TechCrunch to Endorse Presidential Candidate
TechCrunch has opened a poll for readers to vote on which candidate they would like TechCrunch to endorse. What makes this poll a bit different is TechCrunch will be endorsing two presidential candidates, one from each party. You can vote once a day.
TechCrunch has also been interviewing each candidate on technology issues which you can [...]
Here Comes Another Bubble
As seen on TechCrunch:
You can also download an mp3 of the song from The Richter Scales website.
EFF confirms Bittorrent Interfence by Comcast
Ars Technica reported yesterday about a study published by the EFF that confirms Comcast is interfering with bittorrent traffic regardless if its being used legally to share things that are public domain. I’ve noticed this myself when using bittorrent to download Ubuntu ISO’s. This study confirms what was reported in October by the Associated Press.
“Comcast [...]
Gmail now offers Free IMAP.
As reported earlier on TechCrunch, Google has begun offering free IMAP support for all gmail accounts. This is excellent because it now keeps all email clients in sync which is especially useful on mobile phones and pda’s that don’t support the gmail java app. My free gmail account has the settings for turning on IMAP, [...]
WordPress 2.3 - Blog Updated
Just finished updating the blog engine (WordPress) to 2.3 which was released today and I have to say I’m liking the new version a lot. The upgrade was super simple. Used the Wordpress Database Backup plugin to easily make a backup in case anything went wrong and I needed to restore. Then I downloaded my [...]
NBC says “You’re Fired” to Apple
Well it looks like NBC is choosing not to renew their contract with Apple that would allow NBC shows to be available through the iTunes store because Apple would not raise prices.
“We are disappointed to see NBC leave iTunes because we would not agree to their dramatic price increase,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president [...]
Richmond Free Wireless
I recently installed two little white boxes on my network. This white boxes are for Richmond Free Wireless which is a community driven wifi network that plans to cover the entire Richmond area with WiFi providing free internet access to everyone. What’s nice about these units is basically all you do is plug it into [...]
Mozilla Firefox Update
Mozilla released a new version of the Firefox browser today. The update fixes two flaws recently found in the browser, 1 critical and 1 moderate.
MFSA 2007-27 Unescaped URIs passed to external programs
MFSA 2007-26 Privilege escalation through chrome-loaded about:blank windows
You can download the update here, or in Firefox [...]
Mobile Browsing
There’s an interesting post at Web Worker Daily about browsing on your mobile phone and a recent T-Mobile study in the UK. Since I got my Treo 750, I’ve noticed I do a lot of browsing on my phone. Most of it is to read my mobile rss feed from NewsGator Mobile Edition. I do [...]
Apple Releases iTunes Plus
Looks like Apple has released iTunes 7.2 and with it comes the iTunes Plus feature in the iTunes Store which is what they’re calling the higher quality DRM free songs that you can purchase.
