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Remains of the Day: The Inventor of the Cellphone Likes Android Edition [For What It's Worth]

Our favorite text expansion app for OS X updates, the latest build of Chromium adds Aero Peek support for tabs, and the inventor of the cellphone prefers Android. More
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Remains of the Day: The Best Jobs in America Edition [For What It's Worth]

Step inside for lessons from the life of Albert Einstein, more snazzy HTML5 demos, and an infographic look at the best jobs in America. More
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Remains of the Day: Google on Your TV Edition [For What It's Worth]

Google dips its toe into TV programming searches, netbooks' market share is growing, Twitter and Facebook gear up for geolocation, and researchers make the case for fat as a sixth taste sense. The Rise of Netbooks Think netbooks are a dwindling fad? GigaOM's infographic designers look at the last three years and disagree. [GigaOM] Readability The very handy, text-focused reformatter we all know as a bookmarklet has arrived as a Firefox add-on, with a few unique features like auto-scrolling. [Firefox Add-Ons via gHacks ] Google Testing TV Search Service On Android-Enhanced Set-Top Boxes Google employees with DirecTV are trying out a search app that scans TV programming and web video. It's powered in part by Android, and we're kind of hoping makes it to a wider market. [Business Insider] Just In Time For The Location Wars, Twitter Turns On Geolocation On Its Website Just in time for SXSW, Twitter opens up geolocation embedding from its main site. It had previously been available through its API. [TechCrunch] Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location Upping the arms race, Facebook might launch its own geo-smart status updates at its f8 conference next month. [Bits Blog] Parallels Desktop update adds support for Chrome OS It's not clear whether the $80 Mac virtualization suite means Google's unreleased, official Chrome OS or the open-source Chromium OS builds floating around, but either way, Parallels is on it. [Yahoo! News] So Fat, You Can Taste It The presence of fat in food may be a kind of sense, or at least a distinct taste, and researchers suggest those with less fat on their bodies can taste more fat in foods. [Slashfood]
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Remains of the Day: Why DRM Doesn’t Work Edition [For What It's Worth]

Designer Brad Colbow details how to download an audio book from the Cleveland Public Library (or why DRM doesn't work), YouTube adds closed captioning to all videos, and a Google employee predicts that "in three years time desktops will be irrelevant." (Click the image above for a closer look.) Why DRM Doesn't Work? Another side of the same coin as why piracy works . [The Brads] Platform shifts Mainframe to Mini to PC to Mobile. Why leaders fail to make the shift Google Europe's John Herlihy says "In three years time desktops will be irrelevant." [The Next Big Thing] Adobe Demos Flash 10.1 for Android on the Nexus One [VIDEO] See what Flash on mobile devices is shaping up to be. [Mashable] Opera downloads triple after browser ballot screen debut Windows users in Europe now see a browser ballot screen to let them choose a browser rather than giving them IE as the default, and already competitors are seeing the difference. [Computerworld] YouTube Gets Automatic Captioning For All Videos The closed captioning uses the same basic speech recognition software used in Google Voice, meaning you can expect some translation doozies for a while. [Gizmodo] ‘Google' Hackers Had Ability to Alter Source Code "[T]he hackers gained access to software-configuration management systems (SCM), which could have allowed them to surreptitiously make changes to the code." [Wired] Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from iTunes Not sure what good reason they've got for this one, but Wi-Fi detectors that actively scan for hotspots are now forbidden from the App Store. [The Register] Dev Channel Update Most interesting: Geolocation API available in early stages for all platforms, Macs see improved plug-in stability. [Google Chrome Releases] An Explosion of Mobile Patent Lawsuits All those wacky phone manufacturers are sue-crazy. [NYT] Google Index to Go Real Time Everything trends toward real-time. [RWW]
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Remains of the Day: "The Main Thing Is Not to Install Flash" Edition [For What It's Worth]

