First Opera 9.60 Preview (4)
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Just days after the Opera 9.52 release, the Opera Desktop Team has posted the first preview of Opera 9.60. Highlights include: Opera Link synchronizes more data, adding custom search engines and typed history (i.e. URLs that you type into the address bar). Feed previews when you click on an RSS/Atom feed, so you can look at the content before subscribing. Mail improvements including: Low Bandwidth Mode. In this mode, IMAP will only synchronize new messages ...
IE8 Will Contain an Accidental Ad Blocker (4)
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JagsLive sends in a Washington Post blog post reflecting on one privacy-enhancing feature of the upcoming Internet Explorer 8, the so-called "InPrivate Blocking" that has privacy advocates quietly cheering, and advertisers seriously worrying. Here is Microsoft's description of the feature. From the Post: "The advertising industry is bracing for trouble from the next version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, details of which were announced today, because it will offer a feature that blocks some ads and ...
Has Google Lost Its Mojo? (6)
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CWmike writes "Google looks as if it's on top of the world right now, holding an ever-increasing lion's share of the search market. So why do I think it's lost its mojo? Let's start with the way it treats its employees, writes Preston Gralla. Another example: Google employees, such as Sergey Solyanik, have started deserting the company. And its share price is down double that of the Dow or Nasdaq since November 2007. Even if ...
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Greg Lowe said:
I keep saying that Google is more evil than Microsoft..right now we're in the drug dealer giving the first taste for free phase.
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Anthony said:
Oh good. My week's really not complete without a "Google is dying" article. Sadly, I couldn't RTFA....but then I really didn't need to.
Flickr 888: green (3)
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Mushishi, Neo Angelique Manga Finish in Japan (Updated) (1)
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Reblog: Comments Can Be Blog Posts (17)
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Comments Can Be Blog Posts We think so too. A lot of great conversation goes on in comments that shouldn’t be stuck behind the fold. Publishing these back to traditional blogs is a great way to bring attention to great content. It needs to happen more often. That’s why we’ve been trying to make it even easier. Announcing Reblogging on DISQUS Now on comments throughout DISQUS, you can find a reblog link where you can ...
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Jorge said:
I saw Disqus recently on another blog and I'm going to give it a shot. Definitely a good idea and much needed feature for blogs. I've written some fairly in-depth comments that would make good blog posts. I will be on the look-out for blogs that make use of Disqus and frequent them for reblogging.
YouTube Uploader Powered by Gears (41)
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You can now upload videos larger than 100 MB to YouTube without installing a dedicated software. YouTube started to use Gears to upload videos.The latest version of Gears introduces some new features that make manipulating large files so much easier. Gears now makes uploading large and multiple files on the web much easier, giving you the primitives to roll a resumable uploader, which means hopefully we can see custom desktop uploaders go away soon. (...) ...
Library War, Dennō Coil, 20th Century Boys Win Seiun Awards (Updated) (2)
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Ray Bradbury Turns 88 (6)
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Lawrence Person writes "Legendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury turned 88 years old on August 22. Happy Birthday Ray! 'The Illustrated Man' was one of the first science fiction books I ever read, and I've been hooked ever since. I'm sure that's true of a lot of science fiction writers and readers, be it that, or 'The Martian Chronicles,' or 'Fahrenheit 451.' There are also several videos of Ray on that page, including one where ...
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dani said:
happy birthday
Shogakukan, Shueisha to Directly Publish in Europe (Updated) (1)
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The Gallery - Alice Meichi Li (1)
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Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost (34)
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monkeymonkey writes "Mozilla has integrated tracing optimization into SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript interpreter in Firefox. This improvement has boosted JavaScript performance by a factor of 20 to 40 in certain contexts. Ars Technica interviewed Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich (the original creator of JavaScript) and Mozilla's vice president of engineering, Mike Shaver. They say that tracing optimization will 'take JavaScript performance into the next tier' and 'get people thinking about JavaScript as a more general-purpose language.' The ...
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John said:
Now if all the browsers could just standardize on this!!!
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chills said:
Great to see more javascript improvements, first on Safari, now Firefox... This could really have an impact on the quality of new web apps...
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Jason Matthews said:
and here i thought firefox 3 was fast at rendering JS. but this... i want this. i want it immediately.
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sirmikester said:
If true, this is kind of a big deal
Photosynth Launches (60)
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Two years after the first technology preview, Microsoft officially launched Photosynth, an interesting way to combine overlapping photos from a place and explore the place in detail from different angles. "Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point the photos were taken from. With this information, we recreate the space and use ...
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Tyler said:
This is great news! I've been following this product from the beginning and now we can make our own synths. I'll start this weekend and share the results soon."
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baron said:
finally its out, work with IE and Firefox
Interview: Satoshi Kon (1)
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An in-depth chat with Satoshi Kon, director of Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika.
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minus-one said:
"anyway, to summarize, check out an izakaya"
Our new slideshow: pass the popcorn! (40)
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Do you remember sitting around in the dark after dinner at your grandparents’ place, watching old family movies and looking through photos? We’ve launched a new and improved fullscreen slideshow on Flickr, designed and rebuilt from the ground up to help you sit back and watch the world go by. A slideshow is available from just about every page where you see a group of photos on Flickr: photostream pages, sets, tag pages, group pools ...
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schisamo said:
this is a slick new feature...
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Regis said:
Une tuerie de plus.
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Dileepa said:
Looks great in full screen! Checkout my 'Nature' Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdileepa/sets/72157606554048407/show/
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Praneet said:
cool !!
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Robert Scoble said:
Cool new feature from Flickr.
Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud (70)
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SkeptOlympics writes "A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China. The incriminating documents, expunged by censors from the official site and from Google's document cache, still appear in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu, here and here, showing the age of one of China's gold ...
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Dave said:
I suppose intentionally editing and re-inserting a page in your search cache so as to protect the reputation of the Chinese government could be massaged as "Do No Evil"...somehow...
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Sermed said:
14 still looks old for some of those girls
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Eater said:
Wait... 'search engine hacker'?
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Joannie said:
OMFG... LOLLLL I love people who uncover the truth.
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vforrestal said:
i knew it! although i guess if your country's 14 year olds can beat our "legal" team, you kind of deserve to win...
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est said:
封不住口啦。another fake?
Magpies Are Self-Aware (32)
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FireStormZ writes "Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few higher mammals. It had been thought only four species of apes, bottlenose dolphins, and Asian elephants shared the human ability to recognize their own bodies in a mirror. But German scientists reported on Tuesday that magpies, a species with a brain structure very different from mammals, could also identify themselves. It had ...
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Jared Zimmerman said:
interesting.
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Joe Haynes said:
Magpies have some very interesting rituals. I once observed a group of them surrounding a fellow bird that had been killed. It felt like I was witnessing some kind of ritual.
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Greg said:
No, I didn't RTFA, I'm catching up on 1000+ stores from 5 days of no internets. Let me know if we really do need to re-evaluate our perceptions of ourselves.
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Tom said:
What is next? The world is round?!?! Lets file this ignorant, religious based theory in the bin next to only humans use tools, only humans dream and black people can't swim.
