I rarely find myself admiring the work of the good people at Microsoft, but this new feature is a winner.

Make sure you click "watch the entire show". It's only about 3:30.

Via joystiq

Originally published at my blog

( A tale of loss and redemption.Sort of. )

Firefox 1.5 is out. Go get it. Been using it for a few hours and it works very well. And nearly no extensions were broken in the move from 1.07.

And, of course, if for some reason you're still using IE, now is a great time to switch.
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I'd probably spend a couple of weeks playing this thing, a Rogue mod for Doom3.

Via filkertom
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After being inviation only for a couple of months, it is now open to all. It's like blogspot, only powered by WordPress and therefore better.

It isn't as flexible as using WordPress, but it's much easier to configure. And, also, better.
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An Arthur C. Clarke column for Outlook India about news blogs and political blogs. It isn't earth shatteringly new, but it's nice to see that at 87, Clarke is still an astute an observer as ever when it comes to technology and society and how the two interact.

Via Joel Shepherd (who, when I introduced myself at worldcon, said: "oh, yeah, I've ( Read more... )

I've always used some sort of invisible hit-counter on my website. For most of the last few years, I used thecounter.com, a pretty good service which was also fairly cheap. When I switched hosts, I left thecounter, as my new host provides three different site stats programs for free ( Read more... )

At Engadget.
HP: âœExactly, we could come out with new colors, new shapes, add a bit of the olâ™ WMA. Hey, maybe USB On-The-Go so people could print album covers directly to our printers. You know, really differentiate it.â

Apple: âœThat sounds splendid. We look forward to having you resell the iPod exactly in its existing perfect form.â

In the ( Read more... )

I love my Rio Carbon dearly. It's a wonderful device, that delivers great audio quality, an excellent user interface, and a battery life that never failed me in my european trip. I decided to buy it after some serious research which indicated that it is significantly better value than the similarly featured Mini iPod ( Read more... )

PNH calls this a reason not to use Blogger. While I agree with that in a general sense, it is especially a reason to avoid using BlogSpot.

Still, it makes me even happier about leaving Blogger for WordPress. As someone who never used the Blogger Navbar, I would never have this annoyance on my blog. Still, I'd be pissed off that the company whose ( Read more... )