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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Google 'Hero' Joins LinkedIn

Dipchand "Deep" Nishar, a Google Inc. executive who helped start the company's mobile

[Dipchand Nishar]

business and other key products, is leaving the company to become a senior executive at LinkedIn Corp.

Mr. Nishar, 40 years old, will become vice president of products for the social network that is focused on professionals in January. He will lead LinkedIn's efforts to develop new products and services related to its social-networking site. Chairman Reid Hoffman, who had previously filled the senior product role, will remain at the company and shift his focus to broader strategy issues, Mr. Hoffman said in an interview.[more]

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money


Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living.
One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning six-figure incomes from the Web site. For some, like Michael Buckley, the self-taught host of a celebrity chatter show, filming funny videos is now a full-time job.[more]

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Apple Disables Egyptian iPhones' GPS


Apparently the Egyptian government is paranoid about its community using GPS devices, to the degree that it demanded Apple remove any GPS functionality from its iPhone 3G. They claim that 'GPS functionality should be limited to military purposes.' Egyptian blogger Ahmed Gabr brought this issue up in another article, and talks about how this does not make sense, since Google maps and the like can be used. I also happen to know for a fact that most of the modern cars in Egypt have built-in GPS systems.

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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Best Media Center Application


XBMC is an award winning media center application for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and XBox. The ultimate hub for all your media, XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community. Try it now!

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2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist


As the year comes to a close, it's time to look at the big events, memorable moments and emerging trends that captivated us in 2008. As it happens, studying the aggregation of the billions of search queries that people type into the Google search box gives us a glimpse into the zeitgeist — the spirit of the times. We've compiled some of the highlights from Google searches around the globe and hope you enjoy looking back as much as we do.

Fastest Rising (Global)

  1. sarah palin
  2. beijing 2008
  3. facebook login
  4. tuenti
  5. heath ledger
  6. obama
  7. nasza klasa
  8. wer kennt wen
  9. euro 2008
  10. jonas brothers

Click on the countries below for regional highlights

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Programmer’s Notepad 2 0.9.853 Released


  1. Create file backups when saving (option)
  2. Various look and feel improvements
  3. Extension configuration now stored in user settings directory, meaning this works on Vista without an admin prompt
  4. You can now choose to poll for updates of testing releases
  5. Uncomment now works for multiple line-comment lines at once
  6. New keyboard shortcuts for line comments
  7. Added a new Turbo preset to help indulge your Turbo Pascal nostalgia
  8. Improved the ZenBurn preset
  9. Default scheme font on Vista is now Consolas, still Lucida Console on XP and below
  10. Allow opening workspace files
  11. Restore editor windows when jumping to a line or tag
  12. Improved regular expressions support
  13. Works on Win2k again
  14. Don’t hold directories open after selecting files
  15. Support explorer context menus in Browser, Open Files and Projects items
  16. Added Mark All (again!)
  17. Find in all Project Files
  18. Find across all open files

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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Audio CAPTCHAs Cracked; ReCAPTCHA Remains Strong


Ars Technica reports that audio CAPTCHAs consisting of only distorted digits or letters can be easy to crack using machine learning techniques. This includes most of the audio CAPTCHAs currently in use on the Web. The reCAPTCHA team has discussed their new audio CAPTCHA, which is resistant to this attack

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Monday, December 8, 2008

New Technology To Track Web Content: Zoetrope

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Google To Sell Truly Open Android Dev Phone


Google has announced an unlocked version of T-Mobile's G1 for sale at the same unlocked price of $399. The Android Dev Phone 1 is the G1, except being truly open: no SIM-lock, no hardware lock. Feel free to flash your customized Android build — the bootloader won't be checking for signatures. Don't be misled by the word 'Dev,' looks like all you need to qualify is an Android Market account. This looks like the Open Handset Alliance delivering the promised Open Handset: yes root, yes flash-your-build, no contract, no strings attached.

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How To Save My Pc's Drivers


One of the most boring parts of reinstalling the operating system is having to find and install all drivers again. What if you don’t have the Driver CD that came with the computer or you have lost it or they are unavailable online? It can be quite difficult for example to find drivers for hardware installed in a notebook if the operating system has to be setup again. Luckily Double Driver can now lend you a hand with that and save you a lot of time!

Double Driver is a very simple and useful tool which not only allows you to view all the drivers installed on your system but also allows you to backup, restore, save and print all chosen drivers simply and reliably.

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