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What is PayPal?
PayPal is an American-based system that allows any business or consumer with an email address to securely, conveniently, and cost-effectively send and receive payments online. Their network builds on the existing financial infrastructure of bank accounts and credit cards to create a global, real-time payment solution. They deliver a product ideally suited for small businesses, online traders, individuals and others currently underserved by traditional payment mechanisms.

All the world’s aTwitter
If you don’t know what Twitter is then you are amongst the majority of people in the UK. Although the UK media would have you believe the microblogging service is as big as Facebook, the reality is that only 7 million people are using it worldwide but it in February 2009 demonstrated year-on-year growth of 1,382%. In the UK almost 2 million people use Twitter according to Neilsen Online.

One of the reasons for its growth and UK offline media coverage is that a number of celebrities are “tweeting” about their personal and business lives. Famous UK Twitterers include:

• Stephen Fry (@stephenfry)
• Jonathan Ross (@wossy)
• John Cleese (@JohnCleese
• Lilly Allen (@lileyroseallen)
• Russell Brand (@rustyrockets)

But Twitter has long (in Web years) been popular with the bloggerati, the UK technology media and early adopters. Amongst its most popular users are the great and good of UK technology media from Jemima Kiss at the Guardian who has clocked up 8163 tweets and over 10,000 followers to Peter Whitehead, the Financial Times’ Digital section editor with 892 followers.

What is Twitter?
Twitter’s founders describe it as “a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?”

The dashboard in a vehicle contains instruments and controls pertaining to operation of the vehicle. It is critical because it displays the important information in the real time and gives user the quick access to common tasks. JIDE Dashboard is as important except it is not for a vehicle but for a software application.
Imagining your application deals with real time data, there are tons of information you want to show to your users (such as a stock trading or a network device monitor application). There certainly isn’t enough space to show all of the information. It’s also hard to guess what users really want to see. So how about let user choose what to display? That’s where you need JIDE Dashboard.
JIDE Dashboard provides a place holder to show all kinds of widgets so that user can perform common task and quickly access to important information. Instead of letting the developer design the layout and place the widgets, JIDE Dashboard allows your users to fully customize it. All you need to is to provide the widgets. Your end users will drag the widget from the widget palette and place them at the places they want.
It is worth noting that the dashboard concept is used widely in the computer industry. Mac OSX has Dashboard1. If you google “dashboard”, the first entry is actually Mac OSX Dashboard. I am glad that they didn’t trademark it. Microsoft VistaTM has Sidebar2 and Yahoo! has Yahoo! Widgets3. All three are all for the same purpose. Of course these three are for the operation systems v.s. JIDE Dashboard is specifically designed for your application. On the other hand, Google’s iGoogleTM 4 and Yahoo’s My Yahoo!5 are web implementation of the same concept.
This developer guide is designed for developers who want to learn how to use JIDE Dashboard in their applications.

Introduction
This guide explains how to write mobile applications for the Yahoo! BlueprintTM Platform. Specifically, it documents the Blueprint markup language and provides instructions for developing, testing, and publishing mobile Internet services.

Understanding the Yahoo! Blueprint Platform
Using Blueprint, third-party developers can provide custom content and services in a variety of ways. Applications can be Yahoo! Go Mobile Widgets, browser-based Mobile Sites, or stand-alone Mobile Apps:
Mobile Widgets run under Yahoo! Go. Users can subscribe to published Widgets by selecting them from the Widget Gallery and add Widgets to the Yahoo! Go carousel for faster access.
Mobile Sites are accessible from any standard Web browser. Once published, they can be found using the search facility on Yahoo!’s mobile homepage.
Mobile Apps rely on a stand-alone version of the Blueprint runtime installed on the user’s phone. They are accessed independently of both Web browsers and Yahoo! Go.
The deployment sections in this guide focus on Widgets. For information about publishing Mobile Sites and Mobile Apps, see the supplementary documents available from Yahoo!’s Mobile Developer site.

Welcome to the Kubuntu desktop customization guide where you will learn how to bring your KDE desktop to life! In other words, how to get from:this to this The desktop resolution used in this guide is 1280×1024 (it’s default these days). Good, now let’s get to work and bring your desktop to life. Step 1 – Transparency, Themes and Eye Candy EffectsWe need to get a nicer theme for the system because “Plastik” is getting old and the point of this guide is to show the world that Linux is anything but old, representing, in fact, the future. The ThemeOpen Synaptic package manager and search for lipstik. It will find a package called “kde-style-lipstik”, install it and close Synaptic.Now go to KDE Menu -> System Settings -> Look & Feel -> Appearance -> Style and select “Lipstik” theme, then hit the Apply button. Wait a few seconds for the theme to be applied and you’ll see the buttons and the windows changing into a nice looking theme. You can customize the theme further, if you hit the “Configure” button situated after the drop-down list.The transparency and some eye candy effectsWe need to make the kicker transparent now. Right click on the kicker and go to “Configure Panel,” then click on the “Appearance” option in the left and check the ‘Enable icon mouseover effects’ option and at ‘Panel Background’ section, select ‘Enable transparency’ option, then hit the “Advanced Options” button and, in the window that appears, check the ‘Hide’ option on the ‘Applet Handles’ section and move the slider of the ‘Tint amount’ from the ‘Transparency’ section a little more to Min. Also, check the ‘Also apply to panel with menu bar’ option. Hit OK and then Apply.The Desktop Widgets Every modern desktop has now widgets on it, so we have to add some eye candy widgets on our desktop too. Go to the KDE Menu -> Utilities -> Desktop and click on SuperKaramba Desktop Widgets. A window will appear, click on “New Stuff…” button and choose from the list of widgets that appears the ones you like most and install them. Liquid Weather is the most common and popular desktop widget these days, it shows the weather around the world, but you can have any widget you want on your desktop, from calendars, calculators, system monitors to countdowns and Amarok controllers.You can get the latest version of Liquid Weather from Softpedia.