Monday, January 31, 2011
Snag a copy of ?PC Security Handbook: 2nd Edition ? Free eBook?
Here’s a Friday Freebie for you: The PC Security Handbook: 2nd Edition [affiliate link] is a handbook that has been designed to help you find ways to protect your Windows XP/Vista/7 PC to help ensure that�your data is safe. The author gives advice and tips on choosing the best anti-virus software, firewall program and backup [...]
Flipit! USB Charger Adapter Review
Remember the FlexUSB? It was a little USB adapter from IDEATIVE that allowed you to position a USB connector in a variety of ways when faced with a cramped space. Now, these same folks have a new product. It’s the Flipit! USB Charger, which will let you charge a USB device when you don’t have [...]
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/01/29/flipit-usb-charger-adapter-review/
Meet The People You Follow On Twitter With YC-Funded Conference Directory Lanyrd
In the same events planning space as Plancast and Upcoming, Y Combinator-funded Lanyrd launches today after this weekend's game changing news of Yuri Milner and SV Angel's 150K investment in every Y Combinator startup. An IMDB for conferences, Lanyrd has the ambitious goal of becoming the one stop shop for all conference data by pulling in information from the Twitter accounts that you follow. At first glance Lanyrd is pretty comprehensive. Whether past or future event, a Lanyrd conference page shows you a list of speakers, attendees, and trackers and their respective Twitter accounts as well as a list of sessions, a link to the actual conference page itself, the ability to save the event to iCal and Outlook, a link to coverage, separation by topic, related books, as well as permalink page which enables you to share the Lanyrd conference page with your friends (Whew!).
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Ford Focus Electric unlikely to support DC quick-charging, slower than the Leaf after all?
That leaves us with two questions. First, will the SAE get its standard finalized before Ford gets the Focus Electric finalized? Second, will the SAE standard be compatible with the Japanese CHAdeMO standard? Sadly, our magic eight ball is not giving us much hope on either account.Fast charge will not be included on the Focus Electric until an industry standard has been set by SAE. Once an approved/accepted standard is in place, we will work on getting the car ready for [it].
Ford Focus Electric unlikely to support DC quick-charging, slower than the Leaf after all? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Android Honeycomb port for Nook Color gets graphics acceleration, first demo video
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Android Honeycomb port for Nook Color gets graphics acceleration, first demo video originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Jan 2011 07:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ford Focus Electric unlikely to support DC quick-charging, slower than the Leaf after all?
That leaves us with two questions. First, will the SAE will get its standard finalized before Ford gets the Focus Electric finalized? Second, will the SAE standard be compatible with the Japanese CHAdeMO standard? Sadly, our magic eight ball is not giving us much hope on either account.Fast charge will not be included on the Focus Electric until an industry standard has been set by SAE. Once an approved/accepted standard is in place, we will work on getting the car ready for [it].
Ford Focus Electric unlikely to support DC quick-charging, slower than the Leaf after all? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Adobe Photoshop Express for iOS now supports Retina Display, multitasking, better workflow
With an update to version 1.5, Photoshop Express for iOS now supports the iPhone and iPod touch's Retina Display, and iOS 4.2's multitasking. The app is free to download, as always.The app received a few other neat updates, too. You can now shoot continuously from inside the app, making action photography a whole lot easier. Uploading to Photoshop.com and Facebook is also much improved: with multitasking now enabled, you can queue some uploads, and then get straight back to taking photos.
The press release that we received, incidentally, cites "millions of iOS-based users" -- so this should be a very well-received update indeed!
Adobe Photoshop Express for iOS now supports Retina Display, multitasking, better workflow originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mozilla's HTML5 Game On finalists now online; go play, go vote!
Mozilla Labs' jury has selected the 35 finalists of its inaugural Game On 2010 competition. The games all use a combination of Open Web technologies -- HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, SVG and WebGL -- and while they have been designed for playing in Firefox 4, they should mostly work in Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer 9, too.While the grand prizes will be handed out by a panel of expert judges, you're encouraged to play some games and vote for Community Choice award. You have until February 1 to vote, and all of the prizes will be awarded on February 3.
If you don't want to play all 35 (and admittedly, some of them are not all that great), take a look at Favimon (Lee loves this one) and TankWorld (check the sound effects!) Grave Danger is also strangely enjoyable -- perhaps it's the voodoo skulls, or something...
