Google Chrome and the future of browsers (25)
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News came today confirming Google’s plans for Chrome, its own open source browser based on Webkit. This is big news. As far as I’m concerned, it doesn’t get much bigger than this, at least in my little shed on the internet. I’ve been struggling to come to grips with my thoughts on this since I first heard about this this morning over Twitter (thanks @rww @Carnage4Life and @furrier). Once I found out that it was ...
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silpol said:
And I tend to think that Google humongous data processing for altar of advertising cash cow demands more data. And Google finds it easier/cheaper to get data straight "from your pocket" than maintaining "your account at Google bank". Whether you like Google in your pocket or not is separate question, which you might like to ask yourself.
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urbansheep said:
I just can’t read this any other way than to think that Google’s finally fed up waiting around for Firefox to get their act together, fix their performance issues in serious ways, provide tangible and near-term vision and make good on their ultimate promise and value-proposition.
First Prototype of Open Source TechCrunch Tablet (6)
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holy_calamity writes "Big mouth tech blogger Mike Arrington decided earlier this year to 'teach gadget-makers a lesson' and make his own portable, touch screen web tablet. The first, very rough, prototype is complete. Despite the claims it would be fully open source — even the hardware — there's no sign of a project site or any other openness yet."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Cartoon: Flash Intro Screens (35)
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Just when we thought the damn things were dead and buried, I ran across another Flash intro screen the other day. And like practically every other one I've seen, it was half useless puffery about the organization behind the site, and half lookit-this-kewl-effect self-indulgence by the designer. But they can't all be bad... can they? Has anybody seen a Flash intro that doesn't have you scanning the screen desperately for the "skip intro" link?
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imma said:
*nods* flash intro's - not a good idea (at least not ones that play automatically on your main page - wait for people to ask for it to be played if you do need one)
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Devlin D said:
HA! Funny bit a little true
Colleges Tell the RIAA They Have Better Things to Do (29)
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With blazing fast speeds, college campuses are somewhat notorious for having a league of students use the speeds to download all the music they'd like.For the past few years the RIAA has been lurking around college campus intranets and using college IT and Administrators to choose their next unsuspecting pool of college victims. It seems that may be about to change and college students nationwide may now be able to breathe a little easier as ...
Apple recycling information mailer not so green (6)
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Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, Bad AppleAn Apple Premium reseller in the UK sent us these photos of an Apple recycling information mailer they received: but the mailer itself was sent in a decidedly non-green way. From photos the reseller sent, it appears the mailer consisted of two sheets of standard A4-sized paper. Those sheets of paper were placed inside a large, yellow clasp envelope. That envelope was then placed inside a corrugated cardboard ...
Your Tax Dollars At Work: NASA Redefines "EPIC FAIL" (1)
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Sure, it's no $400 million weather satellite, but NASA's test of the new Orion vehicle's parachute system is certainly up there in the "ouch" department — the high speed fall from 25,000 with precisely zero successful chute deployments is downright hilarious to watch. One can almost envision Buster being pulled from the wreckage with all of his shock stickers broken wide open. *grin*
Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress iPhone Copy and Paste (1)
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Cut and Paste for iPhone from Cali Lewis on Vimeo. OpenClip has come up with the much desired free application for the iPhone to copy, cut and paste content. It works with the WordPress iPhone application by placing the copied data to a shared location in the iPhone memory which is then accessed by other applications. The application was released on GeekBrief.tv (who were at WordCamp Dallas and are WordPress aficionados) and seems to be ...
FCC Issues Formal Order on Comcast P2P Throttling (2)
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Today, the Federal Communications Commission issued its formal order censuring Comcast for throttling P2P traffic as part of its network management practices, requiring the ISP to report, within 30 days, details on how it plans to manage its network. GigaOM has followed the story for the past 10 months, and an end is finally in sight. Nothing in the order is terribly new for anyone who paid attention to the Aug. 1 hearing on the ...
PHPImact Blog: Refactoring the Front Controller of the Zend Framework (2)
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The PHP::Impact blog has a new tutorial posted today with a look at a refactoring of the front controller of the Zend Framework to make it a bit more manageable. One of the most fundamental decision in object design is deciding where to put responsibilities. No one, and I mean no one, gets it right the first time. That's why refactoring is so important. As Kent Beck puts it, refactoring is the process of taking ...
Hulu Getting Ready To Go International! (19)
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Ever since Hulu, the online-video joint venture backed by NBC, News Corp. and $100 million in private equity launched in March 2008, the service has been slowly winning over critics, including yours truly. And if that isn’t enough -– the company is rising to the top in the web video rankings. According to Nielsen data, Hulu is now the No. 8 most popular video web site, it’s and rising fast. It was ranked No. 10 ...
