RWW: The Future of Tech

"So now, all email received from your other email accounts will be downloaded to your Gmail Account. This allows you to access all your emails in one easy location." - This is how I check all my email accounts through 1 Gmail account also - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

I'm not saying that you do, I'm just saying if you have a hotmail account and use it as a Live ID/Passport to log into 3rd party (or MS) sites ... that's all - LANjackal via IM

"A U.S. company will seek legal action against Lenovo, Acer, and Sony next week over their shipment in China of controversial software that the company says stole its programming code." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

"Lilly is betting on a few things that will keep Firefox ahead of its rivals. First of all, it’s built by a vibrant community of Firefox developers. Secondly, it has garnered the support of folks who develop browser add-ons such as extensions and themes, which allows the browser to adapt to the needs of a diverse user base. Most importantly, Lilly said that Firefox supports the open web, whereas his competitors have their own agendas. “It is premature to put the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner on the open web,” he said. “Microsoft is still a big player.” Apple, meanwhile, won’t be supporting open video codecs such as Ogg Theora, according to Lilly. Even Google is ambivalent about certain things, though the search giant is “better than” the others, he added." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

Stopped doing that by defaiult the second week here; am doing it on a case-by-case basis. But then I don't read, nor couldn't care less about Twitter. - ianf ⌘

Jason: that's what I'm aiming to do now - Shawn Hickman via iPhone

"With Firefox 3.5 being recently released, and hitting five million downloads in 24 hours, Firefox appears to be gaining more market share, and Internet Explorer's market share is slipping according to Favbrowser, and a graph by statcounter shown below. Internet Explorer fell from 62.09% to 59.49%, while Firefox rose from 28.75% to 30.33%. But Firefox isn't the only browser that's gaining market share. Opera, recently released the beta version of version 10 of its browser, rose from 3.23% to 3.36%, Safari, recently released version 4 of its browser and hitting 11 million downloads in three days, rose from 2.65% to 2.93%, and Chrome rose from 2.42% to 2.82%." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

Bad news for Microsoft perhaps, but worse news for Opera and their faltering effort to get the EU to force MS to carry their browser. - Sprague D

"The technological trends change very fast. If you are not able to change with technology then new technology makes you outdated. So, we have to keep an eye on the past and future trends of technology. Initially an idea makes a concept which in turn takes shape and then we see the products based on that concept in the coming days, months or year. Enlisted below are such concept laptops which may be a trend of our future." - Mohomed Abdullahi via Bookmarklet

I've been able to collapse them since they were moved to that page. :/ - Tim Young

That's great! Thanks for sharing. - Marcelo Pinheiro

I see they've corrected the title to "25 Free Mac Apps..." - Phil Maxwell

"we now stand at a tipping point at which mainstream enterprises are seeing the value and vendors are offering services that deliver measurable business value, integrate into existing IT environments easily and address the common concerns around privacy, security, integrity, performance and availability. Widespread adoption, in other words, is already underway." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

"Editing your images on a desktop image editor might be ideal, but sometimes you're away from our home workstation and need to do some impromptu editing. Check out these five options favored by Lifehacker readers." - I vote Aviary Phoenix FTW - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

I've used Picnik and really liked it. Need to explore some of these others. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

"The age of cyber-warfare has arrived. That, at any rate, is the message we are now hearing from a broad range of journalists, policy analysts, and government officials. Introducing a comprehensive White House report on cyber-security released at the end of May, President Obama called cyber-security “one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation.”" - Brad Williamson via Bookmarklet

"Google’s latest layout change, then, isn’t likely to be for aesthetic purposes: it’s for speed and revenue. The question is: do you, like Mark, find it less aesthetically appealing?" - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

Great. I didn't even notice it and now the useless spacing really bothers me. - ...Vezquex

"With countries like Australia and New Zealand implementing infrastructure that can deliver 100Mb/s for their next generation broadband—and with most Europeans not too far behind this—it is quite shocking to see that the $7.2 billion economic stimulus package in the USA (under the RUS Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) and the NTIA Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)) requires nothing more than 768 kilobits per second (kb/s) downstream and 200 kb/s upstream." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

not 2 many North American companies have the concept of speed vs $ vs efficient way of communication, :( bottomline and $$$ speaks volumes. I really don't know besides not too many of North Americans know about the benefits of better Internet speeds or understand how it would benefit their immediate lives. Its a hard sell. - polou/indigo_bow

Other countries' implementing infrastructure at those throughput levels are mostly smoke and mirrors, lots of PR (of which this was prime example), little action. Where speedy networks appear, they tend to flock to the same few high-saturation office/ business areas and little besides. You should know better than to swallow such "success propaganda" stories, as were we living during worst excesses of so-called Soviet Communism. - ianf ⌘

