Kelson - Slashdot User

Submission + - How Much Would You Pay for Digital Comics? (newsarama.com) 1

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Kelson

on Thursday March 26, 2009 @03:02PM

Kelson writes: "Newsarama wants to know how much readers would be willing to pay for digital comic books. $0.99 like iTunes? Subscription models? Is free the only viable price point? Or does it depend on the target format — small screen, desktop, or tablet?"

Submission + - Site Compatibility and IE8 (msdn.com)

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Kelson

on Friday March 13, 2009 @05:21PM

Kelson writes: "As the release of Internet Explorer 8 approaches, Microsoft's IE Team has published a list of differences between IE7 and IE8, and how to fix code so that it will work on both. Most of the page focuses on IE8 Standards mode, but it also turns out that IE7 compatibility mode isn't quite the same as IE7 itself."

Submission + - Bored? Try Doodling To Keep The Brain On Task (npr.org)

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Kelson

on Thursday March 12, 2009 @12:43PM

Kelson writes: "The next time you see someone doodling during a meeting, don't criticize them for drifting off. It turns out that doodling is the mind's way of keeping itself just busy enough to avoid checking out entirely and slipping off into a daydream, and doodlers actually remember more of that boring talk. (Judging by my college notes, this probably helped me remember a lot of otherwise-boring lectures.)"

Submission + - Reading Comics on Your Phone: Hexed on the (Androi (hyperborea.org)

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Kelson

on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @05:42PM

Kelson writes: "With the printed comics industry showing signs of trouble, a lot of people are wondering whether digital comics will be the next big thing. So far the talk has mostly been about web comics and Apple's iPhone. iVerse Comics, the company that has been converting comics to iPhone apps, has just released their first comic for the Android Market, Boom's Hexed #1, as a free download. So how well does a printed comic translate to a 3-inch LCD screen?"

Submission + - Dillo Web Browser Updated At Last (dillo.org)

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Kelson

on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @12:44PM

Kelson writes: "More than two years after the last release, Dillo 2 is now available. The open-source web browser was launched in 1999 with the goal of enabling access to the web without massive hardware or software requirements. Eventually, its reliance on GTK+ (GTK2 was deemed too heavy for its goals) and lack of funding led to a development freeze in 2007. The project relaunched with a port to FLTK, and has caught up with features such as tabbed browsing, multiple character-set support, and major improvements to rendering, UI, and memory usage. The project is currently seeking developers."

Submission + - Opera 9.60 Released (opera.com)

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Kelson

on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @12:07PM

Kelson writes: "Opera Software has released Opera 9.60, the latest version of their web browser & internet suite. It's an evolutionary release, focused on performance optimization, improving the email client and adding more items to the Opera Link synchronization service. The Opera Developer Network, ODIN, has posted an "under the hood" article on the release."

Submission + - Phishers use EV SSL as part of their pitch (hyperborea.org)

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Kelson

on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @02:00PM

Kelson writes: "One of the great ironies of phishing today is that identity theft via the web tends to work by preying on people's fear of identity theft. It doesn't help that most people don't really understand the technology. Now, some phishers are taking advantage of publicity over Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates, asking potential victims to "upgrade" their accounts to EV SSL by filling in their login credentials at a given web page. The pitch is completely bogus — plenty of sites have set up EV certs without end-user intervention — but there are no doubt plenty of users who won't know the difference."

Submission + - Firefox Goes for World Download Record (spreadfirefox.com) 1

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Kelson

on Wednesday May 28, 2008 @07:19PM

Kelson writes: "For the upcoming release of Firefox 3, Mozilla is preparing Download Day 2008: a campaign to set a world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Participants are asked to pledge to download Firefox 3 on the day that it's launched. The exact date hasn't been scheduled yet, but everything seems on track for June."