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Devlin D said:
I cannot wait for this service to come to Canada. I have been a fan ever since it launched and I saw it actually wasn't the piece of crap I was expecting. Yet another example that big corps CAN compete in the age of agile startups.
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Alex Plank said:
that's great but I want to get hulu for iPhone sometime soon.
Apple recycling information mailer not so green (1)
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Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, Bad AppleAn Apple Premium reseller in the UK sent us these photos of an Apple recycling information mailer they received: but the mailer itself was sent in a decidedly non-green way. From photos the reseller sent, it appears the mailer consisted of two sheets of standard A4-sized paper. Those sheets of paper were placed inside a large, yellow clasp envelope. That envelope was then placed inside a corrugated cardboard ...
ApolloIM and MobileChat join forces (1)
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Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, App StoreBoth ApolloIM and MobileChat were jailbreak applications for chatting on the go with your iPhone/iPod touch. Alex Schaefer, ApolloIM's founder, has recently joined the MobileChat development team. In a blog posting by the developer of MobileChat, he said that both applications underwent "friendly competition" and that, while there was no clear winner in the iPhone IM business, users got the benefit from the ongoing competition. Now that Alex has ...
ApolloIM and MobileChat join forces (5)
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Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, App StoreBoth ApolloIM and MobileChat were jailbreak applications for chatting on the go with your iPhone/iPod touch. Alex Schaefer, ApolloIM's founder, has recently joined the MobileChat development team. In a blog posting by the developer of MobileChat, he said that both applications underwent "friendly competition" and that, while there was no clear winner in the iPhone IM business, users got the benefit from the ongoing competition. Now that Alex has ...
Delivering the Right Content to the Right Audience (3)
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We have seen an increasing number of complex cases where certain applications and certain content may be appropriate or available to specific audiences and users, but not to others. For example, you may license some content (video, movies, games, etc.) that you can only make available to users in certain regions, such as U.S. and Canada but not to the rest of the world. Or you may have an application where you want to limit ...
Russians make show of leaving Georgia, but some dig in (1)
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Russia has renewed its commitment to withdraw most of its forces from Georgia by the weekend, but there are signs that some Russian troops are digging in.
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stephdau said:
Is anyone really surprised?
MUHC gets megabucks (1)
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The MUHC has received the biggest grant ever from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (who are not so innovative themselves, with a website that demands IE 4.0).
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stephdau said:
Pardon my scepticism on this money being spent wisely...
Max Horvath's Blog: Call for proposals of requirements for support of Phar archives in Eclipse PDT (2)
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Max Horvath has called for some help in getting a feature included (and fully working) into the next release of the Eclipse PDT extension - phar support. With Eclipse PDT 2.0 to be released in September (or October) support for namespaces is already on the roadmap. Support for Phar archives has not been listed, yet. But in my opinion Eclipse PDT 2.0 must support handling Phar archives when PHP 5.3 will hit the street. He ...
C7Y: Practical Uses for the PHP Tokenizer (1)
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A new tutorial has been posted to php|architects C7Y community site looking at some practical uses of the PHP tokenizer to work with your source. In this article we take a look at the PHP tokenizer and its potential at analyzing and processing PHP source code. We will build several working examples, which you can start using and extending for your own purposes. The author, Stan Vassilev, explains what the tokenizer is for, how it ...
Why Corporates Hate Perl (9)
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Anti-Globalism recommends a posting up at O'Reilly's ONLamp on reasons that some companies are turning away from Perl. "[In one company] [m]anagement have started to refer to Perl-based systems as 'legacy' and to generally disparage it. This attitude has seeped through to non-technical business users who have started to worry if developers mention a system that is written in Perl. Business users, of course, don't want nasty old, broken Perl code. They want the shiny ...
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Tom said:
Thats because Perl is like a swiss army knife, except instead of knifes there is a mixture of high calibre rifles and shotguns, there is no safety and it defaults to aiming at your head.
Donncha: WP Super Cache 0.6.7 (1)
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WP Super Cache is a plugin for WordPress that creates cached copies of your blog posts and pages, making your site much faster to serve. It’s also ideal for coping with sudden surges of traffic. I released a new version of the plugin this morning. This is a bugfix release: Mike Beggs contributed a number of changes: Better support for Win32 NTFS Better use of the “Vary” header so proxy servers won’t cache the wrong ...
