The economic crisis may be doing what pastors, family therapists and matrimonial counselors have long struggled to accomplish and yet mostly failed: keeping troubled marriages together.

The MySQL Query Analyzer tool monitors query performance and quickly pinpoints and corrects problems in SQL code. It promises to "turbo-boost" the speed and uptime of MySQL database applications. One software developers reported it tripled his performance.

Suppose you want to copy and paste texts from a web page. Though the data can easily be copied (unless that particular website has copy protection) as plain text and pasted to yours, its painful to take all the metadata alongside it. Suppose you want to copy a part where someone has a quote and an embedded link too. What you will have to do is, copy the text then use quote button for that quote part, use link button to link to the proper address and etc. While all these things can seem rather tedious, Mozilla add-on QuoteURLText can do it for you.

The Canon EOS 5D Mark II is one hell of a gadget While it begins U.S. shipments to dealers today (Tuesday, Nov. 25), let me tell you why I am so excited about this one.

Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million of overvalued Facebook stock, Kara Swisher says. Twitter rejected the offer for several reasons: And they can be, At Facebook's real valuation, $5 billion or so, the offer only amounted to $150 million (not bad for two-year old company with no revenue, but a far cry from the billion-dollar dream) Twitter has high hopes for its own secret revenue model which will be announced next year. Twitter's investors aren't stupid: They wanted cash. Facebook presumably doesn't have that much cash to spare.