| Wired Web News Feed 25/06/09 |
Extract.. Travel-search company Kayak.com says Microsoft's new search engine Bing looks suspiciously familiar. The net largely agrees with the little guy, who sends a letter to the Goliath in Redmond, saying the software giant is confusing its customers.
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/06/09 |
Extract.. The new, oddly named search engine from Microsoft has launched. It's functional and fast, but it still has a long way to go if it's going to seriously challenge Google.
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/05/09 |
Extract.. Due to licensing restrictions, web designers are currently limited to using only six typefaces in their website designs. A startup plans to resolve the issues, which would free up designers to use whatever fonts they like.
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/05/09 |
Extract.. Wired.com takes Microsoft's new search engine for a test ride, wondering why users have to search to find its really cool features.
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/05/09 |
Extract.. Microsoft's new search engine is coming and the perpetual third place finisher shares a bit of the data driving its new product. The question is this: Will the answers Microsoft delivers be enough to unseat Google in people's minds?
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/05/09 |
Extract.. Google services stopped working for users around the world Thursday morning, with outages reported from Europe to the American Midwest. Some users have no problems reaching Gmail or Google's search page, while others just can't get to the services th |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/05/09 |
Extract.. Facebook has banned Newsfeed RSS, an application that delivers all of your friends' Facebook activities as an RSS feed. Facebook believes keeping track of your friends using RSS is a violation of their privacy, which means its newly "opened" platform |
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/04/09 |
Extract.. The social networking giant announces a new set of developer's tools that will enable third-party applications to directly interact with users' Facebook streams. Significantly, the new Facebook Open Stream API also supports the nascent Activity Strea |
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/04/09 |
Extract.. Discord is brewing over Digg's new Diggbar. It serves a third-party site's content within a frame, a practice long-despised by web purists. A few sites have gone as far as blocking it from showing up.
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/04/09 |
Extract.. Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin outlines free software's biggest advantages in the changing world of sour economies, powerful smartphones and cloud-based computing.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/03/09 |
Extract.. Goverment agencies are now clear to start using Web 2.0 tools, thanks to recent agreements that clear up legal issues. That means the stodgy old .gov sites will soon be sharing videos and Tweeting their every move, just like all the rest of us.
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/03/09 |
Extract.. The new web service MixTape.me makes it easy to build music playlists and share them with your friends. But unlike other playlist sharing apps that have been shut down by the RIAA, MixTape.me keeps it clean and legal by pulling MP3s from legit source |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/03/09 |
Extract.. Yahoo's free e-mail service was returning errors for many users Monday. The company says it's working to resolve the issue, but angry users are venting their frustrations on social websites, underscoring the painful reality that descends when web-bas |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/03/09 |
Extract.. Ever say something in an e-mail that got you into serious hot water? Google now gives users a five second window to "undo" any Gmail message before it's sent out over the tubes.
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/03/09 |
Extract.. The new geo-location web service Shizzow encourages users to broadcast their whereabouts, along with a quick note about what they're doing, to their friends. Context for the "where" data of location-aware services adds social value to a trend some fi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/02/09 |
Extract.. Google recently demonstrated an offline version of its Gmail web app for mobile phones. Curiously, the company used the experimental HTML 5 markup language — and not its own Google Gears plug-in — to power the demo.
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/02/09 |
Extract.. Twitter hits the mainstream, where people are using it for all sorts of practical purposes. Where's the fun in that? We interview six Shorty Award winners and nominees to find out.
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/02/09 |
Extract.. The latest Gmail Labs feature lets you combine several different views of your e-mail inbox on one web page. But the default settings are bare-bones, so here are some tips on how to get more out of Gmail's new split-screen interface.
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/02/09 |
Extract.. Google has given users of its popular Calendar web app the ability to read their events without being connected to the internet. The company's efforts, however, only extend halfway — in contrast to Google's other offline offerings, users can't |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/02/09 |
Extract.. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Many people have sent an e-mail while angry, exhausted, inebriated or just by mistake that they later regretted. Now, Google has a way to help protect you (and others) from such a faux pas.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/01/09 |
Extract.. The bookmark sharing site suffered a catastrophic loss of user data Friday it says will take "days, not hours" to resolve. The failure has users questioning the reliability of other web-based storage services.
