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In the never ceasing application acquisition war, Yahoo reports on Yodel that they have made the slick move to acquire Zimbra. Think Web based Microsoft Outlook for Mac and Linux on steroids and you begin to get the idea behind this slick, Ajaxy application. Zimbra serves well for collaborative environments, is cross-platform compatible, and reportedly easy to administrate. Best of all for Linux and Mac users, there’s an open source edition.

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This past Friday I installed the latest version of WordPress 2.2.3. When configuring the site, I noticed that custom permalinks didnot work correctly, in fact none of the settings beside the default would properly reference the pages. On Wordpress the moderator suggested to re-load the WordPress files. See: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/134332. In the past I have chosen the Date and name based option. However, for shorter URLs it seemed prudent to go with the custom structure: /%postname%/. This will return a url http://www.urlname.com/pageorpostname.

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Admittedly I may not be cool enough for this one. Flux is a social bookmarking site that makes it very easy to join the community of site you visit with the Flux icon. This one smacks of media centered content, so if your blog is focused on that arena, Flux may be the social community for you.

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Welcome to TechFires.com. This site will rapidly change over the next few weeks as it gets tricked-out with new plug-ins, widgets and some little customizations. TechFires.com is now officially kicked-off. This site will be a rapid fire location for the latest and greatest tech-related reviews. TechFires.com will serve as a complimentary blog to Thoughtsparks.net with screen shots and very brief reviews. For all of you thoughtsparks.net regular readers, no worries, thoughtsparks.net will remain with Web Helps, Productivity tips, extensive Reviews and plenty of Just Fun topics. TechFires.com simply will provide a great place to post discoveries of technology quickly with short commentary and links-out to the appropriate sites. Think of it as your tech search assistant.