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Submission + - Chrome Extension Helps Find Noisy Tabs (mutetab.com)

Submitted by

mutetab

on Sunday July 31, 2011 @11:08PM

mutetab writes: "I recently wrote a Chrome extension called MuteTab that helps you narrow down which tab is making a sound by detecting which tabs contain plugins, HTML5 audio/video, and Java applets. It also gives you a right click menu that will mute tabs (via Javascript APIs when available, otherwise hiding them like FlashBlock does) and can automatically mute background tabs.

Be sure to read the FAQ writeup (http://www.mutetab.com/mutetabfaq.html#fixingbrowsersound) to learn about some ways we can improve detecting which tab has sound and mute it."

Submission + - Microsoft Dilutes Open Source, Coins Open Surface (muktware.com)

Submitted by sfcrazy on Thursday July 28, 2011 @04:29AM

sfcrazy writes: Now, Microsoft is coining yet another term to further confuse users — Open Surface. Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft, Gianugo Rabellino, said at Oscon 2011 that customer don't care about the underlying platform as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for the cloud are open. That's when he threw the term 'open surface'.

Submission + - Most enterprises plan to be on IPv6 by 2013 (networkworld.com)

Submitted by

Julie188

on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:18PM

Julie188 writes: "More than 70% of IT departments plan to upgrade their websites to support IPv6 within the next 24 months, according to a recent survey of more than 200 IT professionals conducted by Network World. Plus, 65% say they will have IPv6 running on their internal networks by then, too. One survey respondent, John Mann, a network architect at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said his organization has been making steady IPv6 progress since 2008. "Mostly IPv6 has just worked," he said. "The biggest problem is maintaining forward progress with IPv6 while it is still possible to take the easy option and fall back to IPv4.""

Submission + - OK Go goes HTML5. (nytimes.com) 1

Submitted by edumacator on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:59AM

edumacator writes: The YouTube sensation OK Go has just released their latest video using HTML5. The video is pretty cool itself, but the interactive feature is great.
OK Go premieres their latest video “All Is Not Lost,” which includes an interactive HTML5 version.

Submission + - Cryogenics founder is now Patient #106 (digitaljournal.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:48AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Digital Journal reports that Robert Ettinger, the pioneer of cryogenics, died last Saturday after several weeks of health problems; his body will be preserved frozen in liquid nitrogen at -196C with the hope that medical technology will allow him to continue living.

Submission + - Kinect Star Wars Bundle out this Holiday Season (xboxfreedom.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @10:05AM

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft and LucasArts have teamed up and will be releasing a “Kinect Star Wars” bundle this holiday season to coincide with the release of the game.

Submission + - MS-DOS is 30 years old today (extremetech.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @08:47AM

An anonymous reader writes: Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, Microsoft bought the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000. QDOS, otherwise known as 86-DOS, was designed by SCP to run on the Intel 8086 processor, and was originally thrown together in just two months for a 0.1 release in 1980 (thus the name). Meanwhile, IBM had planned on powering its first Personal Computer with CP/M-86, which had been the standard OS for Intel 8086 and 8080 architectures at the time, but a deal could not be struck with CP/M's developer, Digital Research. IBM then approached Microsoft, which already had a few of years of experience under its belt with M-DOS, BASIC, and other important tools — and as you can probably tell from the landscape of the computer world today, the IBM/Microsoft partnership worked out rather well indeed.

Submission + - Novacut the next revolution in editing (kickstarter.com) 1

Submitted by

olafura

on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @08:35AM

olafura writes: "As a person that has been involved with editing and making shorts. I know first hand the tedious process of making editing work. I've never been confident about any editing software solution on linux and I've tried them all. Avid or Finalcut were the only solution I had for editing movies. I'm currently waiting excited for the sourcecode for Lightwave to be released so I can see if it's worth my time, not too opencore. Plus we have all be burnt before.

So it might suprise you that I'm excisted about Novacut, I saw the first kickstart project and didn't fully understand it. And I saw the second kickstart project and I didn't fully understand it. But I do now and I'm really impressed, it's a game changer. Hope I can start using it soon. And to all those people that will say that they should use Pitivi or OpenShot as a start don't really understand it.

