if it has been crawled by the Yahoo! Search spider following links to your web pages. If your site is not already indexed, you can Submit a Website / Feed to be included for free. To ensure your website gets listed in the index, read the Yahoo! Search Co... Read Full Story
