Offline Twitter Client [PIC]
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Category Archives: Web
Who Needs Business Cards When You’ve Got Card.ly?
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Need a quick way to share your important deets without a lot of lengthy links? Having trouble printing up business cards because you don’t know what URLs to include? Card.ly provides an interesting solution. Card.ly allows you to quickly sign up and grab a unique “card.ly/username” address that […]
Browser benchmark update: Lunascape 5.1.2
By Sterling “Chip” Camden Contributing Writer, [GAS] On July 2, Lunascape (the browser that offers three different rendering engines) officially released version 5.1, and then followed that up on July 15 with version 5.1.2. We reviewed the alpha and beta versions earlier. Since we recently benchmarked JavaScript performance for the other major browsers, let’s catch […]
Kevin Spacey Schools David Letterman on Twitter
It’s official folks, David Letterman is not only the cheapest man in showbusiness, but also the laziest man in showbusiness.
Google Wave to come ashore in September
Google has announced it will launch its integrated communication tool Wave at the end of September. It appears to be a service that is only as good as the way people choose to use it, though the Google brand name will give it a much stronger chance of acceptance. The firm has announced that the […]
[GAS] Explains: Music Royalties for Dummies
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] Considering how much “education” about music and copyright is out there (“downloading music is stealing!” ads and the like), most people have no idea how it actually works in terms of who owns what and who should get money from what kind of use. And lately, with issues like […]
US State Department Thinks Firefox is Too Expensive
In the following video, a women asks Hillary Clinton why the US State Department staff cannot use Firefox, even though the browser is completely free and was approved for the “entire intelligence community.” The answer? Deploying and maintaining the browser is “too expensive.” The only reason I can think of as to why they would […]
Google Makes Creative Commons That Much More Easy
By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] If you’ve ever written a blog post or made a website, one of the most onerous tasks is finding good graphics without copy protection. Text-only content is generally frowned upon because the increased popularity of the internet has somewhat “raised the bar” for the average blogger. Readers expect […]
Firefox Add-ons in Real Life
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Pandora celebrates as online radio escapes royalty devastation
Online music site Pandora has been saved from closure after the music and internet industries finally reached a deal over royalty rates. It’s a major boost for the online radio industry, though there’s still a significant disparity between online and over-the-air radio. Online radio in the US is governed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act […]