"Milo is an online service that will search the inventory of major retailers in your local area to advice you of the availability of the product which you’re looking for. In other words, it’s a multi-search engine for shopping." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

www.shoplocal.com is another option for local shopping over the web - LANjackal

This is very interesting and looking forward to how we all can create a better America. - Jason Cronkhite via Bookmarklet

"The Chinese government is a little worried about how much virtual cash is being traded in the country, The New York Times reports. In fact some virtual currency, like the QQ coin, is actually affecting the market for the renmibi, China's actual currency. Much of the $2 billion in virtual currency is used to play games, but significant chunks, David Barboza writes, are now being traded for real physical goods, like clothes, food and services. The shift of using virtual currency to pay for real products is part of what's freaking out the Chinese central bank." - Brad Williamson via Bookmarklet

wasn't a law recently passed in china disallowing the trade of virtual currencies for real-world services? - Mike Chelen

There is no way that China will allow privately issued currencies to threaten or even influence the state monetary system. - DGentry

"It’s time for a more strategic and aggressive immigration policy, one that targets the best and brightest around the globe and makes it easy for them to become permanent residents. We should be recruiting the world’s best talent the same way top companies recruit the best talent." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

+1000 - Todd Hoff

"For people who hope the openness and flexibility of the Internet will come to mainstream television, the deal announced Wednesday between Comcast and Time Warner is great news. They just don’t see yet how it blows apart the tight bond between cable content and cable delivery. On the face of it, the deal is all about controls, rules and limits. The two companies are going to test a method for people who pay for Comcast cable TV to watch Time Warner’s cable networks, starting with TBS and TNT, on the Internet. Some very thoughtful technology bloggers have railed against the idea." - Brad Williamson via Bookmarklet

That's cool, John. Does Amazon have a subscription model you can pay for, instead of paying so much for individual programs? - Brad Williamson

explains the new site http://it.usaspending.gov - on this site detailed information made available on contracts, suppliers, quality of delivery etc - - Jeroen De Miranda

Mike: did you the interview on Wired at the Disruptive by Design conference? - Jason Cronkhite via iPhone

That's pretty good, but only usable with large desktop displays, 24" or so. On a laptop it's simply far too cramped and hard to overview… - ianf ⌘

I think the business application of this is very valuable as RWW made mention of. - Jason Cronkhite via iPhone

"there’s at least one P2P release group that produces XviD (*.avi) BRRips in true 720p HD resolution - beautiful picture quality and AC3 6-channel audio that will play back on some DivX/XviD compatible standalone DVD players, as well as game consoles such as the PS3 & XBOX360. For DVD playback, simply burn as a data disk - no converting, no transcoding." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

Just downloaded one, burned it to a DVD-R and it works on my 360 :). Finally I have something high-def to watch while my PS3 is in the shop :) :) :) - LANjackal

PTM>>>>IPT. Only thing going for IPT is having iPhone formatted movies/tv releases. Don't waste your bandwidth on that tracker. Pretome also has the added benefit of having no global ratio to worry about. - Adi

"we'll be supporting transparency so that your backgrounds can indeed shine through -- this will be done prior to switching over to the new channel design. And some of the bugs we've taken care of now include reducing the occasional sluggishness that some users have reported, as well as fixing the scrollbar that broke for some when ads appear." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

It's none of China's business - ybs

"Some of the incurious double-digit-IQ nonsense I've heard in the newsrooms of old-line mainstream publications would make the average geek bite a mousepad in half. Frankly, a lot of people with journalism degrees are the last people who ought to become journalists." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

"The feasibility of doing things like live video mixing through high-level languages (those that use interpreters) sets new speed targets that developers at Mozilla and Google, and evidently Apple and Microsoft (and our Opera readers will chime in at this point), will endeavor to reach. This week, Mozilla has reached that bar; I have no doubt that Google, whose Chrome browser already has a faster engine, will meet this challenge in due course." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

Still needs calendaring support before I'll look at it. Thunderbird isn't great but at least it has a calendaring plug-in that works well. - Noah White

Noah: I hear what you're saying about the calendaring...they're still in beta, so hopefully they'll incorporate it :o) - But pretty awesome client!! - Aline Ohannessian

"Enter the Windows 7 RC. A quick look at StatCounter's most recent data shows Linux use at .71% and Microsoft's soon-to-be released OS right behind at .68%." - LANjackal via Bookmarklet

"VHLO, Verified Hello, provides a reliable channel that can be used in parallel with existing EHLO traffic. It employs the authentication, authorization, and vouching techniques that have been developed during the past years, and allows postmasters to manage them, e.g. getting aware of what conditions a receiver MTA requires…" - LANjackal via Bookmarklet