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/01/09 |
Extract.. The internet giant teams up with academic researchers working on tools for end users to test their broadband connections for traffic-shaping. Google launched three such tools Wednesday, including one that specifically sniffs for BitTorrent throttling |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/01/09 |
Extract.. Search giant Google is ceasing development on Notebook, its free web app for clipping and saving text, images and other bits of info found of the web. Thankfully, several competing web apps like Zoho, Evernote and Diigo make it easy for Notebook user |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/01/09 |
Extract.. Wired.com has discovered a user-interface flaw in Google Docs that opens up shared documents to be edited by anybody on the internet. We found out about it by accidentally doing it to ourselves.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/12/08 |
Extract.. Every year, we see scores of innovations trickle onto the web — everything from new browser features to cool web apps to entire programming languages. Some of these concepts just make us smile, then we move on. Some completely blow our minds wi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/12/08 |
Extract.. LimeWire juices up its peer-to-peer client with a new version that lets you share music, video and images. The private sharing feature makes it remarkably simple to specify exactly what you want to share — and, perhaps more importantly, with wh |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/12/08 |
Extract.. Yahoo's photo-sharing service debuts a new user interface for its mobile site, adding video playback capability for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Support for watching videos on other handsets will be rolled out in the near future.
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/11/08 |
Extract.. The grand-daddy of video sharing sites has finally moved to a default widescreen player with an HD-friendly 16:9 aspect ratio, a feature most other video sharing sites have had for many moons. The move to widescreen playback comes just after YouTube' |
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/11/08 |
Extract.. If Google's algorithms weren't giving you what you wanted, you now have the
power to customize search results pages, as well as post, view and rank
comments. The changes you make to results are seen only by you, but comments
are public.
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/11/08 |
Extract.. Check out eight examples of how you can use CSS and little else to make beautiful data
visualizations: bar charts, scatter plots and even standards-based sparklines.
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/11/08 |
Extract.. Location-based social network Shizzow has launched in the tech-friendly Bay Area, following months of private beta testing in Portland. Like the location granddaddy Dodgeball, Shizzow focuses on connecting people in real life. Now you can easily let |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/11/08 |
Extract.. Who makes sure the hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute is appropriate? Ordinary users are counted on to do the work of flagging videos. How will this be done in the future, and will flagging be an example of the wrong way we did things in |
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/11/08 |
Extract.. Video sharing service YouTube has rolled out a new search feature that
returns video results based on location. The site gets your current location
using optional controls inside your browser, and it gives you a list videos
with nearby geotags.
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| Wired Web News Feed 13/11/08 |
Extract.. Users of Microsoft's free webmail service are reacting negatively to the company's user-interface changes. Not surprising, seeing as how Hotmail users are clearly not fans of change to begin with.
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| Wired Web News Feed 11/11/08 |
Extract.. You can produce an elegant, iPhone-native version of any website with an RSS feed using a new web app called Intersquash. You'll get a unique address and a bit of code you can put on your site to send iPhone visitors directly to the version made just |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/11/08 |
Extract.. The tipping point for the OpenID login standard is fast approaching, but it's still too confusing for mass acceptance. The web's biggest players -- Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook -- are racing to solve OpenID's usability problem.
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| Wired Web News Feed 06/11/08 |
Extract.. Google's various tools for web developers make it simple to build a local
search app that lets your visitors seek out nearby restaurants and
businesses. We show you a few different ways to get the goods from Google,
starting with pre-fab options for |
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/11/08 |
Extract.. Everyone's an expert on something. That's the idea behind wikis, where any
web user can contribute by adding their knowledge to a topic. No site is a
better exemplar of the power of groupthink than Wikipedia, the largest and
most well-known wiki on t |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/11/08 |
Extract.. The Twitter Vote Report, a website for tracking voters' experiences at the polls, is in full swing for election day in the United States. Twitter users can add their local stats to a dynamic map using a special set of shorthand commands and tags.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/10/08 |
Extract.. You don't need a GPS device to track your position any more. The latest testing build of Firefox has the ability to track a user's location by their WiFi access point. Haven't downloaded it? Browser plug-ins like Gears and Geode add this functionalit |
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/10/08 |
Extract.. Cruz enters the already crowded browser scene with some
promising features. Among them is built-in Greasemonkey scripting, an
open plug-in architecture platform, built-in TinyURL support and the
ability to break up your window however you like |
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/10/08 |
Extract.. When financial times get rough, the rough start updating their
business cards. Focus on the basics, like your contact information,
before diving into fancy designs and card stock. If you want to stand
out, there's more to it than just that. Get |
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| Wired Web News Feed 27/10/08 |
Extract.. There have been plenty of web applications created to edit your art online, but not much in the way of creating it. Sumo Paint proves it's possible with its online Illustrator-like application. The program is one more piece of evidence your tradition |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/10/08 |
Extract.. Your code is standards-compliant and it looks just right in Firefox. But Internet Explorer, not so much. While outdated browsers are still a fact of life, it's up to you to make your pages backwards-compatible. Why make visitors with up-to-date brows |
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| Wired Web News Feed 23/10/08 |
Extract.. Social networking site MySpace is getting ready to roll out support for
OpenID, as hinted by some OpenID-specific links popping up in the code of
members' profile pages. If MySpace begins offering OpenID to its 120 million
users, it would be a huge b |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/10/08 |
Extract.. Google's free e-mail service now gives users the ability to reply to messages using one of several customized boilerplates. Stop the repetitive drudgery of retyping common replies ? just choose one of your saved canned responses from a drop-down list |
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| Wired Web News Feed 20/10/08 |
Extract.. Some users are continuing to have problems with Google's free e-mail service Monday. It marks the latest bump in the road for Google's web services as the company tries to put a particularly bad week behind it.
