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How to Pick an Online ECommerce Shopping Cart: 6 Carts Reviewed

A more recent version of this article has been posted at SitePoint, which also has links to related articles that might be of interest. The SitePoint article also has a review of Google Checkout. Selling... 
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Free Web Version of Photoshop Launches: Adobe’s Hosted Solution For Photos

“While Photoshop is intended for use by graphic design and photography professionals, Adobe says Photoshop Express, which it launched in a “beta” test version, is easier to learn–the... 
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Website Monitoring and Support Software

The other day, I pointed out a website monitoring service that I found, WatchMouse. I’ve since found these competitors:HyperSpin Pingdom Montastic ScoutAppHow would you use these services? If... 
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WinSCP: Server File Manager, File Editor, Command Line Interface

I found WinSCP, a very useful bit of Windows software that combines three tools needed to control servers remotely: a file manager, a file editor, and a command line interface. In my downtime, and for... 
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WatchMouse Web Site Monitoring Service

Yesterday, while setting up a new server for Red Wrangler, I came across WatchMouse.com, a service that monitors your website on your computer (Mac and PC), as well as email and text alerts. Might be a... 
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Test Your Email and Website Designs

In researching an article written long ago, I came across a service that lets you see how your website and email designs appear in multiple platforms: Litmus. It’s a useful comparison to Browsercam.... 
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How to Add Watermarks to Your Website Photos and Images

“You can prevent right-clicking of images by adding a simple piece of code to your Web site, but it’s not a foolproof solution. A clever user might be able to extract a photo from a browser’s... 
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digiShop to Offer Hosted Cart called CoreCommerce

Got an email this morning that digiShop, one of the better sub-$1000 shopping carts, plans to offer a hosted version called CoreCommerce. The blog is here: http://www.corecommerce.com/blog Their email... 
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Low Cost Online Databases

Need an online database to collect marketing information? Maybe you’re a small business and don’t have IT staff. Or your IT folks are too busy to bother with your small project. You might want... 
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Ubuntu: Easy to Use Linux for Everyone, in Many Languages

“Ubuntu includes more than 16,000 pieces of software, but the core desktop installation fits on a single CD. Ubuntu covers every standard desktop application from word processing and spreadsheet... 
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Wikis + Spreadsheets + Software Pioneer Dan Bricklin = WikiCalc

“If ever someone was going to merge two technologies as disparate as wikis and spreadsheets, VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin might well be the person for the job. In 1979, Bricklin released VisiCalc,... 
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Fixing Your Website Designs For Internet Explorer 7

“It’s the day we’ve all been waiting for! After five years without changes to the rendering engine that defines (and limits) what the Web can do, Microsoft has released IE7 Beta 2 Preview... 
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PHPEdit 2.0 Is Released

“PHPEdit is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for PHP professionals. Includes advanced php related tools, powerful debugger and profiler, code beautifier, help integration, real... 
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Euro Software Patents Pending

“Harmonizing patent law across the European Union is seen as an important step toward lowering the barriers to internal trade. In addition, the so-called trilateral offices—the patent offices... 
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25 Marketing Tools Tracker

Martha Retallick has published for sale an excellent Excel spreadsheet for tracking marketing expenses a number of different ways. Besides providing a great list of possible ways to market, the spreadsheet... 
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How to Kill Linux

“While chatting over dinner with the executives of a middleware company during the recent RSA conference for encryption and security in San Francisco, I heard about a secret project. It concerned... 
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Microsoft May Offer Peek at SQL Server Code

“Will the software industry’s wave of open-source databases spill onto Microsoft’s turf? Perhaps. The software giant is considering making the source code for its SQL Server database... 
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Canonical List of Wiki Software, Resources Page Updated

I found a massive list of wiki software organized by programming language including Awk, EMACS, Ruby, and Suneido, as well as fairly rare examples coded in Active Server Pages and Smalltalk. You could... 
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Wiki Comparison Chart

This page provides links to most wiki software, including sites that compare wikis. DocuWiki, a wiki software tool optimized for creating and publishing documents, has an excellent table that compares... 
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Clusty: Search Web by Topic Clusters

“Clusty is the search site owned and operated by Vivísimo that aims to change the way people search online. It uses our award-winning Clustering Engine to organize search results into folders... 
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