Finally, if 35 games weren't enough, you can also take a look at all of the entrants. Not a bad haul for emerging, beta technologies. Here's to Game On 2011!
[I actually tried some of these on the Android browser, and while they didn't work very well... they did work.]
Mozilla's HTML5 Game On finalists now online; go play, go vote! originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
With Ubuntu's shift to Qt in 11.10, an attack on the mobile sector must be imminent
When Canonical announced Ubuntu's shift away from the GNOME desktop manager in 11.04, the switch to Qt was almost a foregone conclusion; GNOME requires Gtk+, but Unity doesn't -- so why stick around? A better question to ask, though, is why Qt?
The odd, but overwhelmingly likely truth seems to be that Ubuntu is moving into the mobile sector. Unity was originally designed as a netbook or small-screen interface; and there's no denying that Unity 2D, without its shiny bells and whistles, is designed for very low-powered devices, like cheap tablets and smartphones.
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That's where Qt enters the equation: Qt is the application framework used on Nokia's Symbian and Maemo phones. Qt is also fully cross-platform, with support for Windows, Mac and Linux. With Qt, developers could write a single program for Ubuntu, and have it run on desktops, laptops, tablets, and even smartphones.But why oh why does Canonical even want to go into the mobile market? Has someone at the top lost their marbles?
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With Ubuntu's shift to Qt in 11.10, an attack on the mobile sector must be imminent originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Google defends its dropping of H.264, announces WebM plug-ins for IE and Safari
After Google's announcement last week that it would be dropping H.264 HTML5 video support, the tech world exploded. As the dust settled -- as the fragments of brainless bile drifted slowly back to the tech blog morass -- it became clear that there were two evenly-split sides. Half of the tech world, spearheaded by TechCrunch's slavering Siegler, felt that Google had figuratively defecated on its own so-called open "standards". The other half, led by a vanguard of slightly more intelligent and beardy bloggers, fully supported Google's decision. Anyway, that aside, if you were worried about not being able to watch YouTube in your IE or Safari browsers, don't worry: Google will release WebM plug-ins for browsers that don't natively support it. The same blog post goes into more detail about why Google decided to drop H.264 support, and how this isn't a power-grabbing move by the big G.
The truth is Google is only ever going to look out for Google; it's utter lunacy that Google would ever do something that scuppered its own chances of survival. Google needs an open Web to thrive, and that's exactly what WebM provides over H.264. Imagine standing in Google's shoes for a moment: you run YouTube, the third biggest site on the Internet. One day, out of the blue, the H.264 consortium decides to increase its licensing fees, instantly making the operation of YouTube untenable. What do you do now? Switching to an open and free codec simply makes sense.
Google's entire lifeblood is indexing content created by you and me -- and while open standards empower the end-user to produce almost limitless amounts of delicious content, closed, proprietary standards put power in the hands of publishers. Don't ever forget that the democratization of information brought to us by the Web has only been possible due to the open standards like TCP/IP and HTML.
At the end of the day, you have to choose whether you want Google to index your entire life story, or whether you want to be spoon fed vertically-integrated media from just a handful of multinational mega publishers. On the one hand, you retain a few important freedoms -- like the ability to speak your mind on an open forum -- and on the other, corporations decide everything for you. It's not a tough choice.
Google defends its dropping of H.264, announces WebM plug-ins for IE and Safari originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Ubuntu 11.04 switches to LibreOffice in latest daily builds
Back in September 2010, when Google, Novell and others announced the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice, Canonical frontman Mark Shuttleworth said "The Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases." In recent 11.04 Natty Narwhal daily builds, the change has finally taken place.
Download yourself a new Ubuntu 11.04 daily build .ISO, and you'll have LibreOffice installed from the get-go -- no PPA required. Natty is currently in the early stages, of course, so expect a few bumps in the road if you decide to take it for a test drive.
Download yourself a new Ubuntu 11.04 daily build .ISO, and you'll have LibreOffice installed from the get-go -- no PPA required. Natty is currently in the early stages, of course, so expect a few bumps in the road if you decide to take it for a test drive.
Ubuntu 11.04 switches to LibreOffice in latest daily builds originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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