Archive for March 1st, 2007
Solar-powered LED streetlights trialed in China
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Blog: Solar-powered LED streetlights. Talk about a clean tech merger of concepts.North Carolina’s Cree is working with Multi-Cell Semiconductor…
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Solar powered LED streetlights trialed to China
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Blog: Solar-powered LED streetlights. Talk about a clean tech merger of concepts.North Carolina’s Cree is working with Multi-Cell Semiconductor…
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Slim down your wallet with Just One Club Card
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Web site Just One Club Card lets you condense up to 8 different discount club cards onto one front-and-back card, meaning your back-breaking wallet is about to go on a big diet.
Just enter the barcode numbers and choose the store for each card you want to get rid of and Just One Club Card will [...]
Dell’s PC business drags down earnings
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
The computer retailer’s financial disappointments continue in the fourth quarter with plunging desktop sales and flat notebook sales.
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Download of the Day: Linkification (Firefox)
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Windows/Mac/Unix (Firefox): The Linkification Firefox extension converts text URLs into clickable links.
When we posted about opening unlinked text URLs via drag-and-drop, a couple of reader suggested Linkification, and they were certainly right to do so. The Linkification extension turns any unlinked text URLs into clickable links so you don’t even have to know [...]
Podcast: After a rough year, Dell looks ahead
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Battery recalls for Lenovo, Dell looks forward, and Stephen Hawkings gets ready for a zero-gravity ride.
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HP’s boardroom drama
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Internal investigation into media leaks at tech giant blows up into full-fledged media event.
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HP execs: Spy scandal was ethical wake-up call
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The silver lining is tighter controls on future internal investigations, the company’s top ethics and privacy execs say.
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CNN parent hit by bot worm
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Blog: Breaking news: Slacking on security patches opens computers up to attack! Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner…
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WiMAX licence winners to be known soon – Business Times – Malaysia
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
WiMAX licence winners to be known soonBusiness Times – Malaysia, Malaysia - 14 hours agoWINNERS of the sought-after WiMAX tender will be announced soon, Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik said. …MCMC completes WiMAX evaluation TeleGeographyMCMC Completes Wimax Evaluation BernamaGreen Packet, YTL, REDTone-linked firms front-runners for WiMAX 2.3GHz The Edge Dailyall 4 [...]
New hacker trick may expose Oracle databases
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Technique lets intruders exploit flaws previously thought to be insignificant, says security researcher.
Original post by CNET News.com and software by Elliott
Pick a color palette with ColorJack Sphere
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Previous mentioned design web site ColorJack has rolled out a new sphere tool that makes choosing a color palette of complimentary colors easy (and kind of fun).
Just select the kind of palette you’re looking for, then start moving the cursor around until you find a scheme you like. I know we’re not all designers, [...]
Save hundreds on your next big electronics purchase
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Web site StoryEvent posts an interesting method for getting large discounts on consumer electronics at chain electronics stores.
It boils down to being a good negotiator, though the tactics seem somewhat shady (but I’m a total wimp in the negotiation room, so you may feel otherwise). You indicate that you’re interested in buying a big [...]
Domain Names and Defensible Traffic
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Domain names may play a big roll not only in anchor text, but also in overall domain credibility, linkability, and defensibility. -Aaron Wall
I am not sure what the word defensible traffic actually means because I can not define it, but I do see that it was created by this guy and linked to by these [...]
Homeland Security offers details on Real ID
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
States have until 2013 to federalize licenses; rules don’t require encryption on new IDs to protect drivers’ privacy.
Original post by CNET News.com and a wordpress plugin by Elliott
Two straight quarters of silence from Dell executives
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Blog: Dell will not hold a conference call for either reporters or financial analysts following the release of its fourth-quarter earnings…
Original post by CNET News.com and software by Elliott
Control Last.fm from your Mac keyboard
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
The 6V8 weblog loves Last.fm, Macs, and keyboard shortcuts – and so decided it would be nice to control the Last.fm player via the keyboard without switching applications.
The method involves installing a freeware application from Griffin called Proxi, which is designed to give you more control over a lot of Griffin peripherals as well as [...]
Skycross supplies antennae for Samsung WiMAX PC cards – Digital Media Asia
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Skycross supplies antennae for Samsung WiMAX PC cardsDigital Media Asia, Asia - 19 hours agoSkycross, a global wireless company providing antenna-centric RF solutions, is supplying both the internal and the external WiMAX antennae for the Samsung …
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Google loses ad exec to CBS
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Patrick Keane, a four-year Google veteran, has been named chief marketing officer at CBS Interactive.
