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Microsoft.com Makes IE8 Incompatibility List 358

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday February 19, 2009 @05:55PM from the my-head-just-asplodered dept.

nickull writes "Microsoft is tracking incompatible Web sites for its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser and has posted a list that now contains about 2,400 names — including Microsoft.com. Apparently, even though Microsoft's IE8 team is doing the 'right' thing by finally making IE more standards-compliant, they are risking 'breaking the Web' because the vast majority of Web sites are still written to work correctly with previous, non-standards-compliant versions of IE."

New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps 330

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 23, 2008 @02:08PM from the ifuzzbuster dept.

Ponca City, We love you writes "Two mobile applications, NMobile and Trapster, are providing drivers with up-to-date maps of speed-enforcement zones with live police traps, speed cameras or red-light cameras. Each application pulls up a map pinpointing the locations of speed traps within driving distance and an audio alert will sound as vehicles approach an area tagged as harboring a speed trap. Both applications rely on the wisdom of the crowds for their data with users reporting camera-rigged stop lights and areas heavily populated with radar-toting police officers via the iPhone or their web-based application, creating the ultimate speed trap repository available to you when you need it most — while you're driving. To thwart false alarms and eliminate inaccuracies, Trapster enlists its community of nearly 200,000 members to rank speed traps on their accuracy. NMobile founder Shannon Atkinson declined to provide detailed data, though he did estimate that 'well over 1,000' users had downloaded the application since it became available last week. The company insists they've received only positive feedback from law enforcement officials and police officers regarding their products. 'If the application gets people to slow down, I think it's generally considered to be a good thing,' said Atkinson."

Comment Re:Aero != productivity (Score 1) 546

by phluff on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @07:55PM (#18175050) Attached to: Vista Worse For User Efficiency Than XP

Ejecting a USB storage device in windows is a 5 click, 2 dialog box, and one context menu procedure... on a mac it's two click procedure, one to open finder one to eject.

I'm not sure which version of Windows you're using, but in XP you click once on the removable media icon in the taskbar & again on the device you want to remove. That's it. Windows 2000 requires an extra click the OK prompt, but has the same 2 first steps.

Of course, you can do it the hard way by right-clicking and going through the menu...

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