Atom Feed from Searchles Wed Nov 25 15:13:39 EST 2009 en-us Makin Tue Jun 09 18:04:07 EDT 2009 As endlessly predicted, Apple's unveiled a new iPhone today at WWDC, the iPhone 3GS. Makin Fri Jun 05 08:42:15 EDT 2009 Monticello, Minnesota hoped to set state precedent by building its own fiber-to-the-home link for every resident in town. The phone company sued, but after a year in litigation, the state Court of Appeals has ruled that Internet is indeed a "utility" that can be provided by local communities and funded by city bonds. Makin Fri Jun 05 07:27:14 EDT 2009 If you take all the Linux netbook announcements from the Computex trade show and add them up, they equal good times ahead for the Linux desktop. Here's how it works out. Makin Wed Jun 03 09:30:34 EDT 2009 Easily and quickly persuade anyone to do anything you want, using the hidden power of...However, even though it's a fantastic product it isn't the Makin Thu May 28 18:34:34 EDT 2009 A Twitter TV show? O Plz. Will the hype ever die down? "I hope so," says Twitter creator Jack Dorsey. "The buzz is definitely good right now, but it's also potentially dangerous... It may put us into a fad." Makin Thu May 28 12:38:24 EDT 2009 Just when we got used to Wordpress version 2.7.1 along comes the latest version in Beta. Makin Thu May 28 12:24:41 EDT 2009 In this article, well go over best practices and trends for working with and building modal windows. Well also provide numerous examples of well-constructed modal windows and a few scripts to get you started with building them. Makin Tue May 26 19:39:04 EDT 2009 Apple's WWDC 2009 is almost here. On the menu: Definitely Snow Leopard and a even-stronger-than-before focus on the iPhone OS, as the sessions schedule and the promotion materials show. What else? Here's what I think is cooking. Makin Sun May 24 09:35:01 EDT 2009 Find what is selling on eBay with Auction Inspector! Your online auction guide to find...However, even though it's a fantastic product it isn't the Makin Fri May 22 10:16:58 EDT 2009 As a child of the 80s, I had many of these toys and played with them much longer than a kids attention span would dictate. Below are five that I have the fondest memories of. And hoping to instill that same child-like wonder in my kids, Ive also included what the modern equivalents are in the market today. Makin Thu May 21 17:19:00 EDT 2009 Fast food chain KFC has been taken off the menu by Google Street View after privacy technology blurred the face of Colonel Sanders. The company says it took the decision because he is 'a real person' - despite him passing away in December 1980 aged 90. Makin Sun May 17 12:42:38 EDT 2009 PolicyKit integration is the most notable back-end change: this framework lets application developers request privileges from the OS without needing the all-or-nothing 'su'. On the user-visible side, 4.3 Beta 1 sports a new tree view option for System Settings, a fading desktop switcher, and new window animations. Here's the full changelog -- Makin Fri May 15 17:21:17 EDT 2009 The popularity of any software can be guessed from the number of hacks that trail it after a release. Or the number of add-ons. Google Chrome seems to be not only holding its own but also trotting along. As of April 2009, it is the worlds fourth most popular browser. Not bad for a browser which is few months away from its first birthday. Makin Fri May 15 07:39:17 EDT 2009 Totally insane Vector Graphics by Ahmed Alrefaie. He creates great vectors so full of details that it's unbelievable. No wonder why he takes a month on each piece, check it out! Makin Wed May 13 12:36:20 EDT 2009 No, what we have here is a failure to communicate. The Google Chrome blog wrote: "Our test team did a great job in qualifying two Stable updates and a Beta update this week, and we just didn't have the bandwidth to push a Dev channel release." A ZDNet writer took bandwidth to mean, well, bandwidth, and before you could say "huh?" the tale took off. Makin Thu May 14 13:31:28 EDT 2009 The companies are pairing Cisco's mobile WiMax infrastructure with Clearwire's ecosystem of partners to deploy mobile broadband. Makin Thu May 14 08:04:28 EDT 2009 Red Laser, which has just hit the iTunes App Store, is the ultimate iPhone barcode scanner, which works just like one of those red-laser scanners at the checkout (hence the name.) Makin Wed May 13 14:05:48 EDT 2009 Clouds are such big Linux news these days that, in the physical world, it would be raining by now. Or at least heavily overcast. Makin Tue May 12 16:46:44 EDT 2009 Recently, the copyright industry has been using international means to pressure Canada into copyright reform. Since the accusations by the copyright industry are that Canadas copyright laws are the weakest, it is interesting that the latest news is that 5 people now face imprisonment and fines of up to $1 million for pirating and selling DVDs. Makin Tue May 12 14:42:34 EDT 2009 Google has launched its first TV advertising campaign across a range of US networks to promote Chrome, its web browser.