Archive for February, 2008

Netscape Navigator 9... what's the point?

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I happened to notice that Netscape have released version 9 of it's browser. Does anyone still use this? The fact that Netscape will end all support for their browsers on 1st March makes this release seem completely pointless. (Oh, and since when did the browser re-gain the "Navigator" suffix?) Netscape Navigator 9

links for 2008-02-21

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Yahoo! Launches World's Largest Hadoop Production Application (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!) (tags: apache development linux opensource technology)

Instant Messaging 2.0

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An interesting post on how different IM providers are embracing open standards: Consider that everyone IMs. Websites come and go - but IM remains. What’s important about that is that your social network persists over many, many years. My friendster buddy list is essentially useless - since I no longer use that site. But my [...]

EyeTV Hybrid

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I've been meaning to get hold of one for ages, but finally I've got my hands on an EyeTV.  I've chosen the Hybrid version as I'm planning on digitising some analog video at some point in the future. Initial impressions are very good: The USB device itself is very small, as is the bundled aerial. [...]

links for 2008-02-20

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ies4osx Haven't had a chance to check this yet, but could well be a nice alternative to VirtualPC or Parallels (tags: accessibility Browser development testing)

Useful Smart Playlists for iPhone

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If you have a large music library on your computer, it won't necessarily fit on your iPhone or iPod. Instead of syncing your whole library, it's worthwhile being a little more selective with the tunes that you want to listen to on the move. To this end, I have two smart playlists set up that [...]

links for 2008-02-18

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R.E.M. Releases New Videos Under Open Source License - ReadWriteWeb (tags: downloads music opensource videos)

Indy 4 Trailer

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Okay, so Harrison Ford is old, and there's no Sean Connery. But. I do wanna see this so much!

Search engine snippets

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An interesting comparison of what content the two main search engines have chosen to display for my blog: Google: Yahoo!: Google seems to have just picked up the footer of my site , whereas Yahoo has picked up the header, some post content and the footer. At the moment, there is no meta description on [...]