Advanced IMAP Settings for Gmail (16)
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Gmail offers more options for IMAP through an experimental add-on from Gmail Labs: "Advanced IMAP Controls". After enabling the add-on, you'll find two categories of options:* the Labels tab lets you control which labels show up in your email client, including built-in labels like Drafts, All Mail, Spam or Trash. If you have a lot of messages in your Gmail account, most email clients will perform poorly when processing the "[Gmail]/All Mail" folder, so you ...
Ubuntu 'Intrepid Ibex' Beta Delivers Improved UI, New Features (5)
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The first beta for the next major version of Ubuntu Linux is now available for download and testing. While it isn’t finished yet, the beta version of “Intrepid Ibex,” as this release is known, promises a number of important improvements for the popular Linux distribution. The first beta of Ubuntu 8.10 follows in the footsteps of Ubuntu 8.04, nick-named “Hardy Heron,” with incremental upgrades that, while not necessarily flashy and obvious, make for a much ...
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Ryan said:
Really? This is improved UI?
Bailout finally passes the House — market drops on news (2)
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The House has just passed the economic bailout plan, according to CNN. This paves the way for the Treasury Secretary to spend as much as $700 billion to buy up troubled banking assets and jump start the economy. The plan now heads to President Bush for his signature. The President has given every indication that he would sign the bill as soon as it got to him. The House failed to pass the bailout on ...
iObama: The Democrats get an iPhone app (6)
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The campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is nothing if not savvy in the ways to woo the tech crowd. After months of relentless Internet presence (perhaps even to the point of a mini-backlash) the campaign has a new tool in its efforts to mobilize young techies — an iPhone application. The best part is that it’s not some cheap gimmick, like a picture of Obama’s face that says “Yes we can” when you ...
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JoeCool79 said:
Great job of using new media to reach your audience and keep them interested in the Democratic Party.
Google Homepage Time-lapse (34)
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You can go back and see how Google's homepage evolved in the past 10 years. The video uses cached versions of Google's homepage from Internet Archive.Google's special site for the 10th birthday shows 17 of the most interesting homepage interfaces and Philipp Lenssen analyzes some of them. My favorite Google homepage is the one from April 1999 which only included a search box, two buttons and a link to "More Google!". If you like it, ...
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soupenvy said:
Wow, ten years and still no top-margin on the submit buttons :)
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John said:
This is cool but too long. Do a screenshot for every week instead of every day.
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Karpuscul said:
Simplicity in action! Google homepage back in time.
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Dedalus said:
Another 10-year special. 10 years to take over the world.
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Brett L. said:
Most boring video ever.
Nokia CEO: IPhone A ‘Big Favor’ To Handset Makers (1)
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The iPhone’s entrance onto the handset scene was a “big favor” to the handset industry, pushing companies to change in the face of Cupertino, Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said Thursday. The comments came as the handset giant launches its 5800 XpressMusic, a touch-screen handset with the Comes With Music service. Like the iPhone, the 5800 offers a 3G network interface, GPS and Wi-Fi. Nokia’s comments appear to reflect the view of others. “I don’t think ...
Five Big Data Center Trends For 2008 (41)
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The technology landscape is shifting. With the rise of cloud computing, there has been a renewed focus on what's happening in the datacenter. But it's not just consumer-grade web apps that are driving this shift - enterprises, too, are looking to virtualize their services and move applications off the desktop in order to better manage client computers and maintain data security. Recently, HP and research firm IDC took a look at some of the biggest ...
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Dom Derrien said:
Cloud computing as big data centera: extension: that's an obvious idea! The problem is the unavailability of deployment and monitoring tools... In few months maybe, we'll all setup ;)
Ausra picks up $60.6M more to become first solar thermal company on the grid (4)
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As badly as the rest of the business world seems to be doing, renewable energy just keeps picking up steam. There has been a string of recent financings going to solar panel makers, financiers that help consumers and businesses buy solar installations, and now solar thermal company Ausra. Ausra is one of several large, heavily funded startups that use arrays of mirrors to concentrate sunlight on a central receiver containing water, which quickly reaches the ...
