 | Google allowing you to grab an image right off the Image Search Tool without going clicking on the image. | Microsoft and Yahoo do the same thing, but it's with good reason: to offer you the full version of the image without actually visiting the page removes the context of why it's there, and makes the search engines more of a content leech than a beneficial traffic director.
The good news, is... |
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 | FireFox is looking for some coders that use the web a lot to help them built version 4 of FireFox. |
The proposed IndexedDB addition to the HTML standard is one of a collection of technologies opening new horizons for Web programmers and putting competitive pressure on Adobe Systems' Flash Player plug-in. The main reason I'm interested in it in particular: the restoration and, I'd hope, improvement of Google... |
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 | Storage and online collaboration service Box.net on Friday is introducing a new version of its site that lets users with HTML5-enabled Web browsers drag and drop files into their browser to upload them to the company's servers. | The company has long had a Java-powered drag-and-drop tool for uploads, but it's been slow to load, required users to have a recent version of Java installed, and put the drop zone in a pop-up... |
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 | There are still a lot of questions about this new Google TV. Here are some of the common questions being asked. |
Will Hulu block Google TV?
- We're still waiting to hear what Hulu has to say about the announcement--especially since Google featured the service in its demo--but we're betting Hulu will block Google TV like it's done to other living room solutions like the PS3 and Boxee....
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 | Google TV is a new way to search for your shows and videos by typing in a search box and making your life easier to watch what ever you want. | If there’s one entertainment device that people know and love, it’s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*. Recently, however, an increasing amount of our entertainment experience... |
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Nokia set out with a giant project March 2010. Now its coming to a close. What to know the fruits of designing via the community? |
Design by Community.
A project launched by Nokia early March 2010, all held on the converstations.nokia.com website.
The project is simple ... Nokia asked its community what the next new concept Nokia must we like.
Every week there was a new concept element being discussed and drawn... |
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 | A recent editors draft of the CSS3 Background and Borders module (published on 5th may) indicates that the box-shadow property could be set to make a reappearance before the specification is released as a Proposed Recommendation. | The specification also features several other updates including the addition of a ‘content-box’ value to the background-clip property, changes to the background shorthand syntax for background-clip and... |
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 | The Month of May has turned leaf ... or rather cherry petal. Witness Ego-Ones first of a new monthly trend that'll wow users with egostastic freshness.
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I took a few days to read some of the feedback , read over and over the testimonials and I went back to some posts about ego-one and the entire establishment we;ve got going here.
Suddenly I noticed a common denominator.
Sure the news... |
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 | Reports from the world about smartphones are pouring in vociferously as they continue to grow at a stupendous rate. | 2010 has seen 55 million handsets being shipped which is a whopping 65% increase on an on-year basis. Nokia which enjoys the strongest presence in most European countries was the leader of the pack and chipped in with 38% of the total units shipped.... |
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 | Microsoft and Nokia are now partnering up to strive for their shares in the highly competitive mobile market and are planing on application known as the Communicator Mobile software, it enables users to find and contact their colleagues available online. | With the help of this new application, people will now be able to see their colleagues’ availability, and click to communicate with them using... |
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 | Using Google as of 05/05/10, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of Google's search results have changed! Today’s metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search — revealing | search tools on the left and updating the visual look and feel throughout. While they are constantly rolling out small changes and updates, today’s changes showcase the latest evolutions in... |
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 | Real time search engine OneRiot, celebrated its one year anniversary on Friday by shedding its beta status. The change is notable considering OneRiot was a complete overhaul of the social site Me.dium, making this the full fledged version of the product. | With the change comes a new look for the site, along with a new back-end technology the company is calling the "trending topics engine." This new engine takes the... |
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 | With a new version of Chrome, Google has taken a second crack at shielding users from a technical detail that browsers traditionally show: the "http://" in the browser's Web address bar. | Here's where Google got into trouble, though. In its first try at removing the http:// text, it went too far. Specifically, when you copied the Web address from Chrome then pasted it in some destinations such as Google... |
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 | Apple has reached another milestone by selling one million iPad by Friday. Apple sold their one millionth iPad on 28th day from its introduction on 3rd of April. | The first iPhone had taken 74 days to reach the milestone of 1 million. iPad has been called a revolutionary product from Apple and iPad has proven all its critics wrong. More than 12 million apps have already been downloaded from Apple app store.
