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A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 13, 2008
Posted by Wiltse Carpenter, Tech Lead, Gmail PerformanceGreat performance has always been an obsession at Google and it's something that we think about and work on everyday. We want Gmail to be really fast, and we keep working on ways to make it faster. Gmail's architecture eliminates many of the delays in reading mail by employing techniques like prefetching, but recently we decided to...
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Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera [Camera Hacks]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 06, 2008
If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let's transform your...
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Learn 35+ Languages for Free in iTunes
via LifeClever ;-) by Chanpory Rith on May 07, 2008
I was just browsing iTunes for poignant Morrissey covers when I discovered nearly a thousand free language courses on iTunes. 926 courses to be exact. Holy Moleskine, Batman!The extensive library of courses span over 35 languages, from Arabic to Yiddish. Each course comes as a convenient podcast which you can subscribe and put on your iPod or iPhone. To get the entire list of language learning...
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Powerset Searches the Wikipedia with Natural Language [Wikipedia]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 12, 2008
Instead of putting the onus on you to choose the best keyword, just-launched semantic search engine Powerset can find the answers you seek on the Wikipedia using natural language. Type things like "what is a life hack" or "paintings by Salvador Dali" and Powerset extracts those answers from Wikipedia and lays them out on an attractive page. CNET reports:Powerset's natural language search...
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Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 03, 2008
You may have heard of Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that lets you customize the way a web page displays using small bits of Javascript, but are you using it to its fullest potential? There are hundreds of scripts available for installation from userscripts.org, so it can be difficult to know which ones are must-haves. We've rounded up our favorite scripts for fans of social media and...
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Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 07, 2008
This is an interesting story in light of the discussion yesterday about the fate of the intellectual property of failed startups. Email startup Xobni, which recently turned down a $20 million acquisition offer from Microsoft, says they have acquired the key patents around a product called Zaplets which originally launched in 2000.Zaplets was an email product that put synchronized applications...
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Early Adopters Still Spend More Time With Microsoft Than Google, Facebook, or Skype. But For How Long?
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on May 08, 2008
When early adopters sit at their computers, what applications and websites do they use the most? The answer: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, and MSN Messenger—just like most everyone else. At least according to data from RescueTime, the productivity app that monitors the amount of time a user spends on every application on his desktop. The Y Combinator-funded startup has given us an...
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How to Make Your Own Smart Bookmarks in Firefox 3 [Firefox 3]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 07, 2008
The CyberNet tech blog digs into Smart Bookmarks, one of the neatest new features in the upcoming Firefox 3, and pulls out a how-to guide to compiling your own iTunes-like query-based links. Using a wide set of parameters, you can add bookmarks that monitor sites, your own browsing habits, and more. A few examples of what you can place in the "Location" field after the jump.Create a new bookmark...
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Want to Dress Just Like Celebrities? You’ll Like Coolspotters
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 07, 2008
Coolspotters, a new site from Connecticut based startup Fanzter, will launch later today. It’s an eye-candy celebrity-focused site that shows users the products celebrities are wearing in various photos. Users can then talk about and, of course, purchase those items.Users can track celebrities, products, brands, shows (TV, Movies, etc.), places, events, and more. The idea is to show connections...
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i360 Adds Semantics to Everything
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on May 05, 2008
Tony Sukiennik believes the power of the people trumps the power of the algorithm when it comes to the development of semantic technology. His company, infoGenome, a startup that has been in stealth mode for about four and half years, wants to harness that power by making semantics easy via its innovative drag-and-drop functionality. The i360 software he's developed is essentially the "Mahalo...
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