Archive for January 2, 2007

Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker

Just before Christmas, Mozilla designer Alex Faaborg published some introductory posts on his blog about where Mozilla is headed with microformats. Quick background: Mozilla is of course the developer of the popular open source browser Firefox; and microformats are (in Alex’s words) “adding semantics to markup to take it from being machine readable

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infoRSS: An unobtrusive RSS feed manager for Thunderbird and Firefox

“If you don’t want to get used to a whole new application, you might want to give infoRSS a try. Unlike other RSS aggregators, infoRSS is a Thunderbird/Firefox extension that runs inside your email client or browser.”

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HOWTO: Install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6 : Simplest Way

Installing firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core has never been easier. This is way better than creating rpm’s yourself or downloading rpm’s that dont work. This definitely works.

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Microsoft Releases “Birds” Zune Ad

Microsoft releases yet another strange “Zune” advertisement, titled “Birds”. It’s quite disturbing to say the least.

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Very cool- Japanese robot suit to let paralyzed move again

Japan’s Matsushita company unveiled a robotic suit, eyed to be marketed in two years, that will help people who are partially paralyzed rehabilitate the rest of their bodies.

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Avis Car Rental to Offer Wi-Fi Routers

Avis is expected to announce shortly that they will be offering mobile Wi-Fi hotspots with their rental cars. The new service will offer their customers a mobile Wi-Fi router with their car. Car renters will be able to access the internet from any internet device while on the go. Autonet Mobile internet service covers 95 percent of the country.

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New Year’s Resolution: Make a Big Mess

Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo! wants to reduce his mental distraction in 2007 using these rules:…

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“RSS” is one of the coolest things you’ve never heard of

Short for “Really Simple Syndication,” a name that seems designed to induce maximum eye glazing, RSS is in fact one of the best time-savers online. And it’s getting easier to use.

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The Race to Beat Google

A breakdown of alternatives to Google. Leaders in new search technologies, UI, and vertical search.

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Xilisoft DVD to WMV Converter

Xilisoft DVD to WMV Converter is a powerful dvd ripper and video converter tool, which can help you convert DVD to WMV video and WMA audio format easily and fast, with perfect output qulity.

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Firefox is photoshop for the web engineer

here is an argument to get us all to agree on firefox as the default tool for the web developer, just like photoshop for the graphics designer

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Apple’s Top 10 Blunders

It’s great to see Apple on top of it’s game. It’s also neat to read what could have put them under.

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