According to ZDNet, Intel drives a Linux project called Moblin that is aimed at netbooks.
By the looks of it, Intel has a winner. They are probably trying to create a well-established niche for their Atom processors. These Atom processors are in my opinion real winners. They are cheap, use just a few Watts of power. [...]
How I automated my backups to Amazon S3 using s3sync
Amazon has made an effort in the past two years promoting their Amazon Web Services (AWS). They are unconventional but appeal through the sheer simpleness and power. Large web services like Smugmug.com use Amazon S3.
Introduction to S3
Honkiat.com has a nice detailed beginners guide to Amazon S3, and [...]
The United Nations UNESCO has opened “The World Digital Library”. It has a substantial amount of original work of historic significance, and because it is funded by the UN (that means all of us) there are no issues with copyright.
One of UNESCO’s goals is to preserve historic and cultural monuments and to do so, opening [...]
Are you fed up with Google scanning through all of your (digital) life? Internet startup Tonido is getting your Web 2.0 experience back to where it belongs: on your own systems. Lifehacker has a nice article about this new start-up, and if it delivers, it just might be a next big thing.
Although in beta the website [...]
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So you have a lot of email and you’d like to cut down on time to reply. Lifehacker has a quick tip: fool people to believe you just emailed them from your mobile phone and you’re done with a simple line of text. They took it from a post on smarterware that took it from [...]
Techcrunch has a post about a security breach at Google Docs: “Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission“. It seems more of a problem than you’d expect as Techcrunch says:
In a privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services (…)
Privacy is a problem in so-called cloud-based computing. Also Google still [...]
On a trip to the USA, calling home can be an expensive matter. A lot of people complain of high mobile phone bills after a nice vacation. This is called “bill-shock”, “roaming-shock” or “cell-shock”. I have had my fair share of it, so for my next business trip I’ll go prepared.
The options
Don’t make phone calls [...]
In these slow financial times getting out your best on the web might be a good shot. Personally I see activity on sites like LinkedIn soar. Old classmates suddenly want to connect and all profiles start to look better and slicker. This includes getting your picture on Web 2.0 right.
I found a website with a [...]
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dinsdag, februari 24, 2009
Today I noticed an article in the New York Times about “The Deep Web”. It isn’t some kind of Sci-Fi fantasy but a term to describe the data “hidden” inside web sites. Think of it as crawling the data inside an airport’s front page.
It isn’t completely “undiscovered”. Google has some projects to address this; Google [...]
vrijdag, februari 20, 2009
The mobile web anno 2009 is comparable to the desktop web of 1998; at least, thats what Jakob Nielsen says. His opinion is valued because he is an authority on usability and has a Ph.D. on human-computer interaction.
The Nielsen’s Law is named after him and states that home bandwith doubles every 21 months. Because this [...]