A security expert and browser hacker says the best thing you can do keep a safe browser is not install Flash, Apple threatens smartphone competitors with patent lawsuits, Netflix considers iPhone streaming, and a video delivers some astounding internet statistics. JESS3 / The State of The Internet Pretty interesting video illustrating the vastness of the 'net, embedded above. [via Gizmodo ] We're Not In Kansas Anymore. Well, We Are — Google, Kansas. Google announced last month that they're looking to test their chops as an ISP with ultra-high speed Gigabit internet , and a desperate Topeka, Kansas changes its name to "Google, Kansas" for the month in an attempt to woo Google to their homes. [TechCrunch] Reigning Pwn2Own champion: "The main thing is not to install Flash!" Security expert Charlie Miller—who's proved his hacking chops by winning the Pwn2Own browser hacking contest the last two years—offers that simple advice for browser security. [Download Squad] Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone Patents: The Complete Documents Apple dropped some serious lawyering on HTC, maker of a whole lot of Android devices, claiming copyright infringement. [Gizmodo] Searching for gold during the Games Interesting look at what people searched for during the Olympics. [Official Google Blog] Netflix Is Surveying Interest In An iPhone App Netflix sends out a survey asking users if they'd be interested in streaming videos to the iPhone. [TechCrunch] Fast new windows Google rolled out a small update yesterday that speeds up new compose windows in Gmail. It's a small tweak, but solves a big annoyance for those of us who actually compose things in new windows.
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Remains of the Day: The Ebb and Flow of Firefox Edition [For What It's Worth]

Chrome may have defined Firefox's market-share glass ceiling, Firefox still has some great improvements in the pipe, and despite the embellishment elsewhere on the web, Facebook profiles are actually pretty accurate. Firefox may never hit 25 percent market share February saw browser shares grow for Chrome but drop slightly for Firefox, leaving Ars to question whether Firefox will ever hit the 25% market share. [Ars Technica] No Lie! Your Facebook Profile Is the Real You According to a study on online identity, people are actually pretty honest when it comes to their Facebook profiles. [Wired] Internet overtakes print in news consumption among Americans The web finally trumps print newspapers for news comsumption. [Ars Technica] GPU accelerated rendering lands in Firefox nightly build If you're testing the latest and greatest builds of Firefox on Windows, you can take advantage of some nifty new graphics acceleration. [Download Squad] improving JavaScript performance with JägerMonkey Firefox's new, in-development JavaScript engine JägerMonkey promises more 'foxy speed boosts. [Mozilla Hacks]
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Remains of the Day: Ogg vs. H.264 Videos Side-by-Side Edition [For What It's Worth]

Gmail stutters, a phony version of Microsoft Security Esssentials makes the rounds, Opera 10.5 beta comes to Macs, and video codecs Ogg Theora and H.264 go head to head. (Click the image above for a closer look.) Why Can't PCs Work More Like iPhones? NYT's Nick Bilton wishes that PCs could adopt a few of the better things about iPhones and other user-friendly mobile operating systems—just not the awful walled garden part. [NYT] Quicken for the Mac: Finally! The popular personal finance desktop application makes its way to the Mac desktop. [CNET] Gmail Acting Up? It's Not Just You Earlier today, several people experienced Gmail errors, acknowledged by their Apps Status Dashboard , so if you had Gmail bugginess this morning, you weren't alone. [TechCrunch] Security Essentials 2010 Is Not Microsoft Security Essentials There's a fake antivirus application making the rounds on the internet called Security Essentials 2010—not to be confused with Microsoft Security Essentials, the antivirus app we like so much . [Softpedia] Ogg Theora vs. H.264: head to head comparisons A side-by-side comparison of two competitors for the throne of de facto web video standard reveals, unfortunately, that the free solution (Ogg) doesn't appear to stack up. [Ars Technica] Opera 10.50 Beta for Mac! Opera 10.5 Beta is now available for Macs, and it's gooood. [Opera Blog]
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Remains of the Day: Yet Another Claim of IE6’s Death Edition [For What It's Worth]