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Joost strikes pact with JumpTV
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Blog: Joost–an online video start-up founded by the guys who built Kazaa and Skype–appears to have struck a distribution deal with…
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Security in focus at Black Hat
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Computer security pros descend on Washington, D.C., confab to talk risks, hacks and digital self-defense.
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Lenovo recalls extended-life laptop batteries
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The batteries purchased as a ThinkPad upgrade may overheat when the laptop is dropped, product safety commission says.
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Dictionary for software bugs to cut confusion?
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Mitre initiative, backed by Homeland Security, is designed to replace many variations in use today with standard flaw terms.
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Screenshot Tour: Share files with Firefox and AllPeers
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
If the preponderance of file sharing web apps current springing up around the interweb are any indication, a lot of you are looking for a good way to share large files with your peers. The AllPeers Firefox extension adds drag-and-drop peer-to-peer file sharing to the comfort of everyone’s favorite browser.
Click through to the gallery [...]
Using Windows Vista speech recognition
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
NY Times tech writer David Pogue raves about Windows Vista’s built-in speech recognition:
As I wrote in my Vista review for The Times, I don’t find it quite as accurate as my beloved Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, which is freakishly, “Star Trek”-ishly accurate. But it’s awfully cool. Hook up a microphone headset and give it a shot.
Speech [...]
Alvarion’s BreezeMAX becoming top of the line WiMAX solution – WiMax.com
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Alvarion’s BreezeMAX becoming top of the line WiMAX solutionWiMax.com, TX - 18 hours agoIsrael based Alvarion has been selected by Telecom Namibia to provide its BreezeMAX WiMAX products. This news has been announced by Alvarion, few days ago. …Telecom Namibia Migrates Wireless Local Loops to a WiMAX Network … Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release)Telecom Namibia deploys [...]
Add the Run command to Launchy
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Reader Mike loves Launchy, the slick application launcher, but missed being able to run Windows’ Run command. So he figured out how to add it:
I simply went to Start, then dragged Run into my All Programs list. Windows created a shortcut to Run and Launchy successfully indexed it. Now I can run Run from Launchy. [...]
Block porn and more with ScrubIT
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Worried about unwanted porn in the home or workplace? ScrubIT promises to block that stuff (and more) at the server level.
All you do is configure your router to use ScrubIT’s DNS servers. Alternately, Windows 2000/XP users can download a utility that tweaks the networking settings accordingly. When you’re done, any porn-ridden or potentially malicious sites, [...]
Helio turns up the Heat
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Blog: Helio, a cell phone service designed for young hipsters, introduced a new phone called the Heat on Thursday along with direct…
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AOL picks new CFO from Time Warner top brass
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Company names operations executive Nisha Kumar as replacement for Stephen Swad amid larger management shuffle.
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Social algorithms are coming
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Is Google and other search engines looking to build more advanced social algorithms?
Did you know that the comments that people leave in blogs are sometimes of more value to search engines than the actual posts themselves? Could this mean that in the future (when search engines are able to make better sense of social areas [...]
Download of the Day: Gnosis (Firefox)
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Firefox only: Turn your browser into a research tool with Gnosis, a new plug-in that highlights key information on sites you visit.
Using “semantic processing,” Gnosis scans a Web page for people, companies, products, locations and other recognizable info, then highlights key words and phrases with a color-coded double-underscore. Mouse over any of these highlighted items [...]
Police blotter: Wife e-surveilled in divorce case
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Man captures keystrokes and screen grabs of wife’s chats with suspected lover–and is allowed to use them in divorce case.
Original post by CNET News.com and software by Elliott
Firefox Tip: How to set up multi-parameter keyword searches
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
One of Firefox’s most useful features is Quick Searches, the ability to assign a keyword to a link and pass a parameter in when you launch it – like thes useful to look up “useful” in a thesaurus.
But what about shortcuts that need more than one parameter, like comparing two stock prices? Turns out that [...]
Police blotter: E-spying OK in divorce case
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Man captures keystrokes and screen grabs of wife’s chats with suspected lover–and is allowed to use them in divorce case.
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Create instant online whiteboards with Skrbl
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Skrbl lets you create an online whiteboard in about the time it takes to read this sentence.
