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Comment Re:Windows 7: "I'm up here, boys!" (Score 1) 452

by gingerjoos on Friday October 23, 2009 @06:53AM (#29844153) Attached to: Engineers Tell How Feedback Shaped Windows 7

awesome dude.. agree that this is one of the best /. posts I've seen

Comment Re:Tough call (Score 1, Interesting) 403

by gingerjoos on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @09:22AM (#29037083) Attached to: US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word

Or maybe MS will patent the patent office. That way the patent office can no longer issue patents. So that invalidates pretty much every patent. Including the MS patent which patented the patent office. But if that gets invalidated..

Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds 251

Posted by timothy on Friday June 05, 2009 @05:50AM from the for-greater-shininess dept.

Dan Kegel (who admits to being a Chrome developer) writes to point out a post from Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg, Product Managers for Google Chrome, with some good news for non-Windows users who want to play with Chrome: "In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux (for a couple of different Linux distributions), but whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software." (The announcement continues below.)

Submission + - First beta of Opera 10 is out in the wilderness (opera.com)

Submitted by

Miladinoski

on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @05:03AM

Miladinoski writes: "Opera Software ASA today released the newest beta of their tenth version of the Opera browser. In addition to their already known features that made it famous like mouse gestures, keyboard shortcuts, voice navigated browser, mail and RSS included into the browser, speed dial and so forth, it now includes a Turbo mode which unclogs your connection to get faster internet, a new interface, a tabbed browsing update, customisable speed dial but continues to follow the web standards by getting 100/100 and pixel-perfect scores on the Acid3 test.

You can grab the beta available for every modern OS platform here."

New Gadget Blocks 'Spam' Phone Calls 274

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @09:24AM from the this-doesn't-sound-right dept.

Smivs writes "The BBC report on a new gizmo that can block/filter spam phone calls. The system basically intercepts all calls. If it recognizes them as a friend or a member of the user's family — numbers on the so-called star list created by the user — it lets them through as normal. If the caller's number is on a zap list — numbers of telemarketers or other nuisance callers — the device answers it, and all future calls from that number, with an automated message which means the phone does not ring at all. If the system doesn't recognize the caller's number, or the caller withholds their number, it asks them who they are, puts them on hold and then rings the user's phone. The user has the option of taking the call, having the system take a message, or they can reject the call and add the number to the 'zap' list. Users can add callers to their 'star' list by pressing the star button on their phone at any point during a call." So wait, they can't spam me twice? If I press a button? And if they actually show their phone number on my caller ID? What about the auto insurance scammers that hit me 10x/week?

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