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Hands-On With StarCraft 2: New Technology, Classic Play (21)
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While attendees at the Penny Arcade Expo didn't see much new from StarCraft 2, the demos given to the press and public sent a strong message: you will be getting more of what you love.Read More...Shared by Alexander13 (357) Babychen Mathew (264) bittin (153) Brandon (39) BrendoMan (103) Dave Keffler (53) downbeat (29) hikbi (59) HollowMarkeD (65) Inthenameofmine (361) jayce (51) Joseph Montegna (1) Martin (9) MH (25) Patrick (77) Samuel (41) Steven (84) th13rteen (110) xeal (6) Yamil Gonzales (13) Zac (8)Contribute comment -
A closer look at Picasa 3 (beta!) (8)
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Posted by Todd Bogdan, Software EngineerWe’ve been working on a new version of Picasa for a couple of years, and we think you're going to like the changes and improvements. Mike's post yesterday gave some background on Picasa 3's general focus on easier sharing and smarter integration with Picasa Web Albums. Today, I'll focus the spotlight on our powerful new creative tools, as well as some of the other refinements to be found in Picasa ...Shared by Bruce (2) Chung (111) Fiona (3) Haggis (8) Mark Whiting (12) Steve (16) wille (81) xeal (6)Contribute comment -
Price Cut Makes Xbox 360 Cheaper than Nintendo Wii (5)
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Google OS Is Actually a Browser: Google Chrome (73)
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Google Blogoscoped posts an interesting comic book created by Scott McCloud that illustrates the features of Google Chrome, an open source browser based on WebKit. As usually, all the rumors related to Google are true and "Google Browser" is no exception.Google Chrome has been built in a time when browsers no longer render mostly web pages, but full-blown web applications. That's why browsers need to be more powerful, more stable and more secure. One of ...Shared by [Curtis W] (24) Alan Dean (32) Andrew Girdwood (33) andymac1 (17) AnyCat (2) Army of Gnomes (14) atul (70) baron (3) Camille Roux (9) Chris (8) Compulsivo (45) Compuwizard123 (16) cooperative (41) corey (6) Dan Kearns (14) danliebke (47) Denis Gobo (22) Dzu (19) Eric Herberholz (31) faizal (4) Faraz (1) Fernando Johann (7) Fuzzyman (10) gabopagan (37) Gothy (17) Hervé (16) Huacn Lee (16) Hugo (3) idham (6) ignace / micronauta (11) inamorix (48) IwfWcf (10) Jason R. Hunter (21) Jigar Mehta (27) jmvidal (13) John (12) Joshua (8) junal (2) Karpuscul (3) kmohr25 (16) kofai (16) Marshall Sponder (21) MaXeR (6) MH (25) Michael (13) Michael Fidler (6) Mike F (371) Muhammad Basheer (8) munir (6) Neko (14) Nick (11) Nicola (16) Niki1601 (10) nlnnet (3) Peter H (24) Pozsi (14) Preoccupations (38) puthali (12) R. Francis (6) Raanan Avidor (5) ramyon (18) robertogreco (30) rOckY (122) Sam (5) Sam Harrelson (15) Sgrunchy (13) symtym (15) TIGGR (43) tony (16) tosch (8) vcamaral@gmail.com (17) xeal (6) zemlanin (16)Contribute comment -
Fallout 3 - PAX '08 Video Demonstration (1)
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Straight from this year's Penny Arcade Expo comes a five part video demonstration of the much anticipated Fallout 3. The demonstration is being shown off using the Xbox 360 hardware. Fallout 3's official release date is October 28th for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3, with standard and collector's editions available for all three platforms. Enjoy!Shared by xeal (6)Contribute comment - Steve Jobs' Obituary Accidently Published (1)
