Archive for November 27th, 2010
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Iselle Slome and the ladies of ArthurORMartha have created just about the most ridiculous parody of a computing product ever seen since MadTV's extremely prescient Apple spoof.
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Microsoft's Kinect has been rigged as a NES controller. Yankeyan previously responsible for a Kinect hack which allowed a user to control a lightsaber has now set on a classic, creating a gesture control scheme for Super Mario Bros. He describe how he used OpenKinect drivers and a PC NES emulator to create his tribute
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The UK's High Court has ruled that "headlines are now considered separate literary works, and thus subject to copyright, -- means clients of aggregation websites that charge for a service will have to pay for a license in order to use headlines, links and short extracts from online stories."The ruling followed a legal wrangle between the
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China's Wong Fu Productions (Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, Philip Wang) and Ryan Higa's special project: a high-quality, long-form film is just released on the YouTube."Written in a couple days, the 35-minute movie was shot in one intense week this past summer, using a DSLR camera."
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Microsoft has issued a statement on the ChevronWP7 unlock tool for Windows Phone 7, that allows owners to trick the OS into registering itself as a WinP7 developer device with the app rather than Microsoft directly. Microsoft normally charges $99 a year for the privilege of loading developer apps.MS said:We anticipated
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Microsoft released a new SharePoint Integration Pack (IP) for Opalis that enables you to manipulate SharePoint Lists and Libraries (e.g. Document Libraries, Image Libraries etc.) to add, modify and remove entries, files and attachments.This's an IP that was created using the Quick Integration Kit (QIK) which allows anybody to create their own IP's.This Integration Pack adds
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Domains are being seized by the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security under the auspices of ICE. Homeland Security with help from ICANN has seized the domain of a torrent search site and posted a notice stating: "This domain name has been seized by ICE Homeland Security Investigations, pursuant to a seizure warrant
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Late in Oct. Google Adwords help forum noted problems with Quality Scores to which Google claimed "This issue was limited to reporting of Quality Score, and the fix should be live for all within the next 24 hours. For those keywords with a status of Low search volume, the fix should be live within the next
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Office 365, Microsoft's cloud-based version of its Office, Exchange, SharePoint and Lync solutions -- intended to replace the BPOS, Office Live Small Business, and Live@EDU offerings -- is reviewed by the Paul Thurrott:"Users can login to the Office 365 Dashboard, to access the web-based Outlook Web App, as
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Distimo that provides some interesting statistics on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. As of Nov'22nd, there were 2,674 applications for WinP7. That's in comparison to just 1,350 for Windows Mobile 6.x devices had in over a year. Based on sheer numbers, Apple and Google have huge head starts. The App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod
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Random From The Windows Phone 7 Marketplace: “Sees Tremendous Growth, Focus on Games, Paid Apps ‘Cheapest’ of All Stores”, Distimo Report
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