Firefox Tip: If your Firefox browser is running slowly, …
If your Firefox browser is running slowly, check out CyberNet’s list of memory-leaking extensions to see if you’ve installed any of the extensions listed and if there’s a simple solution to your memory drip.
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Privacy: Your Facebook profile will soon be available …
Your Facebook profile will soon be available to search engines unless you disable search engine indexing in Facebook’s Privacy Settings for Search.
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Google Adds Search To Google Reader
It may seem odd that Google Reader did not have a search feature, but that had been the case since it launched almost two years ago, that is until now.
They also added some other new features, including an unread subscription count that goes up to 1000. Google Reader is quickly becoming the perfect feed reader for me. Here’s my previous write-up on Reader.
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Apple Event..No Surprises Really…Apple Rocks
Another Apple Event has come and gone. No big surprises really. Apple has released some solid but overdue products.
As soon as you wipe all of that Apple event off of your face Apple fanboys, remember:
A solid event to be sure. Kudos Apple for releasing some great products. Now get back to work!
Oh, btw. New MacBook Pros coming in January…more… coming…
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Street Stencil Art by Roadsworth
Montreal artist Roadsworth creates some pretty amazing street stencil art.
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Can someone be pissed and excited at the same time?
I submit that you can and that the latter is way more important than the former. Or at least that’s what the folks over at Apple must be thinking. Imagine this: Somewhere in the last 66 days, in the midst of an Apple board meeting, suddenly bursts an unshaven, sleep-deprived tech dude, screeching to a halt from his recent sprint. Breathing heavy, he shouts aloud, “I made a touch-faced iPod with WiFi and I redesigned the classic iPods again. This time I crammed a HUGE hard drive in there!” The room is filled with massive jubilation and glee. Then in the mix of all the unbridled excitement some “semi-jealous for not thinking of the idea” executive, intoxicated by the sudden burst of amusement, must have said, “Hey! I have an idea! Let’s knock 200 bucks off the price of the iPhone, that will be super fun!” Then, yet another emotionally charged executive jumps on the phone and says, “Run Steve! Run! Off to the September keynote with you… Run like the wind!” And off he skips in glee… (more…)
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Something Going On At Twitter?
At first I thought it was just another Twitter outage, and then (after a couple of hours of Twitterrific not working) I tried connecting to Twitter directly:
There isn’t a page on Twitter (including their blog) that can be accessed as I write this (3:30am PST Thursday). It may just be sugar coating on yet another period of downtime; an alternative to the Twitter downtime bird that replaced the Twitter cat some time ago, but if it is, it’s the first time I’ve seen it. On the other hand, something might be going on at Twitter: more stable servers perhaps? or even a new feature launch? Watch this space.
Update: Twitter back up as at 5am PST. A notice on Twitter states that Twitter would be down for 2.5 hours from midnight, looks like they were 50% of the way there is terms of downtime. At the time of writing there is nothing on the Twitter blog explaining the reason for the downtime. Looks like a regular outage with sugar coating.
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Apple released the iPod Classic at the “Beat Goes On” special media event today, revamping what was the current full-size iPod in the lineup. It features a thinner, full metal body. Capacity has been increased to either 80GB or 160GB …
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Apple Posts iTunes 7.4 with Ringtones Support
As promised, Apple has released iTunes 7.4. The release notes provide details of the following changes:
With iTunes 7.4, sync your favorite music and more with the new iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod touch, plus …
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So if you want to know really what Apple did today, it is confirm the fact that they are moving away from “computer as your digital hub” into “we are making an undirected graph structure that encompasses your digital life.” Quite wordy! But its pretty much true.
You can see this in the fact that Apple now, as I predicted a while ago, is entering the Holiday season with half their product line having 802.11 wireless and OSX running on them:
Lets consider that for a moment. That means Apple has a device potentially on your desk, lap, TV and in your pocket all running a derivative of the same operating system, and all capable of wireless connectivity with the world and with each other. Apple today released the wireless iTunes music store. I wager that by the holidays we’ll have a high definition iTunes Movie Store made for the AppleTV. I also wager the little form-factor bluetooth keyboard is for this purpose as well.
Apple is basically saying that no matter what modality you want to experience content, commerce and community in you have it. I don’t think showing Facebook on iPhone was coincidence, I think Apple is positioning the iPod Touch and iPhone as a community device.
Here is my bet:
Apple will enable wireless purchase from AppleTV of HD quality movies. I think I heard they are only accepting HD movies right now anyhow. And then… wireless sync. Then “friend” features (suspiciously missing, but easily doable). And then Leopard integration comes.
Apple has a trojan horse on their hands. And the scary and awesome thing I think, is that they have 2 in my pocket and one on my TV.
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