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Yahoo has introduced a new way to search for music, podcasts, sound effects and other audio with the Yahoo! Audio Search beta tool. Now, searching for commercial music simply performs a search on most of the pay music download services, which isn’t really that convenient. What is really nice is the podcast search along with the ability to search for other audio such as sound effects to use with audio projects.
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Our favorite open source browser has some goodies we didn’t know about. If you type in the following in the address bar you get some interesting results:
about: shows info on Firefox version number, copyright, etc.;
about:config reveals the Configuration Console, a repository brimming over with scores of customizable settings;
about:cache displays a summary of both your memory and file cache, with a link to full file listings;
about:buildconfig lists the compiler options that were used to create your version of Firefox (and, since it’s open source, anyone can compile a customized version);
about:plugins enumerates your installed add-ons, which can be quite numerous since Firefox is designed to be modular and extensible; and
about:credits is an “Easter egg” that includes the names of hundreds of developers and testers who worked on the product.
Read More | Secrets of Firefox 1.0
Why Do Shopping Sites Turn Down Negative Consumer Reviews?
Posted by Alex Grahmann Categories: Features, Internet, Misc. Tech,
The Wall Street Journal Online has published an interesting article today on the customer review posting practices of several big-name online retailers like NewEgg. The article points toward the growing trend of websites that solicit or otherwise encourage users to submit reviews of their site, products, and business practices for posting. While some tout a very open policy of posting almost any review, the majority have filtering processes to decide which reviews will be made public. The filtering process can be as simple as software that weeds out reviews which include foul language or as complicated as a multi-member staff that read all the reviews. Read on for our thoughts on how these places should handle customer reviews.
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The Mozilla Foundation announced today that it was reorganizing and forming the Mozilla Corporation. While the Mozilla Foundation will continue to be a non-profit public benefit software development organization the Mozilla Corporation will be a for-profit company aimed at serving other non-profit development efforts. A majority of the Mozilla Foundation employes will be moving to the new Mozilla Corporation. What difference will this make for Firefox users? Very little according to the Mozilla Corporation both Firefox and Thunderbird will remain free products and will stay open source. The primary reason for the switch was to escape legal restrictions placed upon not-for-profit organizations in the United states. TheMozilla Foundation will remain non-profit and be able to continue to accept tax-deductible donations to continue to help the free open source software movement. Both theMozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation will continue to work with developers to improve Firefox, Thunderbird, and other open source projects to benefit the internet community.
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There are many online photo storage services available today, but none stand out the way Flickr does. Now thanks to Giles Turnbull of MacDevCenter you can learn exactly how to use this photo community, few tips, and which tools to use to get your pictures online. Give it a try and upload some pictures to share a little piece of your life with the world – or at least with the rest of us geeks. If you have a Flickr account, point us to your photos in the comments.
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The auction has ended. Who’s the lucky winner? A fan of reality shows? Well, it turns out that not even his momma bid. This poor, washed-up reality star put himself up for grabs for a stunningly expensive 400 pounds on eBay. Money raised was to be distributed to a local animal charity (aka his dog), but it seems as if none were too charitable in this embarrassing display.
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In an effort to prevent new terrorist attacksISP are beginning to do their part by maintaining content hosted. Aplus .Net for example, has used crawling technology similar to those in our favorite search engines to find sites with malicious intent, such as pro Al-Qaeda content. This picture is an example of a site (www.mojihedun.com) created in Pakistan - it was classified as a malicious Jihadi web site and was taken down and replaced with patriotic content. These sites violate contractual obligations in the Terms of Service within the theirISP, therefore removing the content is not illegal.
Every Web-site producer that posts content on the Internet via a commercial Internet Service Provider signs an agreement to abide by the terms of service of theISP . Most of these contracts contain provisions that indicate the posting of criminal or terrorist content is prohibited, so removing the content is well within the contractual rights of theISP.
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Hey AOL, what are you thinking? I guess we should have known that when we saw AOL was working on putting some nice features into the next version of its Instant Messenger software, Triton, that it would mean even more annoying advertising in the product. I mean, take a look at the above - the ad is directly in the text chat area. Tabbed chatting isn’t worth this, AOL. This is why you continue to become obsolete on the Internet.
Original Lightsaber Sells for $200,000
Posted by Alex Grahmann Categories: Accessories, Internet, Movies,
The original lightsaber prop used by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in 1977’s Star Wars grabbed a closing bid of over $200,000 at a recent auction of Hollywood memorabilia. The auction, with both live and online bidders, took place in Beverly Hills, California, and featured 550 different movie props, some from the personal collection of Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz. Despite being made up of only a metal tube and some rubber, the lightsaber sold for far more than the $60,000 to $80,000 that was expected. Darth Vader’s original saber also sold, but for a much smaller sum of $118,000.
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Fox has now joined the bandwagon that is Podcasting, or blogcasting. The FOXcasts are narrated by Michael Krogmann, and are free to download. This idea is nice since you don’t have to be tied to a TV set to get an idea of what an episode is about. Only problem is that the site lacks updates, or content for that matter. Hopefully they’ll get on the ball and give us some more.
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