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Little things that matter (68)
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Posted by Prakash Chandran, User Experience DesignerSeemingly small improvements can make a surprisingly big difference to people who use our products every day. Take Google Calendar, where over the past few months we've made a bunch of little improvements in direct response to feedback from our most active users.Emailing guestsWe've long offered the ability to email meeting attendees, which can be extremely useful for sharing last-minute details or distributing meeting minutes afterward. But it was ...Shared by [Curtis W] (24) 4braham (0) Aadom The Wygle (5) Ahmed (53) Alfonso Martinez (0) Andrew (35) Andrew Ruess (97) AnthonyB415 (1) Antoine (27) Anton Johansson (52) Arvid (0) Ashe (3) atul (70) badpazzword (0) Brett L. (0) CannonGod (190) Clayton B (3) Compuwizard123 (16) Dan Russell (12) dani (10) dffrnt (23) Duk (1) Dustin DeKoekkoek (6) Dzey (7) Evert Jan (2) faizal (4) G (3) Gabriel Rodriguez (1) Garrett (2) gfurry (12) Greg (7) Håkan (13) Henry Webb (0) HH (4) imma (4) jb (8) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (30) Juliano (10) Kaveh Dorafshan (4) Kristen Teffeteller (7) LouCypher (33) Lu Tao (2) Mark Whiting (12) Matthom (1) MH (25) Michael Leggett (0) Navid (51) Ozgur Alaz, Marketallica (15) petehobbit (0) PlanningQueen (6) PMinze (26) Qian (28) R (35) reisfeldt (5) Sean (9) Shoshannah F (17) soupenvy (17) Thomas (14) Todor Christov (11) TOM BOITO (7) Tony Ruscoe (13) Toomore (3) Uri (8) wAsh (1) WebLeOn (19) xeal (6) xemuj (0) Zhe (19)Explore read six notes- Brett L. said: Congrats, Prakash. These are great changes. Polish matters!
- gfurry said: If you aren't using Google Calendar to manage your kids sports and school activites you should take a look at it. It keeps my wife and I sane.
- Michael Leggett said: Congrats Prakash!
- Matthom said: Google Calendar improvements worth a look.
- faizal said: Still don't have this features at my Gmail and also Google Apps email.
- Aadom The Wygle said: getting closer
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Improve Your Technical Slides (34)
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I’ve had to rely at times on silence and on talking quick / Defending myself with nothing but my walking stick. —Buck65 Here are nine easy tips that will help you communicate better at your next conference. Figure A Can you read me now? Dan Grigsby’s presentation at RubyFringe was an intentional example of this. All the titles were at the top, with humorous stock photos below. Keep it in the top third, if possible. ...Shared by Adrian L (9) Anil Wadghule (0) Bjarte S. Karlsen (8) Carlos Villela (14) Charleno Pires (54) Dan (2) dwfrank (9) Dylan Bennett (6) Eivind Uggedal (3) Gebond (20) Geoff (4) Gustav von Sydow (0) Jana (13) John H (6) Jose Peleteiro (12) Kevin Old (21) Koen Van der Auwera (6) Masakuni Kato (8) Mike Subelsky (3) Neil (5) Nick Smith (10) Pickles (7) Riccardo Cambiassi (9) Robert Dempsey (10) robertpostill (2) Roosh (0) Ryan (0) Tabrez Iqbal (23) Ted (6) tig (27) Tom (0) Xarc (3) xeal (6) zapnap (19)- robertpostill said: I thought there was some good solid advice on this post. Particularly I'm coming to the conclusion I hate the Mac remote.
- Ted said: I don't agree with all these points, but at least somebody is thinking and sharing.
