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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.

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.

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.

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.

reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books: A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them -- colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.

About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.

YSlow Release on YDN (Yahoo! Developer Network blog):Yahoo! has released YSlow, their web performance tool, on YDN under an open source license. Steve Souders, Yahoo!'s Chief Performance Yahoo!, made the announcement during his session at OSCon.

YSlow measures web page performance based on the best practices evangelized by Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance team. Since many of these best practices focus on the frontend, YSlow is integrated with Joe Hewitt's Firebug, the web development tool of choice for frontend developers.

openmoko.com: "OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source and they can tailor their implementations to underlying hardware platforms.

OpenMoko is targeted at mobile platforms. We focus on a small footprint and power management. The first hardware delivery platform is an intelligent phone:

Apple's Leopard will use ZFS, but not exclusively: "Blog: Apple confirmed statements by Sun's Jonathan Schwartz that Leopard will use ZFS, correcting an executive who Monday suggested otherwise."

RSS Web Feeds for Tags at Amazon.com: "Amazon.com just released a new tag-based RSS feed system. While not an Amazon Web Service as such (Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services are technically different organizations), it's a very compelling mashup opportunity--especially because the feeds pass an Amazon Associate ID as a parameter, which creates a unique revenue opportunity for developers.

Virtual Weather Map gives snapshot of Internet health: "June 9, 2007 Imagine trying to explain the Internet to someone who had been in a cave for the last 30 years - it has no shape, no single clearly defined purpose and no beginning or end. In short, it's hard to visualize. Add 'what's going on?' to the question and it becomes almost impossible to answer, hence Internet monitoring has become almost a science in its own right.