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Link: Microsoft WebMatrix

WebMatrix is for developers, students, or just about anyone who just wants a small and simple way to build Web sites. Start coding, testing, and deploying your own Web sites without having to worry about configuring your own Web server, managing databases, or learning a lot of concepts. WebMatrix makes Web site development easy.

Link: First Look at the Improved and Redesigned Firefox 4

The Windows version looks good. Will be interesting to see how the Mac version looks when they get the tabs on top.

Link: Is Apple Cheating In iPad Commercials?

Apple seem to be getting hammered with lots of negative PR lately. The tide appears to be changing…

Link: Andy Grove: How America Can Create Jobs – BusinessWeek

Interesting article and some valid points that apply to NZ too.

Link: Change Network Utility’s whois server list

If you use the Network Utility to do ‘whois’ lookups, but prefer to use a whois server that’s not listed in Apple’s choices, there’s no apparent way to add your servers to the displayed list within the pop-up list — so you end up typing in your preferred whois server each time you run the program. But with just a bit of preference editing, it’s actually quite easy to add your preferred choices. Here’s how to do it.

Link: Apple hiring iPhone antenna engineers

Coincidence?

Link: YouTube API Blog: Flash and the HTML5 tag

These guys obviously haven’t heard that Flash is dead…

Link: More on the iPhone 4 signal issue

Taking my Objective Scientist Dude hat off now, I’d say that iPhone 4 is a fantastic device but a lousy phone. Placing calls from my office, my home, and my neighbourhood whilst walking my dogs, I’ve had 14 dropped calls in a little over two hours of talk time.

Link: How to Create Your Own Real-World MBA

Interesting reading, as always, from Tim Ferris.

Link: Introducing IIS Express

We have been working on a new flavor of IIS 7.x that is optimized for developer scenarios that we are calling “IIS Express”. We think it combines the ease of use of the ASP.NET Web Server with the full power of IIS.