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Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers 291

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @11:30AM from the hit-the-internet-button dept.

bsk_cw writes "With the exception of Google's Chrome (which got attention because it was, after all, Google), most of the alternative browsers out there tend to get lost in the shuffle. Computerworld asked three of their writers to take some lesser-known browsers out for a spin and see how they do. They looked at six candidates: Camino (for the Mac), Maxthon (for the PC), OmniWeb (for the Mac), Opera (both the Mac and the PC versions) and Shiira (for the Mac)." It would have been more interesting if they included some popular open source, Linux-friendly browsers like Konqueror or Epiphany, as well.

Couple Funds Honeymoon With Recyclables 38

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday October 07, 2008 @01:53PM from the you-done-with-that dept.

John and Ann Till, from Petersfield, in Hampshire, spent three months collecting recyclables to pay for their honeymoon flights. The couple earned one reward point, which they converted into BA air miles, for every four items they recycled. In the end, they amassed 36,000 miles. Mr Till, 31, a railways communications manager, said, "We wanted to make our honeymoon special and were trying to think of ways to raise money for it. I saw on the machine that you got a Tesco Clubcard point for every four items you put in. For every 250 points you got 600 British Airways miles. We worked out that it would be possible to turn rubbish into our flights — as long as we had enough."

Feed The Register: Palm OS II launch date delayed again (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @12:13PM

Not dead, just sleeping

Palm CEO Ed Colligan has told Brighthand it won't have devices based on its own version of Palm OS until some time in 2008, despite saying two months ago the devices would be available later this year.

Feed Engadget: TomTom patent reveals camera-based GPS unit (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @12:12PM

Filed under: GPS

We're not entirely sure what TomTom has up its sleeve here, but the European Patent Office has peeled back a few details on one of the company's endeavors, revealing a patent application that describes a GPS unit bolstered by live video feeds. As you can see, the system would superimpose directions on top of actual images of your surroundings, which could go a long way to preventing some of the GPS-related incidents we've seen over the years. From the looks of it, however, the system would only make use of a camera in your own vehicle, not ones sprawled across the countryside, reducing the potential benefits somewhat but likely making it much closer to reality.

[Via Pocketinfo.nl]

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Submission + - iPhone OS X hacked in three days

Submitted by

unPlugged-2.0

on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @12:08PM

unPlugged-2.0 writes: "An australian developer blog writes of a short story on how the Iphone root password was cracked for the new operation system on the IPhone. The story outlines the procedure but doesn't give the actual password. According to the story:

"The information came from an an official Apple iPhone restore image . The archive contains two .dmg disk images: a password encrypted system image and an unencrypted user image. By delving into the unencrypted image inquisitive hackers were able to discover that all iPhones ship with predefined passwords to the accounts 'mobile' and 'root', the last of which being the name of the privileged administration account on UNIX based systems."

However the article does say that now that hackers have the root password they are not sure what can exactly be done with it if anything at all. I am sure at some point though they should be able to get to the firmware and be able to perhaps put their own firmware. Could this be the start of putting linux on the iphone? Then all we would need are drivers for the touch interface and accelerometers."

Submission + - Serenity squeezes out Star Wars

Submitted by DogBotherer on Monday April 02, 2007 @08:07PM

DogBotherer writes: The BBC is reporting that the 2005 film Serenity, follow up to the series Firefly, has been voted the number one Sci Fi film of all time, in a poll of 3000 SFX magazine voters, ahead of Star Wars. The actual article is here

Comment Re:Articles like these ones... (Score 1) 513

by bpalmatv on Wednesday November 27, 2002 @05:01PM (#4770206) Attached to: All Source Code Should Be Open, Revisited

Hmm.. I've never seen a film about the Verrazano Narrows bridge collapse.. In fact, there isn't even a bridge with that name. Now, if you are talking about the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, I've seen that one..

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