Marry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Mars could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered hunk of space rock has a 1 in 75 chance of slamming into the Red Planet on Jan. 30, scientists said Thursday.
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The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35B Lightning II, the first fighter to combine stealth with short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) capability and supersonic speed, made its debut today amid customers from the United States Marine Corps, the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, and the Italian Air Force and Navy.
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Checkout this free offer to all registered Tagkey users.

Bill Roe

For those Clarion Developers that will be working over the holidays or have been waiting for the right time to set up web sites for that new business, we are running an end of year sale on various products of interest including:

Web Hosting - $3.99
Virtual Dedicated Servers - $29.99
Dedicated Servers - $79.99
..COM Domain Registrations or Transfers - $6.95
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SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode.

When did software get annoying? There was a time when a new release of a popular program was so exciting and useful that we couldn’t wait to try it out. Now, some software seems like it’s deliberately designed to irritate you, with everything from persistent update and registration requests to sunset policies that cripple perfectly good applications. Marketers have taken over product design, and the products are the worse for it.
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Excited and whimsical speculation about future versions of Windows is a popular pastime, almost as much as complaining that newly-released versions are too different from the “old reliable” releases that everybody knows and (sometimes) loves. With Windows Vista recently celebrating its first birthday and preparing for the release of Service Pack 1, a team of developers at Microsoft is already busy working on its successor. While Microsoft has been pretty good about keeping the details of “Windows 7″ under wraps, a few enthusiastic employees have leaked out a few details. As is usually the case in these situations, people have taken these tiny tidbits and added their own—often highly improbable—speculation. In this brief report, we’ll review what we know, what we expect, and what we’re calling bunk on, all based on our knowledge of Windows 7 from inside sources at Microsoft.
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FlvPlayer4Free is a greatly improved solution that allows even the most demanding users to easily play their favourite FLV files in the hard disk or from internet.

Creating code libraries is considerably easier in Clarion# than in Clarion, in part because you no longer need to declare prototypes to use library code. And .NET’s namespaces make it easy to organize your code into a meaningful hierarchy.
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Pfrank is a Freeware Professional Grade bulk file/folder renaming program that runs under Windows. With this tool you can easily organize your music, picture, video, or any other types of files. PFrank comes equipped with many features, some of which you won’t find on any other renaming program. The beauty of this tool is it’s flexibility. You can easily build any renaming command sequence you like, preview all of the results, press the rename button, and you’re done!

Microsoft Corp. said today that it would post the release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3 to its download site tonight.
The move marks the first opportunity for all users of the six-year-old operating system to try out its final upgrade. Previously, several thousand users were given access to test builds of SP3 only by Microsoft’s invitation.
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It’s a fact that at least one time we have lost our code and keeping in mind that we live from programming we need to avoid this no matter how.
In the other hand team work could be very complicated sometimes, with the risk of losing the changes made in our code by another developer, by not having all the source files correctly updated and a lot of other problems.
To avoid all these inconvenients we have created TDC. With this tool we can keep all our valuable information and resources in a centralized repository and, at the same time, generates historical information of all our changes not only for us but also for our customers.
In addition we will be able to track all the issues related with our projects (bugs, improvements, new functionalities, queries, tasks, etc) making easy the software project management.
You can download a fully functional demo version of TDC valid until January 31th from our web page.

Victoria Caballero & Mauricio Nicastro
Copenhagen, Denmark

The latest release of Clarion 6.3 is now shipping.

You can view the list of changes here.

We released 9058 to Third-party vendors on 12/10 so any required updates to your add-ons should be ready. If you haven’t already received the email with download instructions please check your spam filter or contact sales.

Source: SV Blog

New S3200 specification delivers higher speed than competing technologies - and much sooner - with no changes to connectors or cables
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