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/10/08 |
Extract.. Forget asking search engines to take down the site for you. There's an easier way. Robots.txt is a file you can store on the root level of your web server to protect your personal files from showing up on search results. It allows you control over wh |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/10/08 |
Extract.. Flock, the web browser custom-built for surfing social networking sites, receives an update. The new version is built on Firefox 3 code, has more controls for following MySpace friends and has a new feature for automatically posting videos and photos |
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/10/08 |
Extract.. Are your pages invisible? They may not be to you, but they could be to search engines if you haven't published a proper sitemap. A sitemap is a simple document that tells search engines where to find your content, which of your pages are more importa |
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| Wired Web News Feed 14/10/08 |
Extract.. Learn how to monkey around with your favorite websites by writing your first Greasemonkey script. These simple scripts for Firefox can be used to alter the behavior or display of just about any site on the web, like adding extra buttons to Yahoo mail |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/10/08 |
Extract.. Click once in the wrong site and hackers will be able to both see and hear you through your own webcam and mic. The vulnerability is caused by clickjacking, a method of highjacking your mouse clicks. Creepy? We'll show you how to avoid it.
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/10/08 |
Extract.. Several superstars of the tech world have started up their own blogs, allowing us to bask in their deep thoughts and cower from the brilliance of their devastating insight. If only some of them would post more often.
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/10/08 |
Extract.. A new button in YouTube's comment interface plays back the user's comment as an audio file -- an idea originally proposed in the xkcd web comic. The hope is that users will scrutinize their own words before posting, but whether that will curb the fam |
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| Wired Web News Feed 07/10/08 |
Extract.. A new experimental feature for Google's free e-mail service forces the user to stop and answer simple math questions before sending after-hours messages on Friday and Saturday nights. Curbing your drinking, however, is still up to you.
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/10/08 |
Extract.. Using APIs in your web application calls for handling streams of raw data. If your program is going to interface with one, you probably want to dirty your hands with XML data first. If you're coding with the PHP programming language, there's a simpli |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/10/08 |
Extract.. Using APIs in your web application calls for handling streams of raw data. If your program is going to interface with one, you probably want to dirty your hands with XML data first. If you're coding with the PHP programming language, there's a simpli |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/10/08 |
Extract.. Protect yourself from password sniffers, phishers and other data-snooping thieves with these tips and tricks for accessing your web-based e-mail account securely. Got extra knowledge to pass on? Add your own advice and help our readers stay informed. |
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/09/08 |
Extract.. A recently uncovered exploit in mainstream websites such as YouTube, the New
York Times and ING Direct allows attackers to gain control of users'
accounts. In the case of ING's website, an attacker could transfer funds out
of a user's bank account wi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/09/08 |
Extract.. The company known to set standards is instead adopting them. Microsoft joins the list of big companies that include Google, Yahoo and Nokia in adopting the jQuery JavaScript framework in its development environment. In a surprise tack, Microsoft move |
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/09/08 |
Extract.. The latest buzzworthy web service to emerge from Google's labs is Moderator, a simple question-and-answer tool. Meant for use at live events, users can vote for the questions they want answered first. The service is built on Google's App Engine, and |
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| Wired Web News Feed 24/09/08 |
Extract.. MooTools is the web framework that lets you write JavaScript your way, but organizes it and makes it more extensible so you can write it once and use it again and again. Start with learning how to target objects on the page with part one of Adam Duva |
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| Wired Web News Feed 22/09/08 |
Extract.. Facebook is the belle at the social network ball right now, but we're scratching our heads searching for meaning. Why are people flocking to Facebook? Is it a another fad or another example of how social networking sites carries the pulse of internet |
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| Wired Web News Feed 18/09/08 |
Extract.. Amazon has announced that it will soon be launching a content delivery network service designed to help even small websites vastly improve their file download speeds. Like its other services, S3 storage, EC2 hosting and more, Amazon?s new offering wi |
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| Wired Web News Feed 17/09/08 |
Extract.. Tim Berners-Lee, one of the web's founders, has been arguing for a rating system to combat misinformation on the web. But trying to define "truth" is a fool's game, and any such system is doomed to failure. Much like the web, our minds are imperfect |
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| Wired Web News Feed 16/09/08 |
Extract.. What good is a webmonkey's resume these days without some mobile experience
