The first page retrieved when accessing a Web site or the first screen displayed when a PDA or smartphone is started. It provides the main menu and starting point for the rest of the content on the site or device. See INDEX.HTML and home screen.
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- Droid Preview: iPhone's first real competition has arrived
- The MicroSD card is not only expandableIt is hot-swappable. So basically your storage is only limited to how many cards you can afford.Competition is GREAT!I am glad Android is taking off, the future is Linux driven devices/appliances.To the naysayers that Linux distro devices/appliances are a 'niche' I guess Google is...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Revisiting the Motorola Droid on Verizon [Q&A]
- Why the hate for drag and drop?Almost every review I have read faults the Droid because you can't auto-sync music:"(You can dump your music on a microSD card and pop it in, but it?s a copy-paste files affair, not a ?load my music? integrated experience.)"The Droid ships with a 16...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- News to know: Intel; Microsoft layoffs; Motorola, Palm; Oracle-Sun; MSN
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: New York AG files antitrust charges against Intel; alleges bribery, coercion Mary Jo Foley: Are the Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2009-11-05
- Max Spyware Threat Definition 16.0.1.996 (Windows)
- Max Secure Spyware Detector is a complete solution for individuals, professionals and home users. The software is specially designed to scan, detect, delete and recover spyware with an option of quick and full scan.This software is also powered by some advanced features that are similar to our corporate edition like,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- LBackup 0.9.8r2 (Mac)
- LBackup is a simple backup system aimed at systems administrators who require reliable backups with minimum fuss. LBackup is configured with configuration files and the backup is started from the command line. The core LBackup code has been tested for over 2 years. Features at a Glance: ...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Google Maps and the mystery of the non-existent town
- anagram softwareDid you get the words "not real" out of it? With an extra "G" left over?Brilliant!Good find! If that isn't the solution, then it sure is one heck of a coincidence.It wouldn't surprise me at all if that is it. Similar things -- adding a fictional item...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- MSN's new home page; Nice, but it won't lure new users
- Way to keep your spirits high there, Mr. Negativity!RE: MSN's new home page; Nice, but it won't lure new usersExcite has the most customizable home page off all. The new MSN doessn't offer anything and Yahoo is only slightly better. JerryB
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- MSN's new home page; Nice, but it won't lure new users
- MSN rolls out a preview of its new home page. It's cleaner and simpler than the old page and brings in elements of social and local - but it's not enough to lure new users by Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- The long and winding road to MSN's reinvention as a social hub
- It took a couple of years, but Microsoft is finally making good on some of the ideas officials had for making the company's MSN home page more viable. On November 4, Microsoft launched a preview of the fruit of its efforts: A radically redesigned MSN.com with Facebook and Twitter integration....
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- A4Desk Flash Event Calendar 1.17 (Windows)
- A4Desk Flash Event Calendar software creates Flash Web calendar on your Web site in minutes, easy to use, user friendly, no coding. Suitable for creating a calendar for home page, events page, or any Web site page that needs a calendar.
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- AVG LinkScanner 8.5.361 (Windows)
- The most dangerous page on the web may be the one you are about to click on. AVG LinkScanner provides an advanced layer of security against fast-moving, invisible web threats, and hacked web sites. It verifies the safety of web pages you visit, and of links returned from web searches...
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Nov/Dec 09
- These are consistently your most useful columnsI really look forward to these, especially since I'm thinking about building a new video editing machine. One that can handle full frame 1080 24p h.264 video. I can transcode it with cineform but unless you're doing a lot of color work, it's...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-03
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Blu-ray Players/Home Theater Systems
- With prices for both players and discs plunging, this may be the holiday season for Blu-ray. Already online movie streaming is making inroads—even on Blu-ray players themselves. Some of these picks are integrating on-demand video services into their feature sets, hoping to keep themselves relevant in...
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers
- This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...
- Blog posts 2009-11-01
- Blueball RW Focus 1.0 (Mac)
- Blueball Design is proud to announce the release of our new pro Rapidweaver theme - Blueball RW Focus. This stylish, minimal, and very versatile Rapidweaver theme puts the viewer's "Focus" on your site content, and gives you complete control over the color scheme of your site page layout with 51...
- Software downloads 2009-10-31
- Microsoft refreshes Bing for touch phone users
- but...nobody's 'touching' bing!No luck with bing for M$....even after they bribed people with cash back!Strategery"FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!??!!?? FULLY SUBSIDIZED WITH A PLAN! That is the most expensive phone in the world, and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard!"But, we'll create a customized version of...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-30
- Kodak 5250
- The ESP 5250 is Kodak's latest upgrade to last year's ESP 5 all-in-one AIO, which should be obvious from the almost identical design. Aside from looks, the printer does make improvements to print quality and most notably, output speed, but the printer still isn't perfect--it's missing an auto-document feeder and...
- Product reviews 2009-10-29
- Needles and haystacks: Balancing precision and recall
- Attivio's Sid Probstein says for traditional search, the conventional model is to return many results to get high recall; somewhere in there are the right answers. But what if you want a more precise answer? Commentary - These terms are bandied about in most every...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Motorola Droid (Verizon Wireless)
- Editors' note: Over the next few days we will continue to test the Droid and add the results to this review.You have to hand it to Verizon Wireless: though the Google Android operating system now extends to a handful of devices, the carrier was able to get the tech world...
- Product reviews 2009-10-29
- ValmaWord 2.0 (Windows)
- You have available on your PC tons of Word, PDF, RTF and Text documents and you need to have most of them on your personal or business Internet Web Site translated into HTML language. Instead on an unique, not easy to navigate, HTML file you need for sure to have...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
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