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Google Cuts Popular Google Talk, Bluetooth From Android OS (1)
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/at-loss-for-words.html (65)
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Have you ever been stumped in finding the right words to search for? Back when I was planning my wedding, I had a list of wedding songs in mind, but the problem was that I couldn't remember any of the artist names or song titles. So I started typing into the Google search box parts of the lyrics that I did remember -- and like magic, I saw suggestions with the artist name and song ...Shared by Andrew Girdwood (33) Andrew Terry (25) Andy Beal (20) Angus (42) atul (70) Brandon (2) Brian Landau (0) Chandoo (9) charlie anzman (90) Chris Schrier (12) Compuwizard123 (16) Dana Lookadoo (14) DarkBls (61) Dave E. (3) David Bradley (16) Dennis Laumen (11) Devlin D (2) Donnie Berkholz (5) DrBaher (0) Eddie (12) ewbrown (4) gizmo (10) Herman (5) Htoo Tay Zar (1) Iñaki Arrieta Baro (3) itsoinky (27) Jamieasp (20) Javed (62) Jeff McIntire-Strasburg (77) Jeremy (3) Jonathan Sterling (8) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (30) jtuchscherer (2) Linden (0) LouCypher (33) Matthew Bischoff (29) Maxine (17) Meromo (7) Michael (14) Mike F (371) NanoTech (3) OrcsBR (18) Peter N (4) pneal (11) Powera (5) prattmic (9) Ra Osolage (0) rchk (22) rexy (23) Robert Birming (33) Robert van Bregt (0) Rodrigo Leme (2) Roel (16) Satej Sirur (5) Scott Clark (4) Sebastian (4) Seth (3) spsneo (8) Tad Chef (108) Umesh (9) Voyagerfan5761 (15) xeal (6) Željko Filipin (5) Zhasper (43) மயூ-Mayu (2)Explore read eight notes- Brandon said: Sweet! Google Suggest has graduated. Congrats! :P
- Donnie Berkholz said: This feature is amazing! I've used it for a while and I'm psyched to see it move to the main page. That will make it easier to combine with the still-Labs feature of keyboard shortcuts.
- pneal said: always thought it was the small things that counted... can you spot the differences without reading the explanation?
- Devlin D said: I've had this product set as my homepage for about 3 years and have raved about it since. Glad to see this thing finally get it's due. Great job to everyone that worked on this.
- ewbrown said: I like Google Suggest, but I am not sure I would want to see it every time I visit the Google homepage. If I need a search query auto-completed, I typically use the Google toolbar. Hopefully, Google will provide a way to disable the suggestions for those who prefer not to see them.
- Eddie said: yay jennifer!
- Linden said: Awesome! I love the auto-complete feature for email addresses in Gmail, so I'm glad this labs item has graduated!
- Željko Filipin said: Google Suggest will be "graduating" from Labs and available by default on the Google.com homepage.
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DoS vulnerability in REXML (4)
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There is a DoS vulnerability in the REXML library used by Rails to parse incoming XML requests. A so-called "XML entity explosion" attack technique can be used for remotely bringing down (disabling) any application which parses user-provided XML. Most Rails applications will be vulnerable to this attack. ImpactAn attacker can cause a denial of service by causing REXML to parse a document containing recursively nested entities such as:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE member [ <!ENTITY a ...Contribute comment -
TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed (28)
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I'm extremely pleased to announce the launch of TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for Firefox 3.1 that uses a new kind of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler to boost JS performance by an order of magnitude or more. Results Let's cut straight to the charts. Here are the popular SunSpider macro- and micro-benchmarks average scores, plus results for an image manipulation benchmark and a test using the Sylvester 3D JS library's matrix multiplication methods: ...Shared by Akhmad Fathonih (8) alecf (3) Bekir Dogan (3) Bruno Campagnolo de Paula (10) chstath (6) codeslinger (6) Compuwizard123 (16) Dexter.Yy (6) Dom Derrien (4) eddie.welker (4) Edwin Khodabakchian (0) Erik Arvidsson (4) HUNG (38) inamorix (48) James Mead (0) Mark Interrante (15) michael (7) Miguel (3) past (5) Patrick (17) Peter (2) phillip (12) Sean Leather (12) Sebastian Werner (16) Shey (54) Tim Disney (0) Will Moffat (15) xeal (6)Explore read four notes- Sean Leather said: It's comforting to know that Firefox will continue getting faster. FF 3 was a wonderful surprise! FF 3.1 will have a JIT compiler for JavaScript. Note that it must be explicitly enabled.
