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The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday agreed to allow Google Inc. to continue moving the city’s 30,000 employees to its online e-mail system, despite a number of performance and security problems facing the implementation.The $7.25-million project, which was supposed to be finished by the end of June, has been slowed as the city and Google have had trouble satisfying data security requirements to protect the e-mail accounts of the 13,000 Los Angeles Police Department personnel, among others. Other users have reported delays of many hours in the sending and receiving of e-mail.Because of the delays, the city will be forced to continue paying for its 10-year-old e-mail system at the same time as it pays for the new system. But city officials announced Wednesday that Google had agreed to cover the cost of the old system until the switchover was complete. The costs could rise to $415,000 if the project is not finished by next June.However, city technology officials and representatives from the LAPD and Google said they expected the implementation to be finished in November. Before that, Google will have to satisfy data security rules set out by the state Department of Justice as well as conduct a successful pilot program with LAPD personnel.An earlier pilot of the Google system by city employees ran long this year after users complained that the system was slow and lacked many of the features they needed. City officials have said the slowness is a result of the need to run the old and new e-mail systems concurrently.But it’s the security concerns that have caused the most problems. The state requires that law enforcement data be encrypted and physically protected and that Google employees with access to the LAPD data have had background checks. Some of those requirements have presented challenges for Google.Though some council members worried about the slow pace of the project, others expressed optimism that the project would be completed in the near term, with Council President Eric Garcetti praising the city and Google for sticking with what he said was a forward-thinking project.”I want all folks out there to see L.A. as a laboratory where we can make things work,” Garcetti said.– David Sarno

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Filemaker 9 has a lot of really cool web development tools, I love the easy integration to PHP! If anyone is looking for a good Filemaker Hosting provider check out Edition.net Filemaker Server Hosting.

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Mac OS X 10.2 or later

Edit the /private/etc/hosts file. For more information on how to use the hosts file, open Terminal and type: man hosts

Note: Editing this file requires root privileges.

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There are ways to deal with negative links, but they all relate to following an SEO strategy that focuses on relevant content

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Apple has posted great refernce material on HTML 5, CSS 3 and Web 2.0 technologies at the link below.

I am excited about the new typography elements.

Safari CSS Reference: Introduction to Safari CSS Reference.

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GoDaddy Price Increase Announced for .Com & .Net Domain Registrations

I just received an email from GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, and the email announced a price increase for .com and .net domain registrations. As of July 1, 2010, the price of .com domain names will increase 7%, while the price of .net domain names will increase by 10%. The email cited VeriSign’s price increase as the reason.

I am sure that other registrars will send similar emails to their customers, so keep this in mind if you want to renew and/or extend the length of your domain registrations prior to the price increase.

A 7% increase may not seem like a lot of money, but if you have a portfolio of 1,000 names at Godaddy and pay the full price of $10.69, a 7% increase means you will pay $11.44 per name, an increase of $750 for your entire portfolio.

Here’s the email that was just sent by Godaddy:

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On July 1, 2010, VeriSign®, the registry for .COM and .NET, will increase prices – .COM will go up 7%, and .NET by 10%.

The increase will be passed to registrars like Go Daddy and then, unfortunately, to consumers like you.

As of July 1, we will be forced to raise registration and renewal* prices for these two popular top-level domains.

If you wish to avoid this price increase, you can renew your domain names by June 30 and add another year to your current expiration dates. You have the option to register or renew for multiple years and lock in long-term savings. Of course, should you have any questions, please give us a call at 1-480-505-8821.

Thanks as always for being a Go Daddy customer.

Free press releases create great back links – many web sites carry (ir re-print) your press release to give them fresh content. Creating good press releases not only give you an immediate impact, but when they are carried on a number of sites, they help the search engines to list your sites in a higher search result.

Contact Information Name: Rustan Laine Company: Franciscos Auto Repair Telephone: 714-421-4325 Email: rustanatedition.net

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About Mac OS X v10.6.3 v1.1 Update (Combo)

The 10.6.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:

* improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X

* address compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications

* address an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail

* resolve an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications

* resolve an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers

* improve performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode

* improve sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand

* address a color issue in iMovie with HD content

* improve printing reliability

* resolve issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server

* improve the reliability of 3rd party USB input devices

* fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4014.

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iWeb 2.0 Help (iLife '08)

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Instead of publishing your site to .Mac, you can publish your site to a folder on a local destination (your hard disk, for example) and then upload it to the server or hosting provider of your choice.

To publish your site somewhere other than .Mac:

Step 1

Choose File > “Publish to a Folder.”

If you have Subscribe buttons on your site, you must specify your site’s URL in the message that appears.

Step 2

Choose a location to store your site, and then click Choose.

Step 3

Use a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client to upload the site folder and index file to the location of your choice.

iWeb does not provide an FTP client, but they are easy to obtain. Some hosting services provide a web-based FTP upload service, or you can download an FTP client from the web. For more information, contact your server administrator.

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