Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This morning I reposted a Download Blog intro to Opera Unite; here now is an attempted summary of an article by Betanews on possible security issues arising from using Unite as your browser based web server.
The main question is whether the Unite APIs expose users file systems. Opera’s security documentation indicates that no Unite user [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged software on June 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Erica Ogg
CNet News
Many of the iPhone’s long-awaited features will finally become reality Wednesday when Apple rolls out iPhone OS 3.0.
Current iPhone owners can download the software from iTunes for free, and iPod Touch users can get it as well, but for a fee of $9.95, just like the last OS update. What time exactly, [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Download Blog posted a fairly comprehensive article on Opera’s new app United, which allows to transform your browser into a web server. For convenience I have reposted it here.
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was only a matter of time before the P2P community came up with some workable options for anonymizing our activities. Sure, Tor has been able to do it for quite some time, but torrenting is very taxing on the network and transfers can be painfully slow. Recently, however, three new services have appeared that [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged business-economy, ethics, software on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This stinks! It makes me even like Micro$oft better. Download Squad reports that Apple has decided to charge users, who buy a Mac now sporting the Leopard OS, US$9.95 if they want to upgrade to the soon to be released Snow Leopard. Micro$oft on the other hand offers buyers who get a computer now with [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spezify is a new freeform search tool for the visually excitable. Unlike standard search engines, which produce search results as a list of links with some textual clues, Spezify returns a multimedia imagery collage made up of pics from websites, video clips, ebay and Flickr fotos, and text clips from microblogging sites and sites like [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged software on June 13, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Everyone is raving about Windows 7; I myself didn’t test it for very long – because it never connected to my network. I shrugged it off as a beta problem and installed Ubuntu instead, but I certainly did not expect possibly encountering network problems again. Well, Angus Kidman from Lifehacker did just that (see below).
Originally, [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you haven’t got the time to watch the 80-minutes presentation by Google on Wave, Lifehacker created a shortcut: 8 clips demonstrating Wave features. For convenience purposes, I’ve reposted the clips and the brief intros here. The list of features is not complete, but they are more or less the main ones – with the [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged software on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Download Squad offers links and brief descriptions of what looks like 6 useful and free cleanup utilities. Of course, CCleaner is included, but also Bleachbit, which works well on Linux (for Windows it’s currently available only as a testing preview version). It does have a footprint that is larger than usual for cleanup apps, but [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… not that I really wanted to – because Bing is Micro$oft . Nevertheless, after reading in gHacks about the BingAndGoogle mashup which allows to search in both engines simultaneously, I thought I give it a go. BingAndGoogle works well: in Chrome the search results of both engines came back in lightning speed and [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged software on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… it records screens to an exe file. Screen2Exe is a good solution when you want to send for example a video recording to a Windows user without having to be concerned about whether he or she has the right player to watch it.
It’s a very simple program with only a few options: you can [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s often quite frustrating when a site is either down or still ‘under construction’, and often I forget to visit it again (or I’m simply so annoyed that I can’t be bothered to re-check). Notify Mee seems a good solution: it sends out a notification email once the site operates again; if the problem is [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged software on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Adobe® AIR™ runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems.
Go to the Adobe website and download the Adobe Air installation file (no point in using the wget command unless you know the exact download URL, which tends to change) – [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on May 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If you really wanna know what WAVE is all about, this so far is the video to understand it. It’s the WAVE team’s intro to the concept at the Google Developer’s Conference, and it’s a long one (1:20), but even for a non-geek like me it was great viewing.
It gave me [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Worrying about someone complaining about you using his/her image on your non-commercial blog without permission is like getting anxious about being the proverbial needle in a haystack . But if you do wanna do the right thing by the ethics created in our private-property obsessed society, using Flickr (CC) images is a good [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on May 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Name of the game: Print Friendly. As the video above demonstrates, after installing the javascript bookmarklet, just dump a URL into the box provided by the Print Friendly website, make a few adjustments if needed, and you can save 12 pages of paper printing out junk you don’t want or need.
[Via [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on May 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This Micro$soft promo video certainly does not entice me to even bother trying BING, the company’s new search engine for which it even has coined a fancy new marketing term: ‘decision engine’. The video focuses on business related questions; in this case it looks at markets like travel, shopping and health. [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… offered by Webware. They include my favourites NoScript, Web of Trust and Locationbar, but I’ve decided to give BetterPrivacy, FormFox and Ghostery a go too after reading the Webware post.
Click here to go to Webware for details.
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been using two finger typing for years now, and while I’ve become quite proficient at it, I have been thinking now and then about learning touch typing – especially in situations where I either produce a row of typos or nothing at all appeared on my screen despite me having entered 10 words – [...]
Posted in science & technology, tagged internet, software on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Great idea if you wanna broadcast files – but only up to 20Mb. Of course, FileTwt also works for direct messages but I think in these cases I’d still prefer Dropbox. FileTwt works like many other file sharing apps: you upload the file and then notify your recipients via a tweet.
To share files or to [...]
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