Stainless Browser: Google Chrome For the Mac (6)
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Another day, another browser. Stainless was released by Mesa Dynamics as a proof of concept. The concept? A working, less ambitious version of Google’s Chrome browser. According to the Stainless website, it is available (for free) now simply because the project is less ambitious than the eventual version of Chrome on the Mac. Besides the fact that it doesn’t have all the robust backend features Chrome will eventually have on its Mac version, from an ...
The Google Diaspora (5)
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The Google DiasporaThe next big idea to come out of Google may not come out of Google. Luke Dittrich looks as the computer giant's offspring.By: Luke Dittrich"It's nothing. It's so marginal."Salman Ullah spits the words from his black Aeron in the corner office that serves as the headquarters of Merus Capital. Sean Dempsey, who cofounded Merus last November with Ullah and another man, Peter Hsing, had just started telling Ullah about a pitch he'd recently ...
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In that garage, Sergey Brin and Larry Page built their empire on the basis of a simple and powerful idea that now seems obvious: Create a better search engine by taking into account not just a page's content but also its connectedness. The most popular pages would show up ahead of the lonelier pages in search results. This idea was so central to the Google experiment that its demo-stage name was "BackRub," as in, "You rub my site's back, I'll rub yours." It's this same basic idea that drives interest in the Google diaspora. Not only are Xooglers bright, entrepreneurial, and wealthy, but their links to one another and to Google endow them with a real-world ranking bonus--VC doors open wider; the press is more intrigued.
When Should I Be Concerned? (1)
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Those who have sent comments to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) on its draft strategic plan will recognize the title of this post as the heading of the first section of the draft plan. (If you have not yet written a comment, they're due today. Follow this link to find a quick submission form with suggested talking points for last-minute responses.)In the draft plan, the question "When should I be concerned?" refers to the ...
Smush.it: Image Optimization in the Cloud (18)
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Yahoo's Exceptional Performance Team just released an interesting tool that optimizes images for publishing on the web. Smush.it is completely cloud-based and you can choose to upload your images directly to the service, provide Smush.it with a URL, or use a Firefox plugin that analyzes a whole page at once. Smush.it provides a one-stop shop for compressing images and works with JPGs, PNGs, GIFs, and animated GIF files. Sponsor As Yahoo points out, there are ...
Cult of Mac & Blog Archive & Gallery of Whimsical, Inventive Apple Product Mock-ups (3)
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The lull between Apple product announcements is always a fertile time for the imaginations of Apple users and, over the years has produced many compelling, sometimes laughable ideas for products the company should, or might make. Occasionally, users end up hitting quite close to the mark of what eventually makes it to the marketplace, as shown by a few of the items in this mock-up retrospective. Images in the gallery are taken from a much ...
Whole Travel tries to redefine travel, with sustainable vacation search (2)
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Would you base your next vacation on how environmentally friendly, economically beneficial, socially conscious or economically beneficial to the surrounding community a resort is? Do you ever want to plan a trip based on activities or atmosphere, rather than destination? The idea of doing any of the above, admittedly, conjures up images of granola-crunching hippies, rather than the Bermuda short- and baseball cap-clad throngs of American tourists famous for spreading their lucre worldwide. But Whole ...
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an infographic movie illustrating a detailed break down of the price tag of the Iraq war conflict, from the current debts to the unseen costs for many years to come. the data is based on the book The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. [link: threetrilliondoll... & good.is (high-rez version)]Shared by 4braham (13) aElian (20) Aranittara (23) Carl (102) HacKnight (16) iandexter (9) Ionut (20) Joseph (18) pollen8 (8) Régis Kuckaertz (28) Sakib (21) Vamsee Kanakala (6)Contribute comment
