Computer Stuff

  • Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 soon

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    From Mozillazine.org: Tree Locked Down for Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 At 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -0700) on Monday, the Mozilla development tree was locked down in preparation for the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 (also known as the 1.8 Beta 5 milestone). This means that no more checkins will be accepted

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  • Don’t spread this link!!!

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    Here’s something that will ruin our peace at home: The Fog Creek Copilot service allows people to help their friends, relatives, and customers fix their computer problems by connecting to their computers via the Internet. Unlike other remote assistance services, Fog Creek Copilot is secure, easy to use, works through any home or office firewall

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  • eHub

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    Back to the web applications theme, Emily Chang’s eHub has a constant updated list of web 2.0 sites like digital media sharing, blogs, social software, Ajax, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, etc… [tags]eHub, Web 2.0[/tags]

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  • Ning…

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    Ning Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications. Social apps are web applications that enable anyone to match, transact, and communicate with other people. [tags]Ning, Social Applications[/tags]

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  • Google Office is not a reallity… yet

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    Speculation. All the hype just to include the Google Toolbar in Java downloads. I’m sure this partnership can bring advantages but everyone is waiting for a big announcement from Google, something like ZohoWriter but more powerfull and bundled with a spreadsheet like Num Sum but built with Ajax and finally a calendar app like Kiko

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  • Mozilla Hacked… again!

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    I just got this wonderful email from Mozilla: The Spread Firefox Team became aware this week that the server hosting Spread Firefox, our community marketing site, has been accessed by unknown remote attackers who attempted to exploit a security vulnerability in TWiki software installed on the server. The TWiki software was disabled as soon as

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  • NerdTV Episode 4

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    I’m a little bit late on this one… Anyway, NerdTV episode 4 is out, this month with Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Founder. September 27, 2005: Although Brewster Kahle started and sold companies for big bucks to AOL and Amazon.com, his true love is capturing for posterity the whole Internet at the Internet Archive, which he

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  • Google WiFi Catch

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    This one is hillarious! CNet says in this article that the Google WiFi service has a catch: The chief difference is speed. Google’s service would apparently top out at 300 kbps. That’s about five times the speed of telephone dial-up connections, but hardly the kind of capacity needed for many high-bandwidth services and applications. So

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  • Google Office is a reallity

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    After much speculation about the domain names registred (like calendar.google.com), Google joined forces with Sun to bring the power of StarOffice (OpenOffice) applications to the web. A webcast of the news conference has been scheduled for today. [tags]Google, Sun, Google Office, StarOffice, OpenOffice[/tags]

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