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Firefox 4 switches to Chrome-like status bar

Submitted by Stormtrooper42
Stormtrooper42 writes "As nightly builds users have no doubt noticed, Mozilla Firefox version 4.0b12pre (2011-02-08) now uses a Chrome-like status bar. The absence of a status bar was one of the most controversial features of Firefox 4, but about a week ago, nightly builds started displaying loading messages in a small tooltip on the bottom of the screen ("Waiting for example.com...", "Transferring data from example.com...", etc), and now, hovering links displays the target URL in this new status bar as well, instead of showing it in the URL bar."

Comment: Re:The only question that counts: (Score 1) 238

by daranz (#31907556) Attached to: An Early Look At Next-Gen Shooter <em>Bodycount</em>

Off the top of my head, ArmA with TrackIR already implements a control scheme like this.

Operation Flashpoint already featured a control scheme that allowed the player to detach look control from gun-pointing and walking-direction control, and that carried over to ArmA. Of course, without an additional input device, it's somewhat useless, as you have to give up control of your gun to gain control of your character's head. So that's where a bunch of markers attached to the player's head come in. Even without that, it's still useful to be able to quickly glance around while in full sprint - something possible in real life, but impossible in most FPSes, where your camera/character's head is fixed rigidly to his body at all times.

Comment: The only solution (Score 4, Funny) 224

by daranz (#31777592) Attached to: Firefox Search In Ubuntu 10.04 Changed To Google

I recommend that at install time, the user is presented with a window containing randomly ordered buttons for 6 of the top web search engines on the market today. By selecting one of the buttons, the user makes that search engine the default. This should keep everything fair and everyone happy.

(now we just need to find 6 search engines that people actually use)

Security

ATMs Armed with Pepper Spray->

Submitted by fysdt
fysdt writes "A South African bank has outfitted its ATMs with pepper spray to prevent criminals from bombing or tampering with the machines. But the system still has some bugs: One of the machines released its stinging payload on three maintenance workers last week."
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What data recovery tools do the pros use? 2

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Life2Death
Life2Death writes "I've been working with computers for a long time, and every once and a while someone close to me has a drive go belly up on them. I know there are big, expensive recovery houses that specialize in mission-critical data recovery, like if your house blew up and you have millions of files you need or something, but for the local IT group, what do you guys use? Given that most people are on NTFS (Windows XP) by the numbers, what would you use? I found a ton of tools when I googled, and everyone and their brother suggests something else, so I want to know what software "just works" on most recoveries of bad, but partially working hard drives. Free software always has a warm spot in my heart."
Puzzle Games (Games)

New Monkey Island games announced

Submitted by CowHammer
CowHammer writes "I just got this in my email from Telltale Games (makers of the new Sam & Max games, among others):

We're proud to announce that Tales of Monkey Island is our latest episodic series! Guybrush Threepwood (mighty pirate) is back, along with Elaine, LeChuck, and the Voodoo Lady. There are also loads of new characters, new islands, and new voodoo curses."
Media

Open Video Standard gets push w/Firefox 3.5 beta

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bmullan
bmullan writes "Today Dailymotion, one of the world's largest video sites, announced support for Open Video.
They've put out a press release, a blog post on the new Open Video site as well as an HTML 5 demo site where you can see some of the things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5 (you can get the Firefox 3.5 beta here.
They are automatically transcoding all of the content that their Motion MakersOfficial Users create and expect to have around 300,000 videos transcoded into the open Ogg Theora and Vorbis formats. You can view the site they have up at openvideo.dailymotion.com."

Techdirt: AT&T Says Its Network Can't Keep Up With All The Cool Stuff You Can Do With ->

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ATT caught a lot of flak at the beginning of April, when it updated the terms of service for its mobile data network, banning all sorts of activities on it. ATT later said the changes had been made in "error" and removed the new language, though it later reinserted language banning "redirecting television signals for viewing on Personal Computers" -- a ban apparently aimed directly at the forthcoming SlingPlayer application for the iPhone, which lets users watch TV from their Slingbox at home on their mobile device. The app has now been released, but it only works over WiFi, not the 3G mobile connection, because ATT says, in a nutshell, that its mobile network doesn't have enough capacity to support streaming-video services if they take off. So all those cool data applications Apple and ATT tout for the iPhone or other smartphones sold by the operator? Just remember they exist only at the behest of the carrier; if they threaten to expose its network's shortcomings, they'll get blocked.

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