AWS Marketplace Launch Creates Jump in Amazon.com Stock Price

Posted on April 19, 2012 by W

Amazon EC2 Market launches and the stock prices increases at market open.

As all of these new services come in to place they require using Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud and related services, so I believe it is not a bad idea to invest in Amazon.

AWS Marketplace Launches and Stock Price Increases

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We’re glad you’re with Yahoo! Mail

Posted on April 19, 2012 by W

Welcome to your new email, where connecting and sharing is fast, safe, and easy.

Things you’ll love about Yahoo! Mail

  • Get easy access to all your contacts in one place.
  • Add your friends and family now.
  • Check messages on your phone from anywhere.
  • Keep every message, photo, and video that you want—forever.
Things you won’t love about Yahoo Mail
  • Advertisements appended to the bottom of your messages
  • API Connection leaves something to be desired
  • Web interface is not great (check out the “settings” panel – still hasn’t been updated in years)
We’re glad you’re with Yahoo! Mail

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252 Names For Either Boys Or Girls

Posted on April 19, 2012 by W

Unisex Baby Names The following names have been collected around the web as the most complete list of unisex baby names. If you have a name that’s not on the list of unisex baby names, please add it in the comments below (no login required). This list of baby names will work for boys and girls, that is these names are given to both boys and girls, although some are more command and some are less common. Also included are unisex names for babies in Turkey and Japan, but most are common to English speaking countries.

