Monthly Archives: November 2010

New York – What Meaning Do YOU Read into It?

The Big Apple, Empire City, the Capital of the World, the City that Never Sleeps, and the City So Nice, They Named It Twice – there are so many names for one magnificent city of New York. As Meyer Berger said, “Each man reads his own meaning into New York”. Indeed, this city cannot be defined or described with some single statement. It is a multi-faceted environment with its own unique atmosphere, local charm, and specific traditions. New York has always been something more than just a city. For many people, NY is a friend and a partner – almost a living organism with its appearance, character and emotions…

Below we offer a collection of stunning photographs of New York to present this city to you from as many angles as possible. Buildings are, definitely, among the most prominent representations of New York, forming its unique architectural style. You will find many professional New York buildings photographs in the gallery. Furthermore, the city is also known for its traffic and this will also be illustrated below. Finally, New York is definitely about its inhabitants. People of New York have almost formed a particular nationality with the proud name “New Yorkers”, distinctive local color, and inimitable ethnic flavor. Truly, New York is a magnificent city in many aspects. Thomas Wolfe was definitely right saying that one belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years… via cruzine.com

The IPcalypse is only 100 days away

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We’ve all known it’s been coming for a long time now, there’s even a new, alternative IP addressing scheme that’s been developed and implemented — IPv6 — but adoption has been slow, and now, things are about to heat up, as the time remaining before the estimated 166,741,530 remaining addresses run out. It was getting low, but this makes it seem much, much more real.

A Twitter account, labelled the “ARPAgeddon” has surfaced, which is broadcasting the countdown of IPv4′s address pool drying up, estimates that as of today, only 102 days remain before all hell may break loose. The world knew it was coming, with IPv4 only being capable of 4,294,967,296 total addresses. IPv6 was developed to supercede the protocol — which was originally released in 1981 — and was finalised in 1998, over 12 years ago, but the “new” protocol still hasn’t seen the adoption it needs.

The information on the “ARPAgeddon” Twitter account is sourced from Hurricane Electric Internet Services, who offer a live counter of how quickly the pool is diminishing. When the internet runs out of addresses, everything won’t grind to a halt, but we could see ISPs reconfiguring their networks to put some clients behind shared public IPs, in order to give dedicated addresses to commercial customers.

Just because the IPv4 addressing scheme is running out, doesn’t mean all hope is lost either. There are many ways to mitigate the impending doom, the most obvious being rapid adoption of IPv6, which could be pushed quickly by businesses at risk of not being able to obtain IPv4 addresses. Other possible solutions include heavier IPv4 address sharing, Network Address Translation, private addressing and more, but time is running out quickly.

Only 102 days left until the IPcalypse…

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Clever and Funny Business Cards That Will Crack You Up

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Handing out a business card to a prospective customer is the subtlest promotional approach. Unlike other marketing methods, people accept business cards without any inhibitions. Therefore, it is only essential to have a card that will create valuable first impressions. People have come up with all sorts of expensive and bizarre die cut designs just to get attention. However, a card does not have to go beyond the rectangular design just to be memorable.

Originality and a sense of humor usually gets a person noticed and remembered. So, whether you are designing for a client or printing one for yourself, don’t forget to give those business cards some personality! If you have no idea how to get started, then check out our collection of 21 clever and funny business cards. These cards are sure to crack you up and will leave a mark on people you give them to!

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Mac OS X 10.6.5 released

Apple has just pushed an update for Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The updated version, v10.6.5, brings a number of bug fixes, stability improvements, compatibility and security updates for Mac.

The free update available to all Mac OS X Snow Leopard users brings a big list of fixes including HP printer support and AirPort Extreme, OpenType font updates, better Bluetooth support with some devices, Safari 5 improvements, SSL support for iDisk and many more.

General fixes and improvements

  • Improves reliability with Microsoft Exchange servers.
  • Addresses performance of some image-processing operations in iPhoto and Aperture.
  • Addresses stability and performance of graphics applications and games.
  • Resolves a delay between print jobs.
  • Addresses a printing issue for some HP printers connected to an AirPort Extreme.
  • Resolves an issue when dragging contacts from Address Book to iCal.
  • Addresses an issue in which dragging an item from a stack causes the Dock to not automatically hide.
  • Resolves an issue in which Wikipedia information may not display correctly in Dictionary.
  • Improves performance of MainStage on certain Macs.
  • Resolves spacing issues with OpenType fonts.
  • Improves reliability with some Bluetooth braille displays.
  • Resolves a VoiceOver issue when browsing some websites with Safari 5.

For the full list of improvements and updates, visit the Apple Support page for Mac OS X v10.6.5.

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