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Archive for July, 2008

New Delicious: now with more flavour

Quiet day, settled in for the evening, and then… up pops a new Delicious.
It shouldn’t be a big deal (the Delicious refresh has been circling over the runways for what seems like years now), and in some ways isn’t. There no wild and wacky shift in functionality; you save your bookmarks to the site, and [...]

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Quote Of The Day

“We’re just finishing your Internet, Sir. Give us five and she’ll be all done.”

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Say hello to the new ‘Fox

Ooh, look; it’s Firefox 3.1.
UPDATE: Couldn’t see anything wildly different, until I chanced on ‘ctrl-tab’ as a key combo. If you’re a Mac user, give it a go (just don’t expect your 3.0 extensions to work).

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Best iPhone 3G Review Ever

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Cuil proving no so cuil

Cuil.com (pronounced ‘cool’ with an Irish twang) has been hyped as the new Google. It launched a few days back, and almost instantly suffered the downside of enlarged expectations.
For one, it didn’t work that often; you were greeted with a message explaining that the server was going through a mid-life crisis. And the results were [...]

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Autism: is TV the culprit?

New report points to television being a cause behind the growth of autism in the US (it has gone, apparently, from one in 2500 children in the late ’70s to one in 166 today).

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What if you own the search and the results?

The speculation is now rife: is Google showering favours on its own sites? The search beomoth’s answer to Wikipedia launched last week, and now Jason Calacanis has launched an attack on the Knol strategy:
For Google’s own good they should not try to take over their own search results. If Google results start showing 20-30% Knol [...]

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No, I said Drive… put it in Drive…

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Fry declares Apps the real revolution

Stephen Fry today in Guardian’s Technology channel:
But that is to take nothing away from what July 11 heralded: not
evolution but revolution. Now that the Applications store is up and
running, you will soon find it a very common sight indeed to see people
crowded around each other’s iPhones showing off the latest impossible,
breathtaking and groundbreaking application. “Ah, [...]

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The film that that doesn’t see black

Watched Collateral again this morning. Probably the sixth or seventh time I’ve watched the film right through. I begun to wonder why I find it so habit-forming – I’m certainly no major fan of either Cruise or Foxx, and the plot itself is hardly life-changing (in fact, Vincent’s attempts to intellectualise his killing is just [...]

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