  1. Addison
  2. Adrian
  3. Ainsley
  4. Akira
  5. Alex
  6. Alexis
  7. Ali
  8. Amari
  9. Andy
  10. Angel
  11. Ari
  12. Ariel
  13. Armani
  14. Ash
  15. Ashley
  16. Aspen
  17. Aubrey
  18. Avery
  19. Aytaç
  20. Bailey
  21. Bay
  22. Bevan
  23. Bilge
  24. Blaine
  25. Blair
  26. Bobbie
  27. Bobby
  28. Brett
  29. Bronwyn
  30. Brook
  31. Brooke
  32. Burçin
  33. Caelan
  34. Cameron
  35. Campbell
  36. Camryn
  37. Carroll
  38. Carson
  39. Casey
  40. Cassidy
  41. Charlie
  42. Chiaki
  43. Chris
  44. Chris/Kris
  45. Cihan
  46. Clay
  47. Corey
  48. Dakota
  49. Dale
  50. Dallas
  51. Dana
  52. Darby
  53. Daryl
  54. Dawson
  55. Deniz
  56. Derya
  57. Devin
  58. Devon
  59. Devyn
  60. Dominique
  61. Dorian
  62. Drew
  63. Duygu
  64. Dylan
  65. Eddie
  66. Eden
  67. Eli
  68. Elliott
  69. Ellis
  70. Elvan
  71. Emerson
  72. Emery
  73. Emmerson
  74. Erin
  75. Eser
  76. Evren
  77. Evrim
  78. Finley
  79. Frances
  80. Francis/Frances
  81. Frankie
  82. Gabriel
  83. Gene/Jean
  84. Gillian
  85. Glenn
  86. Gray
  87. Greer
  88. Harley
  89. Harlow
  90. Harper
  91. Harumi
  92. Hayden
  93. Hikaru
  94. Hiromi
  95. Holland
  96. Hunter
  97. Indigo
  98. Izumi
  99. ?lkay
  100. Jackie
  101. Jaden
  102. Jadyn
  103. Jaiden
  104. Jaidyn
  105. Jamie
  106. Jamie/Jayme
  107. Jan
  108. Jayden
  109. Jaylen
  110. Jaylin
  111. Jean
  112. Jesse
  113. Jessie
  114. Jody
  115. Joe
  116. Jordan
  117. Jordyn
  118. Journey
  119. Jules
  120. Julian
  121. Jun
  122. Juri
  123. Justice
  124. Kaden
  125. Kai
  126. Kamari
  127. Kamryn
  128. Kamuran (of Persian Origin)
  129. Kaoru
  130. Kasey
  131. Katsumi
  132. Kayden
  133. Kazumi
  134. Keelan
  135. Keely
  136. Kei
  137. Keith/Keath
  138. Kelly
  139. Kelsey
  140. Kendall
  141. Kennedy
  142. Kennedy/Kennedi
  143. Kensley
  144. Kerry/Carrie
  145. Kevin
  146. Kieran
  147. Kiley
  148. Lake
  149. Lane
  150. Lee/Leigh
  151. Leslie/Lesley
  152. Logan
  153. London
  154. Loren
  155. Lyric
  156. Macey/Macy
  157. Madison
  158. Makoto
  159. Marley
  160. Marlow
  161. Masami
  162. Max
  163. Merritt
  164. Micah
  165. Michael
  166. Micky
  167. Mikoto
  168. Mitsuki
  169. Montana
  170. Morgan
  171. Nagisa
  172. Naomi
  173. Natsuki
  174. Nevada
  175. Nico
  176. Nur (of Arabic Origin)
  177. Owen
  178. Paris
  179. Parker
  180. Pat
  181. Payton
  182. Peyton
  183. Peyton/Payton
  184. Phoenix
  185. Piper
  186. Quinn
  187. Ray
  188. Rayne/Rain
  189. Reagan
  190. Reece
  191. Reed
  192. Reese
  193. Regan
  194. Rei
  195. Rene/Renee
  196. Riley
  197. River
  198. Roan
  199. Robin
  200. Rory
  201. Rowan
  202. Rudy
  203. Ryan
  204. Rylan
  205. Rylee
  206. Ryou
  207. Sage
  208. Sam
  209. Sasha
  210. Satsuki
  211. Scout
  212. Sean
  213. Shae
  214. Shannon
  215. Shawn
  216. Shinobu
  217. Shizuka
  218. Sidney
  219. Skylar
  220. Skyler
  221. Sloan/Slone
  222. Stevie
  223. Storm
  224. Sydney/Sidney
  225. Tanner
  226. Tate
  227. Tatum
  228. Taylor
  229. Teagan
  230. Toby
  231. Tomomi
  232. Tory
  233. Tracy
  234. Trinity
  235. Tristan
  236. Tsubasa
  237. Turhan
  238. Tutku
  239. Tyler
  240. Umut
  241. Val
  242. Vick
  243. West
  244. Whitney
  245. Winter
  246. Ya?mur
  247. Yuu
  248. Yuuki
  249. Yuuri
  250. Yücel
  251. Zion
  252. Özgür
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AWS Marketplace Launches

Posted on April 19, 2012 by W

Amazon AWS Marketplace Launches

The other day I was looking at the Bitnami stacks and was thinking how incredible it is that you can create an amazon AMI image and share, deploy, and instantly launch a web server.

This has interesting repercussions for software and copyright holders, imagine installing a licensed operating system like Redhat or Microsoft Windows and then giving hundreds of thousands of others the ability to instantly clone it. Oops.

Amazon Web Services is pleased to announce AWS Marketplace, an online store where customers can find, buy, and quickly deploy software that runs on AWS.

AWS Marketplace includes pay-as-you-go products, free software (AWS infrastructure fees still apply), and hosted software with varied pricing models.

  • CA
  • Canonical
  • Couchbase
  • Check Point
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • SUSE
  • Red Hat
  • SAP
Many widely used open source offerings, including
  • WordPress
  • Drupal
  • MediaWiki
This certainly will make software as a service companies and providers – I’m thinking cheap web hosting for wordpress, for example, have to take another look at their product / services model and pricing tiers.

You’ll be charged for what you use, by the hour or month, and software charges will appear on the same bill as your other AWS services. When you find the software you’d like to purchase, you can use AWS Marketplace’s 1-Click deployment to quickly launch pre-configured server images, or deploy with familiar tools like the AWS Console.

