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Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on March 24, 2008
There is a scourge on the Web. It is called Internet Explorer 6. Even though the more recent version of Microsoft’s browser, IE7, has been around for more than two years, IE6 still represents 31 percent of all browsers out there (versus only 22 percent for IE7 and 36.5 percent for Firefox). This upgrade lag is simply unacceptable—to programmers, that is, who find it a real pain to make...
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Build Your Own Gmail Notifier Lamp [DIY]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 18, 2008
On Saturday you learned how to control hobbyist hardware using the Arduino microcontroller, and today we've got another neat Arduino project: a Gmail notifier lamp. Blogger Jamie Matthews connected a cube lamp to his Mac, and using the Arduino, configures it to light when he gets new messages to his Gmail account. Hit the link to get the details on the Gmail notifier hardware and software...
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Hey Twitter, Maybe It’s Better Not To Share Absolutely Everything
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 06, 2008
Ok, I love the new, improved and more communicative Twitter as much as everyone else (even if their uptime woes continue to get worse). The that Twitter recently launched a status blog to communicate performance issues tells me they’re serious about acting more like a grown up startup.But notifying us that they’ve “Lost a database” we know what that means - one of their three database...
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The Laptop Lover's Guide to Productivity On-the-Go [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on January 28, 2008
You're an on-the-go worker, and the one thing you always carry with you? Your trusty laptop, of course. Sure, you've reached a point where you're pretty good at getting things done away from your desk, but you still haven't reached laptop zen—that point at which your laptop does gymnastics for you and is a seamless extension of your productivity. Today we're taking a look at...
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Microsoft's Bid for Yahoo!: The Long View
via O'Reilly Radar by Tim O'Reilly on January 31, 2008
By Tim O'ReillyMicrosoft's bid for Yahoo! is something that has been rumored for a long time, but it's really the first of many more consolidation steps for the computer industry. Every new industry starts with a few crazy innovators, who are followed by thousands of entrepreneurs engaged in a fierce Darwinian competition. Some of those entrepreneurs build large companies, but as...
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Hey, You Condescending Jerk, No One Prints Emails Anyway
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on February 01, 2008
Apologies, it’s time for a weekend rant. I know it’s all the rage right now to be green. but is it really necessary to put a line at the bottom of every email telling me not consider the environment and not to print it?It was fine when just a few people did it last year (it was a ding against their startup, but didn’t necessarily kill a story), but now a significant percentage of emails...
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Finally, a Web-based PDF Viewer That Does Not Suck (Issuu)
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on February 05, 2008
There are plenty of ways to embed documents into Web pages, from Scribd to DocStoc. But when it comes to replicating the look and feel of a magazine or book, most digital efforts fall flat. (Olive Software comes to mind—we used that over at Time Inc. to create Web-viewable versions of the magazines, but it was too slow and required a separate client download. Conde Nast’s Flip also takes...
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Use Your Wii as a Media Center [Feature]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on February 18, 2008
These days, every gaming system in your living room better be able to do more than just play video games if it's going to earn its place next to your TV. The Xbox 360 makes for an excellent Media Center extender, and the original Xbox is the king of homebrew video-game-cum-media-boxes, but when it comes to expanding your home theater beyond gaming, the Wii has always been a bit light on...
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Actual Performance, Perceived Performance
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on March 02, 2008
If you've used Windows Vista, you've probably noticed that Vista's file copy performance is noticeably worse than Windows XP. I know it's one of the first things I noticed. Here's the irony-- Vista's file copy is based on an improved algorithm and actually performs better in most cases than XP. So how come it seems so darn slow?Let's start with Mark Russinovich's...
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Mozilla Stealth Data Project Could Be Just What The Internet Needs
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 12, 2008
One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites. But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer said they may fix that problem in the future, via the massive installed base of Firefox users.The State of Analytics TodayThere are three ways to measure web traffic.The first is user-focused and based on software...
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