Without so much as registering, you can start a new whiteboard. Doing so creates a URL that you send to friends, colleagues or whomever (though you have to do this manually; Skrbl has no invitation tools to speak of). [...]
Wikipedia 101: Check your sources
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Blog: A few months back, The New Yorker published a long piece about online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This week, the magazine ran…
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Why the tech industry still can’t get its way
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When it comes to pressing its case with the political elites, Silicon Valley still doesn’t know how to throw around its weight, says CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper.
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Dell’s new focus: Don’t look back
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With a new management team in place, the computer maker could be preparing to make changes to some of its core ideals.
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Store, Swap and Organize: Storage Accessories
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Storage has countless faces these days, including numerous useful accessories. We found fives products to help you flexibly install, connect, silence and manage 2.5″ and 3.5″ hard drives.
Original post by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz and software by Elliott Back
Oracle buys Hyperion for $3.3 billion
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Hyperion’s business intelligence and financial planning tools could be a lever to help pry customers from SAP.
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Google to offer more click fraud protection
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Advertisers will be able to prevent their pay-per-click ads from showing up at IP addresses of competitors suspected of using click fraud.
Original post by CNET News.com and software by Elliott Back
Ad industry edging closer to electronic trading age
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Advertising trade group and eBay detail plans for a national effort to enable electronic buying and selling of ads across media.
Original post by CNET News.com and software by Elliott Back
[this is good]: February ‘07
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Just in case you were busy digging your car out of the great white drifts this month, here are our most popular posts from Cupid’s favorite month of the year:
Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD“Putting any old video file – like the DivX/Xvid-encoded videos you’ve downloaded with BitTorrent – onto [...]
Lifehacker Code: The Ly Detector (Greasemonkey user script)
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
If you’re at all familiar with Strunk and White, you know that excessive use of adverbs – words that end in – – isn’t a sign of strong writing. All of us writers struggle with sentence-weakening general’s and relative’s at times, but now there’s a Greasemonkey script that highlights adverbial transgressions on the web [...]
Intel, AMD vie for server attention
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Dueling chipmakers try to steer attention to tomorrow’s battleground for quad-core server processors.
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Revision3 revs up for XLR8r TV launch
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Blog: SAN FRANCISCO–With a white Revision3 poster hanging from a fire escape on Mason Street, the club Slide welcomed in a number of…
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About This Site Firefox extension update
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Just released an update to the previously-posted About This Site Bookmarks Firefox extension, which now has support for highlighted text, as well as page title, URL, and domain variables.
In a nutshell, About This Site has evolved into a variable-enabled bookmark tool; using it you can replace 2 dozen popular bookmarklets including GmailThis and post [...]
NASA releases first photos of Jupiter from New Horizons
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Never-before-seen photos of the planet and its moons released to the public.Photos: Pluto probe returns photos of Jupiter
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Yahoo! Pipes master feed update
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Two weeks ago I published a tutorial on how to aggregate all the feeds you generate at different places all over the web into one master feed. As an example, I merged my Lifehacker posts, del.icio.us bookmarks and Flickr photos, and bemoaned the fact that there is no easy way to edit each headline [...]
House panel grills Sirius chief on XM merger
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Politicians say they want to keep an open mind but indicate the deal may have high hurdles to leap.
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Microsoft fix to keep Zune from skipping a beat
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A firmware update next month will address “skipping” problem with some songs downloaded from the online store.
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Coop’s Corner Podcast: Why the tech industry still can’t get its way
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When it comes to pressing its case with the political elites, the mandarins of Silicon Valley still don’t know how to throw around their weight.
Original post by CNET News.com and a wordpress plugin by Elliott
Google Maps adds real-time traffic data
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
Latest offering shows traffic conditions in more than 30 major cities. But Yahoo already has a similar service.
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Report: Beware of hype surrounding dual-mode phones
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There are other ways to tie together wireless, wireline netowrks besides Wi-Fi/cellular handsets, research firm says.
Original post by CNET News.com and software by Elliott Back
Mac Wi-Fi hijack demonstrated
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Blog: ARLINGTON, Va.–Is the book on the Mac Wi-Fi hijack saga finally being closed? David Maynor, chief technology officer at Errata…
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Photos: Sansa connects
Posted by: st3ch on: March 1, 2007
The Sansa Connect, demonstrated at the Digital Music Forum East conference, is a Wi-Fi enabled MP3 player expected to hit shelves in late March.
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