Steve Jobs puts on his birthday hat, Yelp gets sued, Twitter and Yahoo team up, and Internet Explorer 6 loses one more link to life support. IE6 Funeral A Denver design firm, noting that Internet Explorer 6 is due on March 1 to be dropped entirely from Google Docs, Sites, and, later that month, YouTube, holds a service for the standards-defying browser's "demise." We'll assume it's not one of those "Celebrate their life, not their death" funerals. Flash 10.1 Beta 3 Brings Playable HD Flash Video to Even Netbooks With Crappy Graphics If you've got a laptop or netbook with GMA or Broadcom Crystal video chips, H.264-encoded video is going to move a lot less jaggedly. [Gizmodo] Need a job? Learn Drupal Open source coding, and even volunteering, is a good way to make yourself attractive to employers . One blogger suggests content management software, and Drupal in particular, is a very hot market at the moment. [CNET News] Yelp Is Sued After Dispute Over a Review A veterinary hospital claims the review service gently suggested advertising contracts as a means of wiping away bad reviews. Here come the lawyers. [Bits Blog/NYTimes.com] YouTube removes original "Rickroll" video due to terms of use violation The source of the internet's most universal prank was pulled down overnight, then quickly put back up, and YouTube says it was a mistake. [Neowin.net] Firefox: 46 features you might not know about If you're a web developer, you might find something in this pile that helps your site look better without much work at all. [Mozilla Hacks] Yahoo strikes content-sharing partnership with Twitter Now you can access your tweets, update your status, and generally hook up Twitter to your Yahoo life. [DailyMe] Dev Channel Update Bug fixes, full-screen mode in Mac versions, and all kinds of little tweaks in the latest cutting-edge Chrome release. [Google Chrome Releases] Happy Birthday, Steve The big man on Apple's campus turns 55 today. What do you get that guy for a birthday gift? [Gizmodo]
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Remains of the Day: The Day Credit Cards Change Edition [For What It's Worth]

U.S. authorities identify the hacker behind the Chinese cyber attacks, Twitter hits 50 million tweets per day (which is still significantly below the emails/day mark), and the Credit Card Act of 2009 goes into effect. Credit card protections in effect Consumer Reports points out that today's the day that the majority of the consumer protections from the Credit Card Act of 2009 take effect. Make sure you know what that means to you . Chinese Hacker Responsible For Google Attack Code Identified U.S. authorities identify the man who tried to hack Google in China—the even that prompted Googel to stop censoring search in China . [Gizmodo] Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day The popular micro-blogging service is pushing out tweets like nobody's business. Of course, it doesn't beat the estimated 210 billion emails a day (and that's from two years ago), but it's still impressive. [Mashable] If Eric Schmidt Thinks Privacy Doesn't Matter - He should Publish His Own Browsing History A lot of people are upset with Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent comments regarding user privacy and the mistakes Google made when they launched Buzz. This is one such response. [BlindReason] Windows Phone 7 and the End of Hardware Choice Gizmodo notes that, with the impending Windows Phone 7 launch, the "'slap our software on any old hardware' open platform is dead." [Gizmodo] Codeorgan This web site plays web sites based on their source code. Not terribly useful, but if you ever wondered what Lifehacker sounds like , there you go. Microsoft may end up resorting to M&A in mobile Reuters suggests that if Microsoft wants to compete with Apple and Google in the smartphone market, they may need to consider buying other manufacturers like Nokia or BlackBerry.
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Remains of the Day: Microsoft Surface Is a Basement Geek’s Dream Edition [For What It's Worth]

Firefox Mobile for Android is due some time in 2010, HBO's streaming video aims to help out cable companies, and a clever/scary webapp shows us the dangers of blindly "checking in" with geo-location apps. Hands-on: D&D on the Microsoft Surface The idea is to demonstrate how the Surface project could foster all kinds of interactive social games and applications, and foster innovation in the ... Seriously, though, wouldn't you have killed for this when you were 14? [CrunchGear] Firefox Mobile for Android Could Be Available By End of the Year It's mostly a matter of code translation, but there's a lot of code needed to get Firefox running natively on Android phones. Still, it's good to hear even a rough, loose deadline. [Gizmodo] HBO GO Launches Live On Verizon FiOS Thursday, Links With Fancast Cool that you can watch your HBO addictions over really high-speed internet, but you need a standard cable or satellite subscription for access. [Business Insider] PleaseRobMe Is the Logical Extension of Our Worst Fears about Location-Based Services It's just a filter for all those geo-tagged Twitter updates floating around. But this little webapp might open your eyes to the logic of telling the world you're definitely not at home. [I'm Not Actually a Geek] Google Donates $2 Million To Wikimedia Foundation Not just Wikipedia, mind you—which certainly gets a lot of Google traffic—but projects like the Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote, and others get some help. [TechCrunch] Dropbox around the world! The file syncing service has over 4 million users, which the team breaks down by nationality and operating systems in this post. Bonus: Cool time-lapse-y video of Dropbox data use. [The Dropbox Blog] Beta Update, Mac and Linux: Fix Crashes Title pretty much says it all, but also some better font support. [Google Chrome Releases]
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