Forget Vista: 10 OSes That Could Change Your World (18)
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One interesting thing about the software world, I find, is that there is a trickle-up system for innovation. Things like live searches, better task bars, and the much-debated widget/gadget/dashboard idea often have had their seeds in smaller OSes or pieces of software. Designers will find a way to work something in their program that others may be able to adapt to something bigger, and thus the snowball begins to grow. Some of the OSes (perhaps ...
Google’s End Run Around the Wireless Carriers (36)
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In a recently published patent, Google describes a vision for an open wireless world, one in which mobile devices (and smartphones in particular) are no longer married to particular cellular service providers. When you buy a phone in the United States today, you typical have to sign a contract that prevents you from using that phone with more than one provider for a predetermined amount of time. You’ll encounter no such requirement when purchasing a ...
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Jorge said:
I think this is going to be a really tough nut for Google to crack. I think Android is a good step in the right direction toward providing some openness with devices. However, I think Google is going to face considerable opposition from wireless carriers (as they did with the FCC auction).
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Matthew Bookspan said:
Well, here it comes... finally a distribution model to end the carrier lock-in.
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onlythoughtworks said:
Krass das man sowas patentieren kann,fast die gleiche Zeichnung findet sich in Jochen Schillers "Mobilkommunikation" und das ist aus dem Jahre 2003
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Christian said:
Le futur du mobile selon Google.
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kudis said:
no to by bylo krásný ...
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attacs said:
Must work
The Problem with Every Implementation of a "Forgot Your Password?" Feature I've Seen Online (10)
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I recently read that Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email accounts had been hacked. What is interesting about the hack is that instead of guessing her password or finding a security flaw in Yahoo's email service, the hacker used the forgot your ID or password feature and a search engine. The Threat Level blog on Wired has posted an email from the hacker in a post entitled Palin E-Mail Hacker Says It Was Easy which is excerpted ...
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MERc said:
So this is it!! Now, what are the Fed's investigating? :-D
The Steak Wars (1)
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The Subway is my friend. As has been documented extensively on this blog, it is pretty much my only source of animal protein within a two mile radius and that is about equal to the length of my work leash. Anything farther than two miles and it tugs hard on my neck and like in the movies, the car moves ahead without me and I fly out through the rear windshield and fall on the ...
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MERc said:
Good one. But ANYday, the subs at Quiznos is better than the ones in Subway. At least, the Veggie ones!
Street View and walking directions come to Google Maps for mobile (Michael Siliski/Google Mobile Blog) (2)
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Michael Siliski / Google Mobile Blog: Street View and walking directions come to Google Maps for mobile — This July, Street View went international for the Tour de France, and in August, expanded coverage to Japan and Australia. Now, Street View is coming to another new frontier: your phone.
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MERc said:
With Android around the corner, this is a great thing to have!! Definitely worth a try! :-o)
Popular Canon SD870 IS gets fresh (Joshua Goldman/Crave) (2)
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Joshua Goldman / Crave: The gadget blog: Popular Canon SD870 IS gets fresh — The most exciting thing about the new Canon PowerShot SD880 IS Digital ELPH camera is that it's an update to the really popular SD870 IS. However, that doesn't mean Canon didn't try to improve on its past success. — The new model features …
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MERc said:
Digic 4 finally makes it to a point and shoot. Looking for the day the prices finally come down so that I can own a SLR :-o)
Calculating Paydays in a calendar year using Excel (2)
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In India salary is usually paid on the last working day of a month - the payday. It is slightly different in countries where payrolls are processed every 2 weeks. For eg. in US most companies pay salary on every 2nd Friday / Thursday. We can calculate the paydays / payroll periods in excel with simple date formulas: Calculating last working day of a month - Payday for monthly payroll processing Put in other words, ...
21.1 megapixel Canon EOS 5D Mark II with Full-Frame, Full-HD video (Thomas Ricker/Engadget) (4)
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget: 21.1 megapixel Canon EOS 5D Mark II with Full-Frame, Full-HD video — After a brief tease, Canon just got official with its EOS 5D Mark II. The full-frame shooter updates the original 5D introduced back in 2005 with a 24 x 36mm 21.1 megapixel CMOS sensor, DIGIC 4 processor with 14-bit analog …
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MERc said:
Is this Canon's Answer to Sony's 25 MP Alpha? But if you ask me, anything over 7 is a waste for all practical purposes.
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 33 - Microsoft Open Source inside Google Chrome (11)
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First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer, Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-third in a infinite number of posts of "The Weekly Source Code." That said, what does Microsoft Code have to do with Google Chrome, the new browser from Google? Take a look at the Terms and Conditions for the "Chromium" project up on Google Code. There are 24 different ...
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jas said:
I love what Scott Hanselman dug out when he went spelunking through Google Chrome source. Who would have though that WTL was in there which is basically open sourced (under MS Public License) of the Windows Template Library.
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MERc said:
Interesting..!
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Rick Umali said:
Boy, this is a deep article. I wanted to save it because it highlights the use of WTL in Chrome. WTL is a Windows GUI framework "alternative" to the MFC.