- Sebastian Werner said: Whooohoo. That's great news. Hopefully the Microsoft team will improve IE8 as well for JavaScript in order of this magnitude.
- Dom Derrien said: With that initial reported improvement, I can't wait seeing the overall update in action (DOM handling especially).
- past said: At last, JITed JavaScript:
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WhatLanguage: Ruby Library To Detect The Language Of A Text (20)
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WhatLanguage is a library by Peter Cooper (disclaimer: yes, that's me) that makes it quick and easy to determine what language a supplied text is written in. It's pretty accurate on anything from a short sentence up to several paragraphs in all of the languages supplied with the library (Dutch, English, Farsi, Russian, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Pinyin) and adding languages of your own choosing isn't difficult. The library works by checking for the presence ...Shared by Apostlion (0) Cem (11) Darian (14) Dave (1) Dave (1) Florent Solt (0) genki (8) Geoff (4) IceskYsl (8) Jana (13) John (11) jorrel (1) koke (6) maccman (9) Matt (7) Matthew (12) Piotr (0) Ricardo Fernández (0) Robert Dempsey (10) xeal (6)- John said: cool
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Keith Rarick: Building Causes.com - igvita.com (9)
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It's not the choice of language that determines the success of a project, but the people behind it. Can a Rails app serve 3 million dynamic pageviews a day? Absolutely, causes.com is doing it on a daily basis. After stumbling across several great open-source projects by Keith Rarick (beanstalkd, curl-multi, and others), I've reached out to learn about their story, and the architecture behind causes.com. What is your background, how and why did you pick ...Shared by Bence (2) clickstone (4) Eivind Uggedal (3) imabonehead (40) Kenneth (2) Martin (2) Matt McKnight (2) xeal (6) zapnap (19)Contribute comment -
Apple and Ruby: The Ongoing Relationship (16)
onWhile it was pretty momentous last year when Mac OS X (Leopard) was released with full support for Ruby and Rails included with the OS, it seems that the Ruby train is still rolling with Apple. A recent InfoQ article highlights some ways that Apple is using Ruby that you might have missed - including: The iPhone Configuration Web Utility - A tool written in Ruby on Rails for allowing enterprise customers to manage iPhones. ...Shared by Clarence (3) Coty (10) Dr. Ernie (48) Fernando (0) Florent Solt (0) Geoff (4) kcearns (0) Keener (4) Matthew (12) mndoci (29) Nick Nogueira (13) paco_reyes (0) pedstrom (0) Robert Dempsey (10) xeal (6) zapnap (19)
- Keener said: Hum, I did not know this. Interesting. The core of OSX has lots of neat "extras."
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Battling pricy textbooks with open-source texts, social media (17)
onSpiraling textbook costs are yet another thing for students and professors to worry about. Will open access, open source publishing and social media tools come to the rescue?Read More...Shared by Adrian (10) Andy (0) arkiver (0) Chris Foresman (0) Christopher (47) Eugene (11) Gautam (14) GG (24) Gschultz (12) Jan Vazquez (4) Jen (27) Jesse James (4) Ken (1) metaeuphoria (0) rebrse (127) stantont (6) xeal (6)
- Jesse James said: interesting idea... Hope some of thisCan take effect before I go back to school!
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Securing Mac OS X Leopard (1)
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The people from Corsaire have done it again. They have published a whitepaper on how you can secure your installation of Leopard. It’s a document describing the best practices and some of it should be common knowledge. It’s a follow up on the previous guides they published for Tiger and earlier. It’s a good and easy read and you can benefit from this when you have your Mac connected to the outside world. Did I ...Shared by xeal (6)Contribute comment -
What Nehalem is really about (1)
onIDF has started and the first benchmarks of Nehalem are going to start popping up. It is without a doubt an impressive architecture with a much better platform to run on, but this CPU is not about giving you better frames per second in your favorite game than the Penryn family. Let me make that more clear: even when the GPU is not the bottleneck, it is likely that most games will not be significantly ...Shared by xeal (6)Contribute comment