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What is Twipsy?

Posted on April 18, 2012 by W

Do you wonder what Twipsy is? Twipsy is mostly a plugin for jQuery having to do with creating tool tips, it is based on “Tipsy”, but the important thing about the Twipsy jQuery plugin for creating tooltips is that it is part of the Twitter Bootstrap kit – that is Twipsy is a plugin that works with the Boostrap framework.

The tooltips can be custom styled via CSS and their behavior can be controlled via JS parameters. This includes position, animation type, offset, title, trigger, content templates, etc..

It was “ported” from tipsy. A demo is included with the download package, which can be found at http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/javascript.html#tooltips

To quote them Twipsy is

A new take on the jQuery Tipsy plugin, Tooltips don’t rely on images—they use CSS3 for animations and data-attributes for local title storage.

What is Twipsy

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Facebook for Universities

Posted on April 16, 2012 by W

Facebook has recently announced something it’s going to launch, called “Groups for Schools” targeted at the school crowd: Colleges and Universities

Facebook for Universities

Today we’re announcing Groups for Schools, which allow people with an active school email address to join groups at their college or university.

Groups for Universities on Facebook

Groups for Schools will gradually be rolling out to colleges and universities around the world. You can sign up to find out when it will be available at your school. To learn more about how to use Groups at Schools, visit the Help Center.

Learn more at the facebook news room.

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Facebook Video Party

Posted on April 16, 2012 by W

Facebook Video Party

  • 12 Participants
  • Moderation Controls
  • HD Video
Facebook Video Party

Apparently you can mute the whole room for presentations, kick/ban trolls, and has two extra spots for presenters. I’ve heard the video and sound quality is absolutely unreal, plus you’ll be able to use a bluetooth headset with the iphone to participate via mobile. I’ll try to see if I can get a beta screen shot sometime tomorrow.

via https://plus.google.com/115957092291818573863/posts/cAVySAw8icX

Facebook Video Hangouts

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fix “max_allowed_packet” on MySql

Posted on April 11, 2012 by W

MySQL Error 1153 – Got a packet bigger than ‘maxallowedpacket’ bytes

To fix this I ran these two commands in mySQL before executing the queries that were giving me the error message about the max allowed packet bytes.

set global net_buffer_length=1000000; 
set global max_allowed_packet=1000000000;

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How to Watch USB Movies on Roku

Posted on April 3, 2012 by W

Roku USB MoviesThe Roku 2 XS allows you to watch your own movies right from a USB stick. Here’s how you can get it working:

  1. Make sure you have a movie in an appropriate format, mainly H.264 or WMV/ASF
  2. Make sure the USB stick is formatted properly, FAT16, FAT32, HFS+, or NTFS file systems are noted to work.
  3. Install the USB Device “Channel” through the channel store – it is free.
  4. Visit the USB Channel on your Roku XS device
  5. If there is more than one USB device showing up check them both. Voila!
Now you can watch movies directly from a USB jump drive / thumb drive on your Roku. Remember that the Micro SD card slot is only used as storage and you can’t watch movies from it.

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Roku 2 XS USB Video Formats

Posted on April 2, 2012 by W

roku-2-xs-usb-video-formatsThe Roku 2 XS supports video, audio, and photo playback in the following formats:

  • Video: MKV using H.264, MP4/M4V/MOV using H.264 (and MPEG4), WMV/ASF using WMV9 or VC-1.
  • Audio: AAC, MP3, or Dolby Digital/DTS Passthru
  • Photos: JPEG & PNG
These have to be loaded using the USB port, as the Micro SD slot is only for additional storage. Of the Roku 2 series boxes only the Roku 2 XS supports media playback of your own external media.

Also please note that for “security reasons” you can’t move a microSD card from one Roku 2 player to another without re-formatting it.

Video Formats Roku 2 XS USB

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