Comment Re:Toolbar the official spyware from good guys. (Score 1) 527
Actually, there's a rather useful plugin called glims which allows you to change the search box engine, among other things. I found it useful, anyway.
Comment Re:Ice Cream From Uranus? (Score 1) 255
When I first looked at the site a few hours ago, I saw Uranus. It has since been renamed to "Ice Cream From Neptune".
Comment Re:We Know Best (Score 1) 214
To make this easier, you can put applications into the finder toolbar. For example, I have textedit sitting up there for when I want to force a document to open in that rather than, say, Safari for .html files.
Comment Re:"Catching up" is the key phrase (Score 1) 264
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/125/
Comment Re:of course! (Score 1) 779
Where's it gonna gestate? In a box !?
Comment Re:Posting in the april fools article (Score 1) 1582
and did it?
Comment Re:Simplicity (Score 1) 264
Then buy a second-gen Shuffle, they're still being sold. No-one is forcing you to get the new one, you know...
Comment Re:Spotlight in Leopard (Score 1) 776
yup, spotlight tends to be my calculator of choice for most things. I find if I'm doing really heavy maths I tend to have a physical calculator handy anyway, but spotlight does fine for all else.
Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers 176
svonkie writes "Despite launching on the T-Mobile G1 with little mainstream fanfare, Google Inc.'s Android OS appears to have gained strong interest in the open source development community. According to a survey of Black Duck Software's Knowledge Base, Apple Inc.'s iPhone led the industry with 266 open source project releases during 2008, while Android followed in second place with 191 releases. Black Duck compiled the data after scouring through over 185,000 of open source projects across 4,000 Internet sites."
Comment Re:History (Score 1) 465
Safari has had Private Browsing for ages. I'm not hot on my browser history, but I believe it was one of, if not the, first to do this. (correct me if I'm wrong)
Comment Wolfire (Score 1) 105
Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet, and it seems to fit the topic:
(though I haven't RTFA, where do you think we are...?) Overgrowth
I've been following the blog for a while, because of the developer videos they used to do, and they seem to be a very open development team. The articles they do almost daily are detailed and informative, especially to those like me that have an interest in game development, and I'm gonna stop now because I've realised I'm gushing :P
(though I haven't RTFA, where do you think we are...?) Overgrowth
I've been following the blog for a while, because of the developer videos they used to do, and they seem to be a very open development team. The articles they do almost daily are detailed and informative, especially to those like me that have an interest in game development, and I'm gonna stop now because I've realised I'm gushing
Comment Re:Not only that, but... (Score 3, Informative) 235
It's been out in the UK too, since I think mid-December. Not surprising that it should have at least some reviews already then...
Obama Beats McCain In Spam Landslide 154
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times runs an article about the spammers' choice of presidential candidate. From the article: 'According to Secure Computing Corp., spammers were nearly seven times more likely to slap Obama's name in the subject line than McCain's during September. The bulk of Obama's lead in the spam wars came from a massive blitz early in the month.' Secure Computing released additonal numbers for the past weeks, and McCain was able to close the gap in the latest spammers' poll."
Google Reveals Wireless Vision — Open Networks 90
Anti-Globalism writes with this excerpt from CNet:
"Google's vision of tomorrow's wireless network is in stark contrast to how wireless operators do business today, setting the two sides on a possible collision course. Earlier this week, the search giant filed a patent application with the US Patent Office describing its vision of an open wireless network where smartphones aren't tied to any single cell phone network. In Google's open wireless world, phones and other wireless devices would search for the strongest, fastest connection at the most competitive price. Essentially, wireless operators' networks would be reduced to 'dumb pipes.'"
The full patent application is available as well. Google founder Larry Page recently asked the FCC to free up portions of the broadcast spectrum for this purpose.
Why Starting a Legal Online Music Vendor Is Tough 214
Hodejo1 writes "Former MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson offers commentary at The Register saying any attempts to build a sanctioned digital music site today is doomed from the outset. 'The internet companies I talk to don't mind giving some direct benefit to music companies. What torpedoes that possibility is the big financial requests from labels for "past infringement," plus a hefty fee for future usage. Any company agreeing to these demands is signing their own financial death sentence. The root cause is not the labels — chances are if you were running a label you would make the same demands, since the law permits it."
