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Drupal Online Ticket Response System(OTRS) | drupal.org : This modules allows the integration of OTRS 2.0+ (Online Ticket Response System) with Drupal to provide a mechanism for organizations to track the detection, reporting, and resolutions of problems/issues.

Verizon Plans Wider Options for Cellphone Users - Via NYT > Business: In a major shift for the mobile phone industry, Verizon Wireless said yesterday that it planned to give customers far more choice in what phones they could use on its network and how they use them.

While there are technical limitations involved, the company’s move could lead to an American wireless market that is more like those in Europe and Asia, where a carrier’s customers can use any compatible phone to easily reach a wide array of online services — and take their phones with them when they switch companies. The move, which surprised industry watchers because Verizon Wireless is known to be highly protective of its traditional business, is part of a larger shift in the communications world.

This entry has nothing to do with Privacy, but relates to one of the non-profits I work with. For people who have an association with CIBC World Markets it's a way to benefit a non-profit that won't incur any out of pocket expense. So if you have any affiliation with CIBC World Markets and approve of the goals of Sunflower Children's Fund, please consider actively participating in their Miracle Day 2007 program and please designate Sunflower Children Funds as the beneficiary of your net commissions.

Mark Your Calendars for Wednesday, December 5th! Sunflower Children Funds to participate in CIBC World Markets Miracle Day 2007

One Laptop Per Child, Plus One: " The One Laptop Per Child program has opened its give-one get-one campaign. For a limited time, members of the general public can get in on what’s otherwise a kids-only affair: get a rugged hackable meshable laptop.

Editor: OK this has nothing to do with privacy, but I wanted to let those of you located in the New York City area know that a charity I work with is having a benefit on Thursday September 27,2007. It is being held at The Capitale (in Manhattan) Come join us and help some children.

Save the Date: Thursday, September 27,2007
Sunflower's Global Fund - Sunflower Children Heroes Benefit
Presenting Sponsor: Paul Touradji, Touradji Capital Managementc

iPhone Unlocking Secret Revealed: "The iPhone unlocking story took its next logical turn this week, with the release of a free iPhone unlocking program. Previously, unlocking required buying a commercial program or following a scary sequence of documented hardware and software tweaks.
How this happened is interesting in itself. (Caveat: This is based on the stories I’m hearing; I haven’t confirmed it all myself.) The biggest technical barrier to a software-only unlock procedure was figuring out the unlocking program, once installed on the iPhone, could modify the machine’s innermost configuration information — something that Apple’s iPhone operating system software was trying to prevent. A company called iPhoneSimFree figured out a way to do this, and used it to develop easy-to-use iPhone unlocking software, which they started selling.

John Todd - FreeNum: The Phone Numbers of the Future: In a deceptively straightforward presentation, TalkPlus CTO John Todd lays bare a vision for a global standards-based numbering system free from bureaucratic control and compatible with almost all existing iPBX or SIP proxy platforms and NAPTR addressable protocols.

Media, image resize in a way you have not seen before | Willy Dobbe: (note: if you read this via an RSS feed, see the video on youtube.)

Image resizing with an x and y axis that keep the same ratio is easy and can be done by any imagemagic-a-like tool that can be used in for example Drupal. Resizing can also be done with some CSS. See for example debatte.welt.de and make your browser smaller.

But what if you want to dynamically resize a picture without keeping the aspect ratio? The only option is to crop right? Wrong.

One Laptop Per Child Review: "[I recently got my hands on one of the One Laptop Per Child machines. I found the perfect person to review the machine. Today’s guest blogger, SG, is twelve years old and is the child of a close friend. I lent the laptop to SG and asked SG to write a review, which appears here just as SG wrote it, without any editing. -Ed]

Amazon.com: Amazon FPS, Amazon Flexible Payment Service: Amazon Web Services:Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers. The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon's reliable and scalable payment infrastructure.