It's taken me a couple of days to get over the trauma of voting in the Texas Democratic Primary. Start the banjo music in your head, and I'll try to give you the short version that is worth telling.
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The new Skype 1.5 beta for Mac brings Skype up to feature-parity with the Windows version with one glaring exception: video. ...Skype's community marketing manager, Jaanus Kase, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that a Skype for Mac Video Preview also would be released.
I'll admit it. I'm smitten. I just fell in love with a piece of software. Sad, I know, but this particular piece of software not only fills a need I had, it has freed me to explore and experiement with various operating systems in ways that just weren't priactical before.
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I have commented elsewhere in discussions about the virtues of various browsers. In these comments, I've mentioned that one reason I don't use Firefox on the mac that frequently is because of its PC-like interface.
I have been evaluating the Beta 2 version of Windows Vista. Frankly, I'm underwhelmed.
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Yahoo launches its new interface: Very ajaxy, yet clean. Me rikey.
Web Developers: Did you miss this, too?
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Budweiser is running a series of funny ads in the UK dubbed "Brad and Hal" that poke a great deal of fun at the US's lag behind the rest of the world in our passion for The Beautiful Game. Navigate to the "More Brad & Hal" section.
While the blog entry itself isn't very enlightening, the quotes from the blogosphere on the topic of sexy robots are very entertaining.
Football in this sense is the "Beautiful Game," or soccer as we yanks call it, not the Friday Night Lights variety that pulses through the veins of every man, woman, and child 'round these parts.
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ABC has gone a step too far with its viral marketing, and I have found that I am disturbed at the implications. What's at stake here is the very integrity of the peer-based Internet.
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This just in: Vista will slip to '07.
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Starting in June, AOL will charge a fee to guarantee that emails sent to users in their system will wind up in the recipient's Inbox.
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Written for web developers, this is an interesting and somewhat useful tech paper on MSDN regarding Microsoft's handling of standards-compliant CSS in IE7.
I happened to notice a unusual thing today when sending a friend a link to a particular podcast: the url had a unique identifying key on it.
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I downloaded the public beta of IE7 this afternoon. From a web designer's perspective, I give it mixed marks.
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The IE7 public beta is ready for download. Let all take a moment and pray for standards compliance!
Am I the only one who thinks that a Google OS is a terrible idea? A critical component--and I mean critical--for widespread adoption and use is unbelievably strong human interface design.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T Tuesday, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive and illegal program to wiretap and d
This is without a doubt the best thing I've read all day. Some highlights:
Like many, I've been treating the Newsvine beta as an experiment. What does it take to get a post promoted and voted upon? What does it take to get featured? What am I feeling when I get responses to a post or when one seems to be gathering dust?
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With the best of intentions in 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). The law was passed in an admirable attempt to prevent digital piracy.
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This ruling clarifies the legal status of cached content by a search engine. An EFF attorney asserts that, "This also should help Google defend against book publishers over its Google Library Project."
I don't know if this is a function of my age and interests being out of touch with the rest of America, or simply a fact that my media habits have drastically changed in the past year, but I find that the TV shows I've come to know and love are being canceled left and right.
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This article discusses one man's futile attempts to resurrect the series. While the ideas are far fetched and will probably never see the light of day, the hope that Firefly could one day be picked up is enticing.
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