Apple CEO,... |
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 | Google got their gmail.com address back in the UK. | Google was forced to change Gmail to Googlemail in October 2005 due to dispute regarding Gmail trademark. Since October 19, 2005 all Gmail users have @googlemail.com addresses.
After four and half years Gmail users in UK will get to use @gmail.com in their email address soon.
The Gmail blog said:
“If you already have a Google...
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| Google's latest update to the beta version of the Chrome browser brings it to parity with the more experimental developer's version. Google Chrome beta version 5.0.375.29 for Windows, Mac, and Linux contains multiple feature enhancements as well as the semi-regular security and bug-fixes that are common updates for its less-stable cousin. |
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 | This is like a must see for you crazy Apple fans or history fans. This video shows how Apple is today. | There was some important products that are missing but it has captured the whole essence of the Apple’s product line.
Once you go through the presentation, you will immediately notice that every product just fit in Apple’s culture and that there was nothing that they did which could have risked their... |
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 | BlackBerry has been struggling to regain its empire. But now there are some new news of Blackberry has been working to change its brand and appeal to more user base. | Recently, Blackberry launched new advertisement to show what users can expect from Black berry OS 6. We only hope that this will help them fix against all the other smartphones.
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 | Adobe is now shipping their CS5 product to customers. | Adobe also gives you a 30 day trial before you buy it. It will have everything in it as like a full version.
Adobe sells these programs alone or packages them up into suites tailored for various market segments. At the very top end is the $2,599 Master Collection, which includes everything. The designer-oriented Design Premium costs $1,799. |
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 | Google’s Mobile OS Android is running on a high now with developers showing huge interest in it. It has recently hit the milestone of having 50k apps. | It took 18 months for Android to achieve this magical number, which wasachieved by Apple’s App Store in 12 months. Apple App store now boasts 190k apps.
Other Mobile Operating Systems like Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Nokia’s Symbian... |
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 | Nokia announces their long awaited symbian^3 device that is said to be a flagship model that'll bring back Nokia's good name . |
The last couple days I've been reviewing a lot of phones and phone OS's.
Most recent comments are really negative towards Nokia, and almost all are now bias, comparing everything to the wonderful and flawless iphone.
Nokia announced a while ago that they will be launching a brand new symbian, one that... |
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 | Rumours spread fast, and after the recent email leakage, is there a possibility we will have to pay for using facebook? |
There is always some truth in all rumours ... how is facebook any different from the other big fish of the internet sea? Like deviantart,Kongregate, last.fm , wordpress and many others.
All those services are paid for ... in bigger or smaller parts.
Deviantart offers VIP status for paying ... wordpress gives... |
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 | Dell has been a popular computer company that we know of. But now Dell is stepping into the smartphone world. It was only matter of time for them to stepping in. | Some infomation has been leeked at Engadget. Dell... |
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 | Today, (April 22, 2010), marks the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. Globally, the human population celebrates this memorable event, while offering ways to make a better planet for plants, wildlife and their habitats. | Since 1970, Earth Day has been observed around the globe each spring as a day to raise environmental awareness and involve citizens and communities in creating a cleaner, healthier world.