I've pledged 100$ and was even thinking about blowing my budget and pledging 300$ but decided to be smart and appeal to you. I'm really pissed off that the linux community doesn't respond better to a revolutionary idea that can change how movies are edited, where the project is open source and using sound technology like couchdb as the syncing solution and gstreamer as the media solution. They are even using the unix philosophy of developing software, make something that does one job and does it well."

Submission + - Car windows might become touchscreens (pcauthority.com.au) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:29AM

An anonymous reader writes: As if we need more proof that touchscreens are all the rage, designers are dreaming up ways to put them in cars. In the video found here, a child gazes wistfully out the window at a dreary countryside. Fields roll by, a lake, cyclists, trees that have lost their leaves. The car stops, and the child starts "drawing" on the window. The article includes fascinating videos showing how touchscreens might infiltrate our lives in the future.

Feed Wired: Stunning New Planetary Nebulae Unveiled (wired.com)

From feed by feedfeeder on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:53AM

Submission + - Trade Of Google+1 "likes" : A Lucrative Business (itproportal.com)

Submitted by siliconbits on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:48AM

siliconbits writes: Selling Google+1 "likes" is gradually becoming a rather lucrative business, helped by cheap labour and ever-falling internet access worldwide; the trend is not unlike what we saw previously with Twitter & Digg during the days except that this has a more widespread implication for SEO and could turn the nascent social networking service into a massive headache for Google as many try to game the system. Google+1 selling sites like Googleplus1supply, buygoogleplus1 or Blackcatseo have cropped up during the last few months — amongst so many other websites — with the sole aim of selling Google+1 "likes" to publishers and businesses.

Submission + - Alternatives to Gmail (web and IMAP, paid) 2

Submitted by TheGratefulNet on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:00AM

TheGratefulNet writes: I want to cut the cord with google and the first step is to find a good email/ISP provider. With all the snooping going on (by governments and the data center raids that happen in the US), I'd like to find an *offshore* (maybe Europe?) provider who emphasizes 'freedom' aspects, such as end to end security, data encryption on local disks, keeping absolute minimal logs/purging them frequently; as well as having a decent enough set of spam filters that they actively maintain. I *want* to pay for the sevice since I don't want ads or to have to spend time blocking stuff. I'd like to support a right-thinking ISP; are there any left, out there? Help me find a trusted offshore ISP that will likely be around and who does not do DPI and other evil things. Any recommendations for well-behaved ISPs out there?

Submission + - MS suggests heating homes with "data furnaces" (extremetech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @08:21AM

An anonymous reader writes: With a temperature of around 40-50C (104-122F), the exhaust from a rack of cloud servers could be a very cost-effective way of heating your house, according to researchers from Microsoft and the University of Virginia. Dubbed the “Data Furnace,” these racks would be hot enough to completely replace the heating and hot water system in a house or office. Instead of building mega data centers, Data Furnaces would be micro data furnaces in residential areas, providing free heating and ultra-low-latency cloud services to nearby web surfers. Microsoft Research thinks that with remote sensor networks, encryption, and other safety measures, lack of physical security won't be an issue.

Submission + - Consumers Want iPhone 5, Sight Unseen (eweekeurope.co.uk)

Submitted by

judgecorp

on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @06:27AM

judgecorp writes: "Apple's iPhone 5 is not announced yet, but 35 percent of consumers say they will buy it, when it comes out, even though they know nothing about it.

The figure comes from an online survey of 3,000 US consumers by Experian’s PriceGrabber shopping website."

Submission + - Cast-off gadgets peek into new owners' lives (cnet.com)

Submitted by

Eric Smalley

on Monday July 25, 2011 @10:55AM

Eric Smalley writes: "For the project, dubbed Backtalk, researchers sent refurbished Netbooks to developing countries via nonprofit organizations. They set up the computers to record location and pictures, and send the data home to MIT--with their new owners' consent... The MIT team used the data to build visual narratives about the computers' new lives."

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