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Get all ‘Minority Report’ on your desktop with Windows 7 & BumpTop

October 2, 2009 – 7:44 am
[from BumpTop Blog] A while back, we gave you a sneak preview of some of the new multi-touch features we were hard at work on this summer. I showed off our basic gestures, but mentioned that we’re a few really cool gestures that I couldn’t tell you about yet. Well, I’m happy to say that I can finally talk about them. Today, we’re announcing BumpTop 1.2, which contains some awesome new multi-touch features for Windows 7. Check it all out in the video, or read on for more details. You can also check out our full gesture guide. via BumpTop Gets Multi-Touch Support on Windows 7 – BumpTop Blog.

Tags: BumpTop, Windows 7

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Don’t worry about your ‘Keywords’ tag…

September 22, 2009 – 7:13 am
Google confirms that it doesn't use the "keywords" meta tag in their web search ranking. Matt Cutts of Google's Search Quality Team, says that because the keywords meta tag was so often spammed and abused, they began disregarding the tag years ago and see no need to change that policy. He stresses however that Google do use other meta tags such as Title, Content-Type & the Description tag as the text for search results snippets.

Tags: Google, Matt Cutts, meta tags

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Lazyfeed Implements RSSCloud/PubSubHubBub for “Real Real Time” – ReadWriteStart

September 19, 2009 – 8:59 am
Lazyfeed cofounder and CEO Ethan Gahng announced that the RSS reader is now supporting both RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub protocols, allowing for real-time integration of Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, and Feedburner content. "Our internal tests show that the service has actually become significantly faster," Gahng wrote. "Now some content from as recent as several seconds ago is being notified through Lazyfeed. "Lazyfeed is a feed reader intended for the ever-growing market of, as we wrote previously, "those of us who are too lazy for RSS feeds but still in the market for real-time, personalized blog searches." Internally, we've found the site incredibly useful. "To be frank, it's been so useful in churning up news items that I've been hesitant to discuss it publicly," Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote in a recent post. via Lazyfeed Implements RSSCloud/PubSubHubBub for "Real Real Time" - ReadWriteStart.

Tags: Lazyfeed, Pubsubhubbub, ReadWriteStart, real-time, rssCloud

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Eating Disorder Programme for St. Patrick’s Hospital

September 16, 2009 – 7:20 pm
The Eating Disorder Unit at St Patrick's Hospital was established over 15 years ago and caters for people with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders. doop were commissioned by St. Patrick's Hospital to design & develop a series of programme websites providing information and feedback to patients.

Tags: CMS, Eating Disorder Programme, Joomla!, St. Patrick's Hospital

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Voice chat coming to Facebook | Geek Gestalt – CNET News

September 16, 2009 – 8:51 am
Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network's tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications. The new technology is not being offered by Facebook itself, however. Instead, it's from Vivox, a Boston-based company that provides the integrated voice service for virtual worlds like Second Life and EVE Online, and which already has more than 15 million users worldwide. via Voice chat coming to Facebook | Geek Gestalt - CNET News.

Tags: chat, CNET News, Facebook, second life, Vivox, voice

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Customize Your Web Modifies Web Pages to Your Liking – Firefox Extensions – Lifehacker

September 16, 2009 – 8:08 am
Login faster, rearrange Google, make the web look and work how you want it to with "Customize Your Web" - Firefox extension. Using Customize Your Web's WYSIWYG editor, you can change the appearance of elements, hide them, or copy and paste them somewhere else in the page. You can also add keyboard navigation or auto-executing macros. For advanced users, Customize Your Web also supports inserting HTML and JavaScript. Check out the demonstration video below for an overview of what Customize Your Web can do. via Customize Your Web Modifies Web Pages to Your Liking - Firefox Extensions - Lifehacker.

Tags: Customize Your Web, Extension, Firefox, Lifehacker

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Bing Pops With Visual Search – TechCrunch

September 15, 2009 – 7:25 am
[Always useful for a designer, Microsoft's Bing browser unveils it's brand spanking new visual search feature but only if you're set as a U.S. user, and you'll also need to download and install Silverlight... so just go to bing.com/worldwide and set your country as United States.  Save the settings and you will then be able to enjoy the visual search feature of Bing at bing.com/visualsearch...] For instance, if you type in “dog breeds,” it organizes them for you in a grid of images that you can scroll through using a slider on the right. When you hover over a particular image, it enters the name of that dog breed in the search box. And you can re-order the image results by size, breed, exercise needs, and Bing popularity. There are more than 100 visual galleries ranging from movies, books, and cars to products, animals, and sports teams. The sorting categories change each ...

Tags: Bing, browser, Microsoft, search, TechCrunch, visual

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Kellep Charles: Cloud Computing and Security Concerns

September 11, 2009 – 1:18 pm
Cloud computing has been receiving a lot of press in the IT mainstream media lately and all indications points to it continuing to be a hot topic for some time. Gartner.com stated in an article “Significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in cloud computing. The concept of cloud computing pertains to an entity that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services can be private or public and are divided into three categories: * Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) * Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) * Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) via Kellep Charles Information Security Blog Space: Cloud Computing and Security Concerns.

