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NBC Activates Broadcast Flag
via Slashdot by samzenpus on May 15, 2008
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "NBC activated the 'broadcast flag' on a number of shows this week, ranging from American Gladiator to Medium, which prevented compliant programs like Windows Media Center from recording them. The matter is being 'looked into,' but that doesn't tell us whether it was an accident or a ploy to see how outraged viewers would be at...
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Make Your Google Spreadsheets Editable By Anyone [Google Docs And Spreadsheets]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 15, 2008
Google Documents rolls out two features that make collaboration easy, even amongst friends and co-workers that don't have Google accounts. Spreadsheets now have an "Anyone can edit this document without logging in" option in their share tab, turning your document into a wiki that tracks changes in real time and can email you a summary. Also, those who dig the custom input forms can now embed...
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Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs
via Slashdot by timothy on May 15, 2008
Nethemas the Great points out a piece from Bruce Schneier running in the UK's Guardian newspaper with some tips for international travelers on securing notebook computers for border crossings. A taste of the brief article: "Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer...
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Leonardo DiCaprio as the Real James Bond?
via |Film by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) on May 15, 2008
Leonardo DiCaprio’s company Appian Way bought the rights to make Fleming, a film based on the life of British author Ian Fleming, best known as the creator of James Bond. The story follows Fleming, who fought as a Commander of Naval Intelligence in World War II while creating James Bond and the many characters from his books. Apparently most of the characters in Bond are actually based on areal...
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Free Office Templates [Featured Download]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 15, 2008
Windows with Office 2007 or Mac with Office 2008: Spruce up your presentations, spreadsheets, invoices, letterhead and business cards with a set of free office templates from Microsoft. Everyone...
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Flickr Find: 11,600 horizontal pixels of heaven
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Robert Palmer on May 15, 2008
Filed under: Hardware, Flickr FindWhat you're looking at is actually nine computers: five Macs, three PCs and one Linux machine. (Check out the Flickr page, to see what's what.) According to its owner, it's all driven with one keyboard and mouse, and switches seamlessly between machines. Incredible. Thinking about the cable management for this thing makes my head hurt.[Via...
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Wikipedia US traffic Up 8,000% in Five Years, Driven by Search
via MarketingCharts by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Four of the five top referring websites to Wikipedia - which has grown nearly 8,000% over the last five years - are search engines, led by Google, according to (pdf) an analysis by Nielsen Online. In April, 61% of visitors from home, and 66% of visitors from work, to English-language Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) were referred from [...]
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Print to an HP all-in-one printer via Time Capsule
via MacOSXHints.com by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Here's how I managed to get my HP 5510xi all-in-one printer working wirelessly when connected to a Time Capsule. First, you need download the open-source Linux drivers for HP printers from this page. Make sure you download the hpijs package, but also download the Foomatic-RIP and ESP Ghostscript packages from that same page.Install the Footmatic and Ghostscript packages, then restart your...
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Web Analytics Failing to Drive Business Decision-Making
via MarketingCharts by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Companies are typically failing to adopt a coherent strategy that ties in web analytics data with business objectives - just 18% of surveyed firms do so - according to the Online Measurement and Strategy Report from E-consultancy and Lynchpin. More than half (56%) of responding organizations - 434 client-side and 229 supplier-side companies - said [...]
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Google Confirms Friend Connect
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on May 12, 2008
As we reported on Friday, Google will be launching its own Data Portability effort called Friend Connect. It will be announcing more details later tonight, but in a press release this morning it confirms:Websites that are not social networks may still want to be social — and now they can be, easily. With Google Friend Connect (see http://www.google.com/friendconnect following this evening’s...
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