Microsoft IE8 and Google Chrome - Processes are the New Threads (14)
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I happened to install Google Chrome (Alpha) the same day I installed Internet Explorer 8 (Beta). I noticed immediately, as I'm sure many of you have, that both browsers isolate tabs in different processes. Unix folks have known about the flexibility of forking a process forever. In Unix, fork() is just about the easiest thing you can do. Also, fork()ing in Unix will copy the whole process and all variables into a new space. Everything ...
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MERc said:
It will be great to have this in Firefox. If not in 3.1 at least somewhere in the future.
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Steve said:
just like all languages eventually add lisp features, all non-Unix platforms eventually become Unix.
Beta Browser Speed Tests: Which Is Fastest? (170)
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Google's new Chrome web browser beta is getting a lot of attention for its slick looks, helpful features, and performance, but how does it rank against the early releases of more established browsers? We've previously put the major browser releases to the speed test, but today we're measuring Chrome against the second beta of Internet Explorer 8, as well as the beta of Firefox 3's next iteration, 3.1. We tested tomorrow's browsers on startup and ...
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MERc said:
Starting to see some sense here...! Not that I accept this sane as IE is on the top of some categories, but definitely agreeable results as this test is not carried out on an engine that is hosted on Google...! It was like getting the test questions from the student itself!! :-D
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Dileepa said:
IE8 is slow.IE8 uses more memory.Chrome 0.2 and Firefox 3.1b (not 3.0.1) are almost evenly matched.
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Prof said:
Test results of the best browser, and firefox wins !!!
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ekaye said:
Why does anyone still bother to use IE?
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Yojimbo said:
Franchement, pas de quoi s'alarmer... Sans regarder les "a coté" (genre plugins/skins) Même niveau perf FF reste mieux. \o/
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Derek said:
nice comparisons
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Fuad said:
hmmm lifehacker is siding with what i noticed about firefox using less memory than chrome but i have ot say chrome is much faster
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Zeus said:
I can't wait to try out chrome. I wish they had it for the Macintosh...like how I spelled it out. ;)
Ivy league going the IIM way (1)
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Yesterday I bumped into a Stanford GSB student and learnt something new. It is possible for foreign students enter one of America's top bschools with negligible or even zero work experience."The youngest person in my class is just 21, and with a kheti background (ie family owns a horticulture business)," he said. And there are other examples of students at Stanford GSB who are just graduates or have 1-2 years work ex. "Of course your ...
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MERc said:
Finally some good news!! :-)
Google Chrome Press Event: The Video (26)
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Google has posted their official video of the Chrome press event we live blogged earlier today. I still prefer the comic book version, but if you want to see the official presentation, there it is. Larry Page steps on stage for the last two minutes. He talks about how he’s been using Chrome on an older computer to test how it handles lower end hardware. I’ve been using Chrome today on two Vista computers - ...
http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/windows-live-search-tricks-hacks/4337/ (16)
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When it comes to web search, Windows Live stands a distant third behind Google and Yahoo!. There are however are some lesser-known features in Live Search that aren’t just useful, you won’t find them in any of the other popular search engines. Let’s take a look: 1. Watch Video Preview in Search Results When you hover the mouse over any of the thumbnail images appearing in Live Video Search, it will automatically play a short ...
A lot of door but absolutely no darshan (5)
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The Olympics are coming to an end, and thanks to Doordarshan, I’ve seen lots of nothing. And talking about black holes, the logo for Doordarshan does resemble one. And all meaningful live action is behind their event horizon. Hyperbole aside, how bad was it really? Legend (or quizzing trivia) has it that the Yogic Siddhi that provides the practitioner with the power to see distances afar, the power that Sanjaya used to report on the ...
Verisign’s Personal Identity Portal Is Half Way To Password Bliss (49)
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Verisign’s new Personal Identity Portal (PIP from now on) isn’t the sexiest application out there to help you manage passwords. But it has Verisign’s strong reputation for security behind it, and it is a surprisingly easy way to manage website credentials. PIP is a a single sign in solution that supports both OpenID (you are issued a Verisign OpenID) and direct sign in to a number of supported websites. If a site doesn’t support OpenID, ...
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anand said:
AWESOME. Finally days of a single username / password for the internet are near.
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Toby said:
I use this regularly. Much recommended.
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MERc said:
Hmmm.. Promising!!
GMAIL ACCOUNT HACKING TOOL (Hacking Truths) (20)
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Hacking Truths: GMAIL ACCOUNT HACKING TOOL — A tool that automatically steals IDs of non-encrypted sessions and breaks into Google Mail accounts has been presented at the Defcon hackers' conference in Las Vegas. — Last week Google introduced a new feature in Gmail that allows users to permanently switch …
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MERc said:
Gmail Account Hacking Tool - Scary! I leave gmail signed in both at work and at home. Gotta use SSL. But its slow :(
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James Starmer said:
I've been using the https version since it came out. No good reason not to.
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Goyal said:
Force the use of https everyone!
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aches said:
I recommend turning on the HTTPS function, there really isn't a reason why you shouldn't be using it.
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Alex Leonard said:
Sounds like it might very well be worth logging into your Gmail account and selecting the "Always use https" option in your settings.
