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Chrome Now Syncs Search Engines and Open Tabs

2011-10-28T18:45:00Z

Chrome: The auto-detected search engines in Google Chrome are one of those niceties that makes to outshine Firefox among power users (type a few letters, press Tab, then search , but if you move to a different computer, all those shortcuts burned into your muscle memory are useless. Or at least they were. You can now enable search engine (and open tab) syncing in all versions of Chrome. More »

Avira Anti-Virus Detects Itself

2011-10-27T18:41:00Z

ddfall writes "After a recent update, Avira's anti-virus software reports its own AESCRIPT.DLL file as a trojan or spyware. From the article: 'The dodgy AntiVir virus definition file was quickly pulled and replaced with a new version – 7.11.16.146 – that resolves the problem, as explained in an official post on Avira's support forum.'"

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The Important Field

2011-10-28T04:00:00Z

Slice Is a Brilliant Companion to Your Online Shopping

2011-10-25T16:00:00Z

With access to your email inbox, webapp Slice automatically analyzes emails containing order information from your online shopping and organizes all your purchases in one place, giving you quick access to tracking packages, purchase history, and price-drop tracking for everything you buy online. It's a brilliant idea. More »

The Corliss Resolution

2011-10-10T04:00:00Z

Apple - Introducing GLaDOSiri on iPhone 4S

2011-10-07T18:00:27Z

Apple - Introducing GLaDOSiri on iPhone 4S

Map Maker Graduation Part V: from Afghanistan to Antarctica

2011-10-06T17:21:35Z

Human "Cloning" Makes Embryonic Stem Cells

2011-10-05T23:10:00Z

Med-trump writes "Scientists at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Laboratory have reprogrammed an adult human egg cell to an embryonic state using cloning technology and created a self-reproducing line of embryonic stem cells from the developing embryo. Lead researcher Dr Dieter Egli said: 'The cells we have made are not yet for therapeutic use. There is clearly more work to be done, this is early days. We see this as a step on that road, so now we do know that a human egg can turn an adult specialised cell, such as a skin cell, into a stem cell.'"

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Autism Traits Prove Valuable for Software Testing

2011-10-05T23:57:00Z

Back in 2009 we ran a story about a Chicago based non-profit company that trained high-functioning autistic people to be software testers. Two years later Aspiritech has grown to offer services in Belgium, Japan and Israel. Autistic debuggers are used by large clients like Oracle and Microsoft and have proven to be so good in fact that companies are now recruiting to meet demand. From the article: "Aspiritech's board of directors includes social service providers, therapists, a vocational expert and a software engineer. The nonprofit also received start-up advice and consultation from Keita Suzuki, who has co-founded a similar company, called Kaien, in Japan. Aspiritech has hired and trained seven recruits with Asperger's syndrome. These recruits have since worked on software-testing projects for smartphone and cloud-computing applications. Aspiritech now offers functional-, compatibility- and regression-testing, as well as test-case development, with experience in cloud-computing platforms including Salesforce."

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Steve Jobs Dead At 56

2011-10-06T00:01:00Z

SoCalChris writes "Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was found dead in his Cupertino home this morning. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him — even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon."

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Unreal Engine 3 Running In Flash

2011-10-05T10:47:00Z

Eraesr writes with news that Epic Games has added Unreal Engine 3 support for Adobe Flash Player. This comes alongside news that Flash Player 11 has been released, an update that added Stage3D, "a set of low-level GPU-accelerated APIs enabling advanced 2D and 3D capabilities across multiple screens and devices." "With its new hardware-accelerated Stage 3D APIs, Flash Player 11 allows 1,000 times faster 2D and 3D graphics rendering performance over Flash Player 10. Developers can now animate millions of objects with smooth 60 frames per second rendering and deliver console-quality games on Mac OS, Windows and connected televisions. 'With UE3 and Flash, games built for high-end consoles can now run on the Web or as Facebook apps, reaching an enormous user base,' said Sweeney. 'This totally changes the playing field for game developers who want to widely deploy and monetize their games.'"

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Thialfi: A Client Notification Service for Internet-Scale Applications

2011-10-04T14:43:44Z

Ensuring the freshness of client data is a fundamental problem for applications that rely on cloud infrastructure to store data and mediate sharing. Thialfi is a notification service developed at Google to simplify this task. Thialfi supports applications written in multiple programming languages and running on multiple platforms, e.g., browsers, phones, and desktops. Applications register their interest in a set of shared objects and receive notifications when those objects change. Thialfi servers run in multiple Google data centers for availability and replicate their state asynchronously. Thialfi's approach to recovery emphasizes simplicity: all server state is soft, and clients drive recovery and assist in replication. A principal goal of our design is to provide a straightforward API and good semantics despite a variety of failures, including server crashes, communication failures, storage unavailability, and data center failures. Evaluation of live deployments confirms that Thialfi is scalable, efficient, and robust. In production use, Thialfi has scaled to millions of users and delivers notifications with an average delay of less than one second. Links: [abstract] [pdf] [sigops.org] [search]

פירוש המילה ממילפינאטאפאי הוא -

2011-09-06T06:31:05Z

מבט בין שני אנשים כאשר כל אחד מקווה שהשני יציע משהו ששניהם רוצים אבל לא מעוניינים לעשות.

(Mamihlapinatapai)

IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition now on GitHub

2011-10-04T16:32:25Z

We’ve recently been gathering assorted open-source projects that exist in our company under a single roof — the JetBrains organization on GitHub. One of the latest additions to the organization is an official mirror of the IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition codebase.

You’re welcome to fork the codebase and send us pull requests with your contributions. We’ll review them and merge them if they’re accepted. Please don’t forget to follow our code conventions and sign the contributor agreement if your contributions are non-trivial.

A random kid texted me. I got him a date with the girl he liked.

2011-09-30T07:05:19Z

Please do not forget: winter is coming!

2011-10-01T23:21:08Z

Please do not forget: winter is coming!

Hotels

2011-09-30T04:00:00Z

Swiss Army

2007-06-02T14:42:30Z

Facebook and You

2011-09-22T10:33:25Z

Neutrinos

2011-09-23T04:00:00Z