Submission + - Apple Addresses Software Update Criticism (hyperborea.org)

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Kelson

on Thursday April 17, 2008 @06:41PM

Kelson writes: "Concurrent with a Safari security update, Apple has released version 2.1 of their software updater for Windows. This addresses one of the major concerns that led to last month's controversy over Safari being positioned as an "update" for people who weren't already using it. The new version splits updates and new software into two lists, making the division obvious at a glance. On the downside, it still selects new software by default, but with luck the separate lists will be enough to make people stop, look, and make a conscious choice as to whether or not to install an application."

Submission + - Acid3 Test Unveiled (css3.info)

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Kelson

on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @01:57PM

Kelson writes: "The Acid3 Test for web browsers has been completed. Acid3 tests 100 aspects of HTTP, HTML, CSS, ECMAScript, SVG and XML through DOM scripting. When Acid2 was released, it was a matter of weeks before internal builds of WebKit passed. In the nearly 3 years since, Safari and Opera have passed, as have public betas of Firefox and internal builds of Internet Explorer. The question is: will progress on Acid3 follow a similar pattern?"

Submission + - AOL to shut down Netscape support

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Kelson

on Friday December 28, 2007 @03:47PM

Kelson writes: "After years of trying to figure out what to do with it, AOL is officially discontinuing the Netscape browser. In the four and a half years after they dismantled the development team and spun off the Mozilla Foundation as a lost cause, only to see Firefox take off, AOL has tried twice to reinvent Netscape. There was the chimera-like Netscape 8, which used both Mozilla's and IE's rendering engines, and just months ago they released Netscape 9, trying to ride the social networking wave. AOL will release security fixes through February 1, 2008, after which the browser will officially be dead. For the "nostalgic," they suggest using Firefox and installing a Netscape theme."

Submission + - Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox (mozillazine.org)

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Kelson

on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @01:50PM

Kelson writes: "Mozilla has announced a new initiative to bring Mozilla to the mobile web, including a fully functional mobile version of Firefox (yes, with extensions). The focus will be part of Mozilla 2, the big revision coming after Gecko 1.9 and Firefox 3. Minimo, the previous attempt to port Mozilla to mobile platforms, is apparently dead, but "has already provided us with valuable information about how Gecko operates in mobile environments, has helped us reduce footprint, and has given us a platform for initial experimentation in user experience.""

Submission + - Internet Explorer Drops WGA Requirement (msdn.com)

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Kelson

on Thursday October 04, 2007 @08:46PM

Kelson writes: "The Internet Explorer team has updated the installer for IE7. Mostly they've adjusted a few defaults and updated their tutorials, but one change stands out: The installer no longer requires Windows Genuine Advantage validation. Almost a year after its release, IE7 has yet to overtake its predecessor. Was WGA holding back a tide of potential upgrades, or did it just send people over to alternative browsers?"

Submission + - Bossie Awards Honor Open Source Software (infoworld.com)

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The Alliance

on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @01:22PM

The Alliance writes: "InfoWorld has announced the 2007 Bossie Awards for the Best of Open-Source Software. Awards were given to 36 winners across 6 categories. Honorees include (among others) SpamAssassin, ClamAV and Nessus in security, Wireshark and Azureus Vuze in networking, and ZFS for storage. Interestingly, they split the operating system winners across two distributions, with CentOS winning for server OS and Ubuntu for desktop."

Submission + - Opera Mini is Top Java Download on Mobile Phones

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Alternative Browser Alliance

on Thursday May 10, 2007 @01:31PM

Alternative Browser Alliance writes: "Opera Watch is reporting that the Opera Mini web browser is now the most popular downloadable Java application for mobile phones, with more than 15 million downloads. Sun's Jean Elliot cites Opera's success as "a great proof point of the ongoing vitality of the Java technology development community." Opera Mini is a Java-based client that runs on virtually any Java-capable phone, and uses a proxy to pre-process web pages for small screens and low bandwidth. It's distinct from Opera Mobile, a full browser that uses the same engine as the desktop version. In related news, the company is opening up a beta program for the next release of Opera Mini."

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