The tubes are now abuzz with news of the Google Phone. Techcrunch reported that the much awaited Google Phone is currently under active development. According to the TC post, the phone will have a very fast Snapdragon processor, will have voice to text built-in, and is basically going to be an Android version of the HTC HD2.
Techcrunch broke the news this morning that the mythical Google Phone was caught out and about (maybe its roommate, the Apple Tablet, asked it to pick up some milk?). According to Techcrunch, the phone is “really, really fast”, will have a Snapdragon processor, will have voice to text built-in, and is basically going to be an Android version of the HD2.
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Lets face it, the Adamo XPS is a fad. It’s a piece of work to look at sure but can it even pace with the competition (the Macbook Air)? No. The Dell Vostro V13 however, the Adamo XPS’s little brother, looks as if it hits the sweet sport of form, performance and price just right.
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A lot of webmasters run into bandwidth problems due to hotlinking, inline linking, direct linking, leeching or bandwidth theft. Whichever term you use to refer to it, it means the same exact thing, losing your bandwidth to someone else that didn’t pay for it. While it’s a practice that’s frowned upon by mostly everyone, it’s still quite rampant throughout the web which is why you need to know that there’s some tools you can use to prevent sites from jacking your precious bandwidth.
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The screenshot of Google search that you see above is real. The rumor of Google’s redesign of it’s age-old yet simple-looking search engine is as real as it gets. Want to join in? Then try this:
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The Internet Explorer line might be the bane of developers the world over but there’s no denying that it’s latest incarnation is better than it’s predecessors in more ways than one. One aspect that Internet Explorer 8 shines is security, it’s the safest version of Internet Explorer to date. Yes, it’s less secure than your favorite browser (Firefox, Opera) but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
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Wordpress has added the post revision feature on version 2.6 of their blogging software. If you’ve ever wonder how it works and why you should be worried about it, here’s why: Every time a post on your blog is edited, it creates a new row on the wp_posts table. To put that into perspective, If you’ve edited a post 10 times, you’ll have 10 new rows in the wp_posts table. If you have edited 10 posts at least 10 times then you’ll have 100 new rows in the wp_posts table.
If left alone, your wp_posts table will be filled up, causing performance issues (imagine selecting through 100,000 records).
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After facilitating the easy take down of copyright infringing files, Mininova has removed ALL of it’s usual content from it’s search listings. Poof. Nada. Zip. Just like the Pirate Bay outfit (or at least before the TPB acquisition died off), Mininova is going legit and will be tracking (and displaying search results for) content deemed approved for distribution. What that means? Head to mininova and do a simple search and you’ll get the whole legit business.
However, just like when the great Suprnova torrent site went down, people will be moving out to other torrent search sites for their quick fix of copyrighted stuff. The question is just where. Demonoid is still down, and the Pirate bay is still experiencing downtime issues.
With torrent sites shutting down left and right, does this mean that the humble torrent is dying? Not really. As with the pirate bay, things will strongly shift towards decentralized ‘magnet link’ channels of distribution such as DHT and PEX.
[via TorrentFreak]
The developer build of Google’s Chrome OS is now up for downloads. with Google explaining that development will be done for this large piece of software in the open from this week on. The Chromium OS project includes Google’s current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development.
If you want a full hands on of the Chrome OS, here’s what you need to do:
- Have a working copy of VMware Player (VMware Fusion for Macs) or VirtualBox. Do note that the image is meant for VMware so if you use VirtualBox, cross your fingers.
- Register HERE and login.
- Download any of the following:
With some luck, you should get it up and running in no time.
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While everyone’s still reeling from news of the PS3 Slim’s release and inevitable disassembly, designer Tai Chiem think it’s about time to jump forward and looking into what’s in stored for the PlayStation 4. Yep, you read that right. It’s a concept for the hardware for the PlayStation 4.
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A lot of us have already tried and fell in love with the new start menu from Windows 7 (well if you’re coming from Vista, it’s not really new now is it?). It’s a functional combination of the age-old start menu that we’ve seen since Windows 95 and a launcher program (just search for your program and Windows 7 looks for and lists it down for you). If you didn’t like the Windows 7 start menu however, there’s no way to revert to the old start menu natively in Windows so you’ll rely on 3rd party software to install that functionality for you.
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