At last count I had owned four Jaguars over the years, I love Jaguars. Unfortunately the budget never stretched this far ... Probably the most beautiful vehicle ever made ...










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Tags: Car Porn, Jaguar

Fabulous article and some gorgeous photographs:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html?ref=nf

Here’s one of the photos - beautiful and dramatic - I love it


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Generating secure passwords is a subject that many people struggle with. For generating passwords for services that you don’t need to re-enter often, for example Wireless Network WPA2 passwords, you should check out this page from world renowned security expert Steve Gibson.

Steve’s page generates these passwords for you as well as educating you in the process should you wish.

Interesting, and useful Stuff.

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Maybe I should get out more. I have been told that. However, that doesn’t change the fact that the design of the new ZT Club Guitar Amplifier is stunningly beautiful in it’s simplicity. If Apple designed Guitar Amps ...

This would make an incredible amp used in conjunction with my Boss GT-8 ... I almost *need* this amp ...



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I subscribe to a newsletter from Martin Lewis, a TV Celebrity and Money Saving Expert. It’s send out weekly and is always full of interesting and potentially money saving ideas. This week there is an awesome printable / foldable ‘Guide to Consumer Rights’ that everyone (in the UK!) could benefit from.

Have a look at it here: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/consumer-rights-wallet-print

I love the graphic as well



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Friends of mine over at Tailored Marine Bedding were out on the Med in the company yacht a couple of weeks ago and managed to get this awesome footage of dolphins swimming alongside the yacht. Fantastic !

To view the movies, select the Movie tab at the top of the page.



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I’ve announced new pricing for most of our products. More information here:

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The last decade saw many people in my profession predicting the end of the desktop application. The web was the way forward they cried. Forget C and BASIC and embrace JavaScript ! It didn’t happen in the last decade and it won’t happen in this one either, the same as it didn’t happen in the 90’s with the ‘Network Computer’.

Some of us have instinctively known this and carried on developing native desktop applications regardless.

For me what finally proved the point beyond all doubt was the success of the Apple App Store. Here we have a store full of thousands of native applications, written in a proprietary object oriented version of the C language using proprietary libraries, for the iPhone and the iPad. iOS has come from nowhere to become a major new platform.

The app store gives extremely easy access to the purchase and installation of applications. This is one of the reasons for it’s success. I believe that ease of access and minimum installation hassles were the reason that web applications were, and in some cases are, so popular.

I believe people do not actually want to use a web application with all it’s inherent limitations; security, performance, interface, compatibility etc., but they are prepared to accept that rather than go through the tedious install and setup routines associated with so many native desktop applications.

My take on this simple. People like their computer with it’s speed and graphics, they would rather not run applications in a browser if it can be avoided. Give them powerful, Cross Platform, native desktop applications. Put the application locally and the data in ‘the cloud’.

Data belongs in the cloud, applications do not. The browser is not an attractive or appropriate environment in which to run software.

When I started Arten Science I decided that none of my software would need an installer. None of my software would modify the registry or otherwise mess with the configuration or internals of the operating system. You would be able to ‘install’ my software using drag and drop and you would be able to ‘uninstall’ it just as easily, by dragging it to the Trash.

There are many companies working on their own version of the app store, for example Bodega, which is great, but ease of purchase is just one reason for the success of the Apple app store. Ease of installation is the other. How many companies are working on that ?

My opinions are possibly controversial. However only through controversy and argument and discussion are barriers broken, standards changed and the future forged.

I welcome all feedback whether you support my argument or whether you think I’m nuts

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Tags: Native, Cross Platform, ContaXCRM , Arten Science, Software Development

New ContaxCRM Release Here



1.9.9

• Further User Interface Tweaks. Attempting to balance Ease of User, Simplicity and High Functionality, without Clutter
• The Default Charts have changed
• Mac Only: iCal Calendar Entries are now visible in the Tasks List in ContaxCRM for the appropriate Contact.
• When adding a new Contact the Detail / Primary tabs are now selected and the cursor is put into the title field
• Expanded View window is now sensitive to the size of the calling window and displays appropriately
• Tab Name Change: Primary is now Main
• Tab Name Change: Address is now Addr
• Tab Name Change: Secondary is now More, also this tab is now positioned next to Main
• History record count now shown
• Assorted Tweaks and Fixes

Tags: ContaXCRM , CrM, Cross Platform

New ContaxCRM Release Here



Version 1.9.8 Includes Audio Output of Contact Information, Notes, Documents and History on Mac OSX.

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