to spice things up? We'll show you how to create an SMS notification app
using a text service, Google's geocoder API and a bit of server-side
programming. For our example, we |
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| Wired Web News Feed 15/09/08 |
Extract.. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, announces a new foundation focused on extending the capabilities of the web and bringing the internet to the far corners of the earth. He outlines three specific goals: to advance 'One Web' that is fre |
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| Wired Web News Feed 12/09/08 |
Extract.. It's one of the simplest blogging systems around -- just post an image, a
video or a snippet of text and get on with your busy life. We'll show the
basics of setting up your own Tumblr site, then give you some tips for
dressing up your "tumblelog" by |
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| Wired Web News Feed 10/09/08 |
Extract.. Yahoo's photo sharing website rolls out some changes to its default user
interface. The changes to Flickr, which lets logged-in users see
more photos on their homepage and gives greater visibility to the
activities of their friends, are intended to i |
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| Wired Web News Feed 09/09/08 |
Extract.. Google provides a set of simple APIs called GData which let you write data to most of their web services quickly and easily. We'll show you how it's done in this tutorial by creating an automated backup system for your office docs using the Documents |
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| Wired Web News Feed 08/09/08 |
Extract.. Thanks to a bit of hand-holding from Google's engineers, users of Internet
Explorer 6 can access some of Gmail's more advanced features. But rather
than attempting to keep its ancient browser alive (some 25 percent of web surfers
are still using the |
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| Wired Web News Feed 05/09/08 |
Extract.. Coding animated selection tools and text effects can be a nice
but time consuming task. Why reinvent the wheel? JQuery is a library
of code which sits on top of JavaScript to quickly and easily insert
useful functions into your web site. Blow y |
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| Wired Web News Feed 04/09/08 |
Extract.. Picasa upgrades its desktop and online components of photo-aggregation and editing tools. Most notably, Picasa Web Albums now has the ability to identify and filter photos by facial
recognition. It's a little creepy, but it gives Google's photo sof |
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| Wired Web News Feed 03/09/08 |
Extract.. :
From DNA to 80 digits (and counting) of pi, Wired.com readers take their geek tattoos pretty seriously.
We asked you to flash your decorated flesh, and you obliged with pictures of some pretty wild skin art. Now it's time for the rest of the wo |
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| Wired Web News Feed 02/09/08 |
Extract.. What better way to celebrate the long weekend than by enjoying a nice bottle of chenin blanc? Except that you forgot to pack a corkscrew on your jaunt to the Hamptons. Don't fret -- we'll show you how to open a bottle of wine with nothing more than a |
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| Wired Web News Feed 01/09/08 |
Extract..
These athletes are turning the stereotype of the inarticulate jock on its empty head. But they have more on their minds than endorsements and bad calls. Just try to match the pros with their prose.
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| Wired Web News Feed 30/08/08 |
Extract.. Ever want to run Google Docs or Zoho from your desktop? Unfortunately for travelers, web apps by nature are shackled to its internet connections. Now, you can cut the ethernet cable and free web apps from the web using Fluid and Google Gears.
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| Wired Web News Feed 29/08/08 |
Extract.. Your favorite music sites let you listen to songs all day for free, but only as a stream -- if you want to load one of those songs onto your iPod and take it with you, you'll have to go buy it. But your browser stores streamed MP3s temporarily on you |
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| Wired Web News Feed 28/08/08 |
Extract.. The founders of social networking service FriendFeed want to improve RSS,
the current standard for publishing website content to subscribers. Their
proposal, called the Simple Update Protocol (SUP), would provide more timely
updates and allow readers |
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| Wired Web News Feed 26/08/08 |
Extract.. Mozilla released a new, experimental add-on for Firefox Tuesday which adds a human-language text interface to the web browser. Now users can manipulate web services by typing one line of text, setting a whole new paradigm for how we interact with app |
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| Wired Web News Feed 25/08/08 |
Extract.. The social bookmarking site Ma.gnolia.com is releasing its code under an open source software license, enabling site builders to incorporate bookmark-sharing into their own web projects. With the release, planned for September, Ma.gnolia hopes to bui |
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| Wired Web News Feed 21/08/08 |
Extract.. The CSS 3 specification is not yet complete, but today's browsers aren't waiting by the sidelines to embed its rich features. Safari, Opera and Firefox are on board, so why aren't you? Start using the cool new CSS 3 features, like rounded corners, to |
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| Wired Web News Feed 19/08/08 |
Extract.. A security vulnerability in Google's web-based e-mail service can be easily
side-stepped by adjusting your account settings. And you should do it now,
because in a matter of weeks, Gmail is about to get a lot less secure.
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