A number of sources are reporting Facebook has surpassed Google as the most visited site in the US.
Read on to find out why I think this is a loss for the open Internet.
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If you’ve been planning to buy a new LCD panel or TV, you might want to factor in the effect of the earthquake in Taiwan on LCD prices.
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Google has bought Picnik, a free online image editing website.
Picnik has grown to become one of the most popular web-based photo editing sites.
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Google Chrome’s been out for Mac since December, but now they’ve released a new beta version with extensions and other features.
Click through to see a video of the new features.
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Tweets on Twitter are reporting that the photo accompanying New York Fashion Critic Kathy Horyn’s article on the Golden Globes, which actress Christina Hendricks, was called “a big girl”, was resized and widened to help support the notion that Hendricks is fat.
That’s pretty amazing, given that the New York Times claims to be the “newspaper [...]
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OK, you’ve heard of the $1000 “I Am Rich” iPhone app, right?
It was a dummy app that did nothing but announce to onlookers that you are rich enough to afford the program. At a thousand dollars, it sold eight copies before Apple pulled the plug on it.
Now there’s a new app trying to claim [...]
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Private e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England have been released to the Internet which may change the terms of the global warming debate.
The hullaballoo started when somebody calling themselves FOIA posted a message to the Air Vent blog which offered a tantalizing ZIP file about climate science [...]
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The Ubuntu Linux distribution is dropping the GIMP graphics program from its installation CD. While it won’t be installed on fresh installations, the program will be able to be installed via Ubuntu Software Center. Users who have the GIMP installed will continue to have it installed after future Ubuntu upgrades.
This move had generated quite a [...]
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Version 0.47 of the open-source vector drawing program, Inkscape, has been released.
If you’re not already familiar with Inkscape, it’s comparable to Corel Draw, Xara, or Adobe Illustrator. It has fewer features than some of those programs, but also a few that they don’t. Bitmap-based drawing programs save a line as a collection of square pixels. [...]
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Breaking news: Mininova, the torrent site, has effectively been shut down.
Granted, the site itself still running, but 99% of the torrents which used to be available on the site are no longer available. The only torrents which will be available are those vetted through its Content Distribution Service.
The Mininova blog entry for this news is [...]
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