Archive for January 21st, 2010
Jan
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LuaJIT is a Just-In-Time (JIT) Compiler for Lua. It's fully compatible with standard Lua 5.1 and can significantly boost the performance of your Lua programs. LuaJIT is open source software, released under the MIT/X license. LuaJIT builds out-of-the-box on all popular x86 operating systems (Linux, Windows, OSX etc.). It runs fine as a 32 bit application
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Jan
21
Google ads for their decision to stop censoring its Chinese search engine is appearing on google search results. “English-language searches on Google.com for various phrases related to Google and China–such as “Google Leaves China,” or “Google vs. Baidu”–called up an ad that linked to the company’s manifesto on the matter, the corporate blog it issued last
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Jan
21
When you open a Gmail message, you often see ads related to that email, Google is now rolling out improved algorithms to more relevant and unobtrusive ads in Gmail. “From now on, you'll sometimes see ads matched to another recent email instead. For e.g., you're looking at a message from a friend wishing you a happy
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Jan
21
Google Wave is launching two new features to help you manage the waves you create:Read-Only Participants – creators can now change other participants on the wave between full access and read-only by clicking on their picture at the top of wave panel, and selecting access level in drop-down. You can make entire groups read-only as well,
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Jan
21
YouTube launched its own music playlist maker, dubbed “YouTube Music Discovery Project,” which’s now out of TestTube. The page is a search box on top of which says, “Find>Mix>Watch,” and once you enter a name, you hit the “Disco” button to find music. You can enter any music group or artist, and a playlist
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Jan
21
If you're running ads on iPhones and other mobile devices with full internet browsers, you can now target specific mobile devices or carriers -- includes landing pages optimized for a specific device, billing relationships with certain carriers, or mobile apps developed for a specific platform. For e.g., if you sell iPhone cases, you can use device
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Jan
21
Microsoft and Accenture Oil & Gas Collaboration Survey 2010, which surveyed 275 professionals within international, national and independent oil and gas and related companies, found that social media and collaboration technology adoption is primarily a grassroots phenomenon within firms. At the same time, half of those surveyed said their companies prohibit or restrict the use of
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Jan
21
In one federal court, Microsoft has filed a patent-infringement case against TiVo, and in another to intervene in a dispute between TiVo and AT&T -- setting the stage for a legal battle over some of the most popular features used to watch television on digital video recorders. In a filing in that case late
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Jan
21
Memeo Connect for Google Apps makes it easier for business customers to seriously consider transitioning to Google Apps. This utility lets you manage your Google Apps-based documents from your desktop PC. With Memeo Connect, you can: • Access any files locally from any desktop - continuously syncs your Google Docs account with your desktop ensuring
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Jan
21
Barack Obama has completed ‘one year’ as President of the United States. YouTube is featuring analysis of the President's past year from Fox News, PBS News Hour and Agence France-Presse on its homepage. And asking you to “weigh in on which issue should be the top priority for the country in 2010, and what you think
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Jan
21
SEOmoz has launched a new Open Site Explorer tool, that provides a number of data points pulled from SEOmoz’s Linkscape tool and its index of the web. It shows stats such as overall link counts and a count of domains that link to a URL, along with anchor text distribution and more. A helpful feature is
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Jan
21
Google added “Pages” on Blogger in Draft! to help you publish static information on stand-alone pages. You create a page similar to a blog post, and up to 10 pages from your blog. “From Blogger in Draft click Posting | Edit Pages tab, then click New Page. Once a page is published, you can link to
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Jan
21
Google and Sundance Film Festival partnered to make five films from the 2010 and 2009 festivals available for rent for U.S. users on YouTube, between Jan 22 – Jan 31. And a small collection of rental videos from other U.S. partners across different industries, including health and education, will be made available in weeks ahead. Also,
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Jan
21
Here’s the video of Matt Cutts, PubCon, Las Vegas, Nov 2009, "State of the Index" talk which covers what Google has done for users, web developers, and webmasters in the last year: No Comments » - Posted by DG
Jan
21
Users of Windows Vista can run into glitches when setting up Windows Media Center, Microsoft noted that “when you run Windows Media Center Setup on a computer that is running Windows Vista. You click the Watch Video button when you configure the display characteristics in Windows Media Center, and then minimize or maximize the window. In
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