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Tickets to Tech Cocktail's 2nd Boston meet-up are now available. I missed the first one but fortunately was able to score a ticket for this one. Be sure to get your FREE ticket asap...they'll probably be selling out in the next day or two. For more info visit http://techcocktail.com When: Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST Where: Tequila Rain by Fenway (Boston) What: A "cocktail of TECH people" Price: FREE You must be 21+ to attend and must be on the RSVP list for the event to get in.

Monte Brown, co-founder of Fearless Development, recently recommended to me the Firefox Browser plug-in FireBug. The plug-in is fantastic because when you scan over the HTML code of a webpage, Firebug highlights on the page the area that the HTML code refers to.

Ever wonder who is linking to your website? Well, Yahoo makes it easy to find out where those links are coming from with Yahoo Site Explorer. Yahoo Site Explorer provides great info on your incoming links. Incoming links are very important for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as they increase the 'quality score' that Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) assign your website. Therefore, one way to increase your search engine ranking is to increase the amount of sites that link to your website.

*Nightmare*...That single word explains HTML email's relationship with Outlook 2007. Thanks to Microsoft Outlook 2007, HTML email template designs/code that have worked for years with Outlook 2003 are now *obsolete*. The repercussions of such a code change are nothing new. It has happened many times over the lifespan of computer programming. "obsolete" - adj - perfectly good HTML code but unrecognized for what it is by the typical Microsoft-Coding-Decree(Mcd) business strategy.

It's been a few months since UK authorities shut down the website TV-Links.co.uk for hosting pirated content via embedded video players from websites such as Chinese Todou. I, along with many others, was a big fan of TV-Links and I have never found a suitable replacement. I tried finding content myself on Todou a couple times but it proved problematic. The trouble with Todou, as you'll quickly notice, is that it's in Chinese and very difficult to navigate. That's where alluc.org steps in! (Thanks for the tip Tom) 'All U C' is a German website hosted just north of Hamburg. Though not as pretty as TV-Links, 'All U C' provides interesting functionality such as voting on which versions of a movie are the best quality. You can also comment on the specific versions, which users appear to be doing quite often. Essentially, 'All U C' trolls Chinese websites, such as Todou, and directs users off of the 'All U C' site and onto the Todou site to watch the videos. I am not 100% on the legal issues that brought down TV-Links, but I suspect that 'All U C' may be playing by the rules since it directs the users completely off of it's site. Also, 'All U C' provides the following disclaimer before you watch the video: Disclaimer The author is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages - If any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages. Allfg.org and Alluc.org doesn't host any content All Allfg.org/Alluc.org does is linking to content that was uploaded to popular Online Video hosting sites like dailymmotion.com/Youtube. All youtube/dailymotion users signed a contract with the sites when they set up their accounts wich forces them not to upload illegal content. By clicking on any Links to videos while surfing on Allfg.org you leave Allfg.org, Allfg.org cant take the responsibility for any content hosted on other sites. If in the past couple of months you've found other suitable alternatives to TV-Links, drop a line in the comments section below.