Microsoft Live Mesh Client For Mac Leaked, Tested [Live Mesh]
Monday, July 21, 2008
Michael Arrington Wants Help Designing a $200 Open Source Internet Tablet [Tablets]
Here's the basic idea:
Here's the basic idea: The machine is as thin as possible, runs low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and off, headphone jacks, a built in camera for video, low end speakers, and a microphone. It will have Wifi, maybe one USB port, a built in battery, half a Gigabyte of RAM, a 4-Gigabyte solid state hard drive. Data input is primarily through an iPhone-like touch screen keyboard. It runs on linux and Firefox. It would be great to have it be built entirely on open source hardware, but including Skype for VOIP and video calls may be a nice touch, too.
He's looking for people to help spec out the hardware and write the custom Firefox and Linux code for it. If you help, you'll be handsomely rewarded with a first-run edition of the to-be-named device if and when it ever becomes a reality.
Will it actually happen? I'm not sure, but it sounds pretty good to me. We'll see. [CrunchGear]
Interchange the Position of Firefox Address Bar & Google Search Box
Source: http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers/interchange-firefox-address-bar-and-search-box/3919/
The following screencast animations shows how to exchange the position of Firefox Location Bar with the search box as in the screen capture above.
Idea by Cameron. Do check this guide on how to prevent Firefox 3 from showing bookmarks in the address bar.
Interchange the Position of Firefox Address Bar & Google Search Box - Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal
Firefox Tip: Save Multiple Web Pages as MHT Files In One Go!
Source: http://www.labnol.org/software/organize/save-multiple-web-pages-as-mht-firefox/3896/
The format is supported on IE, Opera, Microsoft Word, OneNote, etc. and comes handy if you need to attach an entire web page as an email attachment.
Now your favorite browser Firefox 3 cannot export web pages to MHT format by default but there’s an excellent add-in called UnMHT that makes MHT support in Firefox better an IE and Opera.
Other than viewing MHT files, this add-in adds a "Save all tabs as MHT" feature that lets you save the current window or all open websites as separate MHT files in one go taking the file name from title of the web pages.
Considering that Windows Desktop Search can index content stored in .mht files, this may prove very useful if you need to save your work and close the browser.
Related: Display MHT Files in Firefox
Firefox Tip: Save Multiple Web Pages as MHT Files In One Go! - Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal
Google Using TinyURL Service for Shortening URLs in SMS Search?
Source: http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/google-tinyurl-service-for-sms-search/3926/
For instance, Google sent an SMS message with this short URL - m.google.com/u/xva9Ot - for a search query like "Global Warming."
Now if we to use the services of TinyURL for converting that same Google page into a shorter URL, the resulting address would be something like this - tinyurl.com/6xbo7q.
Noticed a similarity ? The redirection code generated by TinyURL (6xbo7q) and Google SMS search (xva90t) have six characters each.
Since this can just be a coincidence, let’s look at the HTTP Response generated by Google that clearly says "tinyurl_server."
Google is either using TinyURL service for generating short URLs or there’s another possibility - they may have developed something similar in-house but gave it the same name "tinyurl."
Related: Google Should Consider Decoding TinyURLs
Google Using TinyURL Service for Shortening URLs in SMS Search? - Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal
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