If you love the idea of using social networking to unite your far flung relatives but aren’t too excited about using a wide-open network like Facebook, Chattertree offers private and feature-rich social networks for families. You’ll find all the things you expect from a larger, Facebook-like social networking tool in Chattertree. Messaging, birthday alerts, group [...]
Just three days after adding crash protection to Firefox, Mozilla rushed out another release on Friday because people playing Farmville complained that their browser was shutting down the Facebook game. Mozilla added what it calls ”out of process plug-ins” (OOPP) — a feature designed to keep the browser up and running when a plug-in crashes — to [...]
Verizon Wireless will be selling the iPhone in January, according to a report filed by Bloomberg. Representatives from both Apple and Verizon did not comment on the matter, but Bloomberg is extremely confident about this one having verified it with two sources “who declined to be named because the information isn’t public.” Let’s just hope [...]
The latest crazy movie idea is to make a movie out of the infamous Facebook game Mafia Wars. What’s next, a Farmville movie? It would appear Hollywood executives are spending too much free time on Facebook. A film adaptation of the interactive Facebook game Mafia Wars is now in development. To be honest, I’m surprised it beat Farmville [...]
Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera caught us by surprise by including faster JavaScript handling than Chrome in its 10.5 browser. In 10.6, there’s even faster performance, plus greater HTML5 and WebM video support, a streamlined menu button, geo-location, and more search engines included by default.
The Kindle DX gets refreshed today with a lower price of $379, and a 9.7-inch screen with 50 percent better contrast. It also happens to come in a graphite finish. Ships on July 7th but orders start now.
“Amazon Introduces New Kindle DX with 50 Percent Better Display Contrast and New Lower Price of $379Amazon’s latest generation large screen portable reader features all new, high contrast e-ink screen for the clearest text and sharpest images”
If you love the idea of using social networking to unite your far flung relatives but aren’t too excited about using a wide-open network like Facebook, Chattertree offers private and feature-rich social networks for families.
You’ll find all the things you expect from a larger, Facebook-like social networking tool in Chattertree. Messaging, birthday alerts, group chat, photo and video sharing, and more. You can create rooms for various family members to gather in—like a room for all the kids to chat in or a room for planning the next family reunion. Chattertree even supports multi-feed video chat so up to six families can video chat at one time.
Emboldened by the success enjoyed by Opera’s Mini in making it onto Apple’s hallowed iPhone platform, Mozilla has today submitted its own browser implement to the App Store censors. We already knew Firefox Home — a weird sort of incomplete browser that syncs your desktop bookmarks, history, and tabs with the iPhone — was in the works, but now we’re finding the team behind it is so confident of its approval that it’s already promising a guide on how to set it up once it’s approved. We suspect the fact it’ll allow you to shift browsing sessions over to Safari will be looked upon favorably, but there’s no escaping the fact that Firefox Home will still browse the web for you should you wish it. This is going to be a highly entertaining approval process indeed. Your move, Cupertino.
Just three days after adding crash protection to Firefox, Mozilla rushed out another release on Friday because people playing Farmville complained that their browser was shutting down the Facebook game.
Mozilla added what it calls ”out of process plug-ins” (OOPP) — a feature designed to keep the browser up and running when a plug-in crashes — to Firefox 3.6.4, which shipped June 22.
If Adobe’s Flash Player, Apple’s QuickTime or Microsoft’s Silverlight crashes or is unresponsive for more than 10 seconds, Firefox 3.6.4 displays a message telling the user that the browser has killed the plug-in.
But the 10-second pause was too short.
“Following the release of Firefox 3.6.4 we heard from some users, mainly those using older computers, that they sometimes expect longer periods of non-responsiveness from plug-ins, especially with games,” said Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, in a post to the Mozilla blog Friday. “For these users, the default timeout of 10 seconds was too short.”
One very lucky iPhone 4 camper walked away with 2 grand after waiting 15 hours in line at Walmart for their sole handset. Brittany Hightower was originally offered $1,000 for her device from NFL Lineman Stacey Andrews but declined. When the price doubled, she parted with her newly purchased iPhone and took the money instead. And you thought those Ebay prices were absurd?
Three Apple job postings for iPhone/iPad antenna engineers to “Define and implement antenna system architecture to optimize the radiation performance for wireless portable devices.” All three were posted on June 23rd, the same day that we started seeing widespread reporting of the left-handed reception issues. Coincidence?
A group of MIT researchers has demonstrated a method of network topology that could render the Internet 100 or even 1000 times faster than it is today.
The “magic” behind the concept is to eliminate or reduce the most time-intensive part of data transmission, which involves converting an optical signal into an electrical signal for memory storage. Memory storage is required whenever multiple optical signals arrive at the same router at the same time, requiring said router to convert and store the extra signals coming in until they can be properly processed.
Poor old Claire Rowlands felt “angry, disgusted and upset” after stumbling across a photo of her three-year-old kid Louis on Google’s Street View tool—thanks to her child’s bottom being served up to (possibly depraved) people on the internet.
Google has now pixellated the bottom after seeing Claire’s angry face, but it still makes us wonder… is a grainy photo on the internet more or less safe than having your child running about in full public view without any clothes on? At least he wasn’t being humped. That would’ve been a scandal.
Source Gizmodo
Verizon Wireless will be selling the iPhone in January, according to a report filed by Bloomberg. Representatives from both Apple and Verizon did not comment on the matter, but Bloomberg is extremely confident about this one having verified it with two sources “who declined to be named because the information isn’t public.” Let’s just hope this Verizon iPhone has a better antenna system than the iPhone 4 as we know it.
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