The ‘WTF’ Quote of the Day

A “Cyber Law Expert” on the IT Law and Government’s Censorship of Savita Bhabhi

Unlike countries like the US and China, which do not have common servers for websites, India cannot block any kind of illegal websites because here we have a common server for all websites. In the US and other developed countries, they have specialised or separate servers for the pornographic things.

So, technically, in our country it is impossible to completely prevent pornography, whereas blocking any random sites here would affect genuine websites as well.

–Mukesh Goyal, Cyber Law Expert

(Via Amit)

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[Wordpress] Themes are GPL, too

“We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are completely compatible and legal with WordPress’ license. There have been some questions in the community about whether the GPL applies to themes like we’ve always assumed. To help clarify this point, I reached out to the Software Freedom Law Center, the world’s preëminent experts on the GPL, which spent time with WordPress’ code, community, and provided us with an official legal opinion.”

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Marco Arment on Firefox 3.5

They keep making things Awesome™ for the fringe of uber-power-users instead of fixing the common issues that frustrate everyone else and drive average users away from Firefox every day.

I haven’t looked at Firefox the day I realized all my stored passwords are available to anyone to view, unless I’ve set a Master Password which isn’t enabled by default.

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Become a Gmail Master

Become a Gmail Ninja
Learn tips and tricks to save time, increase your productivity, and manage your email efficiently. Start with the tips that are right for you, based on how much email you get each day.

Great way to master some nice keyboard shortcuts and make good use of the other fabulous features.

Now if only some of these features were available in MobileMe

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Major New Announcements by Boxee →

Boxee, my choice of Media Center app, just announced a whole list of new features added to the platform. One of the major announcement is that Boxee will now be available (as an alpha release) for Windows users as well. This now means that there would be even more users onto the social network and thus, a better chance of getting good recommendations / likes from your friends.

Also, since Boxee is now available on all platforms, more interesting apps can be possible by the developers.

Mac Dock Icon Spelling! →

Can you make up words from the Icons in your Dock?

Here’s what I could come up with in five minutes.

Lionhearted Ants →

Beautiful

Fever – I Have It →

Shaun Inman’s latest, after Mint, is out and calling it “incredible” would be a sheer understatement. Fever is the solution to the problem faced by many of us — RSS feed overload. Instead of explaining the concept here, I’d rightly point you towards these two write-ups – Catch the Fever and Fever Really is That Hot by @mistretta baba and @shawnblanc baba respectively. I’ve moved from NetNewsWire to having Fever as my sole RSS Manager and I’m really glad I made the purchase.

It’s worth mentioning that Fever follows a really interesting compatibility check and installation system and apparently, updates to the app will be pushed automatically and directly from the servers.

I made some minor changes to the app in the last few hours — Changed the Login Screen and the font for the article title.

Also, I really wish an update to Fever brings Instapaper integration baked right into the app.

What is a Browser? →

What is a browser? was the question we (Google) asked over 50 passersby of different ages and backgrounds in the Times Square in New York. Watch the many responses people came up with.

The iPhone Killer →

“Palm pre? No. Well probably no.
Blackberry storm? LOL. Definitely not.

AT&T? Yes. That’s the iPhone killer.”

(Via Twitter / Dan Kraft)