Archive for August 23rd, 2009
Aug
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Have you notice, that sometimes Flash-based videos stutter when you view them in Firefox, but work fine in other browsers like Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari? This turns out to be a problem of appears to be a problem of Firefox's session restore feature, that affects both Windows and Mac versions. So what's the solution? Well, you
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Aug
23
Google Reader is great for staying updated with favorite blog posts feeds, but when it comes to reading blog comments, it doesn't really deliver. gReactions, a Firefox extension fills the gap, and allows you to read comments from all over the web to your posts, directly from Google Reader. It collects comments from the blog post itself, FriendFeed, Twitter, Digg, Hacker News,
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Aug
23
Felipe Gomes demonstrate the progress on multitouch support for Firefox, and here’s a video which showcases some possible interactions and use cases for what web pages and webapps can do with a multitouch device.
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Aug
23
While the open-source crowd gets excited by Linux's growing market share, three companies’re pulling the rug out from under the feet of traditional operating systems. Red Hat’s winning in Linux while IBM cleans up the Unix market. But those’re increasingly yesterday's markets as Microsoft, Google, and VMware create different breeds of operating system, each tuned to the
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Aug
23
Here's Jimmy Kimmel's take on Bill Gates hurricane-prevention patent filing, Nathan Myhrvold and others connected to Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures.
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Aug
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DFS-N test team has completed some extensive Performance and Scalability testing; To start, here’s a comparison of the performance of adding links to a standalone namespace. It includes data for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. As you can see in pic, there’s a significant improvement between
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