How Safe Is That Web App? Researchers Want Online Privacy Policies Regulated - ReadWriteWeb (10)
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Admit it. You don't always read the EULAs when you install software on your computer. You just click "I Agree." The same goes for the web. Most of us don't read the privacy policies that accompany our favorite web sites and services (myself included, apparently). But our failure to do so has some researchers suggesting that it's time the Federal Government got involved. According to these researchers, today's privacy policies are long and hard to ...
Zoho Mail Gets Offline Support via Google Gears - Ahead of Gmail (9)
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Innovative Web Office startup Zoho has beaten Google to the punch again, announcing offline support for the newly public Zoho Mail tonight. Ironically Zoho is using Google Gears to enable offline functionality in Zoho Mail - see the video below by the Google Developer team. Zoho also beat Google to offline support in online word processing, again using Gears, by launching that functionality in November 2007. Google followed up with offline support for Google Docs ...
OpenID Gets SaaS-y: JanRain Works to Ease OpenID Adoption (6)
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OpenID adoption has been lopsided. Getting sites to offer OpenIDs has been relatively popular. Google, Yahoo!, MySpace, and countless others provide OpenID addresses for their users. Even AOL users have an OpenID. Far less popular? Allowing users to access their accounts on those services with an OpenID. But JanRain is hoping to change that with the release of RPX, a new subscription-based service that simplifies implementing OpenID. RPX promises to result in more OpenID login ...
Set Up Universal Ad Blocking Through Your Router [Step By Step] (17)
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If you've turned your $60 router into a user-friendly super-router with open-source firmware Tomato, you already know that Tomato can boost your Wi-Fi signal, track bandwidth usage, and set Quality of Service rules with ease. But if you're a big fan of Adblock Plus—the most popular Firefox extension among Lifehacker readers—you can save yourself an extension installation and universally block ads across your entire home network by adding a custom script to your Tomato firmware. ...
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Srinvard said:
DIESEL. dude, block ads universally via the router.
PSP Hack Turns Your Handheld Into a 2nd Computer Screen [PSP] (1)
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You know what was the first thing I thought when I got my hands on a PSP? This screen would make a really great second computer monitor... No, I'm just kidding; never in my life would I think that. But apparently PSP homebrew developer Jochen Schleu did, and worked up a mod that lets you use your PSP as a 960x544 resolution passive display. The program works for both the slim and original versions if ...
Epic Violin Playing (1)
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Featured Windows Download: Make Ubiquity More Ubiquitous (19)
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Software engineer and Lifehacker reader William Bartholomew loves previously mentioned Firefox extension Ubiquity, but would prefer it were a bit more... well, ubiquitous. One of the biggest limitations I see is that its keyboard shortcut is only available from within Firefox; I really want to be able to invoke it from whatever application I’m currently using. To address this issue, Bartholomew created a small program that creates a global shortcut that invokes Ubiquity no matter ...
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Joe Cooper said:
Pretty nice. I use ubiquity a lot more than I thought I would. It'd be nice if it integrated into Launchy...
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Lee G. said:
Código simples, direto ao ponto, e principalmente, ÚTIL...
Microsoft set to launch Surface SDK this month (5)
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Filed under: Displays In a fashion not dissimilar from one tiny multitouch device (save the outcry), Microsoft's large multitouch device -- the Surface -- will be getting its very own SDK at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference this month. The package, which the folks in Redmond have apparently been promising since April, will introduce developers to "vision-based object recognition" and something called ScatterView, and a session at the PDC will detail how the kit "aligns with ...
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Ooble said:
The Surface SDK is sweet. It's essentially a set of libraries for .NET that include WPF extensions. I saw a Microsoft developer demo creating a simple app which lets you display pictures (like in the picture) and drag them around. Total code written: approximately 10 lines.
Eee PC modded by Intel engineers to boot in five seconds (11)
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Filed under: LaptopsSure, we've seen projects like SplashTop boot a stripped Linux build quickly, but Intel engineers at the recent Linux Plumbers Conference took things a little farther last Thursday, starting up modified versions of Fedora and Intel's own Moblin Linux on an SSD-equipped Eee PC in just five seconds. That's all the way to an idle CPU and disk, not cheating and starting a window manager while background services thrash in the background, mind ...
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Will said:
Moblin is a cool name for a distro, and 5 seconds, well, that's shorter then it takes to read this blurb. Cool.
Apple introducing new manufacturing process, MacBook 'Brick'? (19)
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Filed under: Laptops The Apple rumor mill has really cooked up a doozy this time. According to 9to5mac -- a site with a fairly good track record -- Apple's next big thing isn't just a laptop or an iPod... it's an entirely new manufacturing process. If you believe the site's sources, an as-yet-unannounced event on October 14th will herald in a new iteration of the MacBook dubbed the "Brick," but the big news won't actually ...
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joekwon said:
as interesting as this is, why would apple announce a new manufacturing promise. It's not like anyone worries about Apple not being able to develop new products.
Five Best Media Converters [Hive Five] (26)
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We've all been there: you've downloaded an episode of your favorite TV show to watch on your commute or stream to your living room, but the file you downloaded isn't supported on the device you want to use it with. Once a significant obstacle to enjoying your media anywhere, this problem is easily solved by any number of free media converters. On Wednesday we asked you to share your favorite media converters, and today we're ...
Emulator gives you the T-Mobile G1 experience now (6)
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Filed under: T-Mobile, Android Yeah, the wait for October 22 (or after) is absolutely excruciating; trust us, we know. We'll take every scrap of information and imagery we can to hold us over until G1s start showing up on doorsteps in a few weeks, but T-Mobile's really gone above and beyond the call of duty here by setting up a surprisingly functional and feature-complete emulator to satisfy our urges to touch icons and click buttons. ...
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