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The HTMLEditor is a .NET control for displaying and editing HTML text.
The Simple Wrapper for SQLite is for Delphi 7 and higher, enabling use of this fast open source database engine without using data binding or any other database framework.
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Recent posts
Palm Ares: an online IDE for WebOS development
I spent a few minutes trying out Ares, Palm’s web-based IDE for WebOS, the OS used in the Palm Pre smartphone.
Ares is in public beta and I’m not going to pretend I found it smooth going. No doubt it will be fine after a little patient learning. It is amazing, with drag-and-drop visual interface builder,
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Pros and cons of Adobe’s LiveCycle services in the cloud
Adobe has fully released LiveCycle Managed Services, offering a hosted platform for LiveCycle applications. The software is configured and managed by Adobe, but runs on Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) virtual servers.
LiveCycle is a suite of applications which I think of as two things combined. On the one hand, it forms a server platform for
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Will your laptop run Windows 7?
I’ve recently upgraded two HP laptops to 32-bit Windows 7. In both cases I did a wipe and clean install. The laptops were of similar vintage, around two years old, a Compaq 6710b and a Compaq 6720s. However, if you search for drivers on HP’s site, you will find a full set of Windows 7
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Google storage 10 times cheaper than Azure – but not as cheap as Skydrive
According to Jerry Huang of Gladinet, whose Cloud Desktop exposes a variety of cloud storage services as mapped drives in Windows Explorer, Google storage is “about 10 times cheaper” than Windows Azure. Since Amazon S3 has similar prices to Azure, I imagine Google undercuts that by some margin as well.
Gladinet compares Google and Azure using
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