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 [...]
Explore related content: Apple, bar exam, bar exam prep, BarMax, I Am Rich app, iPhone, iPhone app
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 [...]
Explore related content: climate, climate change, Climate Research Unit, ClimateGate, CRU, e-mails, freedom of information, global warming, hack, politics, science, UEA, University of East Anglia, whistleblower
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 [...]
Explore related content: F-Spot, GIMP, graphics, graphics editor, installation CD, photo editing, Ubuntu
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 [...]
Explore related content: Inkscape, releases, software, vector drawing, vector graphics
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 [...]
Explore related content: BitTorrent, Brein, content distribution service, lawsuit, Mininova, torrents
KDE is undergoing a marketing exercise in renaming itself and its various products: The phrase “K Desktop Environment” won’t be used KDE means the community and an overarching brand Various KDE products’ new names: KDE Plasma Desktop and KDE Plasma Netbook KDE technologies become the KDE Platform The KDE Applications remain the same KDE 4.3 [...]
Explore related content: desktop, KDE, Plasma Desktop, rename
Another chapter in the Google Is Evil Chronicles. The LA Times is reporting that Google has an agreement with TiVo to track your TV watching habits, and specifically ad-watching habits. Not only that, but it’ll track viewers second-by-second. Also reporting the story are Boy Genius Report, Engadget and Slashdot.
Explore related content: DVR, Google, privacy, TiVo, TV
The wedge end of malware code can be made to resemble plain English text. That’s what Slashdot is reporting as the result of research presented at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security by security researchers Joshua Mason, Sam Small, Fabian Monrose, and Greg MacManus. What they say in their paper is that normally [...]
Explore related content: English, English shellcode, malware, security, shellcode, virus
The latest release of Ubuntu, the easy-to-use Linux distribution, is out. With a version number of 9.10 (which stands for October, 2009), it’s code-named Karmic Koala. Some features of the new release include: The Ubuntu Software Center. This is an application that replaces the old Application Add/Remove. It’s nice for browsing available software, and you [...]
Explore related content: 9.10, desktop, Karmic Koala, Linux, Ubuntu
The New York Post is reporting that Google is afraid of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. The paper is reporting that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put together a crack team to upgrade their search engine. Microsoft is claiming to focus Bing on giving better results for shopping, travel, health and local searches. Given that [...]
Explore related content: Bing, Google, Microsoft, search engine
Advertisement
© 2010 Digitivity.org
