Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/11/linpus-demos-uber-klein-mystery-netbook/
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Linpus demos uber klein mystery netbook originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading Apple's redesigned iPod shuffle hits 4GB, talks to you (updated with video!)
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Apple's redesigned iPod shuffle hits 4GB, talks to you (updated with video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Household
Fraunhofer's new security device turns your window into a motion detector originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Use Any Internet Browser on your Computer Without Installation
Do you want to:
a. Carry a portable version of your favorite web browser on the USB drive? It could be Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari or even Opera.
b. Simultaneously run multiple versions of Internet Explorer or Firefox on the same computer side-by-side without any hacks.
c. Test the new design of your website in all popular browsers without having to rely on an online service like Browser Shots?
d. You don’t have permissions to install new software on the office computer? How do you then use Safari or Google Chrome instead of Internet Explorer?
e. You have heard lot of good things about Internet Explorer 8 but since that browser is still in beta, you don’t want to override your existing installation of IE 7. How do you then try IE 8 without uninstalling IE 7?
f. You love Browser A but some of your favorite websites only open in Browser B. How can you access these websites without installing B?
Now if you said yes to any of the above questions, all you need is Xenocode - it’s an awesome platform that helps you run any web browser on your computer without installation. Simply download an executable from the Xenocode website and double-click to run that web browser.
Xenocode provides ready-to-use packages for Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 6-8 and Firefox 2-3. Xenocode WebApps also let you run multiple application versions side-by-side on any version of Windows.
If you were using virtual machines with VMWare or Microsoft Virtual PC just for testing browser compatibility, it may be a good idea to switch to Xenocode browser as they are fast and you don’t have to wait for the virtual machine to boot up.
Note: Xencode provides a slightly older version of Chrome but you download Chrome 2 (portable) here.
Related: Convince People to Upgrade Web Browsers
Use Any Internet Browser on your Computer Without Installation (Published at Digital Inspiration)
Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/usage-statistics-for-search-engines-browsers/7729/
Get Usage Statistics for Search Engines, Web Browsers & Mobile Internet
If you need to know the market share or current trends about the usage of Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Search Engines and Mobile Internet across different regions of the world, check out this global stats tool created by Statcounter.
Statcounter, a web analytics company that records visitor statistics for a few million websites (including this one), tracks almost 4 billion page views per month and can therefore paint a pretty accurate picture of trends on the Internet.
The tool tracks both desktop based web browser as well as mobile browsers. Safari on iPhone and iPod Touch continue to lead the mobile browser market in North America followed by BlackBerry.
Mobile Browser Usage in North America
Mobile Browser Usage in Asia
The situation is however very different in Asia where Nokia and Opera compete for the top spot while iPhone usage is at the same level as Sony Ericsson.
Coming back, all the usage reports in are updated five times per day so you can create almost real-time charts from the Statcounter tool. The data goes back to June 2008 and you may filter by country to spot localized trends.
Unlike other web research tools from Netcraft or Alexa, StatCounter as a company is pretty open with their data, allowing you to download graphs as images, or you can access raw CSV data to manipulate in Excel or directly embed the graphs in your blog.
And here are a few more charts about Web Browsers and OS usage acoss the world.
Get Usage Statistics for Search Engines, Web Browsers & Mobile Internet (Published at Digital Inspiration)
Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/embed-google-maps-trick/7897/
How to Open Embedded Google Maps in Full View
Here’s an old Google Maps trick that some of you may know already but I just discovered it via an accidental click.
So what you see below is not a static screenshot image but a live & interactive Google Map that lets you zoom, pan, switch modes from satellite to terrain and so on.
There are some limitations though with embedded Google maps. For instance, you can’t share the link of an embedded Google map via email nor can you find the location shown in the embedded space, they don’t support driving directions and their size is often too small to look good in print.
To overcome all such limitations, you need to open this embedded map into the main Google Maps website and this can be done very easily by simple clicking the "Powered by Google" logo at the bottom left corner.
Now you have the same map but inside the full-featured Google Maps website that supports print, email sharing, driving directions and all other features. You can also use the URL of this Google Map to determine the latitude and longitude of that embedded location.
This is much like clicking any image frame of an embedded YouTube clip - it will take you automatically to actual video on the main YouTube website.
