There are a lot of ways to contribute to the Mozilla project, but QA and testing is one of the easiest and mosts important ways to get started! Ryan Paul at Ars has some good pointers for how you can have a huge impact on over 100 million Firefox users without writing code.
A review of the latest video from the man who said Mahalo will kill Google. A vision of the “Blog of the future”, which, as Allen Stern points out… is already here.
Apple has responded to news that NBC will not renew its iTunes contract. In a shocker, NBC wanted an eye popping $4.99 per episode, which is up from the $1.99 price that over 50 cable networks have agreed to this fall. As a result, the iTunes Store will not offer any episodes from the upcoming seasons of NBC TV shows.
Researchers at USC have taken another step towards that holiest of sci-fi dreams: the 3D holographic display. Using a spinning mirror covered with a “holographic diffuser,” a special DVI implementation, and a high-speed projector. Wait till the porn industry gets hold of this.
Two years ago, the idea of paying $2 per episode for a TV show seemed almost crazy, thanks mostly to DVRs, VCRs and file-sharing networks. But the iTunes Store has changed that, and helped to popularize TV shows such as The Office, Battlestar Galactica, and Heroes in the process. Now NBC is threatening to pull out of iTunes. Sound off inside.
“We were so happy, all the software part was done, so we started opening the iphone. The antenna cover was a bit tricky but eventually it came off. Then we started to open the metal cover (after taking out the 3 screws) and PUFF, up it went in smoke, I think my collegue must have touched something
Burglars smashed the front window of the Apple Inc.’s Saddle Creek retail store in Memphis, Tenn. Tuesday morning, making off with $25,000 worth of goods in less than a minute flat.
“It has been announced on the kde-core-devel mailing list that KDE 4.0 has been delayed by two months. KDE 4.0 was originally scheduled for release towards the end of October, but now it won’t make it out until at least December 20.”
The SFWA, which represents science fiction and fantasy authors, has demanded that a web site remove “infringing” content like sci-fi reading lists, Creative Commons-licensed books, and more.
How healthy are super-powered game consoles for the video game industry?
There was much shouting about how bad the “transparent” menu bar was in the WWDC release of Leopard beta. Turns out Apple listened to all the moaning… see for yourself.
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