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Feed News: CSSEdit adds 'X-ray Inspector' (macworld.com)

MacRabbit is offering a major overhaul with its CSSEdit 2.5 update -- the CSS page editor now features an X-ray Inspector that integrates CSS files from your Web page and a selection builder that describes styles in plain English.


Feed Mac 911: Avoiding spam (macworld.com)

There are good tools for filtering spam, but what can you do to avoid it in the first place? Nothing will keep you spam-free, but these techniques can help lessen the load.


Hardware

What is Open Source Hardware? 143

ptorrone writes "In their piece 'What is open source hardware?', MAKE magazine divides up electronic hardware into layers, each of which has different document types and licensing concerns: Hardware (mechanical) diagrams, schematics & circuit diagrams, layout diagrams, core/firmware, software/API — each layer has an example provided and links to many of the open source hardware projects currently being worked on."
The Internet

Submission + - On-Line Presidential Debates

dprovine writes: Several well-known Internet sites are planning to host an on-line debate between Presidential candidates. Those watching will be able to submit questions in real time. Will organised groups of people stuff the question box? Will there be DDOS attacks? Will someone hack the streams to make it appear that the candidates are saying things they aren't? Most importantly, will anyone watch who actually votes in elections?
Amiga

Submission + - New Amiga Hardware Announced

Alex McNeil writes: "After years and years of pain and anguish Amiga has finally found a new hardware producer, could this mean Amiga becomes a real player in the PowerPC hardware market? "After months of designs and negotiations Amiga, Inc. and ACK Software Controls, Inc. are pleased to announce that new hardware is on its way for Amiga users. Initially, two systems will be produced that address two different market needs. The first is a consumer entry design that will offer a complete product with a target price point of USD 500, while the second will be of a power design that would have a target price point of USD 1500. The PowerPC architecture will continue to be the architecture of choice for these new systems. Manufacturing and final price information along with product launch schedules will be following in the next week.""
Editorial

Submission + - First President of Russia Boris Yeltsin Dies

Uzbek writes: As BBC reports, first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, has died from heart failure on April 23. In the West he is regarded as champion of democracy and market reforms while in Russia many accuse him of ending USSR in 1991, disbanding democratically elected Parliament with military force in 1993 and forcing economic "shock therapy" that has left majority of Russians impoverished while paving a way for Russian oligarchs.
Upgrades

Submission + - The World Monument of Love

SergeVH writes: "The website of project The World Monument of Love is officially opened On April, 9th, 2007 — http://worldmonumentlove.com/ At present the website is accessible in English. A few days later, the website will be accessible in ten languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Russian. The World Monument of Love is the world social project. The Internet community by own strength creates a large architectural composition symbolizing love of a person to person — The World Monument of Love. Everything in this project is defined by participants of community including the choice of architectural idea and a place for construction. The world competition for architectural idea of The World Monument of Love is announced. The World Monument of Love could apply for being the Eighth Miracle on Earth on the scale and importance to mankind. A competition for definition of the construction site of The World Monument of Love is also announced. The basic requirements to the construction site of The World Monument of Love are the following: 1. It should be a very romantic place. 2. The territory should be located in tourist attractive place of our planet with a soft climate. 3. The place should have the developed transport and tourist infrastructure so that many people from the different countries and continents could visit The World Monument of Love. Any person can participate in competitions. You may not necessarily be an architect to take part in competition; you should only think up and draw the sketch of architectural idea of The World Monument of Love and/or to offer a place for construction. Any person can offer his ideas on competitions, it is just necessary to be the participant of project The World Monument of Love. Details about participation can be found out on the official website of the project — http://worldmonumentlove.com/ Only one million people from the planet of Earth can participate in The World Monument of Love project. Directly on Names of all participants of the project and their beloved will be written directly on a monument as names of the founders of The World Monument of Love. It is a unique opportunity to take part in the great project and to leave the names in the history of mankind and on the Monument of Love."
Games

Submission + - Predicting videogame industry trends

An anonymous reader writes: "There are many ways to forecast trends and outcomes in the videogames market — and as a result, there are often many different predictions made. Many industry analysts have long been forecasting that the PS3 will ultimately dominate this generation, despite a series of hiccups in the run-up to launch and the Wii's strong performance out of the gate." This editorial explains how a prediction market can provide better forecasts to how the industry will evolve. Prediction market trading has been predicting the Wii to lead the generation with the PS3 a distant second. Trading was actually quite accurate, relative to Wall Street analysts, on predicting March NPD sales data. The video game prediction market referenced is the simExchange.
Communications

Submission + - RIM make Blackberry software available

Jack Small writes: "The BBC is reporting that Research In Motion (RIM) will be making software available that will allow other mobile devices to work as Blackberries, this is currently limited to those devices running Windows Mobile 6.0. While this announcement must have been some time in the planning, it must surely help deflect some of the bad PR resulting from the recent downtime. RIM's press release can be found here."

Feed Tin-Foil Beanies + 'Think of the Children!' = Newspaper Gold (techdirt.com)

The UK has seen its fair share of people freaking out over the health effects of WiFi, and a major newspaper there fanned the flames this weekend with its lead story saying children are at risk from "electronic smog". It's a strange article, though, because instead of finding any evidence that WiFi is actually harmful to people, it simply reports on how some groups are pushing for investigations into WiFi, then implies that's some sort of evidence that the technology is unsafe. This is despite previous reports that the radiation from being exposed to a WiFi network for a year is the equivalent of 20 minutes on a cell phone. Most of the noise about how harmful WiFi is comes from people claiming to have "electrosensitivity", though they generally fail double-blind tests checking out their claims that they can sense when they've entered a room with WiFi coverage. These sorts of stories are little more than hype-filled fluff that lack much substance to back up their wild headlines and implications of doom and gloom. Another case in point: a spate of articles -- started by one from the same paper as this latest WiFi scare story -- about how honeybees are being wiped out by radiation from mobile phones. The only catch was that the study in question had nothing to do with cell phones. The scientists also point out that the paper never bothered to get in touch with them, presumably because an accurate description of their research and findings would have made such a sensational story pretty dull.

Feed Commodore prices up games machines (theregister.com)

Commodore Gaming - the latest reviver of ye olde Commodore brand - has priced up its high-end Wintel gaming systems, pledging to "redefine the line between gaming and reality" - whatever that means - for up to £2899 inc. VAT.


Feed Hacking the U.S. Post Office (schneier.com)

This is clever: Many USA ecommerce shops don’t send their goods to Russia or to the countries of the Ex-USSR. Some shops send but delivery costs differ greatly from the homeland ones, they are usually much bigger. So what did...

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