Tags: cloud, cloud computing

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Access Gmail When It’s Down – Lifehacker

September 11, 2009 – 10:11 am
Last week's Gmail outage is just the latest in a long series of outages in our favorite webmail application, but you don't have to let that stop you from accessing your email and getting things done. via How to Access Gmail When It’s Down - Gmail - Lifehacker.

Tags: email, gmail, Google

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YouTube – Social Media Revolution

September 11, 2009 – 9:56 am
YouTube - Social Media Revolution.

Tags: digital media, Facebook, social media, social network, social networking, twitter

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In 8 Years, Online Video Consumption Will be Measured in Exabytes

September 9, 2009 – 10:59 pm
One exabyte is a billion gigabytes. It's one quintillion bytes. And yes, "quintillion" is a number so large, it almost seems made-up. But that's how much online video will be consumed by 2017, according to new reports from U.K.-based research firm Coda. Actually, to be precise, they're claiming that mobile broadband users accessing the net via laptops and netbooks will consume 1.8 exabytes of video. Per month. via In 8 Years, Online Video Consumption Will be Measured in Exabytes.

Tags: video

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TweetDeck Updates with Better Facebook, New MySpace Support – Lifehacker

September 9, 2009 – 10:52 pm
TweetDeck is mainly a Twitter client, but it's been making inroads into helping you organize, search, and compress your other social networks in later versions. Adding columns is now a bit more intuitive and specific, as TweetDeck asks you which account the column should come from, and which aspects of a feed should be shown. Along with the aforementioned status-checking features, there's now drag-and-drop photo uploading for Facebook posting, and new lists of recommended Twitter accounts to follow for different types, like "Journalists." TweetDeck is a free download, works anywhere the Adobe AIR platform does. via TweetDeck Updates with Better Facebook, New MySpace Support - TweetDeck - Lifehacker.

Tags: Tweetdeck

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Find Spammers and Bots Who Are Following You On Twitter

September 9, 2009 – 10:15 am
If that large follower base count of people following you on Twitter gives you a high, here’s a tool that might break your heart, a little bit at least. Called TwitBlock , the tool will scan profiles of everyone who follows you on Twitter and it will then prepare a list of Twitter accounts that may be fake or have been created with the sole purpose of spamming Twitter. The tool doesn’t require you password but since it uses Twitter’s Own Auth to initiate the scanning process, you can’t use TwitBlock to determine spammers that are following another Twitter user. via Find Spammers and Bots Who Are Following You On Twitter.

Tags: social network, twitter

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How to Download Facebook Photo Albums to the Desktop with a Click

September 6, 2009 – 12:19 pm
There are a couple of reasons why you may want to download your Facebook Photo albums or that of your friends to the desktop: For viewing pictures even while you are offline. For sharing photo albums with family members who aren’t very active on social sites. Just download a local copy of your Facebook albums and send them as email attachments or burn a DVD. You have decided to close your Facebook account and therefore need a quick mechanism to move all your existing Facebook albums to another photo sharing website like Flickr. For offline backup. via How to Download Facebook Photo Albums to the Desktop with a Click.

Tags: Facebook, Flickr, social media

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Determining Your Website’s Traffic On The Social Web

September 3, 2009 – 8:34 pm
The social web has almost relegated website traffic to a shoulder shrug of a statistic for some. But the number of people of visit your website or blog is an important measure of your reach or exposure. However, many people make a mistake in analyzing or even determining a website’s traffic. And the social web is partially to blame. RSS feeds change not only the metric, but the information you’re looking for. Here’s why: Provided you are following the sage advice of social media and/or Internet marketing counsel, you’re publishing content on your website. Perhaps it’s a blog. Maybe it’s company news or other information run through your content management system. If your CMS was created in the last four or five years and isn’t called Cold Fusion (little developer’s joke for ya), it probably produces an RSS feed, or XML file of content updates. Hopefully, you’ve let visitors know the ...

Tags: blogging, rss feed

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Itly bit.ly tiny(url) weenie yellow polka DOT url shortener

September 3, 2009 – 5:59 pm
BIT.LY is gaining dominance in the short url world, I used to use tinyurl.com and many of my server side apps in perl still use it due to the availability of Perl Modules for tinyurl to make it all happen, but when making short URLs by hand I prefer http://url.ie or short.ie for perma shorts. But because my privoxy is having a bad day with twitters link sniffing effors of the past 24hrs it has focused my attention on bit.ly URIs. Did you know that if you add a + to a bit.ly link you get directed to stats it gathered on the short links usage! I'm glad they do this but I wish they had told me. And before you ask me to RTFM i got bumped to bit.ly by apps and twitters contracts and never altered my privacy permissions during this change over. Anyways be aware bit.ly is tracking, be ...

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