Related: How To Embed Anything in a Site
How to Open Embedded Google Maps in Full View (Published at Digital Inspiration)
Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/detect-rss-feed-plagiarism/7876/
Fair Share Detects Content Plagiarism via RSS Feeds
Google is not always a good tool to detect RSS feed plagiarism as it may not be indexing these “scrap” sites too frequently and second, some of the sites may not exist in Google’s index at all as they are too young and so the “Sandbox effect” takes over.
Now if you have a blog and are struggling to detect other sites that may be reusing content from your RSS feed without permission or attribution, try Fair Share - it’s a free web service that will help you discover other web pages on the Internet that are republishing a portion of your RSS content. And it works as advertised.
Related: How to Deal with Internet Plagiarism
To use Fair Share, simply provide them the URL of your RSS feed and wait for a few hours while the Fair Share bots scour the web for possible violations.
You’ll get all the results in a personalized RSS feed that will not just inform you about sites taking your content but also the extent and whether that size in monetizing your content through ads.
Not all feeds in the Fair Share report may be instances of plagiarism as some sites genuinely use excerpts and link to the original story (e.g, Alltop) but it’s still a must-have service for bloggers.
And here’s another screenshot from the Fair Share report. It highlights content on other web pages that may have been lifted from your RSS feed.
If you are syndicating content though RSS feeds under a Creative Commons License, the Fair Share service will also help you detect if the other site is respecting that license or not through attribution (or linking to the original article). Thanks Arpit for the tip.
If you have a small website and need to check for instances of plagiarism in the blog world, use Google Reader to create a RSS feed of your website and pass on the Google feed address to Fair Share.
You cannot prevent websites or blogs from republishing your content but you can always file a DMCA complaint with their web hosts.
Fair Share Detects Content Plagiarism via RSS Feeds (Published at Digital Inspiration)
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/ipod-touch-2g-finally-jailbroken-with-nitrokey/
The iPhone Dev Team hackers have been teasing their redsn0w iPod touch jailbreak for what seems like forever now, but those you tired of waiting might want to check out the just-released NitroKey Slipstream. The $15 software does its thing on the 2.2.1 firmware, and automatically installs Cydia for all that jailbroken app action you crave -- including the new paid apps store. Windows-only for now, but there's apparently a Mac version in the works -- hopefully we'll see the free redsn0w take the lead back on that front. Report back if you take the plunge, would you?Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
iPod touch 2G finally jailbroken with NitroKey originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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All disks are not created equal, so if you have a nagging feeling that one of your flash drives is under-performing, it probably is. HD_Speed is a lightweight (82k!) portable application that monitors disk read and write speed in real time to help you assess disk performance. You can use HD_Speed on virtually any media: floppy disks, CD/DVD drives, hard disks, and flash-based media like USB drives and SD cards. While the real-time testing is useful for instant feedback, if you'd like to test for problems cropping up over time you can set the duration of the test and tell HD_Speed to log the process for later review. HD_Tune is freeware, Windows only.
Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/bDR8_oIk8Zo/get-200-itunes-store-vouchers-for-260
According to the blog of Outdustry—a music industry consultancy firm in China—the market is getting inundated with this pirate cards, with prices falling quickly. You can find $200 iTunes Music cards in Taobao for as low as $10, and the blog is reporting prices of $2.60.
Nobody knows what this means for Apple yet. For sure, a change of the formula that generates the vouchers looks like a definitive possibility, but that won't solve the situation of legal cards already in the market. [Outdustry and Taobao via MusicAlly]
In their test—which uses the camera's raw output as the basis for measuring sensor performance, evaluating color, dynamic range and low-light shooting—Sony's $1100 A700 outscored Canon's 40D and 50D by a few points, with a 66.3, falling just behind Nikon's D300 and the Pentax K10D. Interestingly, the top scoring sensor of that size is in the Nikon D90, which has a whopping 72.6, 10 points ahead of the Canon 50D's 62.9.
The tipster claims the phone will have a 3G, GPS, Bluetooth, 3-megapixel cam (w/geotagging), and will use Sammy's TouchWiz UI. And apparently it will be here by the end of the March. For a dumbphone, I like what I see so far. [PhoneDog via Engadget]
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/10/sanyo-goes-wireless-with-new-line-of-projectors/
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Sanyo goes wireless with new line of projectors originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Acer Aspire One mod adds eSATA port, an element of danger originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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