While climate change is perhaps the greatest... |
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 | Microsoft will plug a hole in a built-in filter in Internet Explorer 8 that can be used to launch the very types of attacks on Web sites it was designed to help prevent, the company said on yestorday. | The company will update the IE cross-site scripting (XSS) filter in June to fix a hole that researchers warned about at the Black Hat Europe conference in Barcelona last week. The researchers showed how problems with... |
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 | In that span of time, Adobe Systems has gone from touting its technology for building Flash applications that run on the iPhone to canceling future development of that technology. | When Apple changed the terms of its iPhone 4.0 software developer kit license, it effectively blocked Adobe's move. But in his Tuesday announcement that Adobe will cease future development of the Flash-apps-on-iPhone technology,... |
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| The stable build of Google Chrome has updated, introducing seven security patches to the browser. Version 4.1.249.1059 for Windows incorporates four high-priority security fixes and three medium-priority ones. | The high-priority fixes, introduced Tuesday, correct type confusion errors with forums, memory corruption in the V8 JavaScript engine bindings, cross-site scripting vulnerabilities on the Chrome... |
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 | Software company's involvement emerged Monday with sponsorship of a newer effort at the World Wide Web Consortium to standardize Web-based fonts with technology called the Web Open Font Format(WOFF). It's a fresh indicator of Microsoft's serious engagement with new Web standards--and it's a big boost for designers' attempts to stretch the Web beyond just the few typefaces that today can be expected to be already installed on people's... |
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 | The company is in the midst of developing a Google Cloud Print system that would allow Chrome OS users to send documents from any device to their own local printers or to other shared printers. Rather than depend on local print drivers, Cloud Print would receive and manage print jobs on Google's end and send them back to a printer. | Now it's making some resources available to developers. In a... |
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 | Windows users have been enjoying a finalized version of Carakan and the significantly faster Opera 10.50 long enough for the browser to have upgraded to version 10.51. Mac users have found themselves without a stable update from Opera 10.10. The development process is still under way, and will be having a 2nd beta here soon. |
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 | ...But at what cost? With the internet growing in functionality we search for even faster internet connection. Fast uploads, uninterrupted skype calls ... |
The answer to incredibly fast internet is pretty simple. Fibre Optics.
Since I worked a bit with wires and cables , when I was employed by Polish Television, I'll take the time to explain fibre optics.
Fibre optics are a special... |
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 | Here are four tips that I found on a website that will give you good feedback. |
1. Ask Your Mom
I’m serious. Better yet, ask your grandma. Heck, even your plumber would be great! The reason I say this is because you must have people review your website who aren’t part of... |
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 | HP have recently unveiled its HP Slate which runs on Windows and has almost everything that iPad doesn’t, including the webcam. | Is it going to kill the Ipad?
No, its not.
Despite being labelled as the chamber of innovation, HP seems to have lost its charm over the technology. Some one commented in one of the blog, “HP bring back your R&D team.”
Those words were not of criticism, but were the words or... |
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 | According to aJ.D. Power and Associates’ wireless satisfaction survey. The U.S. consumers are not only buying phones with touchscreens, but they are tending to be more satisfied with the experience than people who bought phones with physical... |
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 | Apple Iphone 4,0 OS to be revealed, and what should you do with a brand new ipad if you're not quite satisfied with it?Its inadequate to take it back to the store... So check out what these guys are doing. |
Iphone 4.0 ... there is word about the new OS, but wwe'll learn more in 3 days
Apple Iphone event starts April 8th. The future of the iphone will be discussed.
And now on a lighter note...
So... |
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 | Easter is almost here. We at Ego-One celebrate it as always ... with an Easter Egg Hunt. So prepare your baskets and ready your eyes and reflexes cos we are going to have a load of fun. |
Its almost easter and we have got to get an easter egg hunt to celebrate.
THIS friday there will be an easter egg hunt.
exactly 9 eggs to find.
but here is the twist.
For each egg there is a predefined puzzle piece that... |
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 | Guess we shouldn't known that Adobe had gone to long without another release. But we've been proved wrong. CS5 is coming to a computer near you. | Ready for the next generation of Adobe? Ar you ready for CS5? No? Yes? Well tough cookies because the world is about to move on without you. Just recently, Adobe made a nice and flashy home page to boast about the release of CS5.
Lets see here... right... |
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 | Its time to prevent global warming, its time to stop polluting, its time to save our planet from all the wrong we have done to it. Earth hour... 60 minutes that "heal the world" |
Earth Hour is a very vital day, not only for me but for the entire world.
Its a time when people actually reflect on the damage they have done to the world. All it takes is little steps, and the age old saying "what if everyone in the world littered like you now?" starts to... |
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| Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.2 late on Monday. They Recommend that you update your browser ASAP. |
"We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 3.6 you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting 'Check for Updates...' from the Help menu," Mozilla's director of Firefox, Mike Beltzner,...
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| Google Launched a new tool to alert users when the system detects suspicious activity that might indicate the account has been compromised. | Gmail already displays information at the bottom of the in-box showing the time of the last activity on the account and whether it's still open in another location. But most people don't remember or know that its there.
Google is taking an extra step to tell users about their account if its being... |
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 | Order up! I plan to print a fresh batch of Ego-One / JalokimGraphics T-Shirts. So this is your time to Order and support Ego-One! |
Thanks to the responses both on ego and facebook
I will be reprinting the limited edition T-shirts.
And I'll batch send them along with Sankets shirt from the contest... which due to problems on my side couldn't yet be sent.
In any case the T-shirts are available for purchase via direct order. |
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 | 50 million tweets, countless profiles, a new look on social networking that swept the globe. Twitter blows out 4 candles today! |
Yup you heard it. 21st of March 2006 the first tweet appeared on the twitter beta webpage. Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams started a new trend that quickly took over socializing on the internet.
Just last month twitter smacked 50 million tweets ,but how much more has twitter given us? |
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 | Microsfot IE9 Supporting CSS3, CSS3 Selectors, Namespaces, Colors, Values, Backgrounds & Borders and Fonts, along with increased support for HTML5 and Javascript in performance. |
The Preview of IE9 scored 578/578 on their CSS3 Selectors Test and an improved 55/100 on the Acid 3 test, with further improvements promised before the final release.
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 | Niko, the worlds first twitter and N900 controlled LEGO mindstorms NXT robot. Wow what a mouthful. Check out what it can do. |
The fellows at Nokia PUSH labs have finally showcased their project. Niko is robot built out of LEGO blocks using Mindstorms technology, controlled by an N900.
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 | Advertising is a great source of entertainment especially when creative and talent artists have a go at it. Here is a grand collection of funny advertisements. |  Rowenta - Vacuum Cleaners  Patex... |
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 | Quick , fast and on the spot news. A spontaneous and self explanatory header and tasty description to explain more underneath. | This is what the new news column will look like.
There is no great change, we still want awesome articles from you guys, but the top part is going to be shortened, condensed and sweetened ... all conservatives and additional sweeteners included.
Why?
well news these days... |
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| Firefox is calling it quits on 3.0. The plan to discontinue support for Firefox 3.0 in January, but the browser got a lifespan extension after Firefox 3.6 arrived later than planned. The move reflects a gradual shift toward upgrading browsers more frequently, not just to keep up with new features, but also to free up resources otherwise spent on testing and maintaining older browsers and to reduce security risks associated with them. Google... |
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 | Opera Software has released the final versions of their latest beta Web browsers in time for the CTIA cell phone conference in late March. Opera released it early then some users where expecting. Today Opera turned its Mini 5 beta 2 and Mobile 10 beta into the company's latest stable versions of its mobile Web browsers. If you followed Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5 hew closely to the beta versions. They don't receive any new features, though there are some fixed... |
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| In a recent white paper on security in Chrome, Google let it slip that one of the most controversial features it's added to the Chromium source code will be going away after the first program update check. The white paper (PDF) states that the "unique ID," which Google says it introduced to Chrome as a way to keep track of installation success, will be deleted after the program checks for updates for the first time. This means that if... |
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 | Well, it couldn't have been long after Windows 7 was released before mobile versions started coming off the assembly lines. And Microsoft employee, Aaron Woodman did just that. | Microsoft's Aaron Woodman just pulled off a little surprise here at The Engadget Show: he brought out LG's Windows Phone 7 Series pre-production prototype! The QWERTY slider is the first branded Windows Phone 7 Series device the world's ever seen, and while the hardware and... |
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