| 5:15 PM: | Save me from the Twitter clones. Every time I get invited to a new microblogging service, I cringe. Because once I try it (which of course I will; I can't help myself) and develop even a small network of people on it, I can't really leave. I don't want to be rude to people I've started to communicate with. And then I get mad. Webware. | |
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| 5:13 PM: | Apple Releases iPhone Firmware 2.0.1. Apple has posted the 2.0.1 iPhone firmware update tonight. Apple only lists "Bug Fixes" amongst the changes. MacRumors. | |
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| 5:13 PM: | Mixin makes your big schedule micro-sized. Mixin is a very pretty and simplistic scheduling tool that makes your calendar readily available to others. It's been designed to help you block out time and keep everything organized with color coding and an entry system that makes creating a new event as easy as typing just a few characters. Webware. | |
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| 3:11 PM: | Time to start evaluating my netbook needs. So I'm nearing 60-days of living in a web browser. Yup, for 97% of my time over the last two months, I've been using Firefox on my Samsung Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC and have been quite happy. jkOnTheRun. | |
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| 2:49 PM: | Lenovo Enters the Mini-Notebook Market with the IdeaPad S10. Priced at $399, one will have 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive. The other marked at $449.99 will have 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. Laptop. | |
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| 12:44 PM: | Feedburner under fire for easy hacking of subscription counters. The "hack" is a two step affair, first tweaking an OPML file that lists your subscriptions, then subscribing to said feed in a simple feed aggregation tool like Netvibes or My Yahoo. Webware. | |
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| 12:41 PM: | ESME: Is This What an Enterprise Twitter Could Look Like? ESME, the Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment, is an experimental communication project developed for SAP's 'Demo Jam' by a group of 24 collaborators. It's a red hot vision of a Twitter-like experience behind the firewall. ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 12:40 PM: | Google Street View goes live in Australia, Japan. The Street View service has raised privacy hackles in some quarters , but it's helped me navigate in areas I've never visited: What does the house I'm visiting look like? Or the street corner where I'm supposed to get off the bus? Or where exactly is that big-box retailer? Google also is extending Street View to Europe. Webware. | |
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| 9:34 AM: | Google Transit. Use Google Maps to: Get step-by-step transit directions, Find transit stops in your area, View station information & schedules. Google. | |
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| 8:27 AM: | Apple pulls BoxOffice app for S and G. Another day, another capricious decision by Apple to pull a fairly innocuous application. CrunchGear. | |
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| 5:20 AM: | The Olympics & Online Video. One of the most obvious ways the Web will be utilized with the Beijing Olympics is with online video coverage. In the US, NBC has teamed up with Microsoft Silverlight for 2,200 hours of live coverage. Meanwhile in China, Adobe has teamed up with a Chinese network. ReadWriteWeb. | |
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| 4:53 AM: | Aigo's Atom-packin' MID gets unboxed. Aigo's MID (more formally known as the MID P8860) just arrived in the anxious hands of UMPC Fever, and of course, it uploaded a number of photographs so we could all share in the joyous unboxing experience. Engadget. | |
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| 4:48 AM: | Back Up a Web Server. Today we'll take a look at ways you can back up the HTML files, stylesheets, application files and databases on your remote web host. WebMonkey. | |
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