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Having talked to some university students who had taken computer science/IT degrees, I was amazed by how little they seemed to know about making anything that’s secure or even remotely logical. The group I met with primarily had been taught PHP. Having looked at some sites they were designing I realised 5 things [...]
Head over to this page to see the official download counter, with sub division by countries. Currently it’s in 670,000, with 9700 downloads per minute…
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Here’s a new screenshot – shows seemic integration, not something I’m particularly excited about… Looks like it still has the scroll bug it used to have as well…
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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
Really interestingly made video, definitely worth watching!
Covers the history of the internet in a really creative way.
The new semantic search tool for wikipedia, Powerset, have just announced a competition challenging users to find interesting “Factz” using their search tool.
So far, I’ve found:
What eats humans?
We have the usual: zombies, monsters and sharks, but the list also includes Catholics, foxes, streets and pigs…
What do chickens like?
Only three things, potatoes, ham and tandoori. That’s [...]
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Google have released a section in the settings tab of Gmail called labs. This was predicted by a few blogs recently, and it seems to have come true today.
The new labs section includes:
Quick Links: Add links to the sidebar for any bookmarkable page in Gmail. This lets you add custom searches, filters etc.
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It’s been around for a while now, but getdeb is still a very useful tool. It has links to hundreds of .deb files for easy installation of newer software that hasn’t made it’s way to Ubuntu yet.
For starters, try installing:
Banshee
Pidgin
Screenlets
